Sr. Software Test Engineer Resume
Summary of Qualifications
Sr. Software Test Engineer with over 10 years experience leading test teams for revenue generating E-Commerce projects. Experienced using, Quality Center 10.0, QuickTest Pro 11.0, LoadRunner 8.0, Selenium RC. Nunit 2.2, Junit 4.0 & Rational Functional Tester. Executed following testing strategies; black box, white box, unit, functional, integration, end to end, & system testing using both manual & automated method Application software releases were tested and deployed in the following development environments; Visual Studio.Net 2005 & 2010, Visual Studio C++, Visual Basic 8 VB 9, MS.Net Framework 3.5, Web server IIS 7.0, J2EE SDK 1.4, Java EE 5, & Apache Tomcat V5.5. Implemented the following SDLC methodologies: Visual Studio Team Edition, Rational Unified Process, UML, CMM & Waterfall. Testing methods followed: Agile, RAD Extreme, Iterative & Scrum. SQL Server Management Studio 2005 and 2008. Web Services 2.0 & Service-oriented architecture 2.0
Professional Skills
- Proven Project lead abilities for small teams. Consistent delivery of high quality projects before deadline
- Defined, created, & implemented each phase of the Software Development Life Cycle including:
- requirements analysis & definition, code design review, unit testing, integration & systems testing, functional, end to end, & regression strategies to validate Classes, methods, & business requirements.
- Executed black box, white Box, unit, integration & system testing on the software application products.
- Performed white box testing using java tools for class, method, and web services testing
- Created scripts using Quality Center 10.0, QTP 11.0,Loadrunner 8.0 & Selenium RC to automate functional, end to end, regression, smoke, compatibility, & performance testing.
- Tested on multi-tier platform servers including client, web server, application server & its business logic, & backend database by creating SQL queries to validate the tables, columns, and rows.
Deliverable Applications:
- Auto/Property Web Endorsement, Quick Quote, Net Positive, Lead Mgmt System, Policy Net
- Loan origination and Loan servicing products for the financial application and dealership industry
- Loan origination and Loan servicing products for the mortgage application industry
- Pre-qualification, pre-approvals, scorecard selection, credit scoring grades, & auto decision workflow
- Supplier of advanced management software & communications systems to automotive claims industry
Commercial Applications & Tools:
Unit Testing: JUnit, NUnit, Eclipse, Ant; Database: TOAD, SQL Analyzer, SQL Navigator:
Web Services Soap Test, Soap UI, XML, DHTML, WDSL 2.0, Soap 1.2.
Functional: QTP Functional Tester, Selenium
Load and Performance: Performance Center, Loadrunner; Scripting Languages: VB Script;
Component Models: Web Services, EJB, .COM, Languages: Java, VB.Net, ASP.Net, .Net 3.5, C#
Completed 4 years in Business Communications at Cal State Northridge
Professional Experience:
Sr. Software Test\\Quality Assurance Engineer - Confidential
Experian - December 2011 - Present Costa Mesa California
- Project management and script development leveraged Quality Center 11.0 & QTP 11.0 for regression suites with traceability to stories, requirements, and business rules.
- Application isaConsumer & Business Web-based Credit Risk Management system. The product line is called 'Business IQ' which includes components which provide Database Management, Analytics & Modeling, B2B & B2C Marketing Services, Credit Risk Management, Identity & Fraud, & Collections
- Responsible for testing front end, web server, application server, middleware, database, & web services
- Developed & executed manual & automated test suites for unit, integration, thread, end to end, compatibility, performance and regression testing.
- Utilized the Agile Scrum methodology as it relates to IT deployment & deliverables which followed two week sprint cycles.
Sr. Software Test\\Quality Assurance Engineer - Contract
Confidential, July 2010 - September 2011 Los Angeles California
- Consistent delivery of projects on time & with high quality
- Application isE-Commerce Web-based Electronics Retail system used by the Creative Channel Services users who make up customer base. The product line is a point of sale via innovative retail training, field marketing, field sales and promotional services.
