OBJECTIVE:

5+ years of strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies including development, execution, maintenance of the Test Plan, Test Summary Report and Defect reports and Seeking for a Software QA Analyst/Engineer/Tester position of a winning organization where creativity, sincerity, skill and performances are the criteria for one's appraisal and recognition.

SUMMARY:

• Experienced with ALM/ Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed Database Validation and Verification using Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with profound ability to prioritize and multi task goals in order to meet the time requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and .
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in Confidential Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Excellent working knowledge on Windows environments.
• Sound knowledge in Creation of Business Components and Application Areas.
• Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Functional testing, Black Box, Regression, UAT, Smoke, Sanity, Unit and Integration Testing.
• Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment.
• Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Very dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.
• Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILL:

Applications: Java, ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, C Sharp

Testing areas: Web Testing, Mobile Testing, Database Testing, Client Server Testing

Types of Testing: Black box testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, System testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Sanity Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Adhoc testing .

Testing tools: ALM 12.2 / Quality Center (QC) 11.0/ JIRA, Confluence.

Methodologies: Agile, Hybrid, Waterfall .

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux.

Database Platform: Microsoft Access, Oracle 11g, 12c, MS SQL Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience to Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Participated in high - level design discussion sessions.
• Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.
• Drafted Test Cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Prepared Test Plan and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Detected, reported and classified bugs in ALM.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly.
• Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results and worked with developers to resolve issues.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.
• Mentored the team members with business functionality.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract Data and verified the output Data of the reports.
• Extensively involved in GUI, backend Oracle testing.
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Used ALM for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Worked with onsite and offshore resources to ensure that all testing activities are on track and all critical defects are being escalated to development teams.
• Worked with Regression & UAT Team for release testing.
• Performed UAT testing in UAT & Production environment.
• Helped Client & UAT teams for application scenario testing and provide them Test cases.
• Participated in internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs and status meetings.
• Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Very dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, IIS, Confidential Quality Center (QC). MS Office suite.

Confidential, New York City, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan for application.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Confidential Quality Center (QC) and Monitored Confidential Quality Center (QC).
• Analyzed the Discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through Confidential Quality Center (QC).
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.
• Analyzed the business requirements and involved in the review discussions.
• Participated in high level design sessions.
• Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.
• Drafted test cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Prepared Test Plan and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Detected, reported and classified bugs in Confidential Quality Center (QC).
• Worked on Logging bugs in the Confidential Quality Center (QC) tracking tool.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly.
• Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results and worked with developers to resolve issues.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.
• Mentored the team members with business functionality.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract Data and verified the output Data of the reports.
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Used Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Strong Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.
• Experienced Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields.
• Used JIRA for Requirements Backlog and bug tracking.
• Participated in internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs and status meetings.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11g,