Objective:

To introduce a pro-active and dynamic approach to any innovative developmentenvironments for desired sustainability, high availability and ensure Quality1stPractices. To add value as Software Tester/Quality Assurance engineer/Analyst where I can explicitly apply my expertise to esteem growthpotentialand increase ROI of the organization.

Primary Skills:

Manual Testing, Backend Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Web Application Testing, UI Testing, Web ServicesTesting, Agile Scrum ,STLC, Test Strategy, Quality Assurance, Business Requirement Analysis, Application Verification and Validation Techniques.

Professional Summary:

• 6 years of working experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing in different domains and test environments.
• Extensive knowledge in both manual testing and automation testing tools based on business requirements and automation strategy.
• Excellent working knowledge of System Testing Life Cycle STLC based on Agile, Waterfall, Software Testing Life Cycle includingBug/Defect Life Cycle.
• Experienced in preparing software testing process Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix RTM , Test strategy, Test coverage,Test Summary, and Status Reports.
• Involved in creation and implementation of Test Objectives, Test Procedures, Test Plans and Test Scripts. Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, executing test, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.
• Maintaining the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status report related to project.
• Highly proficient in working with users to gather requirements, analyze them and subsequently use the Microsoft Visio, UML and project to design tools and model the test requirements.
• Extensive experience in Functional, GUI,Back-end, Browser Compatibility, Cross Browser Testing on Windows and UNIX platform.
• Experienced in grey-box, white-box andblack-box testing in Development, QUAL, BETA, UAT and production.
• Good understanding of Web service components like WSDL, SOAP, REST, XSD, XML.
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from user perspective and supported multi-tier applications.
• Expertise in writing System Test Plans, Test Design, Requirement Specifications on defining Test Cases, Test Procedures, developing and maintaining Test Scripts.
• Strong Backend testing on UNIX platform and Database Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 .
• Experienced in recording requirements on scripts, designing and executing test cases in HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in Bug tracking and reporting using the test management tools like HP ALM, HP QTP, JIRA, MTM.
• Extensive experience in developing Test Traceability Matrix and Gap Analysis.
• Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking Reporting, Detailed status reporting
• Expert in Using Quality Center/Test Director as repository for maintaining test cases, execution and tracking the defects.
• Developed Test scenarios and Test cases using Quality Center/Test Director
• Experienced in Generating Tests by Recording, using Keyword driven frameworks as well as by Descriptive Programming,Object Repository,HTML DOM,Xpath, and CSS.
• Good Knowledge in Test Automation frame works: Data Driven, Key-word Driven and Hybrid methodologies.
• Experienced in Quick Test Pro which includes VB Script, Descriptive programming, Describing andconfiguring Objects, maintaining Object repositories, handling Dynamic objects, creating Function library, registering User defined methods to Test objects.
• Responsible for testing the product using SQL Queries/ UNIX command for the DB check and server startup/new builds.
• Experienced in estimating the testing effort and preparation of testing schedule.
• Experienced in using Checkpoints, Descriptive programming and Data Driven Test Scripts in QTP to perform functional and regression testing.
• Ability to work in fast paced environmentsprioritizes the tasks, accomplish deliverables on time and work independently with minimum supervision.
• Very good Analytical, Team work ing, Interpersonal, Client interfacing, Leadership and Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools : UFT/QuickTest Pro, HP ALM, Quality Center, Test Link, JIRA,MTM.

Operating Systems : Windows Server 2003 2008, RHEL, CentOS, HP-UX,AIX, IOS

Databases : Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL

Programming Language :C , Java, SQL, PL / SQL, Shell, Bash, VB.Net

Scripting Language: VBScript, HTML, XML, UNIX Bash Script

Design Tools : Visio, MagicDraw, UML, Front Page

Web / App. Servers :Oracle Web Logic Server, Apache HTTP,MS IIS, WebSphere App Server

IDE/Utility :Eclipse, Packet Tracer, TOAD, PuTTY,CompTIA, A

Web Technologies:HTML, Java/VBScript, ASP, XML, SOAP, REST, WSDL Java Script.

