OBJECTIVE

• A self - starting, innovative, constructive, and result oriented professional seeking opportunity to work as a Quality Assurance Analyst based on strong analytical background and extensive experience in financial, banking and e-commerce industries.

SUMMARY

• 4 years plus of Professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience performing Manual, Database of client- server and web applications.
• Experienced in Design, develop and implemented product with zero defect.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Specifications, Requirements and Design specifications and developing Test Plans, Test Cases and executed them.
• Extensively experienced in Positive, Negative, Smoke, System, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and Automation testing of cross-platform, client/server, web based n-tier applications.
• Expertise in creating end-to-end business test scenarios and defining entrance and exit criteria for Integration testing.
• Experienced in Estimation of Test Effort and coordinate Test Schedule with overall Project Schedule.
• Excellent logical and analytical abilities for understanding and developing system workflows, computing and verifying Software Metrics and well suited for communicating with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Experienced in different phases of Software development Life cycle including Strategic Systems Planning, Designing, Programming, Testing, Documentation, and Presentation to clients and preparing customer specifications as part of software technical requirements and Customer support.
• Extensively experienced in bug tracking tools like Quality Center.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding Testing Status and Defect & Change Tracking using Quality Center.
• Used HP Quality Center for defect management, test planning, and reporting.
• Strong in SQL, developing database queries for Backend Testing, in-depth knowledge of ORACLE and SQL Server, resolved Database Performance issues.
• Excellent team player to work in conjunction with team of testers, developers and QA members in testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) Version 11.0, Remedy

Operating systems: Windows, UNIX

Programming Language: C, C++, VB.NET, Java

Web & App Servers: Web logic Server and Java Web Server

Database: Oracle, SQLServer and MSAccess

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications to developTest Plan and Test cases.
• Involved in creating Test Scenarios and Test data by looking at the Requirements.
• Tested entire functionality of the application on different browsers based upon Business and System Requirements.
• Compiled test metrics on a weekly basis and tracked the status of the test cycle.
• Used ALM to write and execute detailed test cases as per the Business requirements and Functional specifications.
• Tracked defects using ALM through all phases of defect cycle.
• Logged defects using ALM and work with business analyst and developer to follow the defect cycle.
• Attended the Bug Triage meetings and reported the testing status to the higher officials, Used ALM as Bug tracking tool.
• Performed Backend testing by checking the updated data in the Database using SQL queries.
• Modified existing test requirements to meet new business requirements/Changes.
• Participated in daily stand-ups and project meeting to keep track of project priority and status.

Environment: Windows, ALM, Oracle, J2EE, HTML, IIS.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Involved in Integration and System, Black box and Data Base testing.
• Performed functional GUI testing, back-end testing
• Experience in end to end testing in UAT environment
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds manually
• Execute functional test scripts and logged defects in HP QC
• Execute SQL commands to verify the database updates

Environment: Windows, Quality Center, Oracle, Java, J2EE, HTM

Confidential, Stamford, CT

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement and Technical Specification Documents.
• Analyzed System Requirement Specifications and developed test plans and test cases to cover all the requirements.
• Worked with Business Analysts, Programmers and Business users through the life cycle of the project.
• Developed detailed Test scenario, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Modified of existing Test Plans and Test Strategies for regression testing.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Worked with Project Management to scope the testing effort and provide status and estimates.
• Performed Black box testing, System testing, System integration, Regression testing, Performance testing.
• Performed negative and positive testing for the application.
• Created Test cases for the Test Execution and Documented the Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Logged the defects in HP Quality Center and created Test Metrics to analyze the defects.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing Analyzed the test results, created reports on defects.
• Furnished weekly status reports to the project Manager.

Environment: HP Quality Center, MS Office, MS-SQL Server, Java