SUMMARY

• Software professional with over 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance & Testing activities.
• Experienced in complete SDLC and STLC, including estimating, requirements gathering, analysis, design, as well as manual and automation testing.
• Experienced in creating and developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Reports and Defect Reports for both Manual and Automation tests.
• Extensively performed Black Box, Grey Box, White Box Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Extensive knowledge with - Selenium, Win Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional (QTP), and Quality Center.
• Specialized in identifying edge cases, defects and design flaws in all major browsers, devices, stand alone and web applications (Java and .NET)
• Worked in various domains including banking, auto and finance and healthcare.
• Good Experience in Application Programming Interface (API) testing.
• Ability to perform end-to-end testing including Functional, System, Performance, Integration, Regression, GUI, UAT, Security, Load, Database, and Usability testing.
• Proficient in using Quality Center for test management, defect tracking, and reporting.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing of Mainframe and Client-Server based Applications.
• Worked in methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Performed unit testing using JUnit.
• Coding and executing performance tracking and reporting scripts in Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript and HTML.
• Conducting UAT and executing test cases and test scripts via the HP Lifecycle Management tool.
• Developed SQL queries and stored procedures with cursors and functions to create and load test data using TOAD for Data Analysis and QA reporting and testing.
• Extensive knowledge working with HP ALM and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Proactive as a team member interacting with business analyst, release engineer, developers and business customers, database admin throughout the SDLC process from estimates to release.
• Involved in Requirements review, Functional document review, Test review and key resource for UAT phase and production roll-out
• Involved in timely discussion and communicating with the users during the development phase of software.
• Knowledge to using Microsoft Excel to developing capital budgeting financial project.
• Good communication & interpersonal skills & self-motivated & quick learning skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TEST REPORTING TOOLS: QTP, Mercury Quality Center, HP ALM, Test Director, Load Runner, Win Runner

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 95/98/XP/2000/2003, UNIX/LINUX, Veritas

Defect Tracking: Microsoft Test Management tools, Test Director/ Quality Center ALM

Databases: MS SQL Server 7.x/2000, Microsoft Access, Toad

MS OFFICE SOFTWARE: MS OFFICE Suite (Word, excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

METHODOLOGIES: RUP, UML, Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, RAD, JAD, CRM, SWOT

SCRIPTING LANGUAGE: HTML, SQL & PL/SQL, Java

Bug Reporting Tool: Quality Center, Test Director, TOAD, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

System Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in writing and updating project documentation including test plans, test cases, testing procedures, requirement traceability matrices, and training materials
• Review and analyze business requirements, system requirements and technical specifications
• Work with senior level BA/Testers to develop test scenarios, document test cases, create test data/files, compile test summary documentation and provide work estimation for test preparation and execution
• Involved in the day-to-day testing of the application, which involved functional testing, backend testing, regression testing, GUI, and integration testing
• Work with senior level BA/Tester to perform detailed analysis of test results
• Participate in daily Scrum meetings
• Participate in SDLC Peer Reviews
• Used Quality Center to write test cases, execute test scripts for manual testing, and as a defect tracking tool to report application defects and enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues
• Checked the Database by using SQL queries
• Backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries to test the integrity of the application
• Report defect found during test cycles and Track the defects and retest them
• Interacted with developers for Defect Fixes
• Documented the bug report and categorized them based on severity
• Documented, tracked and communicated test plans, test results, analysis, and unresolved problems
• Compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution
• Participate in different walkthrough in different phase of SDLC like requirement, design, and testing
• Effectively communicates with management and team leads on testing status and critical testing issues
• Participate in problem tracking management to bring defects to resolution

Environment: Windows, Java, Unix, MAC, iOS, Android, C++, Quality Center, CaliberRM, SharePoint, SQL, TERADATA SQL Assistant, Agile, MS Office

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirements Specification, User Interface Design Documents and Use Cases to understand the functionality and working of the custom developed application.
• Author, Review, and Modify Test Strategy & Approach, Test Plans, Test Procedures to meet testing and product deadlines.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Expert in writing test scripts manually.
• Created and managed system testing schedule.
• Provided test team status reports on weekly basis to the project manager.
• Reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Involved in reviewing complex SQL queries, views, functions and stored procedures and spotting issues before/during code migration.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the oracle database.
• Performed Component Testing, System Integration testing, Unit testing and Regression testing for the portions that were already developed and implemented.
• Provided approvals to the Change requests, User Stories and formal documentation of Testing Phase.
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using Quality center.
• Tracked defects using Quality center.
• Involved in project status meetings, QA review meeting, and System Test meeting.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the User Acceptance testing.

Confidential, AZ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collected the software requirements and specifications
• Analyzed software specifications to gain a better understanding of the application
• Responsible for documenting Test plan/ Test cases/ Test scripts as per Business rules for each release
• Designed and executed Test Scripts and performed Manual Testing
• Performed system testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, usability testing
• Written test plan/ Test cases/ Test scripts as per Business rules for each release
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Extensively executed SQL queries for back-end testing
• Actively participated Change Requirement Meeting and reviewed Change Request Documents
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met
• Maintained and tracked defects using Quality Center
• Backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries to test the integrity of the application
• Report defect found during test cycles and Track the defects and retest them
• Interacted with developers for Defect Fixes
• Conducted weekly team status review meetings and
• Produced daily progress report and Defect reports
• Extensively involved in Black Box testing which involved System Testing, Regression Testing and UAT

Environment: Windows, MAC, MS Office, MS Project, Java/J2EE, HTML, SQL Server, SQL and Quality Center

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the test plan, analyzing the test scenarios, preparing test case documents, defining the performance environment requirements specifying report templates and conducting the scripting, benchmarking and interpretation of results.
• Developed detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and responsible for executing the Test Cases, Test Scripts using JIRA.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Integration, Functional, Regression, Troubleshooting, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in deployment of Selenium's Grid in support of web browser testing (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera)
• Worked with deployment team to create nightly automation regression execution builds.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End-to-End testing and Regression testing.
• Extensively used SQL queries to validate the data.
• Worked closely with the User Experience and Development Teams

Environment: Java, Oracle, Windows, UNIX, JIRA, SQL Server.

Confidential

Business Support Specialist/System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the business, data and the technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Involved in gathering the business requirements from various sessions with business leads and documented the requirements.
• Created activity diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and data flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Involved in identifying Functional and Non-Functional requirements and created the Functional System Design document (FSD).