SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Software Testing and QA implementation for Client Server and Web based Applications.
• Extensive knowledge of state - of-the-art software quality testing, Quality Assurance Planning, and software development process.
• Well experienced with different software engineering methodologies like Agile, Iterative and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in various phases of SDLC such as Requirements and Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
• Hands on experience in planning QA testing procedures for modern enterprise solutions.
• Extensive experience in developing detailed design level test scenarios and individual test events and scripts based on multiple user groups and detailed user interface design requirements.
• Wrote test cases with the goal of maximum coverage of the application and complete coverage of all requirements.
• Proficient at GUI, Functional, Integration, Regression, Database, Stress and Load, System testing on different configurations product &web based applications and defining the tests required to verify applications based on complicated business logic.
• Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from detection until resolved using HP ALM Defect Module, Bugzilla and JIRA.
• Strong insight and understanding on business domain and have good research and troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive experience in defining and executing test data acquisition, including production data set selection and extraction and test data generation, as well as manual data preparation.
• Experience in 508 compliance testing by using JAWS 13 and Zoom Text 10.
• Experience in CMMI level 3 software development environment.
• Experienced in Application Life cycle Management (ALM) - design test steps, requirement mapping to tests, executing tests manually and defect reporting.
• Experienced in preparing the test execution reports, daily summary reports and Minutes of memorandum.
• Expert in Querying and Testing RDBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server for data integrity
• Extensively used Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle SQL *Plus and TOAD to write query for backend testing with Oracle 10g/11g database.
• Highly experienced in using automation testing tools, involving understanding the process of any particular application, preparing a framework, preparing test plans, preparing test cases and automating test cases.
• Expert in creating automated test scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Created Data Driven Test Frame Work for regression automation test suites.
• Experienced in Performance testing using HP LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Ability to triage software defects providing development staff with adequate information for remediation.
• Ability to adjust priorities to multiple demands and unanticipated events as wells as adjust decisions and actions to new information.
• Ability to be flexible in response to changing circumstances or conditions.
• Ability to work well in team environment under deadlines within a dynamic environment.
• U.S. Citizen and authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008.

Testing Tools: HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP), LoadRunner and Performance Center.

Test Management Tools: HP ALM and HP Quality Center.

RDBMS: Oracle 11g and MS SQL Server2008

Languages: C++, VB Script, SQL, Java, .NET.

Database Access Tools: Oracle SQL *Plus and Oracle SQL Developer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Application Tester

Confidential, Windsor Mill, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and Test cases to evaluate the functionalities.
• Attended technical specifications review sessions with product and architecture teams to provide feedback in the elaboration phase.
• Created test plans outlining the scope, approach, schedule, resources and deliverables.
• Involved in Daily Meetings as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification and development process flow at various stages.
• Wrote Test Cases using Microsoft Excel 2010 and then exported to HP ALM Test Plan Section.
• Developed, executed and implemented test plans, test cases and test scripts for applications built upon a .NET application platform.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Manual test cases, and Test Steps for various Business methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Reviewed Each other Test Cases based on The Business Requirement’s training manuals.
• Performed Manual Testing on client/server applications and used HP ALM for test management tool.
• Used HP ALM for creating and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases and register the expected results.
• Utilized ALM to map the Test Cases into Requirement Coverage.
• Utilized ALM Defect Section for track, report and manage defects throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope and constraints.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.

