SUMMARY

• 6+ years of IT experience - Quality Assurance, Test Planning, Effort Estimations, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, Task Allocation, Client Communication and Status Reporting.
• Expertise in understanding teh business requirements and functional specifications during requirement phase to identify teh process gaps and provide alternatives to teh project team.
• Expertise in performing UI Testing, Manual Testing, Sanity, Smoke, Black Box, Functional, Usability, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)for enterprise web and client/server applications.
• Extensive experience using HP Quality Center/ HP ALM, JIRA
• Extensive experience in writing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test reports of manual and automated tests.
• Extensive experience in preparing documentation onQAStatus Reports,QASummary Reports, Bug Tracking Report,QATest Logs.
• Working experience with defect tracking tools like Quality Center (QC).
• Knowledge of executing Structured Query Language (SQL) using SQL queries for Backend Testing against SQL Server and Oracle Databases.
• Well versed with Agile Methodology, Software Development (SDLC), Test Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle
• Technically competent, result-oriented with strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Excellent communication skills and building encouraging atmosphere to work as a team member

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Approaches: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Selenium, Bug Life Cycle

Testing Tools: QC, SQL.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/8, Ubuntu, UNIX, LINUX

Defect Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, ALM, Rally

MS Office Tools: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano TX

Sr QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended and analyzed teh Draft and FinalBRD and High Level Design walkthrough meetings.
• Involved in reviewing requirements and providing estimates based on high level design.
• Preparing Test plans and Test cases for SIT/UAT environments.
• Worked along with Team both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Workedwith Business Analysts to review test requirements, develop test plans and also to validate teh actual test results to expected results.
• As part of End to testing our team was responsible for regression testing and End to end testing for all teh major releases and Sprint releases.
• Coordinating with multiple teams to resolve environment issues to finish End to end testing.
• Involved in Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing, UAT and End to End testing.
• Extensively performed UAT testing of teh application.
• Verified multiple documents dat will sent to customer which required high priority due to compliance issues.
• Verified Loan data in AS400 system to make sure dat teh date sending to downstream system accurately.
• Wrote Complex Queries to validate teh data from different tables in SQL.
• Conducting review meeting and coordinating with offshore team.
• Representing our team in scrum of scrums for any blockers or issues.

Environment: s:Agile methodology,Quality Center, Jira, Oracle, UNIX, mainframes, AS 400, XML, MS Office, MS Project.

Confidential, Plano TX

Sr. Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test plans for major programs for Digital and Non digital platforms.
• Involved in reviewing requirements and providing estimates based on high level design.
• As part of End to testing our team was responsible for regression testing and End to end testing for all teh major releases and Sprint releases for .com channels.
• Coordinating with multiple teams to resolve environment issues to finish End to end testing.
• Part of Go- No Go meeting for teh sprint releases.
• Involved in Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing, UAT and End to End testing.
• Assisted teh Business Analysts in performing teh UAT of teh application
• Conducting review meeting and coordinating with offshore team.
• Leading Test data management and responsible for creating reliable test data for sprint, Regression, end to end testing.
• Reviewed KE plans and documented all teh required information for establishing better offshore and onsite model.
• Taking owner ship of some of teh Dev related task so dat team can move with minimal supervision.
• Representing our team in scrum of scrums for any blockers or issues.

Environment: s:Agile methodology,Quality Center, Jira, Oracle, UNIX, mainframes, Informatica, MS Office, MS Project.

Confidential, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in teh requirements gathering with Business Analysts and Business stakeholders to ensure dat requirements are testable in terms of Quality Assurance stand point.
• Analyzed business requirements, Software requirement specifications to create test plan and test cases for manual and automated testing
• Created Test Cases as per requirements and mapped Test Cases with requirements and executed Test Cases in test lab in Quality Center.
• Verified backend data by using SQL queries to check teh data integrity.
• Involved in Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing and End to End testing.
• Involved in testing new functionalities based on Test Case and coordinate with development team in fixing teh issues.
• Prepared Estimation of testing effort fortestdesign andtestcase execution.
• Conducted Requirement Gap Analysis and published teh report to management as well as to teh client.
• Preparing daily status report on testing activities & publishing teh same to teh management.
• Attending Daily Stand-Up and Weekly meetings with teh team.
• Coordinated end to end Testing Activities for each release in teh User Acceptance testing (UAT) environment.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, XML, UNIX, TOAD, J2EE, C++, MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created teh Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.
• As Test Engineer, involved in plan & perform testing, verification & validation, and quality assurance.
• Escalated Defects while studying Project Requirements and writing Test Cases by using HP Quality Center (QC/ALM) and followed logged defects throughout its lifecycle in JIRA.
• Used HP Quality Center (QC/ALM) and JIRA for reserving, executing test cases, defect tracking, and teh complete test management
• Analyzed test results, identified issues and reported it to developers & project manager through JIRA.
• Performed System Testing, Regression testing, Usability testing and End to End testing.
• Created manualTest CasesinHP QC/HP ALMfor variousUser Storiesbased on Release & Sprint plan
• Defect logging & retest and Test lifecycle management through HP ALM
• Analyzed modules and designed test scenarios and test scripts in Linux environment.

Environment: SQL Server, Oracle, Quality Center (QC), Excel, HTML, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Java

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented whole life cycle ofQAMethodologies starting from Planning, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking defects.
• Understanding teh business requirements and functional specifications during requirement phase to identify teh process gaps and provide alternatives to teh project team.
• Involved in creating Test Plans, Test Scripts and test cases and executed them manually in QC. Tracked, identified defects in test cycles.
• Working closely with teh Developers and requirement Teams in teh review and modification of teh product and its specifications using Agile-testing methodology
• Performed database testing by executing SQL queries to validate data in SQL tables.
• Interact with product management, project management and development teams to develop a strong understanding of teh project and testing objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements,product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Promptly escalate issues, which effect product delivery and quality dat are beyond scope of influence.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, HTML, Manual Testing, SQL, SQL, MS Office, UNIX.