SUMMARY

• Over SIX (6+) years of strong working experience in the IT industry as a QA Analyst/ QA tester for web based and client server - based applications. Playing a major role in test planning, test developing, test execution and test methodologies. Participated in complete software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Six plus (6+) years of experience in QA with expertise in testing Client Server and Web applications.
• Involve in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
• Intensive knowledge in QA Methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and Agile.
• Experience in Manual Testing and Automation Scripting skills in HP UFT/QTP.
• Proficient in designing, reviewing and documenting Test Plans and creating Test Cases on the basis of product release features, client requirements and related documents like SRS, FRS and BRD.
• Experience with comprehensive involvement of all phases of SDLC processes and Test Life Cycle in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall project environment.
• Experience in creating Test Plans and Test Cases, Test Estimation, Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Highly experienced in HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, Test Rail, Oracle, and SQL.
• Professional expertise in Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, Black-box Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Effective under aggressive timelines and high-pressure situations.
• Proven ability to identify and remove large obstacles and barriers on behalf of the team.
• Experience facilitating discussions with business users to identify, develop and prioritize business requirements.
• Experienced to work multiple projects simultaneously. Also experience in multi-platform testing.
• Ability to adapt to new environment quickly, strong team player, good communication, good analytical and computation skills, enthusiastic learner, confident, sincere and committed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tool/ Defect: HP ALM/Quality Center (QC), Jira, MTM, TFS & Postman

Automation Tool: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT.

Scripting: SQL, VB Scripting, XML, HTML.

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Platforms: Windows 2008, 2007, XP, 2010

Server: Microsoft IIS, Apache, Windows, SQL, Oracle server.

Browser: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Testing: Functional, Non-Functional, Black box, Smoke, Integration, Regression, End to End, System, Usability, and User Acceptance testing (UAT).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Windsor, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Test and evaluation procedures to ensure system requirements are met.
• Perform Claim Testing, E2E Testing, UAT, Transaction Testing and Verify Multiple UI Based on Client Benefit Option.
• Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed Test Plan and Test Cases considering both positive and negative scenarios also boundary scenarios.
• Executed Test Case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Tested and coordinated mobile applications in both Native and Web environments and validated the mobile application functionality on physical smart phone hardware devices and virtual device emulators like Perfecto mobile and Simulators like: Android SDK, IPhone SDK.
• Used Perfecto Mobile Cloud for web base function in automation
• Working with automation tools UFT and test management tool ALM
• Working with BPT framework using ALM and UFT to create new shell component
• Executed automated test cases in HP ALM/Quality Center and reported defects in JIRA.
• Reviewed and updated project issues and defects using HP ALM and JIRA.
• Interacted with developers to resolve defects, and responsible to create Test Data for functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for bug reviews.
• Worked in an agile environment attain daily check point meetings, release planning, sprint planning, and demo retrospective meetings time to time.
• Actively involved in analyzing the technical specifications of the current system and the infrastructure needs.
• Manually executed Test cases and Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirement document and technical specifications and responsible for updating existing test cases against the requirements.

Environment: SharePoint, Issue Tracker, Work Tracker, Quality Center, JIRA, UFT, Android, iOS, ALM, QTP, RTM, Skype, Oracle BI, MS office suite, Vista and Excel, Jira

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Strategy with input from the assigned Business Analysts.
• Test and evaluation procedures to ensure system requirements are met.
• Analyze Test cases and provides regular progress reports.
• Develop Test scripts based upon business requirements and processes. Processes transactions from system entry to exit. Tested functionality across applications and workflows.
• Involve in testing the designing and development of data environment.
• Work with appropriate technology leads to determine the acceptable range of test results and performance.
• Clearly communicate and documented test results and defect resolutions during all phases of testing.
• Stimulate several production cycles. Work with data validation, constraints, Record Counts, and source to target, Row Counts, random sampling and error processing.
• Preparing Perfecto Mobile Automation scripts for parallel and sequence execution on multiple devices and different OS (Android and iOS).
• Extensive testing experience on ANDROID, iOS and REX operating system Mobile Applications using Manual and Automated techniques.
• Experience using Android DDMS features such as Log cat, Screen Capture.
• Perform Black-box Testing, System Testing, Data Integrity Testing and end to end testing
• Co-ordinate Component, system testing with the appropriate technical groups and Release Management and Executed automated test cases in HP ALM/Quality Center and reported defects in JIRA.
• Reviewed and updated project issues and defects using HP ALM and JIRA.
• Integrated SOAP UI automation scripts in continuous integration environment.
• Validated the Web Services (SOAP UI) both Request and Respond Messages.
• Developed Web services scripts for a Web Service call sing SOAP UI document test procedures and findings
• Report Bugs and Track Defects using JIRA with Test Rail.
• Use Jira and Test Rail to release management, test case design, and log defect purpose.
• Responsible for performing Functional testing on the application by creating Manual Test Scripts using Test Rail and Jira for Issue Bug.
• Enhance the recorded scripts to resolve synchronization issues.
• Create User-defined functions, functional library and maintained the scripts to set-up the work environment.
• Involve in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing. Also used SQL for Querying in the DB2 and Oracle database.
• Update requirement traceability matrices (RTM) and managed all components of the business requirements.
• Performed GAP analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.

Environment: Jira, Test Rail, RTM, SharePoint, Oracle, SQL, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP/UFT), MS office suite, Windows and Postman

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Made significant Contributions in obtaining and reviewing requirements through extensive analysis of Software Requirement specification documents (RSD), detailed technical designed document (TDD), and database design document, Data mapping Document.
• Also attain update meeting, power session, lesson learned session, walkthrough (application mapping) meetings.
• Responsible to create and implement Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases following STLC.
• Initiated various kinds of testing such as Functional, Smoke, Integration, End to End, and backend testing followed by the project planning and as well as UAT testing in beta environment also internal UAT (alpha environment).
• Using various kinds of operating system to test the application such as Linux 6.4, Solaris, Windows 2008, 2007, XP.
• Used HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) as a test management tool to manage user story/requirements, design Test cases, Execute Test Case, Defect submission, and various test resources from multiple project environments.
• Prepared test summary report after every build release and submit it to the manager, create a detailed status report for senior management to keep them posted on the progress of implementations.
• Worked in a team environment performing varied daily task that requires effective communication with project managers, developers and business analyst.

Environment: RTM, MS Visio, MS Project, Oracle, SQL, HP ALM/Quality center ALM, MS Office, MS office suite. TFS & MTM

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Conducted meetings with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to understand, elicit the business workflow and their application processes.
• Conducted analysis of business requirements, Functional Requirements and developed testing scenarios and wrote detailed Test plans and Test cases using ALM/Quality center which were linked back for requirements coverage.
• Applied and maintained test documentation (Test plans, Test cases and automated Test scripts).
• Performed integration testing, ad hoc Testing, Internal verification and acceptance testing throughout the system development and test life cycle.
• Used automated test scripts, user-defined functions to check the different functionalities of the application using Quick Test Professional (QTP) as well modified and enhanced the existing Data Driven Framework.
• Worked with Customer Care Representatives to analysis of issues and gather technical and functional requirements.
• Extensively executed SQL Queries on Oracle tables to verify the database.
• Report, Track, review, analyze and compare bugs using a Defect Tracking tool in ALM/Quality center (QC).
• Developed documentation for User Acceptance Testing and trained the users about the system.
• Attended bug review meetings and test coverage discussions.
• Produce various kinds of test reports, defect reports, weekly task progress reports to manager as well as to client.

Environment: MS Excel, MS Visio, XML, VB script, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP ALM/Quality center, Windows, MS SharePoint, Oracle