SUMMARY

• Top - performing professional with 8 years of Quality Assurance (QA) Tester experience with a working knowledge of automation.
• Experience in Agile as well as Waterfall methodology team environment where the team size varied contributed to both large teams and worked on smaller teams.
• Highly proficient manual tester recognized by managers and peers as a team player with a second to none work ethic and excellent attention to detail skills.
• Extensive experience in (SDLC) Software Development Life Cycle and Quality Assurance phases and involvement: Initial phase, Analysis phase, Design phase (functional and internal design), Coding phase, Testing phase and Delivery & Maintenance phase.
• Experience and knowledge of Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Black Box testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Involved with preparation of test plans writing, created test cases based on system specification, business requirements.
• Identified and tracked in glitches in the system making sure that the software was defect free.
• Validated that all requirements are checked via test cases by using the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) during the software testing process.
• Manage the tasks and activities of onshore and offshore resource teams.
• Prepared both positive and negative test cases for functional, system and end to end testing.
• Coordinate and communicate with Subject Matter Expert (SME), Business Analyst (BA), Project Manager (PM), Quality Assurance (QA) team lead via daily, weekly, monthly conference calls.
• Demonstrated the role of the end user as a client and as an administrator entering information to check the sturdiness and security of the application/software.
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported the results via test case.
• Review system requirements and system design documents to create test cases with detailed steps and expected results with a high degree of accuracy.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings with the team to discuss agenda for the day and the progress of the assignment.
• Participated in a Waterfall environment completing one phase at a time and the testing stage was done at the very end to discover defects.
• Well versed with web-based applications and/or mobile testing experience (smart phones and iPads), MS SQL
• Coordinate performance test data (Oracle SQL) and performance testing.
• Run SQL Queries to fetch data from data base and sharing with offshore teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• AGILE METHODOLOGY
• SQL
• MANUAL TESTING
• JIRA
• SMOKE TESTING
• AML
• TEST CASES
• REGRESSION TESTING
• BLACK BOX TESTING
• FUNCTIONAL TESTING
• CROSS-BROWSER SYSTEM TESTING
• TEST PLANS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing business requirements specifications in order to create detailed test cases.
• Tested the functionality, performance and security of the application by making sure it’s built to the needs and expectations of the client.
• Performed manual testing on a step-by-step basis checking the application/software for abnormal behavior.
• Working-agile- in an environment interacting with developers, business analyst, product managers and other testers.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings with the team to discuss agenda for the day and the progress of the assignment.
• Sprint meetings every 2-6 weeks based on the assignment after the sprint is complete, we would discuss what went well and what we can improve.
• Strong knowledge of test plan development derived from product description, software requirement specification, or use case document.
• Close interaction with the automation team where models and procedures of software development was shared regarding the application/software that’s being tested.

Confidential, Winslow Twp, NJ

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Prepared test case according to requirements.
• Documented and reported bugs/defects in the application, recreated bug across multiple browsers to make sure it’s truly a defect in the software.
• Developed a defect tracking system for logging defects while tracking defects while testing.
• Attending daily stand-up, review and retrospective meetings.
• Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Ensured that test scripts are kept updated with feedback from the design team.
• Participated in a Waterfall environment completing one phase at a time and the testing stage was done at the very end to discover defects.
• Manual testing and maintain use cases based on business requirements documentation.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved with preparation of test plans writing, created test cases based on system specification, business requirements.
• Involved in implication of company app testing the features as an end user checking for defects with the design.
• Working in an Agile environment interacting with developers, business analyst, product managers, SME and other testers, planning the details of the software based on the client needs and desires from the software/application.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings to go over the progress since yesterday, plans for today and any issues or show-stoppers found.
• Prepared both positive and negative test cases for functional, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported the results via test case.
• Vital to the construction and implementation of the RTM validating that all requirements are checked via test case.
• Close interaction with the automation team where models and procedures of software development was shared regarding the application/software that’s being tested.
• Review system requirements and system design documents to create test cases with detailed steps and expected results with a high degree of accuracy.

Confidential, Burlington, NJ

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated the role of the end user as a client and as an administrator entering information to check the sturdiness and security of the application/software.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings to go over the progress since yesterday, plans for today and any issues or show-stoppers found.
• Prepared test cases based on test plan, RTM, requirements, and/or use cases if any details unknown has a stand-up meeting with the developer.
• Participated in sprint planning meetings every 2-4 weeks at the end of the sprint the team had sprint review meeting followed by a sprint retrospective meeting.
• Strong knowledge of test plan development derived from product description, software requirement specification, or use case document.
• Tested companies' software as an end user tracking any irregularities in the system.
• Tracked and tested the system to make sure customer orders will be filled correctly.
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported the results via test case.
• Prepared both positive and negative test cases for functional, system and end to end testing.
• Performed manual testing on a step-by-step basis checking the application/software for abnormal behavior.
• Identified and tracked in glitches in the system making sure that the software was defect free.
• Gained recognition in Canon’s company magazine “Impressions” for leadership skills displayed.