OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a position with well establish organization that will enable me to utilize my strong organizational skills, educational background and ability to work well with reputed people. To keep abreast in global development in Software Quality Assurance (QA).

SUMMARY:

• Possess over 6+ years of experience in various sectors as a Software Test Design, Testing & Quality Assurance Management.
• In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle, Defect Life Cycle and different types of testing.
• Experienced to work with both waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Experienced in Functional Testing, Integration testing, System and User acceptance testing.
• Experienced in Analyzing Use cases / Functional specification documents create functional test cases and Traceability Matrix to ensure test coverage.
• Experience in writing System Test plans, Defining test cases, Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts.
• Good exposure in using SQL queries to interact with Relational Database like SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.
• Ability to work and build strong professional relationship with product management teams, Software application development teams, Environment teams and with different business clients.
• Quality Assurance documents - Master Test Plan, Test cases, end to end clinical and financial work flows, Test scenarios, Requirements traceability to test cases, Test summary report after evaluating entry and exit criteria and test defect management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platform: Windows 8/7/Vista/XP, Mac OSX

Programming: Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, PHP

Database: Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase

Testing: Manual & Automatic

Tools: TOAD, SQL Service Management Studio

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, Internet

Virtualization: VMware Player

Bug Tracking: ALM, Bugzilla

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Applications: MS Office & Quick book

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. QA Tester

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and defined system solution based on business and HIPAA transaction compliance requirements.
• Analysis of story points based on the high level requirement provided & estimating the time of completion.
• As a scrum QA testing team member coordinated and worked with the business SME’s, R&D development team members.
• Written Quality Test Plan based on the Business Plan, Qualified Idea phase, Concept Phase, Definition phase and Development Phase and Plan, Test Strategy, Business Requirements, Solution Design, and Interface Design Documents.
• Involved in different Confidential functional components & different phases of testing like Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and User Acceptance testing or Beta testing.
• Involved in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Interface testing and user acceptance testing by interacting with end users.
• Attended application walk-through and reviewed Requirements to understand the scope of the project and Attended project meetings as needed and Coordinated with the Developers to resolve the issues/defects.
• Developed automated Test Scripts in QTP using VBScript for Regression Testing.
• Involved to Verify log after running ETL jobs.
• Contributed extensively towards Manual testing, Web based testing and Client/Server testing.
• Involved in Conducting backend tests by writing SQL queries for database verification to access and setup test data & executed them using TOAD and SQL Editor.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status for third party application.
• Participated in requirements walkthroughs with users to get better understanding.

Environment: - HTML 4, JavaScript, JSP, Sql Server 2010, Quality Center, QTP 11, UNIX, Windows XP, IE, Agile, Mozilla.

Sr. QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Written Test plans, Test cases, executed Test cases for SQL/backend test and tracked defects in Quality Center based on the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Business Workflows, A&D documents and ICD documents.
• Performed System Testing, Integration System test (IST), End to End (E2E), Environment Shakeout test, Implementation Shakeout test, regression testing, UAT test and Production test per the needs of the application and record Issues / Defects and track in Quality Center.
• Involved in validating outgoing XML messages.
• Involved in validating flat files coming from downstream systems and mocked up feed files by using vi editor.
• Involved in Back end testing by writing SQL statements like Join, Inner Joins, and Outer joins & Self Joins used TOAD and SQL Developer.
• Participated in business requirements reviews and software system (application) designs for testability.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including the test case execution stage, defect status if any defects opened during execution and the testing results status.
• Involved in Executing the UNIX shell scripts that invoked SQL loader to load data into tables.
• Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Involved in generating Reports in Front end and validated Reports in Backend to ensure data integrity and validate Business rules.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.
• Clearly communicated defects with developers and updated comments in Mercury Quality center.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0,Java, VB Script, SQL 2005, Internet Explorer 9, MS-Office 2007 and Windows.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test Plan based on the Business requirement doc, Design and Analysis doc, Business workflows, Configuration Specifications doc, Vendor system and Subject Matters experts.
• Developed and Executed the Test Cases for various scenarios based on requirements.
• Responsible to test major modules includes Place a trade, Review orders, Quotes, Real-time Balances, Positions & transactions validated and executed.
• Participated in Functional, Integration, Beta, Regression, System testing.
• Involved in Automated the test process by developing scripts using QuickTest Pro 6.5 as per test cases and Executed automation scripts using QuickTest Pro application.
• Used Test Director for requirement analysis, scheduling and generating test cases.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, Oracle 9.i, 10g, Outlook, UNIX, TOAD, SQL Developer, XML, Quality Center 9.2 IE 6.0, 7.x, JAVA, Web Services, JCL, COBOL, DB2.

Confidential

Sr. Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared various Sales Strategic AOP records & evaluate PDR as per achievements.
• Provided reports to high-level management on regular intervals excluding weekly, bi weekly and monthly statements.
• Maintained calendar schedules meeting upon coordination with Sales Director.
• Conducted advance Planning session for Senior Management Sales On Board.
• Verified and audited financial activities.
• Reviewed export documents of various customers upon material dispatch.
• Developed travel plans & itineraries, compiling documents for travel related meeting and accompanies the president whenever requested.
• Maintained Petty cash & claim vouchers of the employees and acting as custodian of divisions / department’s document & records.