Environment: C#,.NET, Application Lifecycle Management, Unified Functional Testing, Windows Server 2008.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Ellicott City, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Daily Meetings and Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification and development process flow at various stages.
• Developed, executed and implemented test plans, test cases and test scripts for applications built upon a .NET application platform.
• Develop detailed test strategy, test approach, project plans and schedules, including goals, risks, and resource allocation.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Manual test cases, and Test Steps for various Business methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing on client/server applications and used HP ALM for test management tool.
• Used HP ALM for creating and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases and register the expected results.
• Utilized ALM Defect Section for track, report and manage defects throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope and constraints.
• Performed backend testing to validate the data using Oracle SQL Developer and added SQL queries to the required Test cases.
• Wrote complex SQL queries using SQL *Plus to validate backend functionality of the application.
• Isolated test cases for manual and automated testing, and also established a regression test suite, both manual and automation, to assure the stability of SUT.
• Developed automation test plan and identified the test cases to automate as an automated regression test suites using HP Unified Functional Testing (HP UFT).
• Implemented Data Driven automation framework and enhanced test scripts for better reusability and repeatability using MS excel and XML based input test data.
• Parameterized test scripts to support multiple sets of test data to extend testing coverage.
• Created Shared Objects Repository and incorporated with scripts to reduce scripts maintenance time.
• Created reusable functions, sub-routines using VBScript and store into function library to support code reusability.
• Developed automated scripts using descriptive programming method by capturing object properties and values using object spy.
• Created driver script using VB script and configured with windows scheduler to execute automated test suites while away from desk.
• Executed and maintained automated test suites and provided test results to the testing team and project management.
• Implemented quality assurance objectives and processes, monitor and evaluate testing results against the predetermined objectives, and apply recommended actions for improvements. 
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.

Environment: .NET, Java/J2EE, VBScript, Application Lifecycle Management, HP Quality Center, Unified Functional Testing, Oracle EBS- Oracle 11g, SQL Server 08, SQL, PL/SQL, IIS and Windows Server 2008.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan and developed test cases for automation team for regression testing.
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Involved in Manual and Automation testing of Web-based Application.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and UAT.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases, taking into consideration the product module priorities.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Wrote SQL statements in script to retrieve data from database in order to verify accurate data stored in database as well as back end testing.
• Used Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL *Plus to write and execute queries against Oracle 10g database,
• Written, executed and maintained load testing scripts for various use cases and business scenarios.
• Experienced in creating, enhancing VuGen scripts for Load, Stress, and Volume Testing of the application.
• Clear and thorough reporting experience of performance results and coordination and scheduling of tasks.
• Customized Vuser script in LoadRunner for parameterization, used manual correlation to capture and handle dynamic session value,transaction point and rendezvouspoint.
• Determined application performance and maximum scalability, critical parameter such as number of users, response times, and hits per second and through put using LoadRunner.
• Used LoadRunner analysis module to drill down to determine the specific source of bottlenecks within the application architecture and generate actionable reports.
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and assist the development teams in triaging the issues.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.
• Utilized HP Quality Center to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.

Environment: HP Quality Center (QC), HPLoadRunner, .Net, Windows NT, SQL+, Java, J2EE, XML IIS, MS Access, SQL Server 05/2008, Oracle (10g).

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Long Island City, Queens, New York

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and developed Use Cases and Test cases to evaluate the functionalities.
• Attended technical specifications review sessions with product and architecture teams to provide feedback in the elaboration phase.
• Created test plans outlining the scope, approach, schedule, resources and deliverables.
• Coordinated the maintenance of multiple test environments to support parallel test efforts.
• Used HP Quality Center to map requirements to test cases, provide traceability to requirements, create test sets and selectively run tests both manually and using automation test scripts.
• Clearly communicated defects with developers and updated comments in Quality center.
• Configured the connection between MS Excel and HP Quality Center.
• Performed backend testing to validate the data using TOAD, added SQL queries to the required Test cases.
• Used SQL * Plus to write SQL queries to validate backend functionality of the application.
• Designed Automation Testing Strategies and implemented automation scripts that are linked to, and validated with end user service level requirements developed.
• Developed test approaches/test designs. Wrote test plans,created production simulations, and test data.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using HP QuickTest Professional (QTP).
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing UAT, Database Checkpoints, and Data Driven Test Scripts for all the projects using QuickTest Professional.
• Developed Custom Function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions.
• Created Data Driven Framework to reduce automated scripts maintenance time.
• Created XML file for test input data for better scripts optimization and reduce script maintenance time.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews using QTP.
• Involved in Meetings/Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages.
• Utilized HP Quality Center to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Assisted in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.
• Acted as an end users, business users and project team to resolve issues.

Environment: HP Quality Center, HP QTP, BugZilla, Windows Server 2005, HTML, XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, MS SQL Server, Microsoft VB on .NET Framework, Microsoft Visio, IIS.