SUMMARY:

• Confidential 7 (Seven) Years of experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing.
• Extensive experience in client - Server, Web based Application and Mobile Applications testing including Java API Testing manual and automated software testing techniques.
• Strong expertise in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box testing and Back End testing.
• Experienced in developing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts, using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Expertise in Test Strategy, Test Plan, Requirement analysis, Unit, Integration, System, Regression and UAT planning and execution, Estimations, Testing in SOA, Defect Management, Defect Life Cycle, Test Metrics.
• Solid understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile (Scrum).
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation testing tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center(ALM), JIRA, Selenium
• Extensive use of bug tracking using HP QC and JIRA for reporting the Modification Requests and collecting Test Metrics In order to Keep track of the test progress and test execution.
• Good Experience of testing Web services with SOAP UI tool.
• Good Experience on Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Selenium Web Driver.
• Experience in Maven and setting up local workspace using Maven, Test NG and Eclipse.
• Extensively involved in debugging Web Application using Firebug and identify X path using Firebug / Firepath and use element ID where ever possible to speed up element identification in Selenium Web Driver.
• Experience in Mobile Apps Testing of Native apps, Web apps, Hybrid apps with Exploratory Testing on Mobile and Tablet devices.
• Hands on experience in Using of automated Mobile CLOUD tool Device Anywhere and knowledge of SeeTest.
• Good work experience in using SQL Queries in verifies the data from the Oracle DB (backend validation).
• Participating in risk assessment and risk mitigation activities with the core team.
• Familiar with different Standard like CMMI, IEEE and ISO standard.
• Strong analytical and problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills, self-starter, quick learner and able to adopt new technologies as needed in rapidly changing IT environment.

TECHNICAL SKILL:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum),

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access, SQL queries

Testing Methodologies: Black Box testing, System testing, Regression testing, Integration, End-to-End testing, Data validation and Verificatication

Business Application: Microsoft Office Suite- MS Excel, Power point

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (ALM 11),HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), JIRA, Soap UI, Selenium

Languages: VB Script, HTML, Java, .Net

WORKEXPERIENCE:

Software Test Analyst 

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Explored the application to acquire the product knowledge.
• Worked on complete life cycle of QA (including Test Planning, Test Execution, and Defect Resolution etc).
• Developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Test strategy, Test Scenario, Test Reports
• Performed Manual Testing by using HP Quality Center (ALM) to develop test cases, test scripts, executing and logging defects
• Managed the defects in HP Quality Center (ALM) and tracking it to closure
• Performed project related different kinds of testing such as Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation testing
• Identified and created test data for Test Scenarios and Test Cases and attended walk-through meetings.
• Performed execution and logging defect in Quality Center/ALM and Verification of defects for System Testing.
• Functional and Cross Browser Testing of Defined Browser Stack of the site experience
• Engaged in project management to ensure test scripts and testing is completed on -time.
• Developed the Application in the Agile -Scrum methodology.
• Designed, executed and maintained Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, automated test cases for regression test cases.
• Extensively used Selenium (xPath and CSS locators) to test the web application.
• Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front end using Selenium (Web Driver)
• Developed and implemented POM based Keyword Driven automation testing with Selenium.
• Created Keyword driven and Data driven automated test script to maximize the automation script with Selenium Web driver.
• Tested request and response XML's based web services interfaces using SOAPUI.
• Used SOAP UI to test Web Services using WSDL file given by development team.
• Experience with Assertions like Schema Compliance, xPath and SOAP responses
• Development and Execution of SQL queries to check the database and checking the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Worked closely with the developers to resolve the design and development ERRORS and to get the software released for system testing.
• Worked directly with Business users performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Actively participated in weekly meetings, triage calls and updated weekly report.

