SUMMARY

• Solutions - oriented and innovative professional with over 7 years of experience in IT industry; poised to offer expertise spanning a range business and design best practices in a QA/Test Engineering position.
• Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Methodologies and Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Proficient in using test automation tools such asSeleniumWebDriver/IDE, QTP and Mercury Quality Center to develop automation testing scripts for web and client server applications.
• Expertise in functional testing AUT usingSeleniumIDE andSeleniumWebDriver.
• Good experience in creating automation framework along with developing, executing and maintaining automation testing script withSeleniumWebDriver.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automated testing using HP interactive products like - HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center (QC) and Test Director.
• Strong experience in using QTP Integrated Environment (Step Generator, Synchronization, Data Table, Actions, Recovery Scenarios and Methods etc.)
• Experience in Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generating Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional, TestDirector/Quality Center, WinRunner and LoadRunner to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance and Analysis with expertise on Black Box testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Compatibility Testing, Front End Testing (Functional Testing & GUI Testing), Automation, and Gray Box Testing.
• Expertise in Test plan formulation from Functional Requirement Documents, Business requirements and Use Case diagrams etc.
• Extensive experience in implementing QA methodologies, test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test deliverables.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression, User Acceptance (UAT) and Black Box testing.
• Experience in System Testing (Functionality, Regression), Performance Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.
• Experience in web technologies like JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, and SOAP.
• Expert in using defect tracking tools like Quality Center, Team Track, Jira, and Bugzilla
• Experience in Migrating and upgrading from any version of Test Director to Quality Center.
• Good experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Strong exposure testing applications on different browsers - IE, Firefox and Safari.
• Experience in interacting with Clients at both onsite and offshore, cross group collaborations and meeting tight schedules.
• Proficient with tools such as MS Office, Visual Source Safe, CVS.
• Experience with testing on UNIX and Windows environments.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical skills, documentation skills, communication skills, presentation skills, strong problem solving skills and good team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database: RDBMS Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7, MS SQL Server 2000, MS-Access.

Operating System: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Windows NT/2000/XP and DOS.

Internet: J2EE, XML, Java Beans, Servlets, JSP, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript

Languages: Java2, PERL, C++, C, VB, Shell Scripting

Servers: Web Logic App Server 4.5, TOMCAT 3.2.1.

Automated Testing Tools: Selenium, SoapUI, QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Environment: Quick Test Professional, HP ALM,JAVA, JAVA Script, HTML, UNIX, VB Script, SAP R/3, Windows XP HP-UNIX, Oracle 9i/10g, Weblogic

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business and Technical Requirements, creating the test scenarios and developing test plan and test cases.
• Identified the gaps between the requirements and communicated to the business team.
• Participated in requirements walkthroughs, detail design walkthroughs with the business team, development team and testing team.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Integration System testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in preparing test data for the execution and involved in defining Entrance criteria and Exit criteria.
• Used HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) as Test Management tool.
• Designing the Test Plan documents, Test Cases and Scripts in ALM in each release, test execution using ALM and defects were tracked in ALM.
• Collaborate with Technical Lead to get more details about the complex user stories and getting the feedback from the business analysts and the test lead about the testing approach.
• Manage the release calendar and design the meeting agenda based on task status.
• Generated reports for the defect tracking test project metrics, test process improvement for management review and stakeholder review.
• Responsible for completing end of planning, end of release and project close review to ensure that required deliverables and activities have been completed.
• Conduct review meetings with the developers, business analysts, test lead and project manager to get their Approvals.
• Involved in Regression Testing.
• Provide testing sign offs for each phase of testing as per the entry/exit criteria of each phase.
• Interacted with the business analyst team and the development team regarding the defects.
• Good planning, strong interpersonal communication skills and worked under heavy pressure and tight deadlines.

