SUMMARY

• Excellent understanding of entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Processes, Techniques and Strategies.
• Over 9 years total IT experience in QA Lead, QA Analyst, Manual testing, Performance testing, Lead, UAT, UVT, 508, SME and in QA Engineering.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements specification and System Requirements specification, and involvement in designing, developing and executing Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Professional expertise in Implementation of Agile, Waterfall and Scrum Methodologies.
• Expert in performing Manual UAT as well as Load /Performance Testing.
• Responsible for coordinating and managing the Testing Team by allocating day to day tasks and educating them on their responsibilities for the purpose of achieving on - time and quality deliverables.
• Well-developed communication ability, proactively engage in collaborations/interactions with the Business Analysts, Technical Analysts, and Developers to identify as well as understand the appropriate research/data required for testing.
• Expert in delivering status reports like testing statuses, defect-tracking statuses, and weekly statuses reports to Quality Center ALM, JIRA and Team Foundation Server.
• Involved in thorough Compatibility Testing of various applications on different browsers.
• Operations performed by software applications using Oracle 9g, 10g, and 11g.
• Strong experience in performing different types of testing like Black box, Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Ad-hoc, System, Security and User Acceptance (UAT), 508 Compliance, Load, Stress, and Performance testing.
• Experience with planning, implementing, and testing mission critical information systems employing Web Services and building on Internet architecture principles.
• Involved in Automation testing using selenium and QTP UFT.
• Use SQL to perform Backend testing on SQL Server databases.
• Involved in ETL Testing, Cross Browser Testing and multi Browser testing.
• Excellent communication skills along with verbal and written skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP, 7, 8, NT 4.0, Mac OS X, UNIX.

Databases: Oracle, SQL, My SQL, MS SQL Server.

Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Center ALM 11, Test Director, MS Test Manager, JIRA, Team Foundation Server.

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center ALM, HP LoadRunner 11, LoadRunner 12, Performance Center QTP, UFT.

Microsoft Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate), MS Excel and MS Projects.

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Rockville, MD

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements, module specific functionalities, identified testing requirements and formulated Test Plans.
• Employed best practices for consistent use of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) practices and establishing the process with Project Manager and members of the QA Team.
• Engaged with other members of team regularly to discuss/research and develop a coherent understanding of various software change orders.
• Managing various QA phases and performing hands on testing including Regression, Functionality and Pre Release testing.
• Validating Test results and producing test summaries and defect reports.
• Involved in creation Test scripts and Test Data based on functional specifications document.
• Communicating with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status ongoing basis when necessary.
• Involved in the Sprint planning for user stories, time estimations and derived the QA tasks.
• Involved with the Technical team and Product owner to understand about functionality.
• Created more than 800 Test case, Test Design, Test scripts and responsible for implementation of Test.
• Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.
• Formulated methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application Front-End and Functionality.
• Performed Functional, Data Validation, and Integration, System, and Smoke Testing, compatibility, data interface, migration and regression testing.
• Reviewed and updated Test Plans, Test Scenarios and created and manually executed the Test Cases.
• Involved in Test cases review meetings and recommended enhancements in UI functions.
• UsedALM for reporting and tracking defects and bugs.
• Manage QA team member and assign work to team.
• Created Test strategy and Master Test Plan.
• Workedon creating templates for UAT test execution.
• Perform application for cross browser and multi browser testing.
• Responsible for developing and performing 508 compliance test plans and test cases.
• Assigned the tasks of developing system requirements by following 508 standards.
• Handle the tasks of performing 508 compliant verification testing and reviewing technical requirements of software by using JAW.
• Performed Frontend/Backend testing using SQL queries.
• Responsible for UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts.
• Handle the tasks of explaining UAT, UVT scope, criteria and entry/exit strategy to less trained professionals.
• Perform responsibilities of conducting research on IT requirements and business requirements in UAT areas.
• Handle the tasks of identifying UAT, UVT testers and managing resource plan by coordinating with business stakeholders.
• Conducted automation and performance testing by using QTP, Loadrunner.
• Used LoadRunner to regularly test performance, load, and stress testing.
• Executed performance testing using LoadRunner Controller and creating LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Actively participated in scrum standup, spring and sprint grooming meeting.

