SUMMARY:

• US Citizen and over seven (7+) years of IT experience in providing services to various clients in software quality assurance testing with both Manual and Automation.
• Strong QA Professional with good knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), Software testing methodologies, and QA procedures.
• Involved in entire Project lifecycle from requirements, testing to delivery.
• Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirements, System Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Requirement specification (FRS), Design Documents, Use Case Documents.
• Expert in writing QA documentation such as Test Plans, Test Designs, Test Cases, Test Matrices, and Checklists
• Extensively experienced to work with various Test Management and Defect tracking tools like ALM /Quality Center, Jira, TFS, VSTS.
• Generated Defect Status Reports, Test Case Execution Reports (pass, fail or no run status) and test Summary Report for every build release to analyze the testing effort and quality of the application using Quality Center.
• Proficient in automation testing with automation testing tool HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experienced in performing various kinds of testing like Functional, GUI, Integration, Backend, Regression, Smoke, System, End to End, and UAT testing in Web based and Client server - based application.
• Knowledge of programming skills and understanding of VB script, Descriptive programming
• Created Daily/Weekly Status Report and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), and Participated in defect status meetings with business analyst, developers, test leads and QA coordinator to Prioritize issues, identify open issues and set deadlines for inclusion in the build.
• Prepared custom reports and performed SQL query, data analysis and verification on various database such as Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server for back end testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Manual Testing & Automation Testing in QTP/UFT Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & STLC, Black Box UAT, and Backend Testing, Requirement and design analysis Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile (Scrum) Methodology Core team meeting and status update Risk analysis, Defect analysis, and Test Reporting Test management with QC/ALM/Rally/TFS Descriptive Programming, VB script, Regression Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Test Analyst

Confidential, Fort lee, NJ

• Responsible for business requirement analysis and involve in user story gathering and analysis for each release and Confidential
• Following Agile (Scrum) methodology implementing web and client server-based application in various project.
• Responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various kinds of testing.
• Create Test Subject and designed Test Steps for each business functionality for positive/negative test scenarios, in the Test Plan module of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/ QC
• Use the Test Lab module to execute test cases by creating Test Sets, manually testing each Test Step, and updating the Status (Pass/Fail/Blocked/Not Run) and logging defects for all the failed tests.
• Use the Defects Module in Quality Center to raise and assign defects, track defects, retest the defects fixed and monitor the defects until closure.
• Create test case coverage metrics and requirement coverage metrics and check test case run, pass or fail, not run, not run due to defect, total number of open defect and total number of closed defects in ALM.
• Generate Defect Status Report, Test Execution Report, and Test Summary report using ALM.
• Manage Confidential, user stories, tasks, estimation, story pointing and bugs in JIRA tool.
• Attend weekly status meeting with Developers, Project manager and Business Analyst to discuss the defects, fixes and overall testing status.
• Perform Functional, Smoke, Regression, Integration System, End to End, and UAT testing.
• Responsible to create, maintain, modify and execute Automation Test Scripts for Regression Testing using QTP
• Following linear, modular, data driven, and hybrid framework create script using descriptive programming and a lot of vb script command and methods.
• Responsible to conduct Backend Testing using SQL queries in Oracle and DB2 database. Perform Data Validation and Data Integration, and retrieve data from database using various SQL joins, sub queries, and complex queries.
• Participate Confidential planning, daily scrum, demo, and retrospective meeting with clients and team members. Communicate with developers and business analyst daily basis for clarifications and solve defect.

Software Test Analyst

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

• Actively involved in requirements/use case analysis with team and the product owners in Elaboration phase and involved in poker planning sessions to size the user stories and define acceptance criteria for the user story.
• Participated in Confidential planning sessions. Created QA sub- tasks with right estimates for the user stories.
• Involved in creating QA test plan and traceability matrix in order to ensure that the project's scope, requirements and deliverables remain "as is" when compared to the baseline.
• Manually generated and implemented templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for entire application. Used Quality Center for test case creation, execution, test coverage and defect tracking.
• Involved in the entire defect life cycle for every build in order to log, track and report defects using JIRA.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, End-To-End, system, ad-hoc, UAT testing to ensure a smooth deployment of the whole application. Performed Cross Browser Testing using Google Chrome, Firefox and IE
• Performed Regression testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to assure that the new code had no adverse effect upon the current system and participated in document reviews and inspections
• Extensively used checkpoints, Synchronization points, actions and recovery scenario manager features error handling, descriptive programming, record and run as well as load the object repository using object spy and run the script in Quick Test Professional.
• Worked in multiple project simultaneously and followed multiple methodology such as waterfall, agile (scrum) for the entire testing life cycle.
• Attended all planning review, daily basis and walkthroughs meetings within a project team, and provided testing results and weekly status report to QA lead.
• Written SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for backend testing purpose.
• Involved in User acceptance testing (UAT) in alpha and beta both environments to assist clients along with documents and performed execution process.

Software Test Analyst

Confidential, Reston, VA

• Interact extensively with the product manager and business area subject matter experts (SME’s) to understand the business process thoroughly identified opportunities for business process improvement through various meeting with business users
• Performed necessary requirements inspection, design inspection, Test plan and case creation, Testing and reporting during various phases of the Testing life cycle.
• Coordinated with project leaders, Business Team and clients to develop Use cases, Test data and Test requirements.
• Prepared and reviewed the test procedures and test data and execute in manual testing purpose.
• Involved in test plans and test scenarios creation for various test conditions. Wrote the test cases and test data according to change requests. Performed Smoke, GUI, Functional, integration, and UAT testing
• Conducted manually positive and negative testing. Prepared daily status report.
• Detected, classified and reported bugs through Quality Center and MS TFS visual studio.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from the database tables and performed back end testing.
• Performed active interaction with team members, team lead and developers in review meetings to evaluate the progress and performance of the application. Involved in weekly status meetings.
• Provided RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix), Test Summary Report, Defect Reports using Quality Centre.
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and reviewing the requirements with BA team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

APPLICATION: Web based, and Client server based

DOMAIN: Airlines | Banking | Retail | Insurance

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 7 | Win XP | 2008 | Vista | Windows Server 2003

INTERNET BROWSERS: Google Chrome | Internet Explorer | Mozilla Firefox

TEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS: HP Quality Center (QC/ALM) | Rally

AUTOMATION TOOLS: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT)

DATABASE TOOLS: Oracle | DB2 | MS SQL Server

SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint) SQL | Lync | Team Viewer | Share Point