SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of proven experience as QA Analyst while working on web based and mobile applications
• Experience in all stages of Software Test Life cycle(STLC) and Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experienced in all phases of automated testing such as Test Script Design, Test Execution and Maintenance using Quick Test Professional 11.0, 11.5
• Highly Knowledgeable in all phases of testing life cycle, including Requirements review, test planning, test case design, test execution, defect tracking, defect management
• Proven experience in analyzing the Business Requirements, User Requirement Specifications (URS), and Functional Requirement specifications
• Expertise in developing test plans, test cases, defect reports and daily status reports to project team
• Experience in different types of testing such as Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration, System and UAT testing
• Extensively used defect tracking tools such as JIRA, SCARAB and HP Quality Center
• Proficient in conducting Manual Testing and Automated testing in test organization
• Experience in Waterfall, Iterative and Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Conducted trainings to share knowledge amongst the team members
• Ability to prioritize and manage tasks and adapt to the changes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, SCARAB, HP Quality Center

Automation Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP)

Scripting Languages: Java script, VB Script, XML, HTML, C, C++, JAVA

Databases: ORACLE, SQL SERVER 2005,2008, ACCESS

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, RUP

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8

Applications Environment: JAVA, J2EE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created, enhanced and maintained high - end test scripts for various functional and regression using Quick Test Professional and VBScript
• Testing the application from complete business angle, with functional, system, integration and regression testing using Agile methodology
• Responsible and Accountable for writing comprehensive QA test plan, test scenarios, test scripts for all new development initiatives
• Developed and maintained Reusable functions, Actions and Object Repositories via Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Designed Recovery Scenarios in QTP for exception handling
• Utilized Descriptive programming for creating Quick Test Professional Automated Scripts
• Identified and created test data for positive and negative test scenarios as per application specifications.
• Performed standard checkpoints and also database checkpoints in Quick Test Professional in order to verify and validate data on web based application with Visual Basic programming.
• Developed parameterized test scripts to test same functionality with multiple sets of data using Quick Test Pro.
• Used JIRA for defect tracking and bug reporting.
• Worked closely with Product owner and BA to understand thoroughly the acceptance criteria for user stories
• Performed End-to-End testing on all business scenarios including integration with external applications
• Follow up with on-shore team and client on any requirement changes or DDD changes.
• Provided support in Unit testing to the application developers when required.

Environment: JIRA, MS Excel, JAVA, J2EE, AWD, Oracle, Xml, PL/SQL, Web Service, QTP (11.5).

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating Automated test scripts using Hybrid Framework for QTP (Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework)
• Developed Multiple Recovery Scenarios in QTP for Exception Handling
• Utilized Smart Identification, Regular Expression and Parameterization to enhance the scripts and handle dynamic pages
• Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing of different application versions
• Hands on experience creating test cases, execute, log the defects manually and using Automation tool QTP.
• Create new defects and enter the description, summary, priority, severity of the defects in SCARAB
• Deigned Automated scripts in QTP for various business scenarios using multiple actions and reusable actions
• Verify the version of the builds
• Designed Test cases and Test plans for various enhancements
• Experienced in designing compact regression test suite to take care of all scenarios involved in the workflow of new business application processing
• Used SCARAB for defect tracking and bug reporting.
• Follow up with on-shore team and client on requirement changes or DDD changes
• Used Toad for designing and executing SQL queries to performed backend security testing
• Authored progress and completion reports with respect to the specific modules or enhancements defects, which are then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
• Created check lists for new features based on functional specification and change requests
• Performed web testing across multiple browsers

Environment: Scarab, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle, Xml, AWD, PL/SQL, Web Service, QTP (11.5).

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing Requirement Specifications and Design Documents
• Involved in Test Case Design with respect to Test Plan
• Executed Positive and Negative Test cases
• Created and Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure complete test coverage
• Performed Black Box testing of the application in applying input and just observing outputs
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression and Smoke testing
• Involved in Test Execution and Bug Reporting using HP Quality Center
• Involved in performing various levels of testing like Unit Testing, System testing and Integration testing.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and involved in UA test cases, Executed test cases, Documenting Defects, Resolved defects and Signed Off from Application.
• Executed test cases through Iterative testing for testing the incremental functionality.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed compared using Quality Center.
• Responsible for communicating with Development Team, Technical Support, Business Support in order to resolve the issues.
• Involved in Test Reporting on daily/ weekly basis through company prescribed format.

Environment: Windows, SQL Server, C, JAVA, Visual Basic, QTP, HP Quality Center

Confidential, New York City, NY

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Written comprehensive test plan, master test plan and Integration test plans
• Prepared test cases by understanding the business requirements, Data Mapping documents and technical specifications.
• Participated in weekly QA meeting to discuss project updates, defects, design gaps, brainstorm possible solutions
• Participated in Walkthrough and Periodic Meetings with Clients, Business and Development team leads
• Performed system testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and User acceptance testing
• Collaborated with QA team on using documentation standards in the
• Performed Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• As part of Agile team, to attend sprint planning meeting and sprint status presentation to product owner, PM team and other team members.
• Update the Test plan, test cases, and Test sets as per changes from scrum meeting.
• Hands on experience in preparing Hybrid (Keyword and Data Driven) framework for QTP Automation
• Created test scripts for automated functional and regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Perform UI testing considering parameters like consistency, usability, visibility, accessibility and compatibility of the application under development

Environment: Manual Testing, Quick Test Pro (11.5), Rational Functional Tester, Rational Quality Manager, Quality Center, VB Script, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, C#.NET, MVC, AJAX, JQuery, HTML, TFS, XML, Web Services

Confidential, Middletown, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development of test documents like Functional test cases and User Acceptance (UA) test cases
• Manual unit testing of features.
• Manual regression testing of sites before deployments.
• Manual user acceptance testing
• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the process and write Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Expertise in preparing Test Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for manual testing based on the User Requirements, System Requirements documents
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation testing.
• Performed Manual and Automation testing. Verified and Validated the Automated Test scripts.
• Developed automated Test scripts using QTP to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs in Quality Center.
• Performed UI testing considering parameters like consistency, usability, visibility, accessibility and compatibility of the application under development
• By using Execution Grid, run all manual and automated test cases in Quality Center.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Tested Web page presentation manually for different browser compatibility
• Hands on work experience working with offshore team model; coordinate my own efforts with team members in the off- site team.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and involved in UA test cases, Executed test cases, Documenting Defects, Resolved defects and Signed Off from Application.
• Provided weekly status report to the Project Manager and discuss issues related to quality and deadlines.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Windows NT / 2003, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, HTML, XML, J2EE, Apache, Web Logic

Confidential

Associate Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Smoke testing.
• Performed functional, system, and regression testing.
• Reported defects and documenting the reported bugs properly and tracking the bugs until fixed.
• Designed Test cases and Test plans.
• Defects testing.
• Gathering and analyzing new requirements with respect to the change requested by client in the current functionality of the application.
• Helping out offshore and onshore team with knowledge I acquire on the work and by client interaction.

Environment: JAVA, MS SQL SERVER 2005, MS Excel