SUMMARY

• 10+ Years of Software Testing and Quality Assurance experience working on Client/Server, Multi tier, Web based applications.
• Involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in writing System defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts and documenting all phases of QA process.
• Expertise in using Mercury Interactive Automated Testing tools Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, Quality Center and Test Director.
• Used QuickTest Pro checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Understanding of Descriptive Programming.
• Responsible for converting and developing QTP automation scripts based on the regression testcases in Quality Center.
• Extensive experience Black Box Testing and in modifying Test Scripts using VB Script.
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of applications developed on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Experience in working on applications developed in Asp.Net, Vb.Net, Java
• Experience in project life cycle of Implementation, Testing, Regression testing.
• Exposure with QA Principle SEI CMM levels, ISO 9001.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Usability, Regression, Positive, Negative testing, Back End, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, and UNIX environments.
• Have Knowledge of Protocols like TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Knowledge of Unix Commands (File System, Ordinary Files, Grep)
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE, SQL Server and MS Access.
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, and technical support and help them base line the requirement specifications.
• Possess extensive experience in analyzing the Business Requirement Documents, Functional specifications and Technical Specifications.
• Work well under pressure and tight deadlines, comfortable working with teams and dealing with customers.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C/C++, VB, TSL,SQL

Testing Tools: Win Runner, QTP, Quality Centre, Test Director, JIRA, currently training in SOAP UI

Platforms: Windows 95/97/2000/NT/XP

RDBMS: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server

Tools: and Technologies: VBScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential, Bethesda

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Mobile Integration Use Cases, Test Cases in Confluence and Zephyr
• Responsible Test Data creation in Confluence
• Responsible for Test Case execution, defect creation in Jira
• Prepare Traceability Matrix to track project progress
• Integration testing of various external systems like Sales Force, Lock key servers, Data Sources and Mobile applications
• Data validation and Data Integrity testing using SQL queries
• Regression testing of all 3 mobile applications on iOS and Android
• Providing support to various integration teams and API teams
• Participate in Daily scrum meetings, lead daily bug triage meetings, supporting UAT

Environment: Java, Mainframe, Oracle, JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, Postman

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Environment: - ASP.Net, Oracle 10, TOAD 10.1, JIRA, Apex 5.0

Responsibilities:

• QA process implementation.
• Responsible for making both the systems interactive, controlled and User friendly.
• Involved in Requirement gathering, interacting with end users
• Involved in Application analysis, implementing changes which includes, User interface changes validations, data pre-population, user management and enhancements.
• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings and Responsible for testing application in 2 - 3 weeks Sprint Cycle
• Involved in creating User Stories, Test Plans, writing Test Cases and traceability matrix
• Involved in regression, Integration, positive, negative, cross browser and End to End scenario testing to validate the functionality
• Responsible for reporting bugs in JIRA and creating Defect reports
• Responsible for Creating, requirements, User Stories, Enhancements in JIRA
• Executing SQL queries (Joins, Aggregate Functions, Having, Group by clauses, sub queries) for data integrity and Report Testing using TOAD
• SQL queries (Update, Delete) for Test Data creation
• Involved in arranging meetings with End Users to discuss changes, enhancements
• Involved in the Test Management tool design which is being developed in Apex and Oracle (Repository for Requirements, Test plans and Cases and Bugs for Traceability Matrix purpose)

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential - Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases based on User Stories to meet the requirements.
• Involved in Integration, positive, negative, cross browser and End to End scenario testing to validate the functionality
• Reporting bugs in Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Retesting of those bugs
• Involved inRegression testing and retesting after bug fixes.
• Appian process model verification.
• Writing SQL Queries to test data integrity and report testing.
• Participate in Daily Scrum meetings, Client meetings
• Post production Customer support, answering Application related customer queries, guiding them over the phone/Emails, presentations / Training to group of people
• Creating productions bugs and prioritizing there fix and release
• Creating Change Requests, Testing Change Requests
• Creating and Testing Enhancements
• Involved in requirement gathering for a new reporting module

Environment: - Appian - BPM software, Sequel Server, Microsoft TFS

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases using Test Manager and Test Data from requirement document, technical specification
• Created and Executed Test Cases to verify the expected results on the builds we get for every Sprint in Agile Environment.
• Involved in different types of testing like, Smoke, Regression, Retesting, Integration, UI, validation, positive, Negative Testing
• Reporting defects in Microsoft Visual Studio / TFS, retesting of those defects
• Cross browser testing IE9, Mozilla, Chrome
• Traceability Matrix to keep track of requirement coverage
• SQL Queries for data validation and report testing
• SQL queries for data manipulation to create Test Data
• Conducting meetings with Developer and BA’s to discuss Issues and Requirements
• Arranging training sessions for Internal Associates.
• Arranging reviews with BA’s and Managers.

Environment: - Test Manager, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), APS.NET, SQL Server.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Clarksburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Working and coordinating efforts of geographically distributed testing / development team
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Data (Using SPIRA Team) from requirement document, technical specification (Using Microsoft TFS as document repository).
• Created and Executed Test Cases to verify the expected results on the builds we get for every Sprint in Agile Environment.
• Performed Manual (Black box) testing which includes Functional Testing, Positive and Negative Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End scenario Testing.
• Reporting and tracking defects in Microsoft TFS
• Performed Defect Verification as a part of Retesting and Regression Testing to check the stability of application after defect fix
• Performed Regression Testing and Retesting to verify the impact of bug fixing on existing functionality.
• Created Traceability Matrix to keep track of requirement coverage.
• Cross browser Testing with IE 7 +, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 +
• Documented the results of Test Case execution
• Conducted Manual Performance testing to verify how Application performs for certain number of records (Production data was cloned)
• Used Quick Test checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Automating manual test cases using QTP and executing those test scripts.
• Automation testing using QTP and programming dynamic VB Scripts for testing the functionality of Application
• Regression Suite execution for every new build / Sprint and exporting detail report in HTML format to send it to the project team
• Parameterizing the script with different types of input values using data table to check the functionality.
• Create various Excel files to create Test Data and then importing various Excel files as and when needed into data table.
• Often used GetRO and GetTO Property to retrieve the property values of Test and Runtime objects.
• Created Function Libraries to create Public and Private functions to use in Tests.
• Use of Reusable and External actions as and when needed.
• Updating and Adding objects / properties of objects in Object Repository.
• Connecting to Data base through QTP (Using Connection Object and Recordset) to retrieve the values from table and use it as a parameter.
• Have used Regular Expressions for pattern matching.
• Involved in Backend testing which involves executing SQL queries using TOAD 5.0 for Data Verification and Report Testing (Joins, Aggregate Functions)
• Got an exposure on defect Tracking tool JIRA on the project I was temporarily working on
• Conducting meetings with Clients, Developers and BA’s over requirement analysis / discuss issues and release plans.
• Conducted meetings with BA person to verify and finalize requirements.
• Participating in Production Release Testing

Environment: - QTP 10.0, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), JIRA, SPIRA TEAM, APS.NET, SQL Server.