SUMMARY

• 6 years experience in Information Technology with the emphasis on Quality Assurance, mainly Manual/Functional and Backend/Database testing in Web based and Client Server based applications.
• Experienced in functional testing of various domains like Banking and Insurance, Health Care.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle and implementing it in Business Intelligence environments and E - Commerce Applications.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, Test strategies and Test Cases.
• Experience in various Testing Methodologies i.e. Waterfall, Iteration and Scrum Agile.
• Experience in performing Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Backend, Ad-hoc and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Experience in Backend testing with SQL and UNIX skills.
• Expertise in all cycles of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.
• Expertise in developing and enhancing the QTP scripts using VB script.
• Experience in writing SQL queries to execute against Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases.
• Advance working knowledge of HTML.
• Problem-solving skills, quick learning ability to work independently as well as a team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect Tracking Tools: HP QC 9.0/10.0,QTP, Test Director, Clear Quest, JIRA, Rally

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum

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

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

Languages: VB Script, UNIX Shell scripting.

Databases: SQL SERVER, ORACLE 8i, MS ACCESS and DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the Business Requirement Analysis meetings and scheduled the QA tasks.
• Extensively worked in a very Agile environment, with daily scrum meetings, stand up meetings, presentations and review.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst for clarifications of missing functionalities.
• Created Test Plans and developed Test Cases based on technical specifications and Business Requirements.
• Interfaced with developers in Resolving the Defects found in the application during testing
• Carried out Functionality, Integration and Regression testing.
• Performed Web browser test for various web browser Google chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari and Windows platform.
• Performed Manual Testing and Data Integrity/ Back-End Testing by executing SQL Statements.
• Performed Regression testing on graphical user interface of Web application using existing QTP Scripts.
• Customized QTP Scripts with Parameterization, Check Points, Library Files, Regular expression etc.
• Verified application functionality using built-in Check points.
• Created and Execution of Test Cases using Rally and analyze results including black box and regression testing.
• Tracked defects using Rally Tracking tools & attended Bug-Review meetings.
• Coordinated the testing efforts with UAT team (User Acceptance Testing) and resolved their findings on the application.
• Communicating with the Client on weekly status calls.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 10.0, SQL/PLSQL, MS SQL Server, Agile Rally Development, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word and UNIX.

Confidential, CA

QA Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented different QA methodologies and strategies in all stages of SDLC.
• Implemented manual testing to perform functional, usability, performance and regression testing.
• Created and implemented Test Plan and Test Strategy Document outlining the scope, objectives, timeline and focus of software testing effort for Functional, Regression, User Acceptance and Stress Testing.
• Writing Test Cases based on technical, functional specifications for end-to-end testing.
• Involved in defect & status report meetings.
• Defect testing and Exploratory Testing/Adhoc Testing was performed after each build.
• Utilized HP Quality Center for tracking test requirements, test plans, defects and communicating them among the team members and developers.
• Conducted System and Regression testing identified application errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements.
• Helped in creating the daily QA Status Reports to the Test management team.
• Submitted weekly status report showing the percentage of applications tested and detailed reports of the bugs, pass-fail report, and comparison chart.

Environment: DOT NET framework 2.0 & IDE, SQL server 2005 & 2008,HP QC,Rally, Team Foundation Server.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a QA team member involved in reviewing and analyzing requirements, specifications, design, documents and Use cases.
• Experience working on sprints.
• Responsible for writing test plans, Creating test cases & bug reports.
• Wrote Functional Test Cases for Manual Testing by analyzing the user equirements and Use Cases.
• Having experience working on Defect Tracking Process using Quality Center.
• Interacted with Developers to resolve user needs, found bugs in the software, documented and reported to the Development team.
• Reviewed and executed test results with Business Analysts for Coverage Analysis.
• Performed Integration, Regression and System Testing.
• Expertise in working with Database Connections like Oracle, MS SQL, SQL and DB2 in QTP.
• Performed installation, configuration and UAT model testing on every major release to ensure product quality.
• Communicating to offshore Team regarding the functionality to be tested.
• Submitted weekly status report with the percentage of application tested and detailed bug reports, pass-fail report, and comparison chart.

Environment: HP QC,DOT NET framework 2.0 & IDE, Quality Center, SQL server 2005 & 2008, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP Unix.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Business Rules and created Test Plan, Test Cases for projects.
• Implemented whole life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects.
• Linking the requirements and defects to test cases in Bugzilla.
• Executed Test Cases and participated actively in System Testing and Regression Testing for the Web based application as well as the Windows based application.
• Reporting and tracking the bugs using Bugzilla.
• Performed Backend Testing by Executing SQL Queries against Oracle and SQL database.
• Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.
• Co-ordinated with BA’s, Development and Test Teams to review Test Plans, Test Case standards.
• Daily Testing status & bug status report and for new builds regression status reports to the clients.

Environment: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2008, Bugzilla, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP Unix, .Net.