PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• Over 4 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst in testing web based and client server applications manually using Quality Center / Test Director.
• Designing and documenting efficient, repeatable tests.
• Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing, Methods like Waterfall, with emphasis on Software quality Assurance including Functional and Integration testing.
• Experience in interacting with Business Analysts, Developers and Tech Support to help identify the requirements.
• Proficient in generating and implementing templates for Test Cases, Test and Test Defect Log.
• Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinating test schedule with overall project schedule.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries.
• Having good knowledge in developing SQL create view for complex queries.
• Hands on experience in analyzing Business specs, preparing Test cases, Test Plans, Executing Test cases, and defects logging and tracking.
• Proficient in creating data for functional testing and UAT.
• Performing GUI, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Black Box, Security testing.
• Hands on experience with bug tracking systems such as Mercury Quality Centre (QC)/Test Director.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Tools.
SKILL SET:
Methodologies : SDLC & Waterfall
Testing tools : Quality Center, Test Director, Quick Test Pro
OS : Windows XP/2000/NT
RDBMS : SQL server, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,NYC June\'09-Jan\'11
QA Specialist - Functional
• Ad portal is a Classified Ad taking System used by New York Times Boardroom users and some External Agencies. Ad portal is a web Application. It supports such function as placing an Ad, Revising an Ad; picking up an Ad, Canceling an Ad, Submitting a Pricing Dispute.
Responsibilities
• Analyzed the functional requirement documents, system requirement documents and business requirement documents.
• Assisted in developing test plans for testing the functionality, GUI, and security.
• Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• An executed test case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• I was responsible for designing and documenting repeatable test.
• Performed Integration, Functional, GUI and UAT testing
• Used Quality Center bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues
• Interacted with developers to resolve defects.
• I was responsible to create test data for functional testing and UAT.
• Performed functional testing for new release enhancements.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for bug reviews.
• Responsible for writing SQL queries to retrieve data from SQL server.
• Responsible for updating and deleting data in SQL server.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, Manual testing, Java

Confidential,GA Oct\'08- April\'09

Manual Tester
• Worked as a manual tester with AT&T. I was involved in testing and analyzing the business requirements. Worked on B2C and B2B applications on the web. These Web applications constitute various modules like plan selections, phone selections, shopping cart, tech support, invoicing and billing, product information etc. It can be deployed on the company website

Responsibilities:
• Identified the test requirements based on user requirements and design specifications using Quality Center /Test Director
• Performed manual testing to check the basic functionality of the modules under test using Quality Center/Test Director
• Performed system integration Testing
• Close interaction with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow
• Executed test cases manually to check GUI and Functional features of the AUT, compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution using Quality Center/Test Director
• Involved in performing database testing using SQL Queries
• Since this application contains sensitive information of customers, performed security testing to ensure that security was maintained throughout the application.
• Responsible for writing SQL queries to retrieve data from SQL server.
• Responsible for create a view for a complex queries.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, MS Office Tools, Java

Confidential,NC Jan\'07 – Sep \'08
QA Analyst
• As a QA Analyst, my responsibility was to test the Wachovia Bank\'s online banking application. This application enables the bank\'s customers to access and manages their personal or business accounts including checking, savings, money market and credit information through the internet.• As a QA Analyst, my

Responsibilities:
• Involved in developing test plans by understanding the User Requirements and business logic to enable manually testing of application
• Analyzing the functional spec to identify various critical functionalities.
• Discussed and worked with business analyst team to gather detail functionality.
• Involved in design Test plan.
• Involved in design the steps.
• Performed manual testing considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases Functional, System and Integration testing of the application
• Updated status to the QA Manager as and when needed considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• An executed test case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution. .
• Performed Integration, System and UAT testing
• Used Test Director to document the test data for all the manual tests
• Identified defects and logged and tracked all new and existing ones
• Responsible for writing SQL complex queries.

Environment: Test Director, Windows XP, MS Office, Agile