SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of cumulative experience in Software Quality Assurance methodologies, with diversified skills in Automation and Manual testing.
• Experienced in AGILE Methodology, knowledge of Scrum, Sprint Work.
• Proficient in all forms of testing including System, Regression, Smoke, Functional, Integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Hands - on experience in developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, and Test Scripts based on System Requirements Document (SRD) and Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• Expertise in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), Defect Management Life Cycle methodologies.
• Good knowledge in build and configuration management.
• Hands on Experience with testing tools like QC, ALM, Jira, QTP, UFT and Soap UI.
• Expert on designing Test Automation Framework from scratch by analyzing the system functionalities and the tool compatibilities.
• Expert on Developing and Maintaining Test Automation Framework using QTP/UFT with VB Script.
• Expert on Developing and Maintaining Keyword Driven, Data Driven and Hybrid Frameworks.
• Experienced in developing highly Reusable and Maintainable Keyword Driven Test Automation Framework using Descriptive Programming.
• Developed test automation scripts for Functional, Regression and Smoke Test cases with QTP and UFT.
• Experienced with Cross Browser Testing and Browser Compatibility testing with both manual and automation approach.
• Extensive experience on developing reusable functions, custom error handling functions and custom synchronization function.
• Experienced with Automation Object Model, Document Object Model, Shell Scripting and Dictionary Object in QTP with VB Script.
• Experienced with developing custom HTML Report for UFT to improve the execution result analysis with VB Script, HTML and CSS.
• Experienced with Exception Handling, Error Handling by developing Reusable Functions with VBScript .
• Expertise in Relational DBMS like Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server.
• Experienced with Back-End Testing using complex SQL Queries.
• Experienced with Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Experienced in preparing the Test Execution Reports, Daily summary reports and Minutes of memorandum.
• Strong Team Player, have excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong documentation skills.
• Worked on a variety of projects and have acquired strong interpersonal & analytical skills. Dynamic and Assertive team player with strong commitment and project management skills.
• Excellent rapport with Business Analysts, Developers and Testers in the projects and worked in close collaboration with team members to ensure quality of the application.
• Excellent research and mentoring skills. Ability and enthusiasm to learn new tools/technologies quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Rally

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access

Programming Languages: VB Script, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, JAVA

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Team Foundation Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Monroeville, PA

Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of User Stories walk through and provided feedback for Acceptance Criteria.
• Involved in requirements gathering; analyzing & reviewing the Business Requirements.
• Performed daily Ready for Business (RFB) checks to ensure end-to-end trade flows.
• Wrote and executed Test Cases based on the User Stories.
• Attended Sprint Grooming and Sprint Planning meetings to provide level of effort for Sprint Backlog Items.
• Led and Presented Sprint Demo Sessions to the development team, business team and stake holders for newly developed functionalities.
• Developed and Maintained Automated tests scripts using UFT in VB Script.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested using ALM/Quality Center.
• Used ALM/Quality Center to store all testing results and metrics
• Developed Reusable Functions and maintained in the Function Libraries based on functional areas of the Application Under Test.
• Developed Utility Functions, Error Handling functions and Dynamic Sync functions with VB Script in UFT.
• Automated Daily Smoke Test and Run the Smoke Test Scripts for each Build Deployment with UFT and QTP.
• Developed Functions to connect to the database and performed back-end testing using UFT with VB Script.
• Developed custom functions to validate large amount of data using Dictionary Object with VB Script.
• Stored large amount of data for the application and validated the data with VB Script String Manipulations.
• Developed functions to create run result files and folders with File System Object in UFT with VB Script.
• Maintained Function Libraries, XML Files, Test Configuration Files, Object Repository and test scripts in ALM.
• Executed the test scripts and Logged Defect in ALM based on the execution result.
• Developed database functions in UFT to perform backend testing.

Confidential, Pittsburgh. PA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided demo sessions for Automation Test Strategy and assisted the Testing Team with on-going Automated Test Execution.
• Was involved in creating Test Plans, Test cases for new Implementation based on the business requirements.
• Involved in preparation & execution of Test plan, Test Conditions and Test Cases both by manual as well as Automation.
• Prepared Test data for interpreting the positive/negative results; Involved in preparation of Test Data used to test the Key Functionalities in Latest Builds.
• Logged Defects, assigned Severity and Priority to the defects in HP ALM.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against both System as well as Business Requirements.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Compatibility, System Integration Testing, Security testing, User Acceptance testing, Web testing.
• Performed Cross Browser Compatibility Testing on major browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Performed extensive Back End Testing with SQL Queries.
• Supported End-To-End Test Automation using UFT.
• Modified and enhanced existing BPT framework to Keyword Driven Automation framework in HP QTP/UFT.
• Developed XML Files, Excel Configuration Files for Test Initialization in UFT.
• Used HTML DOM to identified complex web objects in UFT with VB Scripts.
• Coordinated with SME’s and functional testing team to prioritize automation effort.
• Analyzed the run result and developed high level test run analysis to the development team and upper management.

Confidential Herndon .VA

Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases for functional, system and integration testing and tested the application manually and using HP Quality Center.
• Created various Scenarios for functional testing utilizing HP Quality Center as per the requirement specifications.
• Performed Manual application testing by maintaining test scripts and test cases based on system flow by using positive, negative testing scenarios for Graphical User Interface, Website Functionality.
• Conducted Black Box testing which included Integration, Regression and Functional Testing.
• Reported, tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared bugs using Quality Center.
• Developed Hybrid framework in QTP with VB Script.
• Helped to create Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements identifies all test conditions and test data needs.
• Prepared test data for data driven tests for testing the application dynamically
• Responsible for collecting the test data in the pre-testing phase for positive and negative scenarios.
• Involved in the review meetings to ensure the QA Project Plan schedules were adhered to and the critical path activities meet the deadlines.

Confidential, Washington. DC

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and involved in UA test cases, executed test cases, Documenting Defects, resolved defects.
• Performed black box testing to include Functional, System, Integration and Regression Testing for QA and Production on browser based applications.
• Involved in creating test plans, test cases and test reports for various modules in the applications.
• Performed Use case reviews, Test scripts reviews and Executed of Test Scripts.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Performed Black box testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, and UTA testing.
• Development of Integration and System Test Plan.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix
• Crated recorded test scripts using QTP for web based application.
• Enhanced the QTP Object Repositories for the Object Recognition.
• Executed Test Scripts in batch mode with Automation Object Model.
• Tested the application on different browsers as a part of Workstation compatibility testing to maintain cross-browser functionality.
• Written Both Positive and Negative Test Cases.
• Extensively compared several data feeds using comparison software.
• Participated in QA team meeting and bug tracking meetings.
• Documented the test results and test procedures .