SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance/Software Testing in various Web, Mobile and Client Server Applications with extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing Methods like Waterfall, Agile & V - Model.
• Hands on experience on Test Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Designing, Test Estimation, Defect reporting and tracking, Test result analysis.
• Hands on experience on Web, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Sanity, Smoke, Stress, Reliability, compatibility, Security, Load Testing and Mobile Application Testing.
• Commendable experience in various domains like Financial, Banking and Health Insurance.
• Good experience in writing complex/detailed Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test cases, by reviewing Business Requirements, Software Requirement specifications.
• Experienced in testing methodology and the entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, executing the Test Scripts and analyzing the error logs.
• Preparation of Test Data for positive and negative scenarios.
• Experience with Test Director and Quality Center for Requirements, Test Plan, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation
• Experienced in logging defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Quality Center and Rally
• Prepare Consolidated Defect Report at the end of each round of testing and attended daily status meetings to discuss defects and testing progress.
• Good Experience in Effort Estimation and Sprint Planning.
• Developed the Test case Repository that contained the pool of Regression Test cases of the business critical components for building the Automated Regression Test suites
• Excellent knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management and Testing Life Cycles, SCRUM practices and test process documentation and End user training.
• Actively participated in walk through, Meetings and interacted with developers for any technical issues.
• Experience in developing SQL queries and using different Joins on multiple tables to perform Back-end Testing.
• Good exposure on testing tools like QC 9.2/10 and Rally.
• Demonstrated strengths in communicating with all levels within an organization, and possesses excellent interpersonal skills, written and spoken English.
• Experience in database testing using SQL. Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Centre 9.2, 10.0, Rally, Test Director 7.X, Bugzilla, Android Emulator, Perfecto Mobile, VNC, SOAPUI

Programming Languages: Test Script Language, C

Database: SQL Server

Web Technologies: HTTP, HTML, XML, SOAP, Web Services, .Net, JavaScript

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003

Configuration Management: SVN, Share point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysed business requirements and prepared Test plan and test casesusing the Standard Testing techniques.
• Responsible for performing Integration Testing,SystemTesting, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Web based testing.
• Actively participated inwalk through, Meetings and interacted with developersfor any technical issues.
• Extensively worked on testing the Java based web services
• Maintained test cases, test executions in Quality Center
• Development and execution of Test Cases, Test Scripts and conducted tests manually.
• PreparedUser Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Plan, scriptsand test data.
• Single Point of Contact for client across Offshore & Onshore model.
• Coordinated with the offshore team to get the status on daily basis.
• Responsible for preparation of Traceability matrix to ensure test coverage
• Worked in projects that followed V Model of SDLC.
• Actively Involved in Future Project Sizing/Estimations, Resource and Work allocations.
• Logged thetraced defects and analysedthe defects inQuality Center.
• Prepare Consolidated Defect Reportat the end of each round of testing and attended dailystatus meetingsto discuss defects and testing progress.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Manual Testing & web based testing, Virtual Network Connectivity, Citismart (Mainframe), MS Excel, MS Word

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Sprint Planning and reviewing acceptance criteria of each story as per Agile/SCRUM practice
• Designed Test Plan, Traceability Document, identified test scenarios and created manual test cases
• Involved in coordinating and conducting integration testing of various projects
• Worked as Team Lead and reviewed the test artifacts and prepared Test Summary Report.
• Communicated and interacted with business, various functional and technical teams within the organization in reviews and meetings.
• Extensively worked on testing .NET web services built using SOAP UI
• Coordinated the offshore team for getting the status on daily basis
• Manual testing of various Text-Hyperlinks and Image-Hyperlinks of different pages in Not Me.
• Done Mobile Application testing for the DocGps and Not Me Web Application.
• Provided Efforts Estimate and coordinated the test schedule using SCRUM methodology
• Responsible for test data preparation for the system / integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage and defect logging
• Coordinated with deployment and development team for all the issues related to deployments and defect tracking.
• Performed tests for Functionality, Security, GUI, End to End and System
• Involved in Defect review meetings to help developers understand the problem and setting the severity levels
• Performed Testing on Android Device and Android Emulator.
• Responsible for Reviewing the testing artifacts of fellow members
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective meeting that helps to discuss and improve the process.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Android Emulator, Virtual Machine, Safari Browser, Android 2.1,IE,Chrome, MS Excel, MS Word, Web Application Testing.

Confidential, Kingston, NY

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan, executed test cases, developed reports benchmarking the performance of various builds and documented results.
• Managed all phases of software testing for assigned components. Ensured Test plans, Test Strategies and Test cases were completed to meet business requirements.
• Hands on experience in System, Integration, Regression, Black Box, Functional and Operational Acceptance testing, test planning, scripting and execution.
• Extensive exposure in Test Management tool like Quality Center 10 and Rally.
• Worked on testing of new enhancements to the LCG.
• Involved in User Story sizing and estimating.
• Tested the Web based application on different browser environment like Internet explorer, Safari and Chrome.
• Measured Response Time for Testing as part of the Web Application testing.
• Analysed test results and generated defect reporting and tracking via Quality Center.
• Designed and executed test cases for enhancements in all the modules.
• Involved in peer reviews and lead reviews. Conducted Knowledge transfer to new team members.
• Active role in Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective Meeting as part of Agile process.
• Reporting the bug through bug tracking tool (Rally) and involved in defect call

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Neo Load, Rally, IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, web site testing, MS Excel, MS Word

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration, Regression and System testing.
• Participated in Walk through for Test Plans and Test Cases development.
• Created new or modified existing Test Case based on specification and requirements documents.
• Gathering business requirements, Functional Specifications, Detailed Design documents from Business Analysts and Build team to prepare Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Performed manual testing to test the different functionality of the application.
• Recorded various test scripts on different scenarios to run automated test.
• Worked closely with developers in fixing of bugs reported.
• Performed all test assignments to ensure the application meets business requirements and client expectations.
• Interacted with developers & various members of project team to discuss and resolve defects and to determine their priorities.
• Summarize test results in formula test analysis reports according to the documentation standards
• Understanding the Functional specification Document provided
• Preparation of Clarification document based on the Business Requirement Document and sending for resolution.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract data from Tables and to update the CD dates.
• Involved in the preparation of Test Plan
• Involved in writing Functional and Regression test cases.
• Uploading the test cases into Test Director.
• Executing Functional and Regression test cases manually.
• Reporting the bug through bug tracking tool and involved in defect call to make Developer aware about the severity of defect.

Environment: Test Director, Virtual Network Connectivity, Putty, MS Excel, MS Word

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of Test Scenarios
• Involved in writing Functional and Regression test cases.
• Uploading the test cases into Test Director.
• Executing Functional and Regression test cases manually.
• Performed Web testing.
• Interacted with developers to identify and resolve the issues.
• Defects documentation to facilitate the ease of understanding.
• Retesting the defect.

Environment: Test Director, IE, Web testing, MS Excel, MS word