SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of experience in the field of IT with the emphasis on SoftwareQuality Assurance Testing, documentation, and training. Specialized in writing Test Requirements, Test Cases and Test Plans. Ability to uncover defects of an application or system in early stage of SDLC, which helps to improve the application’s quality and reduces development cost.
• Excel under pressure in deadline driven environment with superior interpersonal communication and technical documentation skills.
• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance Techniques and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Work with project teams and participate requirements review to ensure testability of function and applications
• Experienced with creating Test plans and Test - cases for various phases of testing (i.e. functional testing, regression testing, and smoke testing)
• Expert in creating Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) ensuring test coverage.
• Expertise in Black Box testing including Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, User acceptance (UAT), Positive and Negative, Security, GUI, Backend, cross-browser and ad-hoc testing
• Liaisewith developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on Test Cases and coordinated with development team for fixing the issues
• Participated in Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation activities with the core team
• Participate in weekly project meetings and organize Defect Meetings and Triage
• Provide daily QA Status report that included Test Matrices and defect reports
• Experienced in testing Web Services using SoapUI
• Validated WSDL, XSD, XML for testing of Web Services and XML files for the request and responses
• Experienced in Defect Tracking and problem resolution
• Expert in HP ALMwithRequirements, Test plan, Test lab and Defect modules as a user as well as an Administrator creating domains, projects user with various roles
• Experienced in writing QTP Test Scripts using Descriptive Programming and enhanced the scripts using Parameterization, Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points and Customized Exception handling
• Strong knowledge of databaseSchemas, SQL Language, querying Tools (such as TOAD, SQL developer)using oracle, My SQL and performing database testing, data manipulations, etc.
• Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action where necessary
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills with good process management skills along with a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product
• Documented procedures and processes used as reference material in the organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Manual and Automated TestingTesting Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium,v10.0, Bugzilla, Jira, SoapUI

Programming Languages: C, C++, Core Java, .Net

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script.

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2. Access

DB Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL*Plus

Design/CASE Tools: MS Project. MS Visio

Operating Systems: MS DOS, UNIX, Win 2007/XP/2000/NT

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile(SCRUM, XP), V-Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Wilmington, DE

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Web services and green screen automation testing
• Usage of both Waterfall and Agile methodology
• Testing with QC, SoapUI and various in-house software
• Full comprehension of smoke testing, new functionality and regression
• Coordinate meetings and duties with team members
• Ability to run positive and negative scenarios and raise defects
• Provide training on web services and in-house software
• Testing lead on Document Management Services group
• Provide testing support on 9 project releases

Environment: ALM 11.5, Oracle, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, C#, .NET, VB, Window 7/XP/Vista, HTML, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, JIRA, Agile (SCRUM), SOAPUI, JIRA.

Confidential - Wilmington, DE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Requirement assessment to ensure testability of the requirement and prevent ambiguity
• Developed test cases from the functional requirement documents in Quality Center ensuring 100% Requirements Coverage
• Developed test scripts using QTP for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing
• Performed in Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, E2E, Regression Testing
• Developed test scripts for Keyword andData Driven Testing in QTP to check the functionalities of the application
• Developed Test Scripts using Descriptive Programming in QTP and enhanced the scripts using Parameterization, Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points and Customized Exception handling
• Performed SQL queries to retrieve data from the database to validate the test results.
• Provided test deliverable report that includes Test results, sign-off, anddefect reports

Environment: Waterfall, Oracle 10g/9i, SQL Server 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Java Script, Quick Test Pro 10.0, Quality Center 10, MS Office Suite, HTML, JAVA, JSP, JavaScript, Test Manager, UNIX.

Confidential - Columbia, SC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed of business requirements and design specifications to ensure traceability and testability
• Wrote test plan, test cases based on BRD and Technical Specifications.
• Created test cases that include component testing, integrated and system test coverage for the changes being implemented
• Defined and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status in Quality Center during test execution phases.
• Performed Functional, Negative, and Regression and smoke Tests on enhancements to the web application.
• Developed SQL/PL-SQL scripts for applications database testing specially for Oracle and MS SQL Server.

Environment: and Tools:Quality Center, Agile (Scrum), SQL, VBScript, Windows 7/XP/Vista, UML, HTML, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, JIRA, Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)