QA Consultant Resume MI - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Above 4+ years of diversified experience in IT industry with extensive skills set dedicated to QA and Testing Client/Server/Web/Mainframe Applications (Insurance, Telecommunication and E - Commerce Systems).
Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and expertise in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies.
Well experienced in documentation and translation of Functional Specifications into Test Objectives and writing detailed Test Cases.
Involved in writing Test Plan.
Expertise in manual Testing Client-Server and web application.
Expertise and experience in Testing tools and test management tools for Functional, Regression, Back-end, Positive, Negative, Integration, System, Black Box and UAT
Experience in documenting the testing process using MS-Office tools.
Organized, attention to detail, self-motivation, personable, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
Excellent Technical, communication and planning skills.
A very good team player with excellent ability to learn the new technologies in short time.
Experience using Quality Center and Bugzilla for bug tracking and reporting and maintained a test log reporting defects and also monitored the resolutions of defects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center Bugzilla

Programming Languages: Unix, C, C++, Java and .NET

OS: Windows 2003/2007, XP and Vista

Databases: Oracle Client, SQL Server

Database Testing Tool: TOAD

MS-Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MI

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

As a team member I was involved in preparing test Matrix, test Cases, Verification & validation of system requirements, PSD (Preliminary Systems Design) review.
I have participated in Functional Specifications review meetings and discussed them with SME (Subject Mater Expert) for clarification.
Reviewed the Preliminary Systems Design document with the business and development team to understand the functionality of the application.
Managed the testing process including test cases and created traceability matrix in Quality Center.
Executed the test cases on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
Performed various types of testing such as: Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and User Acceptance testing.
Documented bugs, questionable functions, errors and inconsistencies in application functions.
Tracked the test results for business, categorized issues and created defect report

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Documented Business rules and Requirements specifications by referring Information Architecture documents, Statement of work doc, Functional specification of project documents.
Played significant role in planning and implementation phases of Testing. Part of Process team and was extensively involved in improving the Testing Strategy.
Developed test plan after analysis of the user requirement specification, Application process flow and design documents.
Written detailed test cases for different scenarios based on Business logic and System architecture.
Extensively responsible in Functional, Regression, System and User acceptance testing.
Prepared Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the requirements from the Design Requirement Document.
Reporting and verifying the bugs in Bugzilla.
Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
Used Bugzilla for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Confidential

Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in Walkthrough and review meetings with Business analysts and development team to gather information about end user requirements and Preparing Design specification for the programs module wise.
Responsible for developing Test Plan based on functional specs and technical specs of the application.
Wrote detailed test cases for the application.
Performed security testing for principal agent access and employee access.
Performed Functional and System testing on the application based on User design and functionality of the application.
Involved in Change management system.
Responsible for Regression, Integration, black box, UAT, Front end/back-end and end to end on multi-platform.
Involved in writing and executing test cases and QA procedures tracking and reporting defects using Test Director on a daily basis.
Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers like IE, Netscape and operating systems.
Involved in QA status meetings to raise the issues and coordinated well with the Developers team.
Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting and maintained a test log reporting defects and also monitored the resolutions of defects using a Test Director.
After the completion of the entire application, monitored and supported the application though out the new enhancement.