Quality Assurance Test

STATUS: US CITIZEN

SUMMARY

In-depth understanding of the software development life-cycle process (SDLC) and the effective integration of the quality assurance life-cycle.

Professional experience in Integration, Functional, Validation, Regression, System Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Black Box, Back-end and Front-end Testing.

Professional experienced in developing test plans, test cases, test procedures and execution of application using both Manual, Automated-testing tools.

Excellent skills in utilizing Quality Center to develop test plans and scripts.

Experienced in Using Test Director/Quality Center extensively for establishing Traceability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and Reporting. Also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

Experience with Project Management Software.

Strong experienced in developing automated test scripts using WinRunner, QTP for functional & regression testing of the application.

Expertise in recording context sensitive and analog mode, configuring and modifying GUI maps for script changes.

Strong experience in VB Script for custom code development for test scripts, and executing test scripts for multiple data sets using data driven test/Data Pools.

Experienced in data analysis and data validation by leveraging of SQL scripts/stored procedures.

Verification of data stored in the Database (ORACLE) using TOAD.

Ability to trace root-cause analysis from various documents and resources and to generate analysis report.

Expert designing and create manual test cases and test plans from project requirements and use cases.

Meticulous attention to detail with all phases of testing including data preparation, test case design, test execution and analysis of test results.

Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background and good interpersonal skills.

Solid understanding of web based software solutions, software test strategy, and software testing tools.

Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts.

Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail.

Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

Developed and maintained Maritime Emergency Contact List database.

Developed and edited ships security plan. Creating Power Point presentation, Creating and upkeep of spreadsheets, etc..

Invoicing/tracking of accounts receivable/payable.

Prepared, maintained, reconciled and distributed related reports.

Communicated user support needs throughout corporation with strong analytical skills, oral and written communication skills.

Client relations

Installing PC applications and giving hardware support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: V-model, Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.

Test Management Tools: QTP, LoadRunner, UFT, ALM QA/Quality Center and Test Director.

Tools/Applications: MS Office, UML, Adobe Acrobat, MS Visio and MS Project.

Technologies: VB.Net, ADO.NET, SOAP, Java, J2EE, SQL, IIS, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, JSP, ASP, JavaScript and VBScript.

Web Designing: Dreamweaver CS5, Front Page, PhotoShop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash

CS5, PHP and MySql.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, MS Access and DB2.

Browsers & Servers: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Apache Tomcat and Web Logic.

Operating Systems: Windows: 7, 10, 2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux, and DOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Export-Import Bank of US, Washington, DC QA Analyst Aug 2013 – Present

Responsibilities:

Thoroughly learned all of business processes in order to support testing of applications without complete requirements documentation.

Reviewed Business Requirement Specifications, prepared Review Report Documents (RRD) and sent it for walkthrough.

Represented the quality function in an Agile Development environment based on a Scrum Framework through the application of sound quality principles.

Developed and maintained quality assurance standards and procedures throughout SDLC

Analyzed business requirements and prepared Test plan and Test cases using Standards Testing methodology.

Involved in the specification reviews, test planning, test case development, executing the test, and reporting bugs.

Contribute to QA process improvement; maximize the test coverage and improve testing efficiency.

Worked on software verification and validation.

Reported defects/problems into Quality Center and document steps required to analyze and resolve the defects.

Performed Integration Testing, Back and Front-end testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.

Created various checkpoints, synchronization point (local and global) to execute testing for constant or parameterized data table.

Collected Test metrics including Tests run, Test passed, Tests failed, Tests deferred and Tests passed the first time.

Created queries, charts and reports in Quality Center and made them available to all the users.

Issued PRs upon detection of bugs. PR includes the type of error, the subsystem the error is related, the severity and a short description of the error.

Best Buy, Richmond, VA Quality Assurance Engineer Oct 2011 – July 2013

Responsibilities:

Thoroughly learned all of business processes in order to support testing of applications without complete requirements documentation.

Represented the quality function in an Agile Development environment based on a Scrum Framework through the application of sound quality principles.

Developed and maintained quality assurance standards and procedures throughout SDLC

Analyzed business requirements and prepared Test plan and Test cases using Standards Testing methodology.

Involved in the specification reviews, test planning, test case development, executing the test, and reporting bugs.

Contribute to QA process improvement; maximize the test coverage and improve testing efficiency.

Worked on software verification and validation.

Reported defects/problems into Quality Center and document steps required to analyze and resolve the defects.

Analyzed the logs for various web applications in Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris etc.

Performed the Backend Testing, which was oracle, by developing and executing PL/SQL queries.

Modified and created SQL queries and stored procedures for quality assurance and analysis.

Tested and supported online web Transactions with various browsers and Tested the application compatibility in the Versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers and deposit application system changes. Tests and supports system conversions.

Involved in Back End testing by extracting flat files from oracle server, which were generated by batch process to verify Data against Expected results.

Worked as a key member of the team to develop and implement an automated testing strategy.

Participated in the design, development and implementation of a comprehensive test automation framework based on QTP.

Worked on writing/executing the test scripts using VB script in QTP.

Developed QTP VB script scripts for various functions to insert various checkpoints.

Developed automated test scripts using QTP for Regression Testing.

Involved/Analyzed/Configured Scripts in load/performance/stress testing of the application using HP Load Runner.

Executed different scenarios like compatibility and scalability and load test to identify bottlenecks on every component of the system.

Involved in measure network and server response time, excluding response time of the GUI front-end, by running DB Users on the client machine.

Generated reports for transaction response time for individual and group of Vusers.

Presented System response graphs for CPU utilization, Database, Web Server hits per second, transaction response time and Vuser response to the management.

Performed the load test, performance test and volume test With the LoadRunner.

Logged the traced defects and analyzed the defects in Quality Center.

Followed through with Incident resolution and re-testing processes.

Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.

Worked closely with the software developers and project managers to coordinate testing efforts and techniques to assure quality releases.

Reviewed product releases to finds holes in features or problems with the integration of multiple features.

Wrote User Manual documents for end-users which got posted as a link inside the web application to help teach users how to use release features.

Kaiser Permanente, Silver Spring, MD Test Engineer July 2010 – Sept 2011

Responsibilities:

Assisted the successful completion of software projects by executing on software quality activities throughout the software development life cycle

Collaborated with engineering and development teams to design, develop and execute testing plans to thoroughly exercise new application products and features

Participated in coordinating test plans with engineering, development and customer facing teams to reconcile dependencies and provide a coordinated release cycle

Worked with QA Lead to ensure that any client-specific business rules were applied correctly

Helped design and implement testing framework

Provided feedback on product design, identified user scenarios, established quality criteria, tracked code coverage, and worked with other test and development teams

Interfaced heavily with Product Management, Business Analysts, QA Team Members, Developers and Development Managers to coordinate all performance testing efforts

Designed, developed and maintained automated testing framework that executes and reports on test suites performed across multiple components and platforms

Built new methods to minimize manual testing by developing testing tools to exercise various components in all application products

Assured product design and performance, conform to product requirements and specifications

Performed functional, usability, platform compatibility, and stress testing for company's applications

Wrote automated scripts to perform basic variable checks, stress tests and performance tests

Managed and tracked Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects using TestDirector

Performed keyword driven testing, data driven testing and sanity, regression testing with Quick Test Professional

Performed CRUD operations and verified ACID properties with the SQL queries on databases

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Visual Basic, SQL Server, ASP.NET, VBScript, VBA, J2EE, HTML, IIS, XML, HTML, COM/DCOM, JAVA.

Reference: Available upon request.

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