SUMMARY

• Around 6+ years of experience as a QA Analyst, proficient in testing the web based and client server applications by using manual and automation testing in Banking, Health Care and Finance domains.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in different methodologies like Agile / Scrum, Waterfall.
• Experience in using Test Management tools like Quality center, Clear quest, Test Director and IBM tools such as Rational Management tool.
• Experience in using Automation tools like QTP, Microsoft Test manager and Microsoft Visual studio.
• Have very good knowledge on testing in Mainframe.
• Highly experienced in different types of testing such as functional testing, UAT testing, system testing, Unit testing, GUI testing, integration testing, regression testing, interface testing and database testing.
• Experience in all aspects of testing such as Use Case analysis, Test case preparation, Test Reports and Defect Tracking.
• Proficiency in writing queries on different databases such as oracle, SQL server using tools like Toad, SQL plus.
• Experience in testing the web applications such as VB.NET, ASP.NET and Java applications.
• Experience in working with windows and UNIX environments.
• Expertise in Problem solving and tracking bug reports using Bug tracking tools such as Quality Center, Bugzilla, Microsoft TFS.
• Prepared and presented status reports to team lead and managers.
• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and other QA Team members.
• Ability to work closely with BA’s, DBA’s, Admin’s and Developers.
• Have excellent proficiency at time management, multitasking, able to meet deadlines and handle hanging priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center 11/10.2/9.2/9.0 , Test Director, Rational Management Tool (RMT), Rational Clear Quest (CQTM), Quick Test Professional 10.0/9.5/9.2 , Bugzilla, Jira, Test Manager, Win Runner, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 TFS, Selenium.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , Oracle 10g/11i, MS Access 2005, DB2 8.0/7.0.

Web Languages/Scripts: HTML, Java Script, XML, VB Script.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Unix, Linux, Solaris

Web/Message Services: SoapUI

Management Tools: PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily scrum meetings with developers, testers, BA’s.
• Written test Plans, test Cases, Test scripts, test scenarios.
• Worked with team to create, update and execute test scripts for product features based on requirements.
• Ability to interact with cross - functional teams. Worked closely with Developers to track down the requirements.
• Placed Test cases, Test scripts, and Expected results inHP ALM.
• Responsible forSystem, Functionaland user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Extensively worked on flat files and mapping the data with database.
• Involved inRegression TestingusingQuick Test Pro.
• Querying data base by writingSQL queries using Toad.
• Developed and executedSQL scriptsto extract data from different tables.
• Raised the defects for UAT.
• Responsible for evaluating all identified and entered defects encountered during testing in ALM.
• Continuously monitoring the changes to the test case priorities based on changing project delivery Priorities.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center 11(ALM), MS word 2010, MS Excel 2010, ETL server, Toad 12.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• PerformedUser Acceptance Testing (UAT) by closely working with end users.
• Conducted GUI testing to ensure the graphical user interface meets its specifications.
• Involved in Survey applications and reports the defects using quality center.
• Tested Survey applications of their client websites as a user and tested the all the fields, navigating to next page, word count limit, dropdown lists and buttons for Survey applications.
• Documented and presented all the feedback and issues with Survey applications to the team.
• Reported and tracked the bugs using Basecamp.

Environment: Pivotal Tracker, Quality Center 11(ALM), Basecamp, MS word 2007, MS Excel2007.

Confidential, CA

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as lead, Mentored and supervised couple of junior QA Analysts.
• Coordinated and maintained the test plan and its implementation.
• Involving in complete project/product life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to implementation.
• Involving in client meetings, collected System specifications and requirements and participating in walkthroughs/reviews.
• Involving in writing the test cases and execution based on the documents such as BRD provided from business users.
• Attending daily SCRUM meetings (AGILE methodology) to give daily testing status and discuss about the roadblocks if any.
• Involving in Unit testing, system testing, regression testing and UAT testing.
• Written test scenarios and Test Scripts based on Requirements and Design Documents (such as FSD) in QC to perform system testing.
• Writing test cases to verify the GUI functionalities for a website including event based discounts.
• Verifying the inventory to make sure that added apparel quantity is available in warehouse by performing backend testing using SQL queries on oracle database.
• Pulled some of the main core test cases from system testing and executed them in UAT environment to perform UAT testing.
• Managed test Cases, automated test scripts, test inputs and test suites in Quality Center.
• Mapped test cases to the requirement using quality center to follow requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Maintained defect tracking usingQuality Center.
• Written SQL queries in Toad interface to retrieve the data from Oracle10i.
• Tracked the defects, generated various reports using Quality center and distributed the reports to the team for meetings.
• Conducted formal bug review meetings and produced daily progress report to test lead and project manager.
• Categorized bugs, defects based on severity and Priority and interacted with developers as well as management team to help resolve the defects.
• Documented all the development work submitted to the client in a report format.

