SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• US Citizen with many years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Assurance Engineering.
• Experience working on Client/Server, cloud, mobile and Web-based applications.
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements Analysis, functional Requirement Analysis, Test documentations, Test Execution, Manual Testing, Test Automation and QA methodologies.
• Experienced with full Product Development Process, from Verification to Validation.
• Experienced working in Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Experienced in writing and executing automated Test Scripts, Tracking Defects and interacting with the development team on fixing and verifying the defects.
• Experienced with writing and executing Manual Test Cases in HP QC/ALM, MS Excel, MTM
• Expertise in Writing, Executing and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases, and Test Matrix.
• Expertise in Front-end/back-end testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Browsers Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Reliability Testing, Load/Stress Testing, Usability Testing, Installation Testing and Security Testing, Web Service Testing with both Manual and Automated Testing tools.
• Expertise in logging, tracking, monitoring and re-testing defects/user-stories/change requests.
• Expert in using automated testing tools like HP Quick Test Professional QTP , LoadRunner, Test Director and Quality Center/ALM.
• Experience using HP QC/ALM and JIRA for test management, bug tracking, reporting and Planning Releases.
• Experienced performing database testing using SQL Queries and working with different DB systems.
• Able to work in fast-faced environments and handle multiple demands.
• Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Equally effective working in self-managed projects or as a team member.
• Proven 'test to break' attitude and great attention to details.
• Capable of making technical presentations understandable.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Tester

Confidential

Job Responsibilities:

• Studied and Analyzed System Design Documents, Technical Spec, Wireframes and Use Cases
• Attended Kick-Off meeting, Project Planning meeting, and other trainings
• Interacted with Business analysts and Developers to understand the requirements, application functionality and navigation flow.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Data, and test matrix based on the project documents
• Performed extensive manual testing on front-end and back-end of the application.
• Executed Test Cases Manually using MTM Microsoft Test Manager .
• Performed front-end, back-end and database testing using various testing techniques like Exploratory, functional, UI, black-box, compatibility, end-to-end, UAT and Regression.
• Conducted both positive and negative testing on the application.
• Reported and Analyzed the defects and categorized them based on the severity level.
• Attended Defect triage meeting and interacted with developers regularly to ensure that defects were resolved.
• Developed and Ran SQL queries on Oracle 10g to perform database/back-end testing
• Was responsible for deploying XML files to SoapUI.
• Performed Web-Service Testing, validated variables and placeholders on XML file.
• Created, maintained and updated regression testing suites upon receiving new build.
• Coordinated with onsite and offshore team members and kept QA Manager updated on the testing progress.
• Ensured all the functionalities of the software meet the highest quality possible by following industry recognized QA methodologies and best practices.
• Provided status at the Daily Stand up meeting, including sending daily status report via email.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification BRS , Software Requirement Specification SRS and User Requirement Document URD .
• Actively participating in all phases of SDLC verification to Validation and QA life Cycle.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing requirements.
• The projects followed Agile methodology, where developers, users and testers worked together to create stories, document requirements by interviews and analysis.
• Written story narratives, functional non-functional system requirements and change requests.
• o Developed Manual Test Cases Test Scripts to test the functionality of the application using HP QTP ALM
• o Developed Test Plan and Test Scenarios for different modules.
• Performed Manual Testing on web-based, client-server and mobile applications
• Tested the application on iOS and Android platforms.
• Used Quality Center for test management and bug tracking.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts through Descriptive Programming using conditional statements, loops, user defined functions, function library and data driven testing which applies the Business rules to validate the components displayed on the website.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Job Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automation Testing on the application
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specification, and the required documents for testing
• Involved with preparing Test cases and Test Strategy
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the backend Oracle database
• Performed functional, negative, regression and smoke tests on the new enhancements added to the web application
• Used HP Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running or executing tests, tracking defects and managing defects
• Performed Extensive Manual Testing on the application across many supported Browsers and Platforms
• Assist other team members and engineers to determine root causes
• Involved in extensive black box, end to end, integration, and regression testing
• Created test scripts in VBScript using HP QuickTest Professional QTP tool to perform Regression and Functional Testing on new builds of the software
• Conducted GUI, Backend and Functionality Testing using QTP
• Wrote and recorded VB Scripts for automating the testing using
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from excel files.
• Performed Load Testing and performance testing by creating LoadRunner scenarios by utilizing LR controller and VuGen to create a Vuser script and parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data checking in the database.
• Performed re-test and verified bug fixes as needed
• Coordinated with developers to recreate the errors and maintained the trouble log reports. Involved in conducting the test walk-through and worked closely with project management
• Conducted elaborate Manual Testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team
• Worked collaboratively with QA, Developers, and other engineers on the testing and release of the software
• Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly report to QA Manager

QA Tester Manual

Confidential

Job Responsibilities:

• Gathered and Coordinated Test requirements between Business and QA team.
• Wrote Test Plans and Test Cases into Quality Center for Manual and Regression Testing.
• Executed Test Cases, reported defects and communicated with developers to get them fixed in timely manners.
• Developed and reviewed test automation scripts with Automation Engineer using Quick Test Professional for Functional and Regression Testing of the various releases of the application.
• Created Test Cases and expected results based on the requirements for Functional Regression Testing.
• Summarized issues, reporting defects and tracking the bugs using Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL statements/Queries to check the validity of database and to do the backend testing.
• Interacted with developers to resolve the software defects.
• Manually tested the application.
• Identified, Tracked and re-verified bugs and reported defect using Quality Center.
• Implemented the test cases and test processes with project time frames.
• Ensured Entry criteria and Exit criteria for all QA deliverables
• Performed Cross Browser, Configuration and Black Box.
• Conducted User Acceptance testing.
• Participated Weekly meeting.
• Attended daily defect prioritization meetings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 98, XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8, MAC iOS

Web Technologies: C .Net, VB.Net, ADO.NET, WCF, SOAP, WPF, Java, J2EE, J2ME, Perl, SQL, IIS, CSS, PL/SQL, HTML, HTML5, XML, JSP, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, SOAP UI

Databases: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server 2000

Defect Tracking Tool: HP Quality Center/ALM, TestDirector, TeamTrack, JIRA

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional QTP , LoadRunner, REST, MTM

Network Protocol: TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Excel and MS Projects, Test Manager

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer IE , Firefox, Chrome, Safari, AOL, Netscape Navigator