SUMMARY:

• Seven years of solid QA experience meeting target deadlines and delivering critical solutions at various levels of Quality Assurance for Web based and Client/Server applications.
• Strong hands on experience in manual testing.
• Developed and executed test cases both manually and using automated tools.
• Excellent experience in developing and executing BRDs, Test Approach Documents, test plans, test scenarios, test procedures, test cases, test data and test scripts as per Business and Design Specifications.
• Proficient in coordinating, negotiating, brainstorming and meeting time lines for project deliverables in all phases of SDLC.
• Worked independently and as well as in a team achieving project quality goals.
• Extensively involved in Black Box testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Interface testing, Performance, Load, Stress testing, Functional testing, System testing, Smoke testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in requirement analysis, use - case analysis.
• Good analytical skills coupled with excellent problem solving skills.
• Proficient in SDLC,QALC.
• Ability to work in tight schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Worked on projects with agile/Scrum, waterfall and RUP Methodologies.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, ability to learn quickly, good analytical reasoning and high compliance to new technologies.
• Excellent inter personal skills and a team player.
• Able to work under tight deadlines and capable to effectively handle multiple ongoing projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: RUP, SDLC, AGILE, Waterfall.

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio

Languages: SQL

Markup languages: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, CSS

Testing Tools: Rational Robot, Quality Center, Visual Studio, Selenium

Databases: SQL Server,Oracle,DB2

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tested multiple project applications in varying phases of SDLC against the requirements, logged defects and followed through Defect Fixes.
• Coordinated with the Developers on updating the table/columns for data mapping and SQL Queries .
• Created Test Plan template and Test Cases for the internal projects.
• Designed Test cases using Selenium Webdriver
• Enhanced Selenium test cases for cross browser testing
• Involved in Regression testing using selenium
• Create web UI tests using cucumber
• Involved in querying using SQL and updating records and validate database records as expected.
• Performed Backend testing to verify the data integrity by running SQL Queries.
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application.
• Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation using ALM.
• Worked with Systems Analyst and Business Analyst to analyze the requirements, Design documents and ensure efficiency of test conditions/scripts.

Environment: Confidential Excel, Confidential Word, Confidential Power Point, Selenium, Cucumber, TOAD.

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing pricing application.
• Analyzed business requirements and technical specifications of applications to see how they can be developed into testable elements.
• Prepared tests cases based on the business requirements and ensured that the software application was compatible with tests.
• Designed test plans and scripts to test new, customized software to ensure optimal performance of software.
• Worked closely with the developers to understand the functionality of the application and in resolving issues.
• Performed tests, identified defects and logged them in bug tracking system.
• Raised defects in Quality Center/ALM and followed up with the development team to avoid slippage.
• Tracked defects for follow up and/or further testing.
• Addressed quality status and product defect concerns.
• Involved in attending status meetings at team level and project level on a regular basis.
• Documented test results, and compiled results into consolidated reports for management.

Environment: Confidential Word, Quality Center 10.0,ALM 11.52,TOAD 9.5,DOORS 9.3.

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements and System specifications and learnt the business processes.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings, focused on making the product more effective in real time scenario.
• Extensively used Confidential Office Suite of products for documentation and data interpretation for reporting Test status and responded to directions from higher-level staff, updated the information to other team members.
• Involved in cross-browser testing (IE, Firefox, Safari, chrome), web usability, and interface design.
• Interfaced with the development team on requirements specifications and business modeling.
• Created test procedure and test cases based on specified requirements.
• Developed test scenarios, test cases.
• Developed manual testing process, manual testing instructions and performed manual testing using test data created in varied Excel files.
• Performed Manual Testing, black box testing, regression testing, functional testing, and Exploratory testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications.
• Performed regression testing once the defects are fixed.
• Developed a Defect Summary Report and Test Summary Report once the testing is complete.
• Debugged the tests in Selenium IDE
• Recorded bugs and enhancements in JIRA
• Assisted Development with research of reported issues
• Maintained records of test progress
• Documented test results

Environment: Waterfall Methodology, JIRA, Selenium IDE 1.0.11, Confidential Excel, Confidential Word.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all aspects of the pre-testing phase such as establishing hard freeze dates, deciding the test strategy, setting up the hardware and software for the test team etc.
• Developed, executed and documented manual and automated test scripts to support testing Requirement.
• Investigated bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in module testing and integration testing.
• Reviewed Functional Requirement Specifications and Software Design Documentsfor the application.
• Created Test Plans and Test Procedures for the various functional Modules inthe application.
• Involved in writing Manual Test Cases and Test Scripts for checking the functionality of the application.
• Presented test scenarios to the end users and got a sign off on the entry and exit criteria before and after testing cycle.
• Conducted Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, Integration testing of the application.
• Involved in interface testing to test the user interface of GUI application.
• Reported the bugs to Developers through Modification Requests (MR) using Test Director.
• Status Reports: Daily and Weekly Status reports updates to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to Co-ordinate test cycles.

Environment: Java, Windows, UNIX, ASP.net, VB 6.0, XML, Java Script, CSS, SQL Server 2000, Windows NT, IIS 5.0.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirement Specification and System Design Specification.
• Multi-tier application in which the presentation, middle ware and data layer was tested individually for performance and functionality testing.
• Followed the Agile and e-Scrum methodology for the integration and regression testing approach.
• Involved in writing the Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases manually using Rational Manual tester.
• Tested customer’s enhancement requests and conducted functionality, system and UAT Testing on AUTs, raised defects and retested fixed.
• Manually Tested customer association of Wire line internet accounts with mobility accounts during registration event.
• Attended meetings with the QA team to track overall status and formulated recommendations.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0,Java, Informatics 7.1, SSRS, AS/400, Agile/Scrum Methodology, Shell Scripting, Web logic, Windows XP/2003, SQL Server 2005.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing the application of Loan processing system “Empower”.
• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and Defect Reporting.
• Involved in Regression testing, Acceptance testing, System testing, Smoke testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Actively participated in Releases and Building Migration packages from one environment to another environment.
• Involved in testing business rules, business logic, mapping requirement to test cases, tracing requirement during execution, and traceability matrix.
• Played a major role in Builds and Releases using Empower Migration tool.
• Involved in meetings with the Business Users and actively participated in creating Test plans, Test scripts and Test cases in Test Director for all the releases (later changed to Quality Center).
• Reported defects in Quality Center and Visual Interceptive Manager tool.

Environment: EMPOWER, SQLServer2000, VI Manager, Confidential Visual Source Safe, Visual Incident manager, WinRunner7.0, TestDirector8.0,MS Office, MS Visio.