SUMMARY

• 5+ Years of diversified experience in Information Technology including QA Analyst with emphasis on Quality Assurance of Web and Client/Server based applications in all stages of SDLC.
• Expertize in Functional testing of web, Client Server, Mobile Application testing.
• Experience in full QA Life Cycle from analyze / review of Business Requirements, Create Testing Requirements, Test Case Creation, Execution, Defect Management and status reporting.
• Created /updated/ Reviewed several testing documents like Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Reports, Traceability Matrix, Defect status reports in executing several complex QA projects
• Created and executed test cases to perform several kinds of testing like System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Mobile App, End to End, UAT using several testing tool suits like HP ALM, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Quality Center for different applications developed in different plat forms.
• Used several defect tracking systems (HP ALM 12.01, Team Foundation Server 2015, Quality Center 10/11, Remedy and HPSD), JIRA and coordinated with Dev teams to complete defect life cycle.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries to perform data driven tests, back - end testing of Oracle, SQL Server databases and UNIX/ Linux OS.
• Experienced in Web Service Testing and third party Service Testing using SOAP UI.
• Expertise in Agile and Water Fall development methodologies.
• Understanding and usage of several project documents like Project Plans, Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirements (FRD), System Requirements (SRS), Use Cases, Flow Charts and Technical Architectural Diagrams (TAD).
• Has extensive domain knowledge in the fields of Retail, Insurance, Telecom Banking, heal th care.
• Highly motivated, hardworking and excellent interaction and coordination skills with Business Analysts, Admins, Developers in understanding testing requirements and resolving issues, defects and meeting testing schedules, attending daily standups, scrum meetings and walk through meetings

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 2007, 2008, 2010, UNIX

Testing Tools: SOAPUI 5.0.2, HP ALM 11, HP ALM 12, TFS 2015, Quality Center, QTP, UFT, Load Runner, Performance Center, JIRA, Chrome mobile

Databases and Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQL Plus

Web Technologies: JAVA, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, ASP, Java Script, .Net

Application Servers: Web logic 6.0, Web Sphere, IIS, Apache Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

QA System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed / analyzed business requirements using Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirements FRD, use cases and flow charts to define scope and planning of functional / system testing.
• Created Test plan, Test strategy for billing module for various kinds of tests like functional testing, structural testing, End to end testing, GUI Testing, Structural and back end testing
• Created and executed several test sets in HP ALM 12.1 for different cycles / builds / sprints of the application to complete application testing in tight schedules.
• Reviewed test results and created defects in HP ALM for failed scenarios and coordinated with various teams in resolving the defects and retested till completion
• Created several status reports like Traceability Test Matrix, Execution schedules and project progress status
• Attended Scrum Meetings, Standup Meetings, triage meetings, walk-troughs and review meetings in different phases of the project and prepared status reports and performance metrics to the management.
• Created and executed manual Regression test cases for various business process
• Executed several back end test cases using SOAP UI for web services / back end testing
• Involved in the team to define and establish best standards, process auditing and recommend best practices.
• Extensively used SQL Plus and Todd to create SQL Queries and executed to validate back end (Oracle DB) performance
• Extensively used tools like Share point, One Note and One Drive and Shared Folders

Environment: Java, HTML5, Web sphere, ALM 12.1, SOAP UI, TOAD, XML, Oracle 11g, MS Office, Linux

Confidential, Reston, VA

QA Tester Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.
• Participated in test procedures and test plans reviews
• Performed backend testing by using SQL queries and checked if the reports generated actually suffice the search criteria submitted
• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Matrix.
• Prepared Test Plan and templates to create test cases and test procedures using the CMM / SEI framework
• Ability to convert use cases into test scenarios based on Functional Requirements Document and Design documents
• Conducted peer reviews for high-level test scenarios, test plan and test case
• Created the Test cases using Business requirement documents, Functional requirements, Use cases and Mockups and tracking bugs into bug tracking system, timely coordination with developers to close them
• Created Test Scenarios that found the most difficult defects to be detected
• Experience with writing and executing positive and negative test cases and executing them
• Identify the Data requirements for the test cases
• Participated in Project Kickoff, External meetings, and Internal meetings (Test case review and Status meetings), Design Review calls discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues
• PerformedSanity,Functional,Re-testing,Regression,Integration,System,UAT testing
• Performed Regression testing for all new builds.
• Created orders by modifying the existing XMLs for component testing in order to test different scenarios
• Extracted and analyzed the output XMLs from the database using TOAD
• Managed software requirements, test cases, test execution, and defects using Quality Center
• Worked closely with SDLC teams to deliver the systems and meet deadlines

Environment: Windows, Oracle, Quality Center, IE8, and Apache

Confidential, Atlanta GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement meetings and detail design meetings to understand the functional requirements of Customer Order Management (COM) / Sterling Project
• Developed the Test Plan and strategy documents to test BOSS (Buy online Ship to Store) Module and get it reviewed / approved from other project teams
• Followed Agile Methodology and created / executed test cases for each Confidential to satisfy user stories
• Created manual test cases to cover requirements for various kinds of testing like Functional, System, Integration, End to End and regression testing of BOSS Module.
• Used HP Quality Center extensively for creating / executing test cases, test sets and managing defect life cycle.
• Used Maven tool to check the queues in Web Sphere MQ Queues and validate the functionality
• Functional tested multiple REST APIs and ran batch jobs for test data creation
• Used SQL Developer tool to connect to the database and executed several queries to query test data
• Used SharePoint site to access all project documentation and save all QA documents
• Extensively used SOAPUI for Web Services Testing and REST API Testing

Environment: Quality Center v.13, SQL Developer, JIRA Client, XML, TCP/IP, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Office, Windows NT,SOAP UI 3.6

Confidential, St.Louis, MO

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan, test cases in test director by analyzing Business functional requirement documents and attending requirements review meetings
• Utilized Test Director to create manual test cases, execution, defects, tracking requirements and communicating them to the team during the execution phase
• Participated in team meetings with the developers and informed them of any deviations of the application, with regard to the requirements
• Imported requirements and test cases from MS - word format to test director using TD ad - in
• Created test cases for data driven testing and executed them with multiple sets of data to verify the application functionality for various sets of data
• Conducted daily Smoke tests to ensure that various integration points of the system and major business functions met requirements
• Conducted weekly Regression tests to ensure that changes made during the week have not caused faults to appear in any unchanged part of the system
• Used SQL queries for backend testing
• Responsible for daily status to show progress of testing from test case creation, execution and defect tracking
• Extensively involved in using the UNIX to check log files

Environment: Java, PL/SQL, Java Script, Test Director 7 and 8, Oracle, UNIX, HTML, JSP, CVS, PERL