SUMMARY

• Solutions - focused Automation Engineer with seven years of automation & manual testing experience; high-level proficiency with ALM/QC and UFT/QTP toolsets; and a foundation in Java, C#, JavaScript, VB Script, SQL, Perl, Linux/Unix and monitoring tools.
• Excel in creating test plans; writing descriptive and concise test cases and creating from scratch/running automated test scripts to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality. Serve as a value-adding member of QA teams with tremendous leadership and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: UFT/HP QuickTest Professional, ALM/HP Quality Center, Postman, Segment, SwaggerUI

Defect & Test Management: BugZilla, Jira, On Time Management, WorkFront, ALM/Quality Center, TestRail

Testing Methodologies: System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Backend Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Validation Testing

Languages: C, C++, C#, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, ASP.Net, VB

Database: SQL, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Engineer

Confidential, Indianapolis, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user stories, functional specs and Use Case documents and created the Test Scenarios, Test cases
• Participated in daily Scrums, Sprint planning and grooming meetings
• Actively provided estimations for user stories assigned for Sprints
• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and followed Agile (Scrum) methodologies
• Involved in development of SQL-queries/procedures for database/backend testing using Microsoft SQL Server
• Helped implement TestRail and migrated all the test cases that were previously created in JIRA, created milestones, test suites and mentored other fellow QA Engineers on how to use TestRail
• Integrated TestRail and Jirato create a test case/defect matrix for easier identification of problematic modules
• Use of POSTMAN plug-in to track the request and response for web services in API testing
• Used Continuous Integration Servers like Jenkins.
• Executed Regression test cases, documented test results and reported and tracked defects.Triaged production issues and resolved them.
• Built Test suites for new acquisitions by designing and implementing test case scenarios and scripts and documenting them using the Test tracking system for end-to-end testing.
• Participated in Client-based stakeholders meetings to gather feedback for improving user experience, understood requirements and challenges and then translated them into requirements/enhancement requests.

Automation Engineer

Confidential, Washington D.C

Responsibilities:

• Performed QA processes collaborating with the development team for ensuring high quality software releases using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Involved in creating Test plans for different components within the project.
• Created Test runs, Test cases, Mockups, Process Flow diagrams from the functional documents.
• Created RTM Matrix, ensured the Test Planning, Testing Strategy, Test cases, Flows are capturing and covering all the Functional/Non Functional requirements.
• Worked with the development team in creating environment and loading and migrating data.
• Performed various kinds of testing, such as Exploratory, Smoke box, Regression, Integrated, System, Backend validation, End to End, UAT.
• Used ALM for Test Planning, Test Case writing, Test Execution and Requirement Mapping with Test Cases.
• Created Test Cases and scenarios for Defect tracking and reporting using ALM.
• Logged new bugs; tracked and updated the status of previously filed bugs. Prioritized and retested the bugs in HP ALM; Participated in the daily bug meeting.
• Performed Back-end data base testing using SQL quires.
• Created Regression suite for various test scenarios. Tested and executed the suite whenever a code was changed using UFT.
• Designed and involved in creating new architecture design using class methods to implement UFT scripts.
• Created several Test scripts using UFT to create Data Driven Tests, Batch tests and performed Exception handling.
• Generated UFT master scripts and called different functions and checked for different properties for the recorded objects.
• Introduced synchronization functions, Wait functions in the scripts.
• Developed Descriptive Programming and Maintained Local and Global Object Repository in UFT.
• Developed a Keyword Driven Automation Framework in UFT.
• Monitored project plan execution and project metrics reporting.
• Documented the project sign off and other project closure activities.

QA Engineer

Confidential, Mclean, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for plan, design, evaluate, and execute test cases and test plans for Functional and Regression testing.
• Responsible for ensuring that requirement are clearly defined and testable.
• Effectively and accurately document and analyze all test results and proactively work to resolve any issues.
• Preformed Functionality, GUI, User Acceptance (UAT), Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Participated in functional requirements gathering sessions.
• Validated the data in the database through SQL queries.
• Wrote and used SQL to validate expected data conditions and/or test results.
• Wrote positive and negative test cases for entire systems.
• Created test scenarios from the user stories for the business approval.
• Validated the SSIS packages through the data validation in the database.
• Responsible for removing roadblocks through proper channel in coordination with Scrum master.
• Automate the manual test cases using Quick Test professional (QTP).
• Created page checkpoints to test the properties and contents of the webpage using Quick Test Pro.
• Designed automation framework, update test scripts, executed automated regression test suite using QTP.
• Responsible for generating bug reports assigning severity and priority levels to the bug found.
• Actively participated in scrum meetings, reviews and developed test scenarios.

QA Tester

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Responsibilities:

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• Worked closely with Product Management and development engineers to understand features and create robust comprehensive test plans to verify functionality.
• Preformed exploratory testing and acceptance of new features as part of a story-driven Agile development process.
• Identified bugs through systematic testing, help developers reproduce errors and ensure that defects are fixed.
• Performed database testing by writing queries in SQL.
• Involved in writing test cases for web services using Soap UI.
• Identified and communicated issues and concerns associated with system testing as well as potential project impacts.
• Responsible for production support of software products by investigating, recreating and resolving reported defects.
• Performed Data Verification Testing by writing Oracle-SQL queries in order to resolve data discrepancies and maintain data accuracy.
• Used mapping document for creating Test cases for Facets database, Data warehouse and compared the data source to target application.
• Responsible for setting up the QA Environment and execute the regression suite for each build.