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.