SUMMARY:

• Over Eight years of experiences in performing architectural and detailed designs using sound software test engineering principals in the context of test automation platforms.
• Experienced in analyzing the functional requirements fully for implementing the Test strategy.
• Expert at investigating and clarifying ambiguous, incomplete or undocumented requirements.
• Skilled in translating functional requirement specifications and functional design documents into detailed Test cases.
• Highly efficient in developing complex Test Automation Framework (Data - Driven, Keyword and Hybrid).
• Strong knowledge in using agile methodology in highly dynamic environment with sprint teams.
• Proficient in automated testing tool such as HP ALM/Quality Center and open source tools to facilitate automated testing.
• Experienced in building automated scripts from manual Test cases and business requirements using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Experience in JIRA for bug tracking and reporting and follow up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Extensively experienced in Structured Query Language (SQL) with Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL for Back end Testing.
• Experienced in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) using QTP/UFT in designing, developing and implementing Test plans using the detailed business requirements document.
• Good Knowledge with Dictionary object in QTP/UFT to write Test scripts, Test cases.
• Experienced with QTP/UFT data table and read the values based on the functional requirement.
• Strongly skilled in developing VB Scripts for the Client Compatibility Test Cases.
• Great expertise in testing web services via SOAP, using the open source testing tool Soap UI.
• Experienced in Test Status report generation to show test coverage, test case completion, test execution numbers, defect summary and defect classification based on multiple criteria.
• A self-starter, team player and have ability to learn new concepts quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Elements: Particulars

Primary Skills: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Data Warehouse Testing (ETL Testing), Data Base Testing, Siebel Interface testing

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional, Soap UI, HP UFT, XML Spy, Jenkins

ETL Tools: Informatica

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, HP ALM

Domain Knowledge: Life Sciences, Telecom, Airlines, Healthcare

Operating System: Windows, Linux, UNIX

Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio

Languages: VB Script, C#, .Net, PHP, C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington D.C.

IV&V Specialist

Role/Responsibilities

• Assisted multiple application teams with setting up and integrating HP ALM & HP UFT as well as debugging automated test scripts.
• Integrated HP UFT & HP ALM with Jenkins to further streamline automated testing for the release team.
• Developed Job Books documentation for Quality Assurance and Automated testing for the release team.
• Quality assured system change requests, request to test, and test plan documents submitted by development teams.
• Interacted closely with development teams to help restructure and create new standards for automated testing that each team would follow.
• Reported bugs in detailed and comprehensive manner utilizing JIRA.
• Created and maintained function libraries and driver scripts for the release team as well as the development teams.
• Attended lessons learned meetings, release walkthroughs, and weekly collaboration meetings to assess the status of the teams and up-coming releases.
• Executed System Tests using UFT for each deployment to QA and UAT to make sure that the subsystems are still up and total functionality of the applications were not broken.
• Created several Test scripts using UFT to create Data Driven Tests, Batch tests and performed Exception handling.
• Designed and developed automated test scripts using VBScript in UFT.
• Automated and parameterized several test cases using UFT.
• Modified scripts using keyword driven approach as well as scripting in VBScript.
• Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI.
• Interacted with Project Management, Development Teams, and Business Teams, in explaining and assisting in the move from using ‘Record and Run’ to using Function based automated test scripts.
• Deployed sprints into QA and UAT that were submitted by development teams using Jenkins.
• Worked closely with development teams by Quality Assuring their test plans and automated test scripts before releases.

ENVIRONMENT: ORACLE, HP ALM, HP UFT, JIRA, CONFLUENCE, JENKINS, SYBASE, SERENA, INFORMATICA, SHAREPOINT, SOAP UI, PL/SQL, C#, TOAD, COLDFUSION, J2EE, XML, UNIX, JQUERY, MS EXCEL, VB SCRIPT, XML, C++, JAVA, .NET, SQL SERVER, WINDOWS, MS PROJECT, MS OFFICE, MS POWERPOINT.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Test Automation Engineer

