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, 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.
• Identified all critical transaction for Performance Testing, discussed with performance team to automate using Loadrunner HP tool, assist to execute performance functionalities, review test results with developer and DBA for further tuning code to benchmark.
• 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