Sr. Qa Analyst Resume
Los Angeles, CA
SUMMARY:
- Solutions - focused QA tester with over 10 years of experience; high-level proficiency with ALM and UFT, HP Mobile Center and other HP toolsets; and a foundation in VB Script, SQL, Oracle, MS SQL, SOAP UI
- Experience in handling QA teams and managing deliverables and test metrics in an onsite-offshore model and experience in maintaining client relationship
- Excel in creating test plans and writing/running automated test scripts to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality. Serve as a value-adding member of QA teams.
- Experience in developing test automation frameworks using UFT 12.52 for testing web applications developed in .Net
- Experience in setting up of Mobile Testing Lab using HPMC
- Performed the upgrade of ALM 12.50 and installation of UFT 12.52 and HP Mobile Centre
- Enabled the synchronization of Team Foundation Server and HP ALM using HP ALM Synchronizer
- Performed project customization in HP ALM for a support
- Extensive use of HP ALM 12.50 (Site Administration, Lab Management)
- Nine years of work experience in IT in the roles of QA lead/Sr. QA Analyst supporting areas of client-server technology, web applications and Data warehousing, in diverse business and technical environments, with demonstrated leadership abilities and setting up of test environments
- Worked across domains such as BFSI (Banking Financial services and Insurance) domain, Healthcare and Retail
- Expertise in designing and developing test strategy, test plan, test cases and generating test reports, defect reports and product quality assurance documentation
- Experience in writing SQL queries for backend testing and validation of database by comparing data
- In depth technical understanding and experience in Data Warehousing, Data Validations and ETL testing
- Strong testing experience in: Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, and Strong skills in implementing the testing process life cycle, test requirements, design test cases, test data, test plans and execute test runs under Agile environment
- Strong experience in creating concise and clear reports for distribution and presentation to senior management and business users on a regular basis. Experience in monitoring and tracking implementation plans
- Experience in analysing BRDs (Business Requirements Document), HDD (High-level Design Documents) and FSD (Functional specification Documents) and come up with Test Strategy Document and requirement traceability documents
- Strong skills in writing Test Documentation (QA estimates, Test Plan, Test Design, Test Scenarios and Test Cases) for manual and automated testing during Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Testing Tools: UFT 12.52(QTP), HP Mobile Centre 12.52, HP ALM Synchronizer, HP Sprinter for ALMBug
Reporting Tools: HP ALM 12.50
Scripting Languages: VBScript, Javascript
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server
OS/Platforms: UNIX Windows
Version Control: Clear Case, MS Team Foundation Server
Documentation Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project
Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall
Exposure: Web and Mobile app testing, Data Warehouse Testing, Web service Testing, Mainframe Testing
Knowledge and getting trained on: Java, Object Oriented Programming
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Los Angeles, CA
Sr. QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Solely responsible for the setup of the Mobile Testing Lab interfaced using HP Mobile Centre Server.
- Performed upgrade activity for HP ALM 12.50 and managed the overall actives as a site admin.
- Installed UFT12.52 IDE, UFT Runtime Engine, LeanFT and LeanFT Runtime Engine.
- Currently setting up of Functional testing environments for the QA teams by leveraging the ALM’s capabilities of storing all the UFT test scripts, test data and object repository and by scheduling and running the tests on VM with UFT runtime engine.
- As a ALM admin, I have created projects and customized the defect screens and created new fields and functionalities using workflows as per the needs of the projects
- Created a keyword based hybrid automation framework which is used for testing both web applications and mobile applications.
- Leveraged UFT 12.52 in collaboration with HP Mobile Centre to perform testing of responsive web applications and native apps in both Android and iOS apps.
- Performed synchronization of defect schema between TFS 2015 and HP ALM 12.50 using HP ALM Synchronizer
Confidential, Brea, CA
Sr. QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed Manual Testing methods and created an Automated Test Strategy- Keyword Base hybrid framework on consumer facing websites
- Defined entry and exit criteria and provided continual risk assessment to project managers and stake holders
- Defined ambiguities with the business and the functional requirements and resolved them with the business analysts
- Performed testing on Insurance platform Renaissance and Salesforce applications
- Performed scope assessments and planned for regression testing
- Worked with the development team to create a suite of test data of both input and expected results that fully exercises data validation
- Organized system walkthrough and inspection meetings to understand the business rules and system operation flows
- Used Quality Centre for assigning defects to the developer and took the responsibility to get them to a closed status after working with developers and identifying the actual problem
- Planned and managed user acceptance testing and production environment evaluations prior to several production releases.
