SUMMARY

• Around 5 years of professional experience in Analysis, Design & Execution of Manual testing for Web - based and Client/Server applications.
• In-depth understanding and involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and creating the Traceability Matrix based on business requirements.
• Experience in planning, creating and executing of test strategy, test plans, test scripts and test data on medium to large complex project entities and track issues found during testing efforts & generate reports.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills with ability to co-ordinate activities in a fast paced team environment.
• Expertise in developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, and Test Scripts based on User Requirement Specification (URS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and System Requirement Documents.
• Experience in Image Capture Process Testing like Scanning, Quality Control, Validation, Indexing and Releasing using quality software.
• Experience in working closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Software Developers and End Users to assure quality software products.
• Extensive experience in Front-end Testing and Database (back-end) Testing
• Extensive experience in manual and automate testing of applications in windows and UNIX environment.
• Experience of working Offshore and Onsite model.
• Experience working in an iterative development environment such as Agile/XP and waterfall environment as well.
• Strong experience in black box testing, GUI testing and User acceptance testing.
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication skills.
• The ability to work in a team as well as independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Technologies: Quality Center 8.2/9.0/10.0 , JIRA, Test Director 7.0/8.0, QTP 8.2/11.0, SOAP-UI

Documentation: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook 2000, MS PowerPoint.

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

Quality Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed Smoke testing in the UAT environment to ensure successful migration prior to notifying the customer to start performing UAT testing.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using JIRA.
• Used Agile Methodology for Customer satisfaction by rapid project delivery of useful software.
• Created traceability matrix to monitor system impact and requirement testability ensuring appropriate risk-based testing coverage.
• Tracks the status of all test cases in the share point and notates whether the test case has passed or failed.
• Work closely with development team to isolate and reproduce defects.
• Responsible for performance testing by asking several users to login at a particular time and notice the performance of an application.
• Responsible to create and maintain Issue logs and Reports for the management purposes.
• Did functional testing, performance testing, system testing, database testing/back-end testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) and regression testing.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and used SQL Queries to extract the data from database.
• Installed and configured vendor applications on Windows environment.

Software Used: JIRA for Agile, Zephyr, SQL Server 2012, and SharePoint.

Confidential, MN

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the business unit and developed detailed Test Plan, and create and execute Test Cases for manual testing in Waterfall Environment.
• Created and executed Test cases and Test procedures for different scenarios based on the business requirements in Quality Center (HP ALM 11).
• Reviewed test results through advanced ability to accurately assess output results against expected results
• Manually perform Functional testing that included Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Integration and Usability Testing to ensure the application conformance to the requirement specifications.
• Perform Compatibility Testing to ensure the application works as expected on different browser environments and various operating systems.
• Participated in Business Requirement Document (BRD) review meetings, once finalized converting them into Test scenarios and creating Test Cases.
• Ensure the Test Metrics are showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Coordinate daily / weekly meetings with the Business/Development teams to analyze the overall status of the testing while offering suggestions for improvement.
• Ensure that requirements are numbered and referenced in the test case suite through well-designed Traceability Matrix.
• Document test execution results, prepare test reports, log the defects, track the status of the defect and evaluate test metrics for reporting purpose.
• Interact extensively with the business analysts, developers and data architects to understand the application workflow, functionality and its interaction with the database.
• Actively coordinate the Defect Review Meetings and analyze the status of discrepancies.
• Improve the documentation of QA testing practices to enhance their repeatability, saving time and money and encouraging testing standardization and best practices.
• Communicate with the development team to resolve issues that are found in any of the testing and production environments.

Software Used: HP Quality Center, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint, Beyond Compare

Confidential, MN

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile methodology in the Test team.
• Piloted and mentored the team in implementing the Quality Center.
• Developed test plan, test conditions, test scripts as per the specs.
• Worked on both Windows and Web based applications.
• Used SQL queries for the cross checking the data matrix.
• Developed Traceability Matrix with boundary conditions and complex formulas for all the projects that I worked above.
• Streamlined core test cases based on 80/20 principle.
• Developed and Implemented Checklists for QA Release.
• Implemented QTP in automating the existing test cases by creating regression suites.
• Interacted with Business Analysts for Business Requirements.
• Participated in walk-through, inspection and user group meetings.
• Involved in every part of testing life cycle.
• Created positive and negative test cases for system testing.
• Used Quality Centre for reporting defects.
• Worked closely with developers during feature testing, unit testing, bug fixing and re-testing.

Software Used: Quality Center, SQL Server 2008, JIRA, QTP 11.0. SharePoint.