Role/Responsibilities

• Developed and executed Test plans and Test cases based on requirements gathered from product owners and stakeholders.
• Performed testing in both long and short term timelines and with local and remote teams and also tried to innovate on how to best automate testing processes.
• Helped to set up Test data or Test environment for running Test cases.
• Took an active part in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Responsibility for Manual, Functional, Migration and Regression Testing of features scheduled for release.
• Planned for and executed GUI, usability, functionality and regression testing on QA Server.
• Documented all QA documents such as business requirements, Test Cases, Test Scripts and execution Test result at HP ALM.
• Created Test plans and Test cases using HP ALM with input from the analysts, developers and users.
• Wrote SQL query for various projects to verify the back end data based on the specification.
• Used UFT for Functional and Regression Testing of the application to make sure transactions and business processes.
• Used checkpoints in UFT to check the attributes of the application across several builds and versions.
• Used parameterization in UFT to test the application with different sets of data.
• Worked in UFT to automate scripts written in descriptive programming & VB Script.
• Developed baseline scripts for testing the future releases of the application using UFT.
• Interacted with Development Teams (offshore), Business Team and Project Management in explaining the business and Functional requirements.
• Understood Business Requirements and shared them with the offshore team.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

ENVIRONMENT: ORACLE, HP ALM, HP UFT, CSS, JUNIT, JMETER, SOAP UI, PL/SQL, C#, DB2, UNIX, JQUERY, MS EXCEL, VB SCRIPT, XML, C++, JAVA, .NET, SQL SERVER, TOAD, WINDOWS, MS PROJECT, MS OFFICE, MS POWERPOINT.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Software Tester

Role/Responsibilities

• Designed Test Cases according to the Functional Specifications.
• Executed Test Cases to validate product compliance with requirement.
• Executed Functional, Regression and Integration Test cases while effectively communicating Test results.
• Performed Black Box, Smoke, System, and User Acceptance Testing
• Performed Test Reporting and Analysis of Test Results.
• Generated and communicated Test execution reports, performed failure investigation and Test script adjustments.
• Used Quality Center for test plan execution and defect tracking in the application.
• Was responsible for test planning, test creation, test setup & test mapping and exporting them into Quality Center.
• Verified the Business Logic Implementation by constructing and executing several SQL statements in Oracle.
• Created GUI files using QTP & performed Data Driven Testing (DDT).
• Created automated scripts using Modular framework with QTP descriptive programming concept.
• Was responsible for creating reusable user defined function in QTP to assist the Modular framework based test scripts.
• Conducted Peer reviews of the deliverables before being delivered to the client to ensure the quality.
• Attended weekly meetings on project status.

ENVIRONMENT: QUALITY CENTER, QTP, MICROSOFT OFFICE, MICROSOFT EXCEL, WINDOWS, UNIX, SQL, JAVA, J2EE, VBSCRIPT, VB.NET, HTML, ORACLE, XML, ASP.NET, JAVA SCRIPT, C/C++, C#.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Test Engineer

Role/Responsibilities

• Defined Testing strategy and worked on improving it and correlate to total cost of application.
• Established processes and procedures to implement repeatable quality testing process by introducing metrics, test documentation, and reassigning responsibilities.
• Assured that all features of a software program were thoroughly tested, detected problems were properly reported and assigned and brought to resolution.
• Created Release Level Test Strategy, Project Level Master Test Plan and worked Break down Structure.
• Worked with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies and also worked in Quality Management software.
• Performed functional testing, browser compatibility testing, Integration Testing, Automation Testing.
• Executed the mapping of all requirements to Quality Center to ensure effective coverage, traceability and execution of Test scripts.
• Reported incidents in case of issues during execution and logged defects in HP Quality Center.
• Used SQL statements elaborately to retrieve data for Database Testing.
• Wrote and enhanced QTP Test cases and Test scripts to meet functional requirements as per the business requirements and automated the Test scripts by using QTP.
• Created Database Checkpoint by using QTP to make sure information entered in database without any errors to Oracle.
• Executed Regression Test cases using QTP for each release to make sure that total functionality of the application was not broken.
• Used QTP to report the defects found during regression testing and followed up until it resolved.
• Used to create and maintain Object Repository in QTP to enhance the reliability of applications.
• Attended walkthroughs and weekly status meetings to verify that project milestones were met according to the documentation.
• Interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.

ENVIRONMENT: HP QTP, HP QUALITY CENTER, JAVA, HTML, SOAP UI, C, C++, C#, XML, JAVA SCRIPT, VB SCRIPT, J2EE, ORACLE, MICROSOFT OFFICE, MICROSOFT EXCEL, MICROSOFT VISIO, .NET, WINDOWS, UNIX.