SKILL SUMMARY:

• Overall 8 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing. Experience on Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Metrics.
• Strong knowledge inSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and the Role of QA in different testing methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, etc.
• Experience in Smoke, Functional, Integration, GUI, System Testing, Regression, System, Compatibility, Acceptance and Black Box Testing etc. 
• Excellent skills in understanding the requirements and creating test cases out of Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD)and Use Cases .
• Hands on experience in Test Design , Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Execution and Defect management .
• Experience in developing and executing test cases manually and developed automation scripts using Selenium - Java.
• Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Fire Path to identify elementsin AUT.
• Experienced in reading the test data from excel spread sheet using API and TESTNG Data provider. 
• Expertise in different types of testing like Automation testing,Manual testing, Integration testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing, JUnit Testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, Database testing, GUI testing, Web / UI and (UAT)User Acceptance Testing. 
• Effectively communicated and reported bug / defects, which are identified in different phases of testing. Generated defect reports, bugs validation with tools test director / quality center. 
• Performed Positive and negative testing, Black Box, and End User Testing. 
• Knowledge on BDD testing using Cucumber frame work . 
• Thorough understanding of Bug life cycle using bug tracking tools HP ALM and Clear Quest. 
• Attended project meetings, QA status meetings and daily stand up meeting 
• Experience in working on UNIX, Linux, Windows platform 
• Involved in all the phases of Testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle 
• Worked closely with Business analysts, Developers, Support teams to promote successful delivery of products and services. 
• Actively participated in regular QA Team meetings to discuss testing process and resolve issues with local and off shore teams. 
• Interacted closely with developers, environment people, client, team manager, team lead and team members for feature issues and discussion. 
• Possess good communication skills, analytical skills, self-motivated, pro-active, task oriented, good team player, and quick learn at new technologies and systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Relevant Skills: Functional Test planning and execution, Defect Life Cycle, STLC & SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Selenium, QTP/UFT, Automation framework development, Core Java, TestNG/JUnit, Automated Functional Test Planning-Preparation-Execution, Web Based and windows Based Application Automation Development, Eclipse, Java Script, VB Script, Apache server, XML & HTML.

Testing Tools: Quality Centre/ALM

Automation Tools: QTP/UFT, Selenium IDE, Selenium WD, AutoIT, TestNG

Databases: MySQL, Oracle

Methodology: Black Box Testing, white Box Testing, Performance/Load, Automated Testing, Ad-hoc testing, GUI/User Interface Testing, Back End Testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Integration, Web testing, Sanity/Smoke, Functionality testing, End-to-end Testing, Security testing, Regression Testing, database testing, Positive and Negative testing, System Specifications Analysis and Formulation of Test Plan,Waterfall, Agile, Rational Robot/Functional Tester, SQL, Windows, and Web service testing.

Language Knowledge: Java, SQL, VB Scripting

Web Tools: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, ASP.NET3.5, ADO.NET 2.0

PROJECT DETAILS:

Confidential, TN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, and Business Rules to identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data
• Involved in writing Unit Test Cases, Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Maintained Test Cases in Test Link, Created requirement traceability using Quality Center (ALM)
• Performed smoke testing, regression testing, and applying automation testing to improve the delivery of the team
• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirement and/or functional specification
• Create and execute test cases for manual testing
• Documented software defects, and report defects to developers and project managers Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data
• Maintained Test Cases in Quality Center (ALM), Created requirement traceability using Quality Center (ALM)
• Performed smoke testing, regression testing, and applying automation testing to improve the delivery of the team
• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirement and/or functional specification
• Functional, feature, integration, smoke, system, regression; user acceptance, a/b testing; ad-hoc, scripted
• Well-versed in aspects of various development methodologies
• Use Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning and executing tests, and tracking defects
• Used TOAD Database Testing Tool, for SQL query
• Extensively used SQL to verify and validate the data loaded
• Developed test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts based on high-level and detailed designs
• Involved in writing the Test Plan, Modifying and Executing the Test Cases
• Performed Functional, Regression and Validation Testing
• Created and executed Test Cases for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT)
• Documented the daily defect status using Quality Center ALM
• Responsible for defect tracking and management metrics, defects are logged and change requests are submitted using Quality Center ALM
• Prepared documentation for all stages according to company standards
• Tracked and reported defect using Quality Center ALM
• Implemented Test Case and Test Plan with project time frames
• Performing end-to-end testing of the work-flow which includes Smoke, Functional, and Regression Testing System
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation and system testing
• Worked with developers and managers to ensure all functions of application are correct Report any defects. Update and create test cases as needed
• Analyze data and utilize SQL queries to validate test cases
• Executing and designing of scripts in HP Quality Center and MS Excel
• Passing and failing testing scripts in HP Quality Center
• Worked independently or as part of a QA Project team, as required by the project
• Attended Requirements Review Meetings and provide feedback to ensure that the system Been part of plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
• Participate in product design reviews providing input on functional requirement, production design schedule or potential problem
• Created Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTMs) to ensure complete coverage of requirements, identify all test conditions and test data needs.
• Performed GUI functional and sanity testing manually for each new build of the application.

