Sr Qa Analyst Resume
Grand Rapids, MI
SUMMARY
- A dynamic IT professional with 7+ years of rich experience in the arenas of Software Quality Assurance.
- Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
- Sound domain knowledge in Auto insurance, Health insurance, Retail and Financial.
- Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts
- Experience includes the testing of Client/Server, ETL, SOA and WEB applications using Manual and automated testing tools like Quality center, Rational Suit, Load Runner and QuickTest Professional.
- Experience on Test management tools like Quality Center and Test Director.
- Expertise in implementing RUP (Rational UnifiedW Processes), Agile and SCRUM Methodologies by analyzing requirement specifications and responsible for developing Test Objective, Strategies, Scope, Test procedures and Test Matrices.
- Extensive experience in conducting different kinds of tests such as Integration, Regression, Functional, System Testing, Black Box, UAT and Smoke Testing.
- Experience in working with scenarios related to Banking, and finance Web portal applications
- Experience in coordinating the testing effort for Mainframe, COBOL, java, J2EE, .NET applications.
- Sound knowledge and exposure in working with the various relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 etc.
- Expert in testing of cross browser Applications (Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Safari, Google chrome) with different protocols like HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
- Results oriented, with an ability to work with aggressive timelines and deliverables and to see any assignment to successful completion within the established project schedule.
- Expertise in Back end database testing with database Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
- Proficient in executing SQL queries and strong in security backend testing.
- Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of QA test strategy and Test plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server, ETL, SOA Process, ERP and Web applications.
- Worked with the build/release management teams to validate the system setup and c configurations at pre - deployment stage.
- Experience on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) like C# .NET, Java, using Eclipse and Visual studio with Back end as Oracle and SQL Server.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing Tools: QTP, Win Runner, and Load Runner
Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director Rational Clear Quest, JIRA and Bugzilla, Run Test Run
Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process, OOD, UML, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile
Languages: C, C++, JAVA, J2EE, JSP
Data Base: Oracle9i/10g, SQL Server, DB2
Scripting Language: VB Script, JAVA Script, HTML, DHTML, UML and XML
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Home, Vista and UNIX
Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP and HTPS
Application Servers: Web Services, Web Logic and Web Sphere
Version Manager: Visual SourceSafe, and Clear Case
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Nets Cape Navigator, Mozilla Fire Fox, VMware
Others: MS Office, MS Excel, Visio and Adobe
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI
Sr QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents and Functional Design Documents (FDD).
- Involved in performing day to day testing of product updates and releases
- Responsible for creating or setting up any test data that is required for every release by coordinating with 10 different backend systems.
- Responsible for the analysis, test and design of the flow and logic of the system.
- Actively participated in writing Test Plan and Test cases
- Participated in peer reviews of all the documents and Test Cases
- Tracking software defects and routing them to the right person/team found in the applications while testing.
- Single Point of Contact (SPOC) between Development team, Business Analyst team and our offshore resources.
- Well versed in covering all the test scenarios because of the strong Domain Knowledge
- Conducted database testing using SQL queries
- Used Quality Center for organizing test requirement documents, test plans, test scripts, and defects
- Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios and defects
- Trained resources at offshore on daily call from onsite to equip them with knowledge of application
- Working on several different projects simultaneously
- Coordinated with Team Lead/PM/Business Analysts for QA Sign off for Test Cases/Test Plan.
- Participated in review meetings and daily status meetings during the testing process
- Extensively involved in manual functional testing.
- Created use case scenarios and documented work flow and business process
- Delivering project Technical Demos to clients and participating in business calls
- Participated in the User Acceptance Testing with the clients for every release
Environment: Quality Center/ALM 11.0, QuickTest Professional 11.0, SQL, Agile Scrum Methodology, JIRA Agile, VB Script, J2EE, EJB, XML, HTML, Oracle, UNIX and Windows XP
Confidential, Richfield, MN
Sr. Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and reviewed BRD, SRS, FRS, TRS documents to design quality test cases.
- Involved in generating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for functional requirements.
- Participated in peer reviews of all the documents and Test Cases.
- Involved in executing test cases manually and reported defects using Quality Center.
- Effectively interacted with business analyst and technical team in providing clear solutions to requirements.
- Designed test cases using Test Plan in Quality Center and mapped with requirements.
- Involved in execution of test cases using Test Lab in Quality Center and linked the detected defect with requirements and test cases.
- Generated test scripts using Quick Test Professional to check the functionality of the system.
- Used Quality Center to save the generated test scripts.