Confidential - DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identifying the business requirements and involved in Manual and Performance testing of the front-end application.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System, Functional, Positive, Negative, Cross platform, Recovery, as well as Performance, Stress, Load/ Volume, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with development shop to establish business processes to enhance efficiency of release procedures.
• Employed best practices for consistent use of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) practices and establishing the process with Project Manager and members of the QA Team
• Engaged with other members of team regularly to discuss/research and develop a coherent understanding of various software change orders.
• Defining the test engagement process for new application launches and maintenance releases.
• Preparing Test Plans that provide a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested.
• Tested the application compatibility with IE and Netscape browsers.
• Preparing various documents like Test Scenarios, Test Analysis Report, Defect Report and User Manuals using Quality Center, MS Word and MS Excel.
• Parameterizing various data in the application to use in functional/regression or performance testing.
• Executing manual test cases and verified results with expected results by using ALM.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through Quality Center.
• Analyzed software specifications and technical service description documents.
• Logging defects into the defect tracking tool Quality Center (QC ALM) following analysis of the root cause of the issue, and consulting with team lead before generating defect tickets.
• Represented QA at weekly meetings with Development Team and client.
• Developed Virtual user scripts using VuGen for various applications; VuGen scripts then further enhanced by performing Correlations, Data Parameterizations and Customization using LoadRuner 11.5.
• Designed Performance test scenarios and VuGen Scripts using protocol Web http/https LoadRunner 11.5, running Stress tests and analyzing the results as well as providing critical feedback.
• Executed performance testing using LoadRunner Controller and creating LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Rendezvous concept within LoadRunner 11.5 to generate peak loads onto various servers thereby stressing it and then measuring its performance.
• Created Vuser scripts by http/https protocol for Load and Performance testing to verify server throughput capacity as well as to ensure that performance meets or exceeds previous performance benchmarks, using LoadRunner 11.
• Selenium ID record test scripts and Test suite .

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the developers on a daily basis to discuss the Requirement Specifications.
• Reviewed and analyzed the System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and design documents.
• Involved in writing the test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Involved in manual testing of the application using Quality Center & established the baseline scripts for future load testing.
• Performed Test Cases Management and Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
• Created VuGen scripts, using manual and automatic correlation, parameterization techniques in generating the test scripts for LoadRunner.
• Executed LoadRunner Scenarios using LoadRunner to perform performance, stress and scalability tests.
• Worked with LoadRunner Controller for configuring and execution of performance test scenarios with multiple virtual users and virtual user scripts. Managed and collected metrics for the various system monitors.
• Used LoadRunner to analyze the response times of business transactions under load. Developed reports and graphs to present the stress test results to the management.
• Defined Rendezvous point to create peak load on the server and thereby measure the server performance under load.
• Analyzed Throughput graph, Hits Per Second graph, Transactions Per Second graph and Rendezvous graph using LoadRunner analysis tool.
• Identified, prioritized & designed Test Scenarios by grouping the test cases for batch testing.
• Performed regression testing by executing the baseline scripts identifying software errors and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Created controller scenario and executed load test to verify application expected load handling capacity.

Confidential - Brooklyn, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test documentation, manual & performance testing and executed testing on software applications developed using various technologies.
• Performed other related functions, including special projects, as required and requested Created manual test cases for validating the functionality.
• Created test scenarios and executed them as per business rules.
• Interacted with the Project Manager for the requirements to create best possible scenarios for testing procedures.
• Reviewed documentation generated through current SDLC process and based on review.
• Created test plan templates which were used as best practice formats for performance testing procedures.
• Responsible for developing test cases in HP Quality Center and executing tests according to software test processes and procedures.
• Designed test documents and recorded test results to use them during regression testing after each build.
• Actively participated in reviews with the test leads and managers
• Responsible for preparing, reviewing and executing the test cases.
• Performed regression and retesting.
• Maintained the repository of manual and automated test scripts using Quality Center.
• Worked closely with developers to log, track and follow through on all software bugs reporting in a timely manner and maintained a good professional relationship with them which in turn helped enhance the productivity of the entire project.
• Was extensively involved in GUI testing.
• Used Quality Center as defect tracking system to report the bugs and tracked the bugs until resolution; and provided the defect report.