SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in the areas of Software Testing/ Quality Assurance, Data and Requirement Analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) process.
• Experience in working with various testing tools such as HP Quality Center, HP ALM, QTP, Selenium IDE, Firebug
• Expertise in Designing and implementing Manual Testing in Agile Methodologies for Web Based, Windows Based applications, Mainframe application.
• Proficient in performing different kind of testing like Smoke Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Ad - hoc Testing, Database Testing, cross browser Compatibility Testing.
• Extensive experience in developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Specification and creating the Traceability Matrix according to the business specification and requirements.
• Expertise in creating Test plan, Test Cases, Test Designs, Test Specifications and Test Strategies according to the business specification and requirements.
• Strong SQL Skills and expertise with backend testing using SQL Server
• Closely worked with developers and BA’s to close the defects and make sure the system is defect free and working as per the business requirements.
• Extensively used software management tools like Quality Center (HP Application Management Life Cycle) for Defect tracking and reporting.
• Excellent team player with sheer dedication, strong communication, positive attitude, analytical and management skills with ability to support and sustain a positive work environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Load Runner, HP Application Life CycleManagement, QTP, TFS, Selenium IDE

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/2007/ Vista, Windows XP

Data Management: MS-Access, SQL-Server 2003/2008, MS SQL

Program Languages: PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script.

Other tools: MS Office, Power Point, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Firebug

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile and V Model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and reviewing Test cases based on the Business Requirements Documents.
• Performed Functional testing, identified application errors and interacted with the development team to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in business requirements, user requests and bug status meetings.
• Involved in Analysis, Testing, Debugging, Bug Reporting and Documenting test cases.
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application and new builds.
• Performed black box testing to identify various critical points and Module in the application.
• Extensively Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static contents, the accuracy of links, visual presentation and its alignment with design specifications under various browsers.
• Extensively worked in agile methodology and involved in scrum meetings, Sprint Planning followed by Retrospective.
• Responsible for testing the web services using Soap UI for validating Request/Response.
• Wrote SQL statements for database Integration Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center (QC) as a central repository to store and manage test cases and to create and generate Requirement Traceability Matrix and other reports for status.
• Extensively Involved in connecting the Detail Designs, Use cases and Functional Requirements.
• Used Quality Center to report the changes, defects and to generate reports.
• Executed SQL queries for backend data validation.
• Designed and Implemented Automation Test components using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to handle the functionality and regression testing.
• Interacting with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios, defects and the requirement gaps
• Used Selenium IDE and Firebug for testing client and server side validation, as well pre populating the UI text.
• Responsible for GUI testing for the website, suggesting improvements of performance of website in terms of web-page load times.
• Generated detailed bug reports and test metrics
• Involved in keeping track of SharePoint site that is used to manage project document over legacy system.
• Used TFS for version control.

Confidential

QA Analyst and Asst. Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Followed the organization’s standard documentation format for developing test plan, test cases, test data and coordinated with development team
• Attended regular project meetings, workshops with BA, Network Administrators and Developers
• Reviewed/ modified/ created test cases and test scenarios for different types of testing like functional testing, system testing, backend testing, integration testing, performance testing, load testing and regression testing as per the requirement.
• Involved in performing regression testing as Build Coordinator for verification of daily builds of Coad Release to SIT and UAT server.
• Coordinated with data support team on test data and created various test scenario.
• Executed functional tests on ATM connectivity.
• Involved in validating batch jobs for the transactions with different business scenarios.
• Executed batch jobs for reissue card file to validate data quality in new tables.
• Constructed and executed SQL queries to create test data and validated tables.
• Validated the web service request and response using Soap UI, verified the XML files and data quality.
• Involved in keeping track of SharePoint site that is used to manage project document over legacy system.
• Validated SQL Store procedures and triggers for backend functionality.
• Designed and Implemented Automation Test components using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to handle the functionality and regression testing.
• Created automation test script using shared repository and descriptive programming as well.
• Automated the test scripts using QTP for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven, keyword driven and Regression testing.
• Created Checkpoints using VB function and involved in Parameterization in QTP.
• Logged defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in bug review sessions, and coordinated with development team to keep track of bug.
• Gathered test results and created test status reports.
• Used TFS for version control.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements (BRD), and Functional Specifications Documents (FSD).
• Defined test strategy, test phases, deliverables and deadlines.
• Categorized the test cases for Functionality, Integration, End to End, Regression and Performance testing.
• Assigned tasks and responsibilities among the team.
• Reviewed the ER diagrams, data flow, web interfaces and other batch processes.
• Attended Meeting with Business Analyst and Design Review meeting with the Developers for better understanding of the modules and planning test strategies.
• Analyzed Use Cases, User manuals and Requirements where referred to write precise Test cases.
• Developed test cases to simulate different real time scenarios and defined the expected result sets.
• Executed and validated the backend functionalities, processes and interfaces to recovery management system.
• Constructed SQL queries to validate the reports, data quality and backend database functionalities.
• Reported the issues, Attended bug review meetings and Coordinated with engineering team.
• Utilized Test Director to report and track the issues.
• Used Rally for version control.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created and implemented test plans and test cases for manual testing.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios, defects and the requirement gaps
• Performed Regression Testing to verify various sections of the system to ensure that changes or fixes in the system not only work, but also do not adversely affect the remainder of the system.
• Executed SQL Queries to perform backend testing.
• Interacted with developers to prioritize bug resolution and bug status updates.
• Responsible for coordinating testing activities for releases.
• Coordinated with data support team on test data and created various test scenario.
• Executed functional tests on ATM connectivity.
• Involved in validating batch jobs for the transactions with different business scenarios.
• Executed batch jobs for reissue card file to validate data quality in new tables.
• Constructed and executed SQL queries to create test data and validated tables.
• Used Quality Center to report the changes, defects and to generate reports.
• Used Rally for version control.