- Linked detected defects during automation to requirements and test scripts using Quality Center.
- Actively participated in status meetings to report issues.
- Generated scripts using Load Runner to measure the performance of the system.
- Performed web testing using Quick Test Professional to check the compatibility, reliability, and scalability of the application in different browsers.
- Involved in system and User Acceptance Testing.
- Documented test procedure documents and test results using Quality Center.
- Performed gap analysis by comparing actual result with expected result.
- Conducted database validation using SQL queries.
- Closely interacted with clients, developers, and system engineers to identify application defects, reviews, and follow ups.
Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Professional 9.0, oracle 9i, JUNIT, ASP.NET, Perl, HTML, C++, IIS, VB.Net, JavaScript, IE, web sphere, web services, UNIX, LINUX, and Windows2000.
Confidential, Florida
QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Involved in requirement analysis and documentation of functional specs.
- Identified Test Scenarios for required system and functional testing.
- Provided support in the preparation of Test Plan specifying an overview of testing approach, testing strategy, and scope.
- Developed Test Cases as per to the Requirement Specifications.
- Responsible for testing all new and existing data warehouse components.
- Experienced at testing ETL's and flat file data transfers without relying on a GUI layer
- Worked with the components of Data Warehousing like components model, ETL tools.
- Tested Abinitio graphs for File to Table and Table to file conversions required for EBCIDIC format and XML files.
- Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix using Mercury Quality Center.
- Executed test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools.
- Performed Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
- Responsible for designing and managing UAT test scenarios.
- Used QTP and RAID automation tools for Functional, Regression and Data Driven testing.
- Used SQL tools such as SQL Query Analyzer for creating SQL queries to verify the integrity of the data.
- Performed extensive back-end testing and database auditing using SQL Server.
- Used Quality Center as a release management tool.
- Provided production support for the releases.
- Used Mercury Quality Center and JIRA to house all test documentation, report/track all issues and defects.
- Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis.
Environment: QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center, Cognos8BI, SQLServer2005, .Net, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Rumba, QC8.2, VSS, Windows Vista/XP and Informatica Power Center 7.1.2.
Confidential, Montvale, NJ
QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and reviewed business requirement documents (BRD’s) and system requirement specification documents and functional design documents.
- Actively participated in writing Test Plan and Test cases.
- Documented the application from business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Created and documented the Test Designs for each functional area mentioned in Test Plans.
- Involved in smoke testing, functional testing and automation.
- Involved in performance testing and functional decomposition of web-based (SOA) and legacy systems architecture.
- Enhanced and modified test scripts according to the test case scenarios.
- Worked extensively on Virtual User generator and Controller.
- Parameterized the scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the test cases.
- Performed Correlation to scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the Workflow.
- Performed functional testing by generating scripts for application using QuickTest Professional.
- Effectively interacted with business analyst and developers to identify the defects in application.
- Conducted database testing using SQL queries.
- Used Quality Center for organizing test requirement documents, test plans, test scripts, and defects.
Environment: UNIX, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional, VB.net, VB Script, TOAD, Ms Office.
Confidential, IL
QA Tester
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed and Analyzed the System Requirement Specs and understand the control flow of the whole system.
- Follow the Agile methodology due to the continuous change of requirements.
- Performed Ad-hoc/Exploratory testing prior to automate the testing on the application.
- Developed re-useable code to share functionality with different tests, thereby providing easy to maintain.
- Performed Business Processes Testing (BPT) for typical Functionality.
- Review and approve test cases written by other QC staff members prior to execution
- Ensure thorough and documented traceability from test cases to design / requirements
- Write, present/distribute and maintain testing documentation; including release notes, release forms and other necessary testing reports
- Configure, maintain and control all test tools; including Quality Center, Quick Test Professional.
- Create the test environment for the all the flavors of windows and Mac operating system
- Provide expert analysis and acquisition of testing tools for the Quality Control team.
- Effectively communicate test considerations, defects, process initiatives, and general status of projects to the Quality Control staff, functional management and executive management.
- Perform Load and Stress Test By creating V users using Load Runner
- Used Quality center to log defects and generate defect reports and graphs.
- Monitored Quality Center to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fixed the bugs.
Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 8.2,TFS, Load Runner 9.0, JIRA, .Net Framework 1.1 ASP.NET,C#.NET, AJAX, XML,, PHP,HTML,CSS, SQL Server 2005, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS MS Excel, UNIX, Windows XP, MAC OS and MS office.