SUMMARY

• Over 3 Years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Windows based and Web based applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life (STLC) and the Role of QA.
• Extensively experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts, andTest Cases.
• Involved in Manual testing & Tracking defects using Quality Center and Rally.
• Good working knowledge on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Involved in Writing, updating and maintaining the Test documents for various stages of Testing for reference and auditing purpose.
• Strong experience in all levels of Testing such as Positive testing, Negative testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box testing, Cross Browsers testing.
• Expertise in problem solving andbug tracking reportsusingbug tracking tools.
• Excellent organization, analytical and problem solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Experience in maintaining Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix & performing GAP analysis to verify that test cases meets the end client requirements.
• Proficient in cross browser testing (IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari).
• Expertise in all stages of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC).
• Comprehensive knowledge of the SDLC within Web, Client/Server & Mainframe environment.
• Highly proficient with MS Office suite (Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and outlook).
• Strong knowledge of guidelines of agile flavor of scrum methodology in software development phases.
• Strong working knowledge on databases such as Oracle and MS SQL server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing and Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center/HP ALM, Rally, JIRA, Team Track, Bugzilla, JMeter, Selenium Web Driver, Browserstack, Saucelabs, Testingbot

Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), TFS (Team foundation server), MTM (Microsoft test management)

Languages: HTML, SQL, Java, Visual Basic 6.0, Php

Database: SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle

Operating System: Windows, MAC, UNIX, Android and IOS

Cross Browser Testing: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari

Methodologies: Agile, and Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the business process and wrote test cases and mocked test data for both positive and negative test scenarios.
• Uploaded and managed test requirements and test cases in Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, System, System Integration, GUI, Ad hoc and UAT testing.
• Executed Regression test cases, documented test results and reported and tracked defects.
• Stored Pass/Fail results in project folder and/or in Quality Center and retested and closed fixed defects.
• Performed Smoke testing after the build deployment on a weekly basis after the defect fixes.
• Auditing business and functionality necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.
• Retesting defects and making necessary updates in Quality Center.
• Attend meetings with business analysts and developers to discuss defects.
• Involved in Scrum type of agile methodology testing.
• Performing Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, and End to End Testing.
• Send daily project updates to senior management.
• Performing Interface testing - Validating data content and format on XML files that sent and received from third party vendors.
• Meeting with Management, Developers, and Business Analysts to design functional specifications before each Release.
• Using Quality Center to customize users and user groups.
• Using Quality Center to create and maintain new Domains and Projects.
• Creating Regression test sets for various test projects and updating the test set after each test cycle.
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries.
• Mentored and built skills in more junior members/new hires of the QA team.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing manually.
• Performed Sanity Testing & Smoke Testing manually.
• Participated in the project meetings.
• Mobile Testing of multiple web properties.
• Mobile compatibility testing on numerous IOS, Android and Windows devices.
• Executed and analyzed automated scripts.

Confidential

QA Intern

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements and developing of test cases.
• Involved in testing Android mobile applications on application on mobile testing platform.
• Performed compatibility testing with various mobile handsets to ensure that the functionality is working as expected.
• Developed Step definitions for the scenarios defined in the features file and used JUNIT annotations.
• Tested Web app, Native app for automating the mobile and ran the scripts for multiple devices using Selenium, and also perform manual testing according to the requirements.
• Integrated the mobile application using Appium.
• Execution of test cases and generating test reports.
• Logged defects which aroused during testing in JIRA defect tracking tool.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Reporting on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.
• Communicate testing status to QA lead, project managers, and teams who are involved in User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with the development team to validate the scope of fixing the bugs.
• Reviewed and updated Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) that satisfy all required project's test conditions.

Confidential

Manual Tester Intern

Responsibilities:

• Produced and managed QA deliverables through formal Project Plans.
• Presented Project Plans to the project team for review and approval.
• Testing of different workflows in salesforce.
• Authored test plans, create high level test cases and performed risk based analysis to identify high priority test areas.
• Utilized technical design, business requirements and data specifications to assist with these activities.
• Reviewed the detailed test cases and approved them to be put into Quality Center.
• Managed the Traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Involved in cross browser testing.
• Created SQL scripts to test the database migrations, data storage and retrieval on a DB2 database.
• Experience reading the Source to target mapping documents in created highly complex SQL queries for validating of data migrations.
• Involved with troubleshooting activities along with development team.
• Participating in regular project status meetings to deliver periodic updates on testing related activities.
• Generated Test Metrics using quality center reports and graphs.
• Conducted test plan and test case review meetings with the team.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases for Manual Testing.
• Executed tests and participated actively in system test cycles.
• Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center and coordinated meetings with developers and business analysts to prioritize the bugs.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and verifying performance, reliability and fault tolerance issues.
• Conducted GAP Analysis to understand the shortcomings of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system.
• Timely meetings with business partners and stakeholders to make them aware of the progress.
• Conduct business and systems analysis with the internal customers to determine their specific needs and formulate solutions to meet those needs.
• Develop MS SQL based solutions for data analysis and reporting.