SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in all aspects of Quality control of software deployment
• Contributed as QA lead, Sr. QA Engineer, a guide to junior staff and as a team member
• Knowledgeable in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in leading meetings large and small to gain consensus on consumer centric solutions
• Experience in testing with Agile as well as Waterfall methodologies
• Experience in working with virtual teams
• Multi - lingual with Global experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. QA analyst worked on PAI-UST & CHARLES RIVER applications
• As a QA lead on FMRS project work - gave estimates on testing time lines, delegated work, monitored the quality of the work and reported status
• Created test plans, high level test cases and scripts. Reviewed the test cases and scripts of the team.
• Held meetings with the development team, business and QA team during the test phase.
• Used Quality Center extensively for executing the test cases as well as for defect tracking.
• Held daily meetings to interact with the offshore team
• Used Toad for Oracle in executing SQL queries for backend testing
• Used QTP automation scripts for doing smoke testing
• Created folders and managed all the documents in the SharePoint.
• Provided accurate status on a daily/weekly basis to the application leadership
• Tested in Development, QA and Production environments

Sr. Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed the test cases for the new site.
• Worked as a part of the development team to test the new site which is integrated with 2 other sites.
• Modified the test cases based on the changes made in the specification.
• Performed Browser testing for all the sites in IE (6, 7&8), Fire fox 3.5 and Google Chrome browsers.
• Tested in the Development as well as Prod environment
• Reported the Defects in the Interim Issue Manager (MS Office Project Web Access (PWA).
• Communicated with the Developers and the Project Manager on an ongoing basis.
• Worked under tight schedule with the development team spread across USA and other countries.

May 2008 - Jul 2008Sr. Quality Analyst, KPMG, Montvale, NJ (Consultant)

As a Senior QA Analyst, worked on a time sensitive project PRS (Partner Rotation System) in the development environment.

Contributions include:

• Developed and executed the test cases for enhancements to the PRS application, prior to formal testing.
• Worked as an only tester responsible for testing in the PRS development team.
• Reviewed all the BA specifications and if needed gave the required input for the specifications.
• Modified the test cases based on the changes made in the specification.
• Performed Browser testing based on the requirements.
• Performed functionality & Integration testing.
• Performed backend testing for all the data fixes.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Reported the Defects through Microsoft Office Project Web Access (PWA).
• Communicated with the Business Analysts, Developers and the Project Manager on an ongoing basis.
• Provided status reports on a daily basis.

Quality Analyst

Confidential, Ewing, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed systems testing and analysis for the Management System development team.
• Developed and executed the test cases for enhancements to the Management System, prior to formal testing.
• Worked as an only tester responsible for testing in the Management System development team.
• Reviewed all the BA specifications and if needed gave the required input for the specifications.
• Modified the test cases based on the changes made in the specification.
• Performed Browser testing based on the requirements.
• Performed functionality & Integration testing.
• Performed thorough backend testing using Toad for all the batch programs.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Reported the Defects through Microsoft Office Project Web Access (PWA).
• Created a new Document Library to share all the development testing documents in the project workspace site.
• Communicated with the Business Analysts, Developers and the Project Manager on an ongoing basis.
• Provided status reports on a weekly basis for all the projects in PWA.

Sr. Quality Analyst

Rodale, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Creating Test Plan/Strategy documents for different Projects based on requirement documents and or wire frames. (Created template for Test plan/Strategy Document for Rodale QA Department)
• Worked as a QA Lead for some projects where the responsibility of distribution of the work and progress was monitored on a daily basis.
• Created Test Cases in Quality Center (Test Director) and also in Microsoft Excel for some other projects.
• Created Functionality test cases, Regression test cases and smoke test cases for the projects.
• Automated some regression test cases using QTP.
• Performed functionality testing & Smoke testing for different builds.
• Modified test scripts according to the changes in requirements.
• Performed Browser testing based on the requirements.
• Performed IP address testing.
• Performed backend testing using Oracle SQL Developer 1.0 to verify the ordering process for OAE. Has used and written moderately complex queries in SQL.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Reported the Defects through Quality Center (Test Director).
• Held meetings for the QA team to discuss the status of the projects.
• Provided detailed status reports on a daily basis for different projects.

Quality Analyst

KPMG, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed functionality testing.
• Created test cases using Microsoft Word for the new functionality.
• Performed Smoke testing for different builds.
• Modified test scripts according to the requirement.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Reported the Defects through Rational Clear Quest.
• Retested all the closed defects before the release.
• Provided status reports on a daily basis.

Quality Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team in developing the test plan and test scripts using Test Director.
• Created data driven WinRunner scripts.
• Reported and followed up the defects encountered during regression testing, E-mail notifications to the developers and business team using the Test Director defects reporting tool.
• Updated Test Director to ensure efficient documentation of QA activities.
• Performance testing using LoadRunner/TestCenter 7.8.
• Created Vusers (Virtual Users) to emulate concurrent users by inserting Rendezvous points in the Vusers Scripts

Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for thorough testing of the functionality.
• Participated in Stress testing.
• Identified testing tasks and resources. Scheduled and documented them into a Test Plan using MS-WORD.
• Performed various types of testing such as Integration testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing, GUI testing.
• Reported and tracked testing progress using MS-EXCEL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X, NT Server, Unix

Software: MS-Office, MS-Office Project Web Access (PWA), Windows SharePoint Services 3.0-Project Workspace Site, Visual Basic

Databases: TOAD for Oracle 8.6.1.0, SQL, SQA Anywhere, Oracle 7.3.2/8.0, MS Access 97/2000 and DB2

Auto testing tools: QTP (Quick Test Professional) 8.2, Win Runner 7.5, Load Runner 8.0

Reporting Tools: Quality Center 10.0, 9.1, 8.2,Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla 2.2, PWA & Excel