PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of hands on experience in industry including experience wif diversified exposure in Manual of Client/Server and Web - based applications wif focus on System Analysis and Quality Assurance in Windows Environment.
• Expertise in testing websites by performing content validation, navigation testing and browser compatibility testing.
• Extensively performed System Integration testing, data validation for websites, navigation testing, Black box testing, Smoke testing, Regression Testing, Positive testing and Negative testing.
• Experience in test case definitions, development and maintenance of test scripts and documentation of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Scenarios for all the phases of the QA lifecycle.
• Possess experience as test team member in a Software Testing, for comprehensive 3rd party testing of a variety of applications and packages.
• Performing Testing of the application using QC.
• Performed Integration / System Testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing andUAT Testing.
• Excellent understanding of various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (Scrum).
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard Tools like HP Quality Center, ALM and JIRA.
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Reports.
• Good experience in preparing Traceability matrix between requirements and Test cases.
• Ability to understand Business and Functional requirements and transform them into test cases, test scripts and ability to assess whether deliverables meet requirements.
• Strong understanding of software Test Methodologies and noledge of modern software development processes, including Issue/Bug Tracking, Release management, Requirements etc.
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Developing and maintaining the High Test Plan, Test Cases, Detail Test steps, analyzing bugs and interacting wif team members in fixing the bugs
• Coordinate wif application development team and offshore testing team, creation of testing deliverables allocation of the resources, facility the Testing team meetings and new team members on testing process and methodologies
• Experienced wif full life cycle testing in both manual and automated testing and analysis of test results

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle WA

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Marketing Management and Call Centre Module in CRM Sales Force Web based application.
• Worked on Marketing Management for the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customer, for the purpose of selling the product or service.
• Worked on Call Centre to organize the tasks so dat it can quickly find information about features dat will help provide customer service like tracking the customer inquiries, resolving customer inquiries, accessing noledge etc.
• Worked on Call Centre Cases to create, edit, locate, and view cases from the Cases tab.
• Worked on DC-1 testing, aligning to the AOI Team to understand key functionality.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Documentation (BRD) to gain understanding of POS implementation.
• Used Mercury Quality Center extensively throughout the testing process to plan and maintain tests, maintain traceability of tests to the application functionality and again to requirements, defect tracking and management, etc.
• Interacted wif developers and business analysts on a daily basis to discuss the requirement specifications.
• Attended daily scrum meetings, to give the status of the work being done.
• Also used TFS to create QA user stories, related to Technical user stories, and assigned QA work effort and time to test those functionalities.
• Working wif the offshore (Bangalore) team to transition noledge and assist wif day to day activities

Environment: ETL Informatica, BI Business Objects, SQL, QTP, Quality center, Teradata, Teradata SQL Assistant, UNIX, SQL SERVER, Clear Quest, Oracle, PL/SQL, TOAD, Java, DB2 and UNIX.

Confidential, Lexington KY

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed all the application documents and created test plan.
• Created test cases to perform Functional and Regression Testing.
• Performed manual testing using the test cases developed and reported to developers using Quality Center.
• Performed extensive database testing to verify the results generated by the batch applications.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Performed Web testing, database testing, GUI testing, end to end testing, production assurance, System testing, functionality, Regression and User Acceptance testing (UAT) as a part of different quality activities such as bug tracking and control.
• Worked on SDLC methodology for testing Insurance application.
• Involved in Execution of UAT Test Cases

Environment: Java, J2EE, SQlserver 2005, UNIX, XML, Quality Center.

Confidential, Chicago IL

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in application security testing for securing the application wif proper authentication & authorization.
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• Responsible for reporting bugs through the Quality Center and conducting the triage meeting.
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• Reporting the defects to developers using the defect-tracking tool Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to review and analyze the results & utilized its reporting feature to generate detailed defect report.
• Document and report all found defect in ALM/QC 11.
• Execute manual testing for all cases
• Participated in meetings wif BA and Developers to understand the scope of testing
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for assigned modules
• Demonstrated methodical, detail-oriented and thorough approach to all assignments while adhering to compressed timelines. Complete all assignments on or ahead of schedule.
• Interaction wif the developers for resolving critical bugs and functionality modifications
• Performed Ad-hoc testing before doing the formal testing and documented the defects
• Written and executed the functional and regression tests
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meeting in which the defects identified were discussed
• Performed regression testing identified software errors and interacted wif developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Selenium IDE/RC, Selenium WebDriver, JUNIT, Java MS-Word, MS-Excel, PL/SQL Developer, Oracle 10g, SOAP UI, JIRA, JMeter, PL/SQL Developer

Confidential, Washington DC

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis and Use-Case Analysis.
• Technical writing of high level Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Participated in Black Box Testing and Integration Testing in White Box testing approach.
• Conducted testing of the system End-End Testing manually.
• Perform Regression, UAT, Integration, User Interface,GUI, and Usability Testing.
• Developed Test Case Procedures and conducted the tests manually.
• Mapped functional design elements to rule sets and tests for test case creation
• Made recommendations to management regarding the acquisition and/or implementation of software to increase information systems efficiency.
• Monitored post-implementation system/program performance to prevent reoccurrence of operational issues and ensure efficiency of operation.
• Prepared the test cases and test scenarios detailed in Microsoft Excel.
• Transformation of use cases to test scenarios and designing test plans and test cases.
• Performing Black Box Testing of the application manually
• Involvement in efficient and optimum test planning wif the available resources.
• Interaction wif the business frequently gave good insight to do extensive testing.
• Oversaw test execution to ensure proper operation of system/program.

Environment: Win Runner 6.0, Test Director 6.0, Java, Visual Basic script, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Oracle, and Windows NT.