SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in Information Technology as a QA Analyst/Tester
• Well - versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Extensive experience in QA methodologies and standards, requirements analysis, generating test cases, test case Automation, and test scripts execution
• Strong hands on experience in testing Web-based and Client-Server applications on different environments
• Good expertise in Telecom, Job portal, Healthcare and Insurance domains
• Experience with various Testing tools like HP ALM, QTP and JIRA, Eclipse, Jenkins, Selenium
• Created QA Task list in order to meet the requirement objectives
• Hand on experience in preparing Test plan, Test cases, Test Scenario and Test Data
• Well versed with Various Testing Stages/Levels/Phases, Testing Types, Testing Techniques
• Created the test cases based on the design docs and requirements. Demonstrate and explain test cases during UAT
• As a QA resource, involved all the requirement and design review meetings
• Designed, Developed and Implemented Test Strategies, Test Designs and Traceability Matrix
• Experience in review of Requirements document, Design documentation and Functional specification
• Experience in performing Positive, Negative, Boundary, Functional, GUI, Database, Integration, System, Regression, Exploratory, Cross - Browser and User Acceptance Tests
• Good Exposure to Bug Life Cycle
• Experience in executing SQL, Pl/SQL queries in order to view successful validating data
• Experienced working in fast paced Agile environment, with good interaction with deployment and Prod support
• Involved in Test Plan to help ensure successful project implementation
• Adapt to new systems and environments quickly
• Worked closely with development and Technical Support teams to resolve quality issues
• Good interpersonal skills, Self-starter, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2000/NT, UNIX, LINUX, MS DOS

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center 11, Test Director, JIRA, SOAP UI, SOA Test, Selenium, QTP 10, ITE, Eclipse, Jenkins, QC11

Relational Databases: Oracle10g, SQL Server, My SQL, ODBC

Web browsers: IE, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox

Version Control: Subversion, PVCS, Clear case

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and V-model

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C#, VB 6.0, JAVA, XML, HTML, DHTML, Java script, VB script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Business requirements and design review meetings
• Use Agile Scrum methodology process for iterative development through collaboration of Cross functional teams and sprint
• Defines and manages quality assurance metrics for performance improvement
• Implements ongoing quality improvement processes working with IT management and interdepartmental teams to measure, control and improve quality standards.
• Create Test Plans and Test Scripts by analyzing the Business requirements and System Requirements of the Application
• Creating data for different Interfaces using TLG DB and AQUA DB
• Use Testing tools like JIRA or HP ALM tools for requirement gathering and coverage analysis of business process & testing life cycle
• Ran shell scripts to create the BAN activations.
• Involve in Backend testing - Validated the data in the database by running SQL, PL/SQL queries
• Responsible for Web Services Validation among the different API’s using Soap-UI Pro, ITE tool and SOA test
• Working with Automation team. Execute test scripts in QTP and from the QC by creating test set in test lab
• Use tools like Splunk to verify log files of each service transaction
• Verification and Validation of WSDL Schemas Structure using XML SPY tool
• Verification and validation of Adapter Mappings and back end ADAPTER Logs
• Design and developing the automation scripts using SOA test, Jenkins tool
• Verification and validation of the XML response in Logs using SPLUNK tool
• Executing interfaces and get the response from different Back Ends using ITE, POST XML, SOA test tools
• Open the Defects for failing Interfaces and follow-up with related Backend, Development teams to resolving the issues
• Participate in daily Status meetings with Team Leads, Onshore and Offshore team
• Actively participated collaborating with internal & external teams to deliver a defect free application
• Responsible for updating and managing version and revision files in SVN
• Supporting SANDBOX / Production validation and Release deployments using Jenkins tool
• Helped UAT testing team during critical functionality testing.

Environment: SOAP UI, Agile Scrum, Jenkins, Hudson, ITKO Lisa, Selenium, Java, JIRA, IBM Web Services, HP ALM, Eclipse ITE, SOA test, Toad, UNIX, SQL,PL/SQL, Splunk, WSDL, QTP

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Functional specification document, wireframes to create test cases for testing
• Worked with the application team in Agile Development Cycle (sprints) to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process
• Involved in developing of System Test Plan according to Requirements of the application as per technical specifications
• Created Manual Test cases and Test Scripts for testing and uploaded in to QC
• Developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Data according to Development Specifications Extensively used Quality Center for Test planning, bug tracking and reporting in the company dashboard
• As a QA resource, involved in all the requirement and design review meetings
• Involved extensively in the Functional, GUI, Smoke, Integration, Regression and UAT testing
• Involved in Backend testing - Validated the data in the database by running SQL queries
• Utilized Quality Center to document issues found during the test process, prioritized defects for resolution in coordination with the development team
• Mapped the test cases with the uploaded requirements
• Involved in generating Bug (Defect) Reports, tracking the status of each defect (New Open and fixed) and analyzing the bugs
• Rerun of test cases and Test scripts for Integration testing, Regression testing after fixing bugs in the software
• Used Dashboard to get the reports& graphs for execution status in Quality center
• Written several SQL queries for validating the front-end data with backend
• Executed test scripts in QTP and from the QC by creating test set in test lab
• Recorded the scripts for the test cases using QTP
• Communicated and interacted with Developers and users to resolved critical and major bugs
• Generated weekly status reports and participated in weekly status meetings with team members, team manager, BA and technical team
• Involved in UAT and End to End testing designed, scheduled and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe

Environment: Quality Center 11.0, QTP 11.0, VB Script, MS-Office, Java, Oracle, Windows XP, Web Services, XML.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed business requirements
• Designed the Test Plan documents, Test Cases and Scripts in QC
• Conducted GUI, Functionality, Integration, User Acceptance testing and Regression Testing
• Developed and executed the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution
• Used testing tools to build and record automated test scenarios using QTP, execute test scripts, acquire test data and document defects
• Maintained the projects in Quality Center based on release calendar
• Test case execution in System Test environment and defects logging in defect tracking tool
• Generate the testing status reports including defects information
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases
• Responsible for database testing by executing SQL queries
• Performed Regression and End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications
• Performed manual testing before automation testing
• Recorded the scripts for the test cases using QTP
• Ran test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTP
• Executed test cases and analyzed issues/bugs and generated Reports
• Evaluated the actual results with the expected results
• Opened defects for failed test cases

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, JIRA, Guide Wire Policy Center 4.0, Oracle 10g, Java, Java Script, HTML,QTP

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and functional specifications for Policy System
• Participated in the Agile Development Process to ensure that solutions meet business requirements
• Involved in test plan and test strategy of the application
• Wrote test cases for order creation, patient linking and work card pages
• Conducted QA reviews like Peer Review and Functional Review
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using HP Quality Center
• Executed test cases and analyzed issues/bugs and generated Reports
• Evaluated the actual results with the expected results
• Opened defects for failed test cases
• Worked with developers in fixing the defects
• Worked on creation of test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the Walkthroughs and meetings
• Used Dashboard to get the reports and graphs for the execution status in HP Quality Center
• Wrote SQL queries to perform the backend testing
• Performed Regression and End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications
• Performed UAT and verify the quality of the application with Test Engineers and Developers for post release

Environment: Quality Center, Test director, Oracle10g, NET, Windows 2000,HTML,Java,MS-Office