SUMMARY:

• A proven self - motivated visionary and result-oriented Senior QA Analyst with versatile experience in a variety of projects and environments.
• Possesses experience in leading the project and manual software testing with UNIX, SQL, user-end support and development.
• Expert in designing and maintaining test-plan, designing test scripts, logging, tracking and reporting defect and managing the over-all testing.
• Solution-focused Quality Assurance (QA) professional with 2 years of progressively responsible experience involving full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), business requirement analysis, designing, developing and testing in Agile(Scrum) and Waterfall environments.
• Result-oriented leader with an extensive background coordinating major QA and UAT testing projects, participating in BRD/FRD reviews, interacting with different product teams, evaluating and issue resolving, establishing milestones and overseeing multidisciplinary team members.
• Possess a solid history of success in delivering projects ahead of schedule and under budget while dramatically improving the quality of products.
• Consistent track record of developing and implementing highly effective business process improvements, increasing overall efficiency and meeting or exceeding end user requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Utility tools: SharePoint, Clarity, Project Central, MS Office

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, iOS, Android

Languages: SQL, UNIX/Linux shell, VB scripting

Database / Database Tools: SQL Server, Oracle, MS SQL, SQL Developer

Test / Defect Management: JIRA, HP(Mercury) - ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, DE

UAT Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the business team to review the BRD, analyze the business scope and performed gap analysis.
• Participated in the scrum meetings; discussed testing roles and impacts from an agile perspective. Ensured that the testing coverage is valid and updated.
• Assessed the impacts on the applications - internal and external, maintained a record and channelized various front - end aspects.
• Developed and maintained a strong QA Test Plan inclusive of environment setup, various agile and waterfall milestones and dependencies including the entrance and exit criteria.
• Developed test cases using testing methodology with positive and negative test scenarios. Reviewed with the team and updated in accordance with the feedback and sought for approvals.
• Reviewed the Test Plan with team to gather the feedback, sent meeting minutes and updated to execute.
• Performed sanity testing with E2E testing to make sure code is acceptable for execution of test cases.
• Tracked and traced defects in Quality Center, followed up with team, retested and regression tested to make sure code is still strong and viable.
• Worked with the development team to create a suite of test data (both input files and expected results) that fully exercised data validation.
• Logged and identified defects if a test failed and used HP-ALM for tracking purposes and closed them once resolved. Also used SQL, if necessary, to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation by the development team and log accordingly.
• Followed up for all the gaps like requirements, installation and design and interacted with the cross functional team to work it out.
• Supported project teams to provide assurance that requirements, design, and other project deliverables meet standards, as appropriate.
• Facilitated test meetings with system, development staff and business throughout the test effort for deliverables reviews, test planning, and test execution.
• Responsible for updating the weekly status reports and sharing it with the rest of the team if necessary.
• Communicated with the off-shore project team on a daily basis when needed to provide test data, for feedbacks, discuss defects etc.
• Participated in staff meeting with the leadership to resolve daily issue like blocking defects, late code delivery, deferred defects, upcoming releases of the projects and change controls against changing requirements.
• Met timelines, maintained project and raid checklists and deliverables and provided weekly status updates along with participating in milestone reporting.
• Partnered up in the planning, design and execution of testing strategies and practices in order to meet the user acceptance testing requirements for the applications supported by all the teams. In the fast-paced dynamic environment, interacted with all project stakeholders throughout the SDLC and carried out post-project lessons learned meetings.
• Maintained all the testing artifacts and ensured that the project was always ready for internal audits by sharing them with the project team and getting approvals which also helped everyone to be on the same page.
• Regularly reviewed the latest and the greatest versions of the templates so as to make sure that the project was following the current artifacts and was up-to-date.
• Regularly attended the training sessions as a part of learning and development.

QA Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in E2E testing including system testing and QA testing in different releases along with test plan execution.
• Responsible for testing of various valid scenarios, test cases development, gap analysis, data validation (SQL), QA testing, coordinating onshore/offshore team, production support and launch, user interaction and support.
• Analyzed business requirements, identified high level functionalities, performed gap analysis, discussed that with the business analysts and reviewed the LOE of the project with project manager.
• Defined scope and the testing approach; created QA project plan, reviewed requirements and technical documentation for usage, testability and traceability.
• Interacted with the project team members to gain system understanding and to identify business, systems, and non-functional requirements.
• Managed the creation of test cases from the BRD, FRD, user stories, use-cases and other related artifacts.
• Tested both FE and database to validate calculations based on the different counties and their taxes and rules. Checked for Profit level indicator based on the county and comparing different companies.
• Assessed the risk to quality service based upon results of verification and validation. Monitored adherence to established testing standards and procedures. Followed standardized QA processes using Software Testing Methodologies and Process Improvement.
• Developed complicated SQL queries to validate and manipulate data for test cases to satisfy various test conditions; pre and post validation.
• Used Join, SQL clauses, operator, functions and sub-query to develop SQL scripts to test complicated scenarios.
• Built and maintained strong working knowledge of the business area(s) supported, their work processes and key success factors.
• Developed a good understanding of the relevant systems/applications in use in the area supported and their interrelation, if applicable.
• Managed and monitored defect reports and worked with developers and other project team members to verify resolution. Participated in the identification and resolution of defects uncovered during the testing process.
• Deep experience with agile methodology such as daily scrum meetings, sprint reviews, working off of agile user stories, JIRA stories etc.