SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience as a Senior Quality Assurance Tester in various areas in Web Based and GUI based client/server applications.
• Manual Testing, Automation Testing, System Integrations Testing, End - to-End Testing, Test Data Management & Business Process Testing
• Developed Test plans, defined Test Cases, designed Test Strategies, involved in developing and maintaining automated test scripts, analyzing errors and applications.
• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Expertise in Agile methodology with Scrum Process for the project completion.
• Hands on experience on Salesforce.com testing. Thorough knowledge on the Salesforce.com Administrative functionality like Contacts, Accounts, Leads, Workflows, Reports, Dashboards,Custom objects and Development using Apex and Visualforce.
• Knowledge on Apex Triggers and Visualforce pages.
• Testing expertise includes Formulation of Test Assets, Strategies, Test environment setup and Test data management & setup, Implementing Test Standards
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in analyzing requirement, writing functional test cases, creating test scenarios, executing tests scripts and analyzing test results.
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Experience in design, implementation, maintenance and execution and result analysis for Functional automation test scripts in Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP) and extensive usage of 11Quality Center / HP ALM for test management and defect management.
• Proficient in Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black-box testing and Compatibility testing.
• Extensive experience in Database testing using TOAD and SQL-Developer for Oracle and DB2.
• Excellent experience in backend testing on Oracle and written SQL/PL SQL queries.
• Experience in testing Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Expert in documentation using MS tools (Word, Excel, Project and Access).
• Developed strong communication and interpersonal skills while working in diverse team environments.
• Enthusiastic and aggressive to work as a self-starter with very minimal inputs as well as promising and good team player ability with highly organized effort

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 8.0, Win Runner 8.0, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro

Scripting Tools: Shell Script, Pearl, VB Script, Java Script

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle 10g, DB2

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Clear Quest, Track Record, Test Director

Test Management Tools: TFS 2012, Test Director, Test Manager, JIRA

Pragramming Languages: Java, Sharepoint, C, C++, PL/SQL, HTML,Apex, Visualforce

Methodologies: Agile, Test Cases from Use cases, Test driven development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the Business Requirements, Functional specifications, and PSD documents.
• Development and Implementation of Test Plan.
• Participating in Spec Review Meetings and Design Walk - throughs.
• Performed System & Integration Testing.
• Preparing the Test Cases and Test Data for the modules according to the functionality of the module
• Conducting the review of System level Test Cases written by other team members to verify the functionality of the overall system.
• Conducting System Testing and reviewing the test results executed by other team members and creating the review reports.
• Logging defects in Quality Center that were identified during the course of testing.
• Coordination with development and release teams on priority of bugs and issue resolution
• Organizing the meetings.
• Involved in the estimations for the Change orders and enhancements to the existing project
• Performing Smoke test in QA environment to ensure the stability of the application before we proceed with the actual testing In the QA environment.
• Identifying the Test Cases and performing regression testing as and when required to ensure the stability of the application
• Interacting with the Client directly and get the clarifications for the questions raised while reviewing the requirements, designing the scripts, and executing the project.
• Keep tracking of the new requirements from the project initiation.
• Assisting business users in User Acceptance Testing
• Arranging the Hardware and software requirements for the Test Setup.
• Sending the Status Report (Daily Weekly etc.) to the Client.
• Maintenance of test project in Quality Center.
• Coordinating with the other application s team and get the End to End test executed
• Maintaining the Test Cases and Test Results in the Team Foundation Server and map the test results and defects to the Requirements.
• Consolidating the Weekly status reports and timesheets of the team members

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements with respect to Salesforce.com system.
• Involved in developing detailed test strategy, test plan, test cases and test scripts for manual testing.
• Set up the test environment, defining detailed Test Requirements, converting them into Test Cases and collected Test Metrics for analyzing the Testing Effort.
• Coordinated and worked along with the development and business teams. Controlled testing projects at every step of the quality cycle from test planning through execution of defect management.
• Develop, maintain and conduct smoke test cases for QA environments.
• Worked with development teams to investigate, prioritize and resolve software bugs / defects based on the testing results.
• Did regression, functional, integration, smoke, system, UAT testing on main application
• Developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Agile methodology used for validation process.
• Responsible for analysis, reports and defect tracking.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix, Test Results Documents for manual and automation testing.
• Actively attend meetings with fellow testers and other groups to evaluate the progress and Performance of the application.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creation of project plan, test plans, estimations, development and tracking projects at every phase.
• Communication with senior level management & Client to co-coordinate project release.
• Task allocations, tracking completion & guidance to team.
• Prepare and present statuses (Weekly, monthly, post release etc).
• Involved in data mapping of the project requirements, queried the database using SQL queries for data mining, data analysis and data modeling.
• Formulated SQL queries for unit testing & assisted in technical design specification.
• Performed the User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used SQL queries to extract data from different databases including testing and production for data validation and data analysis.
• Developed and enhanced scripts using Load Runner VuGen and designed scenarios using Load Runner to generate realistic load on application under test.
• Manage project risks and provide appropriate escalation and mitigation plans to keep a high level of project quality and customer satisfaction.
• Complete root cause analysis on the defects at every phase.
• Prepared test Scripts for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Designed and developed automated scripts for functional, regression, integration testing using Quick Test Pro(QTP).
• Review Functional Requirement Specifications and created test cases based on test scenarios drawn from functional requirements using Quality Center.
• Execute Automation scripts for regression testing.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to raise the defects and to manage defect management process.
• Coordination of test plan, test results and reports in central repository - Share point portal.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification document to Prepare Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Developed and reviewed the Test plan.
• Documented and formatted the test data using Excel.
• Created and Executed Automation Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Divided the Test Scenario into Multiple Actions and converted the Actions into Reusable actions.
• Performed Black box, Smoke Testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression and System testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing.
• Reported bugs in Quality Center. Actively participated in preparing the Defect Report and getting resolution for the Defect.
• Agile Methodology used for validation process.
• Performed on UNIX server like copying, removing, viewing the data and transferring the files to the local file system.
• Version control tool was Visual Source safe.
• Validated the back-end data by using SQL and PL/SQL extensively.
• Worked with UNIX Shell Scripts to automate the tasks.
• Validated the ETL Process by using Unix Shell Scripts.
• Connected to database to Query the database using Toad for Data Verification and Validation of the data in the back end.
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL statements.