OBJECTIVE:

Confidential Have over 7 years of work experience in the IT industry. His experience includes providing Test consulting, Test Planning, Manual Testing and Test Management services to various company in the testing function. His core strengths lie in test consulting and test process implementation.

SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience developing and executing test plans/ strategies, writing and executing test cases from requirements, setting up lab environments and providing post production support to agile development environments.Complete exposure to quality assurance, analysis and testing for client server and web - based application.
• Performed manual testing extensively- primarily Smoke, lntegration, Functional, Regression, GUI, Database, Black Box, White Box and Backend Testing.
• Provide strong QA skills and project leadership in managing projects, QA activities and workload, project Test cycles and QA test resources.
• Prepared reports like Defect Statistics and Tracking, Weekly and Daily status reports.
• Create Testing Status and Defect Matrix for reporting to the Management.
• Experience working individually and team environment.
• Involved in Developing and Executing Test Plan, and Test cases based on the Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, and Use Cases.
• Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing & Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Test Director, JIRA, Firebug, Microsoft Query Analyzer.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2010/XP/Vista/7 Software Process/Methodology Software Development life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), UML, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Iteration, Bug life Cycle (BLC), User Stories, Use CaseLauguage & Database HTML, SQL, JAVA, Oracle, SQL Server, Other tools SQL Navigator, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Houston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specifications documents.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Manually create, develop and execute Test Cases.
• Create test plans to details the testing scope, requirements (High level), strategies and all needed required resources.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System lntegration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing.
• Provide all data validation through SQL queries.
• Preparing Test Scenarios & Test Cases and performing Manual Testing of the application.
• Study and analyze various documents to understand the functionality of the application and prepare a clear documentation of the processes being developed.
• Develop test procedures and test cases based on test plans, application design documentation, and other available information.
• Create, modify and execute manual test plan and test cases for functional and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expert knowledge in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, Defect Mnagement and Defect Tracking.
• Perform Functional, intergration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Review the results of test execution; compare output to expected results; document discrepancies in incident reports.
• Write clear and precise defects reports as required for identified software defects and functional defects based on testing results.
• Enhanced the existing scripts based on the changes and included checkpoints for required validations.
• Test and certify software defect fixes and new functionality.
• Provide testing project status information; create web application testing results reports.
• Prepare documentation for clear understanding of the script for future releases.
• Participated in regular teleconference calls with team members in remote locations.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Navigator, Visual Basic 6.0, Window XP, Java, Microsoft Test Mnager, Team Foundation Server.

Confidential - Chicago IL

QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTER. (MANUAL)

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specifications documents.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Manually create, develop and execute Test Cases.
• Create test plans to details the testing scope, requirements (High level), strategies and all needed required resources.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System lntegration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing.
• Provide all data validation through SQL queries.
• Preparing Test Scenarios & Test Cases and performing Manual Testing of the application.
• Study and analyze various documents to understand the functionality of the application and prepare a clear documentation of the processes being developed.
• Develop test procedures and test cases based on test plans, application design documentation, and other available information.
• Create, modify and execute manual test plan and test cases for functional and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expert knowledge in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, Defect Mnagement and Defect Tracking.
• Perform Functional, intergration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Review the results of test execution; compare output to expected results; document discrepancies in incident reports.
• Write clear and precise defects reports as required for identified software defects and functional defects based on testing results.
• Enhanced the existing scripts based on the changes and included checkpoints for required validations.
• Test and certify software defect fixes and new functionality.
• Provide testing project status information; create web application testing results reports.
• Prepare documentation for clear understanding of the script for future releases.
• Participated in regular teleconference calls with team members in remote locations.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Navigator, Visual Basic 6.0, Window XP, Java, Microsoft Test Mnager, Team Foundation Server.

Confidential - Fairfax, VA

Manual QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specifications documents.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Manually create, develop and execute Test Cases.
• Create test plans to details the testing scope, requirements (High level), strategies and all needed required resources.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System lntegration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing.
• Provide all data validation through SQL queries.
• Preparing Test Scenarios & Test Cases and performing Manual Testing of the application.
• Study and analyze various documents to understand the functionality of the application and prepare a clear documentation of the processes being developed.
• Develop test procedures and test cases based on test plans, application design documentation, and other available information.
• Create, modify and execute manual test plan and test cases for functional and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expert knowledge in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, Defect Management and Defect Tracking.
• Perform Functional, intergration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Review the results of test execution; compare output to expected results; document discrepancies in incident reports.
• Write clear and precise defects reports as required for identified software defects and functional defects based on testing results.
• Enhanced the existing scripts based on the changes and included checkpoints for required validations.
• Test and certify software defect fixes and new functionality.
• Provide testing project status information; create web application testing results reports.
• Prepare documentation for clear understanding of the script for future releases.
• Participated in regular teleconference calls with team members in remote locations.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Navigator, Visual Basic 6.0, Window XP, Java, Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server.