SUMMARY:

• 3+ years of experience in IT, specializing in Quality Assurance. Expertise in Manual Testing, Smoke Testing, UI Testing, Backend Testing, Black - box Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Knowledge of Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall environment for application development lifecycle for various Web and Client Server application.
• Experience in bug and defect tracking using tools like Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, UAT, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back-end testing, smoke, Black Box Testing, System Testing, performance testing.
• Good understanding skills and analyzing skills about the projects while preparing the test plans and elaborating the Scenarios to perform testing.
• Proven Risk Analyst in order to figure out the risk in the application as well as beyond the application.
• Experience across Software Testing with in-depth knowledge in Manual, Functional, System and Regression Testing with involvement in Interface, Integration, and UAT Testing.
• Performed in code review meetings, Defect review meetings with development and business team.
• Worked closely with BD team and to prepare the system requirement specifications based on the projects for the better products to reach the client expectations.
• Experienced in analyzing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) and System Design Specifications (SDS).
• Performed in code review meetings, Defect review meetings with development and business team.
• Excellent communication skills and highly adaptable to new challenges related to software industry and user demands.
• Self-starter, entrepreneurial, highly motivated team player with excellent communication / problem solving skills. Capable to quickly learn new technology and adapt to a new environment.
• Good team player with sound written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JAVA, .NET, PHP, SQL, XML, HTML, CSS.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Selenium, QTP.

Operating Systems: Windows Family

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

Methodologies: Water Fall/Linear Sequential, Spiral Model, Agile, Scrum, Prototype, Fish, V Model, Top Down, Bottom Up Methodologies

MS Office Tools: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE;

Confidential, NC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Defined test goals for sprints (Agile Process).
• Attending standup meeting with QA lead, Testers, Developer Lead, Developers, Scrum Manager, BAs
• Developing detailed QA status reports and tracking key QA milestones.
• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Analyzing and refining incomplete and ambiguous requirements.
• Creating test plans, requirement traceability matrix (RTM), test cases based on the requirements documents.
• Coordinated testing activities with testing team members.
• Identified all major Defects prior to End to End Testing.
• Presenting the Test Reports and Status reports on a Weekly/Monthly basis to the Project Team and discussing the next release cycle.
• Open defects and work closely with development of getting issues resolved in timely manner.
• Performed different kinds of manual testing like Functional and Regression and End-to-End tests during different phases of testing.
• Used JIRA bug tracking tool to log the defects.

Environment: Quality Center ALM/12.0 & 12.53, SharePoint, Selenium, JavaScript, VMWare, JIRA, IE, Oracle, MS Office, Curam, JAVA

Confidential, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with business analysts, development team and the stake holders for defect management.
• Created sitemap of web based application for the test.
• Worked with Business Analysts to understand backlog User Stories to prepare for future Sprints.
• Planned and executed meticulously the Test Cases needed for a sprint and completes the test within the Sprint cycle.
• Analysis and preparation of testing strategy and test plans.
• Help review and contribute to product documentation.
• Interacted with the Developers and Business Analysts on a regular basis to resolve issues.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Executed SQL queries in SQL Server and Oracle and validated back end data against front end.
• Performed Integration testing, end-to end testing, System testing, Functional testing, Performance testing, and User Acceptance testing. Involved in defect management and defect reporting.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center ALM/10.0, JIRA Windows, Oracle, Toad, MS Office

Confidential, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases for the test.
• Participated in developing automation test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTP.
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and used SQL Queries to extract the data from the database.
• Created and executed Detailed Test Cases for full requirement coverage and mapping test cases into RTM.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Investigating software bugs and reporting to the developers using Quality Center Defect Module.
• Maintain and enhance existing automation test scripts which are used during development and QA cycles
• Experienced in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environment

Environment: JIRA, Mercury Quality Center, Windows 2007, Business Objects, TOAD,SQL server, MS Word, Excel, UFT (Unified Functional Testing).

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement document and Business Use Cases in development of Test Plans.
• Participated in the work-scope meetings and peer review meetings to evaluate Use Cases with Business and Design team.
• Played a key role in the updating of the existing Test scripts as per the latest releases of the Software Requirement Specification document.
• Defined types of tests and identified the objectives.
• Created test strategy document, which defines the test environment, test phases, time lines of different test phases, entrance and exit criteria into each test phase and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in Web application.
• Performed Back End Testing manually.
• Provide support and data as and when needed to the performance Team.
• Reported Defects in Defect tracking tool of Quality Center by assigning Defects to development that are encountered during testing phase based on application teams.
• Recommend and implement naming convention for Test Cases, Test Sets and Defects.

Environment: Windows 7, UML, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MQC, QTP.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Gathered Requirements, Developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed a Test Plan for System Testing.
• Created Test Cases, Test Scenarios in Quality Center ensured traceability to Business Use Cases and according to application.
• Authored test case scenarios in Excel spread sheet and export them into Mercury Quality Center.
• Reviewed business requirements and developed detailed Test Cases to ensure testing of the entire application.
• Tracked the defects by using tool of Quality Center.

Environment: Windows 2007, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mercury Quality Center