SUMMARY

• More than 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance Testing by using different types of QA methodologies, processes and tools.
• Experience in analyzing Business requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Solid experience in Develop, Review, Execute and Maintain test plans, Test Cases and Test procedures.
• Expertise in manual Testing of Client / Server & and Web applications.
• Strong understanding of QA principles, QA processes, Use cases and Software Development Life Cycle Testing.
• Extensively involved in Black - Box and Full Life Cycle Testing.
• Experience in tracking test coverage and providing Metrics to management.
• Experience in Performing Smoke, Integration, Functionality, Regression and System Testing.
• Experience in logging defects in a detailed, understandable and reproducible manner tracking all defects through to closer.
• Extensively involved in using Quality Center to Report defects for smooth transition between development and testing team.
• Experience in software Verification, Validation and Testing methodologies.
• Experience in Telecom, Banking, Insurance and Healthcare Domains.
• Experience in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MS-Access databases.
• Experience of testing Java and NET applications.
• Specialized in database testing using queries, subqueries and joins.
• Experienced in working in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication, Leadership and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TESTING TOOLS: Quality Center 9.2, HP ALM, Jira.

LANGUAGES: SQL, PL / SQL, C

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: JAVA, HTML, ASP.NET, VBScript, javascript

PACKAGES: MS Office (MS- Word, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint, MS-Access, Adobe Photoshop

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 2000 Server & Professional, Mac, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/XP, UNIX.

DATABASES: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst (Manual)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and reviewing the business requirements and functional specifications documents.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually for functional tests manually.
• Developed test strategy, Test plan, Test cases and Test Scripts and documented in HP Quality Center.
• Prepared the Test data for interpreting Positive/Negative/Regression results based on the design requirements.
• Used QUALITY CENTER for test cases loading and writing Test Plan and executing test Cases and printing status report for the team meetings.
• Performed BLACK-BOX Testing and Non Functional testing.
• Performed Functional, UAT and Regression Test cycles.
• Create Requirement traceability Matrix.
• Performed Backend integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Extensively worked on Waterfall methodology.
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting. Work with development team for defect resolution.
• Send daily test execution and defect status to the project team.
• Participate in change management team meetings.
• Document all reusable process and SQLs.

Environment: Quality Center, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Compatibility Testing, Java, UNIX, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Quick Test Pro 9.2/10.0.

Confidential, Minnesota, MN

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirements and design meetings, review and analysis of requirements and design documentation.
• Performed manual testing including Smoke, Functional, System and Regression and End to End.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test plan using test manager and identified the priority functions to test.
• Created Test plans, Test Cases and Test Sets accordingly associated with each requirement for functional, Integration and acceptance testing.
• Created and executed test cases for all test cycles.
• Designed and executed test cases for Functional and Regression test cycles.
• Participated in Design and test case walkthroughs.
• Create required test data for all test cycles.
• Worked with internal and external business teams on UAT.
• Tracked bugs and reporting the reports to the developers and project team.
• Communicated testing and defect status to the team.
• Continually participate in self- learning, in conjunction with formal training, to ensure skills are continually developed to ensure ease of providing quality product to our clients.

Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Visual Basic, Oracle Server, Visual Source Safe, Clear.

Confidential, Texas

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and reviewing the business requirements and Functional specifications documents.
• Writing test scenarios for responsible modules and responsible testing topics by using “black box” techniques.
• Followed IEEE 829 standards while documenting test cases required test data and test environment.
• Involved in test cases review meetings along with test lead.
• Involved in smoke testing on initial software build.
• Executed test cases by using test data on software under test in test environment to detect defects.
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking.
• Conducted Re-testing, sanity testing and Regression testing on every modified software under test to close bugs.
• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing to determine possibility of further testing manually.
• Strong in SQL to connect to software under test database while testing.
• Involved in final regression testing on final software under test during test closer.
• Participated with developers in Acceptance testing sessions to collect the feedback on software from the real customers/model customers.