SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience testing Client - Server and Web-Based applications
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), test life cycle and testing methodologies
• Extensive work experience in black box, functional, system (SIT), end-to-end, regression, and performance testing
• Diversified experience as software QA analyst in client server application in both Front End & Back End with a focus in analyzing the business requirements, gap analysis and customer experience
• Proficient in writing test plans from requirements document, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with other team members in fixing the defects
• Hands-on experience in writing SQL queries for creating, updating, and validating data
• Proficient in using HP ALM/ Quality Center for full test life cycle including requirements, test plan, test lab and defects modules
• Strong skills in conducted discussions with Business Analysts (BAs) and QA Lead to create Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Steps, Expected Results and Test Data in Quality Center
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Dedicated, positive attitude, and great ability to multi-task

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software & Tools: HP ALM/Quality Center, SilkTest, QTP, LinkScan, SQL Query Analyzer, Source Control Software(VSS), Bugzilla, FogBugs, MS Office Suite, SVN, Unix

Databases: MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle

Languages: SQL, VB, ASP, JavaScript, Basic Java, HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on functional requirements and technical documentation utilizing HP ALM/Quality Center
• Developed and executed SQL queries to validate data and verify data integrity
• Created and executed post-release production test plans and test cases to verify major functionality
• Updated Global Regression test set after each deployment to in corporate new or modified functionality
• Created daily reports which outlined testing progress, bug summaries, and testing problems
• Prepared test data and helped load test data into the test database environment

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and accountable for all testing, planning, and communication activities within the SDLC
• Communicated with developers, business analysts and users to verify application requirements and ensure test cases cover all business requirements
• Tested developed web application in major browsers (IE and Firefox)
• Managed system load, stress, and performance testing for web applications
• Logged, maintained and tracked defects using HP Quality Center
• Troubleshot issues detected during QA cycles by searching log files and querying databases
• Extensively used SQL queries for querying and modifying data

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the objectives and scope of each stage of testing process from the Test plan
• Interacted with business analysts to gather the requirements for business and performance testing
• Participated in the Manual Vs Automated testing decision-making process functionality
• Responsible for testing the Navigation Flow, Functionality Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Interacted with users and vendors for full life cycle of project
• Tested the application by inserting checkpoints such as Database and Text checkpoints in test scripts using QTP
• Performed Functionality, Regression and Data Driven testing using QTP
• Tested the application by inserting Synchronization in test scripts, generated Automated Test Scripts using the recording feature of QTP
• Prepared Test Data and executed Test Cases from Quality Center
• Involved in Life cycle test for various products

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Software and Business Requirements documents of the system on both technical and business perspectives
• Developed Test Plans, Test cases for each product release
• Conducted cross browser and platform compatibility tests
• Executed black box tests for user interface and features/functionality
• Performed Regression, User Acceptance Testing
• Clearly and effectively documented errors detected in testing cycle
• Coordinated with engineering to ensure proper correction of problems
• Tracked change requests and provided follow-up on defect resolution

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, based on Functional Specifications and Technical Design Document
• Executed tests, documented results, and generated reports
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team to understand business, design of code, release notes and system demo
• Performed regression and retesting in each fix of defects to move all test cases for further execution
• Tracking defects with severity using Bugzilla tracking software and involved in defect root cause analysis

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plans, test scripts, test scenarios, and schedules based on requirements and design documents and executing to plan
• Performed different types of testing such as Grey Box, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance and Regression testing
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews, and participated in QA meetings
• Used Tracker to track and report system defects and bugs

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Test automation of application using SilkTest. Created and maintained the set of automated test scripts for testing Market Volatility, Market Forwards, and General System Settings Modules of the system utilizing 4Test language of SilkTest. Implemented custom methods created new data types and data-driven test cases. Wrote public functions used by other test automation engineers in their test scripts.
• Installed and tested new versions of Project on different operating systems
• Created Test Specifications for GUI and functionality testing
• Performed manual integration and system testing
• Analyzed and solved problems found during the testing
• Participated in System and Regression testing of different releases
• Communicated to developers regarding test scenarios and test cases creation
• Heavily used error-tracking system