SUMMARY:

• As Quality Assurance Analyst for the past 5+ years, I have acquired the best skills to perform all testing methodologies in both Manual and Automation testing. I am detail oriented and hardworking professional with remarkable analytical, logical skills and expert in performing complex operations. As QA, I have worked closely with business and technology partners to improve users experience of our products and identify any technology gap.
• QA testing with extensive Web based Client/server, Web Services and Backend applications for a wide variety of industries.
• Knowledge and understanding of creating test plans, cases, test procedures, test scripts, and expected results
• Expertise in creation and execution of Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test scripts and Test execution based on business and functional requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of manual testing and automation testing techniques and thorough understanding of documenting all phases of QA process.
• Proficient in using HP interactive products like - HP ALM
• Knowledge in open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Webdriver, Appium), JUnit, Eclipse and preparation of automation test framework.
• Proficient in writing complex SQL queries involving joins from multiple tables and using TOAD for debugging applications.
• Knowledge of health information and health care services regulatory environment including HIPAA, Medicaid/Medicare and EDI.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Methodologies and Software Testing life cycle (STLC)
• Excellent knowledge of Programming Languages (Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, VB.net, Soap Web services)
• Adept in development models like Waterfall model, V-Model and Agile methodology.
• Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Well Versed with Functional testing, System testing, Black Box testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Expertise in defect tracking tools like HP Quality Center/Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), JIRA, Rally, TFS .
• Involved in developing and maintaining Test Traceability Matrix
• Performed backend database testing by writing SQL scripts to verify data integrity.
• Self-starter and ability to adapt and learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to interact with developers and team members regarding testing status and defect tracking and report to Team Lead and Managers

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, C, C++, Java, HTML, Soap UI

RDBMS: Oracle8/9i/10g/11i, DB2, MS Access, Toad

Tools: /Utilities: HP ALM, Rally, TFS, MS Office, Eclipse

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center,, MTM,Rally

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementing the QA process at all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Involved in preparing the test plan, analyzing the test scenarios, preparing test case documents, working with environment teams to set up environments, specifying report templates and reporting test results
• Attend review meetings to discuss Use-Cases, Business Rules, Message Rules, Alternate flows and Exception paths
• Developed detailed Test Cases and responsible for executing the Test Cases, using HP Quality Center/ALM
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Integration, Functional, Regression, Data Integrity, and System Compatibility and was part of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Verification/Check points were implemented such as GUI checkpoints and Database checkpoints
• Worked on the Regression Automated Testing and Data driven testing using Quick Test Pro/UFT
• Extensively used Test Management Tool Quality Center/ALM to manage and execute test scripts and to track defects
• Used SQL queries to extract the data from the database to check the data integrity
• Prepared Test Status Reports during Test Execution Process prepared and delivered final test report
• Aided in generating System Testing Scenarios of end-to-end testing of application
• Generated Test Data for Automation Scripts in Excel from QTP
• Attended Walkthrough and review meetings with Business Analysts & Development team
• Involved in training and knowledge transfer and sharing sessions

Confidential, Woodbury, MN

Quality Assurance Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile Methodology. Attended daily calls and sprint plan meetings every two weeks to review the user stories for the Issue-First product launch.
• Responsible for coordinating, developing, managing, and implementing all QA artifacts, i.e. test plan, traceability matrix, and test cases using Quality Center to ensure the project deliverables meet business, functional, performance, and quality requirements for the team.
• Participated in various phases of testing activities that include Requirement Understanding, Test Design, Test Execution, Test case updating and Test management for System testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Expertise and Experience in different kinds of testing including Functional (Black Box testing), System Testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Regression Testing.
• Testing/Review, Test Plans and test cases creating scripts, patch, on time build of deliverables.
• Co-ordinated with the Lead BA to ensure outstanding defects and system problems were fixed on time to meet accuracy and deadlines
• Assisted the project team to ensure adequate testing of software both before and after User acceptance testing, QA peer review and completed signoffs.
• Assisted and coordinated to create, update and run QTP scripts.
• Ensured all QA artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using JIRA and after rectification from Developers regression testing was performed.

Environment: Quality Center-10.0, JIRA, Mainframes, MS Word, Agile Model, MS Excel

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in QA meetings where strategic planning is been done for executing the test cases
• Involved in testing a variety of applications like web, Client server
• Regularly interacted with business users and the development team for the executing the test cases
• Extensively used Quality Center as Test management tool to log the test results and also did documentation like attaching screen shot for each step of the test case
• Used Quality Center as bug tracking tool to report the defects found during testing and followed up until the defect got closed
• Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium
• Executed both the operational­ where the data updates are being involved and safe test cases­ where data is not updated
• Involved in retesting the applications where some of the applications have randomly been picked for retesting after the refreshment of environment
• Checked the flow of data from front end to the backend and also retrieved the data in which the data updating has been involved
• Involved in testing the applications where the connection between various components of the application, connection between the client workstation & the application, connection to backend database
• Actively executed the test case according to the Run book

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Worked with Project Management and Team Lead to scope the testing effort and provided status and estimates
• Assisted in developing detailed test plans for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed
• Reviewed requirements with the business analysts and developers and found gaps appropriately
• Wrote test cases on different life and health plans for online claim process and executed using Bugzilla
• Created and maintained the Requirement Tractability Matrix and Test Metrics in Excel sheet
• Logged and reported defects via Bugzilla
• Involved in UAT testing and sharing information to resolve the intermittent issues of concern
• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing to determine possibility of further testing manually
• Performed Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and Positive and Negative Testing by putting correct and incorrect test data
• Conducted Result Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve issues related to bugs

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases to test the functionality of different modules based on Business Process Requirements
• Worked with Business Analysts, Functional and Technical experts to understand the business processes
• Involved in development of a Traceability Matrix to ensure good test case coverage
• Participated in Test Case Review meetings with the business analysts and development team members to ensure that there are no gaps
• Performed Manual Testing for complex end-to-end scenarios.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Cross platform testing and Negative Scenario testing
• Performed application testing on IOS (6.1.4, 6.1.3, 6.1.6) and Android (Jellybean 4.1.2; KitKat 4.4.4) on both CDMA and GSM devices.
• Checked Log files to analyze errors experienced during testing.
• Used IPhone configuration tools for extracting the logs in IPhone
• Used Android SDK tools such as ADB Log cat and DDMS for identifying software defects in android phones.
• Uploaded Test Cases to Quality Center manually
• Used Quality Centre to manage test requirements, test cases, test plans, and defects
• Identified, Reported and Tracked Defects using Quality Centre test management tools
• Reported to the onsite QA manager daily with the status and achievements