SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of extensive experience in Information Technology as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst in all phases of software development and QA lifecycle.
• Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall models.
• Working experience on Windows and Unix Operating Systems.
• Extensive experience in working with Java and .Net applications.
• Experience in attending requirement gathering sessions and analyzing the requirements.
• Experience in gathering requirements from formal (BRD,FRD ) and informal documentation
• Expertise in documenting test plans and test cases.
• Proficient in developing and executing test cases for functional, integration, regression and data validation testing.
• Experience in smoke testing, functional, system integration, regression, data validation, acceptance (UAT).
• Solid experience in defect tracking tools like Jira, TFS, ALM, Bugzilla.
• Good working experience with web service testing using SOAP UI, XML,
• Experience in working with Oracle, SQL Server databases and developing SQL queries for database testing.
• Experience in validating ETL Extracts.
• Experience in working with QTP, Quality center, ALM.
• Experience in working with selenium automation using selenium web driver.
• Proven ability to work with multiple applications (multi tasking).
• Working knowledge and very good business understanding of Manufacturing, Insurance, Gaming, and Financial Services.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical, presentation, inter personal skills (Oral and written) can communicate and document technical concepts, procedures, and processes.
• Extensive experience in working with users, business, infrastructure, development, QA teams with ability to work independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: ALM, Quality Center

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Test Director, Bug Tracker, Track IT, BugZilla

Automation Testing Tools: Selenium Web Driver/RC/Grid, QTP, Load Runner, Soap - UI

Languages/Frameworks: HTML, JAVA, JUNIT, C#.Net, SQL, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003, Windows XP, Windows 7/UNIX

RDBMS: SQL Server, MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle

Domain Knowledge: Financial, Manufacturing, Gaming, Health Care, Insurance

Applications: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Converted business and functional requirements into test cases and performed manual testing for positive and negative scenarios.
• Worked closely with the business and the technical leads to analyze the data required for testing and verifying functionalities of application under test.
• Extensively tested cross Browser, Cross platform, Regression, Usability, Accessibility and security testing for all the applications under test (AUT).
• ExecutedSeleniumTest scripts usingSeleniumIDE, Web Driver and Eclipse
• Recorded and played back tests in Fire fox using Selenium IDE for functional testing.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Interface, System testing and UAT testing.
• Performed extensive Data Integrity testing by executing SQL Statements
• Used Firebug Tool to identify Object ID, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Executed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver.
• Executed automation scripts on different browsers/environments and reported defects/results to the team.
• Maintained the Selenium & JAVA automation code and resources in source controls like SVN over the time for improvements and new features.
• Used ALM for defect tracking and facilitated defect review meetings and daily status meetings during the testing process.

Environment: ALM, Selenium, JAVA, MS Office Suite, SQL Server 2008, Cognos 10, Windows Server 2010 and Windows 7.

Confidential, LA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated across different departments to help formulate test plan, test strategy, test cases, individual roles, and scope of testing.
• By coordinating with business and other teams gathered the requirements and developed the test cases.
• Updating the test cases as of the change.
• Performed functional, regression, integration, cross browser and system testing of the application.
• Using the Visio document the Flow of the data and their internal relation was determined and data validation is made using SQL Server.
• Performed web services testing with SOAP UI and Created a Regression Suite for web services testing with SOAP UI- XPATH and also REST Services.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate source data versus data in the data warehouse including identification of duplicate records.
• As part of ETL testing verified target data with source data.
• Performed data validation using SQL queries by joining multiple tables to ensure that source data that transformed via ETL is updated correctly in target table
• The feedback files are random files that were taken from the customer accounts and are placed in related tables for verification.
• Executed store procedures to update the tables as of the payments made by the customer’s data given.
• Used Quality Center for defect management.

Environment: Quality center, Clear Quest, Windows XP, VB 5.0, ASP, IIS, SQL server 2005, PL/SQL, HTML, Java.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test plan and detailed functional test cases using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, Integration, cross browser, database testing of the application.
• Tested many internal tools including the content management suite that helped maintain the business process efficiently and effectively.
• Wrote and Executed SQL queries to perform back-end testing.
• Played an active role in the automation testing using QTP.
• Executed QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application.
• Attended Defect Review Meetings with Developers, Business Analyst and QA Team members.
• Worked closely with QA, development, infrastructure teams for issues and resolutions.
• Assisted Business team in executing User acceptance tests.

Environment: Windows, Unix, Oracle 11g, QTP, Quality Center, Java, JDBC, Java Web services, XML, HTML, JSP, PeopleCode, SQL, Tomcat.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated across different departments to help formulate test plan, test strategy, test cases, individual roles, and scope of testing.
• Based on the functional requirements developed the test cases and performed positive and negative testing.
• Linked Test cases to Application Functional Requirements ensuring traceability throughout the testing process. .
• Developed and executed Test Cases for Regression testing.
• Performed Smoke, Regression, and User Interface & Acceptance testing at various phases of development and test cycles. .
• Tracked all defects in Jira and discussed with development team in the meetings.

Environment: Jira, Windows, Oracle, SQL.