PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in manual testing and overall software testing process.
• Solid noledge of SDLC, SQA Methodology and tools.
• Develop all lines of QA documentation including Test Plans, Test Cases, and Traceability Matrices.
• Experienced in black box testing techniques, which included integration, functional, regression, end to end, sanity testing.
• Experienced in performing FunctionalityTesting, RegressionTesting, IntegratedTesting, Positive Testing, NegativeTesting, SmokeTesting, GUITesting, Ad - hocTesting, Back EndTestingand User AcceptanceTesting(UAT).
• Experience in testing Web-based and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Extensive use of defect tracking tools, such as Jira.Executed test cases, and test scenarios for User Acceptance (UAT), Functional and Regression test cases.
• Performed User AcceptanceTesting(UAT) manually.
• Performed Back EndTestingby executing SQL queries.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and RTM\Release Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
• Tracked and reported bugs on test execution.
• Good Documentation and Process Management skills with an ability to TEMPeffectively understand the business requirements to develop a quality product.
• Keen attention to detail/accuracy, and ability to function in a stressful environment.
• Excellent communication and service oriented skills with added multitasking ability.
• Excellent in Agile and waterfall.
• Developed and executed SQL queries in the database to conduct data integrity testing by checking the data tables on the server.
• Created Test plan, High level scenarios, test case construction and test estimates, resource estimates and weekly status reports.
• Excellent organizational, technical and problem solving skills with a special talent for team oriented assignments, communication, inter-personal skills and can multitask various deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Client Operating Systems: Windows95/98/2000/XP/7/8/10, Windows Workstation

Database: MS Access, Oracle, MySQL

Testing Tools: Jira.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Review business/functional requirements and technical specifications of the application and test case development.
• Work closely with members of the Scrum team to translate the customers' business needs or Business Cases to a technical solution.
• Work closely Scrum team to create and execute test cases to ensure coverage of all areas of the product/feature(s).
• Developed and executed test cases.
• Design Project Plan for various applications, update, and communicate to the teams.
• Involved in System testing & Regression testing.
• Used JIRA to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Created test cases for UAT and performed them before release.
• Handled different exceptions by writing exception handlers.
• Updated Test Results, Reporting defects to Developers, tracking, and updating them.
• Interacted with users, development team and ad hoc testing team.
• Defect tracking management with Jira and conducting regular walkthroughs with other stakeholders to update the status.
• Used Jira to document testing requirements, test cases, reporting bugs and test deliverables.

Manual Tester

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Logged and Tracked Defects by using Jira.
• Adhoc testing to improve the quality of the implementation.
• Involved in writing Test Plans and creating Test Cases.
• Performed user interface and functionality testing of the application for each drop under every Production maintenance release.
• Used defect-tracking tool, Jira, for raising issues and interacting with developers.
• Performed Functional, System and User Acceptance testing
• Performed Regression testing of application during the time of new build.
• Involved in defining, and analyzing the testing requirements based on the application functionality.
• Created Manual test case such as regression, smoke and advanced which meets specific testing goal.
• Prepared test plans and test cases for both positive and negative scenarios and mapped to user history.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build.
• Backend testing was done using SQL.
• Experienced in writing SQL Queries to perform Back-end Testing.
• Interacted with developers regarding priority of bugs and update the status of bugs once they are fixed.

QA Tester

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts for testing the application.
• Used black box testing for testing COTS-based applications.
• Working throughout SDLC (software development life cycle) & test environment.
• Experience and working on deposit lending applications.
• Performed manual testing.
• Actively participated in the team involving test plan analysis, go/no-go decisions.
• Involved in execution for testing of database using SQL queries (select, update, Joins, views statements).
• Testing Algorithmic applications which were customer transfer money A/C to A/C and sale Bank products in online basis.
• Using Oracle SQL database and developer.
• Performance tuning of SQL queries
• Testing e-commerce applications (Bank products)
• Involved in Defect Tracking system using Jira and used this metrics for further releases in