SUMMARY:

• Certified ISTQB Tester, Certified ISTQB Agile Tester and Certified Scrum Master from International Institute with 9 years of working experience as QA & software Black Box Testing using Manual Testing.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation along with QA process.
• Experienced on HP ALM to develop and execute Test Plan, Defect Management and extract Reports.
• Around 4 years of experience in Automation Testing/Mobile Test Automation using Appium.
• Good at understanding of the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications.
• Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test Matrix, Test Reports for manual test.
• Expertise in time estimation and Status Reporting.
• Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, technical support to assist in resolution of technical issues.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration, User Acceptance, System Testing and Mobile Application Testing.
• Experience in Test Automation by using QTP 9.0
• Experience with SharePoint folders and files
• Experience in using Test Management tools Test Director, Quality Center, and ALM.
• Good experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of the application to be regression tested.
• Performed Usability Testing.
• Worked closely with offshore coordinator and team members ensure quality standards are met from offshore team members
• Comfortable working in agile team environment.
• Good knowledge of SQL and experience at conducting backend testing.
• Expertise in defect finding and tracking the defects along with Bug Reporting.
• Tested the applications developed in Java, ASP and Asp.net under Windows environment.
• Extensive experience in MS office tools like MS-Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Good Knowledge of HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality center.
• Knowledge of UNIX commands.
• Knowledge of XML, able read and interprets XML files.
• Ability to work well in fast paced team, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
• Proactive, Passionate for testing and a quick learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Defect Management: Mercury-Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, ALM, TFS, MTM

Test Automation Tools: Quick Test Pro, Selenium, Appium (Android and ios)

Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS

RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i/ 7x, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0, MS-Access

Configuration Management: TFS, SharePoint, VSS

Other: Toad, Beyond Compare, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Test Lead / Sr. QA Analyst / Mobile Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the requirements gathering sessions. Coordinated with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed to finalized requirements.
• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Cases for Functional testing.
• Used HP ALM/QC to plan, execute and report testing efforts.
• Created and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to track the coverage of Requirements vs. Designed test cases vs. Defects
• Created and Executed Test Cases
• Actively participated in GUI (Graphic User Interface) Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and coordinated UAT.
• Perform integration testing to test if Imported data Uploaded & displayed in UI and calculations are running correct.
• Effectively used Appium tool for application testing.
• Perform Regression Testing
• Wrote and executed SQL statements to retrieve and compare data.
• Effectively use QTP to execute Smoke Test cases
• Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria and defined pass and fail standards.
• Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team .
• Created and maintained Defect Log.
• Timely Reported status to client and Tracked Defects to closure.
• Coordinated with Business Users to conduct Use Acceptance Testing.
• Executed project in Agile methodology.
• Business Requirement Analysis in Sprint concept meeting. Ensuring Story is testable, requirement is precise, clear and positive/negative scenarios covered. Pushing positively to POP(Product owner Proxy), Story author and Tech lead during concept and estimation meeting to ensure stories are created by keeping in mind product quality, Business user comfort, nonfunctional aspect of application (Usability, performance, accessibility etc.). Ensure functional scope is identified, freeze with consideration of technical team dependency for current/future sprints.
• In Scrum team Ensure QA validation hours along with development implementation hours,
• During sprint execution, track and report daily QA status through TFS and corresponding TFS/MTM reports.
• Assist developer to improvise story implementation plans when burn down is falling behind by coordinating with tech lead with guidance of Scrum master.
• Highlight risk if any in Daily scrum call and identify mitigation plan which fits to Team working agreement and Agile principles of program. Co-ordinate with all team members and ensure all are on same page.
• Assist QA members on the team and help in identifying/resolving impediments. Ensure agile process is followed.
• Pre demo of User stories to the POP and get stories accepted.
• Be active participant in End Sprint retrospective meeting for Scrum team. Ensure from Scrum team perspective all four quadrant - What went well, what did not go well, Things to try out in next sprint, areas of improvement are highlighted.
• Ensure from program level perspective in QA retrospective meeting all four quadrants are highlighted.
• Test Planning/Implementation, execution through MTM (Microsoft test management 2013).
• Create and publish test Summary report at the end of each sprint.
• Facilitation of inter-team communication across many agile projects within an organization
• Presenting an aggregate view of testing utilization to high level management
• Managing Mobile testing feature team
• Acts as a role model for new employees, providing help and support to facilitate early integration and assimilation of their new environment
• Identify team training requirements and assist in the creation of personalized development plans
• Managing regression testing cycles especially in hardening sprints at the end of the release.
• Performed the role of Mobile Tester .
• Tested applications on mobile devices both Android and iOS
• Tested applications on Android & IOS devices using Appium tool
• Application was tested in Agile methodology
• Developed and executed functional, regression and System Integration (end to end) test scenarios and test cases for the application.
• Reviewed project requirements to ensure requirements are testable.
• Attend QA Team Meetings, Business walkthrough Sessions.
• Estimated testing effort
• Generated test status report (execution results) within HP ALM/Quality Center, AWS and manage triage meeting with BA, Dev and Managers
• Utilize HP ALM for tracking defects found during testing and managed them within the team members.
• Interacted with the business, developers, business analysts, team members to resolve the issues.

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supervise a Team of four.
• Review the test cases and test data generated by the Software Test Engineers and get them to address the review comments.
• Plan and organize the knowledge transfer to the Software Test Engineers and self.
• Collect the queries related to the requirements and get them resolved by the business person (e.g. the client, business analyst, product manager or project manager) assigned to the project.
• Prepare Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Data per the Requirement documents.
• Execute Test Cases.
• Perform Defect Management - Create and track the defect till closure using TFS/MTM.
• Check the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced by theteam members with their tasks.
• Consolidate and report test results to the concerned stakeholders daily and weekly.
• Participate in Daily Status meetings.
• Responsible for assigning work to the team and getting the work done on time.
• Trained new resources joining the team. Managed team of three resources.
• Reviewed Test Cases of team members.

Sr. Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan, test cases based on SRS.
• Estimated and manage deadlines.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements are covered.
• Created and Executed Test Cases.
• Conducted Smoke Testing for the new builds.
• Involved in testing of Reports.
• Performed functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing on the application
• Executed Test scripts for QTP.
• Created, maintained Defect Log using Test Director.
• Timely Reported status to client.
• Trained Business Users.

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Studied and Analyzed System Requirement Specification and Use cases of the application for testing perspective.
• Defined and maintained testing standards.
• Created and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to track the coverage of Requirements vs. Designed test cases.
• Created and Executed Test Cases.
• Performed functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing on the application.
• Involved d in Regression Testing.
• Used TOAD to performed back-end testing by writing SQL queries and comparing data
• Worked on multiple releases to meet the project deadlines.
• Created and Maintained Defect Log and tracked Defects.
• Maintained Traceability Metrics.
• Responsible for preparation of consolidated test reports for client and maintaining work traceability matrix.
• Handle testing responsibilities individually

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Traceability Matrix.
• Created and Executed Test Cases.
• Involved in functional testing, Integration testing, system testing, Smoke Testing and Regression testing.
• Manually performed back-end testing by writing SQL queries and comparing data.
• Interacted closely with developers and Business Analysts to get updates and report/resolve defects.
• Created and maintained Defect Log and trackeded Defects.
• Documented the Test Results and prepared Test Reports.