SUMMARY:

• Over 4 years of QA experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Outstanding knowledge of industry standard quality assurance procedures .
• Adept Confidential analyzing business requirements and software requirement specifications .
• Excellent working knowledge in design & implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the AUT
• Strong ability to implement all established quality assurance methods .
• Extensive experience in Functional testing,, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back - end testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Ad-hoc testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, Build Verification Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• In-depth knowledge of Windows Linux HTML Java JavaScript Ajax and XML
• Familiar with Agile Methodology - Scrum, V Model and Waterfall Models.
• Solid understanding of quality assurance and software development life cycles.
• Experienced in Bug Tracking System and Process.
• Develop & Maintain rich UI-driven (Selenium), script driven (WebDriver), tool driven (SoapUI, etc.) tests that fully exercise selected code components
• Exceptional communications and organizational abilities Responsible for checking cross browser compatibility and hence worked on different browsers like Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to understand the concepts and technical and non-technical requirements.
• Experience managing daily communication with an offshore development team.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Testing Tools: Mercury Interactive Win Runner 7.6/8.0, Load Runner 7.8/8.0, QuickTestPro 6.5/10.00, Test Director 7.6/ 8.2, Quality Center 9.0.

Languages: HTML, XML,SQL, VB script, Javascript, ASP, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic

Web Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic

SDLC: AGILE, WATERFALL

Platforms: Windows XP/2000/NT, Linux, UNIX

Documentation Tools: MS-Office, MS Project, HP Quality Center , Bugzilla, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports. Tested server and Web Portal.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects.
• Did Integration Testing, GUI testing, Smoke and Sanity Testing, and Acceptance testing in the new builds for Basic Functionality Checking.
• Coordinated with software developers and business analysis to discuss QA concerns.
• Wrote Test plan and Test cases for the Integration testing and system testing.
• Wrote Test Cases in Mercury Quality center that would test various Test scenarios.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries for QA testing.
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the project, and conducted project related presentations.
• Prepared user manual and performed user acceptance testing.
• Apply test scripts and plans to verify systems meet the specifications outlined for d Confidential processing; validate software QA prior to production environment introduction.
• Build mobile site test plans.
• Develop and execute mobile site test cases.

Environment: Load Runner, Windows NT /2000, SQL Server 2005, Sybase, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, PowerBuilder, Clear-Quest, Rational Test Manage, HTML, XML, Notes SAS.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and establish, and enforce quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Gathered the business requirements.
• Performed requirement analysis and gap analysis.
• Developed Test cases for manual testing and automated them using Win Runner, Silk, Load Runner, Silk performer and QTP.
• Perform the analysis of formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project Lead.
• Did Integration Testing, GUI testing, Smoke and Sanity Testing, and Acceptance testing in the new builds for Basic Functionality Checking.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries for QA testing;
• Assisted the PM in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the project, and conducted project related presentations;
• Prepared user manual and performed user acceptance testing;
• Played a key role in the planning and testing the system enhancements and conversions
• Experience working with and developing automated test scripts using test automation tools & frameworks such as UFT, Selenium.
• Applied expertise developing automated scripts using programming and scripting languages such as Java, VBScript.
• Interfaced with the development team utilizing ASP, JavaScript and Visual Basic and produced detailed user-interface prototypes and performed usability testing.
• Helped develop UNIX and VB scripts for testing. Documented complete software testing process.
• Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects.

Environment: Web Logic, Java, Quick Test Pro 8.2, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Unix, Load Runner 8.2, Sun Java, MSJVM, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000, DB2, MS-Project 2000/2003.