SUMMARY

• Result - driven Manual Tester with 5+ years of experience in integration, system, black-box testing, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and Agile / Waterfall methodologies. Well-versed in working with Jira, test cases / plans / scripts / strategies, SQL queries, functional / design documents, BRD, and MS Office suite.
• Successfully completed 3 projects with manual testing
• Expert in writing test plans and test cases to execute manual testing
• Hands-on experience in logging and tracking defects using Jira
• Worked on Agile methodology for daily standup meeting, Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, and Sprint retrospective meeting
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, functional requirements, and design documents
• Performed functional, negative, positive, integration, regression, and end to end testing
• Created test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application by conducting positive, negative and boundary testing
• Wrote Structure Query Language (SQL) queries to check proper data population in application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against Oracle Database

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, C/C++, SQL, Python

Database: Oracle, MS-Access, MS-SQL Server, Sybase

Defect Tracking Tools: Jira, ALM, QC, VSTS

Version Control Tools: Git, SVN

Application Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manual Tester

Confidential, Grands Rapid, MI

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with cross functional teams to facilitate gathering of testing requirements
• Wrote test plan and test case to execute manual testing
• Involved in manual execution of software using different methods like integration, system, smoke, UAT, sanity, regression testing etc.
• Used test data for manual testing
• Wrote test case using Zephyr and logged / tracked defects using Jira
• Worked on Agile methodology for daily standup meeting, Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, and Sprint retrospective meeting
• Worked in the Agile environment with frequent changing requirements and features set
• Executed manual test cases, track, and log the defects using Quality Center
• Analyzed system requirement, Business Requirement Documents (BRD), and developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Used SQL commands to validate the database and test integration with the front end
• Performed GUI, functional, regression, and performance testing
• Interacted with Developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Performed backend testing to verify the data integrity by passing SQL queries
• Performed smoke and functional testing on every build of the application
• Worked on defect reporting, analyzing, tracking, and report generation using Mercury Quality Center
• Attended the daily bug review meetings, weekly status meetings, walkthroughs, and interacted with Business Analysts / Developers for resolving defects

Manual Tester

Confidential, Sterling Heights, MI

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, specification, design, implementation, and testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Arranged daily meetings with onsite and offshore Leads to get and provide project status
• Worked on test case preparation, reviewed process, prioritized & executed test cases based on business requirements and specifications
• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) for developing applications.
• Wrote user stories for development & test services based on business requirements and directions from the architecture team
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, functional requirements, and design documents
• Performed functional, negative, positive, integration, regression, and end to end testing
• Wrote and designed test plan documents and test strategy
• Worked with the Business Analyst and the operation team to verify the test cases
• Implemented test cases using API calls to without GUI available
• Integrated the smoke and regression test script with a standalone Jenkins job that ran once daily
• Created positive and negative scenarios for Rest web services using Postman
• Wrote Oracle SQL queries for database testing

Manual Tester

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Ensured all the test cases are updated in the Quality Manager along with the test plan
• Involved in implementation of the test plan, various test cases, and test scripts including validating the data at backend
• Involved in the weekly defect status meetings along with the QA team and development team
• Worked on System Testing Life Cycle, performed different types of testing, such as GUI, functional, integration, and positive & negative testing
• Involved in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation.
• Created test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application by conducting positive, negative and boundary testing.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases coordinated with the development team in fixing the issues.
• Involved in Integration testing of modules for the application and used Unix commands for file interface testing.
• Involved in smoke, sanity, regression, functional, GU, end-To-end, database, and UAT testing
• Executed the test scripts & compared the actual and expected results
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries
• Created / updated QTP test scripts for new / enhanced work package
• Tested the back-end database by preparing queries with SQL to retrieve data from database