SUMMARY:

• Overall 9 years of experience as a QA analyst in enterprise applications using manual and automation testing techniques.
• Ability to plan, manage and execute the Test/QA activities of a systems/product development project including the participation in the development of test plans and test strategy documents.
• Expertise in creating & executing Test Plans, test cases, test scripts from Use Cases, Requirements documents, Functional specification, Detailed/General Design Documents, wireframes, backlogs, etc.
• Ability to design and execute tests from lack of requirements documents or no documents.
• Strong working knowledge of software design and system/product development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experienced working in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodology.
• Extensive experience with Retail/ Healthcare/Financial Services / Consulting / Education on windows, client, and web applications,webservices.
• GUI Based testing with User Interface testing.
• Expertise in analyzing requirement specifications and outlining appropriate approach for testing.
• Experienced in Black Box testing, Functional testing, Database testing, end to end testing, ad - hoc testing, exploratory testing, Integration testing, security testing, Regression testing, Web Service testing, Browser Compatibility, Load/Performance testing, User Acceptance testing and logging/tracking defects.
• Good Experience on Selenium IDE and creating Scripts in selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in testing front-end web user interfaces and backend SQL.
• Experience at performing Database/Back-end Testing and data manipulation using SQL.
• Hands on experience in writing and executing automated Test Scripts, Tracking Defects and interacting with the development team in correcting the defects.
• Working Knowledge in QC/ALM, JIRA for global test management, bug tracking and reporting.
• Self-motivated, responsible, organized and has desire and ability to learn new skills/tools.
• Thriving in Change - Ability to adapt well to changes in work assignments, policies, procedures and re-organizations.
• A dedicated team player that can perform well with little to no supervision.
• Ability to be flexible and do whatever it takes to get the job done.
• Dependable and highly organized; accurate at detail work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP),HP Quality Center 11/ALM, Selenium

Web Technologies: SQL, Java J2EE,C#, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, VBScript,Java Script

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server/ Toad, Teradata SQL assistant and DB2

Browsers: IE, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/7, UNIX, Linux, and DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham,NC

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Complete responsibility of all QA deliverables for QA and Processing teams and understanding of Curam case management functionality and business process.
• Active participation in Product Requirement meetings with the stakeholders on Testability
• Automation testing of web based applications using QTP
• Prepare, Review and execute manual, automation and performance test strategies, test plans and test cases
• Functional testing of web based applications, Database and Hbase based Processing tools,Cloud based web based application
• Design of QA Checklists, Regression, Smoke & Sanity Test Suites and Quality Control Checklists for QA and Processing teams
• Design and Audit QA Processes and Templates for Testing, System and Processing teams of the organization
• Design and review project plans and QC checklists prepared by Processing Team to process Customers data
• Arrange and conduct review, bug triage, Sprint retrospective and CCB meetings
• Performed data validation testing writing SQL queries
• Tested ETL batch processes using UNIX shell scripting
• Wrote and modified required UNIX scripts and other SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs
• Involved in writing Shell Scripts to load and extract information from files and tested the back-end for data integrity in UNIX
• Arrange and conduct review, bug triage, Sprint retrospective and CCB meetings

Environments: UNIX, MS Windows& Mac OS, QTP, QC, Cloud based web applications

Confidential

QA Lead/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Point of Contact and subject matter expert on Independent Sampling
• Worked with business analysts and Keyholders for updating the business requirements as per client needs
• Modified the uses cases with the business analysts as per the changes needed by the client
• Analysing the business requirements and developing the test strategy and test plan document
• Meetings with business analysts, development team and QA team and follow up actions discussed in the meetings for a good deliverable quality of the project
• Analysing and developing the test scenarios document for UI and Database testing
• Developing and reviewing of test cases for both backend to frontend as well as database test cases
• Created and maintained the RTM
• Meetings with offshore team in order to clarify and guide them where required to meet business expectations.
• Reviewing the FSD and co-ordinting with the development team for any changes
• Executed the test cases in ALM and tracked the defects in QC
• Co-ordinating with the development team to ensure the defects are fixed as per the business requirements
• Written SQL queries and database checkpoints to validate data and calculations
• Written complex queries in Teradata SQL assistant to check the data from source to target
• Used Teradata utilities to load sample data into target tables
• Involved in writing SQL statements to create test data for test cases and data validation tests to extract data from the tables
• Written VB scripts for test automation in QTP
• Tested the Oracle applications and portals like CPDC dashboards to drill down SSRS reports
• Analyzing the data in the data governance portals against the requirements and as per the fields and columns in the data mapping document
• Validation of data from source, intermediate to target layers
• Final ESQA sign-off

