Experience Summary

• Having more than 6 years of experience in the IT field as QA Engineer with proficiency in both Automation Manual Testing for testing web-based application, Client/server Application, Mobile Application and Web Services.
• Strong expertise in Software Development Cycle SDLC QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile RUP- model.
• Experience in developing extensive Test Plans, Test Cases based on the Business Requirements and Functional specifications using HP's Quality Center.
• Hands on experience with all levels of testing including Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and participated in UAT.
• Experienced in Data Driven Automation Framework in HP s Quick Test Professional.
• Proficient in Defect Tracking Tools such as HP Quality Center/ALM, Bugzilla JIRA.
• Excellent experience in Database Technologies SQL Queries.
• Tremendous expertise in Problem solving and bug reporting using Bug Tracking Tools like JIRA, BUGZILLA and IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Experience working on all major Mobile Platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows.
• Experience of performing Functional and Data-driven testing by writing Groovy Scripts in SOAP UI Testing Tools.
• Experience of working on different environments such as UNIX/LINUX, Windows.
• Participated in project related meetings with off-shore teams and within teams.
• Capable of quickly learning new technologies and adapting to a new environment.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems : Win 95/98/00/7/8/XP/Vista, UNIX Browsers: IE7, Mozilla Firefox 3/3.5, Safari 2.0 Languages : VBScript, Groovyscript, SQL Databases : Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 Web Servers : Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat Web Services: WSDL, XML, XSD, Soap Requests/Responses Testing Tools : Quality Center 8.2/9.0/10/11/11.5, Clear Quest, QTP9.5/10.0/11/11.5, SOAPUI 3/3.5/3.6/4/4.5/4.6 Others : MS SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer

Professional Experience:

Title: Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirements and Use Cases to create Test Plan and Test Cases
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System, GUI, and Regression testing, Mobile app testing during the testing of different services.
• Used HP's Quality Center extensively for storing test cases, maintaining test documentation.
• Used HP's Quality Center to create, manage, run test suites, generate reports for percentage of failures with proper Severity, test case status, etc.
• Designed and Developed user-defined function libraries that can be used while creating the scripts to automate and to enhance the maintainability of test scripts.
• Contributed to and maintained the automation framework to ensure maximum quality of product
• Used Recovery Scenario Manger in QTP to handle exceptions
• Performed functional testing of web services messages based on WSDL documents.
• Performed Cross browser testing Chrome, IE and Firefox and cross platform testing.
• Performed Functional testing of mobile application on platforms like android and IOS.
• Developed SQL Queries for Backend Verification and compared using joins and unions in database server for data driven testing.
• Use HP's Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.
• Used UNIX commands to read error logs to find specifics of a failure
• Interacted with the developers for resolving reported defects and various technical issues.
• Kicked off and conducted Ambiguity Resolution and Bug Triage Meetings
• Worked closely with other QA teams, development, project management, and business representatives.
• Participated in daily/weekly QA team meetings, brainstorming sessions and discussions.

Environment: Windows OS, ALM QC, SOAPUI, Android, iOS, UNIX, SQL Server, XML

Title: SR. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Requirements to address any Ambiguity.
• Studied and understood the Test Plan to comprehend the Business Logic
• Extensively used MS Excel and MS Word data sheets to import positive and negative results in HP ALM.
• Performed different types of testing: Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Smoke Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Designed, developed, documented and maintained detailed test cases using Quality Center QC , including import
• Performed Functional and Data Driven Testing on the Web Services
• Inserted Assertions to validate the XML SOAP response
• Launched Test Runner in SOAPUI to automate execution of Test Suites
• Wrote and executed SQL Queries to validate database content and verified correctness of business logic
• Report, Track, review, analyze and compare bugs using a Defect Tracking Database in Rational Clear Quest and followed bug life cycle to closure
• Used PUTTY to connect windows to UNIX environment
• Presented regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports

Environment: Quality center, QTP, SOAPUI, MS SQL Management Studio, UNIX, Clear Quest, SQL Server, XML

Title: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• confidential in Business requirement Analysis, Function Requirement Analysis, Overall Design, Use-Case Analysis, Initial Summary, Risk Analysis and Documentation
• Managed Requirements and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using Quality Center
• Performed Functional testing manually and also constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements
• Updated and maintained RTM in Quality Center to ensure maximum test coverage
• Implemented Various filter in Quality Center
• Prepared and executed test SQL scripts to perform back-end testing.
• Used Quality Center for tracking and reporting defects found during the functional and regression testing and followed up on the bug life cycle
• Manually tested the whole application before going for the automated testing.
• Performed regression in unattended mode
• Performed Property transfer from test case to testcase, test request to test request, test case to test suite
• Validated database executing DDL/DML sql queries on database.
• Wrote SQL queries for different JOINS, Union, Union all
• Tracked the defects and reported the defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, UNIX, VBScript, java, Oracle, MS SQL Server

Title: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took part in documentation and implementation of test strategy
• Created test plan and wrote test cases based on BRD and FSD
• Designed test cases in Excel and import them into Quality Center.
• Performed Functionality, GUI test manually, participated in UAT
• Written automated test scripts for Functional, GUI validation, Data driven testing using quick test professional
• Used Mercury Quality Center for defect reporting, updating the status of Defects, estimation of the Test status and maintain Test cases for references.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data
• Developed and maintained Test Traceability Matrices.
• Performed manual back-end testing for MS SQL Server.
• Manually tested the web application to ensure the flow of the application functionality.
• Presented regular progress reports, defect reports and test execution reports
• Validated Web services using SOAP UI by testing XML request and response data with SOAP

Environment: QTP, QC, java, MS-Excel, SQL server, Soapui

Title: Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing user requirements, identifying test cases and setting up test data.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scenarios according to the functional specifications.
• Participated and involved in test procedures and test plans reviews.
• Involved in Functional testing of the application including User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Exported test cases created in Excel Sheet to Quality Center
• Maintained project folder structure in Quality Center
• Generated the test reports
• Perform backend testing by using SQL queries and check if the reports generated actually suffice the search criteria submitted.
• Used Bugzilla for tracking and reporting defects found during the functional and regression testing
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the manual testing.
• Participated actively in team meetings with Functional/Development Team for fixing bugs.

Environment: Quality Center, MS SQL Server, Bugzilla

Title: Quality Analyst

Stores Team members use handheld devices PDA to connect to the Push application. Cartons lying on the conveyor track are scanned using these handheld devices. Upon scanning a Carton, push application indicates whether it needs to be pushed to the sales floor, back stock, stage or exception area of the stores. Stores Team members then take an appropriate action to push the Carton to its designated location in the stores.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business, functional and technical specification documents.
• Review product requirement documents, functional specifications, and developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents
• Performed GUI, Functional, System-Integration, Regression, and UAT testing.
• Close interaction with Project Management, Business User and Development teams.
• Identify risk and communicate risk mitigation strategies, determine scope and test limitations.
• Executed complex SQL Queries on Oracle databases to validate the data involved.
• Test Plan Preparation defining a testing methodology appropriate for the application.
• Functionality and Performance testing of the application. Performed Backend Testing writing SQL queries.
• Defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Preparation and evaluation of Test Reports Summary Reports.
• Allocate task and get the same executed on time to meet timely deliverables.
• Onsite offshore team Coordination.

Environment: Windows XP, Mercury Quality Center, SQL Server, C