SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of professional Experience wif a successful track record of custom developing effort from the ground - up to bring positive impact to an organizations mission, goals and objectives.
• Success has been driven by taking and end-user centric approach to understanding business needs and opportunities for improvement.
• About 8 years of hands-on experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) processes.
• Experience working on projects involving various Testing Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile/Iterative and V-Model.
• Experienced in IT Industry in Software Analysis and Manual Testing.
• Working experience in full software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC).
• Created test cases based on the Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents for different types of tests such as Functional, System, Integration, Regression, GUI, UAT, Security, Database, Smoke/Sanity and Usability.
• Very good experience in writing SQL queries using TOAD and other tools available.
• Excellent communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to learn and use new systems and processes.
• Excellent team player, problem solving skills and communication skills. Good interaction wif developers, managers and project team members.
• Experienced in various SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum.
• Developed Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, and Test Scripts based on User Requirements, Use cases, Specifications and System Requirements documents.
• Experienced in Black Box, Smoke Testing, Sanity, Integration, Functional, Compatibility Testing
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center as a test management tool and for Defect Tracking, also have good knowledge of ALM.
• Performed Back end Testing-using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate the inserted and updated data.
• Involved in reporting the bugs using bug-tracking tools like Test Director, Quality Center.
• Capable of adapting quickly to emerging technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows9x/NT/XP, Linux and UNIX

Testing Tools: Quality Center, ALM, QTP/HP UFT, Win Runner, Load Runner.

Defect Tracking Tool: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, QC, ALM

App. Languages: VB, SQL, HTML, Workflow Diagrams, and XML

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, and DB2

Microsoft Tools: MS word, PowerPoint, Excel

Browsers: Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet explorer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Orlando, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily standup/scrum by providing status update
• Develop test plan, create test scenarios and test cases from user acceptance criteria
• Interact wif client and BA and Dev for any clarifications
• Worked on different modules of the application to review the various scenarios
• Reviewed the Business Design Documents to identify discrepancies
• Attended Sprint plan meetings to review the requirements
• Gather Test input data including Pre-condition, Test input, Test result and Test regression data
• Develop detailed test cases from both positive and negative scenarios
• Involve in functional, regression and end-to-end, UAT testing in Dev and QA environment
• Provided Test execution reports, ALM reports to senior management
• Set up meetings and pay visit and to business site for knowledge sharing wif business partners
• Responsible for executing test cases and raising and logging defects
• Responsible for creating, organizing and maintain test datasheet and scenario snapshots
• Involve in overall test and planning and responsible for providing test effort estimates
• Create and execute scenarios during testing and raise defect utilizing ALM
• Retest failed scenarios and validate to ensure the quality of the product
• Wrote test cases based on the Business Design Documents
• Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.
• Connected to database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI Testing, Cross Browser testing and Exploratory testing.

Environment: Windows 7, IE 8, MS Office, Outlook, SharePoint, ALM

Confidential, Orlando, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional Testing using agile methodologies.
• Created Test case and test from the business and functional requirement documents
• Performed Requirements and Gap Analysis and work wif the Business Analysts to close these gaps.
• Perform smoke testing of the product to evaluate the product for further testing.
• Performed end to end testing for various modules.
• Designed and maintained Traceability matrix.
• Defect logging, defect closure and status reporting using ALM.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Daily calls wif the product team on status reporting and planning.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and UAT Testing
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Quality Center.
• Debugged the test scripts, created batch tests, verified the test results and reported the defects using JIRA & ALM.
• Interacted closely wif developers regarding defects, participated in tracking, reviewing and analyzing bugs.
• Actively participated in status reporting meetings and interacted wif development to discuss the technical issues.
• Regularly communicated wif project managers, development managers, release managers and developers to ensure comprehensive test planning and execution.
• Participated in weekly meeting wif management team and walkthroughs.
• Data Driven Testing using parameterization in Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test the application wif different sets of data.
• Coordinated wif developers to fix the bugs and conducted functional (positive and negative), and integration testing.
• Interacted wif performance testing team to provide the functionality of application to help them build performance test plan.
• Wrote Test cases and Test Scripts for Manual Testing.
• Developed base line scripts for testing the future releases of the application using test director.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during various phases of the application.
• Analyzed Business and Software Requirement Specification documents.

Environment: UFT 11.5, VBScript, MS office and Windows 8, ALM, Outlook

Confidential, Orlando, FL

QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Back-end testing and System testing.
• Analyzed the business requirements, written test cases for each and every project using prototypes and executed test cases manually in Quality Center.
• Manually test each and every module of the application and verified against expected results.
• Created bug reports using Quality Center to be reviewed by the QA Manager and development team.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed and analyzed using Quality Center.
• Manually tested the application for IE, Firefox, and Safari browsers.
• Participated in walkthroughs, User Request Review and technical reviews.
• Responsible for day to day and weekly status reports showing the progress of the testing efforts.
• Used SQL queries to perform database testing, validated tests by cross checking the data.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts by adding user defined functions.
• Worked extensively wif business users to define scope and prepared 'Documents of Understanding' for various change requests by analyzing the feedback from user groups.
• Involved in testing the backend Database retrieved the data from the tables using SQL.
• Connected to database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.
• Performed back end testing on oracle database by writing SQL quarries.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Testing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Front-end testing, Back-end testing, Functionality testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Regression testing, smoke testing of the application.
• Created Test Cases based on the Use Cases and the Change Requests for Regression and System testing.
• Developed test scenarios wif verification points for the test cases.
• Reported bugs to developers using Test Director and after fixed Regression testing were performed.
• Performed Manual Testing to check the functionality of the Application and executed Test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Wrote Smoke test plan wif basic test cases for the Application to ensure dat it is stable enough to start the Functional testing.
• Performed GUI testing and functionality testing for Front-end screens.
• Involved in testing the backend Database retrieved the data from the tables using SQL.
• Trained team members regarding the application so dat newly joined team members can come up to the speed and start working.
• Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mapped Use cases wif Requirements and written Test Cases for manual testing.
• Involved in gathering User/Business Requirements.
• Formulated detailed Test Plan after analyzing business requirements and design documents.
• Involved in designing and maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix for manual testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from Tables.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro to write and maintain requirements, and also used for finding, documenting, organizing, and tracking requirements.
• Involved in Front-end testing, Back-end testing, Functional testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Regression testing of the application.
• Involved in Browser compatibility testing.
• Generated reports for test case execution and defect status reports.
• Involved in Front-end testing, Back-end testing, Functionality testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Regression testing, smoke testing of the application.