Confidential
QA Lead/Sr. QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Managed and led a team of ten QA Analysts
- Performed detailed project planning, management and reporting for all application releases including coordination with key applications stakeholders, project managers and development leads
- Was involved in process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues across organizational boundaries
- Responsible for tracking, resolving and reporting on production issues, project issues/risks, and application defects for all supported applications
- Facilitated defect triage meetings, test plan walkthroughs, Test scenario and test case review to the clients and BA and development leads
- Conducted Unit, Integration, System, Functional Testing and assisted in UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
- Reviewed Manual Testing methods and created and implemented an Automated Test Strategy
- Assisted client implement User Acceptance Test (UAT) including creating Test Plan, generating test data, designing test cases, preparing test environment and executing test
- Initiated Defect Prevention Activities to reduce the post production defects
- Organized daily stand up meeting, planning review and retrospective.
Confidential
QA Lead/Sr. QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Managed and led a team of nine QA Analysts
- Actively interacted with Team Members, Developers, Business Analysts and Project Management team to analyse the business process and requirements
- Involved in Business functionality review meetings developing Test plan, writing and implementation of the Test Cases
- Was involved in DWH (Data warehouse testing)
- Performed testing of Cognos BI Reports
- Analysed user requirement document and developed test plan, which includes Trace ability Matrix, Test Objectives, Test Strategies, Test Environment, Test Priorities and Test Cases.
- Testing included performing required Functional, Regression, System and End-to-End Testing
- Managed Testing and Defect Management using QC
- Interacting with the Business users for planning UAT cases and timelines
- Preparing Test Summary Report, Defects Report and Status Reports.
Confidential
QA Lead/Sr. QA Engineer/QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analysed the Business Requirements all Specification Documents
- Started in this project as a Test Associate was promoted to Test Engineer and was moved to the Client place and played the role of an Onsite coordinator and a Test Lead
- Responsible for the QA of Cognos Reports and supported UAT
- Experienced Onsite coordinator at GE Capital - Stamford, USA for 1 year and 6 months
- Interacted with the business users and helped them perform the UAT
- Organized and actively participated in the defect meetings involving the client, business users, QA team, Development team and other support teams
- Organized and actively participated the QA Test Scenarios and cases walkthrough for the client and the business users
- Took responsibility of Status Reports, Defect Reports, and Test Summary Reports that were a deliverable to the client.
- Responsible for the submission of the QA documents for the GE process Tollgates for every release.
- Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents
- Acquired additional skills in test methodology
- Preparing Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Data guidelines and Zero day verification
- Review Manual Test Strategy document for entire application
- Performed Positive Testing and Negative Testing scenarios as per requirements
- Developed Test cases Using Quality Centre based on requirements gathered from Functional Specifications and Design documents
- Wrote data driven tests to check how application performs with different sets of data
- Closely interacted with the development team to verify defect fixes, and update defect status
- Primary responsibility was to perform Backend Testing and used SQL queries to extract data from the database
- Worked on ALM to design and formulate the test plan, test cases, test procedures based on the requirement documents
- Used ALM for assigning defects to the developer and took the responsibility to get them to a closed status after working with developers and identifying the actual problem
- Coordinated test plan walkthrough, test case review meetings and defect review meetings.
Confidential
Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Played the role of Test engineer in this project
- Was involved in customizing the reporting architecture and coding of keywords so as to automate almost all major modules of vision plus
- Developed database utility applications using HTML, vbscript and excel vba based application
- Created Macros for internal projects using VBA in Excel for the status reports, template preparations
- Created and Enriched the Automation Scripts at Screen Level and Functional level for mainframe (Vision Plus) using Visual Basic Script with QTP 9.2
- Developed HTAs (HTML Applications) and Excel VBA based applications as a comprehensive database utility