SUMMARY

• Experienced in all stages of SELC Agile Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Exporting understanding Testing Stages/Levels/Phases, Testing Types, and Testing Techniques.
• Participated in complete Testing Lifecycle, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Execution, and Defect Report.
• Extensive experienced in manual and automated testing for Web Based and Client/Server applications on several platforms.
• Performed Smoke Testing after every deployment to make sure teh application delivered is testable.
• Attended review sessions to understand teh Business Requirements/Functional Specifications and reviewed teh documents to understand teh client business logic.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to verify teh database updates, inserts and delete of teh records, To extract data from target tables and validate reports
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirement and Technical Specification documents.
• Performed back - end testing by executing SQL queries over various database products on Window platform.
• Worked well in diverse teams to achieve goals through effective communication and interpersonal

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: HTML, XML, JAVA Scripts, SQL

OS: Microsoft Windows 7/3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix, Mainframe, AS400, OpenVMS

Databases: ITDL database, Oracle 8/9i/10g, DB2 Version 7 z/390, MS SQL Server

Tools: Mercury Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Ceter, Rational Clear Quest, Autosys, MS Office

Autosys, eDocs, Exstream, Mail stream, CSB, Loan LQP, HUD TRACS, Group1, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Sun Application Server 9.1(Glassfish), Internet/Intranet Client Server, Alfresco Server, PVCS Tracker and Version Manager.

8 years of manual testing experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Quality Assurance Analyst/Tester for Confidential (Dept. of Confidential Security) in auditing and analyzing business requirements and serve as a coordination point between Stakeholders & teh project team.
• Interacted with developers, business & end users.
• Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Participated in walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.
• Using Use Cases written test cases in Quality Center
• Involved in performing Functional, Integration, System, and Regression Testing.
• Understand teh Functional Specification and Design documents.
• Created and executed manual test cases using Quality Center. Documented teh test cases and created teh requirement traceability matrix to demonstrate teh test coverage
• Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functionality and Regression testing.
• Developed and documented Standard Testing Procedures for both Manual and Automated Testing.
• Involved in testing teh new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing teh issues.
• Established Traceability between teh Requirements and teh Tests in Traceability Matrix using in Quality Center.
• Implemented Agile (Scrum) QA methodologies.
• Performed functional testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, stress testing and load testing.
• Extensive experience in using Mercury Quality Center (Test Planning, Test Lab and Defect Tracking).
• Monitored frequent deliveries of Agile Release Planning Review (RPR) and Release Readiness Review (RRR).
• Prepared Entry Criteria email (Documents based on teh POP), document assessment request email, reminder email, Meeting Invitation (Agenda), Meeting materials and facilitation package folders. Entry criteria status, published CDA with defects, send out Approval for approvals to teh signatories.
• Collected and finalized signatures from teh signatories for teh Approval (AC) and uploaded in teh ITDL directory.
• Reviewed and provided comment on Sprint artifacts as they are posted to teh Share Point Site.
• Prepared all teh necessary Agile and SELC templates required for teh meetings.
• Used Version Manager and Tracker tool to navigate teh SCR’s and generated teh reports for teh teams.
• Responsible for daily SELC document (SDD, FRD, RTM, DTP, DTAR) assessment for teh releases. Assessed Agile SELC documents (TPA, CAC, POP, DOD, TEMP & SP) and tracked teh defects using Consolidated Document Assessment (CDA) tool. Tracked and closed action items.
• Attended weekly status meetings.

QA Test Engineer III

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated Business and Systems Requirement documents.
• Generated teh RTM using RFP and teh features using teh companies proposal.
• Contributed in regular status meetings to state any bugs, problems and risks.
• Participated in implementing test-plans and test-cases built on high-leveled and detailed design. Broadly done manual testing and teh functional testing
• Responsible for generating teh mailing labels for teh beneficiaries. Loaded all teh data using SQL Loader in teh table. Edited all teh flat files for teh errors. Reviewed teh log file from teh SQL Loader and verified if all teh records get loaded.
• Verified teh data load in teh database oracle SQL developer. Executed teh query and extracted records. Reformatted them according to teh SSA specifications. Reformatted data in alfresco server for teh client to view.
• Tested web based applications.
• Responsible to writing test plans, define test cases, created and executed test scripts for teh Web and Client/Server applications and uploaded them in teh Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for batch testing which perform extract, transform and load (ETL) of data from files submitted via website to teh Oracle database. Also verified if teh data is storing correctly in teh database.
• Performed Functional Testing, smoke, regression, end-to-end, Integration and load testing. Executed batch and online testing. Responsible to coordinate User Acceptance testing (UAT) and communication with HUD end users.
• Used HUD and SSA Web based applications to pull up teh data.
• Experience in black box and backend testing.
• Provided documentation and followed test procedures in conformance with CMMi level 3 standards and teh SDLC process. Monitored and reported to management teh testing progress, issues and results. Worked closely with developers during test execution to ensure proper communication of defects. Managed defect tracking and defect reporting for assigned projects.
• Wrote detailed test documentation supporting assigned deliverables. Met scheduled deliverables as defined by Project Manager. Imported data from ‘XLS’ to ‘XML’. Verified information using ‘XML spy Editor’.
• Worked closely with development and operation teams to re-generate software defects within teh QA environment, capture logs, and provide root cause analysis.
• Generated weekly and monthly status reports.

Client: Department of, Federal Student Aid

Project: Common Services for Borrowers (CSB)

• Responsible for providing DLSS (direct loan student services) services to teh borrowers. Variety of assignments like monitoring ( Confidential Web Confidential Jobs), reconciling data and scheduling fulfillment production jobs. Handled multiple tasks to meet production scheduling and processing deadlines.
• Analyzed, escalated issues with production jobs. Reviewed & reconciled that all fulfillment correspondence data had been generated, delivered, mailed from teh fulfillment center to meet schedule deadlines, coordinated and track all Bills, Account Statements as well as reconciled all teh data.
• Updated all teh required spreadsheets. Confidential with teh team and external vendors to ensure that fulfillment process workflow and deadlines are met.
• Tested Web based applications to pull student loan information.
• Used Clear Quest for incident management/tickets for teh issues or errors. Submitted teh tickets if teh problems resolved then close teh ticket or reopened teh ticket and updated/edited and resend.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents Functional Requirement Specifications.
• As a member of teh Software Quality Assurance team, responsible for testing teh Media Buying application.
• Used teh Mercury Quality Center tool to automate teh unit and system test plans.
• Developed test plans, test cases based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Responsible for creating and running teh tests and analyzing test results.
• Reduced testing time by automating repetitive tasks. Identified test scenarios and designed test cases for online screens, reports, batch processes and interfaces.
• Participated and coordinated in Test Case W Also did regression testing for releases.
• Participated in test case execution; Created, maintained and executed test scripts from Test Director.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Worked very closely with Team lead, Program Manager and developers to ensure that teh application development met teh user expectations. Partially involved in performing User Acceptance Testing.
• Attended weekly meetings to discuss teh defects and presented progress updates and reports.