SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of excellent broad experience and knowledge on client server and web based application in Functional/ Non - functional testing.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, experienced in working in an Agile-SCRUM environment.
• Experienced in managing projects that follow Waterfall Model.
• Proficient in Software Test Life Cycle and Defects Life Cycle.
• Experienced in creating and developing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Reports, Defect Reports for Manual Tests.
• Worked on conducting GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center to document the test plan/test cases and keep track of the defects.
• Extensive experienced in Analyzing requirements, writing Test Plans and Test Cases for positive and negative Testing, using test techniques like boundary value and decision table generating the Test Reports using generic functions building the Test Environment.
• Experienced in developing Traceability Matrix and Defect metrics report to identify the latency and slippage of defects.
• Tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in Retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys.
• Good Experience in working on JIRA Test Management Tool.
• Skilled in bug reporting and tracking using HP Quality Center/ALM and JIRA.
• Experienced in reporting bugs using Test Director and BugZilla.
• Worked on many proposals and presentation on technical analysis of the tools on the project.
• Proficient in documenting Test documents using MS Office tools like Word and Excel.
• Proficient in Database knowledge such as writing SQL commands.
• Good Exposure to VB Script, Java Script, Java and C programming languages.
• Excellent organization and time management skills, strong experience working without supervision under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinker with effective research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving and relationship building skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB Scripts, CORE JAVA, XML, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, HP QTP, Selinium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium GRID, RALLY

MS Office: MS Word, MS Excel

Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 2008/XP, Windows 2010, Unix, Linux

Database: ORACLE, SQL SERVER, MYSQL.

Defect Management: Bugzilla, Bug Tracker

Other Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, MS Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Indiana

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Manualapplication testing and analyze and interpret complex requirements, prepare effort estimation and draft test plan document for the stakeholders
• Tested the functionality and usability of web applications on different testing environments throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Experienced in writing Test Plans, Test Estimation, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reports and Defect Metrics.
• Identified Risk analysis, TestingEstimation and Resource identification.
• Responsible for preparing Test Strategy document and share it with project Management and prepared Test Cases based on the Requirements covering.
• Helped Development Team in Unit Test cases and Integration Testing and validated Multi browser Testing to identify browser behavior on IE, Mozilla and Chrome.
• Coordinated with Nonfunctional Testing services as Performance Testing and Security Testing.
• Early identification of defects to improve the quality of Testing and product.
• Log and keep track of all Defects in Quality Center and prepared Traceability Matrix and authored test scenarios.
• Skilled in bug reporting and tracking using HP Quality Center/ALM and JIRA.
• Logged defects via JIRA defect tracking tool and updated the same in defect traceability matrix.
• Documented defects discovered during testing and verified that all defects were fixed before final delivery.
• Wrote final Test reports summarizing the testing process and results which confirmed the delivery of a high quality product.
• Interfaced with developers to solve software problems.
• Worked closely with the Team to identify the Gaps in the project and intimate to Business and Development team.
• Ensured all the deliverables attain maximum quality and have to provide excellent support until the closing of the project.
• Participated in client meetings and Scrum meetings to discuss the issues found while Testing and Status reporting Every day.
• Coordinated with customer support to prioritize and process customer bug issues through the development process.

Environment: Windows, Quality Center, MS SQL server, MS Word, MS Excel, JIRA, RALLY, Agile.

Confidential, Texas

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in understanding and analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and Maintenance of Test Requirement.
• Well acquainted with all phases of SDLC and STLC.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirements and design documents.
• Extensively used JIRA for Test planning, Bug tracking and Reporting.
• Reviewed Unit Test results and performed Smoke Test to decide credibility of the build in order to initiate Manual Testing and Regression.
• Conducted Functional and Regression Tests and interacted with developers to fix defects and resolve application user interface inconsistencies.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression and UAT during the various phases of the application.
• Developed complex SQL queries to test the database values for data integrity.
• Analyzed user requirements and attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Involved in business requirements, users requests and bug Scrubs meetings.
• Wrote Test cases and Test scripts for the functionality Testing.
• Performed End-to-End manually and involved in Regression Testing.
• Involved in RTM preparation.
• Conducted Black box testing, Smoke testing, Screen Validation testing, Data driven testing, Positive & Negative testing, System testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, Functional testing and Integration testing.
• Performed Unit testing before executing Test scripts, Smoke testing to validate critical functionalities of the System and GUI testing.
• Involved in Test Estimations and Test Strategy implementation.
• Prepared weekly and monthly Reports.
• Good written, communication, interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical mind bent to problem solving and delivering solutions.

Environment: Manual Testing, White Box and Black Box, Microsoft Excel.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementing each phase of SDLC and Coordinated in Test environment setup.
• Interacted with client for requirement gathering and analysis and for studying the existing system.
• Analyzed business and technical requirements, developing strategic Test Plans, Test Cases and TestScripts and responsible for executing the Test Cases, Test Scripts using HP Quality Center.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Integration, Functional, Regression, Data Integrity, System, Compatibility installation and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Involved in Functional, Black box, Usability and Regression Testing for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and SIT (System Integration Testing).
• Maintained meetings with the technical teams and management, developed proper documentation, validate current production environment.
• Involved in development, execution, and improvement of Testing processes.
• Performed functional Testingby deployment request, Sanity Testing, prioritized QA Test Cases within project plan.
• Responsible for checking user authorization and login and reports for the site and involved in automate testing using QTP.
• Involved in back end Testing using SQL Queries and communicated bugs status well to across all engineering teams.
• Performed Defect Root Cause Analysis, interacted with related Team, maintained, executed test cases and tracked defects in a Quality Center.
• Uploaded the test cases from Excel to Quality center and checked the responsibilities of the agent including complete testing of views and screens.
• Defined tests case scenarios for all conditions and include the input, the required user actions, and the expected results. Performed exception handling using recovery scenarios.
• Prepared Status Reports Every Week, which includes Revision History, Test case status, Defect metrics, QA Issues and Defects.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server, Root Cases, Test Cases, Test Plans, Windows7/XP, MS Office Suite, XML, HTML, Java Script.

Confidential

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement document.
• Good knowledge in testing Web based and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Designed and Executed the Test cases and Reported the bugs.
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid and Invalid inputs for positive and negative testing.
• Communicated with Functional analyst on any issue clarification.
• Prepared defect Report as per severity and priority Active participation in Bug Traige meeting.
• Modified the Test and conducted Regression Testing.
• Experienced in problem solving ability and analytical skills including Root cause analysis to solve real time problem efficiently.
• Created Test Cases and mapped Test Cases to Requirements in Quality Center.
• Regression Testing was performed on every build of the application.
• Involved in Compatibility Testing.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL in order to check the Data Validation and Data Integrity.
• Participated in Test closure activities.
• Reported the Test Results and Documentation.
• Involved in Defect Management such as Defect Creation, Defects Review, Defect Retesting and Defect Closing.
• Interacted with business people and developers to exchange the updated status and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed Test cases.
• Reported the Coverage status of Test performed on the daily and weekly basis.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, Ms Excel, Ms Word, SIT Testing, SQL.