SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing. In depth knowledge of Software development life cycle, testing methodologies. Proficient in System, Functional and Regression testing of Client/Server and Web Based applications.
• Strong experience in developing Test Plans and Test cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach and testing Strategies.
• Experience in software analysis, Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Modeling, Configuration Management and Change Management.
• Exposed to all phases of Software Development Life Cycle
• Extensive experience in handling multiple types of projects like web application project, Mobilr App project and Backend projects.
• Extensive experience in handling multiple projects at a time with coordinating multiple teams.
• Extensive experience in White Box and Black Box testing and QA Methodologies.
• Attend the Product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on business rules, functional requirements, product designs and potential issues and and becom a valued, “go - to” team member on challenging test cases.
• Expert in Identifing the root cause of the potential bugs.
• Worked closely with Product Management and Development personnel to ensure testing is comprehensive.
• Experience in Mercury Tools like Quality Center/ALM, Quick Test Professional, Test Director WinRunner and Bugzilla.
• Reviewed the functional and operational specifications and prepared work plans for UAT.
• Performed Smoke testing, Navigation testing, Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, User Interface testing, Data Driven testing, Performance testing, Stress/Load testing, Configuration testing, Regression testing.
• Strong knowledge of identifying various test scenarios in accordance with functional requirement documents and Use cases. Experience in writing Traceability Matrix
• Executed Test Cases and verified actual result against expected results.
• Experience in checking different Database Objects like Tables, Views, Constraints, Procedures, Functions, Packages, Database Triggers, Sequences, and Indexes
• Extensive experience using SQL queries in Data validation and manipulation with databases like SQL server, Oracle.
• Extensive experience of testing REST services and APIs
• Experience in Mobile device testing with iOS and Android devices.
• Knowledge in UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Experience in reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills.
• Personal skills include Excellent Communication, strong sense of Organization and effective time management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently
• Soft skills include Leadership, Excellent Team Spirit, Inter-Personal skills, Problem Solving and Good Communication

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Mercury Tools (Test Director, Quality Center/ALM, QTP, Win Runner, SBM, PVCSTracker)

Operating System: UNIX, Windows NT / Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 & 8

Languages: C, VISUAL BASIC 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, JAVA

RDBMS: Oracle 8.1.6/8.1.7, SQL Server, MS-Access.

Web Technologies: HTML, ODBC, VBScript, and ASP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bethpage, NY

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the offshore and onsite teams and coordinating all testing activities on daily basis.
• Attend the Product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on business rules, functional requirements, product designs and potential issues and and becom a valued, “go-to” team member on challenging test cases.
• Documented software defects using bug-tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.
• Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.
• Used ALM Software for creating and maintaining Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• User Jira for bug tracking and Sprint cycles
• Analyzing Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), System Design Specification (SDS), and reviewing the Business requirements throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Handling Sprint cycles from start to finish (prod deployment)
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test case, Test Metrics and Test Summary Reports.
• Manual testing of the application and identified Test cases for Regression Testing Involved in Functional, Regression, Integration, Navigation and End-to-End testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Compatibility and UAT.
• Used SQL queries to validate the Actual and Expected results, to retrieve the data from the database and checked the data flow from the database to the application for backend testing.
• Performed Integration testing to validate integration between sub modules of the application.
• Attended Business meetings, discussed the issues and reporting bugs through SBM (Serena Business Mashups)
• Involved in bug tracking and maintaining the Test Documents.
• Involved in frontend and backend testing of all the various transactions that are performed to provide customer service.
• Interacted with developers and various members of team to discuss and resolve defects and their priorities
• Communicated the status of execution and escalated the issues blocking the execution through daily status reports.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.
• Manually tested the application executing test cases in the Quality center/ALM.
• Interfaced with developer’s/Lab engineers to resolve technical issues and investigated software defects.
• Analyzed the functional specifications and helped team members to achieve test goal.

Environment: : Quality Center/ALM, SBM (bug tracker), Oracle, Java, Java Script, VB Script, MS Access, Windows XP /IE, Cloud, Web Ops, Soap UI Proo, Json, XML.

