OBJECTIVE

• To attain a challenging and rewarding software quality assurance career utilizing my skills and experience while contributing to company goals.

SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of strong experience in Testing of web based, stand - alone, client server Applications.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post deployment documentation.
• Worked on Agile methodology for the past 10 years with daily stand up meeting and bi and tri weekly sprints.
• Possess solid experience in Manual Testing along with skills in Automation Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Expertise with Quality/Defect Management tools like TFS, Test Director, JIRA and Quality Center.
• Skilled in Functional / Black Box Testing & exposure with White Box Testing.
• Experience working on e commerce and e business websites.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans and Execution of Test Cases for Manual & Automated Testing.
• Have strong skills in writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured and loosely structured development environments and performing all types of testing.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, Integration, GUI, Usability, International, end-end,Positive, Negative, Data Driven Testing, Security and UAT testing.
• Performed Page Flow, Security, Cookie, Link, Connectivity, Browser, Usability, Navigation, Content and Fail-over Testing.
• Experience in using VMWare for testing different products.
• Experienced in Waterfall, Agile and SCRUM, SDLC methodologies.
• Exposure to version control tools (VSS, TFS, CVS).
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and Oracle Databases.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick learner, team player.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret a problem and its solving techniques.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management / Automation Tools: Mercury(HP)'s Quality Center, Test Director, TFS, ALM, Quick Test Professional (QTP),, JIRA, AutoIt, Bugzilla, E-track, Remedy, TORO

Programming Languages: .Net, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML

Configuration Management Tools: Microsoft Team Foundation server, Perforce

Database Technologies: MS-SQL Server 2008/2014, SOAP UI, Web Service Studio, TOAD, Oracle 11i/10g, MS-Access, JDBC and ODBCDatabase Utilities SQL*Net, SQL*Loader, SQL*Plus

ETL Tools: Informatica

Web Server Technologies: IIS, Web Sphere

Development Framework/Tools: Microsoft .NET, Visual Studio, J2EE

Scripting Languages: VBScript, JavaScript

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/XP/NT/2000/Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing the user flow and authentication for both Equis Enterprise (Regular users) and Equis Pro (Power Users)
• Validating the data mapping and doing the data validations for the migrated data from Bioframe or excel into Equis Data Base.
• Running multiple reports in Equis to retrieve the data that’s been imported.
• Worked in an Agile Environment with daily stand ups and bi-weekly sprints.
• Used Quality Center and Jira to specify Test Requirements, Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Management.
• Wrote test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional, integration and regression testing and executed them in dev box, QA environment, staging environment and production for every release.
• Was Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities during daily Scrum meetings and bi- weekly sprint planning meetings.
• Worked very closely with development and product teams to make sure that the product being released meets all the testing standards.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Application Analyst(QA)/ QA coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional, integration and regression testing and executed them in dev box, QA environment, staging environment and production for every release
• Was Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities during daily Scrum meetings and bi - weekly sprint planning meetings.
• Worked and managed multiple teams across the globe(India and Mexico) to coordinate the testing efforts during different time zones.
• Worked very closely with development and product teams to make sure that the product being released meets all the testing standards.
• Was involved in the release process entirely by providing estimates in sprint planning meetings, testing the user stories in multiple environments and performing regression testing to make sure that the new functionalities did not break existing production functionalities.
• Did extensive international testing for different countries to ensure that the website is accessible accordingly to the users worldwide.
• Worked proactively in debugging any issues found in the front end by looking at data in the backend by using SQL, TOAD, SOAP UI and Web service Studio and providing that information to development team members to analyze further.
• Used Quality Center, Jira and TFS to specify Test Requirements, Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Management.
• Worked with multiple third party vendors across the globe like PayPal, ProPay, Mercado Pago, B2B2C etc. to make sure that the integration of their application on our website goes smoothly and the application functions as expected.

Confidential

Sr. SQA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specs to create Test Plans, Test cases for System testing.
• Worked on Confidential .com website as well as the Confidential .com agent portal.
• Created multiple Quotes and Policies as an Agent for both PPA and CCA to make sure that all the functionalities worked as intended.
• Worked on multiple states (California, Virginia, New York, Florida etc.) for both PPA and CCA.
• Coordinated extensively with the business Users as well as the developers to discuss issues in interpreting the requirements.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities during daily Scrum meetings.
• Used Quality Center to specify Test Requirements, Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Management.
• Used Halian to update the status and hours spent on defects and requirements on a daily basis.
• Attended weekly 4 - corners meeting to discuss about the production defects that can be taken for that week and provide estimates for the taken defects.
• Wrote test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional testing.
• Interacted extensively with off-site team to understand and test the defects.

Confidential

Sr. SQA Analyst/ QA coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Tested the entire flow of the top 25 products of 40 e - stores including purchasing the product, downloading, installation, key injection, activation, expiration, renewing and upgrading.
• Used SOAP UI for API validation in back end testing.
• Analyzed, designed, and developed test plans (System, Integration and UAT testing) to perform repeatable testing procedures and processes.
• Interacted continuously with off-shore team(India) to provide the test data needed for testing.
• Performed functional, Integration, End-to-End system testing and Regression testing using both Manual and Automation testing.
• Performed International testing and tested the stores for localization issues.
• Performed code coverage testing for the AMS Web using the EMMA tool.
• Used Quality center, Bugzilla, E-track, Intake form and Remedy for Defect Management.
• Used Quality center and TORO for Test Panning and Test Execution.
• Participated in regular project meetings to discuss testing efforts and issues.
• Extensively used SQL for interacting with Oracle database to query and create the test data.
• Used Rover for data creation required for the testing of the renewal flow.
• Used share point to update the test results.
• Used VMWare extensively to install different builds and also to perform renewal testing.
• Wrote test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional, GUI and security testing.
• Used Perforce for source control.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans, test scripts and test harnesses.
• Interpreted Business Requirements, Use Cases, Functional Specs and User Requirements in to Test Cases.
• Performed functional, Integration, End - to-End system testing and Regression testing using both Manual and Automation testing.
• Used Test Director and later Quality Center to maintain Test Plan, Test cases and Traceability Matrices.
• Executed test cases, recorded actual results and managed defect reporting process using Quality Center (record, track, prioritize and close bugs).
• Assisted in User Acceptance testing efforts and during production deployments.
• Conducted and participated in regular project meetings to discuss testing efforts and issues.
• Performed Page Flow, Security, Cookie, Link, Connectivity, Browser, Usability, Navigation, UI, Content, and Fail-over Testing manually and using QTP.
• Automated most of the regression testing scripts using QTP and created smoke test suite for regular usage.
• Extensively used SQL for interacting with databases to query or create the test data.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities while daily Scrum meetings

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained, and executed Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases.
• Performed Functional Testing and GUI testing manually and using QTP.
• Performed Data Validation and Data Integration using SQL Queries manually.
• Designed Regression, Smoke, UAT, Acceptance Test cases and Automated them using QTP.
• Performed Negative and Positive testing manually.
• Performed Security testing on the application under test to check for integrity.
• Used Test Director to track and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track and resolve the problems.
• Created and used Data Base of manual & Automated tests, formation of Test Cycles with Test Director
• Better Planning, organizing of Test Process with Test Director.
• Created / developed SQL Queries with several parameters for Backend/DB testing.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the SQL server database, checked the SQL Packages developed as part ofBack end Testing. Manual Testing of the whole system.
• Prepared weekly productivity reports and submitted test metrics daily to the management.
• Participated in Project meetings, attended Inspection and Review meetings to discuss issues originated while testing, for adopting Change Requests.
• Recommended modifications to products, procedures and quality standards based on QA findings
• Responsible for communicating with development teams to determine test requirements and acceptance - criteria.
• Developed Functional, Regression Test plans and Test scripts.
• Performed functional, Integration, End-to-End system testing and Regression testing using both Manual and Automation testing and also assistedUser Acceptance Testing efforts.
• Used Test Director extensively to maintain test cases, test lab and also for defect tracking.
• Conducted and participated in regular project meetings to discuss testing efforts and issues.
• Liaised with teams in multiple locations in India and well as from Australia.
• Validated data on different databases and performed data analysis using complex query formulations.