SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of Software Quality Assurance experience specializing in Retail, Finance, Data processing and e - commerce industries.
• Have worked in different methodologies as Agile, FDA regulated and Waterfall SDLC.
• Expertise with Agile methodology (Sprints, Product grooming, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective).
• Extensive experience in the entire SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), which includes Quality Assurance, Requirements, System Testing, Configuration, and Maintenance Phases.
• Good working knowledge of team leadership, risk analysis, roles and responsibilities, issues tracking and status reporting.
• Expertise in back-end testing on SQL server and Oracle databases.
• ExperienceinTest Data Management (TDM)
• Experience in test data by analysis of business flows, system integrations, data architectures, business data objects, business data rules and data entities and relationships
• Hands on experience on many projects involving batch process and ETL testing.
• Experience in analyzing Business and Development Specifications, Gap Analysis’s, Use Cases, and Detail Design to develop Test Plans, Data conditioning, Procedures and Test cases.
• Experience in providing test estimates to the client by using industry standard estimation techniques.
• Expertise in conducting IAT (Internal Acceptance testing) and UAT (User acceptance testing).
• Testing Expertise includes preparing Master Test Plans, test procedures and test cases for manual and automated testing efforts.
• Skilled at assessing client needs, working in a group setting, and training/supporting end users.
• Handled and resolved deployment and post-deployment issues on sites and real time.
• Expertise in conducting Peer Reviews, Technical Reviews and procedure Walkthroughs.
• Experience in Test Management, Bug Tracking and Reporting Tools.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills committed and motivated team leader/ player with strong sense of organization and effective time management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Used Selenium Automation tool and Eclipse to formulate test scripts for automation testing as part of the Reservations Mobile Testing Project.
• Collaborate with Reservations Agile Team; support them with UI developer tasks and manual testing.
• Experience with back-end testing.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Technical Requirements document, use case documents and wire frames to create manual test cases using Rational Test Manager.
• Worked as part of Scrum Development Team, conducted and effectively participated in sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, task assignments, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Lead the test case reviews for various test cases written by team members.
• Provided ideas from a technical standpoint, that will be for optimizing Test Data Management strategies to reduce software project delivery times while providing high quality and relevant data for enterprise release testing.
• Successful track record dealing with QA leads and Test Lead Coordinators to provide the drive and niche in this TDM Space.
• Conducted Sprint activities on a daily basis and lead the Sprint planning and grooming activities.
• Responsible for testing the reservations in MARSHA ( Confidential 's Mainframe System).
• Participated in technical meetings and walkthroughs with Stakeholders, and SME’s as part of the Scrum.
• Developed Test Plan for each project, which included entire Testing Resources, Testing Strategy and testing of end-to-end scenarios, using Rational Tools.
• Communicated with the off-shore QA and Developer teams on regular basis.
• Conducted and participated in test case reviews, design reviews, and change control activities.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs for Front End / User Interface testing and also end - end testing.
• Performed cross browser and cross platform, Mobile Devices, User Interface testing on this website using IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• Coordinated schedules with the test team to perform end-to-end testing of the application for every build and reported all major errors and failures to the development lead for immediate resolution.
• Utilized Clear Quest for tracking functional, Content Management defects.
• Documented Test reports for various initiatives.
• Responsible for Production Support System (PSS) testing and involved in various troubleshooting issues.
• Involved in conducting Peer Review’s for test cases, and procedures.

Environment: Windows XP, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, JavaScript, JUnit, DB2, Oracle, HTML, J2EE, MAC, Safari, Firefox, IE 8, IE7, IE 6.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test plans and Test cases in an Agile Environment.
• Used Quality Center extensively to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test Plan Document, Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Created RTM’s and Test Metrics.
• Involved with testing during the data migration phase and responsible for preparing extensive set of SQL scripts to verify data from the Source to the Target tables.
• Developed Test Analysis reports and Master Test Plans for each testing effort.
• Conducted Functional, System, Regression, and (UAT) User Acceptance Tests.
• Extensively used MS Visio to create test scenarios.
• Performed all aspects of verification, validation including functional, structural, regression, and system testing.
• Worked extensively with Dimensional modeling and ETL Processes.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for testing data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using MS SQL server R2 2008.
• Involved in Unit Testing of Data stage Jobs, integration testing and system testing in pre-production environment.
• Developed extensive SQL scripts and analyzed stored procedures to achieve the data transformations.
• Involved in conducting Peer Review’s for test cases, and procedures.
• Worked on Multiple releases on different environments at the same time.
• Maintained the “BUG” reports for internal evaluation of the product using Quality Center bug tracking tool.
• Coordination with onsite-offshore team to assign the work and also to track the progress.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of product Specifications.
• Assisted entry level testers on preparing and executing test cases, and report software defects.

Environment: Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, J2EE, JSP, Windows 2000 Professional, ORACLE 8.0, SQL, AIX 4.0, C, C++ and MS Visio.

Confidential, Portland, OR

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the QA Manager in preparing the testing phase based on the project plan to ensure the completion of the testing activity is on time.
• Performed Risk analysis and Mitigation during the test cycle.
• Conducted and facilitated the review of PRD’s, DRD and SRD to assess testability and completeness.
• Created Test Plan for the Cost point conversion from Legacy to the web version.
• Presented metrics and reports of daily open defects to the senior management and progress reporting against the test plans in order ensure business needs are met.
• Conducted Functional, System, Regression, and User Acceptance Tests.
• Created workflow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and stored in Test Director/TFS.
• Communicated requirements and test activities with the off-shore team located in Makati, Philippines.
• Involved in helping the testers understand the business requirements.
• Responsible for conducting walkthroughs at various levels.
• Extensively used brainstorming sessions to generate ideas.
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT.
• Checked the broken links in the application and conducted cross browser testing.
• Participated as a team member in the Agile development process, working closely with the other team members to complete the set sprint assignments and meet production goals.
• Contributed to automation framework documents for exception handling. Ran QTP Regression test cases using Quality Center for each build and debug the problem areas.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, HP Quality Center, J2EE, JAVA SERVLETS, QlikView, COGNOS, Windows 2000 Professional, ORACLE 8.0.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test plans and Test cases.
• Used HP quality Center extensively to develop test cases, test plans, store test results, metrics, and Reporting.
• Conducted Functional, System, Regression, and User Acceptance Tests.
• Written test plans, test schedules, test cases based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Testing, Debugging, Bug Reporting & Documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios, and defects.
• Created Test Scripts based on the FRD to cover the various scenarios for functional, positive,
• Developed SQL queries to verify data from the MPS database to the front-end / Legacy applications.
• Verified successful data uploads from the e-package data files to the front-end application.
• Data elements were verified between the Integration layer, database and the legacy applications.
• Batch job validation: Verified that the COTS transferred the data changes to the MPS database through the daily batch job, via integration layer for data synchronization.
• Point in time validations: Successfully verified the history changes. The NSS system stores a history of each data change including logical deletes in the MPS database. Data was identified in a point in time via status codes for a particular loan.
• Verified that the Change Requests from the Business are implemented successfully.
• Created Requirement Traceability matrixes (RTM) to monitor any deviations in the development cycle.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and stored in HP Quality Center.
• Verified the Fixes for the reported bugs.
• Used Rational Clear Case/ Clear Quest to manage requirement updates and defect tracking.
• Created workflow diagrams using MS Visio.
• QA documentation, project timelines and communications were stored in SharePoint.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Web Services, J2EE, XML, Windows 2000 Professional, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rapid SQL, and MS Visio.