SUMMARY:

• An excellent professional resource with Six Plus (6+) years of extensive IT experience in QA Analyst, Functional Tester, Web base Application, Client / Server applications with focus on a wide range of industries including Retail/ E - Commerce and Banking Companies with current QA Methodologies and technologies.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle & Testing Methodologies.
• Involved in entire Project lifecycle from requirements, testing to delivery.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation testing, mostly used automation testing tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Solid understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (Scrum & Kanban).
• Expertise and experienced in performing various kinds of Black box testing like Functional, Integration, Backend, Regression, Smoke, System, End to End, System and UAT testing.
• Extensive experienced in writing and executing Test cases and Test Scripts, mentoring customer's staff, working with overall team to meet project goals.
• Extensively experienced to work with various defect tracking tools like HP ALM /Quality Center, Jira, MS Team foundation Server (TFS) & MTM
• Excellent Organizational ability, Communication skills, analyzing skills, technical documentation and reporting skills.
• Strong communicator and skillful in working closely with various team members to identify and resolve problems.

SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS:

• HP Quality Center (QC/ALM)
• HP Quick Test Pro (QTP/ UFT)
• Black box (Functional testing)
• Defect analysis and log, reporting
• Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, SQL
• Software development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Agile (Scrum), Iterative, and Waterfall.
• Test Plan, Test Cases, Test scenarios
• QA Manual & Automation Tester
• VB Script, Descriptive Programming.
• Release, Sprint planning, Demo
• Co-ordinate with offshore team
• Train new joiner and others
• Defect review and analysis
• Requirement analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tool: HP ALM/QC (Quality Center), TFS

Automation Tool: HP QTP (Quick Test Professional)

Application: Web Based and Client Server Based

Application Languages: Java, HTML, XML, CSS, VB.

Scripting Languages: Visual Basic Script (VBs)

Methodology: Agile (Scrum), WATERFALL.

Operating System: Windows 98, 2003, Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista.

RDBMS: Oracle (8g/9g/10g/11g), DB2, MS SQL Server

Others Software: Office Suite, Lync/Skype

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Confidential, New York, NY

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Periodically join in the sprint and release planning for user stories, time estimations and derived the QA tasks.
• Communicate with the technical team and product owner to understand about the application functionality.
• Coordinate with the QA Lead, Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, System Analyst and other QA staffs in order to complete the task on time and to ensure the requirements are met.
• Follow Agile methodology, participated in daily SCRUM meetings and testing each SPRINT deliverables.
• Analyze of user story according with the Acceptance criteria as a part of STLC process
• Write manual test scenarios and test cases based on user stories, change requests and functional design documents.
• Design all manual test cases step by step into HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) test plan section.
• Responsible for the Web based testing including GUI Testing, Black box testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, Smoke Testing, Backend Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Perform various kinds of testing manually and update execution result in HP ALM in test Lab section.
• Log defects and tracked them using HP ALM till its closure following company defect life cycle.
• Perform UAT testing in alpha model with JIRA and Test Rail tool to design test cases, test execution and bug tracking.
• Closely work with Automation team and perform automation testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/ QTP) for creating, maintaining, and debugging complex and innovative scripts for frameworks such as Data-Driven.
• Develop and maintain custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods, descriptive programming and repository management using QTP/UFT for Automation framework.
• Collect and analyzed test results and compared them against the target metrics to determine the pass/fail.
• Conduct backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and used SQL queries for retrieving data from Oracle database for executing user specific test cases.
• Write complex SQL queries using various kinds of joining and sub queries to retrieve complex data from RDBMS
• Regularly join defect status call and distributed the defects to help clear the defects in QA bucket.
• Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the testing effort.

Confidential, Short hills, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attend in the sprint planning and release planning for user stories, time estimations and derived the QA tasks.
• Communicate with the technical team and product owner to understand about the application functionality.
• Coordinate with the QA Lead, Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, System Analyst and other QA staffs in order to complete the task on time and to ensure the requirements are met.
• Follow Agile methodology, participated in daily SCRUM meetings and testing each SPRINT deliverables.
• Analyze of user story according with the Acceptance criteria as a part of STLC process
• Write manual test scenarios and test cases based on user stories, change requests and functional design documents.
• Design all manual test cases step by step into TestRail.
• Responsible for the Web based testing including GUI Testing, black box testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, Smoke Testing, Backend Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Perform various kinds of testing manually and update execution result in Jira in TestRail Addon.
• Responsible for assisting various business units with UAT script development and conversion into HP ALM format.
• Analyze, test, and validate all processes, changes, and defects through Jira tool.
• Perform Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners, document analysis and represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Manually test the all modules by inserting different data to perform the data validation with positive and negative data.
• Log defects and tracked them using HP ALM till its closure following company defect life cycle.
• Closely work with Automation team and perform automation testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/ QTP) for creating, maintaining, and debugging complex and innovative scripts for frameworks such as Data-Driven Framework.
• Develop and maintain custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods, descriptive programming and repository management using QTP/UFT for Automation framework.
• Collect and analyzed test results and compared them against the target metrics to determine the pass/fail.
• Extensively involved with testing the front-end screens and online features integration with the back-end database.
• Conduct backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and used SQL queries for retrieving data from Oracle database for executing user specific test cases.
• Write complex SQL queries using various kinds of joining and sub queries to retrieve complex data from RDBMS
• Attend everyday defect status call and distributed the defects to help clear the defects in QA bucket.
• Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the testing effort.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review of business requirements and design specifications to ensure traceability and testability.
• Follow the Agile (Scrum) methodology for software development life cycle process.
• Developed and assisted in test plan, test scenarios, test data, test cases, and various reports.
• Used company templates in spreadsheet/excel sheet to design test cases and requirement traceability metrics (RTM).
• Perform Black box testing such as Functional, Nonfunctional, Smoke, Integration, System testing, end-to-end testing, and Regression testing on assigned tasks.
• After execution analyzed the test result and logged defect along with defect report with various information using HP Quality Center (QC).
• Use SQL querying extensively to validate data in Oracle via SQL Developer.
• Work with developers, business and quality/functional testing team to expedite the defect tracking and Removal process.
• Involved in user acceptance testing process for beta and alpha environment as per team demand.
• Attended various team meetings including daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint preview (Demo), Sprint review meeting, and casual walkthrough meeting.
• Worked as a team player to motivate team members to achieve desired goals for the company.
• Multitasker with good analytical skill and interpersonal relationship building.

Project Environment: HTML, XML, CSS, Java, HP Quality Center (QC)/ALM, SQL, Windows 7, 8, XP, Share point, Outlook, Lync, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)/UFT, Oracle, DB2 and MS-Office, MS TFS, MS MTM Etc.