SUMMARY

• Around 5+ years of experience in QA Testing using Quality Center, SQL, and Windows environments.
• Well experienced in Manual, and having knowledge of Automation testing.
• Proficientin 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, and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Excellent in writing Master Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and Test cases and scripts
• Have experience working in Web-based applications, Data-Warehousing solutions.
• Helped new team members to understand the Business requirements & system flow.
• Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving skills
• Having knowledge of MS Office - Word, Excel, Access and Outlook
• Excellent Analytical skills with a good understanding at the Conceptual Level and possess excellent Presentation, Interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals. Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7/NT/2000/XP, and MS-DOS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, Clear Quest, Clear Case, HP Quick Test Professional, Soap UI, XML Spy, TMT, TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML

Databases/RDBMS: SQL Server 2000/2005, DB2, Teradata, Oracle, MS-Access

Methodologies and Process: Water fall, Agile, ETL Data warehouse

Other Tools: Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems QA Analyst

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Specification, System Requirements Specification and User Interface Specification documents
• Used Quality Center for Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test cases, Test Execution, and Generating Reports.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases with the complete description of requirements.
• Uploaded test cases into Quality Center for Reported and managed defects using Quality Center, and interacted with the developers to resolve technical issues.
• Writing XML code, testing XML in Soap UI as well as XML Spy
• Preparing Test Data, Test conditioning while testing the mortgage application
• Tested and created data reports using with SQL Queries.
• Interacted with the developers in fixing the problems. Interacted with Business Analysts for the constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements.
• Involved in doing the web testing using manually
• Helped new team members to understand the Business requirements & system flow.
• Conducted and participated in Peer reviews for reviewing test cases.
• Supported end users for UAT Testing
• Conducted regression testing for each change request and System Integration Testing(SIT)
• Writing moderate SQL query with simple joins to validate the data in the backend.
• Attended Status meetings & Updated the management with Daily & Weekly Status report of all the testingactivities.
• Preparing all kind of documents for all phases

Environment: Quality Center 11/ALM, Share Point, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word, SQL Server/SQL Management Studio 2008, Mainframe/DB2, Microsoft Visio, Soap UI, MTM, TFS (Test Foundation Server), Agile/Scrum, Data warehouse, SQL

Systems QA Analyst

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Requirement Documents and determined what types of testing apply.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application.
• Created test processes, test cases and methods for performing the tests.
• Conducted Functionality, System and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Functional tests to ensure business functions have been met.
• Closely monitoring Regression Testing, Smoke Testing and Negative Testingfor the projects involved using ALM 11
• Conducted User Interface testing to provide the users with appropriate navigation flow through the functions of the application.
• Preparing all kind of documents in all phases

Environment: XML, HTML,ETL, Data ware house, SQL, Windows 2000, Java,QualityCenter, Quick Test Pro, Scrum, Java, J2EE, Oracle and DB2,Quality Center/ALM,MS Excel, Visio, XML, Soup UI

QA Analyst/Tester

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various phases of QA life cycle and software development life cycle.
• Developed test cases to test the complete functionality of the application by understanding the business requirements.
• Execution of Test Cases and Peer Review of Test cases.
• Gave an overview of Test Plans in Test Plan Review meetings to get them signed off.
• Generated various test cases in QC, documented & communicated test results.
• Involved in setting up the environment for developer when the defect is not properly communicated and convinced the developer about the defect.
• Developed and Executed Test cases and participated actively in GUI, functional, unit, integration, system testing and regression testing for the Web Based application as well as the Windows based application.
• Actively participated in defect status and review meetings to resolve the defects in efficient and timely manner.
• Issue reporting, tracking and preparing review report using Test Director
• Responsible for updating existing Test Cases against the change of requirements

Environment: ASP.Net, VB script, MS Excel, MS Word, SQL Server 2005, Mercury Quality Center 9.0., Windows XP, Manual Testing, J2EE, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Data warehouse, Crystal Report, ETL