PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 4 years of experience in requirement gathering, software quality assurance and software testing
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall
• Expertise in documenting, reviewing, and executing test harness - test plans, test strategies, test scripts and test cases based on the user stories and/or user requirements document.
• Extensive knowledge of writing User Stories, Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Cases, Defect/Bug Tracking documents
• Experience in tracking Test Coverage, creating and analyzing Traceability Metrics.
• Expert in performing manual and automated testing for client/server as well as n-tire web-based applications using Mercury/HP tools such as QTP (Quick Test Pro), Quality center and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Worked in defect tracking tool like Mercury Quality Centre for reviewing requirements, bug reporting, bug tracking
• Worked on applications based on Web technologies like J2EE, Java, JSP, HTML, Java, CSS, XML
• Experience with Test Automation using QTP, Test Case Management using Mercury Quality Center
• Worked on data-driven testing manually using positive and negative data to check functionality of the application
• Experience in preparing different set of data for data driven testing
• Basic knowledge of SQL to retrieve and validate data from databases e.g. Oracle, SQL Server
• Experience in SOAP UI based testing
• Experience with development and execution of Automation Scripts using QTP.
• Experience in performing different kinds of testing - Black box Testing, Smoke, Front End (GUI), System, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Compatibility, Load stress, User acceptance (UAT), Release validation testing of web and client/server applications.
• Ability to work as team member and independently if required
• Capability to learn and adapt new tools, techniques, approaches & responsibilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7/98/NT/2000, UNIX, Linux, Mac iOS.

Databases: ORACLE 10g, 11g, Microsoft SQL server 2005.

Web Servers: Tomcat, Apache Server, Web Logic etc.

Programming tools: TOAD, SQL Plus, Oracle, Microsoft Visual Studio 5.0

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, VBScript, UNIX, HTML, XML, X-Query, Java Script, and CSS.

Testing tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP), Mercury/HP quality center, MTM, TFS

Management Modeling Tools: Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio and MS Project.

Office Tools: SharePoint, MS Exchange, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

Browsers: IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional design document to write scenario and Test cases
• Performed Manual Testing for the GUI and functionality of the application
• Creating Test Plan and Test cases based on Bug description and KT by App team
• Writing a query to found bug on MTM
• Reported Bugs to developers using MTM
• Writing a Test case for Change Request (CR) after understanding all the facts
• Writing a Test case for production bug
• Developed Test Plan document to perform UI testing
• Testing a release on most browsers e.g. Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE 10 and on devices i.e. Desktop, Tablet and Mobile Phones
• Designed the Test Plans and Test Scenarios accordingly, which involved reviewing Business flow diagrams, and Data flow diagrams that were created using Use Cases.
• Wrote SQL to retrieve and validate data from database

Environment: HTML, SOUP UI,Java, Oracle, MTM, MS Office e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Project

Confidential, Lansing, Michigan

BA/QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional design document to write User stories and Use Cases.
• Analyzed Look and feel document to ensure Timber Sale Online Bidding application follows Michigan Standard.
• Performed Manual Testing for the GUI and Functionality of the application.
• Creating Test Plan and Test cases based on business requirement documents
• Uploading user stories on Team Foundation Server and creating task for developer
• Creating and uploading list of tasks for testing on Team Foundation Server
• Creating a Task List for Product Owner (PO) Testing
• Developed Test Plan document to perform UI testing
• Testing a release on most web browser i.e. Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE 10 and on all the devices i.e. Desktop, Tablet and Mobile
• Reported Bugs to developers using TFS
• Wrote SQL to retrieve and validate data from database

Environment: HTML, SOUP UI, Oracle, SQL Server 2005, TFS, MS Office tools e.g. Word, Excel

Confidential, Marietta, GA

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creating Test Plan and Test cases based on business requirement documents
• Analyzed and tested various Inbound/Outbound interfaces
• Worked on EDI transactions e.g. 270, 271 etc to identify key data set elements.
• Regression Testing of Web based applications dealing with MEDICAID and MEDICARE Services
• Used Test Director and HP/Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts that are executed during testing process
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure that application meets business requirements.
• Prepared data feeds and data mappings for integration test between various systems
• Backend testing of the DB by writing simple SQL queries to test the integrity of the application

Environment: Java, Quick Test Pro 8.2, Clear Case HP Quality Center, Mercury Quality Center, J2EE, UNIX, SQL, Oracle9i, MS Visio. MS Office, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual Testing for the GUI and Functionality of the application.
• Assigned severity levels to different test cases and prioritizing them
• Designed the Test Plans and Test Scenarios accordingly, which involved reviewing Business flow diagrams, and Data flow diagrams that were created using Use Cases.
• Used Quality Center for manual testing considering the baseline of developed test plan and test cases considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• Manually tested the various navigation steps and basic functionality of the application using Quality center

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Plus, Oracle, UNIX Platform, Tomcat, Load Runner, TOAD, Java, HTML etc