OBJECTIVE:

8 years of strong understanding of Seeking for a Software QA Analyst/Tester position of a winning organization where creativity, sincerity, skill and performances are the criteria for one's appraisal and recognition.

SUMMARY:

• Expert in Software Quality Assurance Methodologies including development, execution, and maintenance of the Test Plans, Test Result documents and Defect reports.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed Database Validation and Verification using Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with profound ability to prioritize and multi task goals in order to meet the time requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and training.
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced working with Target Process to maintain user story status, perform and updating the test result.
• Experienced working with Salesforce Portal and Platform site.
• Excellent working knowledge on Windows environments.
• Sound knowledge in Creation of Business Components and Application Areas.
• Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Functional testing, Black Box, Regression, UAT, Smoke, Sanity, Unit and Integration, End - To-End Testing.
• Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment.
• Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Very dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications: Java, ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, C Sharp

Testing areas: Web Testing, Database Testing, Client Server Testing

Types of Testing: Black box testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, System testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Sanity Testing, User Acceptance Testing(UAT) .

Testing tools: HP ALM 12.2 / HP Quality Center (QC) 11.0/ JIRA, TargetProcess

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall .

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux.

Database/Application Platform: Microsoft Access, Oracle 11g, 12c, Salesforce.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements and User Stories.
• Has extensive experience using Target Process to keep track of testing result and updating user stories status.
• Involved in preparing detailed Test Cases based on the user stories.
• Worked extensively with BA/Developer to review the user stories.
• Experienced in performing functional testing to verify the application according to the user stories.
• Interfaced with Subject Matter Experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts.
• Extensively involved in Peer Reviewing the Team members test scripts also Triage meeting.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Performed Backend and Platform site testing using Salesforce .
• Experienced in creating business flow using HP ALM.
• Reviewed, uploaded and executed test cases using HP ALM.
• Reported and logged defect using the HP ALM
• Controlled complete Defect Life Cycle in HP ALM.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through HP ALM.
• Reported the Testing Result at end of every sprint via HP ALM Dashboard.
• Experience in perform testing using Salesforce portal and platform site.
• Experienced in creating different levels of user profile using Salesforce.
• Involved in Data Loading and Data Validating using Salesforce platform.
• Experienced working with Salesforce Object during validating the application functionality.
• Performed End-to-End testing to validate the complete business flow of the application.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application was running as per requirement.
• Involved in helping the IV & V team by giving walkthrough on the application and make them understand the business flow.
• Extensively experienced performing UAT testing based on the necessity of the clients.
• Involved in training clients in One on One bases to walk them through different functionalities and business flows of the application.
• Communicate with clients in regular bases to answer every question during UAT Testing .
• Worked on keeping track of UAT log and client’s feedback to make sure that the reported issues get solved after every sprint.
• Responsible for reporting daily and weekly status and progress of testing to the project.

Environment: Windows 7, HP ALM 12.2, Salesforce, Microsoft Office Suite, SQL server 2012, HTML, Web Services .NET, MS Office suite, Java.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different modules to develop Test Cases, Test Plan application.
• Involved in preparing detailed and reviewed Test cases to cover all the requirements.
• Extensively worked with BA/Developer in reviewing the requirements.
• Extensively Involved in Peer reviewing the Team members test scripts also Triage meeting.
• Extensively involved in functional testing and verify the application according to the user perspective.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.
• Interfaced with subject matter experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts and Test cases.
• Experienced to Wrote Regression and Functional Test Cases and migrated all in HP ALM/Quality Center (QC).
• Experienced on HP ALM/Quality Center (QC) to report defects and test results. Created script to pull the metrics from HP ALM/Quality Center (QC) like elapsed time for defect cycle.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the HP ALM and Monitored HP ALM.
• Analyzed the Discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through HP ALM.
• Experienced at version control and defect management at HP ALM/Quality Center (QC).
• Experienced to HP ALM as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis. Kept recorded defects in HP ALM.
• Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables.
• Used SQL to query the DB to verify application front end input value.
• Worked closely with developers in reproducing bugs reported.
• Analyzed Requirement documents to develop and Execute Test scripts and documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules.
• Extensively involved in reviewing the scripts with the business people.
• Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.

Environment: Windows, SQL server 2012, HP ALM 12.2/Quality Center (QC), HTML, Web Services .NET, People Soft. MS Office suite.

Confidential, New York City, New York

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan for application.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the HP Quality Center (QC) and Monitored HP Quality Center (QC).
• Analyzed the Discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through HP Quality Center (QC).
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.
• Analyzed the business requirements and involved in the review discussions.
• Participated in high level design sessions.
• Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.
• Drafted test cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Prepared Test Plan and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Detected, reported and classified bugs in HP Quality Center (QC).
• Worked on Logging bugs in the HP Quality Center (QC) tracking tool.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly.
• Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results and worked with developers to resolve issues.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.
• Mentored the team members with business functionality.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract Data and verified the output Data of the reports.
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Used Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Participated in internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs and status meetings.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11g, HP Quality Center (QC).