SUMMARY

• Quality Assurance Analyst with 7+ years of experience in Manual testing techniques involving all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle(STLC).
• Experience in Water fall, V - Model, Agile and SDLC models.
• Comprehensive knowledge of testing methodologies, applications, and technologies of large applications.
• Extensive experience with Software Quality Assurance Testing on GUI based Client-Server & Web Based applications, Web Services, Data Driven Applications testing.
• Extensive experience in test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test reports, Bug tracking, configuration management and documentation of manual and automated tests of Web, and Client server testing, involved in System Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked in all phases of Black Box and White Box Testing of the Application beginning from the preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Experience in manual testing in JAVA web based and windows application and in preparing test cases and test scenarios.
• Strong back-end testing skills using SQL and experience in extracting and analyzing data by writing basic queries.
• Experience in working with complex projects where most of the testing types were used including Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing and Adhoc testing.
• Worked in important phases of Testing Life Cycle like Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing, Functionality Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Load testing.
• Experienced in Verification of Functionality of GUI Applications as well as backend testing of the Application.
• Experience in testing and writing basic SQL and PL/SQL statements.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to interact with individuals Confidential all levels, excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with creating and implementing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Efficiently handled entire Bug Tracking process, which includes verifying, closing and reporting them, using (HP Quality Center) Bug Tracking Tool.
• Expertise in executing Test scenarios manually to check for functionality.
• Involved in interaction with Client and Development Team for issue clarification.
• Interacts with the project team to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context, and conformance criteria.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with project management lifecycle, integrated system testing, and story board Sound knowledge of defect management, IT best practices, claims Process, and QA standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile & Waterfall Model

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 11, Quick Test Pro 11.0, Load Runner 10.0

Bug Reporting Tools: Quality Center10.0 & JIRA

Other Tools: MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, Outlook

Languages: Java, SQL, HTML

Databases: Oracle, DB2 & MS SQL Server 2005.

Database Tools: TOAD, SQL DBX

Version Control: Visual SourceSafe, Clear Case.

Operating System: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, DOS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plans.
• Major responsibilities included writing Test Plan and Test Scripts and team co-ordination
• Followed software testing methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Used Quality Center for documenting requirements, view, modify requirement tree and converting requirements to tests.
• Created test plan, wrote design steps, copied test steps, called a test with parameters, linked tests to requirements and automated manual testing.
• Tracked changes made to the requirements, tests and defects using Quality Center.
• Analyzed testing process by creating reports and graphs.
• Parameterized test scripts to ensure comprehensive Positive and Negative testing with unique data.
• For certain modules automation testing was performed using Quick Test professional.
• Developed test data to meet the requirements.
• Provided the management with Test Metrics, reports, timelines and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Created test plan, wrote design steps, copied test steps, called a test with parameters, linked tests to requirements and manual testing.
• Tracked changes made to the requirements, tests and defects using Quality Center.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• Identified defects and reported them using Quality Center, and documented daily defects status.
• Interacted with developers to resolve the defects. Performed Regression testing to verify that bug fixes did not break some other parts of the system
• Interacting with development team for bug’s closure.
• Verification of fixed bugs and subsequently closing them if they passed the test case
• Involved in Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing and End-to-End testing.
• Reporting status of testing progress, issues to team lead on a weekly basis.
• Identified defects and reported them using Quality Center, and documented daily defects status.
• Periodically obtaining feedback from Team lead and consciously working for Improvement.
• Wrote SQL queries for Database testing (End to End Testing) and was also involved in performing Back-End Testing by writing SQL queries to extract the data from SQL database.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, SQL Server 2012, UNIX, Oracle 11g, Datastage, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, Agile, MS Office, Teradata 12, Business Objects XIR4, Cognos, DB2, XML, HTML, Windows and Unix, Shell Scripting.

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plan, test cases, collecting test data for various projects and documenting test results.
• Set up test environment for application testing.
• Performed GUI testing, user integration testing, regression testing, system testing and UAT.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing functional and regression testing.
• Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the automation testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Communicate closely with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better quality software product.
• Worked directly with analysts and developers to investigate software defects.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Identified modules that were impacted by various change requests.
• Coordinated with development engineers to create and review test specifications, test coverage defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Nokia Tool Kit, WebBug, Ethereal and Wireshark (Used for sniffing Packets), Secure FTP, Business Objects 11.5, Unix, Solaris, iPad, iPhone, Android Devices.

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of integrated test plan or provide input to Test Plan
• Test metrics / Quality Center& Clear Quest updates for all assigned projects & activities.
• Test case design for all assigned project activities.
• Test data preparation for all assigned projects & releases.
• Execute manual and automated test scripts for web interfaces.
• Test findings & test signoff report preparation for assigned projects (if applicable).
• Regression test suite maintenance for CMSI
• Preparing the Bug Templates and responsible for work allocation to the team.
• Involved in knowledge transfer activities for new joiner’s.
• Update incremental KAP document for CMSI System maintain up to date as per the current application status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.

Environment: JAVA/J2EE, Selenium Web Driver, Jenkins, Junit, SQL, Jira, Eclipse Windows XP, HTML, Soap, Quality Center.

Confidential

Jr QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system Specifications and design document and developed test plan in Quality Center.
• Performed Functionality testing of GUI/Web applications.
• Used Quality Center to report Bugs.
• Performed Cross Browser testing by running application on different Browsers and version of Browsers.
• Developed detailed Test cases using the prototype and performed Manual Testing.
• Tested in all type of testing environment, Development.
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix using MS Excel.
• Participating actively in daily Meetings and Release Management activities.
• Worked with offshore team every day.
• Involved in reviewing the Client Requirements, SRS (Software Requirements Specification), High Level and Low-level documents for the changes in each release.
• Developed Test Plans, and Test cases based on requirements, and technical and design specifications
• Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Modified Test Scripts according to the new functionality to perform Regression Testing.
• Testing status reported to QA Manager.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SharePoint, MS Office, (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) Visual Basic, ASP. VB, Net, Oracle, ETL.