PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance with Manual & Automated Testing of Client/Server, Windows - Based, WEB-Based and Mobile applications.
• Extensive Knowledge of various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile and RUP.
• Worked extensively Functional, GUI, and Regression, Ad-hoc and exploratory testing for desktop and web applications.
• Experience in Black Box testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, User acceptance testing(UAT) and Accessibility testing.
• Excellent working experience in Analyzing Business and functional Requirement documents, Use cases, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Experience in writing Test Plan document covering project overview, test activities, test strategies and approach, test conditions and objectives, resources, test environment needs and requirements.
• Experience in writing test cases having test condition, test description, steps, and expected results.
• Extensive experience in working with defect tracking tools- Jira, Bugzilla, and Quality Center (ALM).
• Extensive experience writing and executing automated test scripts with Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Performed Web Services testing and Validated XML request/response data using SOAPUI.
• Experience intesting cross browser, Cookies, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and HTTP/HTTPS.
• Experience in testing in various browser including Chrome, Fire Fox, Safari, IE and mobile.
• Experience testing reporting metrics with tool s like Google Analytics, Omniture site catalyst.
• Experience working with web data analytics tools like Fiddler, Yslow, Charles Proxy, Http Fox and Fire bug.
• Extensively used UNIX commands to access, create and update the files
• Extensively used SQL to test the Data level verification.
• Coordinating with offshore Team to deliver the deliverables with in client time frame
• Attended “Defect triage meetings” to review the status of the defects and to prioritize them based on the inputs suggested by Business and development teams.
• Worked as a subject matter expert and QA point of contact in the recent projects.
• Extremely reliable, quick learner, efficient and able to work independently as well as a team member

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Automation Tools: Quick Test Pro 8.2/9.x, SOAP UI 3.5.1

Bug tacking Tool: Quality Center 9.2,ALM, Jira, Bugzilla

Config Mgt Tools: PEGA, VSS, MS Visio

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, JavaScript, AJAX.

Tools/Package: TOAD and SQL Developer, MS-Office

Databases: ORACLE9i/10G, SQL Server7.0, SQL Server2000.

GUI: VB 5.0, Developer 2000

Operating System: Sun Solaris, Unix, Linux, AIX, Windows NT/2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented functional test plans and test cases based on system understanding and analysis of functional and system specifications.
• Performed QA Capacity planning, task management, monitoring and status reporting to QA Manager.
• Attended “Business Requirement Elaboration sessions” representing IT-QA to analyze the requirements during analysis phase of the project.
• Once requirements were finalized, performing Ambiguity review on the documents, getting these ambiguities resolved and verifying these changes are incorporated in new set of documents provided by the BA.
• Preparing High level scope sizing, Kick-off, Test Strategy documents and presenting to the entire team.
• Writing Test Plan document covering project overview, test activities, test strategies and approach, test conditions and objectives, resources, test environment needs and requirements.
• Preparing Test Data Request (TDR) and Test Data Sizing Forms depending on the project requirement and data eligibility.
• Writing test cases having test condition, test description, steps, expected results. Uploading these test cases in HP Quality center (ALM).
• Performed Manual/Black-box testing to check the functionality, UI and Back end features.
• Involved in types of testing such as Functional, Regression and Ad-hoc testing of web-based and Client Server application.
• Smoke tested the build to make sure that the basic Pega rules were all implemented correctly.
• Performed internal UATs, Pre-UAT and Production Validation testing.
• Defect reporting in HP QC ALM, verification and closing the issues.
• Attended “Defect triage meetings” to review the status of the defects to prioritize based on the inputs received from Business and development teams.
• Worked as QA point of contact role for Development, Product and business teams.

Environment: HP QC ALM 11.0, SOAPUI 4.0, Excel, EJB, Agile, n-tier, XML, Manual, Jira, CRE, PEGA, Oracle.

