SUMMARY

• A Quality - focused IT QA professional with over five years of experience in Manual and Automation testing on various platforms;
• Proficient in testing of web based and client server application in financial, mortgage, and bio-pharmaceuticals industries.
• Dynamic and assertive team player with strong commitment, excellent communications and analytical skills is seeking for a challenging position as a Software Test Engineer/QA Test Analyst in the field of software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experience in designing and executing test plans, test cases Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), and test deliverables and thorough understanding of SDLC and STLC.Ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines, often with competing priorities and complexities.
• Possess specific experience performing testing including Backend, Front-end, Regression, Functional, System, Interface, Black box, Integration, User Acceptance Testing, and Gray box Testing.
• Developed CRM Test Matrix, Integration Test Cases and Test Scripts for Installation Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and UAT.
• Experience in Automation testing using HP-Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, Quick Test Professional.
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment or in a rapid pace environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Business Analysts, Testers, Developers and other team members in complex testing projects and in the overall enhancement of CRM software product quality.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision, established priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly report to QA Manager..
• Worked with Project Manager and QA Manager to define release criteria and produce estimates for testing of software releases.
• Planned all QA activities including Sanity, Full Length Functional, Regression, Compatibility, Integration, Load and Performance testing.
• Performed web-site testing to test Links and security issues.
• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan and Test cases.
• Developed test cases for automation team for regression testing.
• Involved in Manual, Automation and Mobile application testing of Web and Client Server Application.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Positive, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, UAT, Security and Performance Testing.
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Validated test to check boundary conditions and error messages.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Tested the Security of the application using both Positive and Negative scenarios
• Wrote SQL statements in script to retrieve data from database in order to verify accurate data stored in database as well as back end testing.
• Used different joins on the tables to retrieve information from different tables in database to check the database on a regular basis using SQL queries.
• Developed test approaches /test designs. Wrote test plans, created production simulations, and test data.
• QTP scripts were generated and called different functions and checked for different properties for the recorded objects. Synchronization functions, Wait functions were introduced in the scripts.
• Conducted GUI, Data driven, and Functional Testing using QTP.
• Enhanced the scripts by reusable actions, checkpoints, synchronization points, parameterization and modular test in QTP.
• Extensively worked on VBScript to create the automated tests for QTP. Performed Regression testing of the weekly builds of the application.
• Creation of Requirements to Test cases traceability in Quality Center for each release.
• Responsible for performance testing script development and analysis reporting for applications as well as testing methodologies and software development lifecycle process improvement.
• Responsible for weekly status meeting showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Maintenance of the site for any technical and operational issues and resolving them.
• Module level Integration and Regression testing.
• Status reporting on daily and weekly basis to Manager-QA.
• Trouble shooting of customer issues on daily basis.
• Involved in compatibility testing for various browsers like Mozilla, Safari and IE7.0 & 8.0, 9.0, & 10

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Identified documents required for system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios.
• Developed and implemented Test Plan, Test Case, RTM and Test Analysis Report to ensure that all software products meet organization standards and end user Requirements
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Compatibility Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Coordinate with end users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing
• Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing and Regression Testing using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Developed custom function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions
• Performed load testing using HP Load Runner, used Virtual User Generator (Vu Gen) for script development, enhanced the scripts by inserting transaction points, parameterize and inserting correlation
• Created test scenario on Load Runner controller for Baseline, Stress, Volume and Soak testing
• Monitored application server and database server resources (CPU and memory uses)
• Used Load Controller and measured response time to pin-point bottlenecks in applications, networking and server settings
• Used LR Analysis to analyze test result and locate bottleneck for performance degradation
• Involved in Meetings/Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications
• Identified modules that were impacted by various Change Requests
• Managed the testing process, logged and trucked defects using Test Director
• Involved in daily defect meetings during testing phase and extensively worked throughout Defect Life Cycle from opening to closure using Quality Center
• Prioritized Test Cases for Risk Based Testing
• Assisted in estimating testing efforts and providing Status Updates
• Participated in weekly Project meetings and organizing defect meetings
• Submitted Defect Reports and communicated issues to Testing Lead, Developers and Management

Environment: Selenium, Quality Center, Outlook, HTML, XML

Confidential - New York, NY

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases of various Business applications, and complete familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Interacted with End-users, Stakeholders and Business Analysts for gathering and analyzing business and technical requirement specifications
• Worked closely with all the business as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes
• Used MS project to keep track of tasks status
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements and Technical Specifications covering both positive and negative testing requirements
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and traced the requirements to the corresponding test cases
• Performed extensive back-end Database testing using complex SQL queries
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirement specifications
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including Users, development team, marketing and technical team
• Involved in preparation and execution of Test Cases for an application
• Performed UI Testing on the application web-Interface
• Created the Regression Test Cases and automated them for the purpose of Regression Testing
• Created Standard Checkpoints, Bitmap Checkpoints, Text Checkpoints and Text-Area Checkpoints to check the application's current behavior in previous version using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Created Regular Checkpoints as well as Output Value Checkpoints
• Involved in preparation of Test plans, Test cases, Test scripts and responsible for executing the Test Scripts
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts inserting Checkpoints, Parameters, Synchronized the scripts and saved the same scripts for Regression Testing
• Performed Data Driven Testing using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Performed Regular Expression for capturing dynamic value using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Performed Regression Testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application
• Effectively utilized Mercury Quality Center in creating Test plan, Test Cases and Defect tracking.
• Tracked defects and facilitate defect review meetings with team leads
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using HP Quality Center, Including logging defects, assigning them to developers, facilitating defect review sessions and researching causes of defects in development builds and in production environments
• Mentored new team members

Confidential - New York, NY

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Cases and in preparing RTM.
• Reviewed the Master Test Plan and the Technical Specifications.
• Translated Business and Technical Requirements into comprehensive test cases.
• Performed testing on both positive and negative scenarios.
• Involved in evaluating the Business Requirement documents, Test Plan documents, Design documents, RTM and Test scripts.
• Participate in peer reviews of software requirements, designs and test procedures.
• Document test plans and test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements.
• Manually performed System, UAT, functional, and regression testing.
• Maintain and execute test cases and test scripts using in house testing tool. Report & track bugs, perform E-mail notifications to the developers using Bugzilla.
• Follow the standard test process guide for the QA methodology.
• Involved in manual testing of the GUI with regard to navigation, usability and standards.
• Create regression test cases for the purpose of regression testing.
• Actively participated in the Walkthrough and Defect report meetings.
• Provide back end testing for data validation using SQL Queries.
• Wrote SQL statements in script to retrieve data from database in order to verify accurate data stored in database as well as back end testing.
• Used different joins on the tables to retrieve information from different tables in database to check the database on a regular basis using SQL queries.
• Work closely with Test Lead during the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) by ensuring full test coverage of the assigned test cases.