Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Technical Skills

Tools: Quality Test Pro, Quality Center, Win Runner, Load Runner 9.2, Test Director, Selenium
Operating systems: Windows NT/2000/7/2003/XP/VISTA & MAC OS.
Data Bases: Oracle 7, SQL SERVER 7, MYSQL,C++,QTP.
Scripting Languages: Shell scripting HTML/XML.
Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE.
Application Servers: Oracle Application Servers.
Web Servers: HTTP Server, MVMWARE, Microsoft IIS.
Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Test Director, Fog Bugs, Jira.

Professional Summary

• To seek a challenging career opportunity as a Quality Analyst/Software Quality Engineer within a dynamic and growth oriented organization utilizing my skills with a future for advancement.
• Around (3) yrs of experience in Information Technology (IT) as Q.A. analyst/ Software Engineer performing both Manual and Automated testing & validation of software code including debugging.
• Worked with both Client-based and Web-based applications.
• Experienced in diversified industries like Satellite Networking, Casino Gaming Technologies and Government Applications.
• Experienced in creating test strategies, test cases and automated test scripts. Knowledgeable in all phases of Software Development Cycle (SDLC).

Experience

Confidential, Reno, NV 01/2012 - Present
Product Assurance (P.A.) Tester

Performed White box/Black box Testing for game functionalities on 960/AVP System slot machines to ensure the bonus and base pays of poker games populate properly.

• Analyzed Test Requirements and tested systems by applying designed test cases.
• Performed Benchmark tests, Stability tests, Stress tests and Game State Transition Power Hit tests.
• Executed test scripts using Quality Center to perform thorough testing of various poker games for base/bonuses using Pay Tester Plus to various pay tables.
• Performed Validation and Exploratory Testing to search for game defects using Quality Center.
• Performed complex Quality Center Runs using Excel Spreadsheets to populate, modify and test the 960 systems coin hoppers.
• Developed test cases, test scenarios from the test specifications.
• Conducted both white box & black box testing.
• Executed Excel test scripts and maintained automated scripts using Quality Center.
• Compiled test data and shared with test developers.
• Conducted various tests on the poker games for full functionality including regression testing.
• Attend daily Agile/Scrum meetings to update the game developers of day to day game defects progress
• Conducted a training Seminar with an Agile/Scrum Master to learn how game projects are distributed among contractors to Update Team Leads about current game project progress and how hours were distributed on each project.
• Generated test plans for load testing.
• Conducted base line Tests on Excel spreadsheets.
• Executed various Excel test scripts for game validity and data integrity.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Bug Tracking and Weekly Bug Reports.
• Modified Excel scripts and conducted Load tests,Smoke tests for memory leak checks.

Confidential, Washington DC 01/2011 - 01/2012
Software Engineer

Census provided a once-in-a decade portrait of the nation's population, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution. The information collected during the census was used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and was used by public and private sectors to the public to make informed decisions. The data was also used to help distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds back to state, local governments each year to fund infrastructure projects such as roads, hospitals and schools.

• Involved in analyzing and understanding the Business Requirements and Test plan.
• Provided Test LOE's to Project Management teams for various releases and enhancements.
• Created Testing artifacts based on Test Excellence Team suggested SDLC formats and followed strictly all the SDLC processes and procedures.
• Executed Test cases using SQL Queries to create automated test scripts using Selenium.
• Involved in creating, executing and updating Test Cases per application needed monthly requirements. Added enhancements for created test cases in Quality center, and tracked the progress of testing efforts by generating the Test reports.
• Identified the bugs/defects and communicated to the developers using the Tracker in the Team Track.
• Created extensively reusable test cases design steps for monthly release regression testing. As a part of regression testing executed the entire Credit approval process, rules based decision engine and various process flows of application.
• Performed Web Service Testing incorporating Selenium to ensure Census Bureau's website was accessible when undergoing maintenance to guarantee accurate loan updates with Bill Orders
• Implemented test seeding and tested the integration between CRM and TSYS Mainframe system.
• Performed the builds on the application at regular intervals during the testing process.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements were covered by the test cases.
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using SQL programming.
• Created the Test data for Smoke, Regression, System and UAT-by executing standard set of scripts to copy form Pre-Prod to Smoke, Regression, System and UAT environments.
• Validated the Metadata in the Metadata System Database by executing SQL Queries joining multiple tables, providing technical reports and documentation per the company standards.
• Assisted Customers and fellow testers with industry best practices, new SDLC methodologies and Defect life cycle using Rational Clear Quest.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ 11/2009 - 06/2010
QA Test Analyst

This was a client server application developed to maintain the communication network servers and Set top boxes. This application had various modules like search, pay per view purchase, record, auto erase, download and installing the latest updates from the server and other critical functionalities like trouble shooting.

• Organized several meetings with Business and Clients for requirement analysis for the Set top box application.
• Interfaced with Test Development, Business colleagues, and Clients regarding technical and non-technical issues of the project.
• Created a detailed Test Plan based on GAP analysis requirements to test enhancements.
• Created Test Strategies, Test Scenarios and detailed Test Cases for Manual System testing and ensured maximum test coverage.
• Documented all the test activities and archives data for investigative and historical use of the application.
• Wrote and reviewed technical documents for the analysis of the CRM Software
• Logged, tracked and managed software defect information in Selenium web based tool.
• Prioritized the defects and assigned to development.
• Executed Integration, Regression, End to End, Systems, and Backend testing manually.
• Performed Data Mapping tests, by using SQL queries in Oracle and MS SQL for the Guide module.
• Actively participated in Defect meetings to resolve the defects in efficient and timely manner.