SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of experience as a QA Engineer in Manual and Automation Testing of client server and web - based applications.
• Experience in creating and developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Defect Reports.
• Extensive knowledge in Understanding SRS (Software Requirement Specifications).
• Well acquainted with implementation of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Diversified technical knowledge in System Analysis, Design, and Development, Technical Documentation, QA Procedures and methodologies in different domains including Banking, Retail, Healthcare, Finance and Telecommunication.
• Participated in multiple automation projects from planning, analyses, scripting, execution, reporting and maintenance.
• Involved in Client Review meeting along with Test lead and Project manager.
• Managed the team in reviewing the developed test cases and bug report.
• Experience System, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance and Database testing.
• Expertise on working with platforms like Windows and UNIX.
• Good at multi-tasking and can work well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.
• Quick learner and has the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Team player and possesses good organizational skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Able to demonstrate a total commitment to ethical business practices in accordance with the clients expectations for employee conduct.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center(QC) 10.0/9.2/9.0, Rational Clear Quest and Test Director7.0

Testing Tools: Quick Test professional (QTP)11.0/ 10.0/9.2/9.0

Defect Tracking: Bugzilla, JIRA, Bug Tracker

Languages: VB Script, SQL

Methodologies: Waterfall model, Agile, and Scrum

Testing Skills: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Sanity Testing, Performance Testing.

Operating System: Windows XP,7,8 2000, 98, Mac

Project Tools: MS (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attending sign off meetings for the Test Plan for all the projects based on Business Requirement Document and Functional Design Document.
• Translate requirements, designs and functional specs into effective test plans and test cases.
• Review of test cases and then execute them.
• Record issues found during testing in defect tracking system (Quality Center Mercury Tool)
• Used Jira for Bug Tracking
• Work with software development and configuration management on the promotion/build process and test readiness processes
• Defect management processes -Used Quality Center as defect management/ tracking tool for updating the status of bugs.
• Used Quick Test Professional automation for Regression Testing to reduce cycle time.
• Prioritized defects in Test Director/Quality Center by attending CCB (Change Control Board Meetings) and coordinated their resolution with the development team.
• Managed theset-up and maintenanceof QA lab, involve in creating ghost images for the machines and make them ready for testing regression on the previous releases.
• Managed and organized Quality Center Test Plan and Test Lab tabs in Quality Center by creating folders for each release testing for Defects, smoke and regression testing based on risk based criteria.
• Developed defect tracking system using Mercury Quality Center providing input to organizational metrics.
• Managed and established testing schedules for testing resources necessitating coordination with other several different development teams.
• Completed test assignments for test engineers and provided time estimates to Project
• Managers for writing and also provided test execution time, to meet testing schedule on time.
• Reporting Evaluated the quality of the software product being developed in terms of functionality, usability, compatibility, reliability, performance and supportability.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the objectives and scope of each stage of testing process from the test plan on Guidewire.
• Involved in analyzing the applications and development of test cases on Property and Casualty platform.
• Serve as Property & Casualty Insurance SME, reporting to the President, addressing various Insurance industry issues as they arise and the point person for the development and adoption of the ACORD xml standards.
• Used test director for running automated and manual tests and for defect reporting automation scripting.
• Involved in generating Test cases for property and casualty Insurances for Different Levels of Business.
• Analysis of business requirements and system requirements of the client and also for Property and casualty modules.
• Writing user stories for Business Process Flow, System Integration Testing based on the Configuration requirements of Guidewire Policy Center for Personal Auto LOB.
• Worked on Property and Auto products using Guidewire Application.
• Developed and maintained Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance process costing models and metrics ensuring architecture compliance.
• Test plan and developed test cases based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of object oriented analysis using UML and MS-Visio.
• Expert in test plan, Test cases, and executing test cases manually and recording results in logs.
• Involved in preparing test cases from functionality requirement docs, involved in client and developer meetings to hammer out the functionality and requirements.
• Used check points, outputs vales, recover scenarios, object repository administration extensively in QTP.
• Used VBScript heavily for writing the automation test scripts and solved in High severity defect.
• Used database checkpoints in QTP for database testing.
• Used reporter object in QTP for reporting test results.
• Creation of automated test scripts in QTP for the regression and smoke test efforts in agile methodology.
• Enhancements and debugging the automated test VB scripts in QTP in efficient/semi-automated testing.
• Analyzed reviewed business requirements and functional specifications of the application.
• Involved in the design, development of various modules and generation of reports.
• Involved in documenting test failures and interfaced with developer to resolve technical issues.
• Acting as key team player and leading seven people in offshore and onsite.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive testing of manual and automated test cases.
• PerformedGUI testing,Functional andmanual testing.
• Used Quality Center for defect management, adding defect, tracing changes and sending defect e-mail messages to the developer.
• Created and executed automated test scripts using automation tool Quick test Professional.
• Generated automation scripts inQuick Test ProfessionalusingKeyword and expert view.
• Addedverification, standard, output checkpoints in QTP for web application.
• Worked with SQL and UNIX to do the backend testing reading logs, server commands.
• Performed Cross Platform (Macintosh, Windows) and Browser (IE, Firefox) Compatibility testing.
• Created Regression checklist for cross platform and cross browser testing.
• Analyzed the log files to verify the transfer of data and check the flat files for missing data while calling to the third party applications.
• Wrote test cases and test plans using Test Director and logged defects.
• Tested web services using SOAPUI.
• Involved in backend testing process using SQL.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Validatedthe Statements created by Batch Processes.
• Reviewed the Statements in detail for Transactional accuracies.
• Tested the Statement Archived Process.
• Reviewed and Analyzed System Requirement Specification Document (SRS) and Business Requirement Specification Document (BRS) .
• Prepared TestPlan based on the business requirement.
• Prepared Test Cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that is affecting the project deliverable.
• Seeded test cases into Test Plan module of QualityCenter.
• ExecutedtheTestCasesandevaluatedtheir Pass or Fail criteria and logging defect in QC.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Acceptance, and involved in Performancetesting.
• MaintainedandUpdated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Environment throughSoftwareTestingLifeCycle (STLC).
• Involved in Configuring Test environments for all phases of testing.
• Prepared testresults.
• Investigating software defects and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Prepared theTest Data for appropriateexecution of test cases.
• Involved in design walk troughs.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform Backend Testing of the Application for the verification of results retrieved with the expectations.
• Submitted Test Status Reports about Test Coverage and Defect Summary to Project Management Team on weekly basis.
• Analyzed change requests attended change request meetings to document changes, track changes, prioritize changes, and manage changes and implemented procedures to test impact of changes.

Confidential, TX

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Use Cases and Business Rules to identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data using Quality center.
• Involved in Functions and Data Driven Test Cases.
• Responsible for writing test cases for registering users on the site.
• Responsible for checking user authorization and login and reports for the site.
• Performed Integration, Functional, Integration testing, End-to-End and Regression Testing.
• Involved in backend testing using SQL Queries using TOAD.
• Performed Database testing using SQL server using Oracle database.
• Defect tracking using and Bugzilla.
• Prepared Defect Reports, weekly status Reports, and Bug Tracking.
• Communicated bug statuses proactively to across all engineering teams.
• Worked with developers to resolve defects and issues.
• Participated in technical team meetings, from the beginning of the project through the entire lifecycle.