SUMMARY

• 8 years of Professional Experience as QA Analyst in the field of Health Care and Financial domains.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC): Agile methodology, Scrum Methodology and Water Fall approach
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) aspects such as developing Test Strategies/Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts, Traceability Matrices and Test Environments.
• Facilitate requirements entry, test case creation and defect tracking in Quality Center, which improved efficiency and traceability.
• Experience in writing Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from business, functional and technical requirements.
• Performed Integration, Functional, Smoke, GUI, Regression, System and User acceptance Testing.
• Involved in ETL Testing and executed SQL queries on Data ware house,
• Extensively used SQL queries for back end Testing and while data are being transferred between the front end and the back end database server.
• Hands on experience in Mercury Quality Center, Confidential Rational Clear Case, Confidential Rational Clear Quest (CharmNT), Bugzilla, Test Manager and TFS (Team Foundation Server)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling tools: MS Visio, MS Project, Rational rose

Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, RUP, SCRUM.

Office Automation Tools: MS Office, Project outlook

Quality Assurance: Mercury Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, Test Manager an Quick test Professional, Test Director and Win runner

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

Languages: C, C++, SQL, HTML, XML, Java, Visual Basic, UML

RDBMS: MS Access, SQL server, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Arlington, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Analyst created test plan and strategy for all projects based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Followed Scrum Methodology approach.
• Given estimation of time for new modules or functionality in Sprint Planning meeting.
• Conducted Use case scenarios meeting with Product owner and developers.
• Held meetings with business analyst and development team whenever required over requirement clarification and build acceptance.
• Facilitate requirements and entry test case creation in Team Foundation server for improving efficiency and traceability.
• Managed test cases using Test Manager.
• Experience in creating scenarios in Gherkin syntax in Cucumber.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases and Test Scenarios to test the functionality of the application. Developed and executed test cases.
• Created backend test cases and written queries to retrieve data from database.
• Created SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Creating test data and making sure environment is ready to test before execution of test cases.
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Executed Manual Testing to test the stability of the application using Test Manager.
• Tracked defects and reported bugs to developers to resolve issues.
• Worked on desktop and web applications and on different browsers.
• Experience in Scrum methodology - Sprint planning meeting, Sprint retrospective meeting, and had demo sessions with Users/developers/Quality Analyst and Product owners.

Environment: MS Office, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Manager, Manual Testing, SQL Server, MS Project, Server, Cucumber, Angular.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and created Scenarios based on the business requirements and test evidence
• Developed test specifications, which consists of various test Scenarios.
• Analyzed the System Requirement Specifications and developed Test Plans, Test Cases to cover overall QA and UAT.
• Developed Negative Test scenarios for the testing the new functionality.
• Analyze the test evidence and performed the positive and negative test cases.
• Performed backend testing for data validation using PL/SQL
• Reported results and defects in Quality Center.
• Performed XML, X12 data mapping and end to end validation for 834 enrollments.
• Actively interacted with the development team to fix crucial bugs.
• Was involved and helping to create the scenarios for User Accepting test after getting the Signed Quality Gate Doc from testing team.
• Involved in loading the flat files and X12 into Oracle
• Tested ETL jobs, which were used to transfer the data from one stage (source) to another (Target) and run using SQL.
• Converted the x12 files to XML using the BizTalk in the process of loading the data.
• Analyzed business requirements and developed test Plan and scenarios
• Prepared Testing Estimation and test plan for the project.
• Performed backend testing for data validation using PL/SQL
• Participated in status meetings to provide status updates on the tests

Environment: MS Office, Quality Center MS Access, Manual Testing, SQL Server, MS Project, Server, MS Visio, UNIX, J2ee, Java, XML,Windows XP, Agile, Biztalk.

Confidential, IN

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design and development of test plans based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Worked on various tasks, which involved writing Test Cases, Test plans, testing functionality from the functional specification and also verifying the test cases provided by the developers.
• Generated manual test cases and Scripts to test the functionality of the application using various checkpoints and data driven tests.
• Identified and automated 200 manual test cases using Data Driven Framework.
• Exposed and estimated the automation services to various projects.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Worked with various Add-ins as required for automating specific applications.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Used Parameterization and Output values to perform data driven tests.
• Created SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application.
• Executed Manual Testing to test the stability of the application using QC.
• Tracked defects and reported bugs to developers to resolve issues using QC 9.2.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.

Environment: Manual Testing, MS Office, XML, HTML, Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Windows XP.