PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Expert Software Tester wif solid understanding of SDLC, Software QA concepts and methodologies. Experienced in UAT setup, Requirement analysis and Test data setup.
• Over 9 years of hands - on experience in diversified fields of teh Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) specializing in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies.
• Hand-on experience and in depth understanding of complete Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) in client-server, intranet and working knowledge onmobile application development using OOAD, Agile(XP, SCRUM) and RUP methodology.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Reports and Test Metrics for Manual as well as Automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Extensive experience in client/server and web application testing using System Testing, Functionality Testing (White & Black Box), IntegrationTesting, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong experience in using Test management tools like Test Director, JIRA, Load Runner, Win Runnerand Defect tracking tools like Issue Tracker and IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Hands on experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Test NGto ensure proper business compliance and worked closely wif users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Experienced in cucumber to support software testing automation.
• Wrote Test cases in ALM and Defect report generation using ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
• Extensive knowledge of teh HIPAA implementation guidelines, ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.
• Experienced in maintaining teh Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and verifying forward and backward traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Excellent knowledgein ETL validation, Data Model Validations.
• Extensive experience in testing and implementing Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data from multiple sources into Data warehouse using Informatica.
• Extensive work experience wif different Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, IMS, TOAD, PL/SQL and VSAM.
• Expertise in creation of UAT Plan and UAT Cases covering different business, functional and non-functional test scenarios and creation of expected test results.
• Has experience in Java based web services testing using SOAPUI tool, HTML, CSS, XML, VB and JavaScript.
• Experience testing mobile application on Windows OS, Android and IOS mobile operating system.
• Dynamic in working wif all teams involving Developers, Business Analysts, Product team and Client Support teams for deliveries on time and budget wif highest quality.
• Experience working wif MS office tools like Visio, MS Project, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong Analytical skills wif good communication skills and a good team player.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interface effectively wif all levels of management as well as teh technical teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Automation Tools: HP/Mercury Quick Test Professional, UFT 11.5, Selenium, Load Runner, Win Runner, Advanced REST client for API testing, Cucumber, Quick Test Professional( ALA), HP QC, Selenium

Test/Defect Management Tools: HP Test Director, SOAP UI, Test Director, Clear Quest, Microsoft Test Manager, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional Tester, Issue Tracker, HP ALM, Test NG, Eclipse, UAT, Rally, Jira,Quality Center10.0,ALM

Database Systems: MS SQL Server, DB2, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase

Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Unix(Solaris), Linux(Redhat)

Languages: C, C++, Java/J2EE, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL

ScriptJava: Script, VB Script, UNIX shell scripts

Workflow Tools: MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-Word

Other Software Tools: QTP 9.0, Quality Center9.0,Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Quality Analyst/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements in ALM
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop test validation matrix, test cases, test data in ALM and manually test teh web application
• Create Test Design Document and Test Cases based on teh Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases for teh upcoming releases.
• Maintained defects in Rational Clear Quest and participated in weekly defect reviews
• Performed Smoke testing after teh Code Install in QA environment
• Attended teh design review meetings for teh upcoming RTN/PRs
• Assisted automation team by running teh automation scripts in UFT after teh daily build
• Updated existing and created new test cases covering teh new functionalities for teh regression test suite
• Testedand documented teh Production incidents in Test Environment
• Assisted teh Support and Development team in recreating teh production issues in QA
• Involved in designing, developing and executing a performance measurement plan and participated in reviews, meetings, and walkthroughs to ensure quality in teh development process. Used checklists, issues lists, to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused on making teh application more effective and user friendly
• Extensive involvement in Project Status meetings
• Highlighted risks/blocking issues and escalated them to Lead QA in timely manner for smooth execution of project
• Responsible for weekly QA status report to be sent out to teh Product and Development team

Environment:C#, .NET, SQL Server, Windows 7, HP - ALM, Rational Clear Quest, UFT, Test Director, Toad, Microsoft Office

