SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of professional experience in IT industry as a QA with expertise testing of Client server and web based applications.
• Extensively worked on Manual and Automation Testing for different applications.
• Sound knowledge in QA methodologies and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Strong knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycles(SDLC) such as Waterfall Model, V - Model, Prototype Model and Iterative Models.
• Excellent knowledge of Quality Assurance Life Cycle(QALC) and Defect Management Lifecycle.
• Hands on experience in important phases of Testing Life Cycle like Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Business Functionality Testing, System Testing, End To End Testing and Data Base Testing.
• Extensive experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and analyzing Test Results.
• Extensively used Quality Center and Silk Central for complete test management.
• Good knowledge in Quality Center admin.
• Expertise in developing test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Knowledge on different automation tools like Load Runner,Selenium.
• Expertise in Bug Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center and Silk Central and also knowledge in other bug tracking tools like Bugzilla and ClearQuest.
• Extensive experience in creating test data for User Acceptance Testing team.
• Profound insight to determine priorities,Schedule work and meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines.
• Excellent at Problem Solving, Root Cause Analysis, and Solutions based on Impact and Risk.
• A dedicated team player and goal-oriented professional having with strong communication, organizational and interpersonal Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Testing Tools: QTP, Selenium, Load Runner.

Test Management & Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, ClearQuest, Silk Central.

Programming Languages: .Net, Java, VB, C, C++, VC++ and J2EE.

Operating System: Windows Family, UNIX.

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Initial walk throughs and reviews and provided inputs to the Buisiness Analyst.
• Analysed the business requirements and system specifications to understand the application functionality.
• Prepared test plan, test cases,test scenarios,test data and requirement traceability matrix to improve the test coverage.
• Conducted manual testing on different modules of the application.
• Performed Smoketesting,Integration testing,System testing,GUI testing, Regression testing,Data base testing and End to End testing.
• Provided required support to UAT team.
• Involved in project implementation phases, closely monitored and interacted with business users testing.
• Managed entire testing process using Silk Central Test Management Tool from requirements gathering to report and track defects.
• Interacted with the developers to resolve the defects.
• Developed automation test scripts using QTP for regression testing.
• Created and performed data driven testing to check positive and negative test scenarios using QTP.
• Executed various SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Provided weekly QA metrics reporting on test execution,test planning,defect status,requirements coverage and execution to the team lead.
• Attended status report meetings and defect status meetings.
• Prepared test case summary report and defect summary report.
• Worked closely with the application development, design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.

Environment: Java, Mainframes, DB2, XQMF, Silk Central, SAS reporting, Windows.

Confidential, Newjersy

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the azile/scrum planning and assisted in reviewing the requirements for gaps in coverage.
• Actively participated in the scrum meetings for daily update and iteration planning.
• Created test plan and developed test cases and test scenarios based on the Business Requirement Document and UI Specifications.
• Involved in assessment of the progress and effectiveness of the testing effort.
• Responsible for desining,writing and reviewing of Test Plan,Test Cases and Test Scripts for the web based application .
• Created the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to verify the test cases are in sync with the Business requirements.
• Performed sanity testing, functionality testing, GUI testing, integration testing, regression testing and system testing manually.
• Attended change board meetings to document changes in requirements and following the process to implement them.
• Created test data for Database testing and executed SQLqueries against SQL Server.
• Developed and executed the test procedures and test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Successfully used Quick Test Professional to perform data driven testing.
• Extensively used Quality Center for test case preparation, execution and track defects throughout the defect life cycle.
• Coordinated between vendor teams for various test requirements.
• Helped the UAT team in data mining.
• Provided analysis,ststus reports of the project and test execution progress to the team lead.
• Performed in depth defect analysis and categorization based on the resolution and lessons learnt summarization between project phases.
• Involved in the final report generation of the complete test coverage and to sign off the release.

Environment: C#,.NET,SQL Server, HTML, Manual Testing, Windows, UNIX, MS Office, Quality Center, QTP.

Confidential, Olympia, WA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in the requirements gap analysis and requirements management sessions.
• Reviewed BRS document and technical specification document and provided inputs to the business people.
• Involved in the preparation of test plan specifying an overview of testing approach,testing strategy,rolls,responsibilities and it’s scope.
• Written and modified Test cases using Quality Center, Excel Spreadsheet & MS Word.
• Performed GUI Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Using TOAD excuted SQL Quires against Oracle database.
• Agile methodology used for iterative task completion.
• Performed Testing Life Cycle during the various phases of the application.
• Extensively used Quality Center to open, close Bugs and for Bug tracking purpose.
• Performed Manual Testing to check the flow of the application.
• Involved in functional automation testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Reviewed issues prior to defect being entered, attended defect bridges.
• Created/Reviewed daily Status/defect reports and sit in User lab to help with questions, issues and defect resolutions.
• Interacted with developers to expertise the process for quality and timely deliverables.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle, SQL, Sun Salaries UNIX, Quality Center, MS-office, Windows XP Pro,Quick Test Professional.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Identified the test requirements based on application business requirements.
• Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on different types of testing viz., Positive and Negative.
• Involved in analyzing the applications and development of Test cases.
• Involved in performing System testing of the entire applications along with team members
• Applications were tested manually.
• Documented defects and analyzed them using Test Director.
• Developed SQL queries to check the database entries.
• Participated in user training and provided required support.
• Prepared weekly status reports and send them across team members.
• Attended status report meetings and defect review meetings.

Environment: Test Director, HTML, DHTML, Visual Basic, Oracle and SQL.