Environment: Quality Center (ALM) 11, Windows xp, MS Excel2007, MS Word 2007, Toad 9.

Confidential, Bristol, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full testing Life-Cycle from analyzing business requirements to testing phase.
• Written test scenarios and test cases based on BRD, FRD and TD.
• Created manual and automated test cases in QC.
• Performed Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, integration testing, regression testing and System Testing of the products.
• Maintained and executed test scripts by using Quality center and analyzed the results.
• Prepared automation test cases for QTP using the VB script.
• Involved in preparing the Data-driven and keyword-driven frameworks in QTP for system and UAT environments and performed data comparison and functional comparison.
• Identified software defects and interfaced with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team.
• Performed cross browser testing of the application on various Browsers to ensure that it functions similarly on all browsers such as IE 8, Mozilla Firefox.
• Worked with offshore team members and co-ordinate the work they have done.
• Extensively used SQL to verify data in the backend for the test entry points on sql server database.
• Testing was done to verify the integration of various modules in the application and if it is accepting only the valid data in various fields.
• Involved in the preparation of KT document and attended the KT meetings which are conducted for offshore members.
• Documented and reported defects in quality center which are found during each phase of the testing life cycle.

Environment: Quality Center 10, SQL server 2008, TFS 2010, Windows XP, MS Excel, MS Word, Toad, QTP 10.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test plan, Test Design, Test scripts and responsible for implementation of Test cases as Manual test scripts.
• Participated in business requirement walk through, design walk through and analyzed Business requirements.
• Responsible to recommend and implement changes to enhance the effectiveness of QA strategies.
• Possess strong knowledge on POS systems and smartcard processing-credit and debit both chip and swipe.
• Extensive testing performed on different types of cards- VISA, MASTER CARD while performing all retail POS transactions.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio TFS 2010 for defect tracking and updated project plan information.
• Expertise in creating estimates for the test cases, writing test cases, executing test cases using Quality Center (QC).
• Completed regression was performed on POS system by doing all the operation, which cashier does at the register and making sure all the features are working. It includes register closing, Balancing and Reporting.
• Followed traceability matrix by linking the requirements with the tests to verify that the requirements are fulfilled.
• Extensively used SQL in Toad for querying the database tables to verify the data as back end testing.
• Involved in planning and implementation of QA methodology.
• Mentored and trained couple of junior testers on QC.
• Suggested new features for the POS application, which allow starting, or stopping value added services at POS counter itself.
• Prepared test results and uploaded into Remedy for approvals.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that proper functionality is implemented.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.2, Agile methodology, QTP, Microsoft Test Manager, Toad.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Quality center using it as a Test Management Tool.
• Performed manual testing to check on major functionality of UAT.
• Performed Functionality testing, Integration, Regression testing and GUI testing.
• Extracted data from various sources like Oracle, flat files and SQL Server.
• Responsible for conducting incremental integration, regression testing and Cross browser testing on an extensive basis.
• Performed back-end testing procedures using SQL statements to verify data integrity for some online customer interactions.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract various tables in different databases to validate test cases.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio TFS 2010 for defect tracking and updated project plan information.
• Organized and managed all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests and tracking defects.
• Involved in weekly meetings with the development team to resolve technical issues.

Environment: SQL server, Quality Center, Windows XP, QTP, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 TFS.

Confidential

Jr.QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Client meetings, collected System specifications and requirements. And participate in Walkthroughs.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and use cases to determine the scope of the test, and prioritized the requirements deliverables.
• Written test cases and test script for different functional requirements based on BRD.
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing and system testing in accordance with Quality Assurance standards to verify that the application conform to business requirements.
• Identified, logged and retested the fixed defects using the test director.

Environment: Test Director, MS Excel, MS Word, Windows Xp, Clear Quest.