SUMMARY

• Over Seven& half years of experience in Quality Assurance, Testing, Analysis and Documentation.
• Experience in Functionality, Interface, Integration, Database, Automated and Regression testing.
• Complete understanding of QA Methodology and QA Strategy including Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and different methodologies such as Agile - Scrum, V-model & Waterfall model.
• Full life cycle experience in Quality Assurance, including Black Box, system, integration, database, GUI, Functional, Regression, Unit testing, User Acceptance, Smoke testing and Sanity testing of both client-server and web-based applications.
• Involved in developing and maintaining Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix, and performing Gap Analysis
• Effectively involved in bug tracking, reporting reviewing and analyzing test result using Quality Center, HP ALM.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, excellent communication, presentation skills and a good team player.
• Expertise in translating business requirements to test plan and test cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, XML

Testing Tools: HP ALM 11.0, Quality Center 9.2, QuickTest Pro 9.2, BPT (Buisness Process Test), SOAP UI, Oracle SQL Developer, Hexawise

Test Strategies: Integration, Interface, System, Regression, User-Acceptance, Database and Black Box testing.

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

Browsers: Netscape, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

Applications: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint,SharePoint 3.0., Soap UI Pro 3.6.1, Version One.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. QA Analyst / Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement document, use cases and screen mock ups.
• Understand the business requirement and technical specification documents by KT Session.
• Tracked all the requirements using ALM 11.0.
• Created Test plan & get it approved from stakeholders of the project.
• Managing a team of 6 resources such as assigning tasks to them, clearing doubts regarding functionality, process, etc.
• Created and executed test cases, logging the defects, updated testing results and status.
• Worked closely with BA, application developers, test management team in order to ensure all the defects / risks are getting highlighted for the successful delivery of the project.
• Updated bug status in Quality Center through regular communications with Development team.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and defect review meetings periodically.
• Performed User acceptance testing, functional testing, integration testing and system testing.
• Extensively participate in weekly status meeting with Project manager to discuss the current and future issues for testing plan as well as testing procedures.
• Responsible for collecting the test data in the pre-testing phase for positive and negative scenarios.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, MS EXCEL, Agile methodology, VB Script, Web applications

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. QA Analyst / Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Design Document, Source-to-Target data mapping documents, Database schemas and Report designs.
• Created test plans, test cases, test data and test results summary.
• Executed functional test cases, updated test results and status. Reported defects and verified bug fixes.
• Supervised a team of 4offshore resources and 2 Onshore Contractors during 15 Testing Iterations.
• Created and executed SQL queries and compared resultsto validate process and data transformation between SQL Server source and DB2 target.
• Raised flags on Risks and provided the mitigation plan on multiple occasions in a dynamic Agile environment
• Lead the team for Creation of BPT components in QC and BPT Test cases for the entire project across 14 Iterations.
• Orchestrated JMS and SOAP testing across Geographies and timelines. Worked with the offshore & onshore Automation & Manual team.
• Develop the project's Defect Management Process& worked as defect coordinator for discrepancies found during Test execution
• Worked closely with BA, application developers, test management team in order to ensure all the defects / risks are getting highlighted for the successful delivery of the project.
• Timely reporting of Test Design status (actuals vs planned) to Project Manager and stakeholders
• Attended Scrum meeting and status call.
• Created daily QA status reports in Quality Center and distributed to various parties. .

Environment: ALM 11.0, Quality Center 10.0, SOAP UI, Oracle SQL Developer, DB2, Version One.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tracked all the requirements using QualityCenter. Created and Executed test scenarios and test cases, updated test results and status. Reported defects and verified bug fixes using Quality Center.
• Created and executed test scripts and SQL statements to check UI data against the database.
• Attend meetings with developers and managers for risk assessment of product & ensure that specific elements of the product are thoroughly tested per the Test Plan documentation.
• Handling the lead activities for project e.g. Status reporting, conducting client calls, Issue reporting and follow ups. Interacting with the offshore team members for applicationsdiscussions and team meetings.
• Communicating with the client and management effectively and timely escalation of the key issues.
• Conducted and participated in UAT sessions with end-users.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and defect review meetings periodically.
• Performed User acceptance testing, functional testing, integration testing and system testing.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Oracle SQL developer, XML, SoapUI Pro 3.6.1

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tracked all the requirements using Version One, Quality Center.
• Created and Executed test cases, updated test results and status. Reported defects and verified bug fixes using Quality Center.
• GUI & Web based application testing of the system.
• Wrote and updated test cases as per design changes throughout the project.
• Attended Scrum call & daily status meeting with Product owner & Dev team.
• Conducted and participated in UAT sessions with end-users.
• Conducted automated regression testing of core functionalities in every build.
• Participated in Project, Test Team and Defect Review meetings.
• Created and executed SQL statements for back-end database testing
• Created daily QA status reports in Quality Center and distributed to various parties.
• Provided QA support to offshore teams for side projects.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QuickTest Pro 9.2, Version One,SCRUM