OBJECTIVE

• To obtain a challenging QA/Test Analyst position where I can make a strong contribution and which provides significant opportunities for professional growth.

SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance wif a thorough knowledge of Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Database Testing in various domains such as Banking, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Public Sector.
• Extensive experience in working on various test strategies and in preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, and analyzing Test Results.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Good understanding of software testing methodologies like AGILE (SCRUM) and Waterfall.
• Strong understanding of Database Management Systems (Oracle, SQL Server) and experienced in writing SQL Queries for business applications to validate Data.
• Good understanding of scripting knowledge and involved in creation and implementation of test scripts using VB Script.
• Skilled in automation of Test Cases for End - to-End Regression Testing usingWinrunner.
• Involved in compatibility and accessibility testing.
• Expertise in using defect-tracking tools like Test Director/Quality Center for logging the defects.
• Analyzed and Generated daily and weekly status reports by interacting wif off shore, development and QA team.
• Experienced in automation testing tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP), Soap UI and Selenium.
• Created and performed data driven tests for checking positive and negative test scenarios using the test data provided.
• Experienced testing in UNIX Environment.
• Ability to collaborate wif testers, developers, project managers and other team members both in off shore and onsite in testing complex projects.
• Ability to work on cross-platform environments like Windows 2000/XP, UNIX.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team, having strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Highly motivated, organized and results oriented wif excellent communication and presentation skills wif capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP QTP 6.0, 6.5,8.0,9.2,10.0,11.0, UFT 11.52, Selenium, Apache ANT, Win Runner 7.0/8.2, HP Quality Center 8.0,9.0,10.0, CODED UI, MS Ultimate, SOAP UI, Load Runner 8.0

Defect Tracking Tool: Test Director/Quality Center 8.0,9.0,10.0, 11.50, Bugzilla, JIRA

Internet technologies: HTML, XML

Languages: VBScript, SQL, Java

Relational Databases: SQL 2005,2008, Oracle, MS-Access

Database tools: Toad, SQL

Operating System: UNIX, Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP

Web Servers: IIS, Web Sphere, SQL and Web logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and the overall functionality of the project.
• Participated in daily team status meetings to work on project plans and progress of the various duties involved in Quality Assurance.
• Participated in the planning, development, coordination and presentation of specific testing needs as appropriate to the managers and end user.
• Involved in mapping requirements to testing scenarios to ensure that all requirements are covered.
• Actively participated in testing phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Delivered traceability of requirements and defects, implemented these requirements manually and logged defects involved in Negative and Backend testing.
• Used DB2 SQL Queries to check and verify the functionality of the database.
• Prepared Test Plans to develop Test Cases.
• Responsible for executing the test cases and test scripts, documented defects in HP Quality Center and reported it to development team.
• Coordinated wif the UAT Team and Project manager to perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Windows, UNIX, Excel, Oracle, HTML, XML, SQL server, MS Office tools.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Specification and developed Test plan, Test scripts and Regression Test plan
• Executed the automated Test Cases and Test Sets in Test Director/ QC.
• Provided complete support from identifying test requirements to writing and executing Test Plans, test Cases and automated Scripts.
• Responsible for testing the application coded in Java and PHP.
• Worked wif ICD conversion to map the codes from ICD9 to ICD10.
• Applying the SQL scripts to the test database and execution of the scripts on the database.
• Developed Automation test scripts using QTP to test the overall functionality of the application.
• Errors found in the system were acknowledged to the test and development teams through Test director.
• Worked closely wif Business teams and wrote test scripts for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked on UNIX and Windows environment.

Environment: QTP, Oracle, Java, PHP, Test Director/ Quality Center, SQL server, DB2, UNIX, Windows, MS Office tools.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile development environment wif frequently changing requirements.
• Working wif Project team to understand requirements to plan and execute Test Cases.
• Worked closely wif Business Analysts (BA) to determine and identify contents and flow of various business processes.
• Interacted wif Business Analysts and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in Java.
• Participated in the translation of Functional Requirement Specifications, Business Requirement Specifications and Detail Design Specifications into Use Cases and Test Cases.
• Involved in Unit, Functional, Integration, System and Performance Testing to guarantee high quality software end products.
• Involved in testing mainframe system application and performance for billing related issues.
• Handled the tasks of preparing test cases and defect tracking of mainframe systems for a project called Home Energy Information.
• Established defect-tracking process, which has been shared and reviewed wif the project team.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for creating the defects, which are related to Service plans and Service Plan Ids.
• Participated in the IT Kick Off meeting to set expectations base on requirements and ensure a timely delivery.
• Coordinated wif offshore development team and testing team to resolve various issues.
• Involved in documentation reviews for reporting the status to the project manager and maintained Test Matrices and Traceability Matrix.

Environment: Mainframe, Rational Quality Manager, DB2, SQL 2008, Windows 2000 / NT, Java, QMF, Manual Testing, Rapid SQL, Quality Center, JIRA, Agile, Load Runner, Win runner.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, reviewed Requirements, Design documents, understood system implementation, including process flows, screen layouts.
• Involved in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performed Manual testing, smoke testing and Sanity testing of application.
• Performed Client updates for previous versions of application to reflect current version.
• Performed Load testing on the application to test stability.
• Developed SQL Statements using TOAD to extract data from tables to verify the output data of the reports.
• Used SQL queries to verify the user information’s data to see records up in database.
• Performed Functional testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and Integration testing.
• Involved in Onsite, Offshore coordination, and review meetings.

Environment: Test Director, Windows XP, XML, UNIX, SQL server, HTML, TOAD, Fire fox.

Confidential, New York City, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif users in understanding the business requirements in defining, creating and execution of the test scenarios and approaches.
• Worked in Agile development environment and participated on standup and retrospective meetings.
• Developed test plan and defined test subjects in for performing system testing of the client application being developed.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.
• Expertise in planning/executing Black Box testing on Web application.
• Test Activities included Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Defined and implemented the QA methodology, strategies and metrics..
• Backend testing of the DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test the integrity of the application and Oracle databases using TOAD.
• Modified required UNIX scripts and other SQL validation scripts to validate the analyzed test results and creating performance evaluation reports.
• Involved in Backend Testing and executed SQL queries.
• Conducted testing on the servers to establish the load capacity of the server.
• Re-tested the application to check whether the defects are resolved or not (Regression Testing)

Environment: Agile, Java, Oracle, Window, Test Director, TOAD, UNIX, MS Office, SQL server.