SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of industry experience as aQuality Analyst/Automation Engineer.
• Experienced in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle phases.
• Experienced in managing requirements from project inception through release.
• Experienced in HP Testing Tool Quality Center ALM 11, Quick Test Professional 11, LoadRunner11.
• Experienced in installation and configuration QTP, LR, and QCconfiguration for windows XP Pro, 7, 8, VMware and Remote Desktop Connection.
• Identified complex problems and reviewed related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Expertise in business process modeling, system development and validation methodologies.
• Created documents for validation and verification against business unit requirements.
• Conducted gap analysis, risk analysis and cost benefit analysis.
• Expertise in creating test plans, test cases and release notes.
• Facilitated effective communication between business and technical managers in the areas of financial industries to provide productive business solutions.
• Proficient in working with IT/business managers to effectively prioritize activities and achieve defined objectives.
• Expert in translating business requirementsinto IT solutions.
• Domains worked include government, financial, insurance, and banking.
• Dynamic personal skills required to work interactively with clients in defining objectives and requirements and developing quality products.
• Excellent at providing value to the business by analyzing business requirements, writing functional/technical specifications and managing projects.
• Adaptive at driving teams to deliver quality products while collaborating with executive management to formulate strategic guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and acquire new technologies as needed, as well as a willingness to understand the key concepts within the problem domain.
• Administered ALM QC site.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating System
• Windows 95/98/ NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8
• Office Tools
•  Word,  Excel,  Access,  PowerPoint 2003/2007,2010 Outlook Express
• Packages
•  office 2010, MS Visio, MS Project, SharePoint
• SDLC Methodologies
• Waterfall, Agile
• Database
•  SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8.x, Access
• Database Tools
• SQL Developer, SQL* Plus
• Testing Tools
•  Quality Center, site administration 9.5, ALM 11, Mercury Win runner7.6, 8.0,HP Quick Test Pro 6.0, 8.0, 9.2, 10, 11,  Load Runner 9.5, 11,0, SoapUI, Selenium ide
• Web-Technologies
• HTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, XPATH, DHTML and CSS
• C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, VB, .Net,

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product designers and developers at all stages to promote quality and assigned work to QA analysts
• Worked on web/application server installation and configuration.
• Created VB scripts by recording user actions and wrote re-usable functions multi browser testing using QTP 11.
• Inserted verifications and checkpoints to compare the actual results to the expected results.
• Extensively involved in writing data driven, keyword driven test scripts for all the projects using QTP.
• Created automated frameworks, custom functions, Descriptive programming using VB script for QTP 11 automation scripts.
• Reviewed and analyzed business scope and project schedule to develop test strategy, LOE, QA timeline documents.
• Involved in solution design sessions and provided Quality Assurance (QA) process recommendations and knowledge to the project team while following SDLC methodology.
• Built and lead QA team by providing guidance and support with defined QA procedures throughout system/UAT test phases for test efficacy.
• Worked with GUI to perform manual, record and replay as well as model based testing.
• Developed manual and automated test scripts to perform functional testing, performance testing, integration testing, stress testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing and volume testing of the application using QTP and LoadRunner 11.
• Worked on quality center ALM for creating and documenting test plans, test cases and expected results in test lab.
• Transferred test case, test plan from excels to ALM.
• Used side administrator and created domain name, project name, user name, and assigned user to project.
• Created defect by using HP ALM quality center 11.
• Involved in setting up QTP, LoadRunnerinstallation configuration.
• Developed load test plans to include acceptance criteria for business processes and transaction times.
• Created, customized and edited LoadRunner scripts for identified business processes.
• Created load testing scenarios that simulate real-life application usage and its business processes.
• Worked with the development, network teams and other project teams to tune the test environment as necessary.
• Created load testing reports to summarize test findings and identify any known risks and make recommendation for improvement.
• Performed performance/load test using LoadRunner 11.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner HTTP/ HTML Web Services, Oracle and GUI protocols, executed scripts using VuGan, controller and Analysis.
• Tested up to 100 virtual users using LoadRunner 11.
• Created specific scenarios for load balance testing with LoadRunner like fail over server during peak traffic period.
• Generated various reports for higher management, by using LoadRunner analysis.
• Monitored and analyzed server performance in various virtual users load.
• Created various web scripts for the application using LoadRunner.
• Extensively worked on virtual user generator and controller.
• Defined performance test strategy, performance test cases, load scripts and documented the issues and re-tested software fixes to ensure the issues are resolved.
• Executed stress, load and rendezvous scenarios and regression testing for various operations in the application and performed detailed test analysis reports using LoadRunner.
• Executed scripts with IP spoofing enabled to simulate real time traffic with LoadRunner.
• Tested all the applications under different Web Server environments test server and production server by using LoadRunner 11.
• Help teams with HP tools QC ALM, QTP and LoadRunner.
• Excellent communication skills and strong problem-solving ability.
• Working with mobile application team testing mobile app for DOL.

