SUMMARY:

Provide a thorough and detailed QA Analysis to improve software development through it’s lifecycle. Strive to exceed customer/ employer expectations by delivering excellent service.

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• QA Analyst
• Web Application Testing
• Mobile Application testing
• Grooming User Stories
• Test Plan Contribution
• Project/Program Management
• Coordinate UAT
• Automation Initiatives
• General IT Support
• Database Management
• Website Development
• Program Initiatives
• Facilitate Meetings
• Certification Management
• ANSI Accreditation Process
• Board Reporting

KEY SKILLS:

• Working knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) such as Waterfall, Agile - Scrum
• Working knowledge of STLC(Software Testing Life cycle)
• Proficient in Analyzing Business and Functional Specification Documents and experience in developing Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios for different Software Development Methodologies.
• Experienced with SQL queries and Backend Testing, as well as UI/front end testing.
• Experience with QC/HPALM,JIRA and TestRail for logging bugs, writing test cases, running reports and carry out all test artifacts.
• Excellent problem-solving, ability to prioritize and make decisions on a macro and micro level.
• Experience with Selenium Webdriver for automation testing, using Eclipse (Java).
• Working knowledge and understanding of SoapUI (API testing).
• Experience in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; proven success in complex problem analysis and resolution.
• Detail oriented, multi-tasker, and a team player with experience in general management and project management.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

SDLC Practices: Agile, Waterfall

Roles Performed: QA Analyst, IT General Support

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 7/8/10, LINUX, UNIX

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox Mozilla, Safari

Applications: MS Office Professional,, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, Postman, Eclipse, SQL Server Management Studio

Testing Tools: HPALM (HPQC),SOAP UI, UFT, TestRail, Selenium WebDriver

Bug Tracking Tool: HPALM(HPQC), JIRA

Languages: SQL, HTML, Java

Reporting Tools: TestRail, SQL Queries, Jira

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review all requirement documents available, and groom all user stories.
• Write test scenarios and acceptance criteria for the assigned user stories, using JIRA.
• Create flowchart for test planning purposes.
• Write test cases in TestRail. And Log all bugs and defects in JIRA
• Perform manual testing included but not limited to functional testing, sanity testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing.
• Automated using Selenium Web driver to carryout regression, sanity testing, cross browser testing and enter data in data base.
• Perform Front End and Back End Testing, using SQL.
• Wrote SQL Queries to retrieve data from the databases to validate the GUI front end data against data in the database by using SQL Server Management Studio.
• Summarized detail test reports with Defect logs and sent them to developers through email.
• Use SOAP UI to carry out Web services /API testing when UI of healable was not set.
• Worked with software developers to troubleshoot issues.
• Participate in Scrum Meetings and Standup Meetings and actively participated in scrum activities from giving feedback to delivering suggestions to improve the applications.
• Actively participated in Daily Standup meetings, Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings.
• Actively participated in demo sessions.
• Verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Took part in setting up the Testing environment and testing methodology for the QA department, generating various documents to enable uniformity in recording the test process and results throughout the company.
• Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for Business Objects related reports.
• Involved in reviewing and enhancing Test cases for application functionality Testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for future UAT Testing and maintained documentation for the whole testing process.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• UseHPALM/Quality Center to create the detailed Test Plan and Test Cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.
• Worked with users as well as with Business Analysts to plan and implement the Test Plan.
• Performed Front-End and Back-End test.
• Verified the application’s functionality on different Configurations by performing Configuration Testing.
• Constantly worked with Business users to provide them with Test reports for Analysis.
• Generated defect reports graphs using Quality Center for the developers and project managers.
• Worked on UAT with entire group of Business users and BA team and verified its results.
• Found, reported and also traced the status of bugs using HPALM/HPQC.
• Extensively worked on any requirement upgrade and/or change request while doing UAT.
• Worked closely with development team to ensure the application performance and stability and also ensure the application completes the whole end-to-end process.
• Worked in an Agile Methodology
• Designed and developed test cases using industry best practices in Microsoft Excel Sheet.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Back-end Testing and Regression Testing using Selenium WebDriver.
• Monitored the status of the defects regularly and closed them when the defects were fixed otherwise reopened again.
• Participated in Bug review meetings to discuss resolution of issues.
• Prepared bug summary and Test Case status reports.
• Involved in reviewing complex SQL queries, views, functions and stored procedures and resolved issues before/during code migration.

Confidential

Junior Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used GUI testing to check for appearance of the website.
• Performed Manual Testing to test the usability of the application.
• Created Requirement Traceability matrix to map Test Cases to the requirements.
• Maintained central repository to determine the readiness of the application by combining Planning, Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Participated in daily scrums to effectively communicate the progress and road blocks in order to deal with the constantly changing requirements.
• Importing requirements, create Test Cases, validate requirements with test cases and generate reports using QC/HPALM.
• Manage the testing process, schedule batch tests, log and track defects using QC/HPALM.
• Participate in review meetings to resolve bug related issues with developers.
• Communicate/Update team with best practices that they can implement to thoroughly test the application, but reduce the amount of testing time required.
• Worked using Waterfall Methodology.
• Involved in reviewing and enhancing Test cases for application functionality Testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for future Testing and maintained documentation for the whole testing process.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Performed Front-End and Back-End test using SQL.
• Worked closely with development team to ensure the application performance and stability and also ensure the application completes the whole end-to-end process.