SUMMARY:

• Over 10.5 years of professional Information Technology experience as Software Quality Assurance engineer and Test Analyst for Client / Server and Web based applications.
• Functional Testing in all phases of Test life cycle, which includes designing Test Plans, mapping requirements, identify high level scenarios, designing of test cases, scripts review, execution, defect tracking and bug reporting using various test management tools.
• Expertise in analysing system functional, business requirements and break down into test requirements/test objectives and test conditions.
• Expert in writing, reviewing and execution of test case scenarios. Involved in Unit Test, System Integration Test, System Acceptance, Smoke Test, Functional, Security, Browser Compatible, E2E, User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Regression Testing .
• Adept in using tools like Quality Centre (ALM), Version One, Test Director, IBM Rational tools, JIRA, Test Management tools, SOAP UI, QTP, Selenium Web Driver and Clear Quest.
• Basic knowledge on Automation Tools like QTP, Selenium and Load Runner.
• Possess good knowledge in process tracking tools, metrics collection and preparing status reports.
• Have good domain knowledge on Utilities, Healthcare, Banking and Automotive
• Possess excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, project coordination, and team player.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and passion to learn new technologies on project demand.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista

Languages: C, C++, VB Scripting and HTML

Databases: SQL Server and Oracle 9i

Tools: Quality center, Test Director, JIRA, SOAP UI, Rational Manual TesterClear Quest: Test manager, QTP, Selenium, Load Runner, ETL - Informatica Power Centre, IBM Data Power/BPM (Business Process Management), IBM Data Stage, Error Portals, Appworks, Putty and Test Harness.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identify the unit test defects and write assembly test cases for development environment.
• Brain storm with Business System Analyst on legacy application behaviours and new requirements.
• System Integration test with legacy interfaces applications to identify design defects early stage.
• Validated Web Services request and response by using SOAP UI tool during build phase.
• End to End test case creation with high level wireframes, design and functional interface documents.
• Involved in Unit Test, System Integration Test, System Acceptance, Smoke Test, Functional Testing, Security Test, Browser Compatible Test, User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Regression Testing.
• Coordinate with release management teams on data conversions, application code migration, database refresh and defect fix into Test environments.
• Applications demonstration training to business and user groups on end to end testing demo with new implementations vs legacy, and collect feedback and suggestions from users.
• Possess good knowledge in process tracking tools, metrics collection and preparing status reports.
• Writing SQL scripts for identifying test data, part of Test Data Management.
• Knowledge sharing to new team members, regression teams for day two support.
• Involve in defect triage and weekly status calls to meet the project deadline and plan testing efforts.
• Part of applications smoke test group to handoff accepted build to test team.
• Possess excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, project coordination, and team player.
• Identified value ads and process improvements during project deliverables.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of daily stand up meetings and task allocations for that day on test priorities.
• Analyzing the business application and its requirements for OMS project.
• Prepare requirements ambiguity report and query log.
• Interact with client to get clarify the raised ambiguities and queries.
• Involved in test case self and peer reviews.
• Developed application assembly and system integration test cases.
• Importing test cases authored into test case management tool to get approval from client for the authored test cases. Validated Web Services by using SOAP UI tool during build phase.
• Part of Build smoke, regression testing. Involved in application security testing.
• Reviewing test cases execution results, analyzing for issues in test environment.
• Working with Meter Test lab team for validating AMI Meters - Pings / Report Outages and Status.
• Defects documentation and retesting in new build.
• Verifying execution results summary in test case management tool.
• Reviewing modified test cases based on change in requirements/functionality.
• Executed OUA, IVR, CIS, GIS, MMS and WEB interfaces with OMS application.
• Test case creations for OUA reports and dashboards as part of OUA application.
• Creating SQL queries to validate reports and dashboards with application data.
• Reporting the activities performed to client through weekly status.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the system functional requirements of the application.
• Validating the use cases and requirement specifications documents.
• Documenting and executing Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts based on baseline requirements.
• Make sure all features are adequately covered in the Test Plan and creating test case Traceability matrix document.
• Conducting Manual Testing using the standard guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.
• Creating the test bed and test data required to successfully execute the Test Cases in Stage and Production environments. Conducting GUI, Functional, Regression, System Testing and Integration Testing. Creating test data using SQL queries to aid successful execution of functional test cases.
• Browser compatible test case execution.
• Test execution on multiple Operating Systems by using VM Ware system.
• Automated few modules manual scripts by using the Selenium automation tool.
• Achieved the regression test execution for few modules by using the Selenium automation tool.
• Production smoke test validation during weekend application code deployments.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirement, spec sheets and design documents. Understand the business functionality of the application.
• Preparing test scenario and test cases for requirements and part of reviews.
• Involved in test cases walkthrough with business and development teams.
• Responsible for smoke testing, functional testing and adhoc testing.
• Test data creation for the test scenarios to execute test cases.
• Interaction with development team for code drops and builds schedules.
• Active participation in defect triage and defect route cause meetings.
• Responsible for tracking the defects and status reports sharing with client.
• Application knowledge transition to the new team members.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Requirement and Design documents. Understanding the business functionality of the application. Preparing Test Scenario for Automation and Manual Testing.
• Preparing test data using QTP 9.0 automation tool. Functional Testing, Regression testing and UAT Testing. Database Testing using SQL Server 2005. Reports validations by using SQL query results.
• Responsible for Defect and Execution tracking by using Test Management tools.
• Application knowledge transition to the new team members.