PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Over 5 Years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Windows based and Web based applications.
• Strong noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and the Role of QA in Agile - Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies.
• Extensively experienced in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Involved in Manual testing & Tracking defects using Quality Center and Rally.
• Proficient in using test management tools such as HP ALM, JIRA, SoapUI, Team Foundation Server (TFS) to perform activities like writing test plans, test cases, executing test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, tracking defect and reporting bugs.
• Skilled User Acceptance Tester understands the need to meet all functionality requirements for business client end-users of new applications.
• Good working noledge on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Involved in writing, updating and maintaining the Test documents for various stages of Testing for reference and auditing purpose.
• Strong experience in Functional Testing, API testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box Testing and Cross Browsers Testing.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using bug tracking tools.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Highly proficient wif MS Office suite (excel, project, PowerPoint and outlook).
• Strong noledge of guidelines for agile methodology in Software Development phases.
• Strong working noledge on databases such as Oracle and MS SQL server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing and Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center8.2, HP ALM, Rally, JIRA, Team Track, Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Soap UI, JMeter, Selenium

Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), TFS (Team Foundation Server), MTM (Microsoft Test Management)

Database: MS SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle

Operating System: Windows, MAC, UNIX, Android and IOS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum/ Kanban

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement documents to document business rules.
• Involved in writing the Test Procedure document for the web and mobile application.
• Created strategy document dat defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Created Test plan and Test cases and registered the expected results.
• Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, End to End, System Integration, GUI, and UAT testing.
• Performed Black-box Testing wif a complete QA cycle testing, defect logging and verification of fixed bugs.
• Created functionality test cases after establishing critical values and workflow.
• Gathered Test data for executing SQL Queries.
• Involved in updating the Test Procedure document, iteratively, whenever a Change Request is done.
• Involved in System, Functional, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT).
• Used strong technical ability and established quality standards to verify and validate assigned software products, components, or function sets throughout their development cycles.
• Tested the system using SQL commands for back end testing on the database.
• Used GUI checkpoints to check the attributes of the application across several builds and versions.
• Manually conducted cross-browser testing wif Chrome, Safari and me.E.
• Identified and documented all the defects to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Mentored and built skills in more junior members/hires of the QA team.
• Interacted wif Development and QA Teams to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Performed extensive API testing using SoapUI.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from the kick-off phase.
• Attended the client calls to gather project testing requirements.
• Performed Integration, functional, UAT, System and regression Testing.
• Gathered requirements and created high-level estimation plan.
• Worked in agile testing and exploratory testing environment.
• Represented QA team for requirement reviews, brain-storming sessions and captured requirement defects.
• Reviewed user stories and determined test strategy and test planning.
• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts using QC.
• Worked wif production support team to ensure the quality of the delivery.
• Documented Lesson Learned and develop preventive actions
• Executed cases in multiple testing environments such as Smoke, Regression, Integration, Performance and UAT Testing.
• Used multiple QA tools and technology JIRA, HPQC, JMeter, and Selenium.
• Tested and validated product enhancements and new product launches for business to business web and mobile applications.
• Collaborated wif the business and development teams to produce requirements dat are well-documented and clear.
• Collaborated wif team members to create test cases to cover all the use cases identified in the sprint stories.
• Provided effort estimates to complete testing tasks related to sprint stories and participate in work sizing and sprint planning.
• Participated in test automation. Write manual tests wif a view to automation, learn the automation tools in use, script automated tests, and extend the automation infrastructure.
• Maintained subject matter expertise for the systems under test and used dat expertise to create, maintain, and extend the test case library.
• Thoroughly documented the results of test cases and any defects encountered so they are easily understood.
• Attended to the overall product to delivery, while being responsible for quality.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Requirements, Design documents and analysis.
• Performed Functional, Transaction, Integration, End to End, Positive testing, Black Box testing, Regression testing.
• Created test plans and test cases for Manual Testing.
• Developed test cases for the Web Portal Upgrade and Enhancements.
• Web tested the front-end portal system to ensure the upgrade to the operating system didn't impact functionality of the system.
• Tested the new Enhancements to the web portal to ensure functional requirements were met and Regression to ensure no impact to existing functionality.
• Created and executed SQL queries to verify data in tables.
• Reviewed test results and sign off wif Business prior to UAT.
• Managed daily status call wif the team including the business partners.
• Worked closely wif business partners on user acceptance testing.