SUMMARY

• 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance as Test Analyst (Manual and Automation)
• Involved in developing Test Plans, Traceability Matrix, Test Scripts, Test Design Specification, Test Case Specification, Test Scenarios and Test Reports.
• Involved in different kinds of testing such as GUI, Systems Integration Testing, Functional Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficiency in resolving operational issues throughout the testing life cycle of the project and efficient in use of macros and automation scripts for testing of functionality and regression testing.
• Excellent communicator, with experience working in different project roles (Test lead and Senior - test coordinator) to facilitate project implementations, support and training.
• Excellent exposure to entire STLC, test methodologies (Agile & Waterfall) & test process standardization.
• Creative, analytical thinker with demonstrated ability to troubleshoot problems, determine strategies to resolve issues, and consistently implement effective solutions.
• Ability to develop database queries SQL to assist in testing effort.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Models used in Testing: Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Language Platforms: Java, ASP .NET

Scripting: SQL, SQL Plus

Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, MS Office Suite, SnagIT, Eclipse

Methodology Known: Requirements gathering, Gap Analysis, Test strategy, Test execution plan, System Integration testing, End-to End functional testing, Regression testing, Test exit report creation and Automation Testing for creating regression and functional test suite using Selenium (Frameworks: Data driven, Keyword driven, and Hybrid)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA tester (Manual and Automation)

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Setting up the Data for Integration and End-to-End Testing
• Involved in preparing and participating in status reports weekly with QA lead, developers, project managers, and business analysts. The meeting’s agenda included updates on revision history, test case status, metrics, QA issues bug review, and defects
• Interacted with developers on defects status on a daily basis
• Involved in Preparing the Test Strategy Document, Test Cases and Test Cases Execution for all modules
• Involved in moving all the Test Cases for all modules and Reporting from Microsoft Excel in to HP ALM
• Ported of Requirements, Test Conditions, execution of scripts, analysis of results and graphs, bugs /issues tracking and management done through Quality Center
• Created test cases based on the business requirements
• Performed Functional Testing based on accessory add-ons
• Performed System Integration Testing to monitor data flow between accessory add-ons and inventory
• Participated in monthly review meetings to discuss defects with Business Analyst and developers
• Sent daily project updates to QA manager
• Performed both positive and negative testing manually
• Helped out other Jr. QA’s who needed clarifications of the requirements
• Manually performed Functional, GUI, and Database Testing for all report development and post deployment management.
• Assisted in performing Smoke Testing of an application during each stage of the application to ensure basic functionality
• Participate in Sprint Planning to obtain understanding of what the client’s proposal is and to start writing test cases
• Participate in daily Scrum
• Participate in the Retrospective Meetings to discuss about what could be done better and what didn’t work, and what went well during the Sprint
• Involved in both manual and automated testing using Selenium.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining automated test scripts.
• Writing and executing test scripts using Selenium Web Driver.
• Experienced in Selenium automation using Selenium Web Driver, Selenium IDE, Java, TestNG.

Manual QA Analyst

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements from Business Analysts
• Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Involved in preparing Test Plan for various projects
• Create Test case scenarios for System Integration, and to perform Regression Testing using Application Life-cycle Management
• Involved in Test Execution for System, Regression, and UAT Testing
• Involved with team for gathering User requirements and Business Requirements
• Use Quality Center to log the defects and issues found in the application
• Generate different reports to project the status of the testing
• Perform GUI test for Data entry screens
• Defect tracking and reporting using Application Life-cycle Management
• Perform Regression testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed
• Perform Back-End Testing by writing SQL Queries and stored procedures
• Participate in Sprint Planning to obtain understanding of what the client’s proposal is and to start writing test cases
• Participate in the Retrospective meeting
• Communicate directly with the PM to address any Showstoppers or any status updates regarding the project

QA Analyst

Confidential, Lombard, IL

Responsibilities:

• Participated in preparation of Test Plans, which detailed the testing scope, testing requirements
• Created Test Case Scenarios and executed test scripts based on business requirements and Functional Specifications
• Extensively tested Functional, Regression, and End-to-End testing for the Application
• Formulated methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements
• Involved in implementation of Test Strategy
• Used Quality Center to write test cases
• Uploaded all the manually written test scripts in excel to Quality Center
• Participated in the team meetings and walkthroughs, interacted with the development and project team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets to user's expectations
• Performed Black Box, SIT, Smoke Testing, and Regression Testing
• Tracked all the bugs logged in with the development team and work closely in resolving them in time
• Created the Test Data and parameterize the scripts using Data Driven Testing
• Prepared System Test Results after Test case execution
• Reported the daily status of test cases executed/failed to Project Manager
• Worked with Business Analyst to ensure new functionality changes were reasonable regarding existing physical design
• Tools and Technology Used: Quality Center, Jira, Oracle 9i, SQL Developer, Microsoft Office 2007, UNIX. Java, J2EE, XML, and Waterfall Model