SUMMARY

• Over 8 plus years of experience in QA Testing using Quality Center, SQL, and Windows environments.
• Well experienced in Manual, and having knowledge of Automation testing with QTP and Selenium.
• Expertise in analyzing Business/System Requirement documents, designing, developing and executing Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test cases.
• Experienced in System Testing, UAT support & participated in Internal Analysis walkthroughs.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back - end testing using SQL, Unit testing, Integration testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Black Box Testing, System Testing.
• Performed Testing Life Cycle (TLC) during the various phases of the application.
• Experience in using testing tools like, Quality Center, HP ALM and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Excellent in writing Master Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and Test cases and scripts
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies, from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Professional with extensive experience in testing of large client server applications and Mainframe applications in functional testing, data driven and regression testing.
• Responsible in Sales Force application testing process for migrating the folders or mappings and sessions from development to production environment.
• Helped new team members to understand the Business requirements & system flow.
• Strong Experience with Manual Testing Tools for Creating Test Scripts, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Case Automation.
• Experience in Testing of Client/Server and Web based Applications using Tools like Test Director, Clear Quest, JIRA, HP ALM and Quality Center
• Expertise on Quick test pro. Proficient in Developing and maintaining scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and VB scripting, design and implementation of QTP test frameworks
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills
• Experience of SDLC, Waterfall, Agile methodology and project life cycle.
• Excellent Analytical skills with a good understanding Confidential the Conceptual Level and possess excellent Presentation, Interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals. Excellent written and verbal communication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Quality Center 9.0/9.2/10.0 , HP ALM, Test Director, Selenium, QTP/UFT

Script Languages: JavaScript, VB Script, XSLT.

Bug Tracking Tools: MS Visio, Clear Quest, Issue View, Bugzilla, Quality Center, HP ALM, MTS, JIRA, Silk Center

Languages: C, C#, C#.Net, Asp.Net., Java, Jscript

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, Window Server 2003, Vista, UNIXWeb-Technologies HTML, XML, ASP.Net. JSP, ASP

RDBMS: MS-SQL Server 2000/2005, MS-Access, Oracle

Browsers Windows: IE, Mozilla, AOL, Netscape, Mac Safari, AOL, Mozilla, Google Chrome

SDLC Methodology: AGILE, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey, NJ

Sr. QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely Monitored requirements, Functional specifications and guide the SQA team members to update the Scenarios and Scripts as per the changes under Agile methodology using QC and ALM 11.
• Involved in Regression Testing, Smoke Testing and Negative Testingfor the projects involved using ALM 11.
• Used Agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards
• Reviewing and Verifying Business Requirements specifications
• Identify the Test Scenarios and Developed Test Cases as per the Scenarios and Use Case Documents.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for manual testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Worked with waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Responsible for the checking of bugs/issues, its resolution, modifications and necessary changes.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Actively participated in co-ordination with vendors & business group
• Train Business users on Defect Tracking System.
• Performed System and User Acceptance testing (UAT). Used HP ALM to Design Test cases for newly added Functionalities and manually executed those test cases.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings, Product Demo, Iteration planning meetings.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix Document using Test Case and Requirement Documents
• Worked with business customers and project leads to ensure successful roll out of high-quality application.
• Responsible for the execution of the regression and new features scripts for every build and release and analyzing the results and summarizing the execution reports.
• Worked closely with Application Architects, Business Analysts and Project Managers to discuss and collect business requirements.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various Database tables for Testing Purpose.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the Database.
• Maintained the Test Logs, Test Reports, Test issues, Defect tracking using HP ALM
• Tested the Application end-to-end in Manual Testing of the Application.
• Supported with testing when there is production issues by doing Emergency Bug fix testing.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Share Point, Windows XP, Oracle 9i, MS Excel, SQL, Microsoft Visio, ALM 11.00, QTP/UFT, HP ALM JIRA, Java, J struts, Tomcat

