SUMMARY:

• Software Quality Assurance Analyst/Tester with 9+ years of extensive experience in testing of Web, Client/Server and N - tier applications in diversified industry sectors including Mortgage, Healthcare, Financial. Experience in developing Test plans, defining Test Cases, designing Test Strategies, developing and maintaining automated test scripts, analyzing errors and applications. Strong Experience in Quality Assurance, Back End Testing (Database Testing) using TOAD, Oracle and SQL-Developer by using SQL. Experience in Software testing and Web applications test for Section 508 compliance.
• Experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Reports and test documentation and can comply with your established processes, can maintain strict adherence to your guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Experience in different verification processes like walkthrough’s, check lists, meetings and different validation techniques and SQA processes.
• Expertise in Agile methodology with Scrum Process for the product development.
• Strong hands on testing experience with JAVA, J2EE, .NET, C#, ASP, HTML, XML, JSP and VB Script applications.
• Proficient in Data Warehouse testing like Control Mechanism of batch loads, Error/ rejected records processing, testing of data validation/testing and process dependencies.
• Proficient in Data warehouse and Backend application Testing Life cycle.
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black-box and White box testing and Compatibility testing.
• Extensive experience in Heavy Data Base testing using TOAD and SQL-Developer for Oracle and DB2.
• Excellent experience in backend testing on Oracle and written SQL queries.
• Experience in testing Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Experienced in working with business analysts, development groups in analyzing business specifications and in Working with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Good Communication, Interpersonal skills and strong Team player with proficiency at time management, multitasking, able to meet deadlines and handle changing priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Quickest Pro 9.0, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center(ALM), SQL, Toad and Clear Quest, ETL Tool - Informatica, OLAP-BO

RDBMS: Oracle 10i / 11g, SQL

Operating System: Windows 95/2000/XP, Windows

Others: Knowledge of SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, DC

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SCRUM testing team lead responsible for creating release test plan.
• Provide the QA/ testing Estimations for the User stories for the Release.
• Participate in scheduling of target dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitors activities to meet such dates
• Providing test results for promoting release from DEV to DEV INT and DEV INT to IVV environment.
• Write Test Cases based on the User Stories and their Acceptance Criteria in Rally.
• Participated in Daily SCRUM meetings for discussing day to day activities.
• Identify and work on root cause for all identified defects which was found on testing or reported from production.
• Provide demo of the application changes to end client before release.
• Responsible for creating UTD/UAT test scripts to be used by customer user group for testing each release.
• Analyzing UTD/UAT test results and creating test reports for each release cycle.
• Maintain and update application field to database mapping document for entire application for each release.
• Prepare and provide testing team performance metrics report each month.
• Participate in RWG meeting for current and future tickets.
• Validated test results in Database using SQL queries.
• Performed data validation testing writing SQL queries.
• Created Test Scripts for White Box and Black Box Testing.
• Worked with business users and developers
• Created test data sets, wrote SQL scripts to test backend validation
• Reviewed Databases tables and executed jobs.
• Verified bugs/defects/errors
• Interact with business users and internal customers and review business requirements.
• System Integration User Acceptance Testing(UAT), Analyzing Requirements
• Helped Business Users in performing the UAT
• Performed system administration using deployment and configuration management
• Participated in Agile Model and daily scrum meetings to discuss the status updates.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure all conditions are covered in the Test Cases.
• Expertise in defect tracking system and bug life cycle using HP Quality Center and JIRA.
• Worked with developers by updating the defects and resolving them and tracking the status.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Report generation and requirement tracking throughout the test life cycle using ALM.
• Involved in Production Planning and Implementation check list meetings / reviews.

Environment: Java, Flex, Angular JS, DB2, Squirrel, Rally, Web Service (SOAP UI), ETL-Informatica, SQL, JIRA, HP ALM, MS Office, PowerPoint, MS Visio, Selenium Webdriver.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and feature sets.
• Manage the offshore and onshore project teams.
• Identified the Use Cases from the requirements, Web Page Mock-Ups using MS Visio.
• Interact with Product Managers and Developers during requirements analysis, design reviews and test documentation preparation.
• Review Functional design document to develop Test Plan, Test Cases and Traceability Matrix documents.
• Work with Product managers and Developers during Bug Reviews.
• Perform manual testing of the application on different environments (Handheld device, Desktop, Web application).
• Perform Database testing using SQL queries.
• Performed Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression and System level testing.
• Managed and performed hands on project QA planning, tracking progress metrics and defects, and mentoring the team.
• Communicate the overall test progress and escalate issues to upper management in a timely fashion.
• Conduct daily QA status meetings with the QA team.
• Create Test Summary Report.
• Actively participated in SCRUM meetings.
• Use Team Foundation Server to manage and track software resources such as documentation, source code etc.
• Use Test Manager for developing Test Specification and for defect tracking.
• Analyzed and determined the root cause analysis of the issues found in the customer sites. And Root Cause Analysis report for the customer site issues.
• Ensure that the test documentation and testing is carried out according to the company specifications and standards.
• Performed extensive backend testing by writing SQL queries.

Environment: Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Test Manager 2010, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Excel, Share point, XML, WEB API, .NET, Web Service Testing (SOAP UI), QTP, Quality Center

Confidential, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Finance team on functional testing and supporting their day to day operational.
• Ability to understand and analyze Business Requirements.
• Created test plans and test cases for Maestro Applications based on the business and software requirements.
• Executed test cases, functional test scenarios based on developer test design documents.
• Worked closely with development team and Business users to validate the functionality and defects for each new release of the project.
• Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Extensively Performed Functional, Integration, User Interface and Regression testing.
• Created and executed automated test scripts using QTP for functional and regression testing.
• Performed integration testing between various modules and with interfaces
• Worked on Cross Browser Testing using (IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox)
• Worked on User Interface testing based on Mockup’s
• Used SQL to perform data integrity test manually on the backend.
• Involved in entire software test cycle and promptly reported results, discrepancies and defects.
• Involved in the entire software development Life Cycle of the projects from Initiation to Implementation.
• Discussed and had meetings with Project Manager, Team Manager, Team Leader and other team members regarding the test procedures, test result analysis and test script inspection.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings to discuss the status updates.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, Oracle, QTP, Rational Clear Quest

Confidential, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented test plans and test cases for Nursing Home Compare component based on business and software requirements.
• Perform extensive functional tests to verify that the functionality of the application meets the Nursing home compare business requirements.
• Worked with test lead and application leads to promptly reported test results, discrepancies and defects.
• Executed Test cases, functional test scenarios based on functional design and solution design documents.
• Functionality tested for end to end business processes for many inbound interfaces
• Worked closely with development team and functional team to validate the functionality and defects for each new release of the project
• Developed data driven tests to easy maintenance of the scripts and tested with various data files for positive and negative testing.
• Analyzed automated test results, documented and reported through Quality center.
• Maintained automated scripts as application changes, by changing the Global GUI maps.
• Performed Backend Testing by incorporating various SQL queries joining multiple tables
• Worked closely with development team and Business users to validate the functionality and defects for each new release of the project

Environment: SQL, QTP9.1, JIRA, Windows XP, .NET

Confidential, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of SDLC, starting from requirement, design, development, Testing and implementation phase for release.
• Acted as one of the QA contact in the Customer relations - Service Solutions Developing and Testing Team.
• Involved in Requirements sessions and reviewed with the users to prepare Testing scope.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Scenarios for Contract Member, Provider, Service Requests, Vendors, Service Reports, etc designs.
• Created Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Detailed Test Scripts.
• Executed Manual and functional test cases and evaluated the results.
• Integration testing of front-end application with back-end servers.
• Interacted with Business team & client to perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with Developers, Discussed bugs, enhancement requests.
• Prepared and versioned the changes of Traceability Matrix.

Environment: Quality Center, JAVA, Clear Quest, SQL, Windows XP, MS Excel