SUMMARY:

• Consultant with overall7 years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance.
• Experience working in Medical Device/Healthcare/Pharma Industries.
• Strong knowledge in all phases ofSDLC and strong working experience in Testing.
• Expertise in requirement analysis, preparing test cases/test data, test execution, defect management.
• Hands on experience in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Initiated preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and status reports related to project.
• Experience in various tools such as IBM RQM, IBM RTC, HP ALM, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) for preparing Test Cases, Test Execution and Defect tracking.
• Worked in various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile/Scrum.
• Experience in coordinating with several teams such as SMEs, BAs, Developers, Project Management when required.
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently.
• Good at multi - tasking and working well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.0 (ALM), Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), SoapUI, Angular JS, IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM), IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), Micro Focus UFT, Selenium

Databases: Oracle 10.0, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2008 R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Tester

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Responsible in participating user story grooming sessions as part of sprint planning to understand the functionality which are written as user stories in Team Foundation Server (TFS) agile tool.
• Created tasks in Team Foundation Server (TFS) for each individual user story to perform testing activities with estimated hours.
• Responsible in preparing smoke, functionaltest cases as per the user stories in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Opened/tracked defects in Team Foundation Server (TFS) and worked closely with Developers to get them fixed.
• Responsible in giving status in daily stand up (scrum) as part of Agile/Scrum model.
• Responsible in giving demo to business stake holders after completing testing efforts.
• Identified regression suites to perform regression testing on core functionality.
• Responsible in preparing automation test cases using keywords dictionary in UFT Framework.
• Responsible in executing automation scripts for regression testing.
• Worked with SOAP UI tool to validate data.
• Worked closely with Test Lead, QA Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master about the status of testing efforts on daily basis.

Environment: Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Soap UI, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Micro Focus UFT.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Responsible in participating user story grooming sessions as part of sprint planning to understand the functionality which are written as user stories in IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) agile tool.
• Created tasks in IBM RTC for each individual user story to perform testing activities with estimated hours.
• Responsible in preparing smoke, functional&user acceptance testing (UAT) test cases as per the user stories in IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM).
• Reviewed all test cases with BA’s for sign off before test execution.
• Opened/tracked defects in IBM RTC and worked closely with Developers to get them fixed.
• Responsible in giving status in daily stand up (scrum) as part of Agile/Scrum model.
• Responsible in giving demo to business stake holders after completing testing efforts.
• Identified regression suites to perform regression testing before production deployment.
• Supported production deployments to perform smoke test in production environment from test cases written in IBM RQM.
• Worked with SOAP UI tool to validate data.
• Worked in offshore/onsite model by coordinating with offshore team on daily basis.
• Worked closely with Test Lead, QA Manager and Scrum Master about the status of testing efforts on daily basis.

Environment: Pega Care Management, Java/J2EE, Oracle, Soap UI, IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM), IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC).

QA Analyst

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing test strategy with Test Lead based on business process flow diagram/functional requirements.
• Responsible in preparing smoke, functional, regression test cases as per the functional requirements in HP ALM, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
• Tracked defects in HP ALM/TFS and worked closely with Developers to get them fixed.
• Responsible in testing Pyxis prep hardware which includes USB camera, two-foot pedal, bar code scanner, label printer with computer workstation that are used by Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists, Hospital IT Personnel, Confidential Support Personnel.
• Responsible in identifying regression suites as part of regression testing.
• Responsible in creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure all functional requirements are covered as part of QA activities.
• Worked closely with Test Lead, QA Manager and Project Manager about the status of testing efforts, state of the system and provide input on system acceptance on daily basis.

Environment: : Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft .Net Framework (Version 4.5), Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Java, J2EE, Message Broker, Oracle 11i, SQL Server 2008 R2, HP ALM 11.0.

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of Functional Test Plans, Performance Test Plans and Test Schedules.
• Responsible in analyzing business requirement document, functional specification document to prepare test plan.
• Conducted peer review for test plan with Business Analysts and QA Manager.
• Responsible in preparing test cases as per the business requirements.
• Reviewed all test cases with BA’s for sign off before starting test execution.
• Responsible in preparing test data with the help of BA’s.
• Performed all test planning tasks (test cases/test data preparation) & test execution within the sprint cycle (2 weeks).
• Responsible in performing smoke testing once the code has been deployed in test environment.
• Performed functional testing, system testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Validated the data from backend using SQL queries to verify in the database.
• Worked with Microsoft Test Manager for test planning (test cases), test execution, defect management.
• Updated test execution status to management on daily and weekly basis by getting reports from Microsoft TFS.

Environment: Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET, VB Script, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).