PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 5 Years of experience in software quality assurance and testing with various application systems and environments.
• Broad knowledge of testing approaches and techniques for certifying software acceptance. Diagnostic problem - solving skills to help with root-cause analysis.
• Good understanding of 3-tier Software Development Life Cycle and Agile, Waterfall, Iterative software development principles.
• Experience creating detailed robust and reliable test cases/scripts based on input (requirements and use cases) for deployment during standard testing lifecycle.
• Proficient in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Black box, User Acceptance (UAT), Performance testing.
• Tested Web Services, XML, and WSDL using SOAP UI tools. Able to prepare reuable test data using XML, JSON formatter, extraxting data from SQL dB.
• Experience with participating in walkthrough sessions with development team to review completeness of functionality.
• Identified, documented and reported bugs, errors, interoperability flaws and other issues within proprietary software applications.
• Experience in SQL queries and joins (inner/outer etc) to validate data. Used TOAD to execute SQL queries.
• Experienced in using test management tool HP ALM/Quality Center, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Management (MTM).
• Experienced in using Quick Test Professional UFT (QTP) for Functional and Regression testing.
• Experienced in developing Automation Frameworks to perform Functionality and GUI testing using QTP/UFT in vbScript.
• Worked collaboratively with QA, development and business groups to complete comprehensive testing.
• Able to work in fast paced, result oriented environment consistently delivering high quality of work.
• Team player with good communication and written skills with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.

AREAS OF EXCELLENCE:

• Manual&Automation Testing
• TFS
• Data Validation
• Black Box and UAT
• Risk Analysis
• Agile Scrum Roles
• Test Data Set up
• Test Reporting
• Team Leadership
• Organization
• Critical Thinking
• Excellent Communication
• Priortization
• API
• SDLC & STLC

TECHNICAL TOOLS:

Testing & Reporting Tools: ALM/QC, MTM, Rally, HP Quality Center/ALM, HP QTP/UFTSoapUI, Advanced Rest Client, Postman, Reg-Ex,TFS

Database Backend Tools: MS SQL Server 2014, Oracle, SQL plus, MySQL, Mongo,Toad

Languages: Vb Script, SQL, Pl/SQL, XML, JASON, HTML, CSS

Development Environment: Net, Visual Studio, Java, Python, Node JS

Development Process: SDLC, STLC, TDD, Agile, Iterative, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business team to analyze requirements and develop test plans and test cases for web based and internal client server application.
• Collaborated with all members of the project team (both onsite and offshore) including associates from the Development, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams to ensure quality software application releases.
• Worked in Agile Environment with Business and Development team to oversee quality software development from inception to production release.
• Wrote test plan documents from scratch covering different test scenarios; and share with the team to write test cases and test procedures based on the test plan.
• Prepared project documentation and detailed test cases for both manual and automation tests.
• Created thorough test scenarios for GUI and functionality testing of the web application and cross browser compatibility.
• Performed various forms of testing including Smoke, GUI, functional, performance, regression, integration, system, configuration, load, stress, user acceptance and backend testing.
• Evaluated the accuracy of data provided by database using PL/SQL,raw XML, JSON, & Excel data files.
• Contributed in making decision on which cases to be manually tested and be part of regression suite for automation.
• Generated deliverable reports using HP-ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) to track progress and document defects, as well as follow up with the team for the bug fix priority and severity.
• Worked with QA managers to create user groups and setup the privileges for QA engineers using ALM.
• Helped with creating access for exported and imported project file from different server and created customized fields for reporting needs.

Environment: Quality Center, HTML, JIRA, SQL, MS Office, Java, C#, QTP, UAT, VB Script, MS Office, Windows, Linux/Unix

Confidential, New York,NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test plans for different components within the project.
• Analyzed, revised and created test scenarios per business and functional requirements.
• Worked closely with project manager/Test Lead and Project team to learn about the project functionalities and provided testing timelines.
• Performed different types of testing like smoke, functional, system integration, black box, gray box, positive, negative and regression testing.
• Logged defects encountered in the application through MTM during test cycles and oversaw fix verification.
• Used JIRA and TFS to groom, document and analyze user stories.
• Extensively used my SQL proficiency during data migrations to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Automated Smoke and Regression test cases using vbScripting via UFT.
• Performed Web SOAP Services testing & REST Services Automation by using SoapUI assertion
• Involved in Agile Sprint Planning and Retrospective.

Environment: C# Development, Java Script, Python, MS TFS, MS MTM, MS SQL Server, HP ALM, UFT, UAT,JIRA, Java, VB Script, SQL, HTML, Groovy, SoapUI, Advanced REST Client, MS Office, MS Excel, Excel Macro, Windows, WebDriver, Selenium IDE, TestNG.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the BA, Product Owner, and Development teams to gather and understand use cases, requirements and system implementation.
• Actively participated in various stages of the Software Development Life Cycle such as Design, Planning, Development and Testing.
• Involved in the creation of User Stories based and Test procedure development.
• Prepapred QA status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Reported the bugs, email notifications to project team.
• Designed re-usable automated scripts using Quick Test Professional/UFT, VBScript for web based applications.
• Performed Integration Testing, Functionality testing, System Testing, Back end testing.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Worked with development teams to investigate and correct software bugs and deficiencies based on testing results using Test Foundation Server (TFS).
• Used MTM to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.
• Performed Data Validation using SQL, Defect Resolution and Maintenance.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace requirements.
• Extensively written SQL queries to perform back end testing.
• Executed an end-to-end Test Plan and managed all activities in the plan to confirm all objectives are met and solution works as expected.
• Communicated with support, business and development teams to resolve issues.

Environment: Qualitycenter,ClearQuest,SQLserver,UNIX,FTP,SOAPUI,Websphere,MQSERIES, Mainframe.