SUMMARY

• Six(6) years of IT experience as a QA Analyst with expert level skills in testing both Client - Server and Web based applications applying manual methodologies and automation tools.
• Involved in all teh phases of Software Development Life Cycle and contributed for teh quality assurance of teh various projects. Well versed with Agile methodology.
• Highly experienced in Functional, Black Box, Integration, System, End-to-End, Smoke, User Acceptance (UAT), Boundary, O/S compatibility Positive, Negative and Regression Testing.
• Ability to understand & analyze business processes & workflows with teh objective of providing recommendations for teh best use of technology to improve QA Process.
• Actively involved in peer review meetings, requirement analysis, defect reviews with teh development team and training teh team members.
• Hands on experience with strategic Test Management and documentation like writing Test Plans, Detailed Test Cases, Test analysis, Collection of teh required Test Data and preparation of publication of Test Results.
• Extensive experience working with teh leading automation tools - Mercury Interactive Suite Quick Test Professional- QTP, Test Director, and Quality Center.
• Worked extensively in Mercury Quality Center and QTP integrated environment for writing comprehensive test cases, scheduling and execution of test cases and management of test results and defect reporting and tracking.
• Worked independently as well as a group member and successfully held responsible roles in teh projects and coordinated teh test efforts of both on-site and off-shore teams and reported directly to teh QA Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Centre, Test Director, QTP

Databases and Tools: SQL Server 2005 - 2008, Oracle, MS Access, TOAD

Business Tools: MS Office Suite

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

Languages: HTML, Java Script, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, VB Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and evaluated system requirements. Designed test plan, test cases and test procedures.
• Collaborated with business analysts on change requests for teh new functionality based on end users request.
• Developed UAT test cases for business users and worked closely with them to execute UAT test cases.
• Executed Test cases in multiple environments - Dev, QA and UAT to ensure teh accuracy of test results
• Wrote and executed manual and automated test scripts using Quality Center for teh test and defect management and QTP for designing teh functional automation regression scripts.
• Performed backend testing by writing SQL queries. Verified data on front-end against teh back-end database.
• Performed Regression and Integration testing for all releases of teh application on various versions of Windows and IE to support O / S and browser compatibility testing.
• Tracked and reported defects and interacted with teh development team regarding QA issues.
• Coordinated with off-shore team in providing support during each release.

Environment: Java, HTML, SQL Windows 2000 / XP, IE and MS Office, Quality Center, QTP

Confidential, NYC, NY

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all teh phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like, Requirements Review, Test Documentation, Application testing, defect reporting and defect reporting
• Manually tested application functionality and developed Automation Test Scripts for functional / regression testing using QTP.
• Prepared Test Cases in Quality Centre based on Use-Cases and Requirements and executed test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Performed GUI, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Black Box testing. Performed system, integration, functional and user acceptance testing.
• Analysed Software and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of teh system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing of different application versions.
• Drafted detailed defect reports with required attachments and steps to reproduce teh defects and communicated TEMPeffectively with teh development team.

Environment: MS Office, Oracle, Java, Internet Explorer, SQL, Quality Center, QTP, Win XP.

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirement Document - BRD
• Created Scenarios for Testing and mapped them to teh requirements.
• Involved in writing teh test cases, Test Scripts, test scenarios, and executing them.
• Tested teh Application functionality, business flow Integration and functionality.
• Performed system, Integration, Regression and functional (positive and negative) testing.
• Defect Reporting and bug tracking.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and interacted with teh developer team to discuss technical issues.

Environment: Oracle, Java, Mercury Quality Center, Mercury Quick Test Professional, MS Project, MS Office, SQL, Internet Explorer

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases for both positive and negative scenarios in accordance with teh System Requirement Document.
• Participated in analysing and defining teh testing requirements based on teh application Functionality.
• Created test scenarios for System testing and Regression testing.
• Created test cases, executed and recorded results.
• Monitored teh defect tracking process, trouble shooting and generating customized graphs and reports for teh client.

Environment: Java, HTML, Oracle Windows 2000 / XP, IE and MS Office

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Converted business and functional requirements into test cases and performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing.
• Mapping Test Cases to teh Functional and business requirements creating a trace matrix.
• Conducted Back-end testing using SQL query analyser to validate teh data in teh back-end Database.
• Performed GUI, integration and end to end testing.
• Interacted with Developers for defect analysis and investigating teh software faults.

Environment: Windows 98 / NT, MS Project, MS Office, TOAD, SQL Server 2005, VB Script, HTMLEducation