Confidential, Federal way, WA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented functional test plans and test cases based on system understanding and analysis of functional and system specifications.
• Created Test Plan document covering project overview, test activities, test strategies and approach, test conditions and objectives, resources, test environment needs and requirements.
• Created test cases having test condition, test description, steps, and expected results.
• Identified test data requirements and generated required test data.
• Performed test preparation and test execution tasks as assigned by QA Manager.
• Worked as a subject matter expert for one or more functional areas of our applications, typically of moderate to high complexity.
• Executed Functional, Regression, integration system and System testing for web-based applications.
• Executed cross browser testing, Cookies testing, GUI testing, java script testing and Http/Https testing.
• Experience testing reporting metrics with tool s like Google Analytics, Omniture site catalyst.
• Worked with web data analytics tools like Fiddler, Http Fox and Fire bug.
• Performed functional tests and regression tests for mobile applications.
• Tested mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.
• Used Bugzilla as Bug tracking tool, Jira as tool for user stories and issue navigation.
• Testopia for test case management and categorizing the test cases.

Environment: Bugzilla 4.0, Jira 4.1, Manual, Mobile, Agile, Silk Test, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, IIS, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential, Concord, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a fast paced agile environment and attended scrum stand up meetings.
• Manually tested the Fraud feature in GCP/Cashpro. Performed Functionality and System testing on CashPro components: Payments & Receivables.
• Responsible for UAT planning and execution for BOFA Credit Card transactions project Integrated with PayPal
• Filtered and modified relevant Test Cases from the existing set of GCP/Cashpro for Functional and Regression testing.
• Analyzing Business and functional Requirement documents, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Developed test plan and test cases based on the high-level and detailed design and worked with business and technology team for the same.
• QA Capacity planning, task management, monitoring and status reporting to QA Manager.
• Creating and maintaining test plan, test cases and test documentation.
• Writing, executing and maintaining test cases for UI, functional and regression testing.
• Created Automated Tests for Smoke, Functionality and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Performed extensive web services Testing using SOAPUI.
• Performed data driven testing and validated response using assertions in SOAPUI.
• Played as a QA point of contact role for Development and Business groups.
• Implementing and managing Quality Center as the Bug Tracking tool.
• Extensively used UNIX commands to access the error log files
• Wrote SQL queries to perform database validation.
• Developed Test Cases from Development TDDs (Test Design Document).

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.2, SOAPUI 3.5.1, Excel, EJB, Agile, n-tier, XML, VB Script, Java Script and Oracle 10g

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with business analysts and business users to better understand requirements and use cases. Executes test cases and scripts.
• Involved in the development of system test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the website.
• Performed cross-browser testing, cookies testing and Java script testing.
• Experience opening defects and using Bug Tracking tools
• Logs, tracks, and verifies resolution of software and specification defects.
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report and Assigned defects.
• Created Defect reports in Excel file by exporting the data from Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Java, Oracle 9i, SQL, Windows XP/Solaris

Confidential, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the System use cases to ensure that they are complete and clear.
• Involved in the review of the test plan, scripts to ensure they match and cover all the requirements in the functional specification document.
• Involved in cross browser platform acceptance testing for IE, Firefox, AOL and Safari.
• Creates test data requests and test scripts.
• Experience with test data set-up and data conditioning for the application.
• Used UNIX commandsto extract the log files from server
• Documented all the test procedures and test scripts and placed on the shared drive
• Created Weekly Summary Reports for QA Team.

Environment: QC 8.2, QTP9.0, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, IIS, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:-

• Involved in analyzing requirements from Business and Preparation of Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test scripts (Positive and Negative Test Scenarios).
• Created Test Data for testing various kinds of test Scenarios.
• Involved Preparation of Traceability Matrix and mapping the Test Cases with the requirements.
• Involved in testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
• Developed SQL Queries for testing various Database validation
• Documents and distributes test status reports. Attend test status meetings.
• Reported bugs with server logs information from Web and DB servers.
• Involved in facilitating defects call between Business, Production team, Developers, QA Team, System Integration Testing Team and User Acceptance Testing team.

Environment: MS-Excel, J2EE 1.4, Manual, HTML, Web sphere, Windows NT, Oracle9i.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented QA process based on RUP methodology.
• Wrote detailed test cases analyzing use case, UI specs and supplemental specs
• Tested the application for defects in GUI, functionality for every construction cycle
• Wrote smoke test sets and regression test sets.
• Prepares, distributes and tracks defect reports using defect tracking tools.
• Assisted the users in UAT at the end of every cycle.
• Used resource management tool MS project to plan the project
• Generated weekly bug reports using Test Director for project meetings

Environment: J2EE, Manual, HTML, RUP, MS-EXCEL, MS- Visio, Oracle, TOAD.