SUMMARY

• QA professional with over 7+ years of experience in Software Testing and Functional Analysis, distinguished by commended performance and proven results.
• Fully conversant with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, Quality Assurance and System Testing as well as structured analysis techniques.
• Sound work experience in various test management and defect management tools like HPALM, Jira,Quality Center and Bugzilla.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall methodology projects.
• Proficient in analysingBusiness and Functional documents.
• Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, RTM and Test Cases for Manual testing.
• Extensive experience in functional testing of Insurance, E - Commerce, Point-of-Sale (POS), Pickup and Delivery, Personnel Administration, Organization Management and HR Management Systems.
• Expertise in performing Grey BoxTesting (Black Box Testing), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Usability Testing, Load Testing.
• Experienced in SQL, SQL Server Database and VB scripting.
• Excellent leadership quality with proven results in handling multiple projects simultaneously with offshore/Onshore delivery model.
• Worked withScrum Masters,Product Owners, andScrumteam members to ensure success ofPrograms,ReleasesandSprints.
• Experienced in documentation tasks, test data preparation, defect tracking and management.
• Strong experience in interacting with all stakeholders including team members, developers, and clients to handle complex projects
• Good communication & collaboration skills, on-shore offshore co-ordination, interest & ability to learn new technologies in short span of time, highly-motivated, organized and responsible team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HPALM, Quality Center,Jira,Bugzila, QuickTestPro,Sharepoint

Operating System: Linux, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB Script, Visual Basic, SQL, SOAP UI

Internet Technologies: VBScript, JavaScript, HTML

Database Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server Management Studio, XML

OthersMS: -Word, MS Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Matrix
• Participated in grooming, planning, daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Coordinated with DBA to create test environment.
• Involved in entering requirements, developing test plan tree, designing the test steps, writing test cases and running test scripts using Test Management Tool HPALM.
• Ensured the appropriate parties review and sign-off on test cases prior to test execution.
• Exportedtest cases from Excel and requirements from MS Word to Quality Center
• Assisted Quality Center Admin in creating Users and their access levels.
• Created proper traceability between Requirement, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects module in HPALM.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts to understand the severity of the defects and assigned priorities accordingly.
• Wrote Modification Request for bugs found during test execution.
• Created test cases, executed and recorded results of test cases.
• Performed backend data validation by writing SQL queries retrieving data from database and compared with the test data.
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing.
• Worked on Self Checkout systems and took the diagnostic logs for further information
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc
• Involved in integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance testing. Production support.

Environment: HPALM, Agile, IBM 4690, i0S, Android, Putty, Web Services, LINUX, XML, Windows, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Microsoft Office

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended scrum meetings with the business analyst, team lead, Project managers and developers to understand the user stories, application flows.
• Created test scenarios, test data and developed test plan and test cases for Application developed in Java/J2EE technology stack.
• Prepared a detail Test schedule and Test Metrics on daily basis for the project members to know the status of the QA Process.
• Created Test Data in SQL Server Database using SQL Server Management Studio.
• Proficient in managing defect lifecycle from open till closure.
• Co-ordinated with development team related to defects management, resolution and deployments.
• Regression and UAT testing in the Mainframe and AS/400 environment
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Involved in GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Data Testing, Stress/Load Testing, Regression Testing.
• Defect tracking, impact analysis and maintaining traceability matrix.
• Worked with users for UAT and collected User Requirements from time to time.
• Executed the positive and negative testing.
• Involved in Go/No Go decisions.

Environment: Java/J2EE,Adobe Flex, SQL Server, Windows Server, Jira, HPALM, Microsoft Office suite, QTP, Clear Case, Load Runner, Web services, Agile

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Document, Technical Design Documents and prepared requirement review documents, design review documents respectively.
• Conducted ambiguity review meeting with the business analyst and team lead to clear any ambiguities regarding requirements.
• Created test plans, test summary report and test cases.
• Participated in unit testing and pre-merge testing and prepared report based on results.
• Expert in retrieving logs from Command Prompt in Unix and the Devices (release log, build details, system error message and background message, any particular zap or store configuration setting for executing the project).
• Performed Device testing on iOS, Android Devices and other web based and window based simulators.
• Evaluated the request and response of the transactions on XML files, Epayt Transaction Viewer and Controller authorizer log.
• Performed data driven test manually for functionalities with multiple set of data.
• Involved in defect review meetings with the developer to discuss the severity and priority of the bug detected.
• Manually regressed test cases, conducted creating test sets in HPALM after the bug fixes were done by the developer.
• Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones for the task identified.
• Executed Regression test cases and changed the test steps as per the flow.
• Used remote desktop connection, mobile application, EPAY Simulator, EPAYT transaction viewer and MSCO simulator for executing some test sets.
• Co-ordinated between Offshore and Onsite team.
• Worked Closely with Production data and Created few real orders with complete real data which were later cancelled at Enterprise level

Environment: UNIX, Quality Center 10.0, HPALM, Microsoft Office, XML, SQL, DB2, IBM 4690, i0S, Android, Putty, Web Services, Teradata

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and Technical Requirements specification and test cases in Quality Center.
• Created and executed Test Cases and Test scenario for the application developed in .Net3.0
• Convert manual regression test suite into test data in the format of action and input/verification values for the mobile test automation framework.
• Translated software specifications and business requirements into test cases
• Execute the converted scripts using the automation framework against a baseline build to uncover any test data error or defect in the framework functions if any.
• VB Scripts was used to enhance the recorded scripts and some of the fixed values were parameterized for performing data-driven testing
• Created Test Data using Excel Macro and SQL server Database.
• Co-ordinated with development team, test automation lead related to defects uncovered, their resolution and deployments.
• Created and maintained weekly status reports for the test automation progress.
• Executed Regression test cases and changed the test steps as per the flow.

Environment: .Net, SQL Server, Windows Server, TQP, Quality Center, Microsoft Office suite, VB scripting, XML

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysed use cases and UI requirements to prepare test cases.
• Created test scenarios and developed test plan and test cases for the application developed in Java/J2EE.
• Created test data for test scenarios in excel.
• Executed test cases and recorded the test results.
• Involved in prepared load Test analysis reports
• Entered the bugs in Bugzilla and kept a constant trail of the bugs.
• Performed, Functional, smoke, Usability, Comparability testing
• Involved in System testing and Regression testing.
• Stress, Load, Performance testing was done with Load Runner 7.51 for Web.
• Involved in testing Personnel Information and Compensation module.
• Extensively used SQL to verify data in the backend.
• Tested the payroll functionality like viewing the pay check stubs, direct deposit enrolment/updates, maintaining the end of year tax return information.
• Involved in testing the HR functionality like hiring, rehiring, movements, separations.
• Involved in QA planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology and QA effort estimation.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JSP, JAVA Script, SQL Server Database, Windows Server, Bugzilla, Load Runner 7.51., Microsoft Office