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Environment: Service Now (SaaS), Quality Center, HP ALM, SOAP UI, JAVA, JAVA Script,Selenium, Jira, Version One, Web Services, Windows XP.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and Analyzing the user stories and acceptance criteria and created the test plan, test scenarios and developed the test cases.
• Involved in developing Estimations, Test Plan documents, Test Strategy and defining the Entrance and Exit criteria.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration System Testing, End to End Testing and Regression Testing using with and without Selenium Scripts.
• Tested the Service Now application using Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Involved in web services testing using SOAP UI.
• Involved in discussions with the business analyst and developers regarding the issues found during the testing and gave inputs to resolve the issues.
• Played a key role in testing the new functionality built for different projects and assisting the team in developing the test plan, test cases and execution of test cases.
• Designing the Test Plan documents, Test Cases and Scripts in Quality Center in each release, test execution using Quality Center and defects were tracked in Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center as Test Management tool.
• Collaborate with Technical Lead to get more details about the complex user stories and getting the feedback from the business analysts and the test lead about the testing approach.
• Maintained the projects in Quality Center based on release calendar.
• Worked with development, testing and business analyst teams from the client side and made modifications based on the need.
• Generated reports for the defect tracking test project metrics, test process improvement for management review and stakeholder review.
• Responsible for completing end of planning, end of release and project close review to ensure that required deliverables and activities have been completed.
• Conduct review meetings with the developers, business analysts, test lead and project manager to get their Approvals.
• Involved in Regression Testing usingSelenium.Executed and maintained existing Selenium Scripts for executions.
• Provide testing sign offs for each phase of testing as per the entry/exit criteria of each phase.
• Involved in testing the production defects after the implementation.
• Involved in training and going through the applications with the new resources
• Possess excellent professional and analytical skills coupled with interpersonal, communication and self - organizing skills describing a committed team player.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Irving, TX

Environment: Delphi 2005, Visual Source Safe, JAVA, XML, PL/SQL, Web Services, Win Runner, Windows XP, Test Director.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business and Functional Specification review meetings, Design walkthroughs and Test Plan reviews.
• Involved in writing and executing system test plans and test cases. The test cases were developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Involved in the analysis of the project for integration test.
• Conducted Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Manually tested data from high level to detail level during verifications.
• Performed the testing of the build release.
• Test management and test case generation was done using Test Director.
• Major involvement in testing the user interface inconsistency and application functionality.
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation.
• Analyzed, documented and maintained test results and test logs.
• Involved in Regression Testing using Win Runner.
• Reported defects in Test Director.
• Defect management using Test Director and configuration management with Visual Source Safe.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Interacted with the developers and other teams like Franchise for resolving the issues.
• Guided team members with testing and functionality of the application.
• Actively participated in the weekly status meeting with managers and team members.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Environment: Test Director, ASP.NET, Oracle, XML, TOAD, Pro-COBOL, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Coordinator for multiple projects. I was involved in areas of HR and FI module.
• Performed System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Involved in Security testing for various user groups.
• Interacted with Functional, development teams to develop test scripts based on the requirements and business process procedure.
• Involved in creating the project test strategy and test plan.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and developed the test plan, test scripts and test cases using Test Director.
• Involved in web testing of the application.
• Used Test Director for tracking defects.
• Executed SQL queries using TOAD for back - end verification.
• Executed SQL statements in TOAD for Data Mapping.
• Involved in defect tracking, impact analysis and maintaining traceability matrix.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Environment: Test Director, ASP.NET, Oracle, XML, TOAD, Pro-COBOL, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Coordinator for multiple projects. I was involved in areas of HR and FI module.
• Performed System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Involved in Security testing for various user groups.
• Interacted with Functional, development teams to develop test scripts based on the requirements and business process procedure.
• Involved in creating the project test strategy and test plan.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and developed the test plan, test scripts and test cases using Test Director.
• Involved in web testing of the application.
• Used Test Director for tracking defects.
• Executed SQL queries using TOAD for back - end verification.
• Executed SQL statements in TOAD for Data Mapping.
• Involved in defect tracking, impact analysis and maintaining traceability matrix.