Confidential, GA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile/Scrum methodologies for all of the project activities.
• Attended the sprint plan meetings, daily standup meetings, bug review meetings, weekly status meetings, retrospect meetings and interacted with business analysts and developers for resolving defects.
• Involved in creating test plan based on BRD and user stories.
• Developed and executed automation test scripts using Selenium Web Driver using Java to test web application.
• Used Firebug, Fire path Add-on tools to identify the object‘s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Performed build acceptance testing and smoke testing.
• Used Maven to build and run the Selenium Automation framework.
• Involved in functionality testing using SOAP UI and verifying the request and response XML, Schemas at respective locations.
• Integrate the test suites to Jenkins to execute them automatically after every successful deployment.
• Implemented the Logger using Log4J for Selenium test cases.
• SQL Query preparation for data identification and comparison.
• Used SQL queries and joins to retrieve data from various tables to test the database.
• Executed Linux commands, FTP commands to validate log files while debugging the issue.
• Analysing the support central requests.
• Interacted with Onsite Coordinator to clarify queries and update the status reports on weekly basis.
• Test case scripting, account conditioning using FDR.
• Involved in Functional and Regression Testing using various methodologies.
• Used TFS to report bugs and to maintain product backlog items.

Confidential, NC

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the process and write Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Used Descriptive programming in scripting dynamic objects and reusable actions in defining scenario flows in Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Used two types of Descriptive Programming, by giving description in form of the string arguments and by creating properties collection object for the description.
• Conducted Unit, System, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data Validation Testing for new Data Warehousing/ Reporting solution.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs in Quality Center (QC).
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Ensured the existing data structures had a smooth migration to the new database.
• Being able to run command line programs easier with PowerShell.
• Used Simple and Complex SQL Queries like Joins, Select, and Update for data validation and data manipulation in the new data warehouse environment.
• Responsibilities in both the functional automation and SOA testing areas of specialized testing
• Wrote SQL queries for validating constraints, indexes.
• Advanced knowledge of Quality center API. Writing the test set and running it by calling a scheduler.
• Strong Black Box testing experience with complex and functionality-rich systems.
• Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Developed automated Test scripts using QTP to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and involved in UA test cases, Executed test cases, Documenting Defects, resolved defects and Signed Off from Application.

Confidential, NC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test case preparation based on the requirements document.
• Designed test scenarios, test cases and test scripts for the application.
• Conducted manual testing by validating all functionalities of the entire application
• Followed Agile Methodology and involved GUI with various browsers, Functional, System, Regression, database and Performance Testing during various phases of the development.
• Reporting bugs to Team Lead through Quality Center.
• Interact with the development team on the defect resolution.
• Involved in database testing by retrieving the data from the tables using SQL queries.
• Analyzed system requirements and functional requirement documents.
• Followed SCRUM methodology throughout Software Development Life Cycle.
• Collected the Test data in pre-testing phase for positive and negative scenarios.
• Wrote and execute test cases and procedures and designed test scenarios and data.
• Executed automation test scripts using QTP.
• Expert at developing validation process following standards and creating and documenting SOPs and ensuring all validation documents following the standards.
• Data integrity testing and data analysis by executing SQL statements.
• Conducted black box, functional, performance regression and user acceptance tests.
• Participated in walk through for evaluation of test plans and test techniques with Lead and development team.
• Capable to interact with credibility at all levels of the Organization.
• Maintained trailing history of defects identified during execution of test cases.
• Exposure to working with multiple platforms including Windows, Linux environments.
• Worked with HP Quality center for requirement, test plan and defect tracking.
• Captured Test artifacts using Access, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio and Word.

Confidential, IN

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analysts to find out exact Functionality of Application. Prepared Test Cases based on the Business Requirement Document, followed waterfall methodology.
• Responsible for writing and running the Manual Test Cases in Microsoft XL and Microsoft Word and importing into the Quality Center 9.0.
• Performed functional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements
• Performed Manual Testing to check the functionalities of the whole application.
• Executed test cases to compare the actual result with expected results in accordance with business and technical specs.
• Developed Test Plan and test cases using the System Design Document, Requirement Document and Use Cases.
• Reviewed requirements for its verifiability and provided feedback to the development & requirement team.
• Experience with Database tools TOAD MySQL to access SQL Server DB
• Involved with Functionality Testing, System Testing, integration, Database Integrity Testing, regression, and Security Testing.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center
• Involved and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with UAT Team
• Reviewed Functional Specifications and assists in evaluating test automation approach profiling of Manual Test Cases for Automation Test opportunities
• Effectively handled multiple projects simultaneously during Production Period by running Test Cases and logging & tracking Defect in HP Quality Center (QC).

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on several Portals write the components and create the front end environment with respective back end components in Microsoft Technologies using some of the most advanced Portal Technologies.
• Develop and Support SharePoint based Portals for Document Management
• Assisted Onsite project leaders in Documenting, Training Manuals Preparation
• Extensively worked on Test Plan preparation, Test Case Conditions, Test Case Documentation and Executed test cases Manually and Automated test Tools
• Actively worked on internal website design.
• Coordinated with Pre-Sales Onsite and Offshore teams, and team leaders in respective practice domains in providing the necessary documentation, presentations on Company core strengths and delivery Capabilities
• Worked with Resource Managers in sourcing of resources (internal and external) for onsite/offshore project requirements.
• Develop Server side components, the related tables for the stored procedures.
• Prototyping and Designing of the user interface using HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
• Executed SQL queries and Created Stored Procedures on SQL Server 2005.
• Used Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript while developing web pages.
• Database connectivity using ADO.net.
• Developed web pages using ASP.net using C#.net as code behind.
• Developed the base templates for the stored procedure for Insert, Update, Select, Delete and edited SQL Server procedures and functions as per the business logic to access the data.
• Developed and reviewed various stored procedures for query optimization to improve the performance.
• Developed Client side validation functions using JavaScript. Worked on database designing and table creations.
• Involved in writing Unit Test Cases, Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Worked for generating the search results pages using pagination logic written in stored procedures and by calling stored procedure using ADO.net
• Participated in project status meetings and provide Weekly status reporting.
• Active roles in Several Projects in different Phases of SDLC, as stated below: