SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of IT experience with focus on analyzing system functionality, design, and implementation of QA testing methodology
• Experienced in performing Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integrated Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Ad - hoc Testing, Back End Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in analyzing Business requirement specification and System Requirements specification, and involved in designing, developing, and executing Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Extensive knowledge of various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) while understanding the role of a tester in each phase.
• Test Artifacts: Test Case, Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, User Stories, Requirements docs, mobile testing, cloud testing, 508 Compliance Testing.
• Extensively used JIRA to track and close defects.
• Experienced in Functional and Regression Testing by using JIRA zephyr and manual Test cases
• Extensive experience in writing and implementation of complex test plans, design, development and execution of test scripts for system, integration, user acceptance test (UAT) and regression testing.
• Validating API/Web services via Postman.
• Involved in Backend Database manual testing in MySQL using SQL.
• Excellent Communication, Interpersonal, and Team Player Skills, Quick Learner and Self Starter, ability to adapt to new environments quickly, strong organizational and multitasking skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse.

Programming Languages: JAVA SQL

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL.

API: Postman

Collaboration/Defect tracking: HP ALM, Jira.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential | Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and provided Master Test Plan documents, Traceability Matrix documents to Project Management Group and Business Group for their reviews and sign-offs.
• Worked with QA Manager, Business Analysts, and Developers to plan the Testing effort and resource estimates.
• Prepare the Test Scenarios from the Use Cases.
• Executed Manual Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Create and utilize test-accounts to run Sanity tests in both QA and production environments to ensure the critical functionalities work as expected.
• Attend meetings to discuss bug verifications, to clarify on bug behavior and bug duplication.
• Tested Rest API and SOAP Services by using industry leading tools like POSTMAN.
• Develop and execute test cases, track and report issues on bugs and note the severity of those bugs.
• Create bug reports for bugs that were not identified in the previous build.
• Conduct bug scrubbing for the current build to notate correctly and clean the bug reports for invalid, valid, duplicate bugs and new improvements that cannot be tested yet.
• Update the status (Pass/Fail) for test cases in each new build.
• Implement Regression test while bug scrubbing for the bugs that were no longer valid.
• Utilize Integration test to ascertain that the links were integrated per requirement and. was not affected by the fixed bug.
• Construct and write new negative test cases to provide maximum path coverage and address major scenarios especially for mobile devices.
• Conduct ad hoc testing to ensure new integrations performed as expected per requirement.
• Manage testing tasks on multiple modules based upon their severity Conducted End-to-End, Manual Testing of the system and prepared and managed test cases using Jira.

Quality Assurance Tester

Confidential | Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and provided Master Test Plan document, Traceability Matrix document to Project Management Group and Business Group for their reviews and sign-offs.
• Worked on Agile Environment and tested the application under Scrum (Agile) Methodology.
• Worked with QA Manager, Business Analysts, and Developers to plan the Testing effort and resource estimates.
• Prepare the Test Scenarios from the Use Cases.
• Executed Manual Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Create and utilize test-accounts to run Sanity tests in both QA and production environments to ensure the critical functionalities work as expected.
• Attend meetings to discuss bug verifications, to clarify on bug behavior and bug duplication.
• Develop and execute test cases, track and report issues on bugs and note the severity of those bugs.
• Create bug reports for bugs that were not identified in the previous build.
• Conduct bug scrubbing for the current build to notate correctly and clean the bug reports for invalid, valid, duplicate bugs and new improvements that cannot be tested yet.
• Update the status (Pass/Fail) for test cases in each new build.
• Implement Regression test while bug scrubbing for the bugs that were no longer valid.
• Utilize Integration test to ascertain that the links were integrated per requirement and was not affected by the fixed bug.
• Construct and write new negative test cases to provide maximum path coverage and address major scenarios especially for mobile device's.
• Manage testing tasks on multiple modules based upon their severity Conducted End-to-End, Manual Testing of the system and prepared and managed test cases using Jira.

Quality Analyst

Confidential | Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirement and business requirement documents and developed test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Used SQL commands to validate the database and test its integration with the front end.
• Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing.
• Execution of manual test cases, track and log the defects using JIRA.
• Interacted with developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Proficient in Test Case/Scenario writing and Test case Execution.
• Brainstorming through the requirements or conditions of satisfactions for different modules through Quality Center test sets to create Test Scenarios.
• Analyzed test results, identified issues and reported it to the developers and project manager/product owner through JIRA.
• Interacted with business analysts and developers in requirement analysis, testing and documentation for application development.
• Used JIRA for Defect Reporting, Analyzing, Tracking and Report Generation.
• Performed Regression testing by executing scripts on the new build.