SUMMARY:

• Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with seven plus years of experience in various business domains including insurance, financial, healthcare and, government solutions industries Extensive experience in analyzing requirements, writing test plans, test cases, setting up test environment, preparing test scenarios, test data and developing requirement traceability matrix(RTM), defect tracking and test results analysis.
• Solid understanding of the software development process and methodologies (including Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and V - model)
• Demonstrated knowledge in Planning, Facilitating, and Participating in working sessions with cross-functional resources
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Test Methodologies and Test Plans
• Strong technical skills in using testing tools such as: HP ALM, JIRA, Quality Center, TOAD, JMETER, JAWS, WAVE, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, TestNG, and Junit
• Well versed with Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in reviewing an analyzing user story, product backlog, use cases documents.
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Experience in creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from SQL Server and Oracle
• Expertise in developing, test Scenarios, preparing test data, and creating bug documentation
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintaining detail QA documentation
• Flexible and versatile in adapting to any new technology and environments
• Experience in maintaining project milestones, schedules, monitoring progress using MS SharePoint and update plans as required
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and other team members in overall enhancement of software product quality

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing Tools: ALM, JIRA, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, TestNG, Junit, Quality Center, Jmeter

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Programming Languages: SQL, JAVA, JAVA SCRIPT

Version Controlling Tools: SVN (Subversion), VSS

RDBMS/Database: SQL server, ORACLE, and MS Access.

Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Software Test Engineer

Reaponsibilities:

• Involved in development of Test Plan and test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and Use cases documents.
• Involved in complete Testing life cycle including writing test plan, test cases, and collecting test data for various projects and documenting test results.
• Participated in test environment setup for application testing.
• Performed GUI testing, user integration testing, regression testing, system testing and UAT testing.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing functional and regression testing.
• Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Coordinated with end users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Created UAT documentation and conducted presentations for the end users.
• Created and maintained regression documents to aid in the QA regression process.
• Used Mercury Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Performed Gap Analysis.
• Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Worked directly with analysts and developers to investigate software defects. Design and developed UAT test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Coordinate UAT testing activities with the testing team, development team and the stakeholders.
• Perform Web services testing with SOAP UI tool.
• Validate XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files for web- service testing
• Automate the functional test cases using Selenium web testing tool.
• Create automated test script using Selenium Web Driver.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Identified modules that were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.
• Coordinated with development engineers to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: J2EE, Java, Java script, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, TestNG, Junit, Jmeter, and Windows

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Test Plan and test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and Use cases documents.
• Involved in complete Testing life cycle including writing test plan, test cases, and collecting test data for various projects and documenting test results.
• Participated in test environment setup for application testing.
• Performed GUI testing, user integration testing, regression testing, system testing and UAT testing.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing functional and regression testing.
• Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Coordinated with end users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Created UAT documentation and conducted presentations for the end users.
• Created and maintained regression documents to aid in the QA regression process.
• Used Mercury Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Performed Gap Analysis.
• Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Worked directly with analysts and developers to investigate software defects.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Identified modules that were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.
• Coordinated with development engineers to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: J2EE, Java, Java script, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, Maven, TestNG, Junit, Jmeter, and Windows

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements, functional specification and technical specification reviews.
• Conducted research and analysis of business requirements, developed testing scenarios and test cases that linked back for requirements coverage.
• Assisted in implemented improvements in test methods and strategies-continuous evaluation of testing process for possible improvements.
• Prepared test plans, test strategy documents and test estimations for various releases.
• Estimated work effort for projects, developed QA timelines, and managed work to meet the project schedules.
• Systematically assessed and reported quality system performance against internal and external standards.
• Facilitated and ensured verification and validation in accordance with established software testing plans.
• Provided a systematic review process and resources to assured all products met regulatory and conformant requirements prior to client release.
• Provided weekly feedback, which includes trending analysis, most frequently missed items and make suggestions to improve overall performance.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, SQL Server

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements, Designed and Executed Test Cases.
• Interacted effectively with peers, management and cross-functional teams to address and resolve issues
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Developed Test Scenarios against Software Requirement Specifications.
• 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.
• Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
• Conducted manual testing on all application.
• Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution.
• Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately.
• Provided administrative support involving general administrative responsibilities for the day-to-day operations.
• Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Involved in Manual User acceptance testing with various combinations.
• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Performed Performance Testing to identify abnormalities in the web application.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Maintained status reports and communicating with the Management regarding progress of work.

Environment: .net, SharePoint, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows, TOAD