SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of extensive hands - on testing experience at Onsite and Offshore in Information Technology with an earned reputation for meeting demanding deadlines and delivering critical solutions on various levels of Software Quality Assurance.
• Exposure to complete SDLC - System Requirements, Design, implementation, testing.
• Involved in execution and improvisation of all stages of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), right from Planning, Requirements, Design, Execution, Reporting and Testing through Implementation.
• An analytical, organized and results-oriented Senior Software Testing Consultant (QA) with a proven track record in Software Quality Assurance in the area of Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) & Manufacturing Domain.
• Expertise in Designing Test Scenarios, Test Case/Scripts based on Functional Specifications and System Requirements documents for Web based Applications and Client/Server based applications.
• Proficient in various SDLC Methodologies like Waterfall, Iteration/Agile (SCRUM).
• Experience in planning, coordinating and performing Smoke Testing, System Testing, Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Backend testing, GUI testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in different stages of QA.
• Assisted in load testing and stress testing.
• Extensively utilized Quality Center as well as Bugzilla for testing & reporting defects(bugs)
• Adaptable to work both as a team member as well as independently. Ability to proactively comprehend problems and resolve them with minimal supervision.
• Have strong work ethic, taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities and excellent problem solving and communication skills and ability to function in a stressful environment.
• Easily adaptable to any new Technologies and Business environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domains: Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing

Test Management Tools: Quality Center (ALM), Bugzilla

Open Source Tools: Selenium IDE and Web-Driver, SOUP UI

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

Environment: s: Client-Server, Open Systems, Web-based arch

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98

Languages: HTML, Visual Basic, .net, VBScript, Java, C++

Methodology: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Hybrid

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, ChromeOther Tools & Utilities MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Networking & operating system internals, NAS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DE

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Regularly assess testing progress and prepare test status report for management.
• Communicate with QA manager about testing progress, needs and any organizational/quality/technical risk/issue that might have an impact on the ability of the testing team to perform testing activities.
• Learn new technologies as needed and assist them in project deliverables. Can work with minimum supervision.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Exploratory, regression testing and Browser compatibility testing (Google chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer).
• Release validation, including documentation and signoffs.
• Involved in test plan, design, execution and test cases from requirements.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Performed system and end to end testing.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing result and for defect tracking and reporting.
• Tested file transfer using networking and NAS.
• Provided weekly management status reports and coordinated meetings between test team and development team to review defects.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum (Hybrid) methodology, Quality Center, JAVA, MS-SQL, Client-server, NAS, Networking, Windows 7, MS Office.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in studying system requirements and specifications, developing test plans.
• Participating in test plan review meeting which includes BA, Dev and Project Management.
• Review detailed test scenarios for the projects.
• Cleaning and conditioning test accounts.
• Review testing timelines to ensure product delivery
• Developed scripts and test cases for scenarios.
• Provide daily status to test lead.
• Developed and executed test cases, and test scripts for various user interfaces.
• Assisted Business users for UAT testing.
• Used selenium for automated testing.
• Utilized Quality Center for Bug Tracking and Test Management
• Tested quote specifications according to requirements.
• Analyzed test results and defect status/issues and categorized based on severity.
• Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve technical issues.
• Conducted backend testing of the application by writing simple SQL queries.
• Attended the Sprint or Iteration planning meeting, Review or Retrospective meeting and Weekly Management status meeting for agile implementations.

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum (Hybrid) methodology, Windows7, Java, Selenium IDE & Web DriverANT, HP - Quality Center, MS-Office.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified test requirements based on Business requirements, system design and program specifications.
• Prepared Test Cases and Test Data & Created test plan for User Acceptance Testing
• Reviewed Test Scenarios & Procedures with Business System Analyst to make sure all the requirements are covered.
• Performed and coordinated the blackbox testing, Regression testing of various builds during Integration, Performance and User acceptance testing
• Tested newly created user accounts
• Checked the application functionality by manual testing
• Logged and tracked bugs in Bugzilla, while resolving bugs with developers.
• Tested shared content using networking & intranet.
• Coordinated the business analyst and developers to prioritize defects and rectify them
• Tested modules for which test specifications were prepared by peers.

Environment: Waterfall, .NET Framework, asp.net, VB, MS SQL Server 2005, TCP/IP protocol, IIS webserver, SOUP UI, Windows XP, MS Office, Quality Center.

Confidential

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Cases and Test Data & Created test plan for User Acceptance Testing
• Reviewed Test Scenarios & Procedures with Business System Analyst to make sure all the requirements are covered.
• Tested the website for content, comprehensiveness, layout and functionality
• Performed and coordinated the blackbox testing, Regression testing of various builds during Integration, Performance and User acceptance testing
• Assisted business analyst for creating wireframes and graphical user interfaces
• Created presentation and training document for business.
• Prepared functional specifications and features list.
• Logged and tracked bugs in Bugzilla, while resolving bugs with developers
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about business user's sentiments
• Used skills to perform research and analysis - recommended solutions and drove decisions.
• Trained new members of staff to ensure a comprehensive understanding of systems and operations

Environment: Waterfall methodology, HTML, PHP, JAVA, Bugzilla, Windows XP, MS Office, SQL.

Confidential

Jr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interaction with the Business Analyst to understand user requirements.
• Create UAT test cases and scenarios to reflect business functionality and real time scenarios.
• Followed Black box testing methodologies to check the functionality of the application.
• Involved in data conditioning to prepare the environment and initiate scenarios.
• Executed the UAT test cases and verified the actual results with the expected results.
• Executed individual UAT test cases to satisfy both positive and negative testing and logged the bugs in QC.
• Worked with ISQA analysts and development team to understand the technical environment and create boundary conditions in the test cases and test data.
• GUI testing and navigation testing was also carried out on the sub-modules.
• Identified and reported software defects using Test Director.
• Involved in giving GO-NO GO decisions before the projects went live.
• Involved in Pilot testing.

Environment: Waterfall methodology MS SQL Server, asp.net, VB, Bugzilla, Windows XP, MS Office, SQL Developer, UNIX,