SUMMARY:

• 6 years of professional experience in IT industry as a Software Test Engineer/QA.
• Expertise in planning, designing, implementing, executing and evaluating tests.
• Quality Assurance expertise includes full life cycle testing experience including Functional, Smoke, User Interface, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration .
• Proficient in writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases- Functional and Integration test cases, Reviewing test cases and Estimating test cases execution.
• Experienced in creating of Test Plan and Test Strategy document.
• Good Proficiency in quick understanding of Business Requirements and Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Experienced in working with Test Management tools like Quality Center/Test Director.
• Experienced in logging defects and assigning the criticality of Defects, Root Cause Analysis, Bug Verification using HP Quality Center.
• Good in Maintaining of Test Scripts, Requirements management of test suites using Quality Center and also experienced in preparing the Test Execution reports using the Quality Center.
• Strong in performing backend testing to validate data using SQL queries.
• Skilled in generating automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional QTP .
• Experienced in creating a repository of reusable functions to cut down scripting time.
• Experienced in working with GUI testing using QTP.
• Expertise in developing custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP.
• Hands on experience in using Framework for QTP Automation Scripts.
• Experienced in working interacting with off-shore projects, experienced working closely with developers and Business Analyst.
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills with all management levels.
• Proficiency in creating Weekly Status report and Metrics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS :

• Operating Systems: WINDOWS, UNIX/LINUX.
• Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, QTP, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Test Director.
• Office Tools: MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Languages: SQL,PL/SQL,C/C , Java, VB and HTML.
• Methodology: Agile/Scrum, OOAD, Business Modeling and Data Modeling.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement and discussed with Development team to understand and analyzed the Product Requirements thoroughly.
• Involved in implementing and writing of Test Plans based on the requirements.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product across different releases and also updating the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes.
• Created Scenarios and performed scenario based testing. Designed, updated and reviewed Test Cases.
• Developed detailed Test scenario, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Modified of existing Test Plans and Test Scripts for regression testing.
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of the application and according to the changing system requirements.
• Performed negative and positive testing for the application.
• Performed GUI testing, Smoke testing, Black box testing, Grey box testing, Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Back end, User Acceptance and Regression testing.
• Created Test scripts for the Test Execution and Documented the Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Logged the defects in HP Quality Center and created Test Metrics to analyze the defects.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the Backend testing of the Database.
• Created and enhanced automation test scripts using QuickTest Professional QTP .
• Conducted functional regression testing for each build and version using QTP.
• Developed external custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP.
• Developed Data-driven Framework using QTP.
• Involved in Agile methodology of software development by facilitating daily operational scrums and frequently coordinating with-functional team.
• Assisted in training the UAT users at client location upon implementation of the developed system to familiarize them of its functions and operations in production environment.
• Involved in developing weekly status reports for the project team.
• Environment: Windows, UNIX, J2EE, Web Logic, VBScript, Oracle, .NET, TOAD, Quick Test Pro, ALM/Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Strategies, Master Test Plans, and Test Cases for QA Process Management.
• Interacted with Senior Architects, Manager and the developers for issue resolution for critical business related queries and acting as a liaison between the business and the IT teams.
• Developed Integration Test Plans, and Test Schedules to assist in the execution of Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management, Bug Reporting and familiarity with other features of Quality Center and Administration.
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Interacted with development Teams for timely closure of bugs reported in meeting the requirement specification using Quality Center. Tracked and monitored defects using Quality Center.
• Worked with development members on bug reproduction and fixes and updated management on testing results, activities and planning using Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL queries to test data base tables for back end testing.
• Reported bugs into Quality Center and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed using QTP.
• Enhanced the QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and Checkpoints to check for Broken Links, Text, Table, XML and Images, and Synchronization Point to capture upload time.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing, Text Output values by using Global and Local spreadsheets in QTP for testing multiple data.
• Performed test case execution using a Keyword Driven Framework with QTP.
• Conducted Walkthroughs and involved in Software Inspection.
• Responsible for generating standard defect reports and graphs for daily status meeting.
• Worked with infrastructure teams to solve issues and involved in the installation of software/builds
• Organized and supervised peer reviews and formal reviews.

Environment: Windows, Microsoft Office tools, Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server , ASP.NET, Oracle, HTML, HTML, Java.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with development, users and support groups to understand the application architecture, use and content.
• Participated actively in requirement gathering sessions and made proposed test strategy for the application.
• Created and executed Test scripts to verify complex system requirements.
• Created and executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Grey and Black Box Testing.
• Used Test Director to log defects and generate defect reports and graphs.
• Used Test Director to manage the requirements, test cases and also defects.
• Performed manual Back-End testing by writing SQL queries for validating user information available in the tables.
• Wrote complex queries for data validation in SQL statements.
• Created, executed Test Sets and maintained documentation of test results using TestDirector.
• Understood the application under test, writing test plan, defining test strategy, created the test matrix.
• Enhanced regression test cases to implement complex testing scenarios, functionality testing, and increased code coverage using QTP.
• Used Data sheets in Quick Test Pro to import data from data tables for conducting the Data Driven Testing.
• Developed VBscripts in Quick Test Pro to perform end to end testing and created a set of re-usable scripts.
• Reported the failed test cases, tracked the defects and verified the fixes in multiple environments and also tested in various web browsers like Mozilla, IE, and Opera.
• Developed the Test cases to test functionality, interface of the application.
• Performed peer reviews for test cases and test results prepared by other team members.
• Documented and sent reports according to the standards.
• Performed manual execution of test scripts and or creation of defect reports.

Environment: QTP, TestDirector, Java , C , C, VBScript, ASP.NET, HTML, SQL Server.