SUMMARY:

• Senior Test Engineer with 10+ years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst in testing Client/Server and Web based applications on both manual and automation platforms.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle, Methodologies, Software Engineering Processes and Software Test Life Cycle & Testing Tools.
• Have excellent communication skills, very detail oriented, have great customer skills and have problem solving capabilities.
• The goal is to obtain a position as a software test engineer and utilize my strong background to make a positive contribution with commitment and quality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Reflection, TOAD, Perfecto, JAWS, ALM, UFT, Quality Center, Quick Test pro, Rational Suite, Rational Robot, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, soapUI, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Quality Manager, Web services, Rest Client, XML, Notepad ++, SQL, SharePoint

Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML Schema, .NET, XML, PL/SQL, SQABasic

Databases: Oracle 10G, Oracle 11G, SQL Developer

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux, Solaris 9, HP - Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Silver Spring VA

Senior Software Tester/Integration Tester/End to End Tester

Responsibilities:

• Generate test plans, test cases & test steps for manual testing through ALM
• Clean test environment and generated new workloads to test the integration of systems
• Conduct mobile testing with device (Iphone, Capi, and Ipad) as well as with Perfecto
• Conduct 508 compliant testing with JAWS and Dragon Naturally Speaking software
• Use Toad to connect to Oracle and SQL databases which were on Cloud (AWS) and ITE Environments
• Use Reflection to connect to Windows and Linex Servers on Cloud (AWS)
• Test web applications that were deployed to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Ingest Workloads into SOAs Cloud database to simulate and track data flow
• Define and document test cases based off User Stories, ICDs, RTVMs, Design Documents, and Workflows
• Develop, enhance and mature test scripts thru execution and exposure to systems
• Mentor team members in test development and general system knowledge
• Document software issues thru logging defects and enhancement requests in ALM while performing functional, integration, regression, and automation tests
• Involved in each stage of defect reporting from reporting a new bug through closure
• Effectively interact with interfacing organizations and work together as a team to deliver projects on time and on budget
• Contribute towards team estimation and scheduling process
• Apply extensive expertise in Integration and Test
• Work with QA and Software Engineers to improve overall development and test processes
• Report and analyze test results to ensure functionality and quality
• Execute automation scripts using UFT and Selenium WebDriver
• Worked on Automating Web applications and Client Server Applications
• Identify functional testcases that qualify for automation and create automation scripts
• Experience with backend with Toad and Reflection, as well as frontend validation
• Document software issues and enhancement requests and assist development with concise and detailed steps for duplication of the defects found while performing manual functional, integration, and regression tests
• Report and analyze test results to ensure functionality and quality

Confidential, Herndon VA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 4 members successfully and insured that project deliverables were on time
• Developed test plans with QA team and helped to develop test scenarios for system testing, integration testing.
• Gave Demo’s to business owners and addressed any issues that needed further clarification
• Established test cases for UAT and ensured successful execution of UAT test cases
• Reported UAT defects and developed test matrix to ensure all issues were addressed
• Experienced with developing Test Data, Test Summary Reporting, Execution, and Defect Tracking/Reporting
• Used RRC/RQM/RTC for requirement management, test planning, scheduling, executing test cases, managing and tracking defects.
• Involved in Regression testing of each release during the various phases of the application using Rational Quality Manager.
• Developed & Executed Test cases for manual testing using Rational Quality Manager.
• Performed Smoke testing, Integration testing, GUI testing & Database testing in the newest releases for basic functionality testing
• Identified test cases to automate. Automated those test cases using Rational robot
• Created Rational Robot automation scripts in Java
• Experience with mobile testing by using perfecto mobile cloud and mobile simulators
• Knowledge in Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting in JIRA
• Generated various reports like Defect Report, Test Execution Report, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Ensured test strategies and process engineering were developed and implemented to deliver the best results
• Prepared daily status reports with details of executed, passed, and failed test cases and created a defect matrix to present to Business owners daily
• Extensively interacted with developers, business & management teams to understand the project business requirements
• Ensured TRR and PRR documents were created and approved by business owners
• Involved in full development life cycle of planning, analysis, design, and development.
• Supported End-to-end testing
• Reported on risk mitigation and ensured that all risks were discussed with business owners.
• Conducted 508 testing with JAWS to ensure the system was operating successfully for all users

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plans
• Performed functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, System testing and validation testing on application with Manual/Automated testing process using QTP
• Automation scripts development for Regression testing using QTP
• Involved in Test scripts development using already existing keyword driven framework
• Involved in designing hybrid framework
• Analyzed and Understanding of Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Detailed Design Specification (DDS) and Use Cases
• Used Quality center to build test cases and to report defects
• Performed Database Testing by running SQL queries in Oracle and SQL Server databases
• Tested Web applications in agile development process with frequently changing requirements
• Assisted and trained users in performing UAT
• Provided leadership to quality engineers, with complete responsibility and accountability for delivery of project tasks assigned to the QA team members
• Responsible for providing training, education, and career development for QA team members
• Identified and led implementation of software quality metrics that resulted in the improvement of the QA process
• Led and drove the testing strategy in test and UAT environments
• Assigned tasks to QA team members
• Prepared & distributed daily/weekly status reports
• Created and Executed test cases and test matrices using Quality Center
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, and UAT testing on various applications on a regular basis