SUMMARY:

• Over 6.8 years of experience as a QA Analyst/Test Lead with good experience in Quality Assurance Process to perform Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Performance(Stress), Cross - Browser and User Acceptance  testing during SDLC.
• Highly efficient with various bug tracking tools, such as ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), Team Tracker, TFS, Version 1 etc.
• Worked in different roles like senior tester, sr. Test Lead.
• Strong exposure and Experience in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and QA testing methodologies, procedures, standards and activities.
• Certified as Agile tester and ISTQB Foundation level tester
• Experienced in querying database using SQL management studio 2008 and 2012
• Good with C# Selenium web driver scripting for automation using Microsoft Visual studio. Use of data driven framework for automation scripts.
• Experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Proficient use of the Team track and Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) tool to manage the software testing process.
• Experienced in all stages of testing, installation testing, smoke testing, regression testing, new feature testing, integration testing, security testing, backend testing, usability testing, performance testing, user acceptance testing, upgrade testing, GUI testing, configuration testing, and system testing and worked in Normalization support.
• Expert in conducting BRD reviews, FRD reviews, TDD reviews, Test scenarios review and Test cases review.
• Experience with end users to supporting UAT testing.
• Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Fairly good knowledge testing the applications on multiple browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) for the purpose of multiple Browser-compatibility testing.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a limited timeframe release cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of Assurance and US Tax calculation ( technical & business perspective)
• Expertise in Problem solving, Risk assessment, Environment planning and Quality assurance Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Understanding & Analysis: Understanding BRS, SRS, CMD, Business Test cases.
• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting. .
• Estimating and obtain management support for the time, resources required to perform the testing.
• Developing Test Strategy/ Master Test Plan, Sprint Planning.
• Working on enhancement and analyzing its requirement
• Working on Smoke, Regression & Testing scripts for this application to run them every time after a build deployed on QA environment with either new enhancements or defect fixes
• Developing test scenarios and create test plan and test cases based on FRD
• Communicating with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed
• Using TFS for test case creation and defect management
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, System, Back-end etc. 

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Understanding & Analysis: Understanding BRS, SRS, CMD, Business Test cases.
• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting. .
• Estimating and obtain management support for the time, resources required to perform the testing.
• Developing Test Strategy/ Master Test Plan, Iterative release Test Plan.
• Working on enhancement and analyzing its requirement
• Working on Smoke, Regression & Testing scripts for this application to run them every time after a build deployed on QA environment with either new enhancements or defect fixes
• Developing Test Summary report for Functional test, Regression test, Backend Testing and Performance test.
• Analyzing BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Creating Stories in Version 1
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, System, Back-end etc. 
• Developing user-defined functions for reusing in different tests. Created different types of testing documents such as Test Progress report, Test Analysis Report etc.
• Creating SQL queries to perform back end testing and comparing to match and confirm data passed during functional testing.
• Created and tracked service tickets to resolve critical incidents.
• Developing test scenarios and create test plan and test cases based on FRD
• Communicating with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to team members on application functionality.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Understanding & Analysis: Understanding BRS, SRS, CMD, Business Test cases.
• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting.
• Involved in testing efforts by analyzing the requirements of the applications.
• Estimating and obtain management support for the time, resources required to perform the testing.
• Developing Test Strategy/ Master Test Plan, Iterative release Test Plan.
• Working on enhancement and analyzing its requirement
• Working on Smoke, Regression & Testing scripts for this application to run them every time after a build deployed on QA environment with either new enhancements or defect fixes
• Developing Test Summary report for Functional test, Regression test, Backend Testing and Performance test.
• Creating RTM in ALM
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, System, Back-end etc. 
• Developing user-defined functions for reusing in different tests. Created different types of testing documents such as Test Progress report, Test Analysis Report etc.
• Creating SQL queries to perform back end testing and comparing to match and confirm data passed during functional testing.
• Created and tracked service tickets to resolve critical incidents.
• Developing test scenarios and create test plan and test cases based on FRD
• Communicating with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to team members on application functionality.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an acting QA Lead controlling and driving the Quality of the Product.
• Project Understanding & Analysis: Understanding BRS, SRS, CMD, Business Test cases.
• Coordinating daily status calls between the client and offshore team
• Monitoring project testing status and maintaining the schedule of each iteration
• Coordinating Kickoff meeting with the development and management team to discuss the scope of the iteration
• Coordinating Daily standup meeting with the offshore team to discuss any issue or status of testing cycle
• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting.
• Involved in testing efforts by analyzing the requirements of the applications.
• Estimated and obtain management support for the time, resources required to perform the testing.
• Developed Test Strategy/ Master Test Plan, Iterative release Test Plan.
• Reviewed various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Worked on enhancement and upgrades of Tax processing systems.
• Developed Test Summary report for Functional test, Regression test, Backend Testing and Performance test.
• Analyzed BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Created RTM in ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, System, Back-end etc. 
• Created SQL queries to perform back end testing and comparing to match and confirm data passed during functional testing. Communicated with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to team members on application functionality.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Understanding & Analysis: Understanding BRS, SRS, CMD, Business Test cases.
• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting.
• Involved in testing efforts by analyzing the requirements of the applications.
• Analyzed BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, System, Back-end etc. 
• Created SQL queries to perform back end testing and comparing to match and confirm data passed during functional testing. Communicated with developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to team members on application functionality.
• Preparing Smoke Test cases, Defect Log and Requirement Traceability matrix
• Detecting & reporting bugs & classifying them based on the severity Maintain in in TeamTrack and TFS
• Interacting with Business Analyst, Project Manager, Team Leaders and Developers to sort out the discrepancies.