PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seven plus years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for various web based and Client/Server applications.
• Well experienced in testing complex and high performance in Product Development across Financial, Salvage Auto, Pharma and Retail environments.
• Extensive experience in Gathering and Analyzing Business/System requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system.
• Good understanding of Quality Assurance Methodologies Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.
• Experienced in manual testing with the focus on System Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UAT, Smoke Testing, API and GUI Testing.
• Involved in creating Test cases using User stories, Requirements document, Use Cases, Flow diagrams.
• Expertise in creating Test Cases and Executing Test cases using TFS/MTM, Quality Center/HPALM.
• Experienced in test Management tools like Quality Center, HPALM, JIRA, Visual Studio, MTM, Team Foundation Server for Creating, Executing and Bug Tracking.
• Involved in testing RESS based Hybrid Mobile web applications on iOS and Android devices.
• Experience in doing API Testing using tools like SoapUI, Postman, Rest Client and Advanced Rest Client to validate data in XML/JSON formats.
• Expert of writing SQL Queries to retrieve data from SQL Server, Teradata, Hadoop, Oracle MS Access Databases.
• Participated in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning (Story Pointing, Team Velocity) Sprint Review (Daily demos, Mid Sprint reviews) and Retrospective meetings with Managers, Team Leads, Developers and Business Stakeholders.
• Good Analytical and Communication Skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team. Ability to work under competing deadlines.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies very quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Team Foundation Server, MTM, Visual studio, HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, SOAP UI, REST, Postman

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Programming Languages: C#, JAVA, MS SQL SERVER, PL/SQL, VB.Net

Web Technologies: HTML, XHTML, XML, Json, JavaScript, VBScript

Web Servers: Apache 1.3, Netscape I - Planet, IIS, Web Sphere

Web App Servers: Web Logic

Operating Systems: Windows NT 2000/XP/7/10, UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris 2.x

Databases: Teradata, Hadoop, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012,2014, DB2, Oracle, MS Access

Documentation Tools: Tableau, MS Word 2010/2013, Excel 2010/2013, PowerPoint 2010/2013, Outlook 2010/2013, MS Project 2010/2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical design documents, Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the process for creating test scenarios.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases based on the User stories and Requirement document.
• Created Test plan, Test data and Test reports.
• Involved in reporting daily testing status, defects, road blocks in meetings.
• Performed manual and data warehouse testing in Agile Scrum and Waterfall Methodology.
• Used HP ALM for writing test cases and executed test cases.
• Involved in System Integration testing, Adhoc testing, Functionality testing, Cross browser testing, Compatibility testing, Positive and Negative testing, Backend testing, GUI, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing on Web based applications.
• Performed backend testing of the application using Teradata, Hadoop and Oracle for writing and executing various SQL Queries to create and validate test data.
• Involved in reporting defects using HP ALM to communicate to developers and team lead and Involved in Creating and maintaining defects using HP ALM.
• Done testing in DEV, QA, UAT, Staging and Production Support environments.
• Experience in creating Regression test cases and involved in doing Regression and Smoke testing before and after each Deployment.
• Created User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenarios and test cases across multiple iterative release cycles in order to ensure business acceptance of release features and enhancements.
• Managed, reviewed, modified and prioritized the User Acceptance Testing project plans and schedule with objective to stay on time, within contractual agreements and on budget.
• Experience in creating Alerts, Cases, SAR’s in Actimize for testing different types of Alerts triggering for Anti money laundering projects.
• Done testing on different servers to check the daily jobs executed to transfer the data from one table to another.
• Experience in Inserting, Updating, Deleting data in Teradata database for testing backend scenario's.
• Responsible for driving End to End Test scenarios efforts and in identifying test data for UAT
• Involved in Story Pointing User Stories based on the complexity along with the team.
• Attended daily standup meetings as well as developer’s meetings to discuss the User Stories, Test case review meetings with Developers to cover all possible scenarios and communicate any issues/ impediments.
• Participated in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings with Managers, Team Leads, Developers and Business Stakeholders.

Environment: HPALM, QC, Rally, Actimize, SAPPCM, Teradata, Hadoop, Oracle, Tableau, ETL, Agile, Waterfall, MS OFFICE, MS Word, JAVA, SNAG - IT, Snipping Tool, Windows 7.0,10.

Confidential, Westchester, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the process.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases based on the User stories.
• Performed manual testing in Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Used Microsoft Test Manager for writing test cases and creating Shared test steps and executed test cases.
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Cross Browser testing, Compatibility testing, Positive and Negative testing, Usability testing, Backend testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing on web and Windows based applications.
• Performed backend testing of the application using SQL SERVER for writing and executing various SQL Queries to create and validate test data.
• Involved in reporting defects using TFS to communicate to developers and team lead and Involved in Creating and maintaining defects using MTM.
• Done API testing using Soap UI and Postman tool to validate data with Backend.
• Strong iOS and Android expertise, including experience with various device models and operating systems.
• Involved in testing RESS based Hybrid Mobile web applications on iOS and Android devices.
• Done testing in DEV, QA, UAT, Staging and Production Support environments.
• Experience in creating Regression test cases and involved in doing Regression and Smoke testing before and after each Deployment.
• Responsible for UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts.
• Done testing on different servers to check the daily jobs executed to transfer the data from one table to another.
• Experience in Inserting, Updating, Deleting data in SQL Server database for testing backend scenario's.
• Involved in Story Pointing User Stories based on the complexity along with the team.
• Attended daily standup meetings as well as developer’s meetings to discuss the User Stories, Test case review meetings with Developers to cover all possible scenarios and communicate any issues/ impediments.
• Participated in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings with Managers, Team Leads, Developers and Business Stakeholders.

