PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 years of QA software testing experience in managing software project delivery for functional, automation testing and test process consultation.
• Proficient in manual and automated testing tools such as Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional, Test Director/Quality Center and IBM Rational Tools.
• Experience in analyzing and understanding of Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Detailed Design Specification (DDS) and Use Cases.
• Involved in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle and have an excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in working with various type of project methodology like Waterfall and Agile Scrum.
• Extensively involved in all types of Black Box Testing including Functional, Compatibility, Parallel, Interface, System, Integration, Regression, End to End and Performance Testing as well as development, execution and maintenance of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Proficient in the design, development and execution of Test Plan, Test cases/scripts in all stages of the product development lifecycle.
• Expertise in creating reusable scripts for regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Extensively used Quality Center (HPQC) / Test Director for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Executing selenium test cases and reporting defects
• Expertise in implementation of automation framework using salenium
• Mapped test cases to the requirements using Requirements Coverage in Quality Center. Mapped Test cases to business and system requirements and kept the Test and business requirements synchronized.
• Involved in Walkthroughs, Review meetings and experienced in analyzing Business Requirements Specifications, Functional Requirements Specifications, and Use Cases.
• Coordinated with Business and System Analysts to define Test Scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL Queries and basic knowledge in UNIX.
• Interaction with product analysts regarding testing status and maintain detail QA documentation.
• Worked with developers to define and resolve issues found during testing. Supported Developers with explaining and reproducing software problems, in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines and changing priorities.
• Solid analytical and dynamic troubleshooting skills, excellent communication skills and can work individually as well as a team member.
• Good interpersonal skills, hard working and zeal to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, XP, 2000, NT/98/95, MS - DOS, UNIX

Testing Tools: Win Runner 7/8.X, QTP 8.X /9.X/ 10.X, Load Runner 6.5/8.0

Test Management Tools: Test Director 7.2, Quality Center 9.0, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Bugzilla

Languages: C/C++, JAVA, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL.

Web Technologies: ASP, VB Script.

Data Base Related: MS-Access, Oracle 8i, SQL Server, DB 2v7-8.2, and TOAD

Packages: MS Office, MS Excel

Other Tools: Crystal Reports 8.0/9.0,Visual Studio.net

ETL Tools: Business Objects Data Integrator

Automation performed on Systems/Platforms: Mainframes, selenium,UNIX, PowerBuilder, SAP, Oracle, Web-based applications .NET, HTML, Java, SmallTalk and Windows based applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Winston Salem, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the System Requirement Documents, Functional Requirements to understand the scope of the testing.
• Define and implement Requirements management process, Test Management process, Defect management process.
• Responsible for writing of Master Test Plan which talks about Objective, Scope, Entry and Exit criteria, features and functions to be tested.
• Prepared master Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Integration, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Understanding Business Requirements and Functional Specifications of the Application Under Test.
• Done performance testing to test practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload.
• Proficient in Defect Reporting, Tracking and Documentation over the entire defect cycle. Used tools like Quality Center for defect tracking and test management.
• Preparing Test Scenario as per Business Logic and Decomposing Test Conditions/Scenarios to Test Cases
• Developed detailed manual Test Cases according to design specifications and functional requirements of the application
• Developed and executed automated scripts using QTP for Functionality and Regression testing.
• Performed Database testing by running SQL queries in TOAD against Oracle database.
• Maintained test cases and test scripts to in corporate Bug Fixes and new enhancements in each release.
• Provided weekly build Regression Support by executing test cases evaluating test results and maintenance of New/Fixed bugs.
• Actively participated in walk through, Meetings and interacted with developers for any technical issues.
• Created Functional and Regression test cases in Quality Center.
• Reviewed Test cases for requirements coverage, ambiguity, and completeness.
• Organized, Prioritized tracked and controlled requirements using Requirements manager in Quality Center.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Business Review meetings
• Analyzing Business and Technical Requirements and Preparing test Requirements.
• Project planning and tracking the status.
• Involved in Test Execution of various modules of front end based application.
• Run Regression Test to ensure that introduction of new component into application doesn't Affect the existing functionality.
• Performed the Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface Testing on the application while Working with the business people and business analysts directly.
• Kept track of the customer bugs, worked with project manager to decide their priority and Then assigned them to appropriate developers.
• Monitor project status and report status to all stakeholders.
• Preparation and review of Test Strategy and Test plans
• Coordinating with different stakeholders in the project
• Onsite/Offshore Co-ordinations and ensuring quality deliverables on schedule.
• Maintenance of the test cases for enhancements and modifications to the product
• Participation in project status meetings to discuss about the bugs and other important issues.
• Evaluating the AS-IS Scenario and customize the base pack of ‘Utility-in-a-box’ solution to fit to PG&E testing solution, perform model based testing, progressive automation using various automation tools like HP QTP, SAHI.
• Identifying the project risks and mitigating them through effective risk management plans.

Confidential

QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis, Understanding the enhancements/change requests in scope and planning for the resources/required training/schedules.
• Writing Test scripts and recording test scripts.
• Reviewing test scripts and Execution of scripts.
• Experience developing and executing QTP automation test scripts.
• Involved in Test Execution of various modules of Java based application.
• Done performance testing to test practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload.
• Anchor proof of concept (POC) development to validate proposed solution and reduce technical risk.
• Verified the applications in multilingual in nature to serve the customers in a better manner.
• Created, Maintained and tracked schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Automation deliverables - feasibility study, estimates, strategy preparation and implementation, framework design and development, automation scenario preparation, execution, batch runs and result reporting and analysis
• Creation/Updating of Daily Status Reports/Weekly Metrics/Monthly Productivity Metrics