SUMMARY

• Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Expertise in different types of black box testing: Positive testing, Negative testing, Sanity/Smoke testing, End to End testing, Backend testing and Regression testing.
• Skilled in logging defects, prioritizing them, retesting fixed defects, and tracking them until resolved using bug tracking tools like Jira and HP ALM
• Experienced in writing Structured Query language (SQL) queries for Back - end testing and data reconciliation
• Experienced in writing Test Documentation, Test Data, Test Plan, Test Report, Test Cases and Test Scenario
• Skilled in creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure that all requirements and use cases are covered with Test Cases
• Participation in defect Root Cause Analysis meetings and quick in providing process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar issues
• Hands- on experience in SQL Queries for Backend testing and data validation
• Experienced in finding defects, designate them and retest the fixed bug and track them till closure using tools and following Defect Life Cycle
• Knowledgeable of UNIX commands used to fetch FIX logs to analyze tags and values
• Experience in test automation with Selenium and decision making on what to be automated
• Key collaborator with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution
• Ability to work closely with an agile team, developers, testers and others
• Ability to work in team environment and client interfacing skills
• Focused and well maintained under the high pressure
• Excellent in multitasking, problems solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated, detail-oriented and logical approaches to problem solving
• Self-motivated, critical and creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language : SQL, HTML, Java

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Bug tracking: JIRA, HPALM

Platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Unix/Linix

Testing Tools: HP, QTP, Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bayonne, NJ

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) from analyzing requirements and creating test case till execution and test report.
• Was actively involved in all aspects of the pre-testing phase such as establishing the Test strategy, writing Test plan, and setting up the test environment.
• Performed thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved, new functions introduced, or fragments of the application refactored.
• Executed Smoke/Sanity, Negative and Positive, End to End, GUI, Backend, and Regression testing of the application.
• Log defects in Jira and communicate with software developers to make sure the issues are resolved.
• Developed Test cases from user stories for specific functional requirements.
• Wrote and Executed test cases to ensure functionality across the application on various platforms.
• Wrote Test scenarios, prepared test data, and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Involved in User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing.
• Helped Automation team to select the candidate test cases for automation and provided necessary test data and detail steps.
• Participated and reported in Agile ceremonies: Daily Stand-Up meetings, Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective, Backlog Refinement.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract Data from database to verify reports and information on UI.
• Tested application in production by performing Sanity Testing to ensure that application is performing as per requirement.
• Attended status meetings as part of QA team to report test status and discuss any impediments.
• Participated in Root cause analysis for defects and provided process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was actively involved in hybrid Waterfall / Agile workflow
• Attended and participate in group meetings regarding daily tasks
• Actively involved in all phases of testing: Test designing, Testing, Execution, Defect Analysis and Tracking
• Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently
• Consulted and collaborated with the developers’ team to make sure the bugs were resolved
• Tracking, editing and updating defects into HPALM
• Used MS SQL to write queries to extract data for front and backend verification
• Developed Test cases from user stories for specific functional requirements
• Performed different types of Testing: Positive testing, Negative testing, Sanity/Smoke testing, End to End testing, Backend testing, Regression testing
• Wrote SQL queries for Back-end testing and data reconciliation
• Performed manual testing for testing functionality and GUI of the application
• Participated in daily meetings and weekly status report updates
• Conduct Functional and Back-end testing on e-commerce websites and backend applications
• Helped analyzing cause analysis of the bugs and suggested ways to eliminate them
• Actively participated in Team meetings and reviews
• Provided regular status updates to QA lead
• Helped the team members to improve testing process