SUMMARY

• 5+ years of testing experience as a senior tester and as a Software quality assurance analyst in a wide variety of environments and different platforms
• Extensive knowledge in developing QA Test Plan, Test Execution, Test Result Analysis, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Bug Reports.
• Experience in manual and automation testing of web application, client - server, database projects on Windows, and UNIX operating systems.
• Involvement in setting up the test environments, Client Interactions, Test status reporting, Test closure activities and Risk management.
• Proficient in using testing Tools: Quality Center (QC) and Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Experience in creation of UAT test strategy, test data and provided support for UAT testing and defect management
• Experience in testing Database like SQL Server and Oracle.
• Leadership roles in creation, execution of QA and testing processes that includes test strategies, test plans, bug documentation and regression testing.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills and communication skills and the ability to work as a Team member and as a Test Lead.
• Ability to learn new languages and tools quickly and Extensive training in software testing theories and procedures.
• Good aptitude for problem solving and logical analysis.
• Capability to apply wide technical and practical skills to manage and execute white-box and black-box tests and to evaluate needs for software designing, development, and validations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Manual Testing Tools: Director and Quality Center

Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional

Testing Methodologies: Black Box testing, Integration testing, System testing, Functional testing and Regression testing, Mobile Testing

Languages: SQL, Oracle

Office Tools: Microsoft Office Suite

Web Technologies: HTML

Navigator: Chrome,Internet Explorer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, Interpreted and validated requirements and design specifications
• Performed system testing, Functional Testing, smoke testing and UAT Testing
• Ran SQL queries and validated data using SQL Developer
• Conducted all on-line and data verification testing necessary for front-end and back-end system
• Involved in defect status meetings with other teams-(Developers, QA, Production)
• Participated in production validation and support during releases
• Involved in Requirements Assessments to see if new requirements impacted existing Business functionality
• Created, Analyzed and executed system-testing requirements including the developments of Test plans and Test cases
• Involved in Regression Testing and Back-end testing
• Supported and provided value added inputs to evolving QA team, including improving processes, procedures, and standards
• Creating Test Cases and running by using Quality Center Test Lab.
• Finding defects and creating defects in Quality Center Defects tab.
• Created status Reports and Graphs in the Quality Center.
• Performed the back-end database testing.
• Liaison between the management team, business analysts and developers, for presenting and reviewing defects, test results and next steps.
• Attended Daily meetings with Project team involving developers, testers and business analysts to assure quality of testing

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, QTP 10, SQL, PL/SQL, VB.Net and ASP.Net

QA Analyst

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business & functional necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.
• Participated in implementing test-plans and test-cases built on high-level and detailed design.
• Broadly done manual testing, constraints verification testing, and the functional testing.
• Involved in the Test Case walkthroughs, assessment meetings.
• Cooperated and performed with development group to resolve the difficulties came across in a test execution.
• Involved in audit meetings and got an initiative to reach QA testing goals.
• Contributed in regular status meetings to state any bugs, problems and risks.
• Used Quality Center to perform a test plan, track executions against plan throughout testing and handle faults from start to resolution.
• Checked/Reviewed the test cases document.
• Forecast/Estimate the project future requirements.
• Responsible for providing support for UAT testing and defect management.
• Involved in identifying test data and plan data sets for UAT
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing inputs to the overall Test Strategy
• Built the Test Schedule and created test plan for UAT
• Was single point of contact between development team and testing team for iterations, testing and deployment activities.
• Ensure content and structure of all testing documents/artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Used SQL joins to query thedata for backend testing.
• Track and report upon testing activities including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Identify training requirements and forwarded to the project manager (Technical and soft skills).

Environment: SQL Server 2005, DB2, Oracle 9i, Java J2EE, Windows XP/ 2000, Lotus Notes, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat

QA Tester

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the System requirement specification (SRS) for testability.
• Created test cases, scripts based on functional specification, prepared test data for testing.
• Performed all types of manual testing including functional, system, and regression testing.
• Executed test cases and test scripts that define specific test criteria and the expected results to be achieved.
• Prepared Test plan from technical specifications and requirements.
• Compile all detailed Test Script recommendations.
• Prepare Q.C. Test Scripts draft in Excel and review with Team.
• Upload, track and monitor testing through Quality Center.
• Create Quality Center Reports for interim and final testing results.
• Used Quality Center for documenting requirements, view, modify requirement tree
• Tracked changes made to the requirements, tests and defects using Quality Center.
• Created test plan and detailed test cases using Quality Center.
• Generated defect reports and tracked them using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for defect management - adding defect, tracing changes and sending defect email messages.
• Enter Credit Applications either manually through the test web-site or directly into the credit system using visual basic macro’s
• Prepared Test Script Metrics and Defect Metrics Preparation of Each and Every Build.
• Performed back end testing of the data by executing SQL commands.
• Responsible for defect tracking and reporting the defects and also worked closely with the development team to ensure high quality and timely releases.
• Conducted test executions manually and evaluated test results and attended daily meetings to discuss the high severity defects with the developers.
• Conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) to validate the application, to check that the application properly reflects business functions and requirements.
• Handled Production support issues.
• Involved in Web testing, Black Box, Batch testing and White Box Testing
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the SQL Server database.

Environment: UNIX, ASP, Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.0, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005, Oracle9i.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Preparing test plan, review of test cases, execution, defects logging, coordinating with clients,
• Responsible for System and Integration testing and preparation of test data.
• Responsible for creation of UAT test strategy, test plan, test data and provided support for UAT testing
• Performed hit rate testing, performance testing, purify testing, backward compatibility for each release.
• Developed Perl scripts for implementing Complex business rules and data transformations to client oriented format from different vendors.
• Involved in preparation of the Detail Document Specification for usage of Quality Center, Hit rate and Performance testing
• Implemented best practices for Knowledge Management and provided training to the new team members.
• Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to the tools used in testing and resolve issues.
• Review various reports prepared by the test engineers.
• Check for timely delivery of different milestones.
• Organized meetings and assign tasks to the team members.
• Arranged hardware and software requirements for the test setup.

Environment: Quality Center, C, C++, Oracle 9i, DB2, UNIX, Windows XP/ 2000, Lotus Notes, MS Office.