PROFILE SUMMARY:

• 11+ Years of industry experience in the area of Software Testing (Manual and Automation) with a solid understanding of Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting and Tracking.
• Expertise in Understanding and Analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and maintenance of Test Requirements.
• Familiar with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle.
• Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Interface Testing,BlackBoxTesting, Usability Testing, Ad - Hoc and End to End testing.
• Expertise in creating test cases from requirements document, use cases and from a prototype or an existing application.
• Experience in testing Web Services and API testing (SOAP and REST) using SOAP UI.
• Well versed with Test Documentation (Test Scenario, Test Case, Test Data, Defect Report, and Test Metrics).
• Possess expert level of understanding of WSDL, XSD Schema, XML documents for Web Services Testing.
• Experience in using Maven for build automation.
• Extensive experience with web technologies like HTML, JavaScript.
• Proficient in SQL Queries, Stored Procedures and PL/SQL programming using Oracle&MS SQL Server databases.
• Experience in using version control tools like Tortoise SVN, and CVS.
• Knowledge on Jenkin continuous integration tool.
• Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reports and Test Summary Report.
• Experience in implementing Agile methodologies like SCRUM.
• Having Knowledge in Six Sigma Concepts.
• Great team-management skills, efficient performance in a team as well as independently.
• Possesses strong problem analysis skills with ability to follow project standards and procedures as per client specifications.
• Good Experience in Health Care, Retail and ERP and EAM products.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Languages: C, Java

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Web Services: SOAP Web Services, RESTful Services, WSDL

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, Selenium

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center, RTC,Test Director.

Web Technologies: HTML, Javascript, XML and JSON

Web/Application Servers: Mainframes

Build/Deployment tools: Ant, Maven and Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Paul, MN

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specs documents. Involved in meetings for preparing test plans based on Business Requirements Document (BRD) and System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Involved in Daily SCRUM meetings and AGILE/Scrum Methodology for the overall Project
• Involved in the preparation of Master Test Plan specifying an overview of testing approach, Testing strategy, roles, responsibilities and its scope.
• Created the traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Performed Manual Testing to test the application on multi browser testing on IE, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.
• Identifying the requirements from use cases, PFDs & Business Object Model (BOM)
• Writing functional, integration & regression test cases
• Testing the Stage tables, Target tables for Initial Load/Conversion Data of the application migrating from MMIS (Legacy System) to MPSE
• Writing SQL queries for testing Initial Load & Converted Data
• Integration testing of the Systems from MPSE UI to MMIS.
• Using Rational Team Concert (RTC) to log the defects.

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specs documents. Involved in meetings for preparing test plans based on Business Requirements Document (BRD) and System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Involved in Daily SCRUM meetings and AGILE/Scrum Methodology for the overall Project
• Involved in validating major releases by running the System Tests and Regression Tests by using Selenium
• Worked in Agile methodology, Attended daily stand up meetings to review User Stories.
• Attending sprint plan meetings every two to four weeks to review the user stories.
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the user stories (Functional requirements) using the HP Quality Center.
• Executed Test cases and complete QA testing life cycle.
• Reported the defects. Involved in complete defect life cycle from creating new defect, assigning to responsible developers based on the module, retest, close and reopen etc.
• Execute SQL queries to validate data.
• Tracked the defects with developers, created detailed information for each defect with valid log files.
• Escalated issued with Team Leads, Technical architects and Project Manager based on the need.
• Tested Web Services, Validated Request and Response XML, SOAP Calls, Restful calls and WSDL using SOAPUI tool.
• Validated End Points in WSDL File, XML Schema.
• Added data related assertions to validate response XML in Web Services.
• Generated test coverage report and defect tracking report.
• Interacted with off shore team to resolve defects and functional issues of the application.
• Extensively used Quality Centre / HP ALM for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects to Quality Center.
• Used SQL to verify that all conditions in the transformation logic have been covered.
• Validated Source to Target mappings. Worked with developers and end users to resolve issues that are found in the data, mapping document.
• Compared the source tables with the target tables for data base testing.
• Coordinated and assisted in the development and execution of User Acceptance Test Cases (UAT Testing) for business line users.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Analysis, Functional Requirement Analysis, Overall Design, Use-Case analysis.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using Test Director.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing.
• Actively involved in Ad-Hoc, Functionality and integration tests.
• Validated web services manually and through automation using SOAP UI.
• Performed functional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements
• Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database for data integrity.
• Maintained detailed test logs and reported test results in Test Director.
• Responsible for entering bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Interacted with developers for status of the bugs andre-tested the fixed Bugs.
• Problem reporting and tracking through the use of Test Director (Quality Center)
• Worked on Oxygen XML Editor to modify the XSDs i.e. to add new Elements to the Noun or remove Elements etc. for testing purpose.
• Extensively involved in SIT & UAT phases.
• Performed Usability testing.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended review meetings with Business Analysts, Developers to understand and test according to their requirements
• Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using the business documents in Test Director.
• Maintained detailed test logs and report test results in Test Director
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Responsible for Backend testing by running SQL statements.
• Interacted with developers for status of the bugs and doing regression testing after fixing the bugs.
• Analyzed the defects and categorized them based on severity.
• Involved in various documentation tasks such as daily status reports, weekly progress reports, Requirements traceability Matrix (RTM) and defect logs
• Involved in Unit testing using Jenkins debugging tool.
• Extensively involved in User Acceptance testing and system testing.
• Performed Interface testing.
• Performed Usability testing.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended review meetings with Business Analysts, Developers to understand and test according to their requirements
• Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using the business documents in Test Director.
• Maintained detailed test logs and report test results in Test Director
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Responsible for Backend testing by running SQL statements.
• Interacted with developers for status of the bugs and doing regression testing after fixing the bugs.
• Analyzed the defects and categorized them based on severity.
• Involved in various documentation tasks such as daily status reports, weekly progress reports, Requirements traceability Matrix (RTM) and defect logs
• Extensively involved in User Acceptance testing and system testing.
• Performed Interface testing.
• Performed Usability testing.

Environment: Java, Web Services, QTP, Jira, Apache Subversion (SVN), Test Manager, Quality Center, JMeter, SQL Server, Oracle, XML, TOAD, Jboss.