Qualifications Summary

I am an outstanding quality assurance professional with over 4 year's professional experience working in the financial sector. Experienced using HP/Quality Center to plan, design and execute test plans, test cases and test processes. I am knowledgeable in manual database testing using complex SQL queries. Backed by solid credentials including Bachelor of Science Business Administration , Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, advanced command of various testing suites, agile methodologies and monitoring tools, and cross-platform skills in Windows, Linux and Unix.

Key Skills