Environments: SQL Server/Toad, QTP, ALM/QC, Oracle Teradata/SQL Assistant

Confidential

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defining and developing test plans and test cases by analyzing business requirements, technical requirements and use cases documents.
• Writing and executing SQL queries to extract test data and to interpret test results.
• Documenting software defects and report defects to software developers.
• Writting test scripts from the scratch and executing them to validate the correct functionality of the application.
• Extensively experienced with HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Working with the web programming language HTML, CSS, XML and selecting web element by using Firebug and FirePath.
• Operating on Selenium IdE for element identification.
• Using Selenium Webdriver for executing automation frameworks.
• Working knowledge on using testing tools -Eclipse,Junit and TestNG.
• Executing data-driven approach on test data being used according to the specification.
• Executing Key-word driven approach on certain functionalities.
• Designing, coding and executing automated tests using Java/HTML/SQL.
• Performing Cross browser testing with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
• Involved in web services testing using SOAPUI web services testing tool.

Environment: WebServices,Core Java, Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver,Junit, TestNG, Soap UI, MS-Excel, Chrome, Firefox

Confidential

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Use advanced Telerik UI controls for enhanced user experience.
• Upgrade their Microsoft.Net versions from 2.0 to 4.0 to leverage security and other improvements.
• Redesign system features to meet current industry standards in order for Sunhouse to market this tool to gasoline distributors and dealers.
• Enhanced reporting and third party integration for Price notifications and card transactions.
• Execution of the Test Plans, Templates, Test Cases, and other test documents for web-based applications
• Working on multiple tasks, releases and delivering the deliverables demanded by Agile Team using Agile methodology.
• Working with business analysts and design teams to ensure business requirements are met
• Developing test cases and test scripts according to the standards - manual and and then automated the regression test suite
• Mentoring the team for both Manual and Automation activities.
• Analyzing and designing user-stories, use cases and requirement documents to ensure Test Case has 100% test coverage.
• Communicating and working closely with end users,product owner, business analysts and developers to gather information to define the entire testing phase.
• Developed and executed Test Cases by analyzing the test scenarios.
• Attending daily stand up meetings to provide clear test updates to the team.
• Providing clear and detailed Test Status reports to the business.
• Ensuring testing activities met the business requirements, fulfill end-user requirements and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Conducting all types of application testing as needed, such as system, black-box, UI, regression, sanity testing, cross-browser testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Using SQL queries for extracting the required data related to testing, test dataset creation and verification.
• Analyzed formal test results in order to discover and resolve defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Developing automation test scripts using VBScript in HP QTP.
• Keeping manual testing test cases and automation test scripts updated with new changes.
• Attending daily stand up meetings to provide clear test updates to the team.
• Used JIRA for Test management and Defect Tracking.
• Worked with on-site and off-shore resources and supported UAT testing.

Environment: Windows 7, 2008, XML, VBScript, SQL Server 2008, JIRA, QTP11

Confidential

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and contributing for the analyzation of the business requirements. 
• Creating, executing, coding and enhancing the Automation test scripts using QTP
• Involved in the evaluation of the Automation tools for the product, before starting the automation
• Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, and configuration issues
• Collaborate with software/system personnel in application testing, such as system, regression, smoke and other testing techniques
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management
• Developed test cases for backend testing DB2 error messages
• Collaborated with software developers to understand the flow of the application development in order to create detailed test strategies, test scenarios and test cases
• Developed effective driver Scripts using VB Scripting with high level recovery scenarios, descriptive programming
• Developed test cases for backend testing DB2 error messages
• Analyzed application data by using SQL to identify the ETL process
• Performed SQL queries for backend testing on DB2 to verify the test data
• Written complex SQL queries for data validation
• Filing detailed bug reports, identified work arounds and verified fixes by confirmation testing 
• Well versed in Waterfall and Agile methodology

Environment: XML, DB2, JIRA, QTP 9.0, Windows 7 and 2008.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performing manual and functional tests.
• Documenting requirements, test runs, manual test cases, and defects.
• Involved in each stage of test documentation with test strategy and methodology, test planning, test case specification,test procedures, test logs and defect reports.
• Reviewing bug descriptions, functional requirements, and design documents.
• Working in parallel on more than one QA project at a time.
• Maintaining a detailed log of all Quality Assurance issues and implementations.
• Thoroughly testing application along with bug reporting, bug tracking till bug closure using JIRA

Environment: SQL Server 2005, JIRA, Windows XP/2008, MS-Excel.