SUMMARY

• Excellent experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing. Strong knowledge of testing strategies and methodologies.
• Proficient in Manual Testing with UNIX/SQL knowledge in client/server and web based applications using Agile

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Business Analysis/Gaps
• Testing Strategy/Test Set Up
• System, UAT, Production Support
• QA Process Management/Support
• Workflow and Efficiency Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Team Interaction/Prioritize QA Task
• Regression and Performance Testing
• Functional, System, and Negative Testing
• Defect Tracking/Analysis
• Customer and End User Support
• SQL, UNIX, Shell programming
• Agile, Waterfall project methodology
• QA Training/QA Test Plan/Test Cases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior QA Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the creation of test plan, test cases, test procedure required for manual testing and to initiate automated testing.
• Performed different kind of testing such as Functional testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Involved in the modification of the existing scripts parameterization of the new as well as existing scripts.
• Manually performed GUI and Functionality testing of the Application front end using testing methodology.
• Attend weekly meeting with team leads, manager, and developers to discuss the issues found during the creation of the test cases/scripts.
• Used ALM as the defect - tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing.
• Tested the application with agile development processes and in an iterative development environment.
• Created DB Queries using SQL, manually tested them and documented them in the test plan for testing the Excel Based Application.
• Used Microsoft Excel sheets to create a Traceability Matrix and the Test Matrix, this gave us an accurate database of the bugs and helped estimate and analyze the development process.
• Developed back end process validation using UNIX Utilities like awk, grep, sed to validate backend process.
• Used ALM to analyze, track and report defects. Worked on uploading all the Test cases to the ALM for the current and prior releases.
• Performed Defect Root Cause Analysis, interacted with related Team, and tracked defects in an ALM.
• Performed impact analysis and executed test scenario with Regression Testing.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Involved in change control at each new changes by discussing impact of current functionality, release notes, preparation for production launch.
• Adhered to established standards and methodologies. Utilized tools and methodologies to improve individual effectiveness and to increase efficiencies in the QA process.
• Directs and serves as a mentor to less experienced staff and trained new hired.
• Developed and sustained appropriate relationship with peers and other project team members.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Senior QA Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed different kind of testing such as Functional testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Involved in the modification of the existing scripts parameterization of the new as well as existing scripts.
• Manually performed GUI and Functionality testing of the Application front end using testing methodology.
• Attend weekly meeting with team leads, manager, and developers to discuss the issues found during the creation of the test cases/scripts.
• Used Quality Center as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing.
• Tested the application with agile development processes and in an iterative development environment.
• Created DB Queries using SQL, manually tested them and documented them in the test plan for testing the Excel Based Application.
• Used Microsoft Excel sheets to create a Traceability Matrix and the Test Matrix, this gave us an accurate database of the bugs and helped estimate and analyze the development process.
• Developed back end process validation using UNIX Utilities like awk, grep, sed. And validate results.
• Used Quality Center to analyze, track and report defects. Worked on uploading all the Test cases to the Quality Center for the current and prior releases.
• Performed Defect Root Cause Analysis, interacted with related Team, and tracked defects in a Quality Center.
• Performed impact analysis and executed test scenario with Regression Testing.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Involved in change control at each new changes by discussing impact of current functionality, release notes, preparation for production launch.
• Adhered to established standards and methodologies. Utilized tools and methodologies to improve individual effectiveness and to increase efficiencies in the QA process.
• Developed and sustained appropriate relationship with peers and other project team members

Confidential, Union, NJ

QA Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in this project from the initial stage of SDLC, and followed Agile Scrum methodology.
• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and use cases to understand the application functionality and determined the testing objectives, timelines and scope
• Generated test plan including test strategies, testing environments, testing schedule, and testing entrance/exit criteria
• Identified the appropriate test data subset for positive and negative test cases as per application specifications and requirements
• Organized various agile meetings like: Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, Retrospective Meeting.
• Developed traceability matrix to ensure that all the specifications are been tested and the application is bug free
• Performed various types of testing like functional testing, integration testing, performance testing, smoke testing, and regression testing
• Actively involved in User Acceptance testing (UAT) - identified the test group, coordinated with end users, managed defects lifecycle, prepared the UAT environment, and conducted status meetings
• Extensively used Quality Center as a repository for all testing deliverables and to manage testing lifecycle - logging test cases, capturing open defects, and generating testing reports & graphs.
• Coordinated efforts with offshore testing team in test planning, test design, test development, test execution, test evaluation, and directed the workflow throughout the testing lifecycle
• Extensively executed SQL queries in back-end testing - validating data mappings, database dependencies, entities relationships, and constraints
• Monitor the successful completion of the quality assurance initiatives at every stage of the Software Development Life Cycle process