SUMMARY:

• 9 plus years of experience as a QA Specialist/ Agile/Scrum practitioner with hands on background in Software testing, test management with in Client/Server, Web based and Mobile application testing. Broad exposure and experience in the entire system development lifecycle within the Federal Government, Higher Education, Banking domains using Agile/Scrum and Traditional SDLC models.
• Certified Agile and Scrum Practitioner.
• Certified 508 Compliance tester.
• Certified Agile Extreme programming.
• Certified ITIL Specialist
• Experienced in Mobile Testing includes Device, Tablet and App Testing.
• Well versed in iPod, iPhone, Android and iPad device testing and Apple App Testing.
• Hands on experience on Mobile App Testing (iOS, Android, Windows and Web OS)
• Expertise hands - on testing Web, Mobile application running on Cloud.
• Test automation tools used Selenium RC, Ruby and cucumber test framework.
• Test Management tools used Quality Center.
• Experience in implementing Agile Scrum in Small & large level projects.
• Good experience in working with Direct Clients, Project teams, Senior Management and Managing Onsite-Offshore model.
• Requirement gathering and creating high-level estimation plan.
• Resource planning and on boarding on time with required Skill set.
• Worked in agile testing and exploratory testing, well versed with Waterfall Model.
• Represented QA team for requirement reviews, brainstorming sessions and have captured requirement defects.
• Delivered well-documented Software Test Plans, designed Test Cases based on User Requirements Specification, Use case documents and production defects.
• Hands on experience on Production Defect validation.
• Well versed in all phase of SDLC for Quality Assurance.
• Extensive experience in Using Quality center for entering requirements, planning’s tests, running tests, tracking defects, requirements traceability and generating KPI metric reports.
• Experienced in testing Client server and web-based application.
• Characteristics: Self-starter, Team player, Goal oriented, Eye to detail, quick learner, Innovative.
• Expert in defining test rules, test data for test plans, test scenarios, end-to-end testing based on test Specifications.
• Designed, developed, and executed Test Scripts.
• Well versed with testing software, Internet applications and hardware as needed for Section 508 compliance.
• Worked with Program Areas teams to ensure Section 508 is properly accounted for each phase.
• Well versed with gathering Requirements from customers, developing Use Cases using UML, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams to aid in production of requirements packages and vision documents.
• Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions, brainstorming sessions, business process analysis sessions, reviews, walkthroughs and customer interviews to gather stakeholder requests.
• Performed Manual and backend testing with good expertise in UNIX.
• Good knowledge and experience in relational databases (RDBMS) including Oracle/Sybase. Written SQL /PL SQL queries and scripts for monitoring, generating reports and to ensure data integrity and validating business rules.
• Executed test cases to perform Regression, Integration, White box, Black box and Functional testing.
• Experienced in web technologies and multiple UNIX flavors.
• Experienced in Requirement Analysis, Data Analysis, and Effort Estimation.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements and to operate independently or in a team environment.
• ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, Release Management and Configuration Management using AR REMEDY, Clear Case, Clear Quest.
• Experience in Technical writing, developing, updating and tracking all project related documentation.
• Very good in documentation of the all the test artifacts. Experienced in using Microsoft Office Tools like Word, Excel and Power Point for developing Manual test cases and Status Reporting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Test Engineer

Confidential, VA

• Understanding requirements, Gathering and Produce Test Plan and high level Test Scenarios.
• Analyze different types of malicious data and test
• Resource planning and identify the Manual and automation scope.
• Engaging the team members for the project with required skill set.
• Work closely with Agile Sprint Planning Team and Management to schedule planning.
• Allocate the task to the Manual and automation team.
• Identifying and preparing test data for Manual and Automation Testing.
• Plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis.
• Request code and database deployment.
• Defect reporting and tracking on day-to-day basis in JIRA.
• Test metrics gathering and analysis the functional differences.
• Test Effectiveness Metrics and Gap analysis on the Production and QA Issues.
• Using the available information to improve the process.
• Performing daily defect triage meeting and priorities the defects with Project team.
• Consistently made efforts to streamline the testing process and increase the productivity.
• Constantly endeavored to keep the morale and enthusiasm of the team high during periods of stress and pressure.
• Review test results and identify any dependencies, which may result in risk.
• Automating the functionalities based on the frequent changes.
• Functional and Regression testing on Mobile App testing.
• Globalization and localization testing on Mobile Apple Store.
• App Store Location based testing and iOS simulator testing.
• Wrote automation script using Ruby on Selenium Web driver.
• Opened bugs in JIRA.
• Monitoring the manual and automation team on the release cutover time.
• Cross platform and Mobile app testing.
• Closely working with SOA Testing team to increase the test effectiveness.
• Document Lesson Learned and develop preventive actions
• Prepare Test Release Note and publishing to the Management team.
• Working with production support team to ensure the quality of the delivery.

