SUMMARY

• Experienced Quality Analyst with 6+ years in Web & Windows based applications testing
• Experience in Preparing Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases and Test Data for Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Compatibility testing, Sanity Testing, Regression & Defect Management
• Hands on experience testing WEB applications in various browsers and multiple versions such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari.
• Designing of test case using black box testing techniques like boundary value analysis, equivalent class partition, Decision based testing.
• Peer test case reviews Assigns, manages, and ensures quality assurance assistance throughout the project lifecycle
• Expertise in preparing/maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Experience of Waterfall, V - model and Agile software development process and Knowledge of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Well versed with testing (STLC) process, Root Cause Analysis, metrics collection and reporting
• Experience in using HP ALM for Test Management.
• Good understanding and experience in Analyzing Bugs and Interacting with Developers and team members in fixing the errors with prime focus on Analysis of Business Requirements
• Experience in executing SQL queries in Oracle
• Experience in assessing the business flow processes and identifying the redundant processes.
• Having Good Experience on Trouble Shooting, Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
• Ability to work independently or as team member
• Able to work in multiple project simultaneously
• Quick learner with excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows (98, 2000 x), XP, Windows 7

Databases: SQL Server 2000, Oracle

Programming Languages: C, PL/SQL

Software Packages: MS Office

Defect Tracking: HP ALM v12 & Bug Zilla

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, V Model

Version control system: SVN Tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

Sr. QA Analyst and Onsite offshore coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the software testing life cycle.
• Analyzed business specifications, developed and executed test cases as per the requirements.
• Involved in developing test plan.
• Involved in developing the Traceability Matrix for this project.
• Updated all test documents as and when the requirements and/or the expected results changed
• Performed smoke, functionality, integration, end-to-end, system, regression and documented the test results.
• Developed SQL statements to query the database for consistency of data, data quality, data storage and data retrieval.
• Analyzed the results & reported bugs using HP ALM.
• Managed the testing process, bug reporting, test results, track the progress of the testing, and provide daily status to test lead / project manager.
• Performed data driven tests to handle the scenarios requiring multiple sets of data.
• Executed reliability testing to verify data validity and systems stability.
• Cross browser testing on Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Involved in gathering test Data for User Acceptance Testing and supported the same.

Confidential, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Validated the Statements created by Batch Processes.
• Reviewed and Analyzed System Requirement Specification Document (SRS) and Business Requirement Specification Document (BRS) .
• Prepared Test Plan based on the business requirement.
• Prepared Test Cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that is affecting the project deliverable.
• Seeded test cases into Test Plan module of HP ALM.
• Executed the Test Cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria and logging defect in ALM.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Acceptance, and involved in Performance testing.
• Maintained and Updated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Environment through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Involved in Configuring Test environments for all phases of testing.
• Prepared test results.
• Investigating software defects and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Prepared theTest Data for appropriateexecution of test cases.
• Involved in design walk troughs.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform Backend Testing of the Application for the verification of results retrieved with the expectations.
• Submitted Test Status Reports about Test Coverage and Defect Summary to Project Management Team on weekly basis.
• Analyzed change requests attended change request meetings to document changes, track changes, prioritize changes, and manage changes and implemented procedures to test impact of changes.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the development and requirements team to gather business requirements and test data.
• Analyzed business requirement documents and developed test plans, which includes the objectives, testing strategies, test environment, test scenarios, test conditions.
• Developed test cases based on the technical requirements and detailed design documents.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Created and executed Manual test cases
• Performed manual testing on different modules of the application.
• Worked closely with the developers to resolve the design and development errors and to get the software released for system testing.
• Worked with the test data requirements during pre-execution and execution phases.
• Tested the application in different web browsers and on multiple platforms
• Involved in daily and weekly walkthrough of triage meetings, to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole (including the defect triage calls).
• Involved in tracking, reviewing, analyzing and comparing defects using Quality center
• Performed different types of testing like functional, smoke, regression testing & System Integration testing
• Performed the Backend testing of the application to develop and execute various SQL queries, to perform validity of the data.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement documents with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application
• Constantly communicated with the Business personnel, developers, client and business partners through email, phone, meetings and conferences to keep track of the requirement changes
• Study and understand the Functional and Business requirement documents
• Involved in walk through of Use case documents
• Identifying the defects at the early stage of the cycle as part of static testing
• Identify & Design the test scenarios and test cases.
• Follow the traceability Matrix to ensure 100 % test coverage
• Review the test cases for completeness and correctness.
• Smoke testing the build once the build reached QA environment.
• Execute the test cases and validate the test results.
• Document, manage, close and report errors/defects encountered during validation testing
• Participated daily statuses meeting with group lead and test team manager.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering information from Business users and management
• Involved in pre-testing that included review of the requirement documents, studying the functional requirement document for developing test plans and test cases
• Reviewed the Test cases and created test scripts for functional and regression testing
• Analyzed web applications, documented detail test plans, test cases and expected results based on the business functional requirements
• Conducted walkthroughs with the team reviewing the test plans and test cases for team input and base lining the test plan
• Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones for the task identified
• Adhering to all the General Principle of Validation processes for reporting, tracking and documentations is my responsibility
• Design and develop Project, validation Plans for patch releases
• Create and execute necessary validation scripts
• Produce test conditions and scripts from mid-level use-cases
• Managed all types of change requests, including defects, enhancements, issues, and documentation changes using HPQC

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Requirements and Design Documents to get a better understanding of the system from a technical and business perspective
• Wrote Test cases using Requirements and Design documents
• Executed functional Test Cases and evaluated the results
• Prepared Bug reports and document application related errors and Communicated bug reports periodically with developers
• Tested the application for both positive and negative scenarios
• Reviewed the Test cases and created test scripts for functional and regression testing
• Identified defects, Reported defects, analyzed defects and closely follow them until the status was closed.
• Wrote test case and test plan for manual testing
• Manually performed functionality testing of the application to make sure the application behaves as per the business process