SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years of QA experience in all phases of software life cycle, including requirements gathering, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management and reporting.
• Extensively involved in Test Designing, Test Planning, Test Scripting and Test Execution of test cases based on Business Requirements Document, System Requirements Document, High Level Design Document, Detailed Design Document for Functional, Integration, System, E2E, User Acceptance (UAT) and Regression Testing.
• Experienced in Manual testing process.
• Experienced in record and play using QTP for automation.
• Well versed with all SDLC Processes and Agile Methodologies.
• Working experience in Retail and Banking Applications
• Analyzing Summary Reports and Defect Tracking using specific tools.
• Strong in understands Business Requirements and technical requirements to decompose and formulate effective Test Plans.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Areas: Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Performance, Testing, Business Requirement Analysis, API Testing, System Testing, Black Box testing techniques And Manual Testing

Bug Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM

Languages: SQL

RDBMS: Oracle9i, SQL Server, My SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, JSP, ASP, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Laurel, MD

QA Analyst

• Created test plans, test cases, test data and other test related documents as needed.
• Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed Integration, System, UAT and Usability Testing.
• Performed Regression testing.
• Involved in creation of system/regression & acceptance testing activities like creation of test setup, test plan, test data creation, environment setup etc.,
• Involved in execution of system test cases and test flows.
• Involved in validation of test results, defect management & implementation of changes into production.
• Performed manual testing using the test cases for positive and negative testing
• Tested Web Services using testing standards like validating XML, WSDL and SoapUI.
• Actively participated in smoke, functional and ad - hoc testing during SIT phase.
• Extensively used ALM for storing and managing all automation resources.
• Managed Defect tracking and reporting from ALM.
• Unattended batch run of automation scripts from ALM and also using windows scheduler.

Confidential, Upper Marlboro , MD .

QA Tester

• Reviewed and analyzed SDLC documents (Software Development Life Cycle), and prepared System test plan.
• Participated actively in the Requirement review meetings, Team meetings, to discuss the possible scenarios of testing.
• Arranged the Test case review meeting to discuss the test coverage of the requirements
• Prepared the Test Plans, Test cases and maintained all the WPR’s (Work Product Review) documents in team site.
• Used ALM for maintaining test cases and defects.
• Arranged Defect call meetings to discuss status of high severity issues.
• Provided status of the Defects in the Weekly status meetings.
• Performed Manual testing and maintain documentation on different types of testing like
• Positive Testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Integration testing & Regression
• Testing, System Testing & Database Testing.
• Reported the bugs to the developers and made sure that the bugs were fixed by performing regression testing.
• Co-ordinated actively with Technical peers, such as Developers, Project Managers, and business/user groups.
• Used Teradata Assistant Tool for writing queries to retrieve data from the database & verified the data is matching the Reports

Confidential, Dallas TX.

QA Tester

• Created test plans, test cases, test data and other test related documents as needed.
• Involved in daily Scrum meetings, also involved in Iteration/Sprint planning meeting to plan the stories that needs to be developed and tested in the upcoming sprint based on the priority and estimated effort.
• Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed Integration, System, UAT and Usability Testing.
• Performed Regression testing by executing QTP scripts.
• Involving in creation of system/regression & acceptance testing activities like creation of test setup, test plan, test data creation, environment setup etc.,
• Involving in execution of system test cases and test flows.
• Involving in validation of test results, defect management & implementation of changes into production.
• Verify and validate the web service calls using SOAP UI tool.
• To validate the flow of task card status based on the work done by each role.
• Assigning the task card to different roles based on station and technician skill set, validating the task card closure with correct flow.
• Performed manual testing using the test cases for positive and negative testing
• Tested Web Services using testing standards like validating XML, WSDL and SoapUI.
• Actively participated in smoke, functional and ad-hoc testing during SIT phase.
• Extensively used ALM for storing and managing all automation resources.
• Managed Defect tracking and reporting from ALM.
• Unattended batch run of automation scripts from ALM and also using windows scheduler