SUMMARY

• US citizen with 4+ year of QA experience in web based applications on windows platforms with diverse experience in Functional, GUI, Regression, Integration, back - end and System Testing.
• Expertise in handling QA Projects from the stage of gathering the requirements from business users and development teams.
• Good noledge in various stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) and QA methodologies
• Experience creating test plan, test strategy, Test cases, reporting to higher management, working with business users in UAT phase, handle deployments and perform Pre/post-deployment testing.
• Specialized in manual testing for various Health, Banking/Financial and ecommerce applications
• Extensive working experience on logging the Bugs through Bug Tracking Tools using JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Experience managing test documents and testing flow using HP QC and Ms Excel, Word
• Well versed in Software QA concepts, practices and tools and extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Experienced in different phases of Testing like Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Backend Testing, Black Box Testing and UAT.
• Experienced in data driven testing and back-end testing by executing SQL Queries/statements and manually verifying the contents.
• Experienced in tracking test activities, Data Management, Daily status tracking reports, Status Calls and meetings, Meeting time lines, tracking weekly goals.
• Extensive experience in manual testing along with a strong working noledge of automated testing.
• Ability to work independently and in a team under deadline pressures.
• Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication & writing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Win 7/8/10, Mac, IOS, Android

Languages: HTML, XML, JSON, JAVA, SQL, VB Script, jQuery

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP Quality Center, Load Runner, Eclipse, Selenium, JIRA

Databases: Oracle 10/11g, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2.

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

Other Tools: Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pennsylvania

IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in iteration Planning and grooming session to estimate and provide task for each of user stories scoped for release.
• Working in agile process; planning and tracking release with respect to iterations dates.
• Developing QA tasks, test plans, test scenarios, write test cases and execute them in iteration.
• Developing manual test cases for positive, negative, and edge cases
• Creating templates and matrix in excel for the test planning.
• Responsible for creating and executing manual test scripts from User stories
• Investigating production issues and working with developers to get them fixed including updating them with test cases.
• Assisting Developers with creating test data during their Unit testing in Dev environment.
• Attending daily stand up and providing status on test planning and test execution.
• Conducting System Testing, functional testing, UI testing, E2E Testing, integration testing and Regression Testing for a release.
• Performing data validation using SQL queries
• Performing Web Service/API testing using RESTClient.
• Working with test automation team to decide the scope of the automation candidates from the iteration.
• Ran Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Framework based test scripts using Eclipse.
• Shared automated smoke and regression testing results with team members.
• Getting updates and providing handoff to offshore during start and end of the day.
• Logging defects and assigning priority of the defect to get traction.
• Following up on defects and escalate for resolution when needed
• Assisting in defect triage process.
• Providing feedback and prioritize improvement needed in each retrospective

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Manual QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Business Analysts to determine business requirements and set up test scope.
• Analyzed Business, Functional Requirement and Design Review Documents to Develop Test Plan for projects involved and wrote Test Cases/Test Scripts for positive, negative, and edge cases.
• Involved in Manual testing & Tracking defects using HP Quality Center.
• Held test case review meeting and product team, developers, and other Engineers.
• Prepare Performance Test Strategies and performance Test plan
• Interacted and worked with Product Team and developers to solve the problems encountered in the Test Scenario run.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional (Positive/Negative) testing, UI testing, Database testing, Integration testing, API/Web Service testing, cross-browser testing and regression testing.
• Designed Test scenarios for testing Mobile App and tested on mobile emulators and on actual mobile devices.
• Reported, tracked, monitored, re-tested and closed defects.
• Prioritized the Requirements to assure dat the most critical issues are addressed.
• Write scripts on Load Runner to execute the scenarios for numbers of virtual users for performance testing
• Used Performance monitor and Load Runner graphs to analyze the results.
• Use SQL queries to access data from different Database Tables.
• Documented Bugs, Questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, output and content.
• Send the Report to all Team Members with Daily Status, to Track the Updates in Testing.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of testing.
• Attended Planning meeting, Daily Stand Up, Monthly QA meeting, and retrospective meeting.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared & Reviewed Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts for system testing.
• Involved in manual testing to develop test cases, test scripts, executing the scripts and logging the defects.
• Attended requirement grooming and regular project meetings with the technical and business team.
• Performed Functional Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Ad-hoc testing.
• Performed regression testing on the final build.
• Perform Manual Testing on different applications of the project by executing the Test Script
• Participate in uploading all the Manual Test Scripts to the Quality Center.
• Experience in generating Bug/Defect Reports, tracking the status of each defect (Open, Work in Progress, Fixed, Close) and analyzing the bugs using Quality Center and JIRA
• Followed the organizations standard document format for developing Test Plans, test cases and coordinated with the developed team.
• Expertise in conducting back end testing using SQL queries.
• Send the report to all team members with daily status, to track the updates in testing.
• Responsible in providing regular test status reports to the QA manager.

Confidential, Union, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business, Functional Requirement and Design Review Documents to Develop Test Plan for projects involved and wrote Test Scripts for positive, negative, edge cases
• Developed and documented test plans for various levels of testing.
• Served on independent QA test team, supporting test activities for verification and validation.
• Reviewed user requirements and provided input for Software Test Plans, developed Test Cases, Scenarios, and Test Scripts.
• Prepared test evaluations by reviewing software specifications, technical artifacts, errors reported by customers, and the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Documented execution of successful results, identified and addressed defects, and tracked chain of events leading to failures.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of testing.
• Determined data requirements for System Test cycles, involving end to end integrated processes.
• Communicated critical issues, daily status updates, metrics, and feedback to Project Manager.
• Executed SQL queries to retrieve data, research data integrity, verify test results and database tables.