OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a Senior QA Analyst position in fast - paced forward looking organization with varied responsibilities and the potential for advancement.

SUMMARY:

• 13 plus years of experience in the IT industry with emphasis on quality testing of software applications
• Designed Test Cases for several applications supporting various business processes in Healthcare and Telecom Services .
• Expertise in System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Functional Testing.
• Proficiency in Front-End and Back-End testing.
• Very good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and the Role of QA in different testing methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Extensively used ALM/Quality Center/Rally for bug tracking and reporting.
• Familiar with Selenium Web Driver using TestNG for Automation testing and HP QC for test management.
• Experience in validating Web Services SOAP request and response XML using SoapUI tool
• Good Process Management and Organizational skills with remarkable ability to test based on the requirements, to bring out quality products.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude, willing to learn new concepts and accept challenged sportingly.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Outlook towards defect prevention and tracking defects to correction.
• Exhibits the ability to work under high pressure and reach project milestones in a timely manner.
• Significant exposure to Automated Testing environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM / Quality Center / Test Director, UFT/QTP, JIRA, RALLY, Selenium (Web Driver), TestNG, Cucumber, SOAP UI, RestClient

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, Java

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows and Unix

Internet Technologies: HTML, XML

Others: Microsoft Office, TOAD, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Oracle SQL Developer, TextPad, NotePad++, Jenkins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile environment. As a member of Scrum team, participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Created, designed and executed test plans and test scenarios using HP ALM/Quality Center
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Ad-hoc testing, Database & Regression testing.
• Responsible for developing and executing of manual test plans and test cases for Web Services using SOAP UI and RestClient.
• Developed regression testing automation scripts using UFT/QTP.
• Backend data verification was performed with SQL-queries database..
• Review test environment after Jenkins build/deployment and track system release updates
• Review Application Server (Tomcat) logs for errors and help developer troubleshoot issues faster
• Co-ordination with offshore team for Functional and Regression testing.
• Performed demos to the product owner once testing is complete on user stories for acceptance
• Performed functional, compatibility testing on different browsers like IE, Firefox & Chrome.
• Prioritized the defects and the severity levels using Rally/Quality Center and discussed with the developers to resolve the issues.

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Proration and Reconciliation modules testing
• Worked closely with business analysts and developers to thoroughly understand the module functionality, to review the test requirements, develop test plans, test data and expected results necessary to thoroughly test the business requirements
• Enhanced the test plans and test cases to increase the test coverage of the module functionality
• Responsible for executing the test plans to produce actual results, working with the Business Analyst to validate actual test results to expected results and ensure the test requirements are met.
• Responsible for documenting and resolving testing issues and ensuring software is working while producing a high quality final product out of the test phase to be released into production
• Used Quality Center to report/track all issues and defects.
• Executed SQL queries for testing data integrity on the backend.
• Worked on Receivable Management and Access Management modules.
• Worked closely with the QA Manager and other QA team members to ensure that business requirements are testable and verifiable as identified by the project team.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Analyst, reviewed the Business Requirements Documents for better understanding of the application functionality
• Took active part in requirement gathering meetings, functional spec review and status meetings.
• Examined and analyzed the business requirements to define the Test Plan and document the Test Cases in Quality Center/Test Director.
• Defects discovered were entered and tracked in Quality Center/Test Director.
• Provided support for Unit and UAT testing as required for the application or any other assigned application.
• Performed browser compatibility testing for the application.
• Performed manual execution of transactions.
• Executed Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke and GUI test cases
• Tested the application functionality for various devices including Palm device for login and registration of Confidential .com
• Actively interacted with Business Analyst, Developers and end users to co-ordinate the testing.
• Performed backend testing on database by executing SQL quires.
• Experience with TOAD to connect to several databases and executing queries.
• Used Quality Center/Test Director to track Test Requirements, Test Plans, Automation Scripts and executed manual test cases.