SUMMARY:

• Around Eight years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and testing in Web applications, Web services and Client/Server applications.
• Experience in testing applications developed under Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in testing the applications through the different phases of SDLC.
• Experience in test requirement analysis, documenting test plans, writing and executing test scripts and delivering test summaries.
• Experience in manual and automated testing.
• Expertise in functional, exploratory, regression, integration, system, deployment and performance testing.
• Experience in documenting effective SOPs.
• Experience in testing SOX compliant and GXP validated systems.
• Experience in Data Validation using SQL.
• Experience in using Mercury Quality Center.
• Excellent verbal, written, analytical and team player skills.
• Experience in handling multiple projects by dynamically prioritizing given projects and effective allocation of the available resources.
• Experience in working along with Business Analysts with the gathering and documenting the requirements.
• Experience in documenting, analyzing the requirements and providing the feasibility reports to the business.
• Experience in mentoring offshore and associate level resources.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated product roadmap review and prioritization
• Requirement Analysis, Prepare test plan, test scenarios and test cases
• Develop and maintain project WIKI pages
• Designed and developed automated test scripts using SOAPUI orchestrating various SOAP and RESTful web services.
• Participated in testing various web and mobile applications built on variety of latest state - of-the-art technologies.
• Designed and executed automated test cases in a keyword driven framework using Selenium and Python scripting.
• SoapUI-Pro Application was used to do black box testing to call interfaces on SOAP based and RESTful Web Services.
• Executed SoapUI for preliminary smoke-test to validate the build
• Triggered automated (maven plugin calling SoapUI scripts) full-regression suite on validated build
• Worked with development team members in reviewing and designing test scripts to have maximum coverage.
• Worked with Product Owners in scrum team in validating and accepting user-stories.

Confidential

QA Analyst Level II

Responsibilities:

• Formed and effectively assisted in defining standard operating procedures for Quality Assurance division within the existing IS Department.
• Presented effective QA Test methodologies effectively to business users, IS staff and IS management.
• Owned the entire testing phase for given projects/IT solutions.
• Actively participated and contributed to document accurate business requirements.
• Mentored associates within the SQA team.
• Reviewed and contributed to effective Business requirements, Functional requirements and prepared overall Project Traceability Matrices.
• Developed and presented effective Test Plans, Test Cases and Scripts and Test Summaries to the business and the IS team.
• Worked and effectively coordinated with 3rd party software vendors and customers.
• Performed post production testing.
• Utilized Mfg/Pro (Progress based), Oracle 9.i, MS Access, .NET applications, SQL Query Analyzer, Sharepoint 2007

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system release requirements, functional and Design documents.
• Created detailed Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Summary Reports and Conducted test script walkthroughs to ensure testing coverage is adequate and test scenarios specifying the correct expected results.
• Prepared and maintained test cases in Test Director / Mercury Quality Center.
• Executed the test scenarios and verified test results in Test Director / Mercury Quality Center.
• Prepared Traceability Matrices using Test Director / Mercury Quality Center to make sure all the functional and Design requirements are coved under test scenarios.
• Performed Regression Testing of each module after performing functional / System testing.
• Involved in back end database testing (MS Access / Oracle) by writing SQL queries by using SQL Plus, Enterprise Manager.
• Involved in regression testing of Quest Application on multiple Operating Systems.
• Reviewed User Acceptance Test (UAT) test scenarios and partially involved in test execution phase.
• Reviewed issues found during UAT testing and analyzed the coverage in System testing scripts.
• Involved in the testing of Reports using Micro strategy and Cognos environments
• Generated status reports on a daily and weekly basis to communicate testing status using Rational Clear Quest.
• Developed and maintained scripts using SQL and to test whether data integrity and referential integrity were being met.
• Re-test bugs and perform Regression Testing via re-executing test scripts, and also worked with Developers and DBAs to resolve exceptions.
• Performed interface testing to verify data sharing rules of the system.
• Performed Remote Deployment Testing.
• Utilized SQL * Plus, Win Runner/ QTP, Test Director7.6/8.0, Mercury Quality Center 8.2, Rational Clear Quest, Documentum 4.3