SUMMARY

• Over Five years of experience Software Development and Quality Assurance in Web - based, SOA/Web Services, Mainframe and Client/Server applications..
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, creating test data, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team members in fixing errors.
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile Scrum in QA Methodologies.
• Excellent understanding of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Test Development Life Cycle (TDLC) and role of QA.
• Experience in testing of both SOAP and REST services using SoapUI Pro for functional, security and performance.
• Proficient in all forms of testing including Functional, Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in using automated tool like Quick Test Pro.
• Experience in working with test management tools like Quality Center (ALM) and Version One.
• Extensively used SQL queries for backend testing, Data Verification, Data Analysis while data is being transferred between the front end and the back end database server.
• Responsible for Generating Defect Reports, tracking the status of each defect (New, Open and rejected) and analyzing the defects using defect tracking Tools like Quality Center, Bugzilla, Version One and Jira.
• Good knowledge on HTML, XML, SOAP and WSDL.
• Good team player and have ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment.
• Highly motivated self-starter, organized and detail-oriented individual with excellent communication and documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Unix/Linux, Windows XP/2003 Server/7, MS-DOS

TESTING TOOLS: Quality Center 9.2, QTP, WinRunnerTest Director, MS Office, XMLSpy, Jira

LANGUAGES: SQL, JAVA, SAP, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, Visual BasicHTML, SOAP, XML, HTML5

NETWORK PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, FTP and Telnet

DATABASES: SQL Server, MS Access, Data WarehouseOracle 9i, 10g, 11.x, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile scrum environment.
• Designed and Developed Test plan based on BRD and User Stories.
• Developed and executed Test Cases in ON-TIME (in-house test management tool).
• Tested all modules - Patient Management, Provider, Admin and Claims.
• Performed smoke tests for the new builds and also for production deployments.
• Performed functional testing for REST services by validating through assertions.
• Performed Data Driven Testing for REST services.
• Performed Security Scans for the services.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared daily/ weekly status reports on Test case execution, defects, RTM etc.
• Involved in planning test execution activities, defect reporting and analyzing test metrics.
• Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc. to validate the data.
• Opened defects in Jira and included all the required information for the developers' convenience.

Environment: JAVA, PHP, Apache Tomcat, Dream Viewer, HTML, SoapUI Pro, SQL, XML, Web Services.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was involved from the very beginning of the conception phase of this project.
• Attended all the Walkthrough Meeting and prepared the Requirements.
• Followed Agile/Scrum Methodologies for all of the project activities
• Designed and Developed Test plan based on BRD.
• Coordinating with the onsite and offshore teams to resolve issues and track progress on daily and weekly basis.
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Sanity testing and Regression for every Iteration.
• Tested the entire UI of the application and also performed Backend testing.
• Developed and Executed Test Cases and tracked defects in Version One.
• Written and executed SQL queries and Joins, Group By clause, having clause etc. to validate the data.
• Validated Transfer reports by executing SQL queries and compared the data using File comparison tool ExamDiff.
• Prepared daily/ weekly status reports on Test case execution, Defects, RTM etc.

Environment: JAVA, SQL Version One, ExamDiff.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Planning and preparing Test Scenarios as per Specification Documents.
• Prepared Test Cases and executed Test Cases, report bugs and track them to closure in Quality center (ALM).
• Tested various promotional offers and combined offers for members to get max Rewards points.
• Verified if reward points are automatically updated on all qualified rentals first.
• Performed System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Production Testing of all business support systems
• Documented Test cases for both Manual and Automated Testing.
• Used Quick Test Pro(QTP)for running the automation scripts for Sanity and Regression, analyzing the results and handling the application changes with minimal support from the automation team
• Prepared Reports by Comparing and analyzing Result logs that are generated in configuration file along with step descriptions.

Environment: ALM (QC), QTP .Net technologies C#, ASP.Net, Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Waterfall Methodology
• Interacted with developers and users to analyze the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Perform manual testing of the application based on the scenarios.
• Identify defects while performing the manual testing and logging the defects in Bugzilla.
• Initiated Terminal Based transaction using Association's Debit Card to perform End to End Testing.
• Prepared Positive and Negative Test Scenarios.
• Verified In Bound and Out Bound Transactions by Simulating Real Time Scenarios Like Voids, Returns and Reversal and System Generated Errors.
• Identified Debit Card Numbers, DBA (Doing Business As) name, Expiry Date, Type of Card: Chip or Mag Stripe.
• Verified transactions in Data Warehouse to check if Stratus has transferred accurate transactional information to Generate Reports.
• Performed extensive Regression Testing before releasing to production on Credit, Gift, and US Debit cards from different merchants.

Environment: Windows, Mainframe, Data warehouse, Test Director, Oracle, Bugzilla

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the stages of SDLC and STLC.
• Worked in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Involved in analysis and study of Functional Specifications of HSW to prepare test cases.
• Wrote test cases for Mobile Apps and tested the JSON feeds that we provided for 23Divide before the development of the actual app.
• Performed the testing of the actual app on Android, IPad and IPhone devices.
• Prepared detailed test procedures and test cases to validate the CMS (Content Management Tool) of HSW.
• Performed load Test using Omniture and WAPT 3.0 tools.
• Performed Cross-Browser Testing (tested the web application on IE 6,7 and 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.0)
• Performed Adhock testing, System Testing, Integration testing, and Regression Testing.
• Provided the defect status reports to the upper management in all the phases of testing.
• Reported various issues using Bugzilla.

Environment: Windows, PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, MYadmin, Java, CMS, Bugzilla, JSBeautifier/JSON view (Test JSON feeds), SnagIt