Environment: Java, C++, HTML, QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner, site administration.

Confidential Washington, DC

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Created test plans for different modules of the application by analyzing the UI specifications.
• Created test cases from the UI specification document.
• Involved in manual testing of the application.
• Responsible for doing black box testing that includes functional, integration,
• regression and GUI testing.
• Performed browser compatibility testing.
• Created SQL queries to perform back end testing.
• Defects were tracked and reported using Excel.
• Involved in requirement analysis, identification and documentation of required system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios (positive and negative tests).
• Created test cases for each specification in requirement specification document corresponding to each module.
• Involved in preparing the test data to meet the client's requirements.
• Linked requirements to test cases for traceability in Quality Center.
• Performed different types of testing like build verification, functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Performed manual testing and automated testing (Quick Test Pro).
• Performed regression testing and data driven testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Identified critical scenarios to create automated smoke test using Quick Test Pro.
• Created & maintained automation test-scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Used advanced VB script programming to take full control of the test execution.
• Created keyword-driven, data-driven, and hybrid frameworks to execute large tests.
• Created custom functions, descriptive programming, and environmental variables using QTP to execute tests with full control through VB script.
• Implemented verification and check-points in Quick Test Pro scripts to avoid any functionality deviation and ensure quality and hence client satisfaction.
• Created and integrated test-input data with the automation scripts by adopting data driven testing techniques in Quick Test Pro.
• Scheduled the execution of automation scripts during regression testing after each delivery to check for system breakage, functionality failures, software architecture and GUI guidelines in Quick Test Pro.
• Executed enhanced scripts, both as individuals and as batch.
• Defects were tracked, analyzed, and documented using Quality Center.
• Participated in walk through meetings periodically with developers and business analysts.
• Created various web scripts for the application using LoadRunner.
• Extensively worked on virtual user generator and used controller to perform load test and stress test.
• Performed load testing against internal applications and services using LoadRunner scripts to emulate users and monitor systems performance.
• Used LoadRunner Virtual User Generator to generate scripts, controller to design scenarios, run load tests and analyzer to perform detailed analysis on results of load tests.
• Customized user scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation queries, transaction points, rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Used performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Generated, analyzed, and published LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.

Environment: C++,HTML, Oracle,Win XP, QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner.

Confidential, VA 

QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Involved in manual testing and automated testing
• Interacted closely with the QA lead in formulating the Quality Center Plan and planning the test-schedule
• Created test cases for manual testing that included inputs, actions and expected result
• Participated in user acceptance testing
• Performed black box, system testing, security testing, integration testing to check the functionality of the application
• Tested the website for security against unauthorized users and unauthorized data access for single sign on functionality.
• Interacted with developers and system analysts to understand the severity of the defects and assigned priorities accordingly to perform regression testing .
• Reviewed the final test report to make sure that all the requirements in the traceability matrix has been tested .
• Worked on production support service tickets and project enhancements for enterprise integration project.
• Ability to understand business requirements, technical specifications and testing requirements through which summarize the scope of testing by generating comprehensive testing strategies to ensure business solutions were developed.
• Identified, documented and communicate d gaps in requirements specifications, design documents, and review ed change management requests.
• Identified and create d complex test data to generate test cases and test scripts using technical specification and based on used cases, requirements and mapping documents.
• Execute d SQL statements against database to verify successful population of data from front-end to backend.
• Performed screen validation testing, smoke test, regression testing, system integration testing, GUI testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing and end-to-end testing.
• Created SQL queries in SQL query analyzer for analyzing data in SQL server and wrote various complex SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Executed automated tests in appropriate test regions in support of integration, functional, and regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Created Quick Test Pro scripts with local and shared object repositories and maintained them in object repository manager.
• Automated test scripts for the GUI, data driven and regression testing using Quick Test Pro and also developed test harnesses.
• Used GUI, Bitmap and text checkpoints in Quick Test Pro scripts for validations.
• Performed load, stress and performance testing of front end using LoadRunner.
• Performed volume testing to verify the system load process using LoadRunner.
• Used LoadRunner’s analysis tool to monitor different runtime graphs such as Vusers graph, Hits per second, throughput and transaction response time during load test.
• Customized Vuser script in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation query, transaction point and rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Designed both manual and goal oriented scenarios for load generation by using LoadRunner.

Environment:Quality Center, QTP, LoadRunner, Oracle 10g, Windows XP, SQL.