Karan Kumar
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Phone: 347-***-****
PROFILE SUMMARY:
6+ years of professional IT experience in Software Testing.
Experienced in developing solid Test documentation including Test plans, Test suites, Test cases, and Test matrices.
Proficient in creating and designing Master Test Strategy Documents, Master Test Plan, and Test schedules Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scenarios.
Proficient in writing Test Scenarios, Functional and Integration Test cases, Reviewing Test cases and Estimating Test cases execution.
Experienced in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Ability to apply technical expertise to organize and implement Gray box and black-box test.
Experienced in setting up Test environment for automation and database.
Strong Knowledge in performing Smoke, integration, Functional, Regression, System, Acceptance and Usability Testing during different stages of the application development.
Extensively experienced in managing defect life cycle using HP ALM/ Quality Center.
Proficient in overall Defect Management/Problem solving including tracking bugs and reporting using HP ALM/Quality Center.
Expert in writing both SQL and PL/SQL query for Back-end testing.
Experienced in Manual testing, Automation with HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
Strong VBScript skills, Expert in writing automation test scripts inside or outside QTP/UFT environment using VBScript.
Experienced in using Checkpoints, Regular Expression, Recovery Scenario, Object Repository, Descriptive programming and Keyword Driven, Data Driven Test Scripts in QTP/UFT to perform functional and regression testing.
Experienced in developing master driver scripts for Hybrid framework using VBScript.
Familiarity in creating Architecture design and Automation Framework (Hybrid Framework) for automation suite, which involves Test Data, Reusable Function library and Core classes using UFT/QTP.
Experienced in Soap UI tool and QTP/UFT API testing module.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
Significant experience in business analysis and validation of business processes.
Experienced in consolidating the test report from all team members and reporting the same to the manager.
EDUCATION:
Pace University, One Pace Plaza, NY, NY
SKILL SET:
Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, SOAP UI, HP Quick Test Pro, HP ALM, HP UFT, JIRA
Operating System: Windows, Unix/Linux
Requirement Gathering Tools:
Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio
Programming Language: C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, JavaScript
Data Base: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Capital One, Manhasset, NY
QA Analyst
May, 2015 – Present
Responsibilities:
Created detail Test cases for each test phase to ensure complete coverage.
Participated in creating and reviewing Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases.
Configured test environment for specific Test cases, created Test data.
Worked with development teams to invest and correct software bugs and deficiencies based on testing results and involved in defect tracking and resolving production logs.
Performed Positive and Negative data testing and Boundary testing.
Performed System, Back-end, GUI, Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
Wrote Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts as per functional, Business requirements using HP ALM.
Performed the Automation testing for Functionality and GUI testing using HP ALM.
Defected were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using HP ALM.
Managed the testing process using HP ALM to manage the requirements and test cases and had a clear traceability between them.
Used HP ALM for defect reporting and tracking and prioritizing defects and enhancement requests after base lining the requirements.
Worked with SQL Queries to query the database to test the back end process of the application.
Used SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
Used Unified Functional Testing to test the functionality of the application for executing Test cases and performing automated testing.
Used Unified Functional Testing for functional and regression testing of the application to make sure transactions and business processes work as intended and developed VB scripts
Created and maintained Shared Object Repositories to enable Unified Functional Testing to identify the various objects in the application.
Involved in User Acceptance Testing and prepared UAT Test Scripts.
Assisted business & marketing team in execution of UAT by providing data.
Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers
Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancements and modification request issues.
Maintained meetings with the technical teams and management, developed proper documentation, validated current production environment.
Environment: HP ALM, HP UFT, DB2, Unix, JQuery, MS Excel, VB Script, XML, C++, Java, .Net, Oracle, SQL Server, Toad, Windows.
DIRECTV, Segundo, CA
QA Engineer
July, 2012 – Apr, 2015
Responsibilities:
Involved in Project Test plan, Test cases based on software requirement specifications.
Involved in SQA Analysis, Design, and Testing of the application.
Involved in GUI, Validations, Flows and Activities designed using Java against backend data.
Documented Test cases corresponding to business and functional requirements manually.
Developed and executed end-to-end testing plans, regression and user acceptance test plans.
Performed different types of testing Functional, Regression, System, Back-end, UAT and Data Driven testing.
Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using Quality Center.
Developed and maintained detail Test cases, expected results and traced the Test cases to the requirements using Quality Center.
Conducted Regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using Quality Center.
Created SQL queries for validating the data in database.
Automated test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
Enhanced automation scripts to maximize test coverage and improved test efficiency in Data Driven Testing using QTP.
Performed regression testing for every modification in the application and new builds using QTP.
Customized summary reports and generated defect reports, weekly reports.
Participated in design enhancement reviews.
Submitted reports on the progress of the testing effort.
Attended weekly review meetings to discuss defects along with testers, and developers.
Environment: MS Excel, QTP, HP Quality Center, Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, VB script, J2EE, Oracle, MS Office, Windows, UNIX.
UnitedHealth Group, Rocky Hill, CT
Software Tester
Mar, 2010 – Jun, 2012
Responsibilities:
Analyzed specification and created Test plan, Test data, Test cases, and Test scripts for functional and Regression testing.
Coordinated with the onsite QA team to work on design and develop the Test Strategies.
Conducted Regression Testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers.
Created traceability matrix between requirements and Test case for each round of testing using Quality Center.
Analyzed the Requirement Specifications and development of Test Cases using Quality Center; Conducted review of executed Test Scripts to ensure Quality Standards.
Checked the data flow through front-end and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
Performed Database Validation to check the updated data in the Database using Toad.
Verified the Database connection between Oracle and Small World data store.
Wrote structure code using VB Script in QTP to enhance the power of automated scripts to handle logical Test cases.
Enhanced QTP Scripts for every load to support new and existed functionality for the application for end to end and regression testing.
Used QTP to perform data driven testing and to parameterize data.
Developed a Hybrid Automation Framework and User Defined Functions Library with reusable VBScript functions using QTP.
Participated in walkthroughs and reviews with users, designers and developers establishing quality policy conformance.
Managed the testing team by delegate tasks to the team and tracking the same.
Environment: Toad, MS Office, MS Excel, Quality Center, QTP, Windows, UNIX, SQL, Java, J2EE, VBScript, VB.Net, HTML, XML.
References available upon request