PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Software Quality Analyst and Testing professional with 2+ years of experience in Retail, E - Commerce and Banking
• Expertise in Manual/Automated testing with extensive knowledge of software development Methodologies, testing methodologies, QA strategy, Process and tools.
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile Software development methodologies.
• Understanding of software testing life cycle (STLC) including requirements analysis, test strategy preparations, test plan development, test case creation, test execution, defect tracking, test closure and test reporting.
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Analysis of Business requirements and software Requirement Specification to create test plans and test case for manual and automated testing.
• Experience in Installation testing, compatibility testing, smoke and sanity testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing (UAT), Exploratory testing, positive and negative testing, System testing, Graphic user interface (GUI) testing, and performance testing.
• Use of SQL to perform backend testing on SQL Server databases.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, Organization, Project management and problem solving skills.
• Test case management using TestLink, Microsoft Test Manager, MS Excel, HP Quality Center/ALM, and Team Foundation
• A fast learner, detail oriented, dedicated team player with a strong work ethic, Positive attitude, and open to learning new things.
• Excellent judgment skills to identify areas of high-risk, critical business areas, and prioritize tasks to focus testing effort when time is limited.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 7/XP Vista/8 Mac OS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, Microsoft Test Manager, Test Link, Team Foundation Server

Defect Tracking Tools: DTS, FogBugz, Jira, Bugzilla, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Database: SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Software Application: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile and scrum environment.
• Developed plan with project lead and team members.
• Requirements and Gap Analysis and work with the Business Analysts to close these gaps.
• Used user stories to develop effecting test scenarios.
• Developed Test case and test script creation from the business and functional requirement documents.
• Create test data with the help of the HR team and SMEs.
• Perform smoke testing of the product to evaluate the product for further testing.
• Involved in functional testing of all kinds of enhancement features, writing and maintaining manual Test Cases of each required module.
• Defect logging, defect closure and status reporting using TFS.
• Reported several defects and enhancements using TFS and provided detailed steps, core dumps, and screen shots, etc. for the better understanding.
• Involved in improving the quality of software by developing and executing (Positive and Negative) Test Cases that conform to defined functional specifications and design documents.
• Performed large Regression testing in shorter times to maintain the cut-off time schedules for IT team.

Environment: System Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, UAT, Agile, TFS, MS office, and Windows 8 Environment.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Program Increment (PI) meetings and planned the sprints with QA lead and testers.
• Reviewed user stories and designed test cases for execution.
• Developed test processes and approaches according to standards.
• Created test cases for multiple scenarios using HP Quality Center.
• Created system integration test cases for third party systems.
• Ran test scripts using ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
• Worked with business analyst on analyzing the priority and severity of defects.
• Worked with testing team in identifying actual defect and submitted them for fixing and retested accordingly.
• Worked with developers in resolving systems defects.
• Provided daily and weekly status of Quality assurance activities to upper management.

Environment: Agile, TFS, MS office, and Windows 8 Environment.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Letter Request Tool: The extract is really tested in the HUB. As time allows letters are reviewed targeting the Borrower details. The letter generation is what triggers information back into DOTs (Database) for reconciliation and MSP updates so going to this level is required for full testing coverage.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements, Functional Specification documents to carry out the testing activities
• Attended for Walkthrough Meetings and peer review Meetings.
• Validated the data by using SQL queries to make sure that the data is retrieving the same and according to the results I have validated in the XML data (Data mapping).
• Performed complete manual testing i.e. Smoke, Functional, System Integration, Regression, Database Testing and Verify the XML data, and verify the letter, Address, label, track # in the letter generating tool (ICMP).
• Used ALM tool for Test case writing, Traceability Matrix, Defect tracking.
• Attended for daily status/defect meetings and Review Meetings.

Environment: HP Quality Center 11.0, Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.5, SQL Server 2008, 8.5, MSP SURF, SharePoint.