SUMMARY

• Having 6 years of Professional Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing in different environments and platforms.
• Expertise in Telecommunications (Mobile) domain, Banking and Financial domain, Website Application domain.
• Experience in testing of Android Apps and Widgets and Windows Apps.
• Results - driven QA Engineer and Mobile Device Tester with a solid knowledge and extensive expertise in automation and manual software testing methodologies and approaches.
• 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, developing and executing Test Scripts for both manual and automated tests.
• Good experience in Back-end testing by using SQL Queries to validate the data.
• 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 Quality Centre and Product Studio.
• Developed the Test case Repository that contained the pool of Regression Test cases of the business critical components for building the Automated Regression Test suites.
• Preparation of Test Data for positive and negative scenarios.
• 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.
• Have Coding background in C#.Net, VB languages.
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Mobile Devices: Android 2.0.x, Android 3.0.x, Android 4.0.x, Android 4.1.x (all versions),Windows Phone (all versions)

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Centre 8.2/9.2 and Product Studio

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

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

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/8, Unix

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bothell, WA

Mobile Device Tester

Responsibilities:

• Test case creation based on the requirement
• Execution of the test case as well as ad-hoc testing and reporting of the bugs
• 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 for few applications that cannot run on data plan.
• 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
• 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, Android, Windows, HP Quality Centre, MS Office tools

Confidential, Stamford, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supervised a team of 5-6 testers and allocate testing tasks.
• Reviewed the test cases created by the team and tracking the daily deliverables.
• Responsible for all the testing deliverable.
• Understanding the Application flow and creating the Test Scenarios
• Done Automation Testing using Quick Test Pro tool (QTP)
• Verify all test cases assigned to testers are designed properly
• Leading the Testing Team, including assigning work, reviewing Tasks
• Uploading and executing Test cases Using Quality Centre 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 Centre 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 by the proper testers.
• Keeping proper co-ordination between team member also onsite offshore coordination
• Creating proper Test plan and Test strategy document, along with identifying proper data
• Proper plan to handle challenges during project execution to avoid any impact on project deliverable

Environment: JAVA, Mainframe, UNIX, SQL Server, HP Quality Centre, Quick Test Professional, MS Office tools

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Preparation of Test cases, Uploading and executing Test cases Using Quality Center 9.2.
• Assigning new bugs using Quality Center 9.2
• Automation of test cases using Quick Test Pro (QTP) as tool.
• 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.
• 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: Java, UNIX, SQL Server, HP Quality Centre, Quick Test Professional, MS Office tools

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents.
• Created the test strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Involved in development of test plans, test schedules, test cases based on high level designs.
• Created test cases and test scripts for some of the modules of the Application under Test (AUT) using Quality Centre.
• Created RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) by extracting data from requirement documentations.
• Executed automated test cases by participating actively in functional, system and regression testing using Mercury’s Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test application behaviour on various web browsers.
• Developed Quick Test Professional global functions to decrease maintenance of updating test cases for each release.
• Conducted Performance testing of the application in order to determine the maximum number of users that can log into the application Confidential a given time by using LoadRunner.
• Performing defect tracking by logging defects and submitting changes requested by Quality Center.
• Interacted closely with test lead and developers to discuss application bug issues and bug fixes.
• Worked with developers to reproduce errors by attending code reviews to resolve software issues.
• Summarizing test results in formal test analysis reports according to the documentation standard of the company.
• Conducted software tests on various web browsers such as IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera.

Environment: QTP, QC, LoadRunner, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, Internet ExplorerMozilla Firefox, Windows XP, 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.
• Executed BVT and FVT test cases, automated test cases for new features.
• 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, Virtual Server, Virtual PC, Windows Test Technology (WTT), Product Studio, MS Office 2007, SQL Server Management Studio