SUMMARY

• Over 5+ years of experience as QA Analyst in Web based applications. Hands on experience on Manual Testing, Automation testing and testing tools like Quality Center, Selenium IDE.
• Worked on multiple project production roll outs.
• Good knowledge of understanding requirements and converting them into Test Cases.
• Hands on Experience in Selenium IDE Automation and Sauce Labs.
• Involved in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle process.
• Created and Executed Functional and Regression Test Cases.
• Experience on Defect Management and Defect Logging.
• Proficient in writing basic SQL Queries to perform Database Testing.
• Ability to write Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts from requirements and Use Cases.
• Worked on various Software Development Life Cycle models - Waterfall model, Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Experienced in GUI Testing, Functional, Integration and System Testing.
• Experienced in Compatibility Testing, UAT Testing, Release Testing and Regression Testing.
• Experienced in preparing Test Plan, Traceability Matrix and Release Checklist.
• Experience in Bug Reporting tools like HPALM, HP Quality Center (QC) & Mercury Test Director.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills and broad understanding of business operations and requirements.
• Good organizational skills, outgoing personality, self-motivated, and hardworking.
• Ability to work in a team environment and desire to learn new tools and technologies.
• Always willing to work in challenging and cross platform environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g, MS-SQL, MySQL

Utilities: TOAD

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Test Management Tools: Mercury Test Director (7.6), HP Quality Centre (HP QC), HP Application Lifecycle Management (HPALM), Rally

Test Script Languages: HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta GA

QA - Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Scrum meetings like Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective and Daily stand up meeting.
• Created test cases for user stories.
• Performed Manual testing once the story is ready from Developers.
• Involved in user stories discussion with Product owners and other team members and also demo the stories to the team after testing completed.
• Executed User Stories of the projects available in Rally implementing agile methodology.
• Participated in Scrum meetings and analyzed backlogs in Rally.
• Maintained Rally for Task allocation and tracking the tasks to closure.
• Assisted quality assurance implementation in all the phases of SDLC.
• Used Selenium to develop automation test scripts for system’s core functionality and GUIs of the application.
• Involved in web-based GUI testing of Java/J2EE applications.
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation.
• Converted test cases as Selenium IDE scripts and export as Junit test cases.
• Monitored daily test suite runs in Sauce Labs.
• Performed Regression testing as needed.
• Co-ordinated with Smoke Test team for any new functionality.
• Supported testing in various environments up to Production.

Environment: Selenium IDE, HP ALM 11, Rally, Sauce Labs, Jenkins, Oracle 11g, TOAD, Linux, Windows.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Analyst to understand the requirement from testing perspective.
• Analyze the Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD) to prepare Test Cases based on Test Plans.
• Prepared Test cases. Reviewed them with developers and executing the test cases manually.
• Involved in Test Plan creation.
• Worked with external teams to set up test data.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Tested the UI (Look and Feel) and functionality as per requirement.
• Performed Regression, Ad-hoc and Integration testing.
• Documented Test results, Test Procedures and Reports.
• Supported testing in various environments.
• Followed and implemented testing strategies and approaches to be employed.
• Prepared and submitted QA reports to the Project manager.
• Involved in analyzing and documentation of test results.
• Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the bug life cycle using Quality Center.

Environment: Mercury Quality Centre 9.0, Oracle 10g, TOAD, Linux, Windows.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on documenting various reward options and it’s rules.
• Created and executed test cases manually for user’s ability to set up various reward options on the application.
• Involved Test case review meetings and updated the test cases based on the feedback from the review meetings.
• Verified the rules are created in the Database as expected by using client Toad.
• Documented the SQL Queries to be used for Regression testing.
• Identified and prioritized test cases, analyze defects, evaluate test coverage and generate status reports.
• Supported various testing environments.
• Co-ordinated with off-shore QA Team and Development Team.
• Involved in Peer Reviews of Test Cases.
• Managed defects and worked closely with developers to resolve it.
• Prepared the Test Summary at the end of the project and make the “Go - No Go” decision closely working with business and technical team.
• Creating the KT (Knowledge Transition) documents for the newly joined team members.
• Closely worked with Software design & development team in US and India.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, Oracle, Toad, Linux, Windows.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement discussions with product owners and developers.
• Created Test documentation, modified existing documentation, following phases of software life cycle.
• Developed software test plans, test specifications and system configuration documents based on design.
• Created and executed test cases for the requirements as per Solutions need Document.
• Involved in Test plan and Test Strategy creation.
• Used JIRA as the Defect Tracking tool and updated the defect logs.
• Created testing environment and test data.
• Handled the defects logged in various phases until it resolves.
• Co-ordinated with Business Team to priorities the defects entered.
• Performed SQL query operation to validate functionalities as required.
• Created defect report as per company required format.
• Performed Regression and Integration testing.
• Verified, fixed and reported issues in JIRA after DEV2QA phase.
• Categorized software bugs based on severity level and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
• Documented all test results in bug tracking system, identifying and summarizing discrepancies
• Co-ordinated with Test Automation team to set up Automated Load and Multi user testing for the module worked.

Environment: SQL, JIRA, MS Excel, Windows.