Quality Assurance Testing

ABU ISLAM

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SUMMARY

• Seeking a QA Analyst, Software Test Engineer position. Six (6) years of experience on Software Quality Assurance engineering.

• Extensive experience in Testing of Web based Applications and Client Server Applications.

• Extensive knowledge in Quality Assurance methodologies, strategies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Extensive knowledge and working experience in Agile methodology.

• Knowledge of Testing standards and Methodologies like Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

• Experienced in managing technical team on large and complex projects, setting up QA environment and infrastructure, defining the software quality strategy, directing QA activities, leading and mentoring junior QA staff.

• Tested applications manually and also used automated tools for testing the integration and implementation of large-scale systems for Internet and Intranet based applications.

• Performed various types of testing including functional, integration, system, performance, load, smoke, end-to-end and black-box testing.

• Supported day-to-day operations like applying updates and fixes, analyzing production support issues.

• Substantial experience in writing and executing Test Cases and Test Scripts, mentoring customer's staff, working with overall team to meet project goals.

• Extensively involved in tracking the defects, preparing defect report, defect analysis and consolidating daily/weekly reports using tools like TestDirector/Quality Center.

• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA test strategy plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server and Web based applications with HP test suite (Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quality Center and Test Director) and Manual Testing (Black Box testing).

• Technically resourceful in different types of testing such as Functional/Positive/Negative/Regression/ Integration/ Black box/ Volume/ Load/ Performance/ System testing/ User Acceptance/ End-to-End Testing/508 compliance Testing.

• Proven expertise in the review, design, development, and implementation of a quality assurance infrastructure.

• Extensive experienced in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements and writing detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts and Test matrix.

• Knowledge of EDI transaction sets 837 I/P, 275/276, 834 etc.

• Experienced in both manual and automated testing of web-based and client/server applications.

• Excellent sense of time and product quality. Ability to handle multiple tasks, work under pressure and get things done. Exceptionally efficient and reliable with excellent communication verbal and written skills.

• Working and extensive knowledge of TSO

• Working and extensive knowledge of CA7

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools : WinRunner,LoadRunner,QuickTest Professtionl, Quality Center,Jaws,SoupUI.

Scripting Tools: TSL, VB Script, Java Script.

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X,

Database: MySQL, SQL Server 2000, SQL Developer,Toad,Oracle, MS Access 2003

Application Server: BEA WebLogic, Sun application server, IBM WebSphere

Web Servers: Microsoft IIS, Apache, PHP, ASP, Sun Java system Web Server

Languages: Java, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, XHTML

Version Managers: Visual SourceSafe, CVS, PVCS, StarTeam

Utilities: MS Word,MS Excel,MS PowerPoint,MS Access,MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kaiser Permanente, Silver Spring, MD Jan 2010-Present

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete Testing life cycle including, writing test plan, test cases, collecting test data for various projects and documenting test results.

• Created test plans for integrated system test. Assisted the Quality Assurance team in creating the test environment.

• Prepared Test Plan from FRD and Test Scenarios supporting the testing procedures by sign-offs with business analysts and project managers.

• Extensively used SQL Analyzer to perform database testing.

• Participated in test environment setup for application testing.

• Performed GUI testing, user integration testing, regression testing, system testing and UAT testing.

• Learned several internal tools in short time and worked on multiple tasks at same time.

• Created test logs and documenting test Summary using bug tracking systems (Quality Center/ TestDirector) and sent them to developers.

• Performed regression testing on web-based application.

• Generated VB test Scripts using QTP for some of the applications.

• Master Object Repository was maintained in the central repository and changes are made to it for every version.

• Created QTP advance automation scripts using descriptive programming, modular approach, custom functions for Regression testing.

• Developed automated test Frameworks in QTP and enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions to check the different functionality of the application.

• Wrote VB Script to specify a test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and controls of the application under test.

• Create and manage the Recovery Scenarios.

• Volume and stress testing were performed using LoadRunner.

• Responsible for developing Test scripts using Loadrunner.

• Used Controller to perform Load Test, Longevity test and Stress Test.

• The Average CPU usage, Response time, TPS are analyzed for each scenario.

• Performed production testing and mini regression for production testing.

• Participated in regular sessions and team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing and interacted with developers and project managers to deal with any issues found during testing.

Environment: Java Applets, JSP Servlets and EJB’s on application server side based on J2EE framework, VBScript, XML, Oracle, Mainframe, SQL, Windows, UML, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center, SoupUI, Agile mathodology

Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA July 2008 – Dec 2009

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification documents to prepare Test Cases based on the Test Plans.

• Interacted with client teams.

• Create and execute test cases and scripts in quality center for the functional, integration, and reports testing.

• Used Quality Center for generating Requirements, Test Sets, and Test Plan and for reporting defects.

• Exported Test Requirements and Test Cases from Excel and Word to Quality Center

• Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center and coordinated meetings with developers and business analysts to prioritize the bugs.

• Experienced in managing the Bug Tracking tool for retrieving different status of the bugs/issues.

• Performed integration testing using different methods.

• Involved in developing Integration Test Plans, System Test Plans and Performance Test Plans for the applications.

• Responsibilities include Manual, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, System, GUI, Performance, Stress and Load testing of the system.

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases were designed based on Requirements in Quality Center.

• Worked with Quick Test Professional (QTP) for Automation of Test Cases and for Record, Playback, worked with Check Points etc.

• Done functional and regression testing by using Quick Test Professional (QTP).

• Done Data Driven test using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test application for various set of records.

• Performed Regression testing by using Standard and Bitmap checkpoints.

• Used LoadRunner for Performance Testing, Stress Testing.

• Created VUser Scripts in Virtual User Generator (VuGen) as per the business requirement and created various scenarios using controller in LoadRunner.

• Created the scenarios by using Controller component in LoadRunner.

• Analyzed the results to find the bottlenecks by using Analysis Component in LoadRunner.

• Used SQL and PL/SQL queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.

Environment: J2EE, Windows, UNIX, XML, Lotus Notes, Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, TestDirector.

Sprint, Reston, VA April 2006 – June 2008

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in analyzing the user/business requirements, functional specifications and use case documents to create the Test Plans and Test cases for System testing.

• Developed Test Cases using Use case diagrams.

• Written Manual Test cases in Quality Center and executed the test cases.

• Performed manual testing to check the flow of the application

• Designed project and strategy plans, reverse engineer requirements and design use cases, user stories and test cases.

• Developed and implemented test strategies, test plans, standards and processes.

• Developed test cases and collaborated in the development of automated testing scripts for our products.

• Reviewed the improvement of quality assurance methodologies on testing processes.

• Worked alongside development teams to verify application functionality, usability, and scalability.

• Assisted application owners with regression testing, script testing, user acceptance testing and test architecture support.

• Developed and maintained reusable test case libraries to help build streamlined and efficient development/testing processes

• Modified Test cases when changes in the application on new build using TestDirector.

• Developed automated test scripts using WinRunner to perform functional and Regression testing.

• Conducted Database testing, passing SQL queries to the Oracle.

• Participated in QA Team meetings and walkthroughs or weekly QA testing reviews

• Tracked defects and change requests were submitted using TestDirector.

• Identified defects and interacted with developers to resolve the issues.

• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using QTP.

• Generated, analyzed, and published LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.

• Performed Stress Testing, Load Testing, and Stability Testing using LoadRunner.

• Conducted functional tests and executed test cases to validate the ad hoc reporting/ Querying features.

Environment: Java, JSP, Java script, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL, TestDirector, Windows, Unix, QTP, Loadrunner.

EDUCATION:

• Masters of Science

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