SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of experience in diversified fields of Software Testing/Quality Assurance along with Business Analysis skills.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test life Cycle (STLC) using Agile - Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.
• Proficient in analyzing Business and Functional Specification Documents and expertise in developing Test Plan, Cases, and Scenario for different software Development methodology.
• Experience in daily Scrum Stand-up calls, Grooming /Backlog sessions, Sprint planning sessions and Retrospective sessions with 2- and 3-weeks sprints and releases.
• Expertise in QA process and different levels of testing such as UI testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Black box testing, White box testing, Security testing, Cross browser testing, Database testing and UAT testing.
• Good understanding of front-end, Service Layer, backend application and backend database with interdependent platform.
• Experience in writing details manual test cases, execute test cases, document defects, develop and maintain test cases analyzing the results interactions with developers and Debug the code and fixing the issues/errors.
• Extensive experience in Automation and Manual Testing and reporting/managing defects.
• Familiar with complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing of database using SQL Server, PL/SQL developer/Oracle Database.
• Good experience in testing bothSOAPandRESTservices usingSOAP UI, RestAssured and Tested bothXMLandJSONformats.
• Good Knowledge on Banking(Loan, CRM, KYC,CDD Applications) and Finance, Finance Mortgage(Preservations, EXOS Management), Title, and Closing.
• Extensively used HP ALM, HP QC, JIRA, TFS (Team Foundation Server) for tracking, analyzing documenting defects.
• Some exposure on Automation tools HP QTP/UFT, Selenium. Looking forward to get an opportunity to explore more in it.
• Experience in executing test cases on IE, Chrome, Mozilla.
• Expert in maintaining requirement traceability matrix and generating various reports from HP ALM, Quality Center (QC), Version one, JIRA, SharePoint.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools/Technologies: HP UFT(QTP), HP ALM, SOUP UI, HP QC, In-Rule, JIRA, MTM

Testing Skills: Test Plan creation, Test Case Design, Test data preparation, Test execution, Defect management, Test reporting, Test Manager, Black Box and White Box testing, GUI and API Testing.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD for DB2, GIT

Bug Reporting Tools: HP ALM, TFS, Quality Center

Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Model

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Finance-Mortgage, E-Commerce/Retail

Others: MS Office, VersionOne, SharePoint, SQL, Java, HTML, Windows 7, 10, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attend daily Agile Scrum-Standup-Calls, Grooming/Backlog Sessions, Sprint Planning Sessions and Retrospective Sessions with team.
• Involved in 2 weeks and 3 weeks sprints bases on the release specific.
• Review Functions, Technical and Business documents, Understand and write details test cases from them.
• Review each assigned Story for the Sprint, Schedule calls with BA/BSA’s/PO for clarifications on Acceptance Criteria’s.
• Write manual test cases in HP ALM. Positive, Negative Scenarios, UI, Workflow, Integration, Data prep, End-to-end test cases and verify meets story acceptance criteria.
• Execute manual test cases in HP ALM. Prepare details documentations for each and every test cases and attach the documents while executing.
• Create defects in ALM, Add blockers and issues to the story in VersionOne, JIRA and assign it to Developer. Work with developers on Debugging the issues and get it resolved timely manner.
• Update the existing test cases based on the requirement changes and validate them again.
• Involved in Technical development design documents session with Dev/BSA’s, give inputs from QA.
• Working with Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) team for Capital Stream (CSX) application for test data preparation in every Sprint and help in Regression testing.
• Work with RPA(Robotic process automation) team to clarifying their doubts and run them thru the application and run thru test documents, test scripts.
• Assist in the verification of test data, test plans, test strategies, risk management, functional testing and regression testing for onsite and off-shore QA teams.
• Work with Automation QA. And help them sorting the manual test cases to convert into automation for every release.
• Performed cross browser testing using IE, Chrome, Mozilla to verify code is not broke anywhere.
• Point of contact in project status meetings, occasionally work as a backup for QA lead and attend weekly QA meetings with test coordinators and test manager to provide Agenda on testing status and update on risks.
• Database validation using SQL queries, Used SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE commands while testing database validations.
• Work closely with Scrum Master(SM) and Product Owner(PO) to priorities the Release items for each sprint.
• Performed web service testing using SOAP UI, XML for Integration stories on CRM project with third party vendors application.
• Accomplish testing goals on time and within budget throughout various testing phases such as Smoke, Functional, Performance, database testing, Negative Testing, System, Full length Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to deliver bug free software to the customer's production environments.
• Report the testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings.
• Triage all reported bugs in every environment to ensure that there is consistency across the environments. Document the bug history in HP ALM along with the user stories, updated resolution status in Version One.
• Effectively lead issue triage meetings with scrum team to plan defect fixes for sprints by reviewing the defect priority and severity with Product Owner (PO).
• Analyze backlog user stories and work alongside Business Analysts, Scrum Master and developers to ensure the user stories acceptance criteria is understandable and with business analysts for any changes required.
• Actively participate in daily defect & test execution meetings across various business teams and provide relevant status, associated risks updates and resolutions for the issues.
• Work closely with LOB, PM, SM, PO, UAT testers, development team, BA/BSA, QA teams, as well as stakeholders and members of management.
• Help users with test data and test plan in UAT testing for each release.

Environment: Agile-Scrum, Manual testing, JIRA, Version One, ALM, TOAD for DB2, UAT, GIT, JAVA

Confidential - Pittsburgh, PA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively used my expertise in quality assurance, manual and automation testing, web based client/server, and web applications.
• Actively involved in detail planning for sprint backlog to meet the requirement of product backlog.
• Performed daily status reporting and managed end to end testing from test management tools like TFS, MTM.
• Mortgage Loan, Inspection and Preservation Cycle.
• Followed Strict Agile Methodology using Team foundation and STLC.
• Extensively used In-Rule to test business logic and Rules.
• Executed manual and automation test for new build and functional testing of the web based and intranet Application.
• Executed the test cases and reviewed the results to get the Business approval for UAT.
• Performed web service testing using SOAP UI, XML for Integration stories.
• Planned test execution activities in order to accomplish tasks on a daily and weekly basis.
• Involved in the regression test planning for the project and identified the critical regression tests for end to end and integration stories.
• Assist in the verification of test data, test plans, test strategies, risk management, functional testing and regression testing for onsite and off-shore QA teams.
• Work with Automation QA. And help them sorting the manual test cases to convert into automation for every release.
• Performed cross browser testing using IE, Chrome, Mozilla to verify code is not broke anywhere.
• Point of contact in project status meetings, occasionally work as a backup for QA lead and attend weekly QA meetings with test coordinators and test manager to provide Agenda on testing status and update on risks.
• Database validation using SQL queries, Used SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE commands while testing database validations.
• Utilized SQL, PL/SQL, created database triggers, stored procedures, functions and packages and wrote complex SQL queries for data validation.
• Extensively involved in and performed black-box testing, smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing, performance testing, load testing, system testing, stress testing and regression testing.

Environment: TFS, MTM, Visual Studio, SOAPUI, SQL Server, XML, In-Rule, .Net

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst/Automation

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan and Test cases and test data from use cases based on Functional Requirements Document and Design Specs.
• Designed and Built custom QTP Automated Testing Framework.
• Created a startup script using Automation Object Model that Standardizes QTP environment.
• Worked on Excel Files using VBScript with QTP.
• Developed Coding Standards and Script Templates.
• Wrote both Functional and Regression QTP scripts for Web Applications.
• Created data driven QTP scripts.
• Performed Sanity testing for each build of the application.
• Performed Back end testing, along with testing flat file contents and comparing them.
• Involved in Integration, Implementation testing of Online Sales Channel (web Application) and Billing systems.
• Used agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Involved in testing the Pre and post implementation of the Web application.
• Attended Weekly meeting to update status and worked closely with QA manager, developers.
• Plan, Schedule and Co-ordinate testing tasks in Quality Center.
• Created Defects and tracked the defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Windows XP, Oracle SQL Developer, Qualitycenter-10, QTP-11.0, Jira, VBScript, WaterFall