SUMMARY

• Five years of experience in Software Quality Assurance as QA Tester/Analyst with a good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive QA experience in all phases of lifecycle, including Requirements Gathering, Project Planning, Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Extensive experience in analyzing, reviewing and understanding of Business/Functional & Testing requirements and writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenario, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Expertise in management reporting using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Daily/Weekly Status Report, Defect Report and Project Report.
• Experience in writing & executing SQL Queries for back end testing.
• Experienced in automated functional testing by recording functional scripts with Positive and Negative sets of data (Data Driven Testing) and check system's functionality.
• Experienced in Change Control Methodology, Defect Management with tools like HP QC. prepared UAT Test Plan to record the customer’s signoff of the documented scenarios and also detailed test plans to record the results of user testing.
• Was responsible for QA activities for the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Update and circulate change requests, prioritize issues, identify open issues, weekly status reports and set deadlines for inclusion in the build.
• Have extensive experience in Black Box and White Box Testing.
• Submit the status reports of projects to client and management.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills and consistently being organized by management and peer for producing high quality works.
• Efficient and versatile team player with a positive approach to all tasks.
• Quick learner, self starter, great communicator and follow good work ethics and QA methodologies and a strong team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Environment: VB, ASP, .NET, SQL, XML, HTML, HTTP, DB2VBScript, Java, C, J2EE, DHTML, CSS and PL/SQL.

Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner.

Tracking Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center

Operating System: MS - DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2.

Scripting Languages: VBScript, Java Script, HTML and XML.

Microsoft Office Tools: Word, Excel, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project Plan, MS Front Page.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Reviewed System Requirements Specs (SRS), High Level Scenarios (HLS) use cases, detail level requirements and design documents
• Close interaction with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigation flow.
• Developed the standard documentation for the Test Plans and Test Summary Sheets.
• Manual testing of the WIP modules as part of functional testing.
• Developed and executed Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.
• Executed ETL testing and verify the test results at the Database level.
• Involved in back end testing using SQL Queries for comparing the inputs & validate the reports
• Prepared work flow test cases and provided test data for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to facilitate acceptance from business users.
• Extensively worked on HP Quality Center for logging and tracking defects.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and performed Confidential Analysis.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, functional, Regression, and system testing.

Environment: JAVA,J2EE, HTML HTTP, Oracle, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle, MS-Word, MS Excel &Windows 98/2000/NT/XP.

Confidential, San Francisco

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and developed Test Cases to test the complete functionality of the application.
• Interacted with Development teams/Business users for various clarifications.
• Manual testing of the SS modules as part of functional testing.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.
• Executed ETL testing and verify the test results at the Database level.
• Involved in back end testing using SQL Queries for comparing the inputs & validate the reports
• Provided test data for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to facilitate acceptance from business users.

Environment: JAVA,J2EE, HTML HTTP, Oracle, Quality Center, Oracle, MS-Word, MS Excel &Windows 98/2000/NT/XP.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test cases, Test procedures and executed functional Test scripts for these applications.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Prepared and Executed Data driven scripts for adding multiple customers, applying for loans etc.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Designed and performed large-scale load volume end-to-end testing using large data files.
• Using Quality Center submitted the bugs, verified and resolved the bugs, Change Requests and raises the issues.

Environment: Solaris, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner 7.5, Oracle, VB, ASP, IIS, Windows NT/2000.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review Change Requests (CR)/Enhancements and prepare test cases/test plan.
• Write detailed test steps to execute test cases.
• Involved in preparing/executing regression test cases.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing, reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Performed manual and automated testing.
• Extensive involvement in backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Coordinated with the developer on defect status on regular basis.
• Used Quality Center to track and analyze defects.

Environment: Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, Oracle Telesales.

Confidential, NJ

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manual testing of the ECF modules as part of functional testing.
• Developed and executed Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, DB2, HTML, MS Project