SUMMARY:

• Sr. Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with diversified skills and experiences in Software Quality Assurance (QA), Software Testing, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), Software Test Life Cycle, QA Standards, and QA Test methodologies. Experience in various business domains including Insurance, Cyber Security, Healthcare and government solution industries.
• Solid skills in analyzing Business Requirements/ User Story, and creation of all project artifacts including System Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Bug documentation, Traceability Matrix, and Test Summary report.
• Strong knowledge in all aspect of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) including planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and release.
• Experience in Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall and V development methodologies
• Expertise in functional testing, black box testing regression testing, system testing, user acceptance test and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies
• Expertise in conducting peer reviews, technical reviews and procedure walkthrough.
• Experience in bug tracking and bug reporting using JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Experience in automated testing using industry standard tools HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), UFT/QTP, Selenium suite, Webservices, RESTful using SoapUI.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Experience in 508 Compliance Testing using JAWS and WAVE
• Solid skills in Cyber Security, networks, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and data security.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate to both technical and non - technical audiences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Testing Tools: SoapUI, Selenium, QTP/UFT, JUnit, TestNG.

Requirements and Defect Tracking: JIRA, ALM

Automation Framework, Testing on CI Environment: Jenkins, Maven, Githhub

Applications and Databases: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Oracle, MS SQL Server

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS and WAVE

Programming Languages: JAVA, SQL, XML, HTML

Network: OSI Model, TCP/IP Suite, SMTP, and Defense-in-Depth Network Security Models

Security: Risk Management, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Virus Protection

Platforms/Programs: Windows, UNIX/ LINUX, Mac OS X

Firewalls Technologies: Packet Filtering, Stateful, Application and Circuit Proxies, and DMZ

IDS and Protocol Analysis: Snort IDS/IPS, Nessus, Nmap, Wireshark, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Test Manager to set expectations and direction from a strategic and planning perspective
• Interact with product owner, team lead, developer business analyst, and end-users for gathering requirements/User Story
• Create Test Plans and Test Cases for all scenario types including positive, negative testing, and boundary
• Overseeing execution of all software testing activities, tools and techniques
• Follow up with the developer, business owner and project manager to resolve testing process questions/issues.
• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Execution.
• Use HP ALM for systematic management of the test cases, test steps and defect tracking.
• Assist in writing user stories, analyze user stories documents, develop test cases and identify acceptance criteria for user stories
• Assist with Scrum team sprint planning estimation effort
• Assist in maintaining/updating Scrum backlogs using JIRA
• Perform sprint demo to clients
• Confirm product meets User Story and design intent as part of Scrum Sprint exit criteria
• Developed test cases from requirements, use-cases, design documents and other projects.
• Perform application level, access and data level security testing
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using JIRA
• Create the Regression Test cases and automated them for regression testing using selenium
• Work closely with IT infrastructure team and network security team to test/verify network policy against cyber security threat.
• Use SoapUI for web service testing and security testing.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Created Automation scripts using Selenium IDE, and Selenium Web driver
• Reported Test Summary Report to the clients and provided recommendation for performance improvements as needed.

Environment: Selenium, JAWS, WAVE, HP ALM, QTP, JAVA, UNIX, JIRA, Oracle, SQL, TOAD, SoapUI

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reproduced client reported bugs and identify root cause of the defects
• Responsible for identifying the regression test cases
• Participated in functional specification and technical specification reviews.
• Prepared QA test plans, test strategy documents and test estimations for various releases
• Created and executed detail Functional Test scripts based on the business requirements.
• Responsible for maintaining all Functional Test Scripts after each migration.
• Performed back-end testing extensively using SQL Developer.
• Wrote and Executed SQL Quires for Oracle database testing and security testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to access data from the database tables and validation of results.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Develop Automated script for regression testing using Selenium WebDriver
• Managed requirements and developed Test Scripts and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Mapped requirements to business scenarios to assure that all requirements were covered.
• Tracked bugs using Quality Center and performed regression tests once the bugs are fixed.
• Facilitated and ensured verification and validation in accordance with established software testing plans.
• Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution.
• Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately.
• Developed requirement Traceability Matrix and linked it to Quality Center.

Environment: SoapUI, Selenium WebDriver, IDE, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing client’s requirements and developing\modifying the test cases and procedures.
• Developed Test Cases from requirement documents.
• Executed test cases and procedures for Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, and Black Box Testing.
• Managed and executed the traceability matrix of requirements to test cases.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.
• Managed and Developed requirements and Use Cases using Visio and Quality Center
• Reporting the Software Change Requests (SCR) to the Quality Center

Environment: JAVA, JIRA, Windows, SQL Developer, Quality Center, SQL server.

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Information Security Analyst/ Verification Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented security measures to protect computer systems, networks and data.
• Developed Test Scenarios to validate security requirements preventing data loss and service interruptions by researching modern technologies that will effectively protect a network.
• Installing firewalls, data encryption and other security measures
• Developed user guide and Train staff on network and information security procedures
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team to resolve any issues

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, Windows, SQL Developer, ORACLE.