- Responsible for testing following projects; BestBuy Learning Lounge, Cyber Scholar, & Smart Center
- Defined, created, & executed test plans, strategies, test cases, & scripts for both front & back end tiers
- Applied the Agile Methodology as it relates to IT deployment & deliverables. Used SCRUM
- methodology as part of project planning and release schedule into sprints.
- Developed automated test scripts using Quality Center QTP 10.0 for functional and regression testing using stories, requirement, and business rules
- Created test cases & executed test scripts for the following front end web application testing strategies;
- Functionality, usability, interface, compatibility, & security testing. Included were validating links, web forms, cookies, HTML/CSS, navigation, functionality of controls, web page objects, content checking, help files, error handling, browser & operating system using different versions. I validated java script, Ajax calls, graphics designs, multi-media programs & printing options.
Sr. Software Test\\Quality Assurance Engineer
Confidential, June 2006 - June 2010 Irvine, California
- Application is E-Commerce Web-based Automobile Quoting system used by the CSAA Insurance agents & users who make up customer base. Validated premium calculations against rating rule sheets
- Defined, created, & executed test plans, strategies, test cases, & scripts using manual & automated testing tools. Included are Mercury Quality Center for both requirement and defect tracking as well as QuickTest Pro forautomated script development.Created Selenium RC scripts for cross platform, OS & browser testing and Nunit to create TestMethod & test business logic using assertions as static methods of the Assert class. Soap UI 3.0 to analyze request/response messages to a WSDL contract
- Applied the Agile Development Life Cycle methodology guideline as related to IT deployment and deliverables. Used SCRUM in running software maintenance teams & program management approach
- Created LoadRunner 8.0 performance scripts
- Used HTTP Protocol, TCP/IP, and created GET/POST requests
- Created VUser scripts and scenarios by defining the events that occur during a testing session. This
- includes the load generator machines, the number of VUser groups where individual VUsers were
- assigned to each script that run during the scenario
- Tested Browser page rendering and object rendering response times
- Executed tests against Web, Application, & database servers within a clustered environment
- Experience installing and using agents to execute performance tests
- Analyzed results of performance tests and made recommendations
- Used SQL Server Management Studio 2005 to submit queries & compare against expected result
- Verify to ensure AAA Quote and Net Positive rating engines were generating rates that matched & that all data was uploaded to As400 and NP servers. Verified integration, data workflow, & connection points
- Analyze script/ test case iteration runs as Pass/ Fail/ Warnings; write-up any defects and or enhancements as produced by the results: Executed regression suites to validate fix or enhancements.
- Lead for AAA Quote projects including Quick Quote, Net Positive, & Lead Management systems
- Performed User Acceptance testing. Worked with end user/customer daily for signoff of release
- Responsible for sign off of product application release to Production once user requirements were met
- Test environmentwas .Net, Web Services, ASP.net, VB.Net, Visual Studio and Java components
Confidential, Sr. Software Test/Quality Assurance Engineer
Client - Confidential, July 2005 - June 2006 Los Angeles, California
- Application was for a E-Commerce Loan Origination & Loan Services project for Toyota's dealerships
- Primary test lead for a web-based financial application project for Toyota's dealerships.
- Delivered Auto Loan Origination System for ALSCOM application used by Toyota dealerships. The project was called OSCAR, which included modules I was responsible for testing.
- Application Entry - Receiving of customer applications for vehicle loans and leases.
- Decisioning - Automatically approve or decline customer credit based on pre-defined scoring rules
- Facilitate processing of applications that cannot be automatically approved or declined;
- Notification to Dealer and / or Customer. Forward approved applications for TFS processing;
- Discounting, Booking, Funding, Workflow configuration, user pre-qualification, pre-approvals, Scorecard selection, credit scoring grades, & auto decision workflow criteria and rules.
- Defined, created, & executed test plans, strategies, test cases, & scripts using manual & automated testing tools. Included were Mercury Quality Center,QuickTest Pro, and Loadrunner
- Devised load, stress & performance scripts using Mercury PerformanceCenter
- Executed black box, white Box, unit, integration & system testing on the financial loan origination & loan servicing projects. Performed white box testing using NUnit for class, method, & web services testing.
- Created & executed testing strategies for component, functional, end to end, regression, & performance testing for Javaapplication. Developed data boundary tests for error handling & unexpected data string
- Platform was a .Net Enterprise architecture which was developed using Visual Studio tools such as Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++.NET, Visual C# .NET, ASP.Net. & Web Services for interfacing to clients
Sr. Software Test Quality Assurance Engineer
Confidential, Feb 2003 - June 2005 Irvine California
- Tested a Loan Origination system called Empower, a solution model for the mortgage industry. This component based system includes lending environments as retail, wholesale home equity, & sub-prime.
- Steps for the entire lending process covered point of sale, pre-qualification tools, credit bureau interface & reports, APR disclosure with options Fixed, ARM, variable, convertible, non-conforming, & Buy down.
- Used Test Director for defect tracking, scheduling test scripts, & linking requirements to the test scripts.
- Developed test plans, created & executed WinRunner 7.5 & Loadrunner Vuser scripts & scenarios for performance testing in a J2EE environment using the EJB component model. Created scripts in an Eclipse IDE using JUnit & JTest tools to test the design of classes & their methods & functions. Data boundary strings were designed for expected & unexpected data input & uncaught exceptions.
- Created & executed WinRunner legacy scripts for functionality & regression testing. Used Quick Test Pro to create scripts for requirements & releases. Testing included unit, functional, & end to end
- Created rate sheet validation matrices, webpage validation matrix templates, & batch/data driven scripts
- Created end to end scripts to exercise client, presentation, application server business logic, backend databases verification, and interfacing to mainframe and Oracle legacy systems.
Confidential, Sr. Software Test\\Quality Assurance Engineer
Confidential, Jan 2002 - Jan 2003 Orange, California
- Delivered mortgage Loan Servicing application releases for sub prime wholesale & retail markets
- Tested 2 major Loss Mitigation releases & their functional components. Each are listed below:
- LM Workstation - Loan Summary, Forbearance, Reinstatement, NPV, Financial Status and selected Loan Activity; Queue Management; Campaign Management; Manual capability for ordering Property Inspections & Valuations; Operational Reporting; Admin - FC Referral, FC Referral Queue Management, User Maintenance; Integration w/Vision & Alltel
- Loan Activity courses for Short Sale, Short Payoff, Deed in Lieu, Note Sale, Loan Modification and Write-Off; Automation of Property Valuation orders; Vendor Interfaces for Shared Services; Print and Document Imaging; Management Reporting;
- Developed test plans, created & executed WinRunner 7.5 & Loadrunner Vuser scripts & scenarios for performance testing in a J2EE environment using the EJB component model. Created scripts in an Eclipse IDE using JUnit & JTest tools to test the design of classes & their methods & functions. Data boundary strings were designed for expected & unexpected data input & uncaught exceptions.
- Used Test Director for defect tracking, scheduling test scripts, & linking requirements to the test scripts.
Confidential, 1996 - 2001 Glendora, California
- Pathways is Claims processing, Collision Estimating & Management system used by insurance carriers
- Project Lead on environment & application Pathways projects. Included were monthly releases
- Implemented test objectives, scope, risk analysis, priorities, strategies, schedules, milestones, & matrix in developing a test framework that utilized the major components of the RUP process.
- Reviewed product requirements, made recommendations in design walkthroughs, designed test summaries and strategies, created automated test suites & test scripts using Rational TeamTest, Rational Robot, Mercury Winrunner and Loadrunner. Executed test scripts in all phases of testing included white box, black box, integration, regression performance, & acceptance testing.
- Verified HTML coding standards, client side testing, XML validation, web objects functionality, navigation, & server side scripting. Business logic rules were verified against the business requirements Database design & integrity were validated such as connection, indexing, data types, access & storage, transaction deadlock & data value range testing. Created SQL statements to perform data validation.
- Within a multi-tier architecture enterprise system, created & executed scripts for the web based Claims & Collision Pathways application. Designed functional test suite of scripts for all business logic rules residing on the application server which were traced back to the functional business requirements.
