PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in teh IT industry as a QA Analyst in QA Life cycle experience (Manual and Automated) in testing applications using Mercury Interactive Tools in Financial
• Insurance, Health Care domains. Strong in Analyzing Business specifications and Develop Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and Execute those keeping in focus Verification and Validation Criterion.
• Very strong in defining and execution test scenarios & test cases based on system specifications and functional requirements documents provided.
• Strong hands - on experience and conceptual understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models like Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM) and Software Testing Life Cycles (STLC).
• Experienced in Regression, Compatibility, Functional, Front End, Back End, Smoke, Sanity, Volume, System, Stress, Usability and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for GUI based web and Client/Server applications.
• Extensive experience in Automated Testing with Mercury Suite of products including HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center (QC), Rational Clear Quest, JIRA.
• Possess excellent skills in Bug Reporting using Quality Center (Mercury & HP), HP Application Lifecycle Management 11 (ALM) and Escalate issues in accordance with teh severity and priority of teh bugs reported.
• Extensive experience in reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirement Documents and preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts, Traceability Matrices and Test Summary Reports and logging teh docs in HP Quality Center.
• Worked closely with test analysts, developers, support group to ensure test environment and data readiness.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skill, self-motivated, detail oriented, time bound, responsible team player and ability to coordinate in a team environment to maintain effective team relationship.
• Advanced SQL skills in writing and analyzing SQL queries. Creating necessary test data as required.
• Experience in testing Web services through XML using SOAP UI.
• Experience in validating teh XML schema and parsing teh XML response to Excel worksheet using SOAP UI and validating teh test scenarios.
• Independent and self-sufficient, proactive in improving testing methodology and analyzing test results.
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment .Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle
• Good Knowledge of Selenium testing.
• Experience in mentoring and managing offshore team members.
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, and interpersonal skills. Good team player with teh ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering output under high stress environment with resource constraints.
• Strong Management Skills, Organizational Skills and motivating teh team and thus producing best quality work from teh team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX
• MS SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access
• Oracle, TOAD, Win Runner 8.x
• Quick Test Pro,8.x/9.x, Quality center
• Test director 8.x, C, C++, JAVA, HTML
• SQL/PLSQL, T-SQL, Visual Basic
• Java, VB script, SQL Server Management Studio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test Plan Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix and System Test Scripts.
• Use of teh Rally for teh documentation of user stories.
• Involved in documenting test cases and packaging test suites and making them available to all of engineering and QA using HP Quality Center/ HP ALM.
• Write teh test cases for different testing scenario and execute them using HP ALM.
• Write defects if found any bugs during teh execution of test cases using HP ALM.
• Develop/maintain Automation Framework using hybrid framework and functional testing with teh help of famous automation tool QTP/UFT.
• Use of DB Visualizer tool to write SQL queries to access Oracle databases and DB2 for backend validation.
• Involvement in Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, End-to End Testing, UAT.
• Involved in both frontend and backend validation.
• Review teh Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts to ensure consistency with strategic direction, goals and objectives of QA resources using Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Final QA binder (Test Summary Report, Traceability Matrix and Metrics).
• Attended daily stand-ups to inform teh team members about what me did commit yesterday, what me’m going to do today and what are teh impediments me faced that is blocking my task.
• Also attended several PSI (potentially shippable increment) meetings, sprint planning meetings, backlog meetings and sprint/PSI demos.
• Interacted with Business Experts and Developers for resolving teh defects.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN.

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and reviewing teh user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Analyzed teh Test Scenarios and Conditions for each cycle.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Participated in writing HLS (High Level Scenarios) Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from business and functional requirement documents.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually, for functional testing purposes. Written detailed test plans and performed functional tests manually.
• Prepared teh Test data (Input files) for interpreting teh Positive/negative/regression results based on teh design requirements.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Execution and Test status reports.
• Mentored local and offshore team members.
• Performed Black-Box Testing and Functional Testing.
• Used teh T-SQL’s and verified teh SQL Server database for teh purpose of data verification.
• Involved in validating teh data, which has been populated into teh database tables using SQL Server Management Studio Interface
• Used Clear Quest for defect tracking and reporting.
• Interacted with Business Experts and Developers for resolving teh defects.

Hardware/Software: Quick Test Professional 9.0 (QTP), Clear Quest, Quality Center 11.0, Documaker,ID3 Admin System(IBM) - AS400, SQL Server 2008 R2, T-SQL, MS-office Excel, Windows XP.

Confidential, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing teh complete Application as per teh Functional Requirement Document.
• Reviewed Business Requirement documents and teh technical specifications.
• Developed test plans with detailed testing scope, strategy, hi-level test requirements, and necessary resources.
• Tested Web Services through XML using SOAP UI Tool and validated teh XML responses.
• Executed Test Cases in SOAP UI which loops through input data source and perform web service call and capture/parse teh XML response.
• Facilitated agile development process in teh company including requirements and design processes. Developed build and release scripts.
• Wrote detailed test plans and test cases and executed manually for Functional Testing.
• Performed Regression test to ensure product integrity after modification and enhancements.
• Analyzing user/business requirements, writing test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional, GUI and security testing.
• Analyzing and reviewing teh user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Analyzed business and functional requirements in order to support teh Loan PC, PC debt and T-deals work stream.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually, for functional testing purpose and Stored in Quality Center.
• Prepared teh Test data (Input files) for interpreting teh Positive/negative/regression results based on teh design requirements.
• Used teh T-SQL’s and verified teh SQL Server database for teh purpose of data verification.
• Exposure to various different Unix servers to validate teh outputs and writing SQL statements to validate teh output in teh different databases
• Used Quality Center 9.0 to store Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and for defect tracking and reporting

Hardware/Software: Quick Test Professional 9.0 (QTP), Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS), MS-office Excel, Windows XP, XML, Web services, SOAP UI.

Confidential, TN

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements, involved in identification and documentation of required system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios (Positive and Negative tests)
• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts.
• Involved in setup and configuration of test environments.
• Performed teh Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements on Oracle 9i Database.
• Verified data integrity by Backend testing of teh application by writing SQL queries.
• Developed and executed Test Cases and Test suites For Black-Box Testing.
• Tested HL7 EDI interfaces with HIPAA medical compliance billing software.
• Performed manual testing of teh website to determine ease of usability of teh website.
• Designed Test Plan and Test Cases using Test Director.
• Performed System, Integration, Compatibility and Black-Box testing of applications.
• Conducted Functional Testing of teh application.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and Validation Matrix.
• Used Test Director for Bug Reporting.
• Played a major part in testing and timely delivery of teh product.

Hardware/Software: Oracle, QTP, XML, Test Director, MS-Word, EDI interfaces, HL7, MS-Excel.