SUMMARY

• 7 years of Quality assurance background which includes Testing Life Cycle (TLC) - phases: Risk Analysis, Planning Process, Test Design, Defect Tracking & Management and Test Reporting.
• Participated in requirements analysis reviews and working sessions to understand the requirements and system design.
• In depth knowledge and excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), role of QA and its various aspects including functionality and performance, involved in all phases of SDLC from information gathering stage to maintenance stage of the project.
• Extensively involved in testing the applications manually.
• Hands-on experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, and Strategy.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Web Testing and Regression Testing.
• Experience in testing Web and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, knowledge of good documentation practices which proven to coordinate with team to get efficient results and also capable to adopt and learn new tools, techniques and approaches.
• Ability to handle multiple applications concurrently and work independently as well in a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and a good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux

RDBMS: DB2, Oracle 8.0/8i/9i, SQL, MS Access

Testing Tools: QTP 8.2, Test Director, Quality Center 10, ALM 11.0

Browsers: IE 9, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome

MS-Suite: MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Defect Tracking Tools: PVCS Tracker, Rational ClearQuest, JIRA

Version control: Rational Clear Case, PVCS

Programming Languages: COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, Java

Other Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes

Web Technologies: TSL, Java, ASP, HTML, UNIX, SQL, VB Script.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NC

Quality Control

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the scanned documents and performed Data migration duties by logging to deepwaterhorizonmedicalsettlement.com
• Performed Quality Control duties so that there are no missing data from the declarations
• Prepared Daily Tracker and sent the reports to the Lead by the end of the day.
• Participated in the meetings and reached individual goals.

Environment: MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Snipping Tool.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and understood Business & Functional requirements documents.
• Involved in preparing Test Data using Excel spread sheets required for testing.
• Prepared Test plan and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Prepared test cases as per the business requirements.
• Executed test cases and verified manually to ensure all business, functional and technical specifications have been met.
• Used ALM as repository for all test scenarios, test cases, and test results.
• Utilized JIRA to report defects & ensure complete test coverage of any changes in the application.
• Involved in Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in daily & weekly team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: ALM 11.0, JIRA 6.2, Oracle 11G, Snipping Tool, MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Share Point.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and understood Business & Functional requirements documents.
• Participated in Architectural Reviews with Production Team, QA, BA, Development and UAT teams.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans for Release 2.
• Created High Level Scenarios and Test cases based on the BRD's and FRD documents.
• Updated scripts whenever a new Functionality is added.
• Ensured project deliverables met business requirements.
• Validate that the Development and System/Acceptance infrastructure environments fulfill the design specifications.
• Executed UAT & Functional end to end testing.
• Tested reports generated by Business Objects.
• Recorded test results & test defects using Quality Center.
• Participated in daily triage call, in meetings & walkthroughs, Defect report meetings, Environment and status calls on a regular basis with Business Analysts, Project Team and Development team.
• Prepared test summary report to Business people and Project team through SharePoint.
• Involved in Product Verification Testing (PVT) based on Regression Test cases.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, SnagIt 10, Secure drive, Notepad++QTP, SQL, MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, SAP Business Objects.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of Test Scenarios, writing Functional and Regression test cases and executed Test cases as per Business rules.
• Performed system Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing Manually.
• Participated in Testing documentation reviews and walk-through, including Test plans, Test cases, Test strategies, Test Summary Report.
• Updated scripts whenever a new Functionality is added.
• Tested the Application on different browsers like IE6 & IE7, Windows XP, and Vista.
• Reported the bug through bug tracking tool (Quality Center) and involved in defect call about the severity of defect.
• Participated in Daily meetings & walkthroughs, Defect report meetings, Environment and status calls on a regular basis with Business Analysts, Project Team, Development team & Offshore team.
• Participated in weekly team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: Quality Center 10, Windows XP, MS-Office, Oracle, Java, Penguin Virtual network Connection (VNC), APA Tool & Rumba 2000 Mainframes, Windows 2000.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans and Test Cases based on user needs and business requirements specifications for new LOS
• Developed and Executed Test Cases as per Business rules for LOS and website redesign project.
• Transformed use cases into test cases for the various modules in Mortgage system.
• Tested the online banking application which allows the customers to check balances, make transfers and view recent transactions.
• Tested the Online Bill payment module that allows making online payments to anyone in USA.
• Tested various screens and data elements to ensure that the desired UI functionality is running.
• Performed Regression testing after each new build of the application.
• Participated in GUI, Bitmap, and Database testing meetings on a regular basis with Business Analysts, UI designers and development team.
• Participated in weekly team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.
• Prepared and presented metrics to project team and management.
• Tracked and reported defects using Quality Center

Environment: HP Quality Center, HTML, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2000, Windows XP