SUMMARY:

• Software QA analyst with 5+ Years of experience in Requirements Analysis, Software Quality Assurance and Testing Applications.
• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC), Software Testing life cycle(STLC) and Testing Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Hands on experience in Analyzing Business specifications and Software Testing process which includes writing test plans, test script, test cases execution, defect reporting and defect tracking for both Automated and Manual testing.
• Experience in Manual/Automation Testing using HP Interactive Automation Tools like Quality Center(QC), Quick Test Professional(QTP).
• Performed Black Box Testing, Functional testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Load testing, Exploratory testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Browser compatibility testing etc.
• Extensive experience in Testing Client Server and Web based applications
• Experience in using bug tracking defect system, submitting the quality bugs, raising the issues, changes, defects, resolving bugs, enhancements using Quality Center.
• Hands - on experience in Web Services testing using Soup UI tool, validating WSDL, request and response XML.
• Experience in Performance testing tools like HP Load Runner (VUGen, Controller, Analysis).
• Experience in Health care, Finance and tax domains.
• Ability to work individually and in a diverse team environment.
• Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills. Self-motivated and results oriented, quick and eager to learn any concepts, programs or procedures that may serve to enhance company growth potential.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center(QC)10.0, HP Application Life Cycle Management(ALM)

Test Automation Tools: HP UFT 11.5 (Unified Functional Testing), QTP 11/10 ( Quick Test Professional), HP load Runner 12.0

Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, Bugzilla

Scripting Languages: VB Script

Database/ Data Base Tools: SQL, Oracle 9i, TOAD, PUTTY, MS Access, SQL Navigator

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOUP UI 5.3

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000/07/08, UNIX, LINUX, DOS

Microsoft Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Access

Browsers: In Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, KS

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile environment, reviewed business requirements (User Stories).
• Involved in performing various kinds of testing like Functional Testing, Regression testing , Integration testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) for each feature in Tax Module.
• Performed System testing of the application to meet the Business requirement documents for state and Federal Tax lines.
• Updated the scripts and test cases according to updated requirements and simultaneously updated Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in developing and executing test cases using Business requirements of various modules of the application, defect reporting and analyzing Test Metrics.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts to understand severity of the defects and assigned priorities accordingly to perform Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional testing based up on the web application
• Managed Bug Tracking Life Cycle using Jira
• Used SQL queries to verify the data in the database using Toad tool.
• Reporting status to scrum team during daily standup meetings.
• Participated in daily and weekly reports on Test case execution, defects and RTM etc.
• Interaction with business users for simulating the production critical issues.
• Status Reporting (Daily/Weekly status report, Test Summary Report and Productivity sheet)
• Providing inputs to scrum team in retrospective meetings for improving the overall scrum process.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression Testing during the various testing phases of the application using UFT/QTP.
• Employing data-driven testing based on Excel tables by parameterize test scripts to check application behavior using UFT.
• Executed Loadrunner VUGen scripts using LoadRunner Controller and generated results and emailed to Performance Testing team lead.

Environment: Windows XP, QTP/UFT, SQL, Jira, Soup UI, Toad, LoadRunner, Microsoft Excel, MS Word and PowerPoint, Java/J2EE.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and Analyzing the Business, functional and technical specifications.
• Involved in preparing the test related documents and execution of testing activities.
• Participated in requirements review, design discussions.
• Wrote test plans and numerous test cases.
• Review the test cases to ensure all requirements are covered.
• Carrying out execution of manual test cases and logging the defects.
• Tested different modules and their functionality.
• Performed Black box testing, Integration Testing, system testing, end-to-end testing, GUI and functional testing of the application.
• Developed SQL queries for the test cases to validate the results of the test cases executed.
• Performed manual testing, inserted new test cases, and performed verification, validation and data integration checks according to the requirement specifications.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Involved in Debugging and analyzing the test results, Bug tracking and documentation.
• Submitted status reports and attended triage meetings.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries in TOAD and validated the data.
• Extracted log files from UNIX / Linux using Putty tool and emailed the log files to developers for debug the code to fix the defects

Environment: Windows 2000, QTP, Quality Center, Putty, SQL, .Net, Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint.