Objective: IT professional with seven years of experience in software quality assurance and software testing, specialized in Manual and Automated Testing on different platform and environments, proficient in testing of stand-alone, web based and client server application IT service industries. Seeking a permanent or consulting position with a promising and growing organization to contribute the value of my diverse experience in the field of software Quality Assurance and Testing.

Summary of experiences:

• Extensive experience in writing system test plan (STP), test cases and procedure, setting up test environment, preparing test scenarios test data and, bug documentation and test summary report
• Experience in analysis of system requirement specification, functional specifications and software design document.
• Experience in performing Build Verification, Positive, Negative, Boundary, GUI Testing, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Performance, and User Acceptance Tests (UAT).
• Strong knowledge on creating Software Testing Deliverables (Test Strategy,Test Plan, Test Summary Report, Traceability Matrix )
• Expert knowledge involving requirements gathering and documentation, code review, change management, configuration management, release management and the actual testing of the software.
• Experience in developing requirements validation matrices for requirements traceability.
• Interact with clients for Quality discussions and define QA deliverables to clients.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software development methodologies and Software Test Methodologies.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking toolsQuality Center, and TestDirector.
• Experiencedautomated testing using HP-Mercury Quick Test Pro, Quality Center and Test Director, and Load Runner
• Experience in Database/Backend testing using SQL Server, Oracle and SQL queries.
• Experience in conduction peer-review meetings and train junior team member.
• Extensively involved in Verification and Validation Process involves reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements, and specifications.
• Well versed with Relational Databases.
• Attention to detail, self-motivation, personable, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Versatile team player with excellent interpersonal and technical documentation skills and handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic and skills in time management, client relationship and ability to adapt new things quickly.
• Experience in building, troubleshooting and supporting personal computers, networking,
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and other team members in testing complex projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.
• Highly motivated and self-directed software professional with excellent communication and organization skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills and multi-tasking abilities.

Education and Certifications
Education:
B.A. in Accountancy
M.S. in Human Services
B.S. in Computer Information System
Certifications:
Certificate in Multimedia Producer programming, George Washington University, Washington DC

Technical Skills:

MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows NT/Windows 2000, VISTA, XP.

Language

SQL, C, C++, Visual basic, Java, HTML

Software Testing tools

HP QuickTest Professional, Quality Center, TestDirector and LoadRunner.

Application Programs

MS Office, Visio, Power Point, Outlook.

Databases

SQL Server, Oracle,DB2

Professional Experience
Confidential, Fairfax, VA
May 08 - Present
Sr. Software Test Analyst
Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business and functional requirements and developed test plan and test cases.
• Ensured that all artifacts for projects required by QA were properly prepared as per best practices.
• Wrote and executed Test cases and Test scripts based on functional requirements.
• Analyzed the test sets to decide which of the test cases can be automated for the regression testing.
• Regression testing of various functionalities using the automated scripts.
• Worked on data validation by accessing SQL tables by executing complex Quires.
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL statements to review the returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Participated in Walk-through, Peer Reviews and Defect Report meetings periodically
• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality.
• Interacted with the development team and the Business Application group on a regular basis to analyze the requirements and to understand the GUI of the application being developed.
• Manually tested the GUI interface of the application.
• Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually
• Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different modules in the System.
• Developed automated scripts for regression testing using QuickTest Pro.
• Maintained the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications to perform regression testing
• Automated Smoke Test and Regression Test suites using Quick Test Professional.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect Tacking system HP Quality Center.
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better quality software product.
• Planning and coordinating the resolution of defects to ensure defect assignments are resolved within a timely manner.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Attended walkthrough meeting with the System Analysts, Project Managers and Developers.

Environment:Windows, J2EE, Oracle, VSS, QuickTest Pro and Quality Center.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD
Mar 06 - April 08
Software Test Engineer II
Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System test plans.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Participate and Review Business Requirements and Design Specifications and provide technical and usability feedback.
• Prepared Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant FRD.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test Plans, involved in developing Test Scripts for manual testing.
• Developed, Test Cases and Test Scripts, Testability matrix, Traceability matrixes, and Detailed Test cases.
• Created test cases and test scenarios using Quality Center.
• Developed and tested FDA compliance requirements pertaining to CFR 21 part 11 with regards to data entry, reporting, electronic submission of data and other documents to FDA.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Involved in importing all the test cases reports in to Quality Center Databases.
• Developed automated test scripts using Descriptive Programming, Custom Functions on Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Performed Integration and User Acceptance test.
• Identified and documented all the defects and root-cause analysis to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated the bugs in the application.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• 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 participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testing.
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality Center
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing andexecuting SQL statements.
• Involved in writing Test cases depends on test scenarios.
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing using QuickTest Professional.
• Executed all automated test procedures to ensure the quality of the developed application. .

Environment: VB, C, Java, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, Windows NT/2000/XP.

Confidential, Oaks, PA
June 03- Mar 06
SoftwareTester
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documenting Test Plan, Test Cases as per Business requirements for each release.
• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.
• Participated in review, progress meetings to monitor the progress of the testing process.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Test Director was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan, various Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Developed Virtual user scripts using LoadRunner VuGen.
• Performed correlation, data parameterization on LoadRunner VuGen Script.
• Involved in Baseline, Load, Volume, Stress and Endurance Testing (soak) to simulate a process and observed the behavior of the system by using LoadRunner.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.

Environment:VB, Java, XML, Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows 98/NT.