OBJECTIVE:

6 years of experience as a Software Tester, I continue to utilize my career skills in areas of competence and enriching my knowledge. The ever evolving IT field gives me a chance to be part of a team that contributes towards the growth of the organization as a Quality Assurance /Analyst focus on developing administrative and procedural processes that can be implemented in a Quality System to ensure production of safe and useful goods in a cost - effective and Timely manner.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 years of progressive working experience in Software QA and Testing with diverse Projects, Clients and Industry.
• Extensive experience in Testing Client Server, mobile and Web-Based Applications
• Experience in Manual Testing.
• Good experience in using UAP Test Professional for Automation Testing.
• Extensive knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) such as Waterfall, Agile - Scrum.
• Extensive knowledge of STLC (Software Testing Life cycle)
• Proficient in Analyzing Business, Functional Specification Documents and expertise in developing Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios for different Software Development Methodologies.
• Good understanding of front-end, service layer, backend application and backend database with interdependent platform.
• Familiar with complex SQL queries to perform the Backend Testing of database using SQL Queries and UNIX shell commands.
• Experience in Quality Center to log, track defect and to generate text result and defect reports.
• Have experience in recording and modifying Automation scripts using UFP/QTP and Selenium IDE.
• Experience functional Testing, in Integration Testing, and Regression Testing
• Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments
• Good team Player and can work alone with minimal or no supervision
• Ability to Multi-task, Prioritize and work with time constraints while paying attention to details
• Good problem-solving, Judgment, and Decision-making Skill

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium, Test Rail, SOAP UI

Bug Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Jira

Databases: Oracle 11g, 10g/9i, MS SQL Server 05/00, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 7,8,10/2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux

Scripting Languages: VB Script, and java script

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Language: SQL, Java, C, C++

Application: MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, InDesign

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and groomed user stories with the Product Owner and the Developers
• Created Test Cases and Acceptance criteria for the user stories
• Performed smoke, functional and regression for mobile application
• Created test data to test Physician Network Functionality
• Logged and tracked defects using Jira
• Responsible for testing the Physician network Functionality.
• Performed regression testing for user stories from previous sprints
• Created UI Mockups/Wireframes for User stories while the UI Designer was on vacation
• Participated in sprint planning, stand up and Sprint review meetings
• Validated the fixed bugs and closed them.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Business Requirement Document ( Confidential ), Functional and Technical specifications, UI Wireframes with business analysts (BA), Designers, Developers and QA manager to learn the desired functionality of the application via Waterfall methodology.
• Participating in Test Plan preparation and define the testing approach, scope, resources and time lines.
• Working with other team members and conducting weekly status meetings to make sure that all team members are on the same page.
• Writing Test Cases in HP ALM/QC tool based on Technical and Functional Specifications.
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that all the requirements are covered in the Test Cases.
• Performed Back-End Testing by writing complex SQL queries using SQL Management Studio
• Participating in Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Testing to test the performance of the application.
• Executing Test Cases, finding and logging defects based on their priorities using HP ALM.
• Conducting the defect review meetings to track status of the defect resolution and discussing the issues with the developers.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Back end Testing and Regression Testing.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Requirement document, Important functionalities, new features to be implemented
• Testing mobile based software that is used by the limousine companies and private drivers to sign in and receive service requests in real time.
• Design Test Plans, Test Cases, and other Test documentations as needed.
• Downloading, Installing, and troubleshooting application for testing modern devices.
• Reported software defects, validated the fixed bugs, and closed them.
• Participated in QA Team meetings with the QA manager.
• Performed Manual Testing of the Confidential mobile Application
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Performed Functional and Stress Testing
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform backend testing

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Business Requirement Document ( Confidential ), Functional and Technical specifications with business analysts (BA), developers and QA manager to learn the desired functionality of the application via Waterfall methodology.
• Participating in Test Plan preparation and define the testing approach, scope, resources and time lines.
• Working with other team members and conducting weekly status meetings to make sure that all team members are on the same page.
• Writing Test Cases in HP ALM/QC tool based on Technical and Functional Specifications.
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that all the requirements are covered in the Test Cases.
• Conducting Back-End Testing by writing complex SQL queries using MS SQL tool.
• Participating in Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Testing to test the performance of the application.
• Executing Test Cases, finding and logging defects based on their priorities using HP ALM.
• Conducting the defect review meetings to track status of the defect resolution and discussing the issues with the developers.
• Performing Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Back end Testing and Regression Testing.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took part in setting up the Testing environment and testing methodology for the QA department, generating various documents to enable uniformity in recording the test process and results throughout the company.
• Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for Business Objects related reports.
• Involved in reviewing and enhancing Test cases for application functionality Testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for future UAT Testing and maintained documentation for the whole testing process.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Used Quality Center to create the detailed Test Plan and Test Cases from the business requirements UI mockups and design documents.
• Worked with users as well as with Business Analysts to plan and implement the Test Plan.
• Performed Front-End and Back-End testing.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing on Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox
• Verified the application’s functionality on different Configurations by performing Configuration Testing.
• Constantly worked with Business users to provide them with Test reports for Analysis.
• Generated defect reports graphs using Quality Center for Developers and Project Manager
• Supported UAT with entire group of Business users and BA team and verified its results.
• Found, reported and also traced the status of bugs using QC.
• Extensively worked on requirements upgrade and/or change request while supporting UAT.
• Worked closely with development team to ensure the application performance and stability and also ensure the application completes the whole end-to-end process.
• Participated in weekly status meeting with Development and Management Teams.

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Money Transfer module where we tested all the features of Money Transfer application for the complete Confidential Software.
• Involved in test cases for Money Transfer module also created test summary report, created the test data to test features and functions for Money Transfer module.
• Participated in resource planning for test cases coverage
• Reviewed test cases for requirements coverage, ambiguity, and completeness.
• Performed manual testing on different modules of the Confidential application.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Recovery/Failover and Regression testing.
• Performed web specific testing like Link checking, Browser page testing, Application Testing.
• Attended weekly meetings with Developers, Team Leads to discuss issues and defects for the given release.
• Interacted with the Testing and Development team to resolve and to follow up on development issues.
• Reported results and updates to the QA Lead.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Quality Center and after the bugs were fixed, rigorous regression testing was performed.
• Performed regression testing by repeated execution of test cases in each build
• Generated Bug Reports and Test case coverage reports for status..
• Wrote SQL statements to compare UI and Backend data
• Interacted with the Developers and BA for defects and problem resolution.