SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of extensive experience in Quality Assurance of software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) specializing in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies.
• Strong business knowledge of Oil and Gas, Ship design, Sales and Energy sectors.
• Extensive experience in Web based and Client/Server applications.
• Expertise in analyzing Business and Functional Requirement documents to design Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Comprehensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (TLC) and Defect Tracking Life Cycle.
• Experience in various methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Extensively performed manual testing including functional testing, system testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing.
• Proficient in formulating test plan and requirement traceability matrix.
• Organized and coordinated UAT with end users.
• Proficient in HP Test Management tool - QUALITY CENTER and Test Automation Tool SELENIUM.
• Knowledge of Selenium IDE, Selenium WEBDRIVER.
• Expertise in testing VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB and Oracle Applications.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL statements.
• Cross Browser Testing: IE8/FF/Chrome, MAC/Safari.
• Demonstrated methodical, detail-oriented and thorough approach to all assignments while adhering to compressed timelines. Completed all assignments on or ahead of schedule.
• Excellent professional and analytical skills coupled with interpersonal, communication and self-organizing skills describing a committed team player.
• Strong points include attention to details, commitment to work and results oriented

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center9.2,10.0,TFS, Selenium

Databases: Oracle 12c, Oracle 10g, and SQL Server

Programming Languages: C, C#, VB.NET, ASP, NET, VBScript, Java, JavaScript

Frame Works: Keyword Driven Framework, Data Driven Framework

Software Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall.

Web Technologies: HTML

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, SSRS 2008

OS Platforms: DOS, Windows 2000/NT/XP/2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Integration and system testing of Engineering Application with new module called Billing.
• Developed and executed test plans for integration and system testing of new modules, Enhancements and Bug fixes.
• Verified the Business Users weekly requests for data corrections. Validated the weekly data base fixes.
• Participated in walkthrough and review meetings with Application Owner.
• Organized weekly status meetings by providing the statistics and status of the defects logged.
• Provided training of application and its enhancements to the business users and Technical writer.
• Verified the Test cases written by the offshore team and provided guidance to team members.
• Responsible for performing Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing activities on the application that is being developed by the onsite and offshore teams.
• Responsible for the review of Business and Functional Requirements and proposed UI changes to the Business User as required.
• Analyzed functional requirements and design documents to create test scenarios and test cases.
• Responsible for documenting and reporting defects in HP Quality Center.
• Coordinated onsite and offshore QA team for effective tasking and status reporting.
• Involved in weekly calls with offshore in test case review and defect review meetings and communicated with QA Manager and Business User.
• Involved in preparing Traceability Matrix to map requirements/test cases/defects.
• Created data driven tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Communicated with PM/Project Lead about all open end production defects and their status.
• Involved in working with Business User and Project management team in analyzing requirements to provided workaround to production support.
• Review and estimate requirement change requests.
• Review and validate unit test results and defect reports by the offshore testing team.
• Escalate outstanding defects per the defect SLA.
• Constant onsite support of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in every major and minor releases and enhancements.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all the areas engaged with integrated applications and database QA team.

Environment: Java, Oracle 11i and 12g, HP Quality Centre, SharePoint, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans for integration and system testing of new development products.
• Participated in walkthrough and review meetings with business process owner.
• Responsible for performing Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing activities on the application that is being developed by the onsite and offshore teams.
• Responsible for the review of Business and Functional Requirements and provide QA estimates, Technical Design and documents to provide QA input as required.
• Analyzed functional requirements and design documents to create test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
• Created new test cases based on test scenarios in excel spreadsheets and later in TFS.
• Responsible for documenting and reporting defects using TFS.
• Coordinated onsite and offshore QA team for effective tasking and status reporting.
• Involved in daily scrum calls and defect review meetings and communicated all risks, issues to the scrum team.
• Involved in preparing Traceability Matrix to map requirements/test cases/defects.
• Created data driven tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Performed database testing by using MS SQL and Oracle.
• Communicated with PM/Project Lead about all open end production defects and their status.
• Involved in working with business analyst and product management team in analyzing requirements to support testing process and provided workaround to production support.

Environment: C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint, TFS, MS Office Suite SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, Crystal Reports.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop test Strategies and manage testing efforts across Confidential ’s E-Commerce Platforms, following Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies of SDLC.
• Create large scale testing scenarios, covering all core functionality within the platform.
• Co-ordinate with Business Analysts, Project Managers and QA team member for test preparation, for managing work load and for providing QA time estimates; Mentor and train staff members.
• Utilize Quality Center for Requirements Specification, Test Planning, Test execution at all levels including smoke tests, user acceptance testing, regression testing and end-to-end testing and Tracking progress of defect resolution.
• Perform manual testing as well as automated testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Analyze testing results, report defects, identify and report root causes for test failures and provide problem resolution by working with the development team and the technical support staff.
• Prepare reports for QA Impact Assessment, QA test run and defects status.
• Conduct daily and weekly QA status calls and meetings; Represent QA in design reviews.
• Provide regular status reports to project management to track project progress, updating tasks and tasks estimates, as necessary.
• Participate in Daily Scrum calls to provide QA updates.
• Attend Sprint planning meetings to provide QA estimates.

Environment: Windows NT/2000, Quality Center 10.0, .Net, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008