PROFILE SUMMARY:

• 6+ Years of diverse experience in the field of Information technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance that includes Test Planning, Test Analysis/Design, Development, Execution and Management of Test cases
• Expertise in developing Test Case Design, test scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirements documents
• Experience in Software Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Ad - hoc Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, cross browser testing across various releases and builds
• Expertise in preparing test cases, test plans, test scenarios with extensive experience in Manual testing with knowledge of Automated Testing.
• Expertise in using Mercury Products tools Quality Center, for functional, regression testing and for creating Test Plans, Executing Test Cases and Tracking Defects.
• Well Versed in GUI application testing, Back End testing, Database testing, Front-end testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Cross Browser Testing, Database Testing and Black Box Testing on Client-server, stand alone, and web- based applications with multiple server domains.
• Represent QA in all phases of product development including requirement, design, construction, testing, implementation, code reviews and support
• Extensive expertise on all the phase of the Software Testing Life Cycle ranging from Requirements gathering to User Acceptance Testing, Defects logging and tracking till closure.
• In depth knowledge of End-to-End testing of software, standard for Quality Assurance.
• Formulating Test Strategies and Preparation of Test Plan and Test Scenarios.
• Analyzing bugs, interaction with development team members in fixing the errors.
• Expert in testing web based and client-server based applications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, sharp personality with extensive documentation and writing skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HP: Quick Test Professional browser stack, iMacros

HP: Quality Center, ALM. JIRA, TFS, Test Director 8.2

Oracle 10g/9i, MS: Access, MS SQL, Sybase

Documentation Tools: MS Office, Adobe tools, confluence

Methodologies: Agile and Water fall

WORK EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Test Plan and test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases documents.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing Functional and Regression testing.
• Involved in Compatibility testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Coordinated with end users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Created and maintained regression documents to aid in the QA regression process.
• Performed Regression Testing using Quickest Professional.
• Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-application/organization architectural issues and decisions.
• Used Mercury Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirements for a better quality software product.
• Worked directly with analysts and developers to investigate software defects and accurately and clearly reports those defects in Quality Center.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Created, updated and maintained Test Scripts for different builds and releases.
• Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, and troubleshoot defects.
• Attended periodic meetings and teleconferences on problem resolution

QA Tester

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Cases and Test steps for manual testing.
• Performed Functionality Testing and GUI Testing.
• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Reviewed QA check lists to make sure that all the requirements are met for any releases
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Developed and executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using QuickTest Professional.
• Used TestDirector for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Managed the project using TestDirector, added test categories and test details.
• Met with developers and technical content writers regularly to update test documents.
• Designed and executed Test Cases
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared

QA Tester

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Participated in collecting and analyzing the business requirements.
• Used Quality Center to manage test procedures.
• Part of the process of writing test strategies, test plans and test cases for manual and automated testing.
• Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Involved in manual User acceptance testing with various combinations.
• Involved in Regression and smoke testing for the new build functionality testing.
• Worked directly with developers to report discrepancies and to resolve defects and track changes to status.
• Involved in planning and creating Test scenarios and Test objectives to ensure that the system modification will meet the specified business requirements.
• Performed Data Driven Test scripts for reading multiple data.
• Used Quality Center to create report.
• Used Quality Center to analyze the results of playback.

QA Internship

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the business process and wrote test cases and mocked test data for both positive and negative test scenarios.
• Uploaded and managed test requirements and test cases in Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, System, System Integration, GUI, Ad hoc and UAT testing.
• Executed Regression test cases, documented test results and reported and tracked defects.
• Stored Pass/Fail results in project folder and/or in Quality Center and retested and closed fixed defects.
• Performed Smoke testing after the build deployment on a weekly basis after the defect fixes.
• Auditing business and functionality necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.
• Retesting defects and making necessary updates in Quality Center.
• Attend meetings with business analysts and developers to discuss defects.
• Involved in Scrum type of agile methodology testing.
• Performing Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, and End to End Testing.
• Send daily project updates to senior management.
• Performing Interface testing- Validating data content and format on XML files that sent and received from third party vendors.
• Meeting with Management, Developers, and Business Analysts to design functional specifications before each Release.
• Using Quality Center to customize users and user groups.
• Using Quality Center to create and maintain new Domains and Projects.
• Creating Regression test sets for various test projects and updating the test set after each test cycle.
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing.