SUMMARY:

• Expert QA Analyst / Testing Professional with a Test to Break attitude;
• Over 5 years of experience in Full Life Cycle of SDLC projects - in all phases such as Requirements and Analysis, Design, Development and Testing with - Scrum, Rup, Waterfall, Iterative & Agile Methodology
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Tested on diversified platforms on various Client/Server, ERP, GUI and Web based Applications using HP Quality Center and IBM Rational tools to test and support complex software systems.
• Specialist in developing - Test Strategy, Test Plan, Defect Tracking Report with Graphs.
• Maintained strict adherence to prescribed guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Expert in Integration, Smoke, Regression, Black Box, & Functional testing.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• WAN/LAN, OSI Model, SIP, FTP, TCP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, L2 Routing Protocols (802.11, ATM, Ethernet, Frame Relay, GPRS, PPP), L3 Routing Protocols (IP, IGMP, ICMP, OSPF, BGP, RIP, ARP, RARP), Multicast, Unicast, Firewall.
• Window XP/7, .NET, Mainframes, SharePoint and Java.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tool: HP Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Test Director, Test Manager, QTP, Drupal (CMS)

Defect Reporting Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Team Concert (RTC), HP Quality Center/Test Director, JIRA, Unfuddle

OS & Environment: Windows XP & Windows 7

Notable s: SQL, Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, IBM Rational Suite

Other tools: Microsoft Share Point, SnagIT, SoapUI 2.0.2, Visio, MS office Suite, and MS Project

Application Server: Web Logic, WebSphere, Apache Webserver, JBOSS, Java, JDBC

Web Technologies: ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, http and https protocols

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in all phases of the testing lifecycle; Test Planning, Test Preparation, and Test Execution.
• Reviewed project documentation including Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.
• Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings with Business Analysts, and System Analysts.
• Partnered with the Test Lead to assist in defining and documenting the Test Plan Strategy for project.
• Utilized JIRA and ALM 11.0 for capturing requirements, test case development, execution, and defecttracking.
• Participated in Functional, Integration, End to End, Regression, and User Acceptance Test Phases.
• Identified data requirements for test execution.
• Executed Test Cases during all phases of testing to validate the requirements and application functionality.
• Reported defects found during testing to the development team.
• Prepared testing and defect summary reports during testing.
• Assisted with UAT testing; reported defects to development and performed regression testing when required.
• Escalated issues to the Project Manager when necessary.
• Attended development status meetings, daily team meetings, and defect review meetings.
• Responsible for reporting weekly status to the whole team
• Used static JSON data for testing on our local/test environments for mimicking server responses in the client’s QA environment

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QA Analyst on Web and Mobile applications using UNFUDDLE
• Four business segments: Publishing, Internet, Broadcasting media platforms and Merchandising product lines.
• Used CMS (Drupal) to maintain MarthaStewart.com, MarthaStewartweddings.com, and Wholeliving.com
• 2 week sprints to meet the requirements of the client
• Participate in planning sprints, estimate testing work, and monitor progress against deadlines
• Agile and Scrum methodologies to ensure quality development and testing of software
• Part of American Made and Foundation Tracks
• Daily Stand ups to discuss the progress and roadblocks of the workflow of my sprint
• Used Unfuddle and Trello Cards to track the progress of the bugs
• Performing Cross-Browser testing on various applications
• Worked with Business Partners to ensure defects are addressed in a timely fashion
• Created test plans and test strategy to follow the Agile Process.
• Monitored and performed applications and systems implementation in staging environment.
• Performed end to end functional testing to validate applications and systems requirements.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage by working closely with the product team and development team to prioritize testing execution report on test execution progress, and results
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration and DB Imports
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage by finding bugs, defects and verifying fixes
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
• Exposed to Selenium to create, execute, and maintain automation test suites
• Monitoring and performing applications and systems implementation in the QA, Staging, Dev, Acceptance, Production, and Live Environments

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as a QA Analyst on Web and Mobile applications using JIRA
• Performing Functional, and Smoke testing on various Web Applications such as Korlym, Cimzia, Oracea, Sientra, Rosacea, etc
• Performing Cross-Browser testing on various applications
• Effectively Testing Heartbeat’s various Mobile Applications to verify functionality
• Participating in Daily meetings to ensure defects are addressed in a timely fashion
• Performing end to end functional testing to validate applications and systems requirements.
• Monitoring and performing applications and systems implementation in the QA, Staging, Dev, Acceptance, Production, and Live Environments
• Coordinating with the Test Team to review whether the Test Plan and Test Scenario are meeting the system requirements.
• Verifying the display of images and videos on Sientra.com and Rosacea.com for all the applications
• Verifying whether an email is received for all the consumers who sign up for Oracea’s Best Face Forward Program
• Preparing Defect Reports using JIRA

Confidential, New Jersey

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide value added experience to RCI members through a partnership with a third party vendor Augeo
• Verify RCI members are present with multiple shopping options managed and hosed by Augeo
• Validate links were added on the Extras tab for merchandizing websites
• Verified a new block is added for Member Perks on the Extras Page on RCI.com
• Verified the disclaimer is added at the bottom of the Member Perks block
• Functional testing on the functionality of the Block
• Quality Center was used to document all test case creation, test execution and defect management activities
• Participated in deep dive meetings everyday to discuss the defects and how they can be fixed
• Worked as a QA Analyst on DBL mainframe using Quality Center
• Verify the Guide is allowed to extend regular club points as a standalone transaction in DBL
• Created Test Plans and Test Scripts using Use Cases
• Manually tested the system extend the regular club points out of their current use year and into the next use year using correct club point types
• Performed end to end functional testing to validate applications and systems requirements.
• Participated in Daily Deep Dive meetings ensure defects are addressed in a timely fashion
• Verify the display of images and videos in resort information pages of all the applications in scope
• Validate RCI TV functionality in terms of checking the videos, metadata, tagging of the videos to the respective regions in Media Bin etc for both Visitors & Members
• Validate the display of translations of main and subtabs for the al videos depending upon the member’s preferred language
• Check the turn on-off ability of RCI TV for various locales that will not be supported
• Validate Subtitles against Media Bin for non-English languages on RCI TV
• Test the Subtitles functionality randomly across few locale/language combinations
• Regression test RCI TV functionality on a sample of videos across different regions
• Responsible for identifying the data needed to support the testing effort and ensuring that it is created in sufficient time prior to execution
• Quality Center was used to document all test case creation, test execution and defect management activities
• Remove Google Maps from destination Recommendation Engine on RCI.com
• Test whether the Google Maps on Recommendation engine is replaced by a static map
• Regression test of the removal of Google Maps from RCI.com (Weeks and Points), Clubs, and White Labeled Sites.
• Quality Center was used to document all test case creation, test execution and defect management activities

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QA analyst on sabre sonic web application - using Quality Center.
• Manually tested scripts to make sure all forms of payments are working accurately.
• Used Quality Center for reporting defects, defect status and closure information
• Worked with Business Partners to ensure defects are addressed in a timely fashion
• Created test plans and test strategy to follow the Agile Process.
• Monitored and performed applications and systems implementation in staging environment.
• Performed end to end functional testing to validate applications and systems requirements.
• Closely worked with development team for timely resolution of the issues.
• Developed processed & procedures to ensure quality releases for production.
• Setup standards, entry / exit criteria for software releases and present weekly QA reports.
• Coordinated script Peer Reviews to ensure all requirements are captured.
• Used Interact, which is used by reservation agents and airport agents for reservations, to make sure the consumer is checked in and has retrieved their boarding pass.
• Performed Functional, Smoke, and Regression testing
• Attend change control meetings & perform investigation and analysis on end user impact.
• Executed SQL Queries to verify the information entered in the Front End matched the Back End
• This project involved implementation for reservations using Sabre Sonic Interact.
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing to ensure accuracy of the system
• Responsible for testing Web and Kiosk Check-In.
• Created test plan documentation for the testing efforts.
• Executed test cases in Quality Center.
• Used Kiosk to make sure the customer has checked in, select or change seats, and retrieve boarding pass