SUMMARY

• An excellent professional with 7 plus years of extensive IT experience with 5 Plus Years of Experience in QA and 2 years of Business Analysis both in Web based Client/Server applications with expertise various business solutions:
• Total 7 years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis in Software Quality Assurance and Requirement Analyst
• Expertise in Designing, Developing and Implementing Test Plans, Test Cases/Scripts, Test Procedures Artifacts following the QA standards and Testing Methodologies
• Extensive Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) development methodologies such as Agile Scrum, Iterative, and Waterfall
• Experienced in reviewing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and User Stories, design documents and business documents.
• Good Experience in Black box and Grey Box testing.
• Experienced in preparing Use Cases and User Training Documents using MS office, VISIO.
• Advance using ALM/HP Quality Center, Confidential ’s ClearQuest and JIRA for managing Defects and Test Cases
• Well verse in communication both with development team and Business User
• Proficient in preparing UAT Test Cases coordinating with Business Users
• Experienced in developing complex queries Against SQL server and Oracle databases for BackEnd testing
• Knowledge of preparing Test Data and Business Rules of Application User Test
• Experienced in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as well as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Vast knowledge on CMMI levels and ISO standards
• Proficient in Functional, Regression and System testing of various enterprise level Solutions and using QTP.
• Extensively experienced for user - defined and pre-defined check points for Images, Text Area and UI functionalities using QTP.
• Experienced in developing User Defined functions using VB Script to support the automated scripts.
• Experienced in developing Descriptive programming for Data driven Testing using QTP.
• Expertise in developing of Automation framework and updating the automation suites for new functionality using QTP.
• Management experience including reporting to upper management, Business users and stakeholders to leverage maximum support for project initiative.
• Experienced in testing Web Services using XML, Soap UI & web applications developed with ORACLE, SQL Server.
• Worked with off-shore team as QA coordinator
• Great in communication skills and analytical, problem solving skills with ability to work diversified team members and customers with ease and professionalism

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, UNIX/Linux

Languages: C++, C#, PHP, Java, XML, HTML, SQL and PL/SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Scripting Languages: VB Script, JavaScript, CSS, Perl

Testing Tools: UFT/QTP, ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, Confidential ’s ClearQuest

Web Services Tools: SOAP UI and XML schema.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement reviews and Design Review.
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Developed the Test Cases using Software Requirement Specification and Design documents.
• Worked closely with the Quality Manager in planning, coordinating and implementing the testing methodology; involved in working with agile methodology.
• Involved in testing the Web Applications developed in different programming languages.
• Prepared Test Scripts, Test conditions, Test Scenarios into ALM.
• Defined requirements, Test Cases using ALM, Linked test cases with the requirements.
• Scheduled and executed Manual Test Scripts through Quality Center; involved in Test Execution, reporting any defect in ALM.
• Performed backend testing by writing SQL Queries; Wrote advanced T-SQL and PL/SQL statements to verify data Integrity.
• Developed VB scripts in UFT to perform end to end testing.
• Created a set of re-usable scripts using VBScript in UFT.
• Developed test scripts using UFT to perform functional and regression testing.
• Developed Descriptive Programming and Maintained Local and Global Object Repository in UFT.
• Validated of test results proactively explain and work through variances.
• Attended the Test planning sessions to help understand the End to End team with the code changes for the project
• Performed extensive User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed End-to-End testing on the release version of the software application and detected GUI bugs.
• Created web service request chain tests for orchestrated and complex choreographed SOA validation and UAT for quality measured approach for web service integration in enterprise.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Environment: HP ALM, Oracle, Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, JAVA, Quality Center, UFT, Oracle, SOAP UI.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirement documentation and analyzed the user requirement specifications and designed the Test Plan and Test cases.
• Involved in managing and coordinating QA Activities across multiple projects and releases, Created test plans, test cases, and test metrics.
• Involved in analyzing of Functional requirements of the website.
• Developed automated test scripts for functionality specification to ensure bug free performance.
• Tested both web-based and client-server applications.
• Responsible for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Quality Center for communication with the production persons, developers and team members.
• Generated detailed bug reports and test metrics (pass-fail report, comparison chart) using Quality Center.
• Used SQL to query the DB and created/modified SQL scripts to validate backend data.
• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven, and GUI verification by using QuickTest Professional (QTP).
• Identified the defects through QTP and ensured that business processes deliver the expected results and remain reliable throughout the production release.
• Designed and developed automated test scripts using VBScript.
• Performed system tests and executing the test scripts using QTP.
• Developed Shared object repository in QTP.
• Performed regression tests and analyzed test results using QTP.
• Used QTP to record, execute and analyze various automated test scenarios.
• Developed custom functions, reusable actions, and optional steps using VBScript; and also created a Hybrid Framework in QTP.
• Involved in testing the Web services using SOAP UI tool.
• Tested API integration to backend systems.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Coordinated meetings with the Development teams for appropriate handling of the bugs and their timely resolution.

Environment: Windows, JAVA, .NET, VB Script, Perl, UNIX, UML, SQL Server, Oracle, HTTP, Quality Center, QTP and Web Services.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

QA Tester/Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering; analyzing & reviewing the business requirements.
• Developed comprehensive Test plans based on system requirements.
• Involved in testing of the online web application.
• Scheduled and executed Manual Test Scripts through Quality Center.
• Responsible for developing test scripts and cross checking with Business Requirements using Quality Center.
• Executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans using Quality Center.
• Worked on backend testing and has very good knowledge of writing SQL Queries to verify the data.
• Performed Functional, System, Regression, Integration and User Acceptance testing using QTP.
• Ran QTP automated scripts every night and stored the results in TestDirector.
• Developed some of the automated test scripts using Descriptive Programming techniques using VB Script.
• Generated Data Driven scripts that access the backend database using QTP.
• Created usage scenarios and executed them in order to test a product from a user perspective.
• Created Test scenarios for claim selection, generate claims and data validations.
• Tested the other applications integration with the online document display application.
• Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Worked with client’s Business, technical and user stakeholders to define issues, and design enhancements in a Business Analyst function.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintained high customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality, timely, and thorough solutions to customer problems.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Confidential ’s ClearQuest, VB Script, HTML, SQL Server, Oracle, Windows and Linux.

Confidential, Washington DC

Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering; analyzing & reviewing the business requirements
• Developed comprehensive Test plans based on system requirements
• Involved in testing of the online web application
• Scheduled and executed Manual Test Scripts through Quality Center
• Performed Data Validation against Test Data
• Responsible for developing test scripts and cross checking with Business Requirements using Quality Center
• Executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans using Quality Center
• Worked on backend testing and has very good knowledge of writing SQL Queries to verify the data
• Performed Functional, System, Regression, Integration and User Acceptance testing in Excel
• Created usage scenarios and executed them in order to test a product from a user perspective
• Created Test scenarios for claim selection, generate claims and data validations
• Tested the other applications integration with the online document display application
• Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies
• Worked with client’s Business, technical and user stakeholders to define issues, and design enhancements in a Business Analyst function
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Maintained high customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality, timely, and thorough solutions to customer problems

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Confidential ’s ClearQuest, VB Script, HTML, SQL Server, Oracle, Windows and Linux.