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Quality Center for Test cases, Test Execution, and Generating Reports.
• Analyzed the business requirements and developed the Detail Test Plan and the Test Strategy
• Involved in Agile (scrum) methodology to document reality changes in business requirements and design
• Analyzed BRD and FRD to written test cases and performed functional Testing.
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases usingRTM
• Involved in manual and automation testing for web services applications
• Responsible for writing the Test scenarios as well Test cases in ALM/Quality Center
• Data conditioning based on the Mortgage Loan
• Simulated multiple transactions with the bank and monitored the server’s integration
• Data preparation with loan origination system and run the application based on changes using QTP/UFT
• Participating Business Analyst and reviewing the requirement
• Developed and executed the test cases based on business requirements.
• Prepare the traceability requirement vs Test cases
• Involved in peer reviewing of Test Cases and sending appropriate comments.
• Responsible for tracking, reporting and closing the defects in JIRA
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test scripts.
• Involved in functional and regression testing and verified the application, as per the user requirements.
• Worked with developers to resolve problems and managing the process for smooth transition between development team and testing team.
• Performed positive and negative testing on the credit application.
• Wrote different SQL queries to access data from different database tables, and used for data verification.
• Participated in team meetings for test case reviews and status updates on daily/weekly basis
• Log project related issues in the defect-tracking tool identified for the project.

Environment: Quality Center 11/ALM, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word., SQL, Mainframe, Clear Quest, JIRA, Selenium, UNIX, VB Scripts, QTP

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various phases of QA life cycle and software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzed the business requirements and developed the Detail Test Plan and the Test Strategy
• Involved in Agile (scrum) methodology to document reality changes in business requirements and design
• Functioned as the Onsite / Offshore coordinator
• Tracked the progress of the test team through weekly status reports
• Implemented effective and efficient testing processes, documentation, tools, and testing methodologies
• Performed Scheduling Tasks to run the Batches, which in turn allocates the data
• Documented and communicated test reports using Quality Center Dashboard
• Functioned as the point-of-contact during the defect tracking process
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report and comparison chart.
• Tested and Validated SOAP Request and SOAP Response messages.
• Worked with development team to ensure ‘testing issues’ are resolved on the basis of using defect reports

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Java, C++, JSP, UNIX, Windows XP, ORACLE, DB2 HTML, JIRA, MS Word, SQL Server, Mainframe, Visio, SQL, Sales Force

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementing business requirements, system requirement specifications, and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements in Test Director.
• Understanding testing requirements related to the current project / product.
• Assist test lead during test planning.
• Writing test scenarios for responsible modules and responsible testing topics by using "Black box techniques”.
• Involve in test cases review meeting along with the test lead.
• Involve in smoke testing on initial software build
• Execute test cases by using test data on QC in test environment to detect defects.
• Involve in defect reporting and tracking
• Conduct Retesting, Sanity testing and Regression testing on every modified SUT to close bugs.
• Used SQL to connect various test databases to SUT during testing.
• Involve in final regression testing on final SUT during test closure.
• Join with the developers to do acceptance testing to collect the feedback on software from the real customers / model customers.
• Assist test lead in RTM preparation before signoff from the project / product.
• Tested the processes for both before data validation and after data validation process.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0/ALM, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word., SQL, Mainframe, Clear Quest, JIRA, Selenium, UNIX, VB Scripts

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementing business requirements, system requirement specifications, and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements in Test Director.
• Understanding testing requirements related to the current project / product.
• Assist test lead during test planning.
• Writing test scenarios for responsible modules and responsible testing topics by using "Black box techniques”.
• Involve in test cases review meeting along with the test lead.
• Involve in smoke testing on initial software build
• Execute test cases by using test data on QC in test environment to detect defects.
• Involve in defect reporting and tracking
• Conduct Retesting, Sanity testing and Regression testing on every modified SUT to close bugs.
• Used SQL to connect various test databases to SUT during testing.
• Involve in final regression testing on final SUT during test closure.
• Join with the developers to do acceptance testing to collect the feedback on software from the real customers / model customers.
• Assist test lead in RTM preparation before signoff from the project / product.
• Tested the processes for both before data validation and after data validation process.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0/ALM, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word., SQL, Mainframe, Clear Quest, JIRA, Selenium, UNIX, VB Scripts