SUMMARY

• 8+ years of extensive experience in all aspects of Software Testing.
• Expertise on Finance, Retail, Insurance and Marketing Domains.
• Experience in Manual and Automated software testing (web & mobile applications).
• Excellent understanding ofSoftware Development Life CycleandTest Methodologiesfrom Project definition to Post - deployment.
• Experience in preparation of Test Plan & Test Management.
• Experience with Sanity, Compatibility, Functional, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance testing.
• Extensive experience in Bug Reporting /Defect Tracking using Mercury Quality Center 9.0
• Experience in Test Automation, scripts preparation and execution within the framework.
• Experience in using QTP 10.0 integrated environment (Step Generator, Object Repository, Synchronization, Data Table, Actions, Recovery scenarios, Methods etc...)
• Experience in using Java Script and VB script to create automation test scripts.
• Expertise inDatabase Querying, Data Manipulationand population usingPL/SQL& TSQLinOracleandSQL Server.
• Experience in Selenium IDE/ Web Driver and Coded UI to automate process.
• Experience on Cost Estimations for Medium, Small & Tiny Projects.
• Experience in identifying theRegression TestCases.
• Good knowledge on Traceability Matrices Documents.
• Extensive experience to document User Manuals, Test Process, Plans& Procedures.
• Ability to collaborate with testers, business analysts, developers, project managers and other team members in testing complex projects for overall enhancement of software product quality.
• Experience in handling multiple projects at a time with effective outputs.
• Ability to work in-groups as well as independently with minimal supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Pro version 10.00, Selenium IDE/ Web Driver, VSTS

Reporting Tools: Quality Center 11.0, Test Director 7.5, MTM

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000/Vista/7, IOS, UNIX

Databases & Tools: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MS Access, Oracle 9i

Web Servers: MS IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0, I Planet Sun One, Apache Web Server

Languages: C, C++, SQL, VBScript, UML, JavaScript

Internet Technologies: HTML, XML, JSP, .NET, J2EE

GUI Tools: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, MS- Project/Power point/Word/Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding FSD and business logics.
• Test Planning & Test management.
• Conducting Kick-Off Meetings for SIT/UAT & Status Calls.
• Review of Automation & Manual methods to design and execute test cases.
• Used Selenium Web driver to code test cases & create Automation Scripts using Java as coding language.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and System Testing for Various Modules.
• Program level support for SIT & UAT.
• Involved in Defect tracking and Analysis.
• Managing the Testing team, Team building, Resource planning.
• Involved in Test strategy.
• Preparing Test plan, and statement of work.
• Estimating Risks & Contingencies.
• Estimating Test cycles and Scope of each cycle.
• Identify test data needs and Coordinate with business units to gather and set up.
• Coordinate client UAT test execution & their results.
• Responsible for sending Status Reports on test planning, test execution, and defect management.
• Coordinate Release testing and understand impacts to overall testing plan.
• Coordinate Testing activities (building test scenarios, gathering test data, Deployment, results validation, Defect logging, Defect analysis, retesting, sign-off)
• Responsible for obtaining testing Sign-off.

Environment: C#, VSTS Coded UI, TFS, MTM, Java, SQL Server, XML and HTML, VBScript

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding FSD and business logics.
• Created test cases in Quality Center tool.
• Writing test cases and reporting.
• Create Test data as per the requirements to be able to successfully test the test cases.
• Performed Functional testing to identify various critical points in the application.
• Conduct extensive Manual testing using the standards and organizational guide lines and covered Functionality, GUI, Regression, positive and negative testing of the Web applications.
• Create Traceability matrix from functional and Technical specifications to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Worked closely with developers in reproducing the issues, clarifying the functional need leading to the bugs, to support the bugs logged and aid them to fix the issues effectively.
• Performed Sanity/Smoke testing on new builds prior to venturing into Systems testing.
• Tested Inbound and Outbound Database activities.
• Log bugs in Quality Center tool, track the bugs and attend the review discussions with development teams.
• Performed End-to-End manual testing of the applications and participated in User acceptance testing.
• Create UAT Test Plan and provide subset of Functional test cases to UAT.
• Provide regular Status updates, progress reports to the Manager, and escalate issues as appropriate to the Manager.

Environment: HP Quality Center 11.0, Scrum Master pro, SQL Server, XML and HTML, VBScript

Confidential

Senior Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan and Execute the Test Plan for Fulfillment Feedback project.
• Reviewed Functional requirement and Use Cases documented in Requisite Pro.
• Created Test scenarios and test cases based on functional documents.
• Setting Test plan and Test Lab in the Quality center for the projects to create and access requirements, defects, test cases and reports for the status.
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure.
• Maintained the Test logs, Test reports, Test issues, Defect tracking usingQualityCenter.
• Responsible for software QA and analysis, with emphasis on Performance testing and functional decomposition of Web-based applications.
• Created Automation test scripts to test all End-to-End components.
• Conducted Test Case reviews and presented the test cases/test scenarios to the team members for all iterations.
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings and gave daily status of testing.
• Optimized Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Inserted Checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Customized the QTP test as per the test Case by using the VB-Script.
• Executed SQL queries to verify the database for the relevant test cases.
• Documented the defects inQualityCenterand assigned them to relevant developer.

Environment: Qualitycenter-10, QTP-10 VBScript, SQL Server 2008, Xml, Multi-Browser, Multi-OS.

Confidential

Sr. Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the test cases to be automated and performed Data driven testing.
• Identified GUI Check Points using QTP and enhanced the overall Functionality of the application.
• Involved in the project team, which focused on testing and dealing with Process, Tools and best practices.
• Used VBScripts in QTP to access webpage script variables.
• Involved in querying using SQL and updating records and validate Database records as expected.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts.
• Developed Manual test scripts to evaluate Corporate Information Security Web based user authentication applications.
• Developed the Test Cases Client based on FSD'S and Business Rules; Web Client Test Cases based on Annotated Documents and Business Rules.
• Performed Input Validations, User Interface Validations, Browser Compatibility testing and Navigation testing.
• Performed Backend testing to verify the Data integrity by passing SQL Queries.
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application.
• Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation usingMercuryQualityCenter.
• Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects.
• Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing Quality by better strategies and Testing approach.

Environment: QTP 11.0, HP Quality Center 11.0, SQL Server, XML and HTML, VBScript

Confidential

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements document and have written Test Cases.
• Analyzed the Test plan, which detailed the Testing scope, Strategy, Test requirements and necessary resources.
• Ensure Traceability of test cases back to the Business requirements.
• Developed Test Cases with Test Director. Used Test Director as Test Management Tool.
• Involved in Manual testing using Test Director to Develop Test cases, Test scripts, executing the scripts and logging the defects.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Test on the application by interacting with the End-users.
• Provided a Daily project report that includes testing metrics and Status reports.
• Extensively used SQL scripts/queries for data verification at the backend.
• Reported bugs and interacted with developers to resolve the problems.

Environment: Test Director 7.5, JDKL3, DB2, C++, .NET, SQL Server 2000, Win NT 4.0/2000