Professional Summary:

• 5+ years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer in testing Web Based, Mobile, and GUI based client/server applications using Manual and Automated testing procedures.
• Strong experience in Manual and Automated testing with tools such as HP Quick Test Professional, SOAPUI, Quality Center, Load Runner and Selenium Web Server/IDE/Grid.
• Extensive experience in requirements gathering, analysis, preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Cases and performing Functional, Regression, and Integration tests.
• Proficient in various Test Automation Frameworks.
• Strong experience in black box, and gray box testing.
• Well versed in Usability, and Compatibility Testing.
• Experience in testing SOAP and REST based Web services.
• Possess strong programming skills in C, C++, and Visual Basic.
• Experience in working with Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Proficient in Defect Tracking, Defect Management and Defect Metrics.
• Sound Experience in writing SQL queries for managing the test data and performing backend data validation.
• Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and wide exposure to complete Testing Life Cycle (TLC).
• Organized, and Self-starter with the ability to multi-task across complex initiatives and coordinate activities with the team to meet the critical deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• A meticulous and quality-oriented individual with an eye for details.

Technical Skills:

C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, SQL

Application Server

Tomcat , Web logic, Web sphere

IDE

Eclipse, IntelliJ

Scripting/ Markup Languages

Java Script, VBScript, HTML, CSS, XML

Databases

MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access

Microsoft Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Version Control

CVS, SVN

Testing Tools / Frameworks

HP Quick Test Professional, SOAPUI, Load Runner, Quality Center, Test Director, Selenium Web Server/IDE/Grid, JUnit, TestNG, Version One, JIRA, Bugzilla, Confluence

Operating System

Windows Variants, UNIX, Red Hat Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Confidential, 
Project: Online Banking Application July 10 – Sept 12

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing requirements, designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy.
• Prepare and maintain project test plans based on business requirements, workflows and use cases.
• Involved in creating Business Risk Levels to determine Test Priorities.
• Prepare testing estimates.
• Work with business and technology leads to identify and prepare appropriate data for testing.
• Prepare and execute manual test cases.
• Designing and maintenance of Automation Framework (Keyword and Data Driven).
• Created and executed automated test scripts using QTP.
• Developed recovery scenarios using QTP.
• Developed and maintained Shared Object Repository.
• Configured QC and executed automated scripts from QC.
• Used SOAP UI to test the backend web services.
• Assisted in Load Testing using Load Runner.
• Responsible for regression testing by executing batch test cases using Test Batch Runner.
• Responsible for executing SQL queries for back-end data validation.
• Create test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Conduct defect review meetings.
• Reported defects via bug tracking system, verify the bugs fixed, document the bug history and root cause analysis once the defect is fixed or closed.
• Produce testing summary reports.
• Worked in Scrum/Agile development environment.

Environment: QTP, SOAP UI, QC, Load Runner, SQL, Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat.

Client: Confidential,  
Project: Online Learning Management System Jan 09 – June 10

Role: Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design Test Plan/Strategy & Test Cases for the different modules in the application.
• Involved in Estimation process.
• Execute the Test Cases and analyze the Results.
• Prepare UAT test cases and assist Business clients in UAT execution.
• Interaction with development team in identification of functionalities for Automation suite.
• Manage execution of all automated scripts using QTP.
• Developing Function Libraries based on the automation needs.
• QA activities management using QC.
• Used JIRA for defect reporting and management.
• Involved in peer reviewing the Test Plan and Test Report, providing feedback and approvals for the test plans.
• Involved in automation result analysis.
• Involved in analyzing the performance test cases and executing them using Load Runner.
• Participated in Bug Triage Meetings, maintained Weekly Status report and Project Metrics.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality.

Environment: QTP, QC, Load Runner, Java/J2EE, Web Sphere.

Company: Confidential. Aug 07 – Nov 08 
Project: Quality control and Inventory Management System

Role: Software Quality Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented test plans and test cases for various internal applications.
• Involved in developing policies and procedures to ensure products meet the quality specification.
• Developed Test Cases for functionality specification to ensure bug free performance.
• Responsible for GUI testing for the website, suggesting improvements to performance of website in terms of web-page load times etc.
• Modularized test cases for reusability.
• Presented regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports.
• Executed SQL queries for backend data validation.
• Participated in weekly meetings to track the progress of testing effort.

Environment/Tools: MS SQL Server, Java, J2EE, Web Logic.

Company: Confidential.Dec 06 – July 07 
Project: Corporate Billing System

Role: QA Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering and analysis meetings.
• Preparation of test cases from the requirement documents.
• Execution of test cases and defect logging.
• Helped functional and regression testing.
• Performed manual GUI testing.
• Executed Test Cases for sanity reports.
• Preparation of test data to test both the positive and the negative test cases.
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation and data integrity checks.
• Performed static and dynamic testing to test the application.
• Gained exposure in designing planning, coding and executing the project.

Environment/Tools: MS SQL Server, Java, J2EE, Web Logic.

Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering