OBJECTIVE

• To obtain a Software QA Analyst position that will facilitate my career utilizing my personal skills all while broadening my experience in the IT industry.

SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of professional experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer withdevelopmentandexecutionofTestCasesandTestScripts.
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements, Technical Requirements and Use Cases.
• Experienced in Preparing Test Plans, Defining Test Cases, Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, Analyzing Test results, Reporting Defect and submission of Test Status.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases from requirements and Use Cases.
• Good experience with Smoke, GUI, Black box, Regression, Functional, Security, Network, High availability, Failover, UAT and Back End Testing.
• Experienced with HP ALM, Quality Center, TestDirector, QTP and similar testing tools.
• Expertise in the concepts of Data warehousing, Data Marts, ER Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Fact and Dimensional Tables.
• Expertise in using HP Quality Center for creating test cases, bug tracking and reporting and for generating Various Reports for preparing Artifacts documents.
• Expertise in using Quality Center for various requirements and finding the defects in the developed code.
• Experienced in creation of mapping in Quality Center for the Requirements and the test lab from Iteration to Iteration.
• Expert Confidential performing Database testing of back - end tables and data manipulation using SQL.
• Expertise in designing and building efficient and reusable test cases and test scenarios for functional and regression testing using VBScript in QTP.
• Experienced in creating Custom functions, Dictionary objects, Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Hybrid Framework using VB Scripts in QTP.
• Experienced in maintaining Automation framework in QTP.
• Expertise in writing UAT Plans and UAT Cases, executing & interacting with End Users.
• Ability to work with all levels of management, willingness to learn and implement new ideas quickly and to be a collaborative team player.
• Highly motivated resourceful team player that takes a positive approach to problem resolution.
• Excellent analytical, communication, documentation and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: ALM/Quality Center, QTP, Soap UI, TestDirector.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle and MS Access.

Web Technologies: ASP, XML, HTML, VB, VB.Net, ASP.Net.

Servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache.

Languages: C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, Core Java, VB script, Java Script.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with projects deeply concentrating on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in working with Business Analysts, Programmers and Business users through the life cycle of the project.
• Involved in designing of Test scripts based on the System requirements from the business Analyst.
• Prepared Test Plan and conducted review of test plan with QA and Development team.
• Analyzed application to find out which part can be automated and which can be manually tested.
• Implemented HP Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Case writing, Test Execution and Requirement Mapping with Test Cases.
• Performed defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Performed white box testing on developer’s SQL code and wrote SQL verification scripts to test the result of deployment for correct business logic.
• Performed Back end testing using SQL Quires.
• Performed smoke, regression and functional testing for Role-based, in-session scenarios including existing and new defects using QTP.
• Wrote structure code using VB Script in QTP to enhance the power of automated scripts to handle logical test cases.
• Enhanced QTP Scripts for every load to support new and existing functionality for the application for end to end and regression testing.
• Used QTP to perform data driven testing and to parameterize data.
• Developed a Hybrid Automation Framework and User Defined Functions Library with reusable VBScript functions using QTP.
• Designed reports for communicating analysis of test data and metrics, and communicate the results to project team.
• Responsible for manual testing an integration project that required functional testing of desktop and web based application from an application that integrated with MS Outlook.
• Involved in developing Risk Management plan and handled project risks effectively.
• Successfully tested their Interactive Voice response systems to meet the customer care requirements.

Environment: J2EE, Jenkins, SQL Management Studio, MS Office, WebEx, VPN Client, Oracle, Version One, HP ALM, CSS, GWT, Ext JS, HP Quality Center, QTP, Unix, MS SQL Server, Windows.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Plans, Test cases for new Implementation based on the business requirements.
• Attended Functional spec, Test strategy, Test plan and Test cases reviews ensuring they meet business requirements.
• Involved in estimating the effort required to build the automation scripts.
• Conducted Test plan reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Involved in analyzing and reviewing the business requirements documents.
• Helped to QA groups to copy data from one project to other.
• Collected requirement from business people before and signoff after development complete in QA.
• Involved in Coordinating with development team to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.
• Assisted team documenting functional and regression test plans, test cases with expected results based on the business functional requirements.
• Involved in black box testing and identified, prioritized, and implemented test cases for GUI testing.
• Performed GUI, Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing for 5 full life cycle implementation.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix, Test data, Test Coverage Matrix and Test reports using HP Quality Center.
• Monitored Quality Center activities to make sure the defects are logged in Quality Center and are linked to appropriate Test cases.
• Involved in Back-end testing by developing various complex SQL queries.
• Reported bugs into Quality Center and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed using QTP.
• Automated entire ETL process, DB based rule testing, cookie testing & event log validation using VB Scripts.
• Used QuickTest Pro (QTP) for debugging & executing scripts, hold the resource files, to perform error recovery and integrate some part of the automation scripts with the shared object repository.
• Created VB scripts by recording user actions and writing re-usable functions.
• Developed various Frameworks for automating the testing process by using QTP.
• Fixed All issues \ Defects in scripts for new versions of application on time.
• Worked with support team to create testing environments and resolved environment issues that came up before the start and during test execution.
• Provided project test status to Test Lead which includes but not limited to number of test cases planned, executed, completed successfully, defects, issues.

Environment: Windows NT, .NET, JSP & Servlets, Quality Centre, SQL Server, QTP, Java/J2EE, VSS, IBM Web sphere Application Server, XML,HTML.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test cases for the system covering SRS document, design document and reviewing them with the developers and finalized the test cases.
• Involved in developing Test plans according to the established requirements.
• Prepared multiple Test scenarios for single requirement to be tested.
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of the application.
• Involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Confidential the end of the test phases with the equirements collected from the user.
• Used defect-tracking tool TestDirector for raising issues and interacting with developers.
• Used TestDirector to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Documented defects in TestDirector.
• Analyzed Defect Reports and work closely with Application Developers for resolving the bugs using TestDirector.
• Developed SQL queries for accessing the database for testing purpose.
• Conducted Black Box Testing (Functional Testing & Regression Testing) using QTP.
• Used QTP to capture, verify and replay user interactions automatically to identify defects.
• Created basic scripts from a manual test case, added verification steps to tests, manage objects in the object repository, and customize Checkpoints with parameters.
• As a team member, coordinated the documentation preparation activities and assured the completion of tasks/documentation milestones within the stipulated time frames.
• Worked closely with Developers, Business Analysts, and Business User Representatives and participated in the product design process including specification reviews and documentation inspections.
• Involved in defect reporting, defect tracking and defect reproducing.

Environment: Windows, HTML, QTP, Java, KOFAX, SQL Server, .NET, TestDirector and SOAP UI.