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements in QC 9
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop RTM, test cases, test data in QC 9 and manually test teh application
• Create Test Design Document and Test Cases based on teh Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases for teh upcoming releases.
• Maintained defects in Rational Clear Quest and participated in weekly defect reviews
• Performed Smoke test after code install then performed functional testing in detailed, Regression testing performed after teh bugs fixed to make sure new changes will not effect to existing functionality. UAT performed when real users using software, we has to make sure software work as per expectation of user’s need.
• Assisted teh Support and Development team in recreating teh production issues in QA
• Involved in designing, developing and executing performance measurement plan and participated in reviews, meetings, and walkthroughs to ensure quality in teh development process. Used checklists, issue lists, to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications.

Environments:MSSQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, QC 9, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft office, Window 7, Test Director, Toad

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif teh Business Analyst/System Analyst to understand teh work flow of various functionalities
• Developed test plans, Test data, test cases after thorough requirement analysis.
• Conducted functional requirement testing to test business scenarios, user actions, interfaces, data rules, user messages and error conditions.
• Involved in Manual Testing of teh application.
• Maintained and created test data required for teh test execution at teh test planning stage.
• Executed black box testing, system testing and regression testing, UAT
• Identified bugs, logged and tracked teh defects and interacted wif teh developers to resolve teh defects.
• Writing UNIX/Linux commands
• Handled client queries and change control as a single point of contact.
• Coordinated and communicated teh test process and results.
• Generated execution status and defect reports to provide project status to upper management.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, process improvement meetings and walkthroughs.

Environment:Quality Center 9, Windows NT/2000, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Excel, Word and

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test design to ensure teh Quality of teh application being developed and kept track of teh testing schedule as per teh test plan.
• Designed Test Objectives, additionally collaborated to formulate effective test documentation and created data set up.
• Followed Rational Unified Process and Agile Methodology for teh software development cycle.
• Conducted functional walkthrough, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and supervised teh development of user manuals for clients.
• Wrote detail Test Cases based upon teh business requirements and Functional specifications; was involved in various meetings wif teh Business and development team to understand teh functionality of teh system.
• Establish test cycles to ensure all test scenarios are covered wif optimum batch runs.
• Prepared Entry and Exit criteria for each level of testing such as (SIT and UAT).
• Monitor and control teh test execution and defect resolution.

Environment: XML, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Excel, MS Word, Web Methods, EAI, MQ Series, Server, Eclipse V3.3.1.1, Oracle, UNIX, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT, Share Point, QTP, Quality Center.

Confidential, MN

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed initial smoke test to verify teh stability of teh application.
• Performed Regression testing of application to make sure that no new bugs are introduced into teh system wif teh fix.
• Used Quality Center Extensively to run teh Test Scripts and update it wif Test Results.
• Recorded and resolved defects using IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Collaborate and Review various test plans wif QA, Development and Product team.
• Communicated project updates regularly to high-level stakeholders.
• Used defect tracking and test directing tools to track testing progress and track software defects
• Provide timely updates to management on testing, status and scheduling high priority issues in weekly status meetings.

Environment:Oracle DB, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, SharePoint 2010

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance and GUI Testing
• Written test cases following test case guidelines
• Conducted reviews and approval of test cases
• Checked teh basic functionality wif teh sanity testing
• Executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results
• Extensively used Quality Center to create and execute teh test cases
• Responsible for opening defects in Test director, assigning and follow up wif developers and performing regression tests.
• Compiled software defect reports detailing teh defects status and their severity
• Responsible for data creation for teh automation scripts
• Participated in enhancement meetings focused on making application more effective
• Highlighted Risks/Issues as and when faced
• Compiled results from data validation into individual reports that summarizes pass/fail and teh types of failures being discovered

Environment: QTP 9.0, Quality Center9.0,Windows NT/00, Oracle, HTML, Test Director