SUMMARY:

• Six years of experience with software quality assurance testing.
• Extensively experienced in developing, implementing and validating Master Strategy Test Plan, Detailed Test Plans, Test cases and Test Execution.
• Experienced in preparation of test data, preparation and execution of regression test scripts, preparation of weekly status report using defect reporting tools Quality Center/ALM and internally developed defect tracking tools.
• Experienced in writing both PL/SQL and T - SQL statements for database (back end) testing.
• Experienced in developing test scripts to support Regression testing and expertise in designing and developing Test Automation Frameworks which reduced Manual Testing time and Effort using VBScript in QuickTest Professional (QTP)/UFT and java in SELENIUM
• Extensively experienced in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Extensively experienced in Black Box and Grey Testing.
• Experienced in configuration management/version control system tool like CVS, SVN, and VSS.
• Good exposure to Software development methodologies and Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall.
• 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:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, UFT/QTP

Languages: SQL, C/C++, VB, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Shell Scripting

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, ASP, JSP, SOAP

Database: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL server, DB2

Operating Systems: Windows and UNIX/LINUX

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• According to the requirements from business analysts prepared test plan and test cases.
• Test the application manually to verify the functionality of the application for all modules.
• Followed template to raise the defects and manage defect management process in agile environment.
• Use Selenium set up script to performed Unit and integration testing.
• Used SQL for backend testing to check the database.
• Created hybrid framework for GUI and system integration testing.

Environment: Selenium, HP ALM, Windows, JIRA, MS Office, Oracle

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional requirement and software specification documents to compose Test Plans.
• Performed the execution of Test Case manually to verify actual results against expected results.
• Involved in managing project risks and providing appropriate escalation and mitigation plans to keep a high level of project quality and customer satisfaction.
• Reviewed Functional Requirement Specifications and created test cases based on test scenarios drawn from functional requirements using HP ALM.
• Tested the application manually for a few modules for the functionality of the application using ALM.
• Performed root cause analysis on the defects at every phase using ALM.
• Used ALM to raise the defects and to manage defect management process.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from different databases including testing and production for data validation and data analysis.
• Wrote various complex T-SQL and PL/SQL statements for Back-end testing.
• Optimized UFT/QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Mapped the custom objects to the standard objects where necessary, and inserted GUI, Bitmap and Text checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using UFT/QTP.
• Prepared test Scripts for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Designed and developed automated scripts for functional, regression, integration testing using UFT/QuickTest Pro (QTP).
• Performed Parameterization of Data using Data Driven Table and also inserted various Checkpoints in Scripts using UFT/QTP.
• Created Hybrid Frameworks for GUI, Regression and System integration automated testing.
• Performed multi-platform testing in Sun Solaris, Linux, and Windows OS; and also performed cross browser testing.
• Involved in User acceptance testing by providing the data to the business analysts.
• Worked as a team with other QA testers to ensure that all projects are executed accurately and completely and assisted other testers with account selection, clarification of ambiguity with test results and general questions that arise.

Environment: ALM, UFT, Windows, SOAP UI, J2EE, ASP.NET, VB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, UNIX, MS-Office.

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in planning all testing activities accordingly to ensure on time deliverables are met.
• Worked on an agile development environment - consisting of many iterative releases with extensive coordination between the developers, testers and the business analysts.
• Involved in regression test planning, work assignment, setting goals / objectives for the release, work trackers, and also involved in regular project level status meetings.
• Prepared Integration Test case Design Flow for the project.
• Designed Batch Testing Plan for the project (to validate host and flex job testing).
• Identified and added critical scenarios which were not covered in the Regression Inventory using GAP analysis.
• Participated in Testing documentation reviews and walkthroughs, including those for Test plans, Test cases, Test strategies, Test Summary Reports.
• Involved in Script Maintenance and Script Execution.
• Participated in Test result evaluation, documentation, and relevant reporting.
• Involved in implementing QA methodology and Test Metrics.
• Participated in determining test environment and test data needs.
• Communicated defect impacts and dependencies across iterations using HP Quality Center.
• Responsible for overseeing Quality Center’s Auditing and Maintenance.
• Involved in Back end testing using SQL Queries.
• Identified the feasible application components and test cases to automate. Created scripts for the Regression test cases using QuickTest Professional.
• Worked with data types, variable and variable declaration, naming convention, constants and assigning values to the variables in VB scripting under QTP testing tool.
• Inserted checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Created test automation scripts using QTP for all the “high” priority test cases using the WAT (Web Application Testing) framework using a combination of Data driven and Keyword driven techniques.
• Monitored project plan execution and project metrics reporting.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, MS-Office, SQL Server, SOAP UI, Java Web Server, Windows and Linux.

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with developers and users to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Developed Test conditions and Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing and executed test case scenarios.
• Participated in Test Readiness Reviews, as necessary; assisted in the preparation of test estimates and project schedules.
• Used Quality Center to create Test outlines and maintained Test scripts and created, modified and debugged the Scripts.
• Assisted in User id clean up, Create User Ids, Reset Passwords, and Create New Projects in Quality Center.
• Created the Traceability matrix using Quality Center.
• Part of the team which involves in the Integration of Rally with Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to create Test outlines, maintained Test scripts; created, modified and debugged the Scripts.
• Performed Data integrity testing by executing SQL statements and validated the tables in the database.
• Functionality testing to make sure that application works according to functional specification using QTP.
• Worked with Standard checkpoints, Page checkpoints, Table checkpoints in QTP while doing the functional test on the web application.
• Involved in Customization of automatically generated QTP scripts to the specifications required by the end users.
• Conducted Regression testing for to re-validate all the functionality and provided sign-off my test cases to implement the application in Production.
• Wrote, maintained and updated Test Documentation’s for various stages of testing for reference and Auditing purposes.
• Created automation results report documents.
• Executed Manual/Automated Test Scripts to cover End to End Business Scenarios.

Environment: Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, Windows, UNIX, VB, SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Apache.