SUMMARY

• 7 plus years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance pertaining to Finance, Insurance and Health Care domains.
• Experience working Agile/Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines.
• Experience in various facets of Quality Assurance Life Cycle - Planning, Analysis, Test case development and Implementation.
• Documentation and analysis of business requirements, functional requirements, functional specifications
• Experience in testing Client/Server, Web based and Stand Alone Applications.
• Extensive experience implementing Test Methodologies, Test Cases, Testing Processes, Test Plans, Defect Reporting and Defect Tracking Process.
• Experience in performing System Testing, Functionality Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Sanity Testing, and User Acceptance Test.
• Extensively used testing tools Quality Center.
• Experience in Compatibility Testing working with Multiple Operations Systems, Multiple browsers Such as IE, Mozilla, Safari, Mobile Browsing and Printing Option Etc.
• Extensively used SQL queries to manipulate the data.
• Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule.
• Extremely reliable, quick learner, efficient and able to work independently.
• Immense problem solving proficiency along with strong management and leadership skills.
• Strong listening, interpersonal and analytical skills, ability to manage multiple project tasks with changing priorities, business environment and tight deadlines. Ability to work well in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Mercury Quality Center

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, UML, IBM door, Requisite Pro.

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile Development

Operating Systems: Unix, Microsoft Windows 98,2000,XP, Vista, MAC X lion

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, QC, Clear Quest

Languages & Database: SQL, HTML, XML, MS Access, C, C++, MAT-Lab, Lab-view, WIPS, RSlogix500,MELSOFT-GX and putty

Office Tools & Documentation: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power point, MS outlook, MS Project, MS SharePoint

Wireless Standards: CDMA, GSM, OSI Model, TCP/IP Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TEMPE, AZ

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system and business requirements for testability.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Involved in development of a test case, test data, traceability matrix, and metrics to ensure all testing requirements are met and documented.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database
• Generated test analysis Reports and Graphs using Quality Center and published status reports to management on timely basis.
• Responsible for Regression, Sanity, Smoke, User Acceptance, Functional, Integration, & System Testing including Documentation.
• Log defects using Jira and re-test code when applicable.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center for preparation of Requirement Traceability Metrics (RTM).
• Regularly followed up with Development Team to identify the design/development changes, and modify the user scripts accordingly.
• Conducted/participated internal and external reviews
• Used Document Generator of Quality Center to generate Release Reports.
• Documented the business events, test cases, test data, and Writing, execution scripts in support of the testing approach to be employed.

Environment: Quality Center, clear quest, Agile, SQL, MS office, Oracle

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed Test plan, Test Scenarios and Test cases according to the business requirements.
• Also manually executed the test cases for testing the functionality of the application.
• Performed Regression testing and Performed Manual Testing of the application GUI with regard to layout, usability and boundary
• Manually Performed Back end testing extensively using SQL queries and Performed Data Validation.
• Manually Performed Functional, Performance, System and Integration tests during different developmental phases and also tested the security of the GUI front-end application.
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Created various checkpoints like Standard checkpoints, Image checkpoints, Table checkpoints, Bitmap check points in Quick Test Pro.
• Written and executed test cases using Quality Center.
• Uploaded Requirements and Excel Test Cases into Quality Center. Executed Test scripts from Test Lab manually.
• Involved in UAT testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Test showing expected and actual results as deemed appropriate.
• Involved working with agile methodology.
• Recorded results and reported defects using Quality Center to the development team.
• Worked with Business Analysts to resolve the issues.

Environment: E-commerce, Quality Center 10.0, QTP, Agile, UNIX, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2000, Java, TCL, Toad, Windows XP/2000, Internet Explorer, MS-Office

Confidential, Mclean, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual Test cases based on the requirements and associated the testing and software requirements with these test cases using the Quality Center
• Participated in initial reviews/requirement gathering sessions and provided feedback.
• Responsible to write and modify the test cases in QC based on the requirement changes that came up during stakeholder’s requirement reviews.
• Participated in all the agile planning, daily standup meetings and give the updates.
• Responsible for testing the functional aspect of application based on business process analysis and user feedback / requirement.
• Responsibilities included acceptance testing, functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, performance testing.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the Oracle database.
• Involved in executing the new functionality and regression test scripts from Quality Center and logging, assigning the defects based on the test results.
• Logging and Tracking of the defects using clear quest.
• Facilitated the defect review/ test progress meetings with the business and help them assign the Defect Severity and Priority values.
• Performed manual testing of the application and verified all the functionality.

Environment: Quality Center, clear quest, Agile, MS SQL Server 2000, MS office, Oracle

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress with Statistics reports.
• Participated in complete QA life Cycle. Prepared Test Plans. And responsible to interact with team lead to understand user requirements.
• Preparation of Test Data for Positive and Negative Scenarios and analyzed results of testing sessions and presents results.
• Worked with users to review test results to ensure they meet expected results. Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for Weekly status reports/Updates showing the Progress of the Application under testing on weekly project team meetings.
• Responsible for preparation of Test Log and sign off documents.

Environment: UNIX, Jira, Java, Windows XP/2000, Internet Explorer, MS-Office.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated Test Plan and Test Cases for manual testing.
• Expert in executing the test cases and finding the defects and tracking them
• Expert in maintaining the Traceability Matrix to track the requirements of the application.
• Performed Functional, System, User Interface, Regression, Ad-hoc and Re-testing
• Preparation of Test data for positive and negative testing based on the test conditions.
• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Logging and Tracking of the defects using clear quest.
• Performed Regression and Sanity testing.
• Prepared Defect Report and delivered the same to the developers to keep track of defects by percentage.
• Mentoring the team in QA process implementation.
• Coordinating with the Quality Control team to ensure that the QA process is implemented in the project.

Environment: UNIX, waterfall, clear quest, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2000, Java, Toad, Windows XP/2000, Internet Explorer, MS-Office.