SUMMARY

• A detail oriented Software Test Engineer /QA Tester with six plus years of experience of manual and automated testing in various projects and environments.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and interpreting requirements and/or specifications, developing system test plan, designing test cases and test scenarios, execute tests, create bug documentation and developing test summary report.
• Seeking a permanent or consulting position in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing to contribute my professional experiences, technical knowledge and problem solving process.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Software Test Methodologies.
• Experience in analyzing the System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Design Documentation (SDD), and Use cases diagram.
• Experience in Waterfall Model, V - Model and Agile (SCRUM) development methodologies.
• Expertise in writing, executing, and maintaining System Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios.
• Experience in automated testing using HP-Mercury Quick Test Pro and Quality Center.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking toolsQuality Center, HP ALM and JIRA.
• Experience in document reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements, and specifications. knowledge of GLP, GAMP and FDA CFR 21 part 11
• Well versed with Relational Databases (RDBMS).
• Extensive experience in developing SQL queries for backend-testing, knowledge of ORACLE and SQL Server, and Access database.
• Experience in back-end and integration testing using SQL PLUS and TOAD to ensure data consistency on front-end with backend database.
• Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels.
• Experienced in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experienced in tracking and logging Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Experience in verification and validation process.
• Self-motivated, team oriented, have strong communication skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in working in highly dynamic and challenging environment.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language: Java, Visual Basic, HTML, SQL

Testing Tools: Selenium, HP ALM, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, JIRA

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, VISTA, and Windows 7& 8, UNIX

Applications: MS Office, SharePoint

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

508 Compliance Testing Tool: JAWS and WAVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Springfield, VA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Project planning, Status reporting, document review and defect entry verification.
• Develop a detail Test Plan based on software requirements specifications
• Write & execute Test Cases for each functionality based on product functional specifications using HP ALM
• Create test cases with various scenarios based on business rules of the requirements.
• Review Test cases and update/ modify test cases if any gaps or issue in the test cases.
• Manually retest the application functionality after any modification or update on the application.
• Assist in writing user stories, analyze user stories documents, develop test cases and identify acceptance criteria for user stories
• Assist in maintaining/updating Scrum backlogs
• Coordinate with development team for any issues related to deployment and defect tracking.
• Investigate software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using HP ALM
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Attend periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.
• Interact with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Attend walkthrough meetings with the System Analysts, Project Managers and Developers.
• Arrange CCB-Change Control Board meeting to review defects.
• Extensively perform Functional Testing and End to End Testing.
• Develop and maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Communicate test results and status to team members and management.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, SQL Server, HTML, .NET, Windows, HP ALM, SeleniumWeb Driver, JUnit/TestNG, Oracle

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Verification and Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the project team to discuss the application design, development and testing aspects and involved in various stages of the project from requirements through implementation.
• Wrote & executed Test Cases for each functionality based on product functional specifications
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Extensively involved in running manual tests on the applications.
• Manually tested the GUI interface of the application.
• Developed, managed and executed test cases in central test repository HP Quality Center.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect Tracking system JIRA
• Developed and tested FDA compliance requirements pertaining to CFR 21 part 11
• Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to perform Back End Testing.
• Used TOAD for data verification and data validation in Back-end database.
• Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually
• Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different modules in the System.
• Develop checklist for 508 compliance testing.
• Used JAWS® screen reader for web accessibility testing.
• Used WAVE) to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process for 508 compliance testing.
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, SQL Server, TOAD, HTML, VSS, ASP, .NET, JAWS, WAVE, Windows

Confidential, Reston, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System test plans.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Prepared Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test Plans, involved in developing Test Scripts for manual testing.
• Performed Integration and User Acceptance test.
• Identified and documented all the defects and root-cause analysis to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated the bugs in the application.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testing.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing andexecuting SQL statements.
• Involved in writing Test cases depends on test scenarios.

Environment: Windows, VB, C, HP Quality Center, Java, Quick Test Professional, Oracle, .NET, SQL

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Application Tester

Responsibilities:

• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.
• Participated in review, progress meetings to monitor the progress of the testing process.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Quality Center was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan, various Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.

Environment: Windows, VB, Java, XML, Quality Center, Oracle, J2EE