SUMMARY:

• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirements, Analysis / Design, Development, and Testing including test strategy preparation, test plan development, test case creation, test execution and bug tracking.
• Well acquainted in methodologies such as Agile, and Waterfall.
• Experience in managing project efforts, requirements, use case and testing documentation.
• Interface with technical and non - technical managers, users, other analysts, database/data managers, developers, and testers.
• Strong experience in developing, documenting and executing Test Cases.
• Proficient with Microsoft Project Server.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing, System & Functional Testing, Data Driven and Keyword Driven Testing.
• Ability to verify and troubleshoot defects using various Defect Tracking Tools.
• Involved in managing defect tracking tools such as Quality Center, Test Track, and TFS.
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries and performing Database testing including data integrity and data validation testing.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing environments professionally and personally.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and teh ability to grasp new ideas quickly; and to TEMPeffectively communicate with teh staff members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 8.2, TFS

Operating Systems: Windows /XP/7/8.1/10

Databases: SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, VB Script

Bug Tracking System: HP Quality Center, Seapine Test Track, Microsoft TFS

Others: MS Office, Adobe Tools, Microsoft Project Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

IT Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Works with client personnel to identify required changes.
• Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, survey, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.
• Serves as liaison between teh customer community (internal) and teh software development team.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details and distinguish user requests from teh underlying true needs.
• Develops requirements specifications according to standard templates, using neutral language.
• Work with developers to create technical design specifications.
• Identifies organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas for improvement.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements.
• Utilizes experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Drives and challenges business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Collaborates with developers and subject matter experts to establish teh technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Develops and facilitates users through both formal and informal training programs.
• Plans projects in order to accomplish its goals within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.
• Efficiently and competently manages issues when things go off plan (due to scope-creep, missed deadlines, etc.) and bring them back to plan or create a new plan.
• Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Works independently with users to define concepts
• Enforces project deadlines and schedules.
• Communicates and applies project standards.
• Manages resources in accordance with project schedule.
• Understand teh components of running a functionally and fiscally successfully project.
• Ensure requirements, functionality and resource allocations meet project deliverables based on teh nature and scope of teh project.
• Manages/schedules, deadlines and milestones for all stakeholders and resources.
• Identifies and manages overall project dependencies and ensure project deliverables stay on-time, on-target and on-budget.

Confidential, St. Louis, Mo

IT Validation/QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Preparing Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Conditions and Test Cases based on teh Functional specifications, Design Documents and Use Cases.
• Used Test Track for bug tracking and reporting as well as following up with teh development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Handled Defect life cycle process independently and handled issues by interacting closely with Business.
• Provided reports on execution and defect status to teh lead and QA manager.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Design Documents with Business Analyst.
• Performed Manual Testing, Positive and Negative Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in Backend Database testing using SQL.
• Created SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate and validate data in SQL Server database.
• Expertise Back-End Testing by writing SQL Queries and validating teh database using SQL joins, Unions and Stored Procedures on Microsoft SQL SERVER.

Confidential, Winfield, IL

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirement specifications and created test plans
• Performed Functional, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing by manual and automated methods to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Performed Black Box testing for teh application reported teh defects using Quality center
• Performed automated testing using Quick Test Professional for Regression testing.
• Collaborated with team members in teh design development and maintenance of test cases and test scripts.
• Analysts, Developers, Performance Testers, end users and other members of teh Team.
• Created and executed validation test scripts and documented test results in Quality Center.
• Wrote and executed automation scripts in QTP using VB script.
• Worked on QTP to validate links, objects, images, and text on GUI interface to verify its proper functionality.
• Logged defects in Quality Center and Visual Studio following QA guidelines.
• Analyzed application system and security errors. Logged teh issues in QC.
• Developed test strategies, test plans and test cases for various applications.
• Performed SQL queries using basic to intermediate SQL commands and statements.