Environment: MTM (Microsoft Test Manager), Oracle, Java, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint VB Script, Quick Test Pro

QA Engineer

Confidential, Fredericksburg, VA

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze Business Requirements Document (BRD's) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD's) to ensure requirements are testable.
• Extensive experience in identifying Test Scenarios based on the Use Cases provided
• Developed Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Scenarios and Test Procedures based on the Business Requirements
• Analyzed business requirements, wrote and implemented the Test Plan, various Test cases and Test Scripts in VBScript to test various functionalities using the automated tool QTP and also wrote manual Test Cases according to functional documents and requirements
• Performed various testing processes such as Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End Testing and User- Acceptance (UAT) Testing.
• Mapped the test scripts to the functional requirements in HP Quality Center /ALM
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking
• Used Dynamic Descriptive Programming approach to benefit from Object Identification without using OR
• Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the selenium server and to execute the tests in browser.
• Enhancing the QTP scripts by doing unit testing on the scripts before creating scenario based tests in Test-Lab Module of Quality Center.
• Created automation scripts using HP QTP for different scenarios, used Smart Identification feature of QTP to identify unique properties of objects, created user defined functions, reusable actions, and managed shared object repositories.
• Used QTP checkpoints for checking web pages, images, texts, tables and various UI elements.
• Creating the standard library for functions and sub-procedures.
• Responsible for Setting up Web Services project using WSDL in SOAPUI and provided setup help to other team members.
• Performed Web-Services Testing using SOAP UI and generated XML Files for messaging.
• Recorded and plays back test in Fire fox using Selenium IDE.
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Created Data Driven framework using Test NG.
• Used Data Driven Framework of Selenium to get data from Excel.
• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and reviews
• Collected test data from the data team and tested for different kinds of scenarios (Positive & Negative) for the different fields of UI module.
• Run tests by using Selenium remote control in different browsers.
• Created, modified, extracted and deleted data using Data Definition, Data Manipulation and Data Control languages.

Environment: VB Script, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, and Quality Center, Windows 7, MS Office.

Software Tester

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement and discussed with Development team to understand and analyzed the Product Requirements thorough
• Involved in implementing and writing of Test Plans based on the requirement
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product across different releases and also updating the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the change
• Created Scenarios and performed scenario based testing, designed, updated and reviewed Test Cases
• Developed detailed Test scenario, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed
• Modified of existing Test Plans and Test Scripts for regression testing.
• Worked with Project Management to scope the testing effort and provide status and estimates
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of the application and according to the changing system requirements
• Performed GUI testing, Smoke testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Back end, User Acceptance and Regression testing
• Created Test scripts for the Test Execution and Documented the Reports using HP Quality Center
• Logged the defects in HP Quality Center and created Test Metrics to analyze the defects.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the Backend testing of the Database.
• Created and enhanced automation test scripts using Quickest Professional (QTP).
• Conducted functional regression testing for each build and version using QTP
• Developed external custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QT
• Developed both Data-driven and Keyword-driven Framework using QTP
• Automated part of application by implementing shell scripts and updating existing Perl scripts.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports and Customized Summary Reports.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Oracle, Windows XP, MS Office.

QA Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automated testing on internal and end-user application or Systems
• Developed the application in the Waterfall methodology for software developme
• Created Reusable Actions and Functions in descriptive Programming to add the new feature with the existing test suite.
• Maintained Error Handlings and adding Recovery Scenarios.
• Maintained QTP Test Resources files as (.vbs, .txt, .qfl, .tsr, .qrs) to increase reusability of the test resources
• Migrated manual test cases into Quick Test Professional (QTP) for Regression testing using Web and Java add-in and advanced functions using VB Script
• Developed Functional Libraries for Cleanup, setting up test environments and application for Regression testing andImporting Production data for Validation using QTP.
• Developed Automation Scripts that runs around the test cases in a single run without any exceptions for regression testing.Automate defect fix for high priority and high severity based on the Team Lead's decision.
• Works with developer as a team to discuss about system specification and desired results and to fix reported defects for the iteration
• Attended the Product planning meeting to get idea which User Stories and defects are going to be developed and fixed in the current iteration and what product owner is expecting from that user stories.
• Identify Report, Track and Monito Defects in defect tracking system using JIR Generated Project status reports through Quality Center and Document Generator for team meetings and Management review.
• Worked with Standard checkpoints, Page checkpoints, Table checkpoints in QTP while doing the functional test on the web application
• Involved in coordinating User Acceptance Test processes and documented and addressed all the issues during the process.
• Documented the test results and prepared Test Summary report based on those results.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows 2000, MS Office