SUMMARY:

• Solutions - focused QA Analyst with 4+ years of professional experience; high-level proficiency with QC toolsets; and a foundation in Java, Advance SQL, Linux/Unix, and monitoring tools.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing, Backed end Testing, Black Box/White Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/Negative Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Boundary Value Testing.
• Developed ETL designs with extensive use of aggregators, lookup, update strategy, router, and joiner transformations.
• Highly skilled in relational and non-relational databases with extensive experience in writing SQL queries.
• Excel in creating test plans and writing/running test scripts to pinpoint software defects, report defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality. Serve as a value-adding member of QA teams.
• Experienced in Web Service testing and execution of automated functional test scripts.
• Expert using open source bug tracking tool HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management and HP Nonstop.
• Experienced in complete software development life-cycle (SDLC) process from gathering requirements, preparing design documents, test cases for testing and change request.
• Execution of Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Tracking, and Custom Report Generation.
• Experience working in Agile methodology as well as Waterfall methodology.
• U nderstanding of Hadoop architecture, Hadoop Distributed File System, and various components such as HDFS, Name Node, Data Node, Job Tracker, Resource Manager, Task Tracker, Node Manager, YARN, and MapReduce concepts.
• Possess good leadership and managerial skills, trained, mentored new associates to achieve our goals and targets.
• Exposure in administrative work like troubleshooting system and administration PC configuration.
• Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping requirement (BRD, FRD, CR) specifications interacting with client, developers, and QA team.
• Quick and eager learner, effective team player with strong communication skills.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

• SQA Testing & Methodologies
• Test Strategies & Coverages
• Functional Requirements
• Test Plans, Cases & Processes
• UI & Compatibility Testing
• Database & ETL Testing
• Defect/Bug Tracking
• Requirement Analysis
• Regression & Negative Testing
• Project & Change Management
• Documentation & Reports

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Putty, Eclipse, Informatica PowerCentre 9.1, Pentaho, SAS, UNIX/LINUX, Windows, SAP, Tableau, MS Office, MS Excel, Visual Studio, MS Visio, MS Project Professional

Programming/Scripting Languages: C, C++, C#, JAVA, .NET, PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, and CSS

Databases: MS Access, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, MySQL

Automation Tools: Selenium IDE, Web Driver

Test Management Tools: Quality Centre, ALM

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, BugZilla

Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Hive, Apache Mahout

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Design and functionality documents.
• Designing Test Plans, Test cases for manual and automation testing.
• Using Python, Jasmine,Protractor, Catalyst for writing automation scripts.
• Performing unit, system, integration, sanity and performance testing.
• Designig Test Plans and Test Cases for Screenshot testing, Accessibility Testing.
• Using aXe, Wave, Dev Tools for Accessibility Testing.
• Helping other teams in converting intergration test cases into automation for a new platform.
• Daily screening of incoming company Feedback reports.
• Manage incoming reports and be a source of information for the character of the reports.
• Escalate emergent issues to PM and/or Dev team.
• Domain expert on the actual usage of the UIs they own.
• Advocates for product excellence by guarding against regression in critical user journeys and explaining the impact of bugs on user experience
• Top Daily Responsibilities:
• Screen all incoming bugs for severity and missing information.
• Escalate high priority bugs to SWEs for immediate triage
• Release/regression testing.
• Thorough feature testing for new features in both staging and production before they are released to alpha users.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Documented and developed new functionality and designed test strategies, test scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes and prepared test data.
• Carried out extensive Backend Testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data by writing SQL queries.
• Knowledge of debugging, normalizing the data and in tuning the performance of the system.
• Recognized for developing excellent test cases and rapidly discovering defect. Reported defects to the developer b y identifying software flaws, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• Reported about 250 accepted defects to the developer, out of which 85% were very high priority.
• Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping requirement, interacting with client, developers, and QA team.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing reporting, and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Quality Center, for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up of the bug life cycle.
• Experience with conducting and running defect triage meeting with development team, on-site team, and testing team.
• Performed SAP TM, CRM, and ERP testing to test the business flow. Interacted with clients, participated in client consulting.
• Worked on SOA architecture, done service testing using SoapUI and JMS test client tools.
• Involved in design and implementation of Selenium WebDriver automation framework for smoke and regression test suites (TestNG and Maven).
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports and mentored the team to use HP-QC/HP-ALM.

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Effectively written test cases which fulfilled 100% business requirements.
• Created Test Scenarios for System testing and Regression testing.
• Developed applications for performing CURD operation on employee details of a company using UNIX as front end, ORACLE as database and Python as back end. Tested web applications on Firefox and Internet Explorer.
• Verified and Validated the Data using SQL queries. Developed Test Plans, Test scenarios, Test strategy and Test Reports.
• Completed the testing for each roll-out before time for Authorization testing (Security testing) on HPQC.
• Designed webpages with HTML and CSS to understand the concepts of scripting.