Web Browser : Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business requirement and High level design documents and created test plan.
• Created test design document for the work flows identified for automation testing.
• Made sure all monitoring tools were in place and available before the test executions are started.
• Involved in the creation of test scripts and got approved by the test scenarios.
• Worked as HP Quality Center Site Admin - Created and maintained Projects, Users Site Configuration Parameters.
• Customized HP Quality Center Project - Setup Users Groups, Customized Project Entities Lists, Configured email, Set up so many work flows in Defects module using VB scripting customization UDF based on user group, count number of time a defect is reopened, etc. .
• Created test cases in Quality Center for the business processes identified for testing.
• Analysed Test Result, reported Defects, tracked Defects and maintained Test Results using Quality Center.
• Created the SQLs for extracting the data from the database.
• Developed automated test scripts with QTP based on various use cases.
• Modularized test cases and created data driven tests using QTP.
• Wrote VB Script, developed Custom Functions, Dictionary Objects, used Descriptive Programming by QTP and executed test scripts.
• Used TOAD tool, prepared SQL queries and verified the data in the database.
• Integrated the Test environment setup with QTP and ALM, created Shared Object Repositories, configured Test Objects, developed Scripts, prepared Data Files and developed Function Libraries.
• Created Modular Test scripts by recording/programming and enhanced scripts by inserting Check points / Synchronization points / Functions / Error Handling, Recovery Scenarios for Smoke/ Regression Testing using QTP.
• Loaded User Defined Environment Variables from external XML File, defined Test/Action Parameters and passed Parameters from Test Level to Action levels for Sibling Actions and Nested Actions in QTP.
• Experienced in Generating Tests by Recording, using Keyword driven frameworks as well as by Descriptive Programming, Object Repository, HTML DOM, Xpath, and CSS.
• Good Knowledge in Test Automation frame works: Data Driven, Key-word Driven and Hybrid methodologies.
• Executed the project as per the timelines in co-ordination with the application, database, and mainframe teams.
• Coordinate daily status and defect calls with application and QA teams.
• Participated in the internal, external test plan and test result reviews meetings.
• Updated weekly projects status to the upper management.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data with Low and high coverage using Data Driven Testing.
• Prepared Test cases for UAT and assist ed system users in User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: UFT, Web Add-in, QC/HP ALM, MTM, Web Logic App Server , J2EE, HTML, DHTML, JS, JSP, IE, Oracle , ODBC, TOAD ,Windows, UNIX, SQL, Putty, SOUP UI.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analysed Business Requirements, Use Cases, Functional Specs and automation criteria.
• Involved in the creation of test plan for the identified scope and workflows.
• Automated Modularized Test Scripts and created Test sets in ALM to run for unattended execution.
• Customized ALM Dash Board.
• Prepared test data for the Enter and Exit criteria in Integration testing.
• Involved in testing the Desktop completely on different versions of operating systems.
• Extensively used GUI, Bitmap, and Text checkpoints using QTP.
• Interacted with developers to explain where required, software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Inserted DB Checkpoints, all SQL Queries were wrapped in to Functions and called in Script to check DB dynamically based on input Data in Data Driven Testing.
• Involved in Test Environment setup and GUI Objects customization using UFT.
• Created the automated scripts in UFT using web and java add-in.
• Enhanced the functional script generated in UFT with VB Scripting skills.
• Data driven scripts were created using data tables with UFT.
• Created user defined functions in UFT and called them across the applications.
• Analysed the test results and interpreted the results to developers and business
• Reported the defects using ALM.
• Involved in developing the System, User Acceptance Test Plans, Test strategy documents, Test Requirement documents, and Test Objectives.
• Performed various types of testing such as: Functional, Integration, System, Data Integrity, and Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared Status Reports every week which included Revision History, Test case status, metrics, QA Issues and Defects.
• Interacted with Testing Team, Developers and DBA on critical performance issues and improvements while testing the application.
• Analysed and repor ted the final test reports.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Site Scope, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, JS, JSP, I.E, IBM DB2, Windows, AIX, JIRA.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan and test cases against the Functional Design specifications.
• Involved in Setup of the test environment and configuration of various GUI objects.
• Prepared test plans, test cases and test data with expected results and maintained them using Quality Center.
• Executed test scripts in Test Lab of Quality Center in unattended execution and managed Recovery Scenarios to recover from unexpected events and errors for unattended Test run.
• Analyzed Test Result, reported Defects, tracked Defects and maintained Test Results using Quality Center.
• Prepared Test matrix using Quality Center.
• Tested the data at backend Database against Data creation and manipulation transactions using SQL queries.
• Generated / validated Automated test scripts using QTP.
• Created synchronization point, object property checkpoint, text check points, database checkpoint to validate the GUI/data for scripts generated using QTP.
• Executed Functional testing, Regression testing and automated testing using QTP and Created maintainable regression scripts, enhanced the scripts using synchronization points.
• Peer reviewed of the test cases and test data.
• Created GUI checkpoints, Text checkpoint and database checkpoint to validate the data at front end and back end.
• Created and maintained User Defined Functions and used them across applications.
• Configured the QA environment and AUT for System, and Regression testing.
• Conducted Regression testing, identified errors and reported them to the Client.
• Weekly status updates showing the progress testing.
• Collected the lessons learned and applied the knowledge in the following projects.
• Automated End to en d Systems Integration tests.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, WebFocus, Weblogic, Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle, MTM, Excel, VB Scripting.