PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Around 8 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for various web based and client/server applications.
• Performed testing in different domains, which include Ecommerce, Finance, Banking, Insurance and Healthcare in Windows and UNIX environments.
• Experience in testing and implementing the application following Agile(Scrum), V - model and Waterfall methodology.
• Proficient in creating Test plan, Test scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix by analyzing the Business Requirement Document and System Requirement Document.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, migration testing, browser compatibility testing, sanity testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) and component testing on Windows.
• Extensive experience in manual testing, automated testing and quality assurance of client/server and web based applications using black box testing.
• Experience in using automation tools Quick Test Professional (QTP) using VB script, and Quality Center.
• Good knowledge in writing technical documents, process flows, test scripts, creating end to end scenarios, generating testing status reports etc.
• Extremely involved in managing defect tracking system like Quality Center (QC), JIRA, Bugzilla, and Mantis.
• Excellent knowledge working with RDBMS such as MSSQL server and MS-Access.
• Experience in Back-end testing using SQL queries.
• Expert in installing and configuring bug reporting tools, Automated Tools and Setting Testing Environment.
• Willingness and Ability to learn new compliances, rules and new technologies and tools.
• Great team player as well as ability to work independently.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills including ability to multi-task, prioritize, face new challenges and take ownership of the task specified.
• Good Documentation and ProcessManagement skills with an ability to TEMPeffectively understand the business requirements to develop a quality product.
• TEMPEffective Time Management skills and consistent ability to meet client deadline.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro(QTP), Selenium

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center, Mantis.

Languages: C#, SQL, CSS, JAVA, Visual Basic, HTML,XML

Packages: MS Office (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point, MS-Access, MS-Outlook)

Operating Systems: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7,Macintosh, UNIX, Linux

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Acess

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr.QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Requirement& High Level Design Documents.
• Involved in designing the Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Script.
• Analyzing the all the pre-existing Test Cases and defects to understand the complexity of the application.
• Developed and executed Manual Test Cases as per requirements.
• Performed Functional testing, GUI, Cross browser testing and Usability testing according to the user requirements.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Quality Centre.
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development.
• Run the different test sets for each individual module.
• Carried out extensive Backend testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data using SQL queries.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports.
• Generated Reports and Documented and Communicated test results on daily basis.
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.
• Reported daily status to the Test Lead and Weekly status to the Project manager.

Environment: Quality Centre 9.0, c#, .net, XML,SQL, UNIX, Web Services, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Windows 7, Waterfall model

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical Specifications, Business Specifications and created Test Cases.
• Performed Function testing,GUI,Cross browser testing, Database testing and UAT for checking the functionality of the application.
• Tested the functionality of each scenario like positive and negative test cases.
• Used SQL commands and pull up the data for testing the application.
• Logged the defects, tracked the status and verified when fixed.
• Involved in regression testing by using QTP.
• Validated the data by writing SQL Queries.
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Quality centre.
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.
• Reviewed test cases and pursue the business to prioritize and sign-off the defect log.
• Provided end-user consultative support.
• Attended sprint planning meeting, Scrum meeting and retrospective meeting.

Environment: ASP.net, c#.net, MS-SQL, VB,CSS, Windows 7, MS-Office, Quality Centre, QTP,Agile.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and Technical specifications.
• Testing Acceptance criteria based on the user stories created by Business Analyst.
• Involved in creating Test plan, Test Scenarios.
• Created Test cases by reviewing Technical document.
• Performed manual testing and maintained the documentation for various stages of testing.
• Day to Day Stand-up meetings with team and updating the Task Board with progress of stories.
• Tested the application using various black box testing techniques like BVA, EP.
• Performed functional testing, Database testing, regression testing.
• Communicated defects to development using Quality center found during testing and ensured all high and urgent priority defects were resolved prior to implementation.
• Performed cross browser and cross platform testing on various browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE and Safari.
• Reviewed test cases and pursue the business to prioritize and sign-off the defect log.
• Provided end-user consultative support.

Environment: C#,ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, MS-SQL Server2008, IE, Windows Vista, Quality Center,Agile.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review the Business Requirement Documents, Functional & Non-Functional Requirement Documents.
• Designed the test casesto cover the data movement between sources to target.
• Importedpre-existing Microsoft Word and Excel-basedrequirements and testsfor analysis in Quality Centre.
• Designed, analyzed and performed System testing on FACETS to test all the different software components under one complete system.
• Developed Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing manually.
• Actively participated inwalkthroughsandenhancement meetings.
• Implemented technical solutions for complex state-mandated prospectiveclaims pricingmethodologies.
• MaintainedTest MatrixandRequirement Traceability Matrix.
• Analyzed and worked with HIPAA specific EDI transactions for claims, enrolment.
• Document request/response XML test procedures and functional/technical findings from the test run.
• Authorized test case scenarios in Excel spread sheet and export them into Quality Centre.
• Executed test cases, found errors, reported defects, determined repair priorities, did regression testing and closed by using Quality Centre.
• Attended Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning meeting and Retrospective meetings.

Environment: Java, Oracle, XML, Quality Centre, PL/SQL,Windows, IE, Chrome, Firefox, MS-Office, Agile.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements and document the proposed processes to the existing system. Modules included: Claims Processing Files and HIPAA Guidelines adherence across the company.
• Tested the Enhanced applications associated with Claim Numbers so that duplicate Claim Numbers could be allowed in the system. Tested the Electronic Claims, Patient Screen and Sales Administration processes according to Business Requirement Document.
• Involved in Designing and Analyzing of Test Scope strategies with other Test Analyst.
• Involved and developed associated project documentation, test plan, test scenarios, performed gap analysis, and test tracking reporting for all phases of testing including user acceptance testing.
• Written the Test cases by analyzing the functional document(BRS) and Technical document(SRS).
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Performed Sanity testing, Functional testing, GUI,Cross browser testing, Usability testing, UAT,and Regression testing to the application.
• Importing all the defects from excel to Quality center and reporting to developers.
• Conducted Positive and Negative testing on the whole application.
• Performed Back-End testing using MS-SQL queries.

Environment: C# .net, Asp .net, CSS, AJAX, MS-SQL2005, IE, Windows XP, Quality Centre, V-model.

Confidential, Arlington, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases based on the Business Requirements.
• Actively involved in BRD & HLD/LLD review and walkthrough meeting.
• Performed System Testing, GUI and Usability testing.
• Involved in UAT.
• Raising defects on test and stage environment and testing when it is pushed into UAT environment.
• Interaction with Technology team for requirement gathering, defect removal, etc.
• Providing the daily status report to test lead and weekly to project manager.
• Prepared weekly test progress summary report and project sign-off document.
• Logging defects in JIRA.

Environment: Java, XML, Oracle, IE,Firefox,Windows XP, JIRA,V-model.