SUMMARY:

• A detail oriented Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with six plus years of experience in manual and automation testing on various industries including insurance, healthcare, and IT service and solutions industries.
• Well versed with SDLC and CMMI processes
• Extensive analytical and problem - solving skills to clarify requirements/user stories and determine appropriate testing scenarios and suites to validate the iterative development of products against functional and technical specifications.
• Solid experience in system testing, Integration testing, functional testing, positive testing, negative testing, and sanity testing
• Expertise in analyzing requirements documents and design documents to develop system test plan, and test cases.
• Extensive experience in Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall development methodologies
• Strong analytical skills in analyzing Business Requirement documentation, Functional Specification documentation, Business Process Flow, Gap Analysis, User Story, Use Cases, and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Broad knowledge in Object oriented programming Language.
• Expertise in conducting peer reviews, technical reviews, and procedure walkthroughs.
• Interact with QA and Development engineers to analyze test process, and help develop strategies for testing products and services in agile environment.
• Experience in automated testing using industry standard tools: HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) and Selenium
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, verify and validate data on SQL Server, and Oracle database.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and independently to commit towards achieving dynamic goals.
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new technology and environment.
• Organize and bring attention to detail, manage multiple projects, and meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Software Testing Tools: ALM, JIRA, SOAP UI Quality Center Selenium

Programming Languages: SQL, and JAVA

Database: SQL server, ORACLE

Version Controlling Tools: SVN (Subversion), VSS

EXPERIENCE:

Sr.Quality Analyst Software Tester

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications documents to ensure that the application met all the technical and business requirements.
• Involve in interacting with the stakeholders, development team, and business analysts in understanding of the business requirements, use cases and design documents.
• Involve in reviewing and analyzing product backlog, sprint planning, user story, and use case document.
• Develop comprehensive system test plan.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine whether the system meets all the approved requirements.
• Perform Functional testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Work closely with the testing and developing team on a daily basis to maintain the frequent builds that are being pushed on Stage and make sure that each builds are being tested accurately.
• Involve in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Perform Regression Testing after any new releases.
• Use ALM/Quality Center to update requirements, create test cases, record and track defects.
• Work closely with Project Manager, stakeholders, and Business Analyst to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Test Dependency.
• Design and develop UAT Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Export Requirements from MS Excel to HP ALM.
• Create customize reports and graphs in ALM.
• Use WAVE and JAWS to verify the 508 accessibility compliance.
• Develop test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
• Perform Web services testing with SOAP UI tool.
• Coordinate UAT testing activities with the Testing Team, Development Team, and the stakeholders.
• Attended daily status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager and Testing Team during UAT and reports progress on daily basis.

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, SQL, Oracle, SOAP UI, XML, Selenium, WAVE, JAWS, Microsoft Office, UNIX

Middle Level QA Software Tester

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Conditions and related Manual Test Cases.
• Worked collaboratively with project team including development, business analyst, and end-users for gathering requirements.
• Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System test plans.
• Used HP Quality Center for systematic management of the test cases, test steps and defect tracking.
• Logged and tracked Defects and Issues and published defect analysis report.
• Executed manual test cases in QA environment and performed UAT testing in Deployment environment.
• Participated and reviewed Business Requirements and Design Specifications and provide technical and usability feedback.
• Prepared Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test Plans as well as Test Scripts for manual testing.
• Created test cases and test scenarios using Quality Center.
• Identified and documented all the defects and root-cause analysis to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated the bugs in the application.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.

Environment: SOAP UI, XML, Oracle, Windows, Quality Center, .Net

QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Attended weekly Review meetings with project team to understand the new changes, Implementations, and schedules to provide inputs from test execution perspective
• Participated in test plan and test case reviews, maintain testing issues lists, and follow up as necessary.
• Participated in project sprint planning, execution, testing and releases on Scrum methodology.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine whether the system meets all approved requirements.
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional and Regression Testing, and Security Testing.
• Worked closely with the Systems team, Business Analyst, Developers, and UI team to resolve the requirement issues, deployment issues, and change management issues.
• Responsible for reports of risks, impediments, sprint, and release progress.
• Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in the application during testing.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from Oracle database to validate the user interface (UI).
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting as well as followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Manually tested data from High level to detail level during verifications.

Environment: J2EE, Quality Center, Version Manager, JIRA, Microsoft Office, UNIX, ORACLE.

System Test Analyst

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Regression testing of the weekly builds of the application.
• Actively participated in the Walkthrough and Defect report meetings.
• Involved in Smoke, System, GUI, Functional, UAT, and Usability Testing.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database
• Performed Regression testing during various phases of development.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing against Oracle database.
• Used Quality Center for systematic management of the test cases, test steps, and defect tracking.
• Coordinated Defect/Issue Resolution among Developers, Engineers, DBAs, and other teams.
• Reviewed and participated in Change Control.
• Created Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed User Defined functions to support the automated scripts.
• Worked with users to develop user acceptance plan and test cases.
• Used data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Provided quality metrics using software quality assurance standard for determining software release readiness.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows.