PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years’ experience in Software analysis, Software Quality Assurance Testing of Web, Web Services, Client/Server applications.
• Excellent risk, time management and problem - solving skills. Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and consistently meet deadlines.
• Proficient in Manual Testing.
• Experienced in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle and QA Life Cycle and in all dimensions of Functionality, Usability & Reliability.
• Extensive experience in requirement and use case analysis, test planning, writing test scripts, execution, defect tracking, defect retesting and eventually to full regression.
• Specialized in development of Test Plans, Test Procedures, writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases from the scratch / Use cases & Functional specification, generating Test scripts, defect tracking, defect retesting and eventually to full regression.
• Knowledge on the key components of a test strategy, test cases, and entry & exit criteria.
• Experienced in unit testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, sanity testing, exception testing, compatibility testing & security testing of client/server and web-based applications.
• Working experience with defect tracking tools like Clear Quest and Rational Quality Manager.
• Acquired good knowledge in Testing Practices / Processes.
• Experienced in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functionality Testing and Usability Testing.
• Experienced in Defect Tracking, Report Generation, Exporting and Importing of Test Cases in Excel format, Generation and Execution of scripts.
• Work Experience in Agile development methodology (SCRUM) and Waterfall Model.
• Giving package demos to client; handling daily calls with clients.
• Experienced in both Waterfall and Agile project environment.
• Extensive experience with Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Office tools (MS-Word, Share Point PowerPoint, Excel and Access).
• Strong exposure testing applications on different browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Experienced with operating systems like Windows and Mac
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: AGILE (SCRUM), WATERFALL, SDLC and STLC

Document Management Tools: SharePoint.

Test Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, Quality Center/ALM.

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

Operating Systems: UNIX, WINDOWS, Linux.

Database: SQL Server.

MS Office Tools: Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, Microsoft Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements Documents to get better understanding of the system both on technical and business perspectives.
• Worked in the Agile environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on functional specifications and user requirements.
• Attend JAD Session along with Business Analyst. Interacting directly with the client for discussing about business rules and testing scenarios.
• Worked on analyzing requirements/user stories and created test scripts for both application screen as well as for the reports in the RQM (Rational Quality Manager) tool based on different user criteria requirements and use cases.
• Used SharePoint tool to upload the Business Process Test Scripts and other testing related documents.
• Created and uploaded documents and reports to Share sites and collaborated with other groups while managing different project aspects.
• Created and executed data driven tests to check application functionality with positive and negative inputs.
• Used agile project life cycle model.
• Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Planned and organized effective UAT deliverables with 100% quality and on time sprint completion.
• Experienced in creating ‘Business Process Test Script’ document for each release and Analyze different technical documents such as - User Stories, Use Cases, and Report specification to understand requirements and convert them into the test scripts.
• Wrote SQL, PL/SQL Testing scripts for Backend Testing of the data warehouse application.
• Involved in developing the Test Scenario’s Activities.
• Overall accountability for quality of the software including the functionality, usability and performance.
• Monitor the activities of the product release team using Clear Quest for defect Tracking.
• Conducted Black Box - Functional, Regression and Data Driven. White box - Unit and Integration Testing (positive and negative scenarios), Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing.
• Actively participated in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance with BA’s and Developers.
• Attended weekly status meetings with development and management Teams.
• Reported defects to developer and discussed about the issues in daily status meetings.
• Worked closely with developers to verify functionality of the application.
• Attended daily project scrum meetings, weekly cross team status meetings, sprint plan meetings, retrospective meetings and review meetings.

Environment: Rational Quality Manager, SQL Server, Clear Quest, Clear Case, SharePoint, MS Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.

Confidential, New York

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project releases.
• Worked on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Attend JAD Session along with Business Analyst. Interacting directly with the client for discussing about business rules and testing scenarios.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Documentation ( Confidential ) to gain understanding of the application
• Worked on Integration, Regression, Functional and End to End testing.
• Followed Agile Methodologies and Software Quality Audits for all the Phases of SDLC.
• Conducted functional testing, smoke testing and regression testing.
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.
• Worked on Release support - Involved in environment setup, testing the release process.
• Worked on Backend Database testing.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows 7, Windows 8, HTML, SQL Queries, SQL Server, MS Excel, PowerPoint.

Confidential, Adelphi, MD

Intern

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed test specifications and converted them into Manual Test Cases.
• Identified the initial setup, input data, appropriate steps and the expected responses in the manual test cases.
• Conducted sanity testing of the application based on user requirements.
• Perform application testing in Waterfall design process.
• Created and implemented Test Scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Responsible for functional, regression testing, smoke testing and sanity testing.
• Extensively queried through SQL to check the database records.
• Used Quality Center as a bug tracking system.

Environment: Manual Testing, QC, Windows 7, HTML, SQL Queries, SQL Server, MS Excel, PowerPoint.

Confidential

Jr. Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Manual Test meticulously and exhaustively for entire application using manual steps, which are designed specifically for this purpose.
• Analyzing the Business Requirement Document ( Confidential ), Functional Specification Documents to prepare Test Cases based on Test Plans.
• Worked in Waterfall methodologies.
• Worked on CM Online Application to create customer and perform customer validation related activities
• Used Quality Center to store, schedule test cases and report bugs.
• Responsible for functional, regression testing and smoke testing.
• Designed and executed SQL queries to test different customer scenario.
• Effectively communicated with business / internal users resulting in added functional requirements.

Environment: Quality Centre, SQL Queries, SQL Server, MS Excel, PowerPoint.