SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of IT experience with Strong knowledge in Quality Center/ALM, SoapUI, JIRA, SQL,Agile Testing Mobile Testing and Crystal Reports.
• IT experience in Quality Assurance for Web based, Client/Server and ERP applications using Manual and Automated testing tools.
• Expertise in providing testing solutions across domains and technologies.
• Expertise in writing system test plans, defining test cases and developing test scripts. Experience in handling project teams in terms of assigning task, guiding, motivating and meeting project deadlines.
• Gained expertise in the areas spanning various phase of STLC Includes Test Planning, Test Analysis, Test Design, Construction & Verification, Testing Cycles, Final Testing, Pre and post Implementation.
• Extensive experience in following QA Methodologies, preparing Test Plans, writing Test Cases and executing them; performed Defect Reporting and Tracking through the entire defect life cycle.
• Involved in System & Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, GUI Testing, Unit and Integration Testing, Data Driven, Keyword driven Testing
• Proficient in analyzing Business Requirements, preparation of Master test plans, Functional Requirement specification, Design Documents, Process Analysis, Use Case Specifications, Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis.
• Experience in POS mobile testing
• Executed SQL queries to validate the back end data.
• Experience in Automation testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Experience in executing Automated Regression test cases using QTP.
• ExperienceinwritingSQLqueriestoassistindataanalysis.
• Used HP Quality Center and JIRA Business for management of QA test plan, test design, test execution and defect log phase. Rational Quality Manager for management of STLC including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting, Set priorities and multi - task in a fast pace environment .
• Written SQL queries to validate database values to perform database testing.
• Efficiently performed Defect Tracking using tools like Soap UI, HP Quality Center, and Test Director.
• Plan Driven Methodologies including Spiral, Agile Software Development (Scrum)
• Worked as Test Lead in handling multiple projects and also involved in test team expansion.
• Involved in developing applications in VB 6.0 using MS Access / SQL Server 2000 as backend and generating reports using Crystal report 8.0.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Analysis: Functional Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Analyzing Business RulesTest Flows, Test Planning, Change Request, Impact Analysis

Testing Methodologies: Object Oriented, Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Top to Bottom and Bottom to Top, Requirement based, Risk based, Priority based test methodology

Web Service testing /Interactive: Soap UI, QTP,Crystal Report 8.0, Micro Strategy

Scripting: TSL, SQA basic, VB Script, HTML, XML

Languages: C, C++, .net, Visual Basic 6.0

OS: Windows XP/NT/2000, DOS, Mainframes, AIX UNIX, LINUX

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/7.5/2005 , MS Access

MS Suite: MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings
• Developed manual test cases and later created test scripts based on the requirement, and testing the web services using SoapUI
• Maintained requirements and created Tractability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Created and executed test Scripts for Functional and Regression testing.
• Gathered the test cases which are common for every release and which can be executed for multiple sets of data for the purpose of regression testing.
• Extensively used test management tools like Quality Canter to carry out test case documentation, execution, and defect logging.
• Responsible for creating traceability matrix to ensure all requirements are covered by test cases.
• Developed and exported test cases to Quality Center and mapped all test cases to the business requirements/rules.
• Involved in web services testing using SOAPUI. Validated Request and Response XMLs for different combinations of data.
• Risk management and Issue Management.
• Responsible for testing a web-based portal that accepts new loan applications which is built on a .Net framework and make sure functionality, design conforms to User requirements.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure that data entered has been uploaded correctly into the database.
• Designed the SQL queries to check the back-end information
• Created user acceptance test cases for the application under test with business users
• Executes the regression test suite to identify the unexpected side effects
• Documented test results and SQL outputs and provided daily execution status
• Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.

Environment: HTML, XML, .net, VB Scripts, SoapUI, Quality Center/ALM, SQL Server

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases, Test Strategy from the business requirements documents and meetings, Conducted Functionality testing of the applications
• Developed manual test cases and later created test scripts based on the requirement
• Responsible for the preparation of the test data for the application under test
• Developed strategy linked to requirements to create the comprehensive plan
• Developed SQL queries to test the back-end based on the front-end inputs
• Developed system use cases by understanding business requirements and technical specifications
• Assisted the team with daily QA tasks. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings
• Retest the defects fixed and update the status on a daily basis
• Designed the SQL queries to check the back-end information
• Created and Executed user acceptance test cases for the application under test
• Worked closely with the development team and other team members to review the design
• Communicate application readiness on time to time basis and testing results to project team
• Created quality assurance checklists for the application under test.

Environment: HTML,JIRA, ALM Quality Center, .net, Crystal Reports, SQL Server

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, WI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Liaison with business, technical, testing teams and vendors for test requirements, design and efforts
• Manage and maintain traceability across business / functional requirements & test cases within quality center
• Performed Functional and system testing for entire application on mobile device.
• Periodically review and track the deliverables that are submitted across various test phases
• Created QTP Scripts based on the manual tests for regression testing and functional testing
• Co-ordinate the defect management using HP Quality Center across system, integration, performance and user acceptance testing cycles.
• Involved in designing, developing, enhancing automated test scripts for testing the application using Quick Test Professional.
• Manage and perform thorough testing which included
• Creating test strategy, approach and plan for each test phase/cycle, test Scenarios for each Module
• Creating test cases for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality
• Performing various types of testing, such as functional, integration, smoke, regression, adhoc and system testing
• Documenting, track requirements and defects in Quality Center
• Working with development & functional teams in investigating the defects based on test results
• Creating and submit defect analysis as a part of the daily and weekly reporting
• Create Daily status report at the end of the day and send it to the test manager
• Creating the Test Summary Report at the end of each cycle / release which included but not limited to Test coverage analysis, Defects by test phases etc.,

Environment: .Net, SQL Server 2008, Windows XP/ UNIX, Manual Testing, QTP 11.0, QC 11.0, Soap UI, POS NCR register, Motion Tablets, printer, IBM register, Mainframe.

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, WI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements and functional documents for creating test plan, test scenarios and test cases.
• Reviewed peer test cases and provided suggestions.
• Developed test scenarios and test cases and executed them for functional and System Testing
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing, adhoc testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
• Performed manual testing as well as used QTP to generate automated test scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Uploaded Test plans and Test Cases in the Quality Center. Extensively used Quality Center for Bugs reporting, reviewing and Defect Tracking.
• Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirement's documents, test plans and test lab.
• Involved in designing, developing, automated test scripts and data for testing the application using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed, updated existing test scripts as per the new functionalities and executed test scripts.
• Updated existing Business Process Components to meet the new functionalities
• Investigated, noted and collected information on software defects and reported the same to developers.

Environment: .Net, SQL Server 2008, Windows XP/ UNIX, Manual Testing, QTP 11.0, QC 11.0, SoapUI, POS NCR register, POS IBM register, Mainframe

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements and functional specifications give the functional/System knowledge of the entire Modules on which I work and makes it easy to design test cases,
• Studied business requirements and functional specifications.
• Data designing
• Studied and wrote detailed test cases to verify the functionality.
• Executed test cases manually for each of the modules
• Reporting and confirming the errors
• Test report preparation.
• Developing User Defined Reports Using Crystal Report 8.0

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 8.0