SUMMARY

• Having 9 years of software testing experience as QA Analyst and Functional Test Engineer
• Testing expertise on various domains like banking, healthcare and telecom
• Ability to understand and analyze functional specifications for business, products and business components (Integration Testing)
• Hands on deriving test plan, test design and regression test suite for the test coverage
• Expertise in various manual testing’s like smoke, Functional, Regression, System, integrated, Exploratory, and Back - end testing of Web Based applications
• Excellent defect/bug tracking capabilities using test management tools like HP ALM, Traceability matrix, QC, Bugzilla and Jira
• Attended defect review meetings and defect clarifications with other stakeholders of the project
• Proficient in addressing stakeholder concerns during User Acceptance Testing
• Expertise in testing methodologies on both waterfall and Agile scrum
• Ability to adopt new tools, domains and testing methodologies
• Acute interpersonal skills, flexible timings inline with project deliverables

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: SELENIUM ALM, Bugzilla, Jira,TFS/MTM,RALLY,SOAP UI

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2008, UNIX, Linux

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, PL/SQL, J2EE, HTML, XML

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

Web Technologies: JSP, HTML, XML, ASP.Net, VB script, and JavaScript

Front-End Tools: Visual Basic, Java JSPs, Servlets & Swing

Software Methodologies: Waterfall model, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr QA Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Plan and Test Plan review meetings to provide assistance to the Test Lead.
• Created and executed test cases using HP ALM
• Performed and actively participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used SQL Queries to perform Back End testing
• Executed the test cases in the execution phase and also involved in the creation of the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Reviewing and re-testing reported defects in the concerned application with latest fix builds provided by developers.
• Analyzed, maintained test results and reported defects to the development team.

Quality Engineer

Confidential, Fridley, MN

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Specifications to derive Test Plans and Test Cases for the Appointment Scheduling application before migration
• Aligning team members with business test components
• Developed test scripts inline with Release Backlogs, user stories and reviewing
• Execute Test Cases for front end using HP ALM
• Writing SQL Queries directly to the database ( BACK END Testing) with MS SQL Server.
• Reported critical defects and quality issues (web page alignment) to the development team
• Reported and tracked defects using Jira.
• Attended scrum meetings with team members, developers, BA, scrum masters and product owners in case of changing userstories for better understanding of user stories.
• Interacting with other teams through teleconferences, meetings, etc. to resolve various issues.
• Performed and actively participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Involved in browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Created complete and meaningful documentation.

QA Tester

Confidential, Red Bank, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirement through BRD and FRD specifications
• Developing test cases as per requirements using Microsoft Excel
• Test case execution for functional, regression and integration testing using JIRA
• Raising defects and interacting with developers for bug fixes
• Attending weekly project meetings for updates
• Consolidating backlog reports to project
• Attended routine meetings with team members and developers in case of changing requirements for better understanding of requirements.
• Using advance knowledge of application to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and resolving highly complex test problem.
• Testing Macs Database and also Mobile applications ( iOS and Android ).

QA Analyst

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Understanding functional requirements from BRD specifications
• Prepared test cases based on functional requirements
• Executed test cases for regression and system integration using VersionOne
• Raised defects and follow up in accordance with bug life cycle
• Used SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing in MS SQL Server
• Involved in status meetings with project stakeholders
• Involved in executing UNIX shell scripts and performed basic administration.
• Involved in browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Self-motivated and independent working.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and applications end-to-end functionalities
• Preparation of Detailed Test Plan and Test cases for functional testing
• Prepared and issued weekly status reports and attended Defect Review meetings.
• Performed and actively participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensured Use-Cases were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirements document.
• Executed test cases and reported defects in Quality Center.(QC)
• Reviewing and re-testing reported defects in the concerned applications with latest fix builds provided by developers.
• Creating test cases and test steps for the reported defects based on the business requirements.
• Executing test cases for functional and regression testing related to the defects fixed.
• Supporting and resolving various data issues reported by different users.
• Troubleshot various issues that came across during the testing Execution.
• Experience with Linux commands to access Linux servers for reading log files, executing shell scripts and running various jobs
• Attended routine meetings with team members and developers in case of changing requirements for better understanding of requirements.