SUMMARY:

• Over 7 of experience in Quality Assurance and software testing
• Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box testing and Back End testing
• Experience in the Testing Life Cycle - phases include: Risk Analysis, Planning Process, Test Design, Performing Test, Defect Tracking and Management and Test Reporting.
• Involved in interacting with the Business Analysts in order to write Test Strategies and Test Plans.
• Experience in gathering requirements, developing test plans, test cases (manual/Automated), test procedures, test scripts and analyzing results.
• Experience in conducting Integration, Functional, System, UI, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and improvement of QA Process.
• Tracking and reporting defects through Test Track which facilitates work flow issues and help resolving technical issues with developers
• Experience in Automation tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT and HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Strong Expertise in Black box testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Reports using Tools like HP Quality Center, Jira, and Rally.
• Well versed in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience using SQL, PL/SQL in generating the Test Data from the various Databases.
• Strong knowledge and experience in testing SQL and RDBMS concepts, worked with SQL Server, Oracle, Mysql.
• Strong knowledge and experience in testing Agile PLM tool.
• Strong knowledge of identifying various test scenarios in accordance with functional requirement documents, design documents and Use cases.
• Involved in organizing different meetings, namely Test Plan Review Meeting, Test Data Requirement Meeting & Test Case Review Meeting.
• Good knowledge in testing Functionality, compatibility, reliability, performance of variety of PLM tools
• Extensively involved in functional & regression testing on Web Applications.
• Backend testing on Crystal Reports using Oracle.
• Automation tool knowledge includes working with QTP.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, UNIX, iOS, Android

Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

Testing tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, QTP/UFT, Web services, Soap UI, Jaws

Other: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Specification and developed Test plan, Test scripts and Regression Test plan
• Responsible for complete End-to-End/User Acceptance testing activities.
• Involved in analyzing System Requirement specifications, Design, Development and Execution of Test cases for Manual and automated testing.
• Attended Daily Stand Up meetings and provided QA status updates on different user stories.
• Attended Sprint planning sessions, User story grooming sessions and Retrospective meetings in a rapid and effective Agile atmosphere.
• Developed Test cases in Quality Center and executed the test cases in Test Lab module of HP ALM.
• Tested by giving input to the SOAP request through SOAP UI and InfoPath tool and validated the responses by executing queries against the database.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC.
• Analyzed application requirements and entered requirements into HP ALM.
• Executed the existing UFT scripts and analyzing the results.
• Determined the scope on multiple User Stories, provided estimates.
• Used HP ALM and JIRA for reserving, executing test cases, defect tracking, and the complete test management.
• Performed Backend Testing by Executing SQL Queries against Oracle and SQL database.
• Responsible for overseeing both Automated and Manual Quality Assurance team; setting goals, objectives, daily reporting and assignments.
• Run SQL queries to performed database validation according to the business logic
• Prepared Traceability Matrix for the Test Cases to track Business Requirement changes.
• Involved in Functional, System and Regression testing for every cycle.
• Used UFT for Regression testing of the application to make sure the submission and approval process of the adding/changing products, checkout and payment as intended.
• Expertise in web testing and browser compatibility testing across multiple browsers.
• Developed Test plan, Test strategies and Test cases for payment methods.
• Performed extensive database testing to verify the results generated by the batch applications. Written SQL queries using TOAD to validate the data from different tables.
• Involved in Comparison testing and Adhoc testing
• Actively involved in production support and performed post-production verification after every release.

Environment: Quality center/ALM, JIRA, QTP, Agile environment, Unix, Soap UI, Windows 7, VBScript, Java, Oracle, TOAD, SQL/PL SQL, XML

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. QA Analyst

• Develop test plans, test cases and test scripts for web site verification.
• Develop test scripts and test software, for iterative and incremental software development efforts.
• Document test results and provide test progress/reports that is used in assessing the completeness of the development effort.
• Working closely with the development team to ensure all relevant and agreed upon aspects of the application are tested.
• Provide scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented for testing and analysis.
• Participated in peer reviews for requirements
• Involved deploying code to Production environment
• Analyzed, reported and tracked defects through Quality Center.
• Involved to create function Libraries using VB Script and load them as Resource Files.
• Section 508 compliance testing using JAWS and Wave
• Developed Positive and Negative test cases and executed manual test cases using Quality Center.
• Identify and manage issues/defects for each development project.
• Provide test status and progress reports to the project team.
• Uploading Manual Test cases from Excel to HP ALM, creating test plan, mapping test lab, running test (Manual/Automation), running regression, logging defects, create analysis report for manager.

Environment: HP ALM (Quality Center), Jira, JS, CMS, CSS, HTML, XML, Windows, Screen Readers (Chromevox & JAWS), WA Toolbars (For IE, & Wave tool bar for Firefox)

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Analyst

• Involved in understanding the business related Information for Project.
• Experience in understanding the Technical and Functional design specification for Clients.
• Worked very closely with the Business Analysts in order to meet the dead-lines.
• Written test cases based on the business use cases provided.
• Reviewed test results and to modify test cases if necessary.
• Executed Smoke, Functional and Regression test cases manually.
• Executed Regression and Smoke test scripts using the automation tool QTP on weekly and client builds.
• Participated in QA reviews during various phases of SDLC.
• Created defects in QC for tracking.
• Monitored and Generated Test Reports for client requests.
• Reported the Daily, Weekly and Monthly status of the team.

Environment: Agile, Quality Center, Agile Web Client, Load Runner, Oracle 11g, UNIX

Confidential, Norwood,NC

QA Tester

• Involved in gathering requirements and analysis of other business applications.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Created Test Cases in Quality Center and RTM and mapped Test Cases to Requirements in RTM.
• Developed Tractability Matrix and Test Coverage reports.
• Used Agile Methodology throughout the process of testing in various environments and phases of the application development.
• Generated Test data for various types of testing to valid data
• Performed Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing and UAT testing.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Created and tracked the defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.
• Performed validation of the test cases to ensure that all the requirements were being satisfactorily met.
• Debugged problems by analyzing log files.
• Validated Client User Interfaces.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP developed automation scripts for manual test Plans
• Performed Back end testing by writing SQL statements using SQL Plus and TOAD to check MDM data.
• Tested web services using Soup UI tool.
• Extensively used Unix Operating System, File System, and Commands for testing.
• Ran different kinds of scenarios on Unix Platform.
• Executing manually and planning for automation of various modules in the application
• Interacted with developers, Business Management Teams and End Users.
• Participated in regular project status meetings related to testing.
• Responsible for client interaction and reporting during user acceptance testing.

Environment: Manual/Automation, Windows XP, .Net, Oracle, SQL Server 2008, Toad, Quality Center, QTP, Unix, Shell Script