QA Engineer

SUBRATA PAUL

*** ***** ******, ********, ** *****

E-mail: **********@*****.***

Phone: 1-646-***-****

SUMMARY:

• More than 4 years of Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Automation Frameworks.

• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - interpret requirements, write test scenario, build test

cases, validate and interpret results.

• Experienced in analyzing business requirements and writing detailed test plans, scenarios and test cases.

• Extensively experienced in Software Quality Assurance - performing Manual and Automated Software Testing,

writing Test plans and Test cases using various Automation Tools.

• Expert in performing Functionality Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Black Box

Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Ad-Hoc Testing.

• Specialist in Test Plan formulation and Test Script design and execution using various structured testing

procedures, exporting the Test Cases from MS Word/MS Excel to ALM/Quality Center/Test director.

• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for reporting and tracking bugs, and maintain reports on resolved bugs.

• Experienced in Back-end testing, data validation and data integrity testing using SQL queries.

• Experienced in using VB Script as a programming language.

• Experienced in creating, enhancing and maintaining test scripts for various functional and regression testing using

QTP and VBScript.

• Experienced in developing descriptive programming, custom function, function library, recovery scenario using

VB Script in Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/ QuickTest Professional (QTP).

• Experienced in executing data driven GUI, automated functionality and regression scripts using Unified Functional

Testing (UFT)/ QuickTest Professional (QTP).

• Experienced in executing and maintaining Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Framework using UFT/ QTP.

• Familiar with Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

• Worked with off-shore team as QA Coordinator.

• Ability to communicate and interact with team members and customers with ease and professionalism.

EXPERIENCE:

The New York Times Company, New York, NY

Automation Test Engineer

Dec 2012 – Present

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirement documentation and analyzed the user requirement specifications and designed the Test Plan

and Test cases.

• Involved in performing QA Activities across multiple projects and releases, creating test plans, test cases, and test

metrics.

• Involved in analyzing of functional requirements of the website.

• Developed automated test scripts for functionality specification to ensure bug free performance.

• Tested both web-based and client-server applications.

• Responsible for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance

Testing.

• Used ALM/Quality Center for communication with the production persons, developers and team members.

• Generated detailed bug reports and test metrics (pass-fail report, comparison chart) using ALM/Quality Center.

• Used SQL to query the DB and created/modified SQL scripts to validate backend data.

• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven, and GUI verification by using

Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/ QuickTest Professional (QTP).

• Identified the defects through UFT/ QTP and ensured that business processes deliver the expected results and

remain reliable throughout the production release.

• Designed and developed automated test scripts using VBScript.

• Performed regression tests and analyzed test results using UFT/ QTP.

• Used UFT/ QTP to record, execute and analyze various automated test scenarios.

• Developed custom functions, reusable actions, and optional steps using VBScript; and also created a Hybrid

Framework in UFT/ QTP.

• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Used Jenkins for continuous integration.

• Maintained high customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality, timely, and thorough solutions to

customer problems.

Progressive, Cleveland, OH

QA Engineer

July 2011 – Nov 2012

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, reviewing functional specification documents against business requirement documents of

reports.

• Developed Test plan documents with web based Test cases.

• Customized Quality Center for Users, Projects, and Applications and Create Public Reports.

• Created Groups in Quality Center for customization; Wrote scripts in Quality center for Script Work Flow to

update field's value in Defects.

• Used Quality Center to Defect track and resolve production logs.

• Customized tests and test scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP) using VBScript.

• Wrote all the scripts in QTP by calling function files.

• Wrote Scripts by using excel sheets as data table for QTP.

• Involved in Regression testing using QTP scripts after updating the application with new features.

• Involved in running and maintaining a Hybrid Framework to automate the system testing using QTP.

• Participated in meetings with the Development teams for appropriate handling of the bugs and their timely

resolution.

SallieMae, Reston, VA

Software Tester

July 2010 – June 2011

Responsibilities:

• Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and UAT.

• Used QTP and Quality Center to create, manage and execute test sets.

• Involved in developing detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts using Quality Center for Functional, Security

and Regression Testing.

• Used Quality Center to track and report system defects and bug fixes.

• Wrote modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track and resolve the

problems.

• Responsible for creating and filing bugs using Quality Center.

• Coordinated meetings with the Development teams for appropriate handling of the bugs and their timely

resolution.

• Involved in data mapping of the project requirements, queried the database using SQL queries for data mining,

data analysis and data modeling.

• Extracted data from different department to flat files and load the data to the target Oracle and SQL server

database.

• Created Test input requirements and prepared the test data and test scripts in QTP for data driven testing.

• Developed automated test scripts in QTP to expedite regression testing.

• Prepared weekly project condition report to the project manager.

• Responsible for preparing and sending the deliverables like weekly status reports to the QA managers and project

lead.

• Planned and worked flexibly to meet the deadlines.

EDUCATION:

Masters of Business Administration, Victoria University, Australia

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools : HP ALM/ Quality Center, TestDirector, UFT/QTP, Jenkins

QA Methodologies : Waterfall and Agile

Databases : MS SQL Server, MS Access

VBScript, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, HTML

Languages :

Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX/Linux

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