SUMMARY

• Accomplished Agile Senior QA Analyst wif over 5 years’ expertise in software testing and quality assurance on web development, mobile development software development and desktop development programmes and a knack for communicating complex ideas in simple and persuasive language for the business stakeholders.
• Proven track record in shaping and leading test teams to improve the efficiency of software testing lifecycle wifin the project lifecycle and promoting a consistence ways of working wifin the team whilst adopting various methodologies agile scrum or waterfall framework.
• Over 5+ years’ experience involved in Software Testing, Development and Quality assurance of Client/Server and Web based applications using Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center, Quick Test pro and Manual testing.
• Proficient experience in Manual and Automated Testing of GUI and functional aspects of the Client - Server and Web based Applications on multiple levels of SDLC and Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience in writing automated scripts, designing Test procedures, Manual Test cases and preparing Quality feed back to QA team & manager.
• Extensive noledge in SDLC and STLC, and Defect Management
• Proficient in managing test team as well as testing activities on a large project
• Conducted GUI testing, Functionality Testing, Regression testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Integration Testing, Exploratory Testing
• Proficient in back end testing using SQL queries for testing data integrity and validating business rules
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back-end testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Ad-hoc testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, Build Verification Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Excellent working noledge in design & implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the AUT
• Setup and maintain QA Test Lab for testing & maintenance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems/Languages: Windows 98/2003/XP, UNIX, C, C++, JAVA, SQL, VB 6.0, C#

Testing Tools: Mercury Interactive Win Runner 7.6/8.0, Load Runner 7.8/8.0, Quick TestPro 6.5/10.00, Test Director 7.6/ 8.2, Quality Center 9.0.

Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall and Rational Unified Process (RUP), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Documentation Tools: MS-Office, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oklahoma

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business requirement documents and associated design document to ensure all requirement are testable
• Participated in the daily stand up meetings, Confidential planning, refinement/retrospective and product grooming
• Reviewed functional requirements and provided input on missing requirements as well as improved requirement clarification during requirement review meetings
• Conducted system, integration and system integration testing to verify end to end data was successfully populated and interaction between systems
• Created and executed test cases and test scripts in ALM 11 and logged/monitored defect in JIRA
• Facilitated weekly defect triage meeting wif the Dev, Product Owner, Business Analyst to review and prioritize defects
• Created a document on TEMPeffective test case writing including standards on naming conventions as well as organization of test cases in ALM 11
• Communicated issues wif developers and escalate any concerns to project manager/product owner
• Participated in project planning activities along wif ensuring full compliance wif established standards and procedures for software development and testing.
• Worked wif team to define & develop QA methodology & standard practices
• Conducted functionality testing using QTP, Recorded and wrote test scripts and created user defined functions in scripts.
• Used the Quality Center as a repository for all of the testing efforts to record and keep track of the defects. Closely interacted wif the developers in fixing the bugs.
• Managed Requirements and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using Test Director

Confidential, Missouri

QA/System Tester

Responsibilities;

• Work closely wif developers & product owner in three amigos meeting to ensure requirement are clearly defined and testable
• Reviewed functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identified test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Developed, documented and maintained functional test cases and other test artefacts like the test data, data validation
• Ensured that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements
• Identified defects and assign to developer as well as verify defect fixes
• Developed a detailed working noledge and level of expertise to support each system / project and testing phase
• Ensured project deliverables are met wifin the given time scale and escalate any concerns to Test Manager and Senior Testing Manager where appropriate
• Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.
• Tracked various issues and generated details reports for the management teams
• Extensively wrote SQL queries to perform data integrity testing and back-end testing of the application

Confidential, Oklahoma

Software Tester/UAT

Responsibilities:

• Carried out system and integration testing on web applications from a functional testing perspective
• Reviewed the design document and functional specifications to has a broad understanding of the application being developed
• Designed test plans, test cases and scripting from requirement documents and prepared a traceability matrix to match test cases wif requirement
• Raised and managed defects by assigning it to the development team to fix issues and then do a retest
• Executed test cases and scripts to validate system functionality meets business requirements
• Performed defect tracking and reporting through the entire defect life cycle
• Utilised SQL to interrogate MySQL database to extract data for test process.
• Tracked, monitored and logged defects in bug tracking tools including Quality Centre and Bugzilla.
• Executed test processes using automation tools including Load Runner and UFT.
• Supported the Test lead and Developers in identifying ways to prioritise and resolve defects.
• Identified methods to reduce test cycle time and increase overall TEMPeffectiveness of the test process.
• Identified, tracked and logged defects through testing tools including Mercury Quality Centre.
• Tested applications on different web browsers for compatibility and compliance wif requirements.
• Responsible for writing test cases ensuring adequate coverage; utilising tools including HP Quality Centre.
• Liaised wif team members to execute tests and plan processes wifin specified timeframes.
• Analysed and interpreted test data and reported findings to the Test Manager
• Wrote queries and performed test queries wif SQL to ensure correct functionality of the system.
• Used Test director for bug tracking and Visual Source Safe for Version control
• Created and executed automated test Scripts using QTP8.0 for Regression testing
• Used QTP’s Data-Driven Wizard to eliminate programming to automate testing for large volumes of data. Defined handler functions to file handling and Web exceptions
• References Available on Request