SUMMARY

• More than 5 years of work experience as a QAAnalyst in both manual and automation testing of Client Server & Web based applications.
• Good experience in deriving test cases/test scenarios from Use Cases/Functional Specifications/Business Requirements.
• Good experience in supporting the preparation of test strategy docs, test plans and best practices in the testing life cycle.
• Good experience in Scrum Planning, Agile Process, Process Flow Diagrams for Operations of projects using Gliffy, Balsamiq, Wire frames, Mockups for creating home pages. JAD meetings, Scrum meetings, Daily standup, Retrospective Meetings.
• Have involved in Functional - System Integration Testing, GUI testing and Implementation Test Executions and technical check out.
• Excellent Experience in HP Application Lifecycle Management & Quality center for Test Cases Management
• Experience in documenting defects, including steps to reproduce and working with Developers and Functional Designers to resolve issues.
• Strong Experience in writing and executing Complex SQL queries for Back-end testing
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing (Functional, Regression), UAT
• Experience in creating Test Methodologies, Test Strategy Document, Test plan that defines the Test Environment, Phases of Testing, Entrance and Exit Criteria for different phases in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in testing Web based and Client Server based applications on different operating systems. (Windows 7, Linux).
• Working knowledge of the Oracle database and executing queries required to verify the updates to the database.
• Managed Requirements, Test Plans, and Test Cases using Quality center.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team as well as individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: HP ALM, HP-QC, JIRA and HP-QTP.

Operating System: Windows … Win 7, UNIX

RDBMS: SQL Server 2005, Oracle

Database Programming: SQL,PL/SQL.

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB script.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various SDLC phases-Requirements Analysis, Test Case Development, System Testing, Regression and Conducted End to End and Black box testing.
• Documenting the requirements and participate in making the complete use case model
• Actively involved in functional, system, integration, positive, negative, GUI testing of the application.
• Tested the functionality both manually and through automated scripts for functional and Regression testing on different modules.
• Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects.
• Written SQL scripts, PL/SQL stored procedure, functions, triggers and packages to implement business rules.
• Maintain systems documentation such as design specifications, user manuals, technical manuals, description of application operations, and methodology documentation.
• Created stored procedures and triggers utilizing PL/
• Generated DDL statements for creation of new database objects like tables, views, sequences, functions, synonyms, indexes, triggers
• Wrote QTP script based on Data Driven Framework to extracted data from external to pass the data in various fields of the applications.
• Work with project team on: planning, analysis, requirements, design & construction, testing and training for production implementations.
• Optimized Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Extensively used Quality Center for Test planning, Bug tracking, and Reporting.
• Gather and document business rules and effectively implementing them in system flow
• Wrote and executed manual test cases in Quality Center and reported the found bug.
• Used SoapUI to test the application web services.
• Worked with developers to Create and update the defects, resolve and track their status using QC.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Worked on SQL queries to verify data integrity and validate updated data for the Test cases in different modules of the application.
• Attended multiple sessions with Business Analyst and Solution Architects for understanding the design of the application for new Change Requests.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, Linux, Oracle, SQL, SOAP UI, XML, Agile, QTP, Web Services, HTML, MS Office.

Confidential, Houston

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Constructed and executed high level and detailed level test plans and test scripts.
• Created and used SQL Queries to the system for testing.
• Ensured timely defect management and resolution by quickly determining the cause, recommended a solution and implemented a test strategy to resolve the client issues.
• Worked with Business /Technical Analyst in analysis of functional design specifications of ETL/Data warehouse applications of Patient Tables with Draeger, Picis, and Philips clients for VA. Data Analytics product was mainly tested here.
• Analyzed Source to Target mapping document based on Facts & Dimensions and validating the DDL, Counts, Not Nulls, Duplicates, PK & FK validation, business rules to be applied on target tables.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Execution based on mapping specs to validate the platform data.
• Followed Defect management life cycle and raised the defects based on priority and severity level in Test Track.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke & Regression tests as per design specs.
• Implemented Iterative and Incremental Agile - Scrum Methodology for rapidly changing or highly emergent requirements and following parallel development and testing.

Environment: Mac, Windows7, MySQL, Test Track, Surround, Query surge, PERL, XML, Sybase, Oracle, Netezza, Mysqql, SQL Server, SOA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Scrum meeting, reviews and developed the test scenarios.
• Actively participated and assisted the team lead in the preparation of test plan and test summary reports.
• Developed detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and responsible for executing the Test Cases, Test Scripts using HP Quality Center
• Executed test cases manually, using HP Quality Center.
• Studied user requirements (URS) and functional specifications. Converted user requirements into formal Technical specifications (SRS).
• Generated DDL statements for creation of new database objects like tables, views, sequences, functions, synonyms, indexes, triggers.
• Written SQL scripts, PL/SQL stored procedure, functions, triggers and packages to implement business rules.
• Performed Manual testing for Shopping cart, payment methods, and calculation including discount, promotion, tax, shipping and handling.
• Involved in GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression test cycles
• Performed Regression testing of core functionalities by using automation testing tool of QTP.
• Developed SQL queries to verify the data in database for Customer Order Management.
• Used HP Quality Center to log and track the defects found during test process and to report the user reported issues.
• Performed browser compatibility testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
• Performed Mobile Application testing on various Mobile devices of different OS
• Performed POS application testing for Retail store system on .Net Platform.
• Performed System testing of Retail system on Simulators with functionality of User screen, customer screen, MSR and Back office integration
• Worked with the production team for customer support and solved the customer cases
• Conducted Functionality testing during the various phases of the application using QuickTest Pro (QTP)
• Performed tests like GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database testing

Environment:, HP Quality Center, SQL, QTP, VB script, HTML

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality
• Assisted QATeam Lead in writing the detailed Test Plan from business requirement document and functional specification document.
• Involved in Managing Test Manager - Create Test Plans and Test Cases, based on use cases and functional requirements. Make updates to the same as requirements change.
• Developed the Test plan and Test scripts for the Client /server Application using Quality Center
• Proficient with HP Quality Center (QC) to create detailed test results reports.
• Performed detailed Functional testing for checking functionality and security during various phases of development of the application.
• Performed Regression testing with QTP to make sure that the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly for every new build
• Performed back-end testing on the Oracle database by writing SQL queries.
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing, explained to the end-users about the testing methodology to get various data points from different interfaces.
• Involved in designing and developing Validation plans and Test plan documentations

Environment: HP Quality Center 6.5, QTP, VB Script, SQL, HTML.