Environment: Team Foundation Server, MTM, SQL SERVER, MS OFFICE, Soap UI, Postman, XML, JSON, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SNAG - IT, Windows 7.0,10, iPhone, iPad, Android, Tablet

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the process.
• Expertise in writing the Test Cases depending on the business requirement documents.
• Used MTM for writing Test Cases and executing the test suites.
• Experience in following Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Expertise in writing SQL queries for preparing test data.
• Extensively involved in performing the backend testing of the application using SQL Server for writing and executing various SQL Queries to validate the data.
• Involved in Creating and maintaining defects using TFS.
• Experience in reporting defects using MTM to communicate to developers and team lead.
• Involved in Functionality testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Cross Browser testing, Positive and Negative testing, Usability testing, Backend testing and UAT testing on Web based applications.
• Participated in sprint planning sprint review and retrospective meetings, defect review meetings and defect report meetings with Managers, Team Leads, Developers and Business Stakeholders.
• Coordinating testing of software defects, enhancements, and upgrades with users and other application teams.
• Involved in testing the Mobile Web Applications on iOS and Android.
• Involved in testing Web Services for validating positive and negative cases of requests and responses.
• Conducted Regression testing before each Build release.
• Extensively involved in smoke and regression testing before and after each Deployment.
• Provide status reports to appropriate groups concerning test issues and progress.
• Reaching the deadlines according to the requirements in Agile Methodology.

Environment: Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, SQL SERVER, SSIS, SSRS, XML, SOAP, POSTER, REST, Agile, C#, ASP.NET, SNAG - IT, Windows, Firefox, Chrome, IE, iOS, Android.

Confidential, Brisbane, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted manual testing using the Standards, guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.
• UsedVisual Studio 2010 Ultimate- Microsoft Test Managerto create and execute Test cases and Test Suites based on requirements.
• Concentrated and involved more in System Integration testing, functional testing and Regression testing along with testing the few medium priority functionalities.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detail design of the software for a thorough understanding of the business prepared by Business Analysts.
• Created Development Requirements, Technical Design, Test Plans, Traceability Matrix, created Integration/System/Regression Test cases and Use cases to explain the systems interaction with the users.
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (Use Case Diagrams).
• Review Change Control for significant scope changes & summarize for handoff of Benefits Verification Plan.
• Creating and maintaining SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the MySQL database.
• Very good Understanding of XML in Tester point of view.

Environment: .Net, MS VISIO, UML, SQL Server, Agile, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, MTM, TFS, XML.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tested customization projects based on project documentation and participated in project meetings and planning.
• Create systematic test plans and test suites.
• Created test data in different environments.
• Performed QA tasks that include regression testing, functional testing, user interface testing, ad hoc testing aspx pages and verification of calculations.
• Used defect tracking software to maintain accurate descriptions of issues, and records of reported and resolved issues.
• Provided timely and accurate QA status and progress to project managers during testing phases of projects.
• Created and Executed test cases using Quality Center.
• Documented summary results at engagement’s conclusion.
• Worked with MS SQL Server to run SQL scripts, and perform backend testing.
• Software development lifecycle with commercial credit risk assessment.
• Escalate important issues regarding environmental, system, or problematic issues, as well as, product quality and ensure management and businesses are aware of any problem areas and their impact on the business process.

Environment: .NET ( ASP.NET), Quality Center, Agile, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, XML.

Confidential, Deerfield Beach, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile Scrum methodology.
• Attended daily scrum meetings to get an update on defect fix.
• Participated in Requirement meetings to understand the functional requirements of the application so as to come up with test scenarios, test flow and test procedures.
• Performed Validation tests to ensure that the developed functionality meets with the specifications.
• Designed Test Scenarios and Test cases based on the functional specifications and Use Cases documents on different modules like Quote Reports, Online Account Management (OLAM), and QQ Web Agent.
• Involved in developing Test Schedules, Plans, for various stages like Integration, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), as well as Positive and Negative Testing.
• Thoroughly tested all changes submitted by the Insurance Carriers to ensure that QQ Solutions is complying with their specifications and are free of defects.
• Tested software enhancements, changes, fixes, etc to ensure all systems are free of defects. Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the functionality of the QQ Solutions product lines.
• Performed browser Compatibility Testing on different browsers like IE, Firefox and Mac-Safari.
• Detailed repeatable test cases for application, worked with developers to gain detailed information on complex calculations and backend exception processing in order to validate the back-end utilizing SQL.
• Developed Test Cases and detected defects and used Quality Center to report bugs and Email notifications to the developers based on the severity and interfacing with developers to resolve them.
• Reported bugs through Quality Center and categorizing Created Excel Spreadsheets for the calculation of Company rates.

Environment: Quality Center, Java/J2EE, SQL Server, Ms-Word, Ms Excel, Ms-PowerPoint, Ms Visio, WinNT /2000/XP, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic, XML.