Senior QA Analyst /Backup Lead

Responsibilities:

• Took a lead role in manual testing for most of projects which includes Order Entry System and End-to-End testing.
• Near 6 years worked somany verities of projects. Handled multiple projects as a primary tester with multiple groups and multiple teams.
• Prepared and executed Test Cases manually according to the BRD, Technical Specification, Functional Design and Use Case documents, identifying applications functionality, test requirements and coverage.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs.
• Manually tested the application executing test cases in the Quality center/ALM.
• Interfaced with developer’s/Lab engineers to resolve technical issues and investigated software defects.
• Analyzed the functional specifications and helped team members to achieve test goal.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using Quality Center/ALM and SBM (Serena Business Mashups).
• Wrote SQL queries and used them to verify Back End Testing results.
• Tested applications compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome) across multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS).
• Prepared documentation/create defect reports for management review and project presentations.
• Wrote test summery reports and test evaluation reports.
• Involved in daily scrum meetings/defect review meetings with Project manager, developers and Business analysts.
• Performed regression testing on different applications in latest builds
• Worked as per deadlines and aimed to complete the tasks on time
• Worked directly with cross-department members to educate and train
• Performed Set top box testing, Mobile testing for Android and IPhone applications and Network Router testing
• Held demos for business users at project completion
• Protectively identify and report on defects, issues and dependencies for the project.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Test Director, Quality Center/ ALM, Serena Business Mashups, IE, Windows, Putty, TOAD, Android, Apple applications and MS office, SoapUI Pro, Json, XML

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business, Functional Requirements and Use Cases and reviewed the Designs through out the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Used Quality Center /QTP for managing and maintaining Test cases/Test Scripts
• Manually written Test Scripts for the following modules for testing Sales Order, Account Receivables and Item Inventory
• Involved in business transactions such as Orders, Allocation, Invoices, Returns between organizations
• Going through the functional specifications while testing to make sure that developers have coded according to functional specifications.
• Hands on Experience in using ERP software Mas500 for placing Orders, Allocating Orders, Adding Customers. Shipping Orders and Processing Returns using Mas500 launcher.
• Identified Test cases for Regression testing.
• Functional, Regression, Compatibility, End-to-End and UAT..
• Maintained Tests in Quality Center. Bug tracking and reporting through Bug Tracker. Involved in Business, High Level Design review, Status Meetings and assisting the Lead with daily QA activities.
• Meeting with developers and Business analysts to make sure all the test scenarios are covered.
• Participated in Development walkthroughs and reviews.
• Involved in writing and running SQL queries to test the data flow from frontend to backend and vice versa.

Environment: : QTP, Quality Center, Mas500(ERP software), SQLServer, Visual Basic, ASP, Java Script, VB Script, MS Access, Windows NT .

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business and Functional Requirements and analyzed them in the system's perspective.
• Coordinated with the Functional Users to understand the requirements and process.
• Identified features that necessarily require manual testing.
• Identified Functionalities/Features that need automation.
• Participated in writing HLS (High Level Scenarios) Test plans, Test scenarios and Test cases.
• Prepared test plans and received approvals from the appropriate stakeholders.
• Developed Check Lists/Test Cases and Test Data for the System Testing.
• Designed Test Cases using the features in Quality Center.
• Reviewed Test Cases in Quality Center as per the functional requirements.
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform back end testing to check the Data Integrity.
• Designed and developed spreadsheets to reconcile test results and logged all test results and bugs.
• Tested web parts, custom sites in Share Point.
• Tested Reports that are generated in SSRS.
• Created, debugged and ran the automated test scripts for some of the requirements using QTP.
• Responsible for entering and tracking bugs in Quality Center.
• Worked with developers (Verifying all of the fixes made by Software Engineers) against the appropriate defects by retesting (the affected software and/or component of the system) those particular changes.
• Continuously improved test models, test data, and test processes based on lessons learned.

Environment: Quality Center, Manual testing, TestTrackPro, Asp.Net, C#.Net, SQL, XML, Java Script, Windows XP, Share Point 2007.