SUMMARY

• Having 5 years of Professional Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing in different environments and platforms.
• Expertise in Manual Testing and Black box testing.
• Excellent working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing Methods like Waterfall & Agile.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases, by reviewing Business Requirements, Software Requirement specifications and creating Gap Analysis for test purpose.
• Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on different types of testing viz., Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, System, User - Acceptance and Black Box.
• Good experience in writing and executing Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Plans and Test Reports for Manual tests.
• Experience in logging defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple Environments and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking tools like HP Quality Center and Product Studio.
• Preparation of Test Data for positive and negative scenarios.
• Good experience in Back-end testing by using SQL Queries to validate the data.
• Experience in developing SQL queries and using different Joins on multiple tables to perform Back-end Testing.
• Managed and coordinated QA review meetings.
• Possess Management skills including implementing and maintaining QA processes and activities.
• Have solid experience on database query tools such as TOAD, SQL Server Management Server.
• Working experience in Website Testing, Payments System and Banking domain in Project support and testing roles.
• Efficient understanding of business and functional requirements, interface requirements and functional and technical solutions for the same.
• Looking for role that values my sound understanding of payment systems and provides me an opportunity to work in a challenging environment.
• Creative problem solver, effective team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical capabilities, ability to learn quickly new technologies and adapt to new environments.
• Leadership qualities and focus on delivering results on time.
• Good logical thinking and grasping ability
• Communication and co-ordination with clients, project partner systems and vendors
• Understand Customer requirements and reviewing the IRD/FRD and providing valuable functional and technical input for solutions to vendors.
• Exposure to various project teams and ability to work as a team member within support, business and functional teams.
• Sound technical background and a good understanding of payment systems initiatives.
• Perseverance and willingness to learn more

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center 8.2/9.2, Quick Test Pro 9.5(QTP), WTT

Mobile Devices: Android 2.3.x, Android 4.0.x, Android 4.1.x (all versions),Windows Phone (7,8), IOS 6

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center 8.2/9.2 and Product Studio

Databases: Oracle 10g, Toad, SQL Server 2005/2000/2008 and MS Access/Word/Excel

Confidential tools: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Internet Explorer

Languages: C#, SQL, .NET,VB Script

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000//NT/XP, Unix

Functional Skills: Website Application, Banking/Payment Systems, Swift Messages

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bothell, WA

Mobile Device Tester

Responsibilities:

• Execution of the manual test case as well as ad-hoc testing.
• Performed manual and Black box testing on mobile devices.
• Used MTE tool for performing Performance testing of the devices, manually and automated test cases.
• Performed Security testing of the devices (Android SDK and signing of Android apk files).
• Reporting new bugs and tracking and regression of defects using QC.
• Performed end to end testing of the mobile pre-loaded applications and widgets testing, Femto Cell testing, Android market testing, Public website testing, Windows marketplace testing, Music and Movies Testing, Circuit Switched Fall back (CSFB) testing, Device Protocol Testing (Performance and Security)
• Performed testing on 3G/4G and LTE networks and Wi-Fi.
• Testing of the chat conversations, Send Receive Picture messages, MMS, sending sms from the chat, calling from the conversation
• Testing all the other functionalities which a PC version of the respective messenger have like Blocking/Unblocking a contact, Adding, deleting a contact, Display of the groups etc
• Testing Video streaming apps such as Movies, YouTube etc.
• Mobile Games testing experience.
• Chase up for the defect to be fixed with development teams
• Coordinating with the development team and test lead regarding bugs.
• Reviewing and updating Test Cases as per requirement for different releases
• Involved in updating the status of the bugs

Environment: JAVA, LINUX, IOS, Android, Windows, BREW, RIM, HP Quality Centre, MS Office tools

Confidential, Omaha, NE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with development engineers and prepared test plans and endured functionality of all web based applications.
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process.
• Performed manual tests and ensured continuous regression tests on applications.
• Identified bugs in systems by regular tests and resolved all issues and defects.
• Observed all features of tests and checked for any inconsistency in systems and resolved them.
• Managed and implemented all manual tests on systems.
• Designed utility programs to be used on systems.
• Resolved all complex problems in programs and ensured that quality was maintained in facility.
• Collected project information and submitted all reports to project manager and lead developer.

Environment: Agile,Scrum, Java, IWBS,IBS,TIP Retail, Jira, Oracle, FNI,Mainframe.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively used manual testing procedure to verify, testing the functionality of the application and to assess and verify how the process handles exceptional test scenarios.
• Creating proper Test plans and Test strategy document, along with identifying proper data
• Responsible for all the testing deliverable.
• Understanding the Application flow and creating the Test Scenarios
• Uploading and executing Test cases Using Quality Center 9.2.
• Extensively used SQL query for retrieving data from database and involved in backend testing.
• Developed a wide-range of SQL queries to assure data validation and avoid duplication in tables of the database.
• Assigning new bugs using Quality Center 9.2
• Involved in Integration testing, unit testing & system testing
• Participating in Cross team meeting with developers, users...etc for a weekly status meeting and to resolve issues if there is any conflict.
• Verify all bugs marked resolved are regressed.
• Keeping proper co-ordination between team member also onsite offshore coordination
• Proper plan to handle challenges during project execution to avoid any impact on project deliverable

Environment: JAVA, Mainframe, UNIX, DB2, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, MS Office tools

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared manual test cases for the application and done the end to end testing.
• Uploading and executing Test cases Using Quality Center 9.2.
• Assigning new bugs using Quality Center 9.2
• Involved in backend testing using SQL and did data validation checks and integrity checks using SQL Queries.
• Used Database Check Points to confirm values stored in the database and ensure transaction accuracy, as well as the data integrity of records that have been updated, deleted, and added.
• Reviewing the IRDs and FRDs and providing valuable input be it a requirement or solution.
• Attending and organizing project calls and discussions among the project teams and partner systems to understand the scope of testing for Business acceptance
• Raise potential defects during testing, analyzing and retest after providing the fixes within project deadlines.
• Call with vendors for As Designed defects, technical defects which would require the Bank’s requirements and test team’s analysis.
• Preparation of SIT and project documents such as Integrated Test Plan (ITP), Activity Distribution matrix, Test Plan, Traceability matrix, Daily tracker sheet and Exit reports.
• Tracking the status of SIT execution and timely sign off for UAT to begin.
• Conducting and providing internal technical, functional and process training to team members.

Environment: UNIX, SQL, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, MS Office tools

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in cross-functional team meetings to understand the user requirements and documented them.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts as per the specifications.
• Prepared the test Cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements, and System requirements Specifications.
• Performed extensive Manual Testing and Black Box Testing of the application.
• Conducted Regression and Smoke testing.
• Documenting Test Cases for Integration, User Acceptance testing and Functional testing
• Conducted positive and negative testing manually.
• Tested back-end manually using SQL statements for data manipulation.
• Executed Manual and Automated test cases using Windows Test Technology (WTT).
• Participated in performing Functionality Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing and Stress Testing.
• Identified and define the deliverables to be produced for UAT/Integrated System testing.
• Reported and tracked defects and modification requests using Product Studio.
• Generated SQL queries to test the database transactions, database schemas and executed them.
• File and record extraction using FTP.
• Understanding the Business Requirements and analysis of the application and prepared test cases accordingly.
• Conducted positive and negative testing manually.
• Weekly status reports updated showing the progress of Manual Testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: OS: Windows XP Pro/Home/Starter/Tablet PC/MCE, Windows Vista Ultimate/Business/Home Premium/Home Basic 6000 RTM.