Software Quality Assurance Resume

SUMMARY

5 years of experience on various phases of Software Testing life cycle (STLC).
Experience in Software Quality Assurance with knowledge in testing web applications, mobile applications and client server applications.
Experience in Functional, Black Box, System, Integration, User Acceptance, and Regression testing.
Experience with strategic test management and documentation such as, writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Analysis, collection of the required Test Data and preparation and publication of Test Results.
Experience in using HP Quality Center for Defect Tracking and Test Management.
Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Worked on Agile tool Rally managing testing related tasks of the stories.
Experience working with end users, business analysts, architects and technical teams.
Worked in fast pace development cycles and interacted with cross functional teams to contribute towards the overall quality assurance of the application.
Strong communication skills. Coordinated testing efforts on many testing projects interacting with on - site and offshore teams.
Strong analytical skills. Designed complicated test strategies and supporting the test efforts for both user interface and backend.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: HTML, SQL, VB Script

Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL server &MS Access

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox

O/S: Windows NT, Windows XP / 7 / Vista, UNIX, MacOS & MS DOS

Tools: HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional

Others: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, In-Design, CorelDraw, PageMaker Power Point, Visio, Word, Excel, CSS3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Actively involved in Software Development Life Cycle and Test Life Cycle.
Used Rally Tool for capturing testing requirements (Stories) and to track the Story status during Sprint cycles.
Involved in the Story grooming and sizing meetings. Provided story points for the Stories.
Used the Acceptance Criteria from the Rally stories to prepare Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
Tested the application functionality, business flows, and integration.
Attended daily Scrum calls to provide updates on the testing status to the project team.
Used HP ALM Tool to track the defects found during the Sprint testing.
Interacted with the developers to review and explain the defects and potential issues.
Assisted business team to complete their acceptance testing prior to the sprint demos.
Attended retrospective sessions at the end of each sprint and discussed the lessons learned and improvement opportunities after every sprint.
Collaborated with testing automation team to identify scripts that can be automated and provided necessary support for their automation.
Used HANA Views and SQL for extracting the required data related to testing, test dataset creation and verification.

Environment: SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP NW Portal, HTML5, MS-Office, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, Windows XP, Internet Explorer.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute the baseline tests.
Wrote Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Matrix analyzing the Use Cases.
Updated the Traceability Matrix to check the coverage analysis.
Performed manual testing of the GUI, application functionality, and Use Cases.
Involved in Back End testing by extracting flat files from the server, which were generated by batch process to verify the data against the expected results.
Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
Participated in peer review meetings, defect triage sessions, requirement reviews, training & updating the senior management with testing status.

Environment: SAP FS-CD, DB2, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, MS-Office.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the Business Requirements, Functional design document, Use Cases, Process and Data Flows.
Involved in writing test cases, test plans, test scenarios and executing them.
Tested the Application functionality, Use Cases and Business Flows.
Developed detailed test conditions, test scripts and test steps.
Assisted is testing status reporting,
Used Quality Center for Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Execution and Defect Tracking.

Environment: Java, HTML, Oracle, Windows 98, Quality Center, UNIX, MS-Office.