CAREER OBJECTIVE: 
Six years of experience in Software Testing with diversified, extensive skills in Manual and Automated Testing of Client/Server, Web centric applications on Windows and UNIX, seeking for a position as Software QA Engineer/QA Analyst/QA Lead.

COMPUTER SKILLS:
Operating System: Windows XP, NT4.0, Mac OS X, UNIX
Language: HTML, SQL, VB Script, C++
Databases: Oracle, SQL, My SQL, MS SQL Server 
Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Center, Test Director, MS Test Manager, Team Foundation Server.
Network Protocol: TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP.
Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center, HP LoadRunner, MS Test Manager, Team Foundation Server.
Microsoft Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate), MS Excel and MS Projects.
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Fire fox, Google Chrome, Safari.
Other Utility SOAP UI

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experienced in Business Requirements Documents, Software Requirement Specs, Functional Requirement Document, User Stories, Use Cases, Business Rules, Acceptance Criteria, Gap Requirement, Mock Ups.
• Experienced in writing Test Plan, Test Data, Test Cases and Test Steps.
• Experienced working in both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Highly experienced in working and having extensive knowledge of all the stages of SDLC.
• Worked extensively in coordination with Developers in Dev Environment and Business Analysts.
• Expertise in writing, executing and maintaining Test Scenarios, Test Procedures, Test Cases in every release and in all phases of SDLC.
• 5 Years of SOAP UI Testing and Test Development experience.
• Taught the new members in QA Environments about the Consoles in 3M and Geico Insurance and guided them to work in Scrum environment.
• Excellent communication, issue finding, solving and learning and analytical skills.
• Carried out Requirement Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Compatibility Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke, Sanity Testing, Load/Stress/Volume Testing, Usability Testing with both Manual and Automated Testing tools.
• Expertise in using testing tools HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Load Runner and MS Test Manager, Team Foundation Server.
• Experienced in Back-End Database (SQL server, Oracle) testing using SQL.
• Excellent in communicating with people in Dev Environment, Business Analysts and Support group.
• Equally effective working in self-managed projects or as a team member.
• Excellent in managing interdisciplinary relationships effectively.
• Excellent in making presentations and make every one understand about the topic.
• Quick learner in terms of Domain Knowledge and technology and excellent to function in fast paced environment.
• Highly experienced in Scrum and Sprint execution.
• Excellent management skills, strong follow up skills, extensive exposure to QA environment, acquired through education and robust experience.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, Tx. Duration: 06/01/2012 – Present 
Position: Quality Assurance Engineer

• Created Master User Story, Child Story, Task from User story in Team Foundation Server.
• Created Issues, Bugs and Test Cases from use Cases and Business Rules in Team Foundation Server and MS Test Manager.
• Created and ran Queries for Linked Work Items.
• Performed Testing in MS Test Manager.
• Used SQL Server extensively to extract data for the MVSS (Motor Vehicle Systems and Services) project.
• Created Test Cases and performed Testing on Main Flow of Events, Alternate Flows of Events, Acceptance Criteria, Gap Requirement, and Mock Ups.
• Worked as a List Master (Lead) and attended daily Scrum Meeting and Scrum of the Scrums Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting and Sprint Planning Meeting.
• Analyzed and related each steps of the Test Cases with the Use Case and Business Rules and carried out the test of the functionality of the MVSS (Motor Vehicle Systems and Services) Console with utmost efficiency.
• Reported Bugs using MS Test Manager. Retested Bugs in Resolved Status assigned to me by Developers.
• Conducted Functional, Regression, System Testing, Positive and Negative Testing.
• Created, enhanced and maintained high-end repository for various functional and regression test of the MVSS Console.
• Guided and taught the new members of the team on MVSS (Motor vehicle Systems and Services) application and on the Scrum Environment.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD, Duration: 08/2010 –May 2012
Position: Automation Engineer
Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Developed Test plan and verified content with the team members.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative testing requirements.
• Worked in Agile Environment and attended the daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Review meeting, Sprint Retrospective meeting and Sprint Planning meeting.
• Used Quality Center to write Test Cases, Test Steps, Requirement Coverage and execute the test.
• Reported Bugs using Quality Center. Retested the Bugs in Resolved status sent by Developer and changed the status to Fixed if the Retesting passed.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Data, Test Cases, for Functional and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Developed Data Driven Framework and Keyword Driven Frameworks in QTP.
• Created Descriptive Programming using VB Scripting in QTP.
• Tested XML request and responses using SOAP UI and HP Service Test.
• Created, enhanced and maintained high end Object Repository for functional and regression test.
• Conducted Performance Testing which included Load/Stress/Volume Testing using LoadRunner.
• Conducted Performance Testing to test the Transaction Response Time, hits per second, the number of transaction per second.
• Enhanced the script by Parameterization, Rendezvous points, Correlation and Check Points.
• Designed and ran scenarios to enable the Controller to measure the performance of Web Server under various load conditions.
• Conducted Functional, Regression, System Testing, Positive and Negative testing.
• Managed team of five members and guided them through the Geico Application and Scrum methodology.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to interpret test results and create test data.

Confidential, Washington, DC, Duration: 09/2007-07/2010, 
Position: Software Test Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automation Testing of the application.
• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan, Test cases and Test Strategy.
• Conducted Functional Testing, Interface Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Used Quality Center for reserving, executing test cases, defect tracking, and the complete test management.
• Validated test to check boundary conditions and error messages.
• Created test scripts using QTP tool and performed functionality and regression testing on new builds of software.
• Executed automated test cases by participating actively in functional, system and regression testing
• Using QTP.
• Created Load Runner scenarios by utilizing Load Runner controller and VuGen to create a Vuser script and parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Used performance monitors and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly repot to Project Manager.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA Duration: 11/2005-08/2007 
Position: QA Tester
Job Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Plans and Test Cases into Test Director for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Developed and reviewed test automation for Functional and Regression Testing of the various releases of the application.
• Created Test Cases and expected results based on the requirements for Functional & Regression Testing.
• Summarized issues, reporting defects and tracking the bugs using Test Director.
• Developed test case for emergency release and execute test case for emergency release.
• Tracked bugs and reported defect using Test Director.
• Performed back-end testing on multiple databases using SQL queries.
• Created the detailed test plans and executed it.
• Implemented the test cases and test processes with project time frames.
• Performed Cross Browser, Configuration and Black Box Testing.
• Attended defect prioritization meetings.

EDUCATION:
Chartering courses – Confidential College . 
MBA in Finance – Confidential University