SUMMARY

• Over 5+ Years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in Quality Assurance and performing Manual and Automated testing.
• Experience in analysis, design, development, and testing of Web - based and Client-Server technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Proficient in performing systems/functional testing in a Waterfall and Agile Software Development environment.
• Good testing skills which include preparation of test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and bug reports.
• Experience in test design, defect tracking & management, and test reporting.
• Diverse work experience on functional testing, integration testing, GUI testing, system testing, regression testing, database testing, user acceptance testing and compatibility testing.
• Experience in analyzing the bugs and interacting with developers and team members in fixing the defects.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domains: Web services, Data management software, Collaboration, Developer tools, Agile methodologies, Manual Testing, Automation Testing

Programming Languages (Basic Concepts): C, C#, HTML, XML, JAVA

Databases: SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, PL/SQL.

Testing: Unit testing, Automated testing (Selenium, QTP)

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Software Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tracked, prioritized, and organized defects with TFS, working with development team to facilitate timely corrections.
• Created queries in TFS to validate results of TFS reports.
• Knowledgeable in Open-Source Automation Tools (QTP, Selenium).
• Experience in Manual & Automated Testing for Software Quality Assurance (SQA).
• Reviewed System Requirements document with business team to understand functionality of the application.
• Work with QA Manager to evaluate and enhance QA standard, technologies, and approaches.
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient, and successful manual test cases for the entire team.

Confidential, MN

Junior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Identified, documented, and reported bugs, errors, interoperability flaws and other issues within proprietary software applications developed for Company's global user base.
• Demonstrated methodical, detail-oriented, and thorough approach to all assignments while adhering to compressed timelines.
• Complete all assignments on or ahead of schedule.
• Consistently recognized for excellent problem-solving and analytical skills by programmers, project managers and supervisors.
• Worked collaboratively with QA, development, and business groups to complete comprehensive testing on 2 major new releases.

Confidential

Junior Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like Requirements Review, Test Documentation, Application testing, defect reporting, and defect reporting.
• Performed manual, black box and functional, and regression testing on cross-browser.
• Good understanding of application build cycles and required test strategy to meet testing requirements.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements, Project Plans, Prototypes, Flow Diagrams, Use Cases, System Design documents, and created Detailed Test Cases.
• Highly knowledgeable regarding defect tracking cycle.
• Published test results and status reports to keep management updated about project status
• Wrote detailed Test Cases using Quality Center and organize same using Test Plan module
• Extensively used features like Test Scheduling, Automatic execution of tests, email notifications, etc. while executing QTP
• Reported Defects and mapped same against respective Test Cases.
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using Quick Test Professional
• Verified systems logs to identify highly hit pages and modules of application

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Functional and Technical specifications for new custom developments which included forms, reports, and enhancements
• Created defects in JIRA and validated defects assigned to me
• Responsible for writing scripts for daily/weekly smoke tests, regression tests
• Developed and executed test cases based on business requirements
• Developed test plans and test cases for testing various retail applications, in HP Quality Center
• Involved in functional, regression testing and responsible for tracking, reporting, and closing defects
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed, and failed test scripts
• Responsible for collecting test data while executing test cases
• Interacted with developers to resolve problems while executing test cases.
• Designed Script's standards and naming conventions.
• Preparing Estimation for Modules to be automated
• Analyzing manual test cases of Modules to be automated
• Automating test cases using Selenium.
• Provide QA metrics weekly basis on team productivity and application stability.
• Report on risk and issues with a mitigation plan to management.