SUMMARY:

• 6 years of solid experience in Software development industry with full knowledge of Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Possess in depth knowledge in Software Development Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Scrum.
• Rich experience in creating artifacts like Requirement Traceability Matrix, Review Log and Requirement Clarification Tracker.
• Actively worked on preparing automation and functional Test plan and estimates for the allocated assignments.
• Experienced running SQL queries for data validation and comparison to perform back end testing.
• Proficient in Software Test Life Cycle including test planning, requirement analysis, test case creation, execution and defect tracking.
• Experience in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Cross - Browser Testing, End To End Testing, Ad-hoc Testing.
• Experience in using Quality center/ALM, SQL and JIRA .
• Basic knowledge of Selenium and QTP framework.
• Communicate the issues/risks and the status reports on time.
• Expertise in performing risk analysis and GAP analysis.
• Excellent team player with strong written, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Experience leading team to meet deadlines and goals set by clients.
• Optimistic, excellent team player, effective communicator and always interested to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Testing Tool: QTP, Selenium Webdriver, SoupUI

Test Management Tool: Quality Centre/ALM

Defects Tracking Tool: JIRA and Quality Centre

Languages: VB script, Java, HTML

Database: SQL Server, Oracle DB

Software Packages: MS Office

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 and Unix

Web Services: REST, SOAP

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in (SDLC), STLC, Testing Methodologies, Techniques, testing documentation and implementation in all phases for the entire project from End-To-End.
• Created, Executed and maintained Test cases Through Quality Center for Infrastructure, Functional, Smoke and Regression Testing.
• Reviewing business requirements and associated documentation to come up with query log.
• Developing test plans, approach, scripts and closure reports.
• Running manual tests on software ensuring it conforms to design and set standards.
• Working on evaluating estimates for both manual and automation areas.
• Report and track defects using JIRA.
• Working on creating framework and implementation in project.
• Identify regression tests and experience in development, maintenance and execution of automated regression test suites where appropriate.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process.
• Sharing status report per the company prescribed format.
• Actively managing the release and following up with stakeholders to get the open items done.
• Continuously working on process improvements and implementation within the project.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Execute functional, regression, systems testing and risk analysis to ensure that the new/updated software does not negatively impact the quality and stability of production environment.
• Good Experience on Selenium IDE and creating Scripts in selenium Web driver by using Java
• HP Quality Center 10 to manage requirement, test cases, test execution and defect tracking.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix , Test Metrics and Deployment manual.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Data Driven Testin g & Ad-hoc Testing when required.
• Performed system testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings and gave the daily status of testing.
• Participate in various documentation reviews including requirement review with business, project plan with Project Managers

Environment: s: Quality Centre/ALM, SoupUI, SOAP, API, JIRA, Agile, Scrum, Selenium IDE/Web driver, MS Word 2007,MS Outlook, MS Excel 2007/2003, IE, FF & Google chrome.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day QA work intake process, including review of upcoming projects, providing initial estimates and assigning resource and scheduling of resources.
• Lead and mentor a team of four QA engineers onsite and offshore, setting direction, devising test strategy and supporting execution of strategy
• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System requirement specs, High level Design documents, detailed design documents and Requirement Matrix.
• Effectively communicate testing status to Senior QA management and other application leads
• Attended several initial rounds of business review meeting and validate BAU rules for offer configuration for new projects
• Holding regular defect triage meetings with internal and vendor development and infrastructure team to review defect impact and proposed resolutions.
• Understanding the business data and its customers.
• Created test cases and executed them manually during system and regression testing and raising defects using Quality centre.
• Involved in Defining, and Analyzing the Test Requirements based on the Application Functionality and developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Script.
• Performed both manual and automation testing and created various test documents to track the testing results.
• Use the standard software testing life cycle (STLC) to design test artifacts.
• Perform various levels of testing such as: functional testing, black box Testing, System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Exported requirements, test cases into the Quality Center and run manual test cases from test lab and log defects.
• Created and executed both load and functional tests for web services
• Created test planning and participated in execution for API testing using DHC tool.
• Creating all artifacts for assigned requirements-Requirement Traceability Matrix, Review Log and Requirement Clarification Tracker.
• Mentoring and conducting training sessions for new recruits.
• Worked independently on new functionality projects.
• Involvement in Test Reporting on daily, weekly basis through company prescribed format.

Environment: s: Quality Centre, Web Services, DHC, REST, JIRA, MS Word 2007,MS Outlook, MS Excel 2007/2003, IE, FF & Google chrome.

Confidential, Westport, CT

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed & Analyzed to Understand the Requirement Specifications.
• Preparing UAT Test Plans & Test Cases.
• Preparation of the Master data and Test input data for the positive and negative scenarios documented in the test plan.
• Writing the Test cases for acceptance, functional, and regression testing of application and new functionality projects.
• Preparation of the Master data and Test input data for the positive and negative scenarios documented in the test plan.
• Preparation of RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to trace between the TRSD and test cases.
• Performed Mobile testing using Multibrowser tool for BlackBerry, iPhone & Android Operating systems.
• Writing Test scenarios and test cases for Functional and End to End testing.
• Involved in Backend Database testing in Microsoft SQL Server for data validation.
• Managing all phases of testing for mentioned components ensuring test plans and test cases are completed and met business requirements.
• Performed Sanity testing and Regression testing for every new build of the application.
• Actively participated in Conference calls with the Clients and Developers.
• Communicating with other team’s members (Development Team, Technical Support, and Business Support) in order to resolve the issues.
• Preparation of Weekly
• Bug Report and Status Report.
• Received client appreciation for completing efficiently the project with a record of maximum bugs and fault findings.

Environment: s: MS Outlook, My SQL, Multibrowser, MS Excel 2007/2003, IE 7/8/9, FF 3.5/3.6/4, Google chrome, MS SharePoint.