SUMMARY:

• Performance - driven, insightful and proactive QA Tester who has achieved goals in high-pressure environments, with experience consulting with clients, Developers, Business Analysts and users to analyze and delineate requirements, coupled with the ability to delivering projects using various methodologies in various proposals throughout the project life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM/Quality Center, TestDirector, LoadRunner, TestComplete, QTP, Selenium, Cucumber, Test Mgr; WinRunner, JIRA, SQL, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Confluence, Adobe captivate, Tarantula

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7, Windows NT Server/Workstations, Linux, Unix

Languages: HTML, XML, DHTML, Microsoft Visual Basic, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Java, C, C#, .NET, VB, Oracle 10g, MS Access, Sybase

System Methodologies: V-Model, Waterfall Model, Agile/Scrum Methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

• Provides Quality Assurance for Pason software used on rigs across the globe.
• Participated in Daily kick-off meeting with QA team to discuss issues and daily tasks.
• Analyzed business needs, user requirement and specifications, formulating changes and identified various test scenarios to make sure that the application is adhering to business standards.
• Performed peer review of test cases to ensure adherence to standards and ensures test case completeness
• Performed Functionality testing manually as per the test case and evaluated the test results.
• Develop, modify and execute precise manual test cases to business requirements for drilling application functionality and perform sprint testing on every defect fix and newly additional requirement develop using Jira.
• Involved in complete Software testing Life Cycle(SDLC) & Conducted Requirements walkthrough within Testing team
• Conducted Compatibility testing on variety of browsers to ensure the users with different browsers don't experience problems and responsible for reporting & tracking bugs using Jira.
• Involved in end-to-end manual testing of the application and documentation using confluence.
• Conducted functional, regression, integration and system testing & update interactive project using Adobe captivate.
• Conducted Validation and Verification of bug fix and work collaboratively as part of a team in Agile/Scrum environs
• Interacted well with the Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and the Testing teams

QA Analyst / UAT

• Attended reviews and documented all processes and procedures
• Completed analysis of system requirement specifications for the application
• Produced high level test plans, run appropriates database queries using SQL, presented issues to developers, & verify fixes through sprint and regression testing
• Wrote test cases to demonstrate correct application behavior by verifying functionality.
• Executed test scripts, analyzed results and wrote test reports using Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Cohesively re-tested applications through regression tests to ensure that the release of a patch or an upgrade did not inadvertently introduce unexpected, changed behavior in various test cases and tracking of bugs using Jira.
• Performed systems analysis and validation at all levels of project development using TFS
• Analyze application, system, and security errors and adapting performance test scripts for load test by running it with multiple users and repeating this several times using Load Runner.
• Review UAT scripts from outside vendors for use in User Acceptance Testing based on update requirement and design.

QA Analyst

• Coordinating and working closely with the UAT groups, Development group, DBA's, Project Managers, and Infrastructure group to resolve problems
• Preforming usability testing to check for learnability, memorability, consistency, user satisfaction, help and forgiveness, aesthetic integrity, and feedbacks
• Analyzing Requirement documents to determine testing requirements and plan execution as well as develop and execute manual test cases and maintain documentation and test results using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0.
• Involving in gathering requirements, developing documentation and writing of detailed test scripts and test procedures for the Operations and planning module using Test complete.
• Participating in Technical Reviews with Business and Technical teams to evaluate the base-line requirements and finalize the Test cases for System test.
• Developing Test Cases, Test Data, Test Scripts and Test Summary Reports based on user requirements following Agile/Scrum process
• Performing System Testing before the application went into staging & production and also testing the application manually to ensure that the functionality is implemented
• Performing System, Integration, and Regression Testing on Windows XP in a client-server environment as well as testing of Web based Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Performing Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements and also checking for database transactions at every stage of business flow
• Testing large and complex integration of components and systems across multiple platforms
• Performing manual testing for On-line and batch scripts and also performing web testing to test Links and security issues using Test Manager
• Using HP Quality Center for Test Case management and Defect tracking and also Administering Quality Center using the Site Administration module
• Logging and tracking defects and measuring the testing effort and the quality of the software by creating reports in Quality Center
• Monitoring of defect status on Quality Center and assigning defect to the appropriate BA/Developer for fixing and also to the appropriate tester for retesting

QA Analyst

• Attended meetings with daily standup, defect triage process, retrospection and implement the processes and procedures and supporting the identification and recommendation of solutions for improvements;
• Responsible for software testing, weekly backlog grooming, bi-weekly sprint and creating entrance / exit criteria reports for software release
• Analysis of system requirement specifications for a wealth management application;
• Conducted Acceptance, and Usability Tests during the later stages of the contract on the Investment Management modules of the wealth management application;
• Involved in complete Software testing Life Cycle (SDLC) & Conducted data integrated testing by extensive use of SQL
• Conducted Compatibility testing on variety of browsers to ensure the users with different browsers don't experience problems and Used defect tracker of Test Director to log and enhance defective reports.
• Preparing and executing test plans and supervising test resources in developing and executing appropriate tests for all projects and change requests within strict time and quality constraints;
• Producing and managing test progress reports and managing defects in line with the test strategy and plan;
• Creating, executing, maintaining test scripts and logging defect using HP Quality Centre;
• Liaising with delivery unit development staff / Business Analyst to gain understanding of the website to test;
• Creating Load on the Web Portal by emulating actions, Recording events / business process into scripts and adding manual enhancements where necessary using the VuGen;
• Adapting scripts for performance and load test by running it with multiple users and repeating this several times on Load Runner and Created tracking sheet to trace QA testing efforts.
• Performing manual testing including Functional, Regression, Systems, Data Mappings, Non-Functional, User Acceptance and Static Test at all levels of project development;
• Updating Test Script for changes made to specification, tracking bugs, verifying fixes and maintaining error log with clear documentation of test incidents.