SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience as Quality Assurance Engineer in Finance, Cable and Entertainment industries.
• Expert in testing Web based application and desktop applications to perform regression, functional, and UI testing.
• Excellent in Requirement Analysis, Testing Strategies, Testing Approach, Manual Testing Methodologies, Test Data Preparation, Reporting, Defect Management and in concepts of end to end project execution.
• Experience in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle including Requirement, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Production Support.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum, Kanban and waterfall software development environment.
• Expert in developing and maintaining test artifacts including Test plans, Test Cases and Bug Reports.
• Proficient in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure test coverage of all defined requirements.
• Strong knowledge in using Test Director, Quality Center and Jira for test management and defect tracking.
• Expertise in Black Box testing to verify the application work flow and back it up with White Box database testing.
• Performed Compatibility testing of the X1 Guide in different mobiles devices, browsers, screen sizes and OS versions according to the requirements.
• Tested the services of the application online and offline.
• Hands on experience in database queries.
• Collected team's thoughts, plans and knowledge in Confluence.
• Ability to collaborate with Testers, Developers, Project Managers and other team members in testing complex projects.
• Knowledge of Rally for User stories, Test case creation and execution task.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to approach tasks and make it more efficient and Logical.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, Visual Basics

Operating Systems: Windows 2000,windows 7, XP, Vista, UNIX

Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2005 and 2008

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Excel Spread Sheet, Rally, Wikipedia, Citrix, Confluence and Jira

Database Browsers: Toad, SQL Server Management Studio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Systems Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.
• Involved in collection of test data for every project or changes implemented and performed data set up for the testing purpose
• Performed IBMS testing in different environment (Test, Migration, UAT, Stage) for every new build
• Done end to end validation between different modules( Evaluation, Acquisition, finance, Planning, Scheduling, Release )
• Done validation between different channels for Linear and Non - linear services ( On Demand )
• Perform the testing around the configuration changes on the system tables as per the business needs
• Validated order materials and deliverables under media workflow
• Arrange meetings to discuss issues with developers and project managers.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected values
• Worked with users for UAT(User Acceptance testing)
• Performed integration testing between the legacy system and the IBMS (metadata)
• Perform testing around the scheduling of linear channels and different programs and interstitials.
• Developed and reviewed effort estimates for (LOE- Level of Effort) writing, executing, and reporting test results based on technical documents and Business requirement Document.
• Attended change request meeting as per the business requirements and analyze the impacts
• Gather requirements from the business sides and perform brain storming session with business analyst to write test plan and test cases in JIRA
• Performed smoke, regression, functionality testing after each build.
• Wrote simple SQL queries to validate the data at the backend.
• Conducted meetings with directors, developers, QA, business analyst regarding the changes and testability of the application

Environment: Java , Windows, JIRA, Confluence, Citrix, Oracle 11g, Share Point.

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed the User Stories in Rally.
• Involved in Task Creation, Task Estimation, Task distribution, Task Prioritization with Team members.
• Performed Functional Testing on the TV Guide for the Ads.
• Created and scheduled the ads on TV Guide using Adtrax.
• Maintained the Ad scheduler.
• Identified the Test cases and documented them in MQC.
• Created Reports for the Banner and VOD Ad inventory.
• Participated in the User story Planning meetings and Retrospective meetings using the Net Meeting and WebEx.
• Performed Entrance and Exit criteria as soon as the application was deployed in the test environment and moved to the production.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using MQC.
• Comparison testing Between TV Screen and setup boxes.
• Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss defects identified during testing.
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application and after new build.
• Used Rally for project management like User stories allocation, estimated time, time of competition of testing and accepting the stories.
• Monitored the success and job failures and forwarded them to the concerned person.
• Upon the completion of the transaction, checked in the SQL server whether the entity is pushed to the database after it is scheduled.

Environment: VBScript, Java, Java Script, Oracle 10g Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2005, SQL Developer, XML, Windows XP, SQL Server Management Studio, SVN, JIRA, Mercury Quality Center and Microsoft office.

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Based on technical specifications prepared Completion Criteria, Test scenarios and Test cases.
• Performed GUI testing to check whether the contents like Text Boxes, Radio Buttons, Drop down List Boxes, Command Buttons were in Windows Compliance Standards.
• Performed Entrance and Exit criteria as soon as the application was deployed in the test environment and moved to the production
• Conducted Integration testing between eRights user and the permissions to packages allocated.
• Prepared test data for eRights users.
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application, after new builds and defect fixes.
• Wrote and executed test cases and reported defects in Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed XML Template testing for the XMLs received from Wall St on Demand for Structure and elements.
• Attended the Scrum calls in the mornings for daily testing updates.
• Interacted with end users for UAT to validate application based on user requirements.
• Deployed builds to QA environment for testing.
• Performed Beta and Production checkout.
• Interacted with developers and assisted them to resolve bugs.
• Worked on FMR and Compustat projects simultaneously.

Environment: Ajax, Java Servelet, XML, Windows XP, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Toad, Mercury Quality Center 8.2 and 9.0 and JIRA.