Sr. Mobile Quality Assurance Specialist

Confidential, Reston, VA

• Requirement Gathering and Produce Test Plan and high level Test Scenarios.
• Resource planning and identify the Manual and automation scope.
• Engaging the team members for the project with required skill set.
• Work closely with Agile Sprint Planning Team and Management to schedule planning.
• Allocate the task to the Manual and automation team.
• Identifying and preparing test data for Manual and Mobile Testing.
• Plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis.
• Request code and database deployment.
• Defect reporting and tracking on day-to-day basis in JIRA.
• Test metrics gathering and analysis the functional differences.
• Test Effectiveness Metrics and Gap analysis on the Production and QA Issues.
• Using the available information to improve the process.
• Performing daily defect triage meeting and priorities the defects with Project team.
• Consistently made efforts to streamline the testing process and increase the productivity.
• Constantly endeavored to keep the morale and enthusiasm of the team high during periods of stress and pressure.
• Review test results and identify any dependencies, which may result in risk.
• Automating the functionalities based on the frequent changes.
• Functional and Regression testing on Mobile App testing.
• Globalization and localization testing on Mobile Apple Store.
• App Store Location based testing and iOS simulator testing.
• Wrote automation script using Ruby on Selenium Web driver.
• Opened bugs in JIRA.
• Monitoring the manual and automation team on the release cutover time.
• Cross platform and Mobile app testing.
• Closely working with SOA Testing team to increase the test effectiveness.
• Document Lesson Learned and develop preventive actions
• Prepare Test Release Note and publishing to the Management team.
• Working with production support team to ensure the quality of the delivery.

Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, VA

• Created detailed Test Plans and project staffing estimates, and conducted test script walkthroughs to ensure that testing coverage is adequate and test scenarios specify the correct expected results if not raised a “Change request”.
• Uploaded applications to hand set by using i-tunes, Java App loader, SDK. Executed test cases and ensured that provided information is correct.
• Wrote test cases in Excel sheet and logged and maintained defects on various defect-tracking tools depending on the device.
• Ability to read and reviewing device XML logs and server logs from a trouble-shooting perspective.
• Used Silk performance tool to run API’s to validate the functionality. Involved in back end database testing by writing SQL queries.
• Used TRACK, Quality center, Red mine, JIRA tools for defect reporting and tracking.
• Coordinated with developers, BA and discussed issues to take timely action. Exclusively interacted with client regarding trouble shooting and information purpose.
• Generated status reports and reported them to LEAD on daily basis to communicate testing status using defect-tracking tools.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Washington DC

• As a mobile application tester, responsible for planning, scheduling and implementation of GWU mobile application test plan. The tasks include:
• Review functional or business requirement documents and use cases. Translation of requirements into test plan and test cases.
• Acquire from or do knowledge transfer with Developers, Business Analysts, SME and Architect who are expert in the relevant functional domain.
• Coordinate with other team members like Business Analysts, Developers, and Business people Advice or provide feedback on test activities and deliverables, conforming to appropriate quality requirements.
• Regularly assess testing progress and prepare test status report for management. Communicate with QA manager about testing progress, needs and any organizational/quality/technical risk/issue that might have an impact on the ability of the testing team to perform testing activities.
• Validate solution, whether it is fits the purpose and supports the complete end-to-end client business process.
• Perform comprehensive analysis of any error using the logs and json. Defect tracking and documentation was done using Clear Quest and MS Office. And review of defects with business users as well as technical team.
• Uploading applications to handsets using Mac mini- configuration utility for Native. App can be accessed on Mobile, Mobile browser and web browser.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Exploratory, regression testing, Browser compatibility testing (Google chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer, Opera)
• Conducted smoke testing on Selenium IDE for build verification (BVA).
• Used SPLUNK and JSON to check device logs (PHP) for troubleshooting purpose.
• Release validation, including certification, documentation and signoffs.

Quality Assurance /Test Support

Confidential, Washington DC

• Performed system integrator/tester role with integration of multiple commercial off the shelf (COTS/GOTS) components to in-house custom built applications and performed system testing, Regression, Integration testing, Functional testing running on Windows, UNIX, and NT Platforms in an agile/scrum based software development process.
• Defined test rules, test data for test plans, test scenarios, end-to-end testing based on test Specifications, Designed, developed, and executed Test Scripts using Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner for performance testing, Win runner and other automated tools.
• Performed System, Regression, Integration and UAT testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionality.
• Worked with Solution Delivery design and developers to ensure that Section 508 has been incorporated correctly into software and Web applications.
• Tested software, Internet applications and hardware as needed for Section 508 compliance.
• Involved in QA activities and development support of various interfaces like involvement in writing Test Plans/Test Cases for System/Interface Requirements and Business requirements.
• Executed test cases to perform Regression, Integration, White box, Black box and Functional testing.
• Reviewed the Functional Design document and developed test data for the manual testing effort.
• Performed Backend testing with UNIX, Shell scripts, VI editor, SQL and PL/SQL on the backend.
• Responsible for running for stored procedures and editing of PL/SQL code using Rapid SQL and TOAD.
• Developed programs for test automations using SQL, UNIX shell scripts.
• Responsible for the planning, scheduling and coordination of all software testing components.
• Co-ordinate test cycles with external vendors, development teams, finance teams, Infrastructure groups, NOC, DBANOC, operations groups and other support organizations.
• Developed a Test Suite for automated re-usable scripts and optimized it for the time of run during production release.
• In charge of the defect tracking process, attending bug resolution meetings with the development teams and defect triage meetings with all the teams on the project.
• Logged defects in Rational Clear Quest.
• Actively performed test-auditing process by identifying risks and concerns and Coordinated with teams, to mitigate risks.
• Acted as a point of contact regarding defect status / resolution for the Development team, QA team and the user community (clients).
• Performed business evaluation, user requirements analysis, story development, requirements definition, use case development, acceptance testing, usability testing.
• Gathered requirements and other documentation via team walkthrough and approval, for system enhancements.
• Participate with other Business Analysts to document the Business Process Analysis on their current system. Documented the AS IS and TO BE Process and thoroughly walked through all the activities and processes.
• Responsible for working closely and directly with internal and external clients to validate all requirements.
• Tested the application manually during the development phase.
• Performed Smoke and Functional Testing on every build of the application.
• Oversee the User Acceptance Testing process and interact with the user groups regarding defect status/resolution.
• Worked with the QA / Development team for improving the testing methodology.

Software Quality Assurance/Tester

Confidential, VA

• Participated in all testing related activities such as technical walkthroughs and lifecycle reviews.
• Actively involved in the functional requirements review with the development team and analysts.
• Performed business evaluation, user requirements analysis, story development, requirements definition, use case development, acceptance testing, usability testing.
• Gathered requirements and other documentation via team walkthrough and approval, for system enhancements.
• Defined test rules, test data for test plans, test scenarios, end-to-end testing based on test Specifications, Designed, developed, and executed Test Scripts for Manual testing using Unix and SQL and finally tested the application, using Test Director, Quality Center and Win runner.
• Wrote manual test cases and test scripts.
• Performed Backend testing with UNIX, Shell scripts, VI editor, SQL and PL/SQL on the backend.
• Responsible for running for stored procedures and editing of PL/SQL code using Rapid SQL and TOAD.
• Ran ETL AbInitio Scripts using Autosys jobs.
• Participated in Design and Code review meetings.
• Covered the areas like Code Conversion Accuracy, Data Extraction/Population Accuracy, Data format and Data Calculation Validation, Business Specific Validation in the form of reasonableness Tests.
• Analyzed the design document and requirement document and understanding the test strategy.
• Executed tests according to establish plans and scripts.
• Documented problems/bugs/defects using tracking tool using Rational Clear Quest, retested software corrections to ensure problems are resolved.
• Maintained versions of the code using Rational ClearCase and maintaining the baselines for the new code.
• Develop and manage detailed Change Management plans and process.
• Responsible for maintaining, updating, tracking, reporting Change management calendar.
• Manages the evaluation process upon completion of the development, QA and Production releases.
• Facilitates team communication to ensure that releases are implemented according to schedule.
• Participated in Change control board and QAR scrub meetings, and given various impact analyses as and when necessary.
• Attended System Test/development daily status meetings and also UAT status meeting.

Software Quality Assurance/Tester

Confidential, Richmond, VA

• Involved in QA activities and development support of various interfaces like involvement in writing Test Plans/Test Cases for System/Interface Requirements and Business requirements.
• Extensively involved in various phases of manual testing.
• Exposed in System, Regression, Integration and UAT testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data integrity testing.
• Executed multiple PL/SQL procedures to initialize the test environment.
• Executed the tests to verify the web GUI using Winrunner. Performed Functional testing, Positive & Negative testing and GUI Testing
• Participated as a key member with the QA Team for Regression testing where day-to-day bugs were monitored.
• Up to date Documentation was maintained in TestDirector and tracked/logged bugs in ClearQuest
• Used Test Director to prepare test cases, procedures and Requirements Trace ability Matrix.
• Generated Test Analysis Report and graphs using Test Director.
• Opened the Trouble Tickets in Rational Clear quest.
• Reviewed and created Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Responsible for setup, installation, configuration and validation of specialty devices (scales, scanners, label printers, pda’s) for National Testing Laboratories.
• Excellent interaction with development and production teams to expedite the process.
• Exposure to various different UNIX servers to validate the outputs.
• Involved in UNIX scripting for backend testing.
• Worked with different Interface systems supporting our application and performed end-to-end integration testing.