QA Analyst Resume Santa Ana, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

QA Analyst experience with Web based Client-Server applications on Windows platform.
Experience in interacting and coordinating with different teams (business analysts, development, architect, release engineering, and UAT) at various geo-location to understand requirements, business scenarios for achieving quality objectives.
Expertise in leading testing efforts for small, large, multiple releases concurrently.
Defined, implemented, and continuously improve testing policies, processes and procedures that deliver consistent and reliable products & services to business and customers.
Partnered with various teams to ensure that quality policies, processes and procedures are aligned with business and infrastructure while adhering to established quality standards.
Hands on experience in requirement analysis, use case decomposition, defining test strategies, test plans, test cases, test procedures, test data, reporting and tracking defects.
Strong negotiation, facilitation and consensus building skills to promptly address team needs.
Expertise in Manual Testing like Black-Box, Functional, Regression, Performance, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that application performs at an acceptable level for Customer.
Highly motivated, organized and results oriented individual with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
Effective time management, mentoring and decision-making skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Santa Ana, CA Jul’02-Dec\'04
QA Analyst

Description: QA Analyst for FAST, a title services web-based application, for First American Corporation.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for various QA tasks like environment & configuration management, build deployment, release management, application and production support.
Review & analyze QA processes to identify areas of improvement to achieve & maintain developmental best practices.
Involved in scope review, business requirement review, design review, and CCB reviews to understand and kept track of release scope & testing schedule as per plan.
Lead End-to-End software test cycle including create, maintain and execute detailed test plans, test cases, test schedule and automated test scripts.
Verified software functionality, Regression, performance/stress, security, user acceptance level tests, progress reporting, defect tracking, risk assessments, risk mitigation and production release of application with strict adherence to business requirements.
Assisted clients in creating & reviewing detailed test plan for UAT cycle.
Analyzed bugs reported during UAT cycle as defect/enhancement and logged in TestDirector for tracking purpose for current/future release.
Managed defect tracking process using Test Director (Bug identification, tracking and reporting)and constantly coordinated with the developers to debug & unit testing of fixes.

Technical Proficiencies

Languages:

MS SQL, Sybase, Oracle, C, C#, C++, Java, DHTML, HTML, XML, EJB

Environments:

Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP

Expertise:

Systems Analysis, Project Management, Web Services, Software Development, Workflow Systems, Offshore Development, SQL

Education and Credentials
MCM (Computer Science)
BS (Computer Science)

Certifications

Industry Experience: