SUMMARY:

• Experienced QA Tester with over Six years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance in various Software applications for functional, Regression tests, UAT in Banking, Finance and Mortgage domains.
• Involved in all the phases of (STLC) Software Test Life cycle, which includes gathering test requirements, setup test environment, write and execute test cases, report and follow - up defects.
• Solid understanding of (SDLC) Software Development Life Cycle with experience of working in Agile and waterfall Environments
• Involved in Business meetings to gather test requirements.
• Proficient in creating Test plans and executing Test cases and Change Requests.
• Expertise in Black Box methodologies including Smoke testing, UI testing, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Browser compatibility testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficient in using Quality Center, QTP, Team Foundation Server, and SOAP UI, Load Runner, JIRA, Rally.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing efforts, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management and issue escalations
• Involved in Bug Meetings, Standup meetings and Project Go-No-Go meetings
• Experience working directly with users / Customers and business analysts to identify and analyze defects and develop workable solutions
• Experience with Databases and Performed end-to-end testing on backend DB validations (on different Servers) using SQL, PL/SQL, DB2 and Oracle on Unix environments
• Proficient and involved in creating Source-To-Target Mapping, ETL Data Profiling.
• Expertise in testing cross-browser compatibility on multiple browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and ios testing.
• Extensively involved in entire QA Process and Defect Management life cycle.
• Good Knowledge in Excel Macro and VB Scripting
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Smart thinking along with hardworking team player with the ability to work in strict deadlines

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista, Mac, iOS, Android

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MS Access

Testing Tools: QTP, HP Load Runner, SoapUI, Toad, SQL Developer

Methodologies: Agile(scrum), Waterfall

Requirement & Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, Microsoft Test Manager, Rally

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, C

Microsoft Office: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Newark,DE

QA Analyst

• Responsible for creating test scenarios, test strategy and test plans of varying complexity.
• Tested and validated the front-end web pages, screen navigation, data entry, data retrieval, login privilege security, report generation and backend database.
• Involved in Unit testing of every component, System and integration testing, Smoke Test, Functional and Regression Testing
• Analyzed Functional Specifications to develop test plans and test cases to perform Black Box testing.
• Involved in execution of the test cases. Detected and documented defects in Quality Center.
• Worked closely with QA team and developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues, provide feedback and tune the entire development process.
• Written SQL queries to validate database and to confirm successful transaction.
• Participated in various meetings with software developers, clients, and management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications.
• Decomposed High Level Functional Requirements into Low Level Scenarios.
• Reviewed FRD’s for complex systems and created manual test cases and determined Test Data in an industry standard format.
• Worked with Business Users, Developers, IT Partners and Project Management to ensure requirements are met in advance of test execution.
• Involved in execution of the test cases.
• Developed test plans, test cases, test procedure, test scenarios and executed them.
• Reviewed Test Scenarios with product and business constituents and acquired business approvals without any further updates needed.
• Thoroughly planned and executed all the tests before the deadline and extended hand to help team members. Hence zero defects have been found during the Warranty Periods.

Confidential

Associate, Quality Analyst

• Analyzed business and system requirements, managed development to specifications to create and execute detailed test plans and verified bug fixes.
• Configured test environment and created strategy for product development and certification. Assured test data, scheduled automated/manual tests. Approved results documentation and tracking systems updates.
• Created Data Mapping between the Source Systems, Staging Tables, and the Target System.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on the available Data Requirements and created UAT Test Cases for all the Data-driven Testing required for the project
• Extensively used Access and Rapid SQL to analyze data exceptions identified during UAT
• Responsible for change management and defect tracking using QC and CQ.

Confidential,Rockville,MD

Quality Analyst

• Attended Review meetings to discuss Use-Cases, Business Rules, message rules, alternate flows and exceptions paths.
• Developed Use Case driven test scripts using Mercury’s Quality Center.
• Reviewed Supplements Specs and Business Documents for Use Case Entitlements.
• Involved in identifying the test cases that are affecting the basic and major functionality of the application in-order to Smoke Test the application.
• Extensively used Quality center to manage and execute test scripts.
• Interacted with the project team to assign priority to Projects based on dependency and criticality.
• Involved in creating automated VB scripts using QTP.
• Attended meetings with logical data modelers to enhance knowledge of Back-end Testing, like acquiring the data from different data bases by using Informatica.
• Written SQL queries using TOAD to unit test and developed code base.
• Assisted in documenting screen mock-ups in HTML and designing of applications.
• Constructed test data in excel for system testing.
• Generated test data for automation scripts in Excel.

Confidential

Manual Test Engineer

• Responsible for writing Test Scripts, Test flows and Test Performance documents using MS Word and MS Excel.
• Involved in implementing QA methodology and Test Metrics.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing for overnight builds and reported the critical issues to the developers.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements
• Prepared a detail test schedule and test metrics on a weekly basis to know the status of the application.
• Interacted with users for execution of test cases in UAT.
• Constantly involved in the team to adopt QA Testing Standards. Logged and Traced defects using Test Director.
• Attended weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts.
• Detect defects, communicated to the developers using bug reporting tools and tracking the defects.
• Actively attend meetings with fellow testers and other groups to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.