SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Information Technology with the emphasis on analysis, design and Quality Assurance, mainly testing in Web based application, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Client Server applications.
• Experienced in functional testing of various domains like Telecom, E - Commerce, Insurance, Banking and Financing.
• Involved in producing Test Plan, Deriving Test Conditions, Test Cases & Scripts, Test Execution, Test Completion Reports, Defects Tracking
• Strong understanding of Quality Assurance Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in various Testing Methodologies i.e. Waterfall, Iteration and Scrum Agile.
• Experience in performing Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Backend, E2E Testing, Ad-hoc and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in daily status meetings to report issues, communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Experience in Automated testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Experience in Backend testing by writing SQL queries to execute against Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases.
• Experience in Functional testing of Banking and Financing applications.
• Extensively worked on Microsoft Mediaroom software testing.
• Expertise in all cycles of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.
• Experienced in mobile devices Software compatibility testing for devices like apple Iphone, android phone, kindle fire
• Problem-solving skills, quick learning ability to work independently also with collaborative and Team Oriented work approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Tools: HP ALM, HPQC 9.0/10.0, Test Director, Clear Quest, JIRA, Rally HP UFT and QTP

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall

Test Strategies: Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Backend, User Acceptance Testing

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Linux, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7Languages VB Script, UNIX, JAVA, C++, .NET, XML

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Business Analyst and the Business to understand the requirements and Business flow of the application.
• Involved in the Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and End To End Testing
• Writing Functional Test Cases and Test Scripts and Executing Functional test cases
• Performed Cross browser testing
• Conducted peer reviews for high-level test scenarios, test plan and test cases.
• Device and OS compatibility testing
• Preparation of Test data and performing backend testing using SQL
• Performed Sanity testing for every new Build
• Responsive testing of new webpages
• Coordination with developer for speedy resolution of the defects
• Defects tracking and updating the ALM with proper Defect status
• Integration testing with down stream applications.
• Assisted Users and Business Analysts in completing User Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Detailed Calculator functionality testing developed for mortgage purpose
• Performed ADA compliance testing
• Used VersionOne for making the development organization faster and more AGILE and to get on the track with the User Stories and to improve the iteration planning practices
• Preparation of Daily Status report, to show the test progress
• Actively participated in preparing the Test Summary Report (TSR)

Environment: HP ALM 9 11.00, HP UFT 11.5, Window 7, Safari 5.1.7, Mozilla FireFox 27.0.1, VerionOne, SQL server

Confidential, Littleton, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identifying the Test Conditions
• Executing Functional test cases
• Involved in requirements & test plan walkthroughs with business people.
• Coordination with developer for speedy resolution of the defects
• Preparation of Test data and performing backend testing by firing queries in SQL Developer.
• Conducted peer reviews for high-level test scenarios, test plan and test cases.
• Extensively used the SQL Queries for the data integrity.
• Defects tracking and updating the Quality center with proper Defect status.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration and System testing
• Preparation of Daily Status report, to show the test progress
• Tested various devices like Apple Iphone, android phone, kindle fire for the mobile devices compatibility testing purposes
• Participated in the User Acceptance Testing, involved in various meetings and discussed enhancement and modification request issues.

Environment: Quality center 9.0, SQL Server, VB Script, Windows XP/7, Spotfire, Microsoft Mediaroom, XML, HTML

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Business Requirement Analysis meetings and scheduled the QA tasks.
• Created Test Plans and developed Test Cases based on technical specifications and Business Requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing and Data Integrity/ Back-End Testing by executing SQL Statements.
• Interfaced with developers in Resolving the Defects found in the application during testing
• Actively involved in Performance testing for API calls.
• Used Firebug tool regarding performance testing.
• Created and loaded the test data for the various Test-Case Scenarios.
• Created and Execution of Test Cases using Rally
• Extensively used UNIX for batch processing and for transactional logs.
• Carried out regression testing using QTP.
• Tested the data in XML editor for the data integrity.
• Tracked defects using Rally and HPQC for defect tracking & attended Bug-Review meetings.
• Used Rally for making the development organization faster, leaner and more agile and to get on the track with the User Stories and to improve the iteration planning practices
• Coordinated the testing efforts with UAT team (User Acceptance Testing) and resolved their findings on the application.

Environment: HPQC 10.0, MS SQL Server, MS Outlook, Notepad ++, Agile Rally Development, XML, HTML, Windows XP/7

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mainly Developed Test Cases and test data from functional requirements.
• Tested Data entry web pages to verify and validate the application behavior.
• Performed Integration, Regression and System Testing.
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing, Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Interacted with Developers to resolve user needs, found bugs in the software, documented and reported to the Development team.
• Involved in preparing, specifying, and executing test cases and scenarios using JIRA.
• Tracked defects using Rally and HPQC for defect tracking & attended Bug-Review meetings.
• Created SQL Queries for verifying Insert/Update and deletion of data from back end database.
• Conducted Production readiness tests on weekends.
• Executed Test Set/test cases for monthly releases and validated actual results against expected results.
• Verified test results and reported the defect status to the development team.
• Preparation of Daily Status report, to show the test progress

Environment: Visual Source Safe, HTML, MS Excel, MS Office, Toad 8.5, PL/SQL, Microsoft Team Foundation Serve, Quality Center 9.0, JIRA

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Writing Functional Test Cases and Test Scripts
• Preparation of Test data.
• Planned and prepared test scenarios and test cases and enhanced them according to the requirements.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specifications.
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to -follow bug reports, logged them into bug tracking tool Quality center.
• Performed Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance testing, viewing and analyzing results, defect tracking, defect reporting and documentation.
• Performed Sanity testing for every new Build
• Involved in performing testing on guiding module, billing modules for billing system.
• Resolving revenue impacting issues affecting the functionality of applications currently used to manage, rate, and bill customers in production.
• Inserted certain check points and synchronization points to see how the application is reacting.
• Conducted Functional, System and Regression testing during the various phases of the development using Win Runner.
• Actively involved in batch processing in Unix.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the SQL server Coordination with developer for speedy resolution of the defects.
• Preparation of Daily Status report, to show the test progress

Environment: Test Director, SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Web Server, HTML,WinRunner

Confidential, Medford, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Analyzed Test case design document based on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement thorough testing process.
• Analyzed and Developing Test Plan, Test Cases, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for each module.
• Used Test Director to check out the latest versions of the build for testing purposes, and check in the updated test cases, and test documentation periodically.
• Performed back-end testing by using SQL commands to verify the database integrity.
• Co-ordinated with Development & Test Teams to review Test Plans, Test Case standards & resolve any technical issues including User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Mercury Test Director.
• Analyzed & report defects (Test Summary) on Functional, System, Integration, Regression issues.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues.
• Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.
• Created Database Checkpoints and conducted Back End Testing.

Environment: Test Director, SQL .NET, Oracle XML, TOAD, Windows XP, Visio