SUMMARY

• Over 6 (Six) years of experience in Software Quality Assurance of Web and client/server applications on Windows and Unix platforms, expertise in analysis and design of applications.
• Well expert in both area of manual and automated testing, and currently seeking for a Software Test Engineer position to utilize my skills and further my experience.
• Proficient in understanding requirements, design specifications, and testing strategy to: perform ambiguity analysis, risk analysis, establish testing priorities, Test Plan, review testing strategy, validate requirements, and develop test scenarios.
• Experience utilizing two or more of the following automated test or test methodology tools: HP/Mercury Suite Quality Center, QTP, Clear Case, and Clear Quest.
• Experience with supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, Environmental Log, participating in Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers.
• Utilize Quality Center for maintaining the Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Bug Reporting.
• Substantial experience in writing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and working with overall team to meet project goals.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Black Box and Performance Testing.
• Database Testing knowledge, especially Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Develop SQL queries to collect Test Data and to perform Backend Testing.
• Develop Automated Test Scripts using QTP and automated various Business Flows for the application to perform Regression Testing.
• Clear and concise verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to work in teams.
• Excellent technical documentation and reporting skills.
• Attention to detail, organized, good analytical and troubleshooting skills, and being a key team player
• Ability to work independently, multitask and focus on critical path deliverables is essential skills for this position.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Pro, HP Quality CenterDatabases Oracle, SQL server, Access

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET

Test management Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Clear QuestCM Tools Start Team, Clear case, Pvcs Tracker

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista

MS Office: Microsoft Office Suite

Languages: C++, J2EE, Visual Basic, Pl/SQL, VBS, JavaScript.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge on Analysis of functional requirements, testing on one portal Web applications, developing Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts as well as Evaluating test results to determine compliance with test plans and established business processes.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT and End to End testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement.
• Utilize verity techniques of problem identification, root cause analysis, issue documentation, resolution support, and generate of the defect report by graph utilizing HP Quality Center tool
• Completion of defect Summery report weekly basis
• Create and maintain test documentation and test data
• Analyzed and maintained requirements, and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Worked closely with Team leads in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing tests.
• Implement, develop, execute and maintenance of Quick Test Pro automated tests. This includes integrating Quick Test Pro with Quality Center to managing tests and their resources (actions, function libraries, object repositories, recovery scenarios, and data table files
• Involve in writing SQL queries to validate data with Back - end with the GUI
• Experience with RDBMSs (Oracle) and demonstrated ability to write SQL statements
• Responsible for the day-to-day and weekly status report on the progress of the testing efforts.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, .Net, VBS, Java, Windows XP/Vista, Oracle, PVCS Tracker.

QA Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Actively performed manual and automation testing on web based application.
• Support project planning/execution by estimating testing time, reporting status for all testing activities, and collaborating with the project team to ensure adherence to quality during the test development process
• Analyzed requirement and Expert in writing the Test Cases and Test Plans based on the Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Specifications or Use Cases.
• Developed test cases based on functional specifications (SRS) and design documents.
• Analyzed and maintained requirements, and created Traceability metric between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Utilized HP Quality Center Tool for Requirement storage, Design Test case, Execution Test Case and Reporting defect with supporting Documents of the Defect
• Expert in documentation of the defect and maintain the defect life cycle with HP Quality Center
• Develops automation scripts and creating automation framework using HP Quick Test Pro
• Performs script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations
• Creating Automation script using descriptive programming to minimizing the time.
• Using Synchronization point, Recovery Scenario to run test schedule mode or Batch mode
• Involved in executing the SQL Queries for Data Validation, Record Counting and Non Duplication Testing.
• Using Toad 9.5 to execute SQL query and get the data from the database to validate the requirement
• Prepared defect reports and distribute to project team and conducted defect meetings

Environment: Windows, UNIX, MS Office, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, SQL, VB Script, Toad, Oracle 10g

QA Tester

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and review Requirement document and the functional requirement specifications
• Hands on experience of software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC).
• Analyzed and update the Test Plan and created Test case Template
• Experienced automation & manual test execution, Defect analysis, and documentation analysis.
• Update design document based on any change request as well as User Guide
• Performed Peer Review for any defect found.
• Participated in Inspection and walkthrough meeting.
• Analyzed Requirement specifications document for the testing process of the Application.
• Performed Functional, and User Acceptance testing (UAT) were done successfully using Manual Testing
• Written test cases based on requirements document provided by the Business Analyst.
• Tracing test cases to requirements (Updating RTM)
• Used Test Directory for tracking the defects, and reporting defect with proven documentation
• Scheduling and execution of tests, collection of test results manually
• Actively performed different method of testing Ad-hoc testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, Smoke testing, User Acceptance testing, and Integration testing.
• Actively Support to the CAT testing team by providing the Scenario (End to End) test Script.
• Performed database testing using SQL and used SQL queries to validate the data
• Involved in production issues and created Modification Request to ensure fixes with the development team
• Participated in meetings with team members regarding test procedures, test result analysis and test script

Environment: Test Directory, SQL Builder Tool, MS Office, Oracle 7g.