SUMMARY:

• Strong Experience in Black Box Testing, Localization, Globalization Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional and System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing and UI Testing.
• Strong Understanding of SDLC (Waterfall, Agile ), STLC, Quality Procedures
• Solid Experience of testing different Approaches (Positive, Negative, Boundary, Usability, User website Accessibility, X - Browser Compatibility, GUI, Testing Types Build acceptance, Exploratory, Ad-hoc, Database Testing, Testing Scope & levels, Defect Triage Leak/Density & Defect Release Analysis )
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirements/Functional Specs/Use Cases, preparing Test Plans, determining testing scope, creating test cases, executing test cases, entering bugs, verifying bug fixes and preparing weekly test reports.
• Good experience of QA methodologies, and testing practices.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) manually
• Experience in various domains like Financial, Insurance, and Banking industries.
• Experience in Black box testing.
• Experience in Integration, functional, system, user acceptance, regression, performance and end to end testing.
• Strong experience in using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center (ALM), Microsoft TFS & JIRA, Testrail.
• Involved in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.
• Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the requirements document.
• Put out the test plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management/ development team.
• Identifying the required metrics and work to have them in place.
• At the outset of the project, test leaders, in collaboration with the other stakeholders, devise the test objectives, organizational test policies, test strategies and test plans
• Experience in developing SQL queries by utilizing multiple source systems to perform Back-end Testing.
• Excellent professional ability to work independently.
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tool: Basic knowledge on Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver.

Test Management Tools/Enterprise tools: TFS, JIRA, HP ALM, Testrail.

Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix (working knowledge)

Testing Skills: Manual testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, User

Web Technologies: HTML5, XML, AJAX, DHTML, ASP, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, JQuery, JSONDatabase: MS SQL Server

Documentation tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio, MS Office Note

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Identifying the needed testing effort by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the effort needed for the same.
• Reviewed BRD and functional requirements to identify testing scopes.
• Prepare Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Involved in Preparation and Review of Test Plan.
• Review of Test Cases and Traceability Matrices for requirement coverage.
• Performed manual testing to test the different functionality of the application.
• Estimating the testing to be done and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources.
• Performed Functional Testing, Web-based testing, Regression Testing, Integration, Compatibility Testing.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries to validate the policy data that is extracted from pyramid.
• Involved in both Frontend and backend testing.
• Defect management and generating reports using Quality Centre.
• Coordinating with Development teams for quick fixing of bugs.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center 10.0, waterfall Model, MS Word, MS Excel, SQL Server 2008, SSRS

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project team, which focused on testing and dealing with process, tools and best practices.
• Followed Test Driven Development (TDD) as much as possible and written test cases.
• Prepared and executed test cases as per system requirements
• Involved in querying using SQL and updating records and validate database records as expected.
• Developed manual test scripts to evaluate Corporate Information Security Web based user authentication applications.
• Developed the Test Cases Client based on FSD'S and Business Rules; And for Web Client Test Cases based on Use Cases, Wire Frames, Annotated Documents and Business Rules.
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application.
• Performed Input Validations, User Interface Validations, Browser Compatibility testing and Navigation testing.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix(RTM) to show the test coverage requirement vs. Test scripts.
• Performed GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Ad -hoc testing, Negative testing, End to End testing, Load testing, User Acceptance testing on multiple projects.
• Performed Backend testing to verify the data integrity by passing SQL Queries. Designed and developed Domain/Value Objects.
• Executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing.
• Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects.

Environment: Black box, T- SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS3, Agile Methodology, HP Quality Center, Windows 7/XP,MS Excel.

Manual Testing

Responsibilities:

• Created Functional Test Cases by reviewing the process flow and BRD documents.
• Analyzed the test scenarios and created the test cases in Excel and JIRA.
• Used JIRA for tracking the requirements, creating test cases and reporting defects.
• Used to attend the daily scrum meeting, stand up discussions on defect resolution.
• Directly Interact with Project Teams, Developers, Business Analyst and Clients for Test requirement, clarifications and Testing.
• Involved on testing the new functionality based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issue, Defect Management by Logging and Tracking bugs during execution in JIRA.
• Used JIRA for bug tracking, and for project management.
• Part of a Scrum team using Agile Software development methodology.
• Review / Peer Review of test cases
• Preparation and Review of Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure all requirements are covered under scope of testing
• Maintaining the Testing artifacts in JIRA
• Performing system testing and User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing
• Participated in sprint review, retrospective and planning meetings with developers, quality assurance engineers, dev ops engineers, product managers, and application engineers
• Job operated within agile environment, with daily scrum meetings; stand up meetings, burn-down charts, presentations and review.
• Used JIRA as a version/source control.

Environment: Black box testing, Agile, JAVA, SQL, Windows 2008, JIRA, Testrail, Ms office

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• In depth analysis of business requirement understanding the critical functionalities and its effect on different stakeholders.
• Derived test Scenarios for multiple complex Test Director (TD) and Projects.
• Created Test cases in Test Plan,Test Scripts and Work allocation to resources using JIRA.
• Apart from working in multiple monthly releases, also worked in projects by leading it from front which involves major enhancements.
• Involved in giving the estimations and actuals on the scope defined in each release.
• Preparation of Approach document for the scope defined items in each release
• Involved in Defect Report Generation and giving RCA’s(Root cause analysis) on the defect raised during the monthly releases.
• Taken end to end responsibility in status reporting, defect reporting and publishing it on a daily basis.
• Performed quality reviews and groomed the new joiners in the team in scaling their knowledge in a quick span of time.
• Using TFS (Team Foundation Server) for storing, maintaining the test repository, bug tracking, reporting and provided clear and concise status reports of testing to the QA Manager .

Environment: Microsoft TFS, JIRA, Javascript, MS Office

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysing functional requirements.
• Creation of Understanding document based on requirement, design and software architecture document.
• Authoring and executing test cases based on the requirement, preparation of test data and generation of Requirement Traceability matrices(RTM).
• Identifying the bugs in UI, co-ordinating between the systems, database and tracking them to closure.
• Involved in IVR Testing
• Involved in publishing of Defect reporting on a daily basis to a larger audience.
• Experienced with Agile methodology using TFS
• Used TFS for defect tracking and reporting Defects to Development team.

Environment: Microsoft TFS, Javascript, CSS, HTML, MS Office

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Took a leading role in manual testing, actively involved in creation of detailed test plans test cases and test scenarios for different application modules according to functional requirements and business specifications.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and testing of mobile devices like Ring Scanner used for sortation
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing.
• Tested applications compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox and Chrome).
• Developed complex SQL queries during End-to-End testing stage.
• Created tractability matrices(RTM), test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Involved in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC.

Environment: Manual Testing, X-Browser comptability testing, Quality Center ALM, JavaScript, DB Visualizer, Oracle Database, MS Office.