SUMMARY:

• Looking for a challenging opportunity as a QA tester to best utilize my skills and increase my breadth of knowledge.
• Quality Assurance tester with over 5 years of professional experience using Testing Management tools such as HP ALM, HP Quality center, JIRA and with extensive knowledge of manual and automation testing process
• Seasoned QA professional with hands - on testing and management expertise.
• Experienced in automation, performance, integration & system testing and parallel testing
• Extensive knowledge and experience in performing web based testing including internet explorer, safari and chrome browsers
• Experienced in the various stages of testing cycles - Unit testing, system integration testing, User acceptance testing, Sanity testing and regression testing models.
• Very good knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in developing test plans, test cases based on business user requirements
• Experienced in working with business users in understanding requirements and creating test cases based on the user requirements
• Extensive experience in using the testing tools such as HP Application Life Cycle Management, HP Quality Center, JIRA, & Ace.
• Good understanding of defect priority and severity assignment process
• Experienced in tracking test case execution progress, test results analysis, defect reporting & tracking defects to Closure
• Experienced in causal Analysis, system analysis, decision making about the defect as input for program change requests
• Experienced in performing mobile testing on iPhone, iPad, blackberry & Andriod devices
• Good experience in Microsoft office - MS word, Excel, power point & access database.
• Good experience in preparing quality documentation for defect analysis reports
• Excellent problem solving, inter-personal and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Unit: Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1

Testing Management Tools: HP Application Life Cycle Management, HP Quality Center, JIRA, ACE

Database: Access, SQL

Microsoft: Excel, word, power point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the business walkthroughs to understand the change in business functionality and its impact in creating the business usage scenarios.
• Analyzed the application under test and devise test methodology, test strategy & test plan
• Analyzed the business process and converted the processes in to flow charts for ease of understanding and writing the test specifications.
• Reviewed test cases, and helped the upper management in doing a Cost benefit analysis in selection of automation test cases, efficiency and productivity improvement measures
• Performed unit testing, system integration & user acceptance testing in different environments by making sure all the integration points are thoroughly being tested.
• Tested the user approval routing process, change management & inventory tracking processes using the mobile applications in iPhone, iPad and Andriod systems.
• Prepared use cases, specifications & flows for performing the unit, integration and user acceptance testing.
• Utilized the bug tracking tool HP Application life cycle management for tracking the defect life cycle and making sure all the communication for the defects are properly done for the defect resolution.
• Performed regression testing on some of the field service releases and logged the defects accordingly.
• Defined the test criteria, project schedules and base lined the Test plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Developed scripts for automation testing and trained some of the other analysts on the testing scripts.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business and functional users in understanding the business process flow and prepare the overall high level test plan.
• Prepared the test plan, test strategy document and detailed test scripts in excel format.
• Tested the clients Amli-Mart site, which is a web-based site for all the supplies. Tested the web browser version and the mobile versions of the site.
• Worked on creating the detailed test scripts in HP Quality Center.
• Tested the application sites in unit, system integration and user acceptance test modes.
• Prepared simple SQL scripts for running some of the sanity tests needed for pre-production testing and user acceptance testing.
• Assisted other QA team members in writing the test scripts and SQL queries.
• Performed the end-to end application manual testing for AMLI-MART. End to end testing involved multiple system integrations and different 3rd party interface testing as well.
• Logged defects in to client’s defect tracking system ACE. Followed the defect through the entire defect life cycle with the accurate Priority and severity ratings.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed the unit, system integration and user acceptance testing on the Confidential supplier portal application.
• Responsible for logging defects during testing of the web based application and also responsible for tracking the defects until the resolution process.
• Worked with Confidential Business Analysts in understanding the requirements and come up with process flows in preparation of the Use cases.
• Created detailed test scripts for testing the various features and attributes of the web based portal.
• Created a test plan and testing strategy document for testing the web-based application.