SUMMARY

• Six (6) years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Software Manual Testing, Web Testing.
• Excellent knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies like Waterfall, Agile Methodology, and Iterative Models (RUP - Rational Unified Process).
• Strong aptitude in implementing Quality Assurance Standards and Testing Methodologies for Client-Server and Web-Based applications.
• Experience in preparing Test plans, writing Test cases, mapping, developing and maintaining test scripts for manual and automated testing environment.
• Experience in analyzing Business requirement documents and writing test plan and test cases for the application under test.
• Develop test cases based on business requirements, functional and technical specifications, and development standards for assigned projects/applications.
• Strong Experience with data quality testing (validating source and target database using Data mapping using Data mapping/Transformation Rules), regression (Revalidate the positive test cases) and acceptance testing (once the system testing done).
• Proficient in writing SQL Queries like to retrieve data from databases for Backend Testing using tools like Win SQL and SQL Developer to check and analyze data integrity, data audit and data validation.
• Evaluated test data by performing boundary value analysis, equivalence partition, system test conditions & validations.
• Track issues and work with Test Leads, Project managers and developers to resolve issues.
• Involved in integrating various functionalities such as Credit Card Processing, Accounting, Delivery, and Inventory control.
• Good Documentation and Process Management skills with an ability to effectively understand the business requirements to develop a quality product.
• Ability to effectively analyze a variety of Performance Reports and Summary Reports.
• Excellent Organizational, Communication and Interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows
• Quick Test Professional
• Quality Center
• Oracle
• MS Office 2010
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Visio
• Oracle PL/SQL
• Lotus Notes
• Share Point
• HP Quality Center
• Mega
• Test Link
• ALM 11.0
• JIRA
• Oracle SQL Developer 3.2
• Win SQL Lite 8.5
• Oracle Fusion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created, reviewed and updated test cases for maintenance Release, API and Hosted Status in Test Rail management tool.
• Executed test cases using Test Rail and logged defects in JIRA.
• Involved and participated in different meetings such as daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, story pointing, requirement walkthrough and QA monthly meetings.
• Discuss various scenarios for the test cases with the tech lead, developers and business analysts.
• Created API key and did report testing for various logs using API demo tool.
• Tested various reports for all the submittals and posting logs exist in submittal Exchange.
• Performed backend testing for reminders, event logging and email notifications using SQL queries.
• Did Smoke testing, Functional testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Security testing, and Regression and UAT testing.

Environment: Test Rail Management, JIRA, SQL Yog, Redmine, Shared Drive, Soap UI, API Demo Tool.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created, reviewed, updated and executed test cases for Goal Management-goal setting, Performance Management-employee review and leader review and Compensation Management-Salary plan, Long-term incentive plans and profit pool plans.
• Involved in different meetings called requirement walkthrough, daily standups, QA Huddle and Lesson learned meetings.
• Provided comments, updates and reported progress of assigned features on QA dashboard and confluence page in JIRA.
• Tested various business object reports on talent management and calibration report, modeling report and compensation statements on compensation.
• Created and executed functional and UI test cases for Public Folder project.
• Used ALM for creating and executing test cases and for logging and reporting bug/defect.
• Did backend testing for data integrity and data comparison for the different comp plans by using SQL queries.
• Performed Requirement Traceability matrix and peer review on test cases.
• Performed different types of testing such as Functional testing, System testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, Smoke testing and Ad-hoc testing.
• Participated in meetings with offshore development team to discuss requirements and resolve outstanding defects.

Environment: ALM 11.0, JIRA, Oracle SQL Developer 3.2, Win SQL Lite 8.5, Oracle Fusion, SharePoint, PeopleSoft.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Project Management and Team Lead to scope the testing effort and provided status and estimates.
• Assisted in developing detailed test plans for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Reviewed requirements with the business analysts and developers and found gaps appropriately.
• Wrote test cases on different life and health plans for online claim process and executed using TestLink.
• Created and maintained the Requirement Tractability Matrix and Test Metrics in Mega tool and Excel sheet.
• Logged and reported defects via TestLink in Mantis.
• Involved in UAT testing and sharing information to resolve the intermittent issues of concern.
• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing to determine possibility of further testing manually.
• Performed Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and Positive and Negative Testing by putting correct and incorrect test data.
• Conducted Result Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve issues related to bugs.

Environment: MS Office 2010, QTP, Visio 2010, Oracle PL/SQL, Share Point, Mega, TestLink, ICP, SharePoint.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis between the "As-Is" and the "To-Be" system.
• Performed sanity checks to ensure security and validation of online submissions.
• Created Test Approach and Test case documents and involved in multiple phases of testing.
• Attended defect resolution calls, created test reports and presented progress updates to managers.
• Developed, designed and executed test cases under various scenarios on different testing environment.
• Ensured that the Use-Cases, activity and sequence diagrams were consistent and covered all aspects of the Requirement document.
• Participated in Requirement walkthrough meetings to analyze and understand the Business Requirements and Functional requirements.
• Interacted on a regular basis with developers and business analysts on any Change Requests (CRs).
• Logged and discussed the defects with developers and testers in the team.
• Provided daily status updates to QA Lead in QA touch base meetings.

Environment: Windows, DB2, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office, MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, SharePoint.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirements and design meetings, review and analysis of requirements and design documentation.
• Performed manual testing including Smoke, Functional, System and Regression and End to End.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract the data from the database and validated with the front end.
• Developed and executed test cases under different scenarios using Mercury Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.
• Used QTP to provide automated testing for the current application or any other assigned application.
• Involved in testing of GUI by inserting checkpoints in QTP scripts for single or multiple objects and text.
• Provided support for Unit and UAT testing as required for the application or any other assigned application.

Environment: Windows NT, QTP, Quality Center, SQL Server 2008 R2, MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint.