SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of strong experience in Quality Assurance of Web based, Client/Server, and Data ware house applications.
• Extensive working experience on all phases of software Development life cycle (SDLC) using Agile Software Development methodology.
• Experience in creating and maintaining test plan and writing feature use cases in test environment using JAVA and Gherkin.
• Involved in GUI Automation, Functionality testing, System testing, Stress testing, Load testing, Backend testing, Data driven testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and Integration testing.
• Knowledge of tools Selenium, JUnit, Eclipse and preparation of automation test framework.
• Proficiency in backend testing involving large amounts of data.
• Quality Assurance experience includes E - commerce, Insurance and Health Care domain.
• Good understanding of Teradata Systems.
• Good knowledge of SQL and experience Confidential conducting backend testing.
• Specialized in testing on both WINDOWS and UNIX environments.
• Used ICEDQ Tool to automate few Test Case Scenarios.
• Extensively worked on creating Test Summary Reports, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Defect reports
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Software and Hardware in testing environment.
• Proficiency in using Jira for Documentation and used for Defect tracking.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills & ability to work either independently or as a part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks as well as manage a team.
• Managed review meeting calls between onshore & offshore also coordinating tasks between them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/LINUX

Languages: Java, SQL

Testing Tools: HP-ALM/QC, Eclipse, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber and Selenium

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Tools: Teradata SQL Client, Toad Data Point

Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile

Bug Reporting: HP-ALM/QC, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing large data based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files to target tables.
• Validated the data derived in the target table is adhering to the standards and business rules.
• Involved in developing detailed Test strategy, Test plan, Test cases and Test procedures for Functional and Regression Testing
• Created test data for all transformation rules and covered all the scenarios required for implementing business logic.
• Extraction of test data from various sources and loading of data into tables.
• Validating the data passed to downstream systems.
• Wrote the SQL queries on data staging tables and data warehouse tables to validate the data results.
• Testing complex Business rules by creating mapping and various transformations.
• Performed Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification and identifying data mismatch.
• Employing JIRA to track and report system defects
• Operating TOAD Software and Teradata SQL assistant for querying data.
• Took Backup and restored tables using Teradata.
• Deployed ICEDQ Tool to automate few scenarios as required for the project.
• Scheduled Knowledge Transfer sessions regularly to guide the team
• Lead and managed onshore/offshore Teams by scheduling calls daily.

Environment: UNIX, Toad, Teradata SQL Assistant, Eclipse, ICEDQ, JIRA, Confluence, MS Excel

Confidential, St. Louis

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating Automation Scripts for the functional user stories and regression suite & responsible for daily Automation runs, failure analysis and reporting
• Developed, built and deployed scripts also created new jobs to automate.
• Worked on Agile (Scrum) methodology and updated QA status on our Daily Stand Up.
• Written Test Cases and Performed Manual Testing like Positive testing, negative Testing.
• Interacted with Product Owner, Customers and Project team members in analyzing the User stories and acceptance criteria.
• Performed cross browser compatibility testing on Chrome, Firefox, IE browsers.
• Actively participated in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance with BAs, SMEs and Developers.
• Raised defects and performed tracking using JIRA and communicated the same with the developers and managers.
• Performed Data Driven testing and used SQL Queries to fetch data from the database.
• Used Teradata SQL Assistant to query the data.
• Worked on MultiLoads of Data with Teradata SQL Assistant.
• Attended Bug triage meetings with the QA Leads, Managers and Developers for query resolution.
• Lead a team of 4 in offshore during the project.

Environment: JIRA, Teradata SQL Assistant, Eclipse, Tableau Desktop, Confluence, XML, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Java

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing of Customer Resource Tracker (CRT) Application.
• The purpose of the application was to maintain and update customer details from providers perspective through complex business edits and matching to various criteria for approvals/denials.
• Provisioning was also tested as required between Customer and Telecom Service Provider (TSP).
• Interacted with the Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers and QA Manager for clear exposure to trickle down the technical/functional User Requirements & Change Requests to Test Plans and Test Scenarios.
• Conducted various types of testing like Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, and System Testing, back end testing.
• Tested the application in highly dynamic environment with sprint team using agile methodology.
• Involved in End-to-End testing on the Application
• Logged and Tracked Bugs in JIRA tool and closely work with Developers to fix the issues.
• Created Test Scenarios & System Test Plans based on User Stories in JIRA.
• Involved in preparing Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Evaluation Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for automated and System Requirement documents for the Functional, System, Performance, Integration, and Regression.
• Acted as a technical interface with other teams to resolve and promote issues, communicate plans and conclusions as well as recommendations for issue closure.
• Billing testing involved large amounts of Customer Data which was tested using SQL.
• Checked the billing data flow through front-end and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Involved in testing activities milestones; identify and analyze risks and their potential business impact to determine proper prioritization of the testing activities.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in identifying the test cases that are affecting the basic and major functionality of the application in order to Smoke Test the application
• Extensively used Quality center to manage and execute test scripts
• Done end to end testing with different scenarios, updating and uploading of test cases into ALM
• Active communication with client, and preparation of daily, weekly status reports.
• Provided continuous support to the team, delivered assignments on time to the client.
• Designing Test Cases, Execution of the test cases and reporting the bugs
• Performed Database Testing using SQL queries in order to check the Data Validation and Data integrity
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid and Invalid inputs for positive and negative testing
• Preparing Defect report as per severity and priority Active participation in Bug triage meetings
• Fully involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and writing Test Plan.
• Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing
• Involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Access Online applications
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Test Director using it as a Test Management Tool
• Extensively used SQL scripts/queries for data verification Confidential the backend.

Confidential

Manual Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Gathered, analyzed, business requirements, user profile, created workflow processes & charts.
• Developed and Implemented Test suites, which include features like Data Driven Framework for manual testing.
• Involved in Testing of the various results generated by the reports against the data present in the database tables and used UAT on that data involving the users
• Analyzed requirements, functional specifications and used Case documents for Functional testing.
• Designed and documented test cases derived from requirements.
• Tests individual methods, classes, or large, complex applications.
• Tracks how test results and code quality change over time.
• Analyzed the use cases given by the business analysts and developed test cases using them
• Manually verified the applications according to the requirements. Updated QA status report and application database for management reporting purpose
• Analyzed the specifications in the User Requirements Document, Functional Requirement
• Performed functional, regression, smoke, and end-end testing.
• Played a key role in script enhancement process to streamline the regression testing process and to achieve continuous manual test run.
• Created error/ defect reports and communicated with developers, scripter and application owners for application defect tracking & resolution.