SUMMARY:

• 7 years of hands on experience in the various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), analyzed functional documents for end users and experienced as a QA Tester in manual testing of eCommerce, Educational, Financial, Pharmaceutical and Banking Industries
• Experience in open systems and client - server environment using various testing methodologies and Quality Assurance tools.
• Experienced in creating and writing Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts and interacted with developers and Business Analyst to resolve the defects.
• Good Exposure in Functional testing, System testing, Integration, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Ad-hoc testing and UAT Testing.
• Key expertise includes testing and debugging GUI and Multi-Applications environment and automated testing using Quality Center, Test Director, WinRunner, Quick Test Pro, Windows and UNIX, Excel Environment.
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/ Problem Solving including tracking defects, reporting using Test Director and Task Developer System.
• Ability to handle project independently, detail oriented, a perfect Team member as well and self-motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile

Office productivity: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access, MS-PowerPoint

Bug tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Silk, HP-QC, TFS, HP-ALM.

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, WinRunner, Load Runner.

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Westchester, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Applications - Digital Shelf, eFollett, B2B, WOMS, SODA, OMS, Order Router Visibility.
• Reviewed the project requirements and the design.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases to cover Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Performance testing and Backend Testing.
• Conducted Test plan and test cases review sessions with the project team.
• Using ALM created and executed Test Scripts in Test Lab
• Used ALM defect module to open defect, track and update.
• Participated in UAT and end to end system testing
• Written SQL Queries and executed them using Toad.
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to the project team

Environment: HP-QC, HP-ALM, OMS Sterling, IE8, .Net, SQL, MS Excel.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Analyst for detailed understanding of Business requirements while writing the Test Cases.
• Implemented Software Quality Assurance (SQA) development policies, test procedures and testing methodologies.
• Involved in Creating the Test Plan and Test cases against BRD, FRD and Flow Charts.
• Modify test cases during development cycle as well as created and executed test cases for the web based cross-browser testing with emphasis on installation, GUI, compatibility, security
• Co-Authored the format of Test Scripts.
• Create and maintain the testing Project Schedule.
• Performed Backend/SQL Test for Insert, Update, and Functions.
• Performed various types of tests, such as User acceptance testing (UAT), Regression testing, transaction testing and navigational testing.
• Tested the correctness of generated reports, database printing capabilities and general usability.
• Work with Application Development staff and end users to validate enhancements and other application changes.
• Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues and interoperability flaws.
• Tracked, reviewed and analyzed Defects (Quality center) with the developers and had the bugs closed, reopened, or deferred.
• Worked closely with developers and the Business team to fully understand the scope and functionality of the proposed systems requirements.

Environment: Office 2000, SQL server, Internet Explorer, Windows NT, Quality CenterConfidential, Warren, N.J.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications and mock ups of financial to provide functional decomposition.
• Perform manual testing of a web based application
• Work in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Review product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing test strategy, test plan, test case documents and test data in Quality Center.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Proactively came up with innovative methods to improve software quality, test coverage, efficiency and regression coverage.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT).

Environment: HTML, SqlServer2000, Windows 2000/XP/NT/VISTA, SQL, Quality Center, MSOffice 2005/2008/2010, Agile(SDLC) methodology used.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understand requirements and generate feedback on business rules and other documents.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing and generated reports. Tested server and Web Portal.
• Analyzed application, system and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system and user acceptance testing.
• Manage large Regression Test Case Library.
• Ensure that the defects were logged and modified in JIRA.
• Worked on Complex projects with little or no Super Vision.
• Participated in weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.

Environment: Ms-Office, Share Point, Windows XP, Perl, SQL Server J2EE, Unix, .Net.