SUMMARY

• Quality Assurance Tester with 9 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Analysis, Design and Development.
• Clear understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies with expertise in Functional, Performance, Unit, Integration and Regression Testing for complex software projects.
• Experienced in analyzing and creating Test Plans and Test Cases in Quality Center and Test Manager for various scenarios of end to end functionality testing.
• Possess strong analytical, verbal and inter - personal skills that help in communicating with Developers, team members, writing reports and test documentation also has the ability to work in a fast paced and aggressive schedule.
• Expert in Software development life cycle (Agile and Waterfall), having thorough understanding of various phases including Requirements, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications
• Thorough understanding of different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including Agile Methodology and Waterfall.
• Extensive experience in Entertainment, Banking and Retail domain.
• Experienced in functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, System testing, black box testing, GUI testing, Sanity testing, usability testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across varied domains and operating systems.
• Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated Testing using Test Manager.
• Experience in database testing using Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience on TFS (Team Foundation Server) to manage control on your team’s project, to use templates for scrum, Agile, created reports.
• Extensively worked on HP Quality Center to Write Test Cases, Execute Test Cases, Log Defects, Track Defects and Prioritize Defects.
• Excellent skills in automated test tools HP QTP, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Soap UI.
• Knowledge of Selenium IDE and its components on Windows platform.
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability matrix.
• Used an Agile model of development life cycle (SCRUM). Gained Knowledge on technical and Automation script development skills (Selenium) and used frameworks, design approaches, and various effective implementation techniques.
• Solid team player with very good interpersonal skills, organizational skills, and decision making skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve project goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0, HP ALM 11.5, SOAPUI QTP, Selenium

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000 XP/Professional, MS-DOS and UNIX

Requirement Tracking: Mercury’s Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Suite, MS Excel, MS Project

Defect tracking: Quality Center, Test Director, MS Excel

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005,Access, Oracle 8.0

Modeling Tools: Rational Pro, MS Visio

Languages/ Scripts: C, C++, JAVA, SQL, PLSQL, Unix, VB Script, JavaScript, Quick Test Professional, Visual Basic, Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 , Html, XML, J2EE, Mainframe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile Scrum development methodology for the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).
• Involved in analyzing the Functional specification documents (FSD) and the Use Cases to prepare Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Created the RTM to ensure Traceability.
• Timely updated the test cases with the modified/newly added requirements from Change Control Board (CCB)
• Involved in GUI testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing, navigation testing and regression testing using web and client-server applications.
• Created test plan, test case designs, test execution using Quality Center 10.0.
• Preparation of Test Cases as per the functionality requirements in the Quality Center and mapping the requirements to the test coverage.
• Used QTP to conduct Data Driven Framework by pulling data from a table.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Used Table Checkpoints to check values of object properties, Image checkpoint for property values of an image and information in a table respectively using Quick Test Professional.
• Used the VB script programming language for writing Test scripts in Quick Test Professional.
• Parameterized test data on scripts by using QTP.
• Performed all test assignments to ensure the application meets business requirements and client expectations.
• Interacted with developers & various members of project team to discuss and resolve defects and to determine their priorities.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing.
• Analyzed system requirements and created test cases and test scenarios.
• Verified the requirements from the system against the expected results documented in the test cases using both normal/valid and abnormal/invalid input and conditions (negative & positive testing).
• Reported and tracked defect resolution in Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to test the data stored in on Call database.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile environment effectively to get the maximum output for the QA efforts.
• Authored both the high level and detailed Test Plan and Test Strategy for Integration, System and UAT testing.
• Assisted in Design and Implementation of QTP Automation Framework by creating reusable functional libraries in Quick Test Professional.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed test scripts.
• Designed and executed automated unit, regression and performance tests using Quick test professional (QTP).
• Used QTP to expand test scenarios to catch more bugs and improve quality.
• Identified defects and generated reports by using HP ALM Defect Module.
• Identified, managed and resolved the defects found during test execution through the Defects module of HP ALM.
• Generated defect reports using HP ALM.
• Organized walkthroughs and inspections with the Project Manager, Business Personnel, Business analyst and developers to decide the Scope of testing and Testability of Requirements which also resulted in adding new requirements.
• Prepared and presented the test plan and test strategy to the project team for their feedback and sign-off.
• Worked with various teams to resolve environmental issues.
• Performed the tasks independently and also was involved with different teams to help with re-organizing test cases and tackling defects.
• Used Quality Center for tracing Requirement, Test coverage and Defect status.
• Documented bugs and change requests using the Defects module of Quality Center.
• During test execution of SIT and UAT test cases, worked effectively with the BA and Developers to accommodate the frequently changing requirements and sorted out the ambiguities and saw to it that maximum testing was done.
• Submitted the daily EOD test status report to the project team to communicate the progress of testing.
• Worked on Manual and Automated testing using Quick Test Pro(QTP), Load Runner, Quality Center
• Successfully delivered the product in production as per schedule, meeting the exit criteria.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked with SMEs (Subject Matter Expert) to better understand the existing Credit card System.
• Tested the web services under the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for the Payments functionality using the SOAP over the HTTP/Web services protocol In Load Runner by accessing the xml file through WSDL (Web services Description Language).
• Involved inFunctional testing, business requirement testing,data requirementtesting, regression testing, system integration testing,data validation, andnon-functional testing
• Attended JAD Sessions to give QA input for an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests
• Involved all the phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including developing test plan documents, test strategies, test scenarios and test cases from BRDs and FSDs.
• Analyzed the business requirement documents (BRD) in the Requirements Module in HP ALM to create detailed Test Cases and associated them to the appropriate requirements.
• Created both positive and negative test scenarios according to the functional specification document (FSD) and BRD using HP ALM in the test plan module.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration, and performance of the Web application.Integration Testing is performed for the entire System after unit testing by executing the complete flow of the application system.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix using Entry/Exit Criteria
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing with users.
• Generated valid and invalid test data in MS Excel, to use as input in data driven testing of the feature.
• Writing test cases and test scripts for the functionality testing
• Manually tested the various navigation steps and basic functionality of the application
• Created and maintainedSQL Queries for back-end testing
• Coordinating with the development teams to enhance the scalability, performance and tuning of the application
• Conducted System Testing, GUI Testing, and Cross Browser compatibility testing during the releases and interacted with the developers to resolve any technical issues
• Performed various types of testing like Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and Usability
• Used Quality Center to verify the bug fixes & correction of error conditions

Confidential, Camp Hill, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements from end users and stakeholders and made test plans and test cases on enrollment and claims module.
• Followed Agile Scrum development methodology for the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).
• Modelled the business process and workflow using activity flow and sequence diagrams.
• Performed thorough Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing software functionalities with the new business requirements.
• Ability to work closely with key stakeholders to identify/report problems and propose solutions.
• Integrated the Electronic Signature Capture add-on in the PDX Pharmacy System.
• Tested the added POS Interface feature.
• Experience with relational data models.
• Experience analyzing use cases and user stories to design effective test cases and associated test data is a plus.
• Ability to write/execute SQL queries and analyze results
• Experience analyzing use cases and user stories to design effective test cases and associated test data is a plus.
• Tested the web services under the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for the Payments functionality using the SOAP over the HTTP/Web services protocol In Load Runner by accessing the xml file through WSDL (Web services Description Language).
• Experience in defect tracking for web based client/server applications.
• Performed functional, compatibility, performance, and usability testing using QTP to insure the functionality and performance of web application.
• Performed Integration and UI testing using QTP to provide an interface to interact with several different web browsers.
• Utilized Quality Center to map requirements and test cases and built the test grid/RTM
• Wrote SQL queries in QTP for data validation.
• Create, run and modify SQL queries to pull data from identified source databases for data analysis and mapping activities as needed.
• Defined file formatting, data dictionary and business rules for test case and generated test data.
• Worked with test team to define test objectives and participated User Acceptance Testing.
• Monitored sprints using burn down charts.
• Assisted scrum master with project tracking and managing the project schedule.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formulation and implementation of Software Testing strategies
• Resource management (allocation, monitoring, motivating etc)
• Working with product designers and developers at all stages to promote quality
• Created Hybrid Automation Framework in Java.
• Identify Automation scope and writing Automation scripts using Selenium
• Producing and prioritizing bug reports
• Updating Test Matrix
• Working with developers to perform root-cause analysis and prelim
• Review of software requirements, Preparation/review of test plans, Review of test cases, Sanity of Build coming to QA and before going live.
• Write SQL queries to retrieve data from DB for assertions
• Reporting of defects, Preparation of test reports, Preparation of Base documentation
• Creating system/sanity testing cases
• Tracking/Reviewing Client Issues/Missed-QC bugs and on that basis mentoring Team members.
• Mentoring of Team members.