OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position in Quality Assurance as a QA Analyst/ QA Tester/ Software Tester in dynamic and growth - oriented organization.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 10 Years of extensive experience as a Quality Assurance Software Tester.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing of applications in distributed environments.
• Extensive knowledge in SDLC, Agile, ALM and other Application development methodologies.
• Expertise in the area of Automation tools like Quality Center, and Quick Test Pro.
• Extensive experience in System test, Functionality, Integration testing, GUI testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Database Testing, debugging applications manually and using automation tools
• Experience in Preparation of Test Log after Execution of Tests, tracking defects and analyzing the test results
• Strong in RDBMS concept and backend testing - good in writing SQL queries.
• Experience in testing Stand-alone, Client Server, Database and Web based applications using Automation tools and Manual testing techniques
• Extensively worked on Linux and Unix servers
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Extensively experience in Data Warehouse environment to test the ETL process and reports.
• Well versed in creating Test Plans. Thorough hands on experience with designing test cases covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplications
• Extensive experience Health and Insurance applications
• Committed team player with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Fast learner, highly motivated, organized and result oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 9.2/10, ALM, Rational (Test Manager, Clear Quest), MTM, TFSWINDOWS XP, Windows 7&8

Defective Tracking Tools: Quality Center 9.0, ALM, Clear Quest, Product Studio, JIRA and Bugzilla, TFS

RDBMS: Oracle11gR2, 10gR2, MSSQL-Server 2008 and MS-Access 2007/2008.

ETL TOOLS: INFORMATICA (ETL Testing).

Languages: SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, Browser Stack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Software tester/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business functional requirements of the Projects and developed Test Scenarios, Test cases
• Updated test plan base on new/enhanced business requirements.
• Attended test case review meetings and updated test cases based on the feedback.
• Performed Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Prepared TEST data for various testing scenarios
• Performed Customer facing testing (CAT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) several times
• Created test scripts and test cases for NYOM JIRA tickets, CO and CR
• Extensively worked SQL Queries.
• Successfully tested bug fixes on various build deployments
• Created and maintain Regression scripts for every release
• Trained pears and new hires
• Extensively worked on JIRA, SP, TFS, Excel and Word
• Attended daily status meetings
• Documented the Daily Defect Status in TFS and Interacted with developers to report and track bugs.
• Identified and logged defects in TFS (Team Foundation Server) and JIRA
• Extensively worked on Linux.

Environment: MS Office Suite, Oracle, Seibel, Linux, PLSQL Developer, SharePoint, WinSCP

Software Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business functional requirements of the Projects and developed Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test data in MS-Excel.
• Updated test plan base on new business requirements.
• Attended test case review meetings and updated test cases based on the feedback.
• Performed Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Performed 508 application functional testing.
• Ran SQL queries to compare data in the database with (FAD) data.
• Perform back end/database testing to ensure the data integrity.
• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts for TVIS, CEIRS and N of 1 application.
• Executed auto and manual test cases in MTM (Microsoft Test Manager).
• Performed browser compatibility testing with Browser Stack.
• Performed functional testing for different modules with in the application using GUI interfaces.
• Documented the Daily Defect Status in TFS and Interacted with developers to report and track bugs.
• Identified and logged defects in TFS (Team Foundation Server).
• Developed and executed manual test cases in MTM (Microsoft Test Manager).
• Re-tested the bug fixes over various builds.
• Performed role based testing.
• Worked extensively with MS Excel for creating test scripts and several mathematical calculations, importing and exporting excel sheets.
• Attended daily scrum meetings.
• Attended Sprint planning meetings bi-weekly.

Environment: MS Office Suite, SQL Server, TFS, MTM, Browser Stack.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration, Regression, performance, UAT and Smoke Tests of the Applications.
• Involved in Planning, Coordinating, Developing Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test cases and Test Matrices based on the Requirements and Design Documents.
• Develop and Executed Functional test scripts and Regression Testing Manually.
• Develop SQL queries to simulate report output as validation scripts on the database level, utilized PL SQL Develor for data manipulations.
• Extensively used QC for reporting categorized the bugs based on severity.
• Validate input data submitted through GUI, by running SQL queries.
• Analyzed Test results to meet the end user needs. Tested the application manually by executing test cases prior to automation.
• Developed and performed security/user authentication test cases.
• Used QC to create and maintain the Test cases and the Test scripts for both System and Regression Testing.
• Developed Test plan for System, Detail & over all Test Plans using the Business Specifications.
• Conducted the system integrated testing of the application manually for different Modules.

Environment: MS Office Suite, Quality Center, QTP, PL SQL Developer, Linux, WinSCP