PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 6+ years of IT experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing of various business applications in Client/Server environments and Data Warehousing solutions using Manual and Automated testing tools.
• Worked on API automation & UI Automation
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and Software Test Life Cycle and highly proficient in Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
• Expertise in writing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Procedures, Use cases & Test cases.
• Used JIRA, Rally and ALM/Quality Center for Test Management & defect tracking.
• Experience using UNIX commands
• Experienced in Functional testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing, Smoke Testing, Accessibility (508) testing and performance testing
• Strong experience in preparing documentation, preparing test environments, executing and analyzing the results.
• Involved in testing batch jobs using UNIX and Control - M.
• Have experience in testing reconcile (initial) and delta (daily) loads.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defect Reports, and Weekly Status Reports.
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard Tools like HP Quality Center/ALM, Jira, Rally.
• Expert in writing complex SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Experience in interacting with Clients, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects & Stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Defect Tracking: ALM / Quality Center, Rally, Jira

Databases: Oracle 12c, MySQL, DBeaver 6.2.3 languages:

SQL, HTML

Application environments: C#, .NET Framework, Web Services, SOA, API, Java, Java EE

MS Suite/ Project Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint

Operating Systems/ Products: Windows, UNIX, Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Linux

DWH/ETL Tools: Informatica

Accessibility (508) testing tools

Andi, Wave, Lighthouse and keyboard navigation

BMC Control: M, Confidential

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work on a tracking, reporting and data repository product Confidential for CMS
• Manage all the QA processes in an AGILE development environment
• Core responsibility involves Database testing, writing API automation test scripts, UI automation scripts, Accessibility testing (Section 508), Integration testing, Regression testing and End-To-End testing
• Perform Smoke, Functional, System and Regression testing and resolving all the critical and open Bugs prior to Deployment.
• Understanding the requirements to write the test scenarios in Test Rail for execution
• Work on complex functionalities of the system like AO upload and Survey Revisit scenarios etc.
• Perform Smoke testing for each build.
• Collaborate with client to understand the pain points/gaps for the users with the new changes.
• Participate in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming/Refinement sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Scrum Master, Product Owners, and Agile Team members
• Report defects in Jira and that were found during testing of multiple versions of applications on various test environments daily and retested defect fixes after each Promote to respective QA environments.
• Report the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings and sprint demo to Product Owners
• Responsible for testing successful Migration of application.

Environment: Jira, DBeaver, Cucumber, Ruby 2.6.5, Postman, Splunk, ANDI accessibility tool, WAVE accessibility tool, Lighthouse accessibility tool, ConfluenceVEN SOFT LLC, Chantilly, VA

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Requirements from the client and developed Test cases based on functional requirements, general requirements and system specifications.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for Functional Testing as documented in the test plan.
• Scheduling and automating jobs to be run in a batch process
• Experienced in working in Agile Scrum and Waterfall SDLC methodology environments
• Created Test Cases, traceability matrix based on mapping document and requirements.
• Reviewed the test cases written based on the Change Request document and Testing has been done based on Change Requests and Defect Requests.
• Perform defect Tracking and reporting with strong emphasis on root-cause analysis to determine where and why defects are being introduced in the development process.
• Exclusively used test plan module to write and test lab module to execute the test cases in HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Exclusively used requirement module for requirement and defect module for entering the defects in HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Involved in testing the batch programs by using the Confidential tool.
• Involved in backend testing for the front end of the application using SQL Queries
• Before the Load is accepted to test, have performed the smoke or shake-out test.
• Validated various transformations of SSIS data flow and control flow.
• Developed test scripts using SQL queries to validate data using mapping document.
• Actively participated in meeting with Project Owner, Business Analyst and Developer to discuss about the discrepancy in the mapping document.

Environment: Oracle 12c, Confidential, HP Quality Center/ALM, Rally

Confidential

ETL QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Business Analysts, Architects and the Business users to understand the existing business model and customer requirements.
• Performed requirement analysis and prepared high-level scenario documents
• Prepared test cases in MS Excel and uploaded in HP Quality Centre.
• Attended Triage meetings and supported developers in identifying defects and performed defect retests.
• Performed System testing, Integration testing and supported User Acceptance tests.
• Verified and validated data using SQL.
• Documented test results, reports and metrics.
• Defect Management process through HP Quality Centre.
• Involved in scheduling batch jobs and UNIX jobs using Control-M / MVS and Control-M

Environment: Oracle 11g, HP Quality Centre 9.2, Jira

ETL QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked and scheduled meetings with Business Analysts to understand requirement documents.
• Prepared scenario documents to cover important workflows.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix for requirements coverage to ensure quality of work.
• Prepared test cases in MS Excel and uploaded in HP Quality Center.
• Supported developers in identifying defects and performed defect retests.
• Performed System testing, Integration testing and supported User Acceptance tests.
• Verified and validated data using SQL.
• Documented test results and metrics.

Environment: Oracle 10g, HP Quality Centre 9.0, Jira, BMC Control-M