PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Diligent QA Tester with more than 7+ years of experience testing Web - based applications. Proficient in test strategy implementation test plan development test execution and bug tracking. Specialize in test development scheduling execution and test project management.
• Expert in writing, reviewing, executing Test cases and have exposure to all stages of SDLC in Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Experience in transforming Users expectations of the system into Business Requirements and subsequently designing the solution.
• Profound experience with manual quality assurance testing procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of product release processes and quality assurance goals.
• Mentored remote field offices in Automation Test Strategy and Test Planning.
• Hands on manual (front/back end) & regression testing of web applications with many different scenarios while managing workflow with HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Develop test plan, written/re-written cases in HP ALM/QC & Excel from scratch & executed them.
• Took ownership for preparing and maintaining necessary test artifacts with appropriate information of test estimates.
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite: Visio (Flowcharts), Excel (Data manipulating, pivot, charts), MS Project & Word.
• Worked in Waterfall and Agile environments with sprint phases.
• Worked with cross functional teams & cross functional projects simultaneously.
• Testing Tools Knowledge: HP ALM/Quality Center and JIRA.
• Performed UAT, Regression, GUI, Smoke, Re-testing, System, functional, Negative, BI Testing, Content v erification, XML coding verification, correspondence verification, Sanity, Performance.
• Managed many difficult scenarios by independently thinking & applying probable solutions or referring to archive of previous phases or working as a team with lead, manager, developers & other testers.
• Contributing to daily Scrum meetings with project management - Project Manager, BA, QA Manager, Developers, Support team lead - for daily test status with updates on risk / issues identified if any and proposing mitigation plan.
• Performed Automation testing with QTP, UFT.
• Proficiency in Team Foundation Server.
• Experience in troubleshooting and application support.
• Assisted business users in defining UAT test cases and plans; Maintained test cases and test data
• Performed production deployment and the Business verification testing.
• Solid / polished verbal, nonverbal, written & interpersonal communication skills.
• SQL & Data Analysis: Queries, joins, data sorting, conditioning with clauses & operators.
• Quick learner, strong attention to detail, an inspiring & helping team member

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, Linux and Unix

Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall-Model, V-Model

Testing Tools: QTP, UFT, TOAD

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla, HP - AGM

Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL VB script

Database: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MS Access

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

Web technologies: HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Creating Test Requirements Specification documents, Test plan and Test Result documentation.
• Scheduled Walk-through with Bussiness for Test case Approvals.
• Involved in SDLC, Agile Process, Business Process Design and Implementation.
• Performed Data mining for test data.
• Wrote and executed the test cases manually.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL server.
• Performed Functional, regression, positive, negative and UAT testing.
• Performed Regression testing using automated testing tool like selenium with spring boot framework.
• Validated End to End automated scripts using automation Tools.
• Managing the onsite and offshore Automation teams.
• Monitoring and measuring Memory utilization and Bandwidth.
• Logged the errors, reported defects, determined repair priorities and tracked the defects until resolution using HP ALM
• Monitoring test progress throughout the project release cycle, providing test results and detailed status reports.
• Provided training for other team members.
• Coordinating offshore and onsite teams.
• Attending and involving day to day scrum meetings.
• Conducting project reviews to improve project implementations.
• Working with QA Director to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Environment: Pega, SQL Server 2008, HP Quality Center 9.0, MS Project 2010, MS office 2010, Windows XP Environment: Selenium, SQL, HTML, SOAP UI

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Took ownership for preparing ad maintaining necessary test artifacts with appropriate information of test estimates,
• Mentored new team members and provided knowledge transfer on designing test plan, test execution scripts, technical assistance and tools used
• Contributing to daily Scrum meetings with project management - Project Manager, BA, QA Manager, Developers, Support team lead - for daily test status with updates on risk / issues identified if any and proposing mitigation plan
• Performed time to time reviewing and updating of test cases as per the requirements.
• Reviewed Test related documents such as Test Plan, Test Scenario throughout the STLC.
• Created test status report after each sprint.
• Wrote 237 Test Cases according to business requirements.
• Created test status report after each sprint.
• Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.
• Performed rigorous Manual Testing such Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, Usability testing, Regression Testing, Beta testing.
• Worked with the users and with various levels of management to identify requirements, use cases and to develop functional specifications.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, created Test Cases, and Reporting.
• Participated in defect triage meetings with the development and business teams to discuss the bugs logged daily
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Quality Center
• Fulfilled Positive and Negative Testing for system validations.
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.
• Undertook traceability of the Test Cases to requirements from Test plan tab to Test Cases in Test Lab and produced necessary reports on Metrics from Quality Center.
• Daily update and managed Offshore team.
• Effectuated End-to-end Testing and coordinated with Test Lead on the sign off process
• Furnished modification and enhancement requests as needed to correct the defect and make the software efficient and user friendly

Environment: C#.Net, SQL Server 2008, HP Quality Center 9.0, MS Project 2010, MS office 2010, Windows XP Environment: Selenium, SQL, HTML, SOAP UI, ORMB, Peak

Confidential, Albany, NY

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took ownership for preparing and maintaining necessary test artifacts with appropriate information of test estimates,
• Worked with the QA / Development team for improving the testing methodology.
• Mentored new team members and provided knowledge transfer on designing test plan, test execution scripts, technical assistance and tools used
• Contributing to daily meetings with project management - Project Manager, BA, QA Manager, Developers, for daily test status with updates on risk / issues identified if any and proposing mitigation plan
• Develop and Mapping of Test cases to Requirements and Designs and Walkthrough the Test Cases to the Project Team.
• Held Bi-weekly meeting with team to discuss progress of SIT
• Used Quality Center with Master Plan to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Reviewed gathered and analyzed Business Requirements, Functional requirements and Design Document.
• Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases.
• Involved in developing User Acceptance (UA) strategy and approach, which defines the business criteria to accept the system solution.
• Created and maintained Activity diagrams that show the flow of activities through the system for all new/enhancements
• Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, GUI testing, Black box testing, Sanity Retesting End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in USING HP ALM. Worked with the Developers and the Test Lead to verify the Test Cases.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results and tested the Responsive Design of the website.
• Involved in testing flexible grids, layouts, images and CSS media queries. Used HP ALM tool for defects, Bug Tracking and Reporting.
• Verified and documented bugs in HP ALM for various defects found while performing functionality testing according to the test suite.
• Followed Agile Methodology for enhancements in this project during an implementation stage.
• Attended daily meetings (SCRUM) and there has been a test deliverable.
• Attended regular scrum standup meeting to discuss the tasks.
• Worked with the Quality Assurance Manager, and assumed the responsibility to provide status reports, and to escalate issues requiring resolution at various levels of management.
• Provided technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using HP ALM.
• Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management.
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using HP ALM.

Environment: Windows 7/XP/NT SQL Server, Jira, HP ALM, Web Services, Business Objects, Visual Basic, DB2, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, XML, JMS, UML, Rational Requisite, and Rational Rose, MS Office Suits.

Confidential, NAPA, CA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Understanding Project Requirements.
• Gathered all the Business Requirements
• Created and developed Test Plan, Test Scenario for Billing Accounts, Process Payments, Cancel policies and Refunds for different user lines for multiple states.
• Involved in developing Test cases based on SRS.
• Developed generalized functions based on scenarios which are to be useful for future and present also. Involved in preparing test data based on the scenarios.
• Involved in UTA testing and performed different type of testing like Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, and Regression testing to ensure that application is error free.
• Logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.
• Performed regression testing after every build.
• Interaction with Developers, Team members and client for requirement clarifications.
• Performed testing on Refunds, Financial Transactions.
• Tested role-based security which allows/restricts access to system features and data based on roles assigned to a user.
• Extensively tested flat rate, prorate and short rate cancellation procedures.
• Created UAT test cases and Executed them, helped the end users understand and use the application.

Environment: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, DB2, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, XML, VB, SQL-Programmer, Toad, SQA Suite, Quick Test Professional, Quality Centre, Star Team, Rational Requisite, Rational Rose, Web Services, Business Objects and MS Of fice Suits.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Instituted Test related documents such as Test Plan, Test Scenario, and Test Cases throughout the STLC
• Interacted with the business analysts in requirements analysis, reviewed design and use Case documents
• Performed rigorous Manual Testing such Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, Back- End Testing, Regression Testing
• Supported UAT Testing and worked with the UAT team as needed
• Participated in defect triage meetings with the development and business teams to discuss the bugs logged daily
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirements
• Devised Test Plans in Quality Center based on requirements for each release
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Quality Center
• Fulfilled Positive and Negative Testing for system validations
• Undertook traceability of the Test Cases to requirements from Test plan tab to Test Cases in Test Lab and produced necessary reports on Metrics from Quality Center
• Effectuated End-to-end Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and coordinated with Test Lead on the sign off process
• Furnished modification and enhancement requests as needed to correct the defect and make the software efficient and user friendly

Environment: - .Net, SQL Server 2008, HP Quality Center 9.0, MS Project 2010, MS Office 2010, Windows XP

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed user requirement analysis and developed test cases / test scripts from functional requirement document.
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions with users and test planning sessions with QA resources.
• Write test cases to meet the requirements for the Change Request.
• Add test cases to the Quality Center and map them to the requirement section in Test Lab.
• Status reporting on testing progress to project managers.
• Involved in Functionality, Exploratory, Installation, System and testing with Test Case Execution.
• Perform the work-load balance on QA resources by prioritizing and assigning production support work during off-peak time.
• Decomposed test conditions/scenarios to test cases.
• Recognized for team skills and keeping the teams together toward the end goal
• Maintained various version controls using Harvest.
• Executed Compatibility testing for various browsers and operating systems.
• Performed Regression Testing by executing test scripts using Quality Center.
• Document defects in Quality Center and make sure defects are resolved on time.
• Conducted bug review process for every bug fix or code change.

Environment: Manual testing, Mercury Interactive’s and Quality Center, ALM, Harvest 4.1.2, Java, JavaScript, SQL Server.