SUMMARY

• Excellent understanding of entire Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Processes, Techniques and Strategies
• Expertise in analyzing Business requirement specification and System Requirements specification, and involving in designing, developing and executing Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Cases and also have excellent documentation skills.
• Expert in performing Manual as well as automated testing.
• Responsible for coordinating and managing the Testing Team by allocating day to day tasks and educates them on their responsibilities for the purpose of achieving on - time and quality deliverables.
• Proactively interacting and collaborating with Business Analysts, Technical Analysts, and developers to identify and understand the appropriate data required for testing and sharing the same testing team.
• Expert in delivering the status reports like testing status, defect-tracking status, and weekly status reports to the QC - Quality Center, Test Director and ALM - Application Lifecycle Management, which are different versions of the same application.
• Experience in writing, inserting verification points and executing test cases using automation tools like Quick Test Professional.
• Involved in thorough Compatibility Testing of the site on different browsers.
• Operations performed by software applications using Oracle 9g, 10g, 11g.
• Strong Experience in performing different types of testing like Black box, Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Ad-hoc, System, Security and User Acceptance (UAT), 508 Compliance, Load, Stress, and performance testing.
• Experience with planning, implementing, and testing mission critical information systems employing Web Services and built on Internet architecture principles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Test Specialist

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software specifications and technical service description documents.
• Identified the Business requirements and involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Actively participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA testing review meeting.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System, Functional, Positive, Negative, Boundary, Cross platform, Recovery, Mobile, as well as Performance, Stress, Load/ Volume and User Acceptance Testing.
• Defined the test Engagement Process for new application launch and maintenance releases.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested.
• Experience with test execution and results tracking.
• Tested the application compatibility with IE and Netscape browsers.
• Prepared various documents like Test Scenarios, Test Analysis Report, Defect Report and User Manual were created using MS Word and MS Excel.
• Mobile testing using Samsung Galaxy S2, S3 and S4 to assure the end user/customer can review this client’s product.
• Parameterized various links in the application for functional/Integration Testing.
• Executed Manual and Automated test cases and verified results with expected results.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through Quality Center.
• Reported defects to the team lead and helped the developer to resolve the technical issues.
• Performed Load testing, Performance testing and Stress testing using Load Runner.
• Setup load/performance testing environment using Load Runner.
• Designed Performance test scripts using Load Runner, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.
• Responsible for creating the System Performance Graph from the results of the incremental (user load) stress tests to determine the scalability of the system, response time at the desired throughput and the system break point (knee of the curve).

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Developers on a daily basis to discuss the Requirement Specifications.
• Reviewed and analyzed the System Requirement Specs (SRS) and design documents.
• Involved in writing the test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application using Quality Center & established the baseline scripts for future automation.
• Performed Test Cases Management and Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
• Experience with test execution and results tracking.
• Identified and documented the defects using Quality Center to ensure applications functionality and stability.
• Performed regression testing by executing the baseline scripts identifying software errors and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Created VuGen scripts using Virtual User Generator for Load, and Stress test Configured Run Time setting, Parameterized and Performed Manual correlation for optimizing scripts reusability.
• Created Controller scenario and executed Load test to verify application expected load handling capacity.
• Analyzed load test result and identified bottleneck and reported to product management team.

Software Tester

Confidential - Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created Manual test Cases for validating the Functionality.
• Created Test Scenario's and executing to test Business Rules.
• Interacted with the Project Manager for the Requirements.
• Reviewed documentation generated through Current SDLC process and based on review.
• Created test plan templates which were to be used as best practices format for business units.
• Designed Test Documents and recorded test results to use during regression testing after each build.
• Actively participated in reviews with the test leads and test manager.
• Responsible for preparing, reviewing and executing the test cases.
• Performed regression and retesting.
• Maintained the repository of manual and automated test scripts using Test Director
• Worked closely with developers to LOG, Track and follow through on all software bugs and providing more information about bugs and help them in fixing the bugs.
• Was involved in GUI testing and tested GUI standards of this application.
• Experience with test execution and results tracking.
• Extensively used MS-Office for documenting test cases, test procedures and creating user guides.
• Used Test Director as defect tracking system to report the bugs and keep track the created bugs
• Throughout its life cycle and providing the defect report.