QA Analyst

OBJECTIVE:
Progressively develop a career in QA Analyst field to implement testing techniques, procedures to optimize quality standards of the application through Software Development Life Cycle within project deadline.

SUMMARY:
As a QA Analyst over 6 years' of experience in all phases of software lifecycle, developing test cases, test plan and test scripts. Good experience in financial, banking and mobile technology domain. As an experienced analyst, has several years' of practice in client interaction, requirement gathering and analyzing requirements to author test plan and test cases.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE:

• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and importance of QA in Development/ Enhancement and Maintenance of software applications
• QA experience of windows and web based application development
• Well versed in both manual and automation testing tools
• Understanding of all different environments of application development
• Understanding of project milestones to keep testing-team efforts on track and on target
• Able to apply expert judgments in testing-effort estimation
• User centric approaches to test case development, risk analysis, and setting priority of the tests
• Experienced user of Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, and Load Runner
• Experienced in different SDLC environments like Agile, Waterfall etc.
• Hands-on experience in Web Service testing using standards like XML, WSDL, & SOAPUI
• Involve in full life cycle Software Development experience including defining, analyzing, and review of software and business requirement specification
• Work with users to define business process and information systems for supporting those processes
• Identify all necessary Business and System Use Cases from requirements, created Use Case Diagrams, & Activity Diagrams
• Understand the Business Logic, User Requirements and test-objectives to develop Test plans, Test cases
• Participate in requirement review meeting, daily defect review meeting, and provide status to each vertical manager
• Experiences in Black box Testing, Grey box testing, White box testing, and Unit Testing. Hands on experiences in Functional, Integration, GUI, System, Usability, Regression, Security, Performance, Stress Testing, and User acceptance testing
• Solid understanding of Relational Database
• Proficiency in back-end testing using Structured Query Language (SQL); Data Manipulation, Definition, Control, Inner and Outer Joins, Multi Joins, Sub query, Stored procedures, and Triggers
• Understanding of the concept of Extreme Development, Object Oriented Programming, Object Oriented Development andknowledge of protocols likeHTTP, HTTPS, FTP, & SOAP. knowledge of web methods, web technologies, and familiarity with open source technologies
• Have working Experience in UNIX
• Good Analytical, interpersonal and communication skills. Result oriented, committed, and hard working person with a quest to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks
• Highly motivated, self-starter, and able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse technical team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP, 2007, UNIX.
• Defect Management Tool: Quality Center
• Automation Tools: QTP, Load Runner
• Databases: Oracle 9, 10, MS SQL Server
• Query Tools: SQLPlus, TSQL
• Other tools: Putty, FileZilla etc.
• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP, UNIX
• Languages: Java, SQL, HTML, XML,VB Script
• SDLC Methods: Agile, RUP, Waterfall
• N-Tiers: Apache, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA (Western Asset) June 2009 - Feb 2012
QA Analyst

Project Description:
Working as a QA Analyst with Client Reporting group to test software for new projects and also supporting enhancement testing on existing software on a day to day basis.
Responsibilities:

• Plan and perform Windows and Web based Functionality testing. Prepare test case on the bass of equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis etc. Execute smoke, regression, sanity, positive, negative, integration, end-to-end, system, compatibility, UAT as needed throughout the project life cycle or for software enhancements
• Gathered requirements, managed scope creep, and had follow up meetings with users regarding requirements
• Documented requirements in Business Requirement Documents
• Extracted Use cases from requirements
• Prepared Activity diagram to include in Use Cases
• Develop and maintain testing deliverables: Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Coverage Matrix, and Test Summary report
• Prepare test cases based on Use Cases
• Expert user of Quality Center as a Defect Management tool
• Work in Extreme development environment and Agile methodology
• Use SOAP UI to prepare test cases and run tests in RPC, SOAP
• Good understanding of RDBMS and Data Life Cycle
• Execute backend testing with complex SQL syntax.
• Work with Data Definition, Manipulation, Controlling Language, Multi inner, Outer JOINS, Nested (sub-query) Query, Stored procedures, and Triggers etc.
• Make estimation of the testing efforts of the team and follow the project milestones
• Make schedules, delegated task of testing activities, and follow up to make sure testing efforts are in sync with the project deadline
• Arrange, attend, and communicate through meetings and sessions of requirement reviews, mock up presentation, defect status analysis, and daily status follow-ups
• Make sound bug triaging activities
• Arrange, attend and provide QA level inputs during requirements review session and change request activities
• Work closely with business analyst, developers, and project manager to ensure prime communication throughout the testing cycle
• Validate enhancement and defect fix in staging environment before release
• Work as the coordinator and lead person of the QA testing activities and communicate with the project stakeholders
• Make reports, graphs and summary of the testing efforts to inform the Project Manager about the status of the QA efforts
• Work with offshore testing activities

Confidential, Wichita, KS Feb 2008 - June 2009
QA Analyst

Project Description:
Confidential is a nation's leading developer tax and accounting related software. The project involved the development of Worksheet View for individual, corporate, fiduciary, and s corporation tax Interview Forms. Data flow and data integration and flow of correct calculation among the two views were the main focus of the QA Analysis and testing jobs.
Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain test cases and test plans based on the business requirements for tax software products
• Conduct functional and regression on all products
• Work on help validation an document verification
• Conduct backend data verification and data flows using complex SQL queries
• Analysis, Test, and involvements in releases of a big project, which leads the development of Worksheet view of Individual Tax application for all the states
• Participate in stress and load testing on the web-based product line
• Maintain HEAT, the 'Client Problem Issue Tracking System' of CCH Inc.
• Participate in ATX and ProsystemfxTax joint client support and testing efforts just at the point of ATX bought-out phase by CCH Inc.
• Manipulate system test scenarios with 'Client Management' Configuration tools
• Participate defect management and defect reporting activities
• Test the links and contents of 'CCH Knowledge Base' regularly

Confidential, Irving, TX Feb 2007 - FEB 2008
QA Analyst

Project Description:
Confidential is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services.

Responsibilities:

• Test on mobile operating systems ANDROID & BREW on handsets as sanity, feature and regression test
• Involve in designing and documenting system test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test strategies
• Review Pre-testing documents e.g. Requirement specifications, customer network topologies and provides time estimations.
• Perform Development Integration, Functional testing, Performance testing and System testing on Android builds
• Test to check the compatibility and connectivity of Android handsets with Bluetooth v2.1
• Track and report bugs and issues according to defined test plans and strategies
• Test the GUI& UAT of the application

Confidential, Fremont, CA Feb 2006- January 2007
Software Tester

Project Description:
Confidential Credit Card Services System primarily developed on JavaScript and HTML as front end and Oracle as back-end. The system is designed, developed for customer\'s to apply credit card using Internet access. The applications, which are applied by the customers, are then submitted by through GUI. The applications are then downloaded to Oracle database.

Responsibilities:

• Identify the test requirements based on application, business requirements and blueprints.
• Analyze business, functional and technical specification documents to write test cases.
• Develop test cases for functional, integration, system testing and user acceptance testing.
• Perform manual testing and maintain documentation on different types of testing: positive, negative, regression, integration, system, and security
• Involve in analyzing the applications and development of test cases
• Involve in doing System testing of the entire applications along with team members
• Perform database testing, Wrote SQL queries to validate data to perform backend testing.
• Document errors and implemented their resolutions.

EDUCATION:

• Master of Business Administration.