SUMMARY:

• Versatile results - driven Software Test Engineer with five plus years of experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Test Methodology, Change Management, Risk Analysis and GAP analysis.
• Specialized in interpreting business requirements, writing test plans, building test cases and procedures, preparing test data, executing test cases, developing requirement traceability matrices (RTM), and developing summary reports.
• Extensive experience in Agile (SCRUM) development process.
• Experienced in various business domains including insurance, financial, and government solution industries.
• Strong technical skills in using testing tools such as: HP ALM, JIRA, Quality Center, JAWS, WAVE and Selenium.
• Well versed with Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in reviewing an analyzing user stories, product backlogs, and use case documents.
• Demonstrate capabilities in developing Test Analysis Reports (TAR).
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extracting data from SQL Server and Oracle.
• Expertise in developing test Scenarios, preparing test data, and creating bug documentation.
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintaining detailed QA documentation.
• Flexible and versatile in adapting to any new technology and environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: JIRA, HP ALM, Selenium, Mercury/HP Quality Center

Platforms: UNIX, Windows

CM Tools: Virtual Source Safe (VSS)

Languages: SQL, Visual Basic

DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

Database Testing Tools: SQL PLUS, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop System Test Plans and Test Cases based on Requirements/user stories.
• Involved in Quality Assurance (QA) reviews, identifying gaps and providing recommendations to ensure that software/system complies with quality and standards.
• Facilitated resolution and communication of cross- functional team on issues and decisions.
• Analyze the Business Requirements of the Product/system.
• Extensively interacted with development team and users to review project plans, requirements specifications, design documents and to resolve technical issues and tracked defects.
• Prioritize the testing of critical test cases over others based on feedback from the requirements gathering meetings.
• Perform System testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Involve in the Requirements Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Design Reviews for new features of the application.
• Participate requirement review meetings to address any issues or action required to validate requirements.
• Use SQL Developer for Oracle in creating & executing SQL queries for testing process.
• Use HP ALM as a test management tool to manage and organize Requirements Coverage, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Creation of defects.
• Follow Defect management life cycle and raised the defects based on priority and severity level in HP ALM.
• Develop and execute automation Regression testing scripts using Selenium.

Environment: Windows, SQL Developer, SharePoint, ALM, SVN, VSS, J2EE, JAVA, UNIX, Selenium, JIRA,

Quality Assurance Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Helped design Test Plans, Test Cases and reports.
• Worked closely with development team, testing team, 508 compliance team, IT project managers, business system owners to ensure successful high quality release.
• Coordinate and facilitate software life cycle milestone reviews.
• Prepared approval certifications and summary reports for every release based on meeting discussions.
• Conduct requirements walkthrough with the Users, Development, Project Management and Testing Team.
• Participated in cross-functional design meetings with other business owners to ensure quality assurance standards are met in all phases of development lifecycle.
• Work closely with business owners, development team, testing team for reviews on accuracy of technical content and test verification of technical processes.
• Participate in various meetings discussing Enhancement and Modification requests.
• Used Quality Center to manage requirements and requirements traceability matrix.

Environment: HTML, XML, IE, MS office, Web Accessibility Tool, PDF Creator, JAWS

Software Tester

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing system Requirement Specifications, user requirements, functional requirements and software design documents.
• Performed end to end Manual Tests intended to tests functionalities of the application.
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Communicated test results and collaborated with other team members to identify issues needing more analysis and specialized expertise.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and actively participated in system testing and regression testing.
• Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Involved in writing Test cases depending on test scenarios.
• Executed all automated test procedures to ensure the quality of the developed application.

Environment: C, Java, HTML, Oracle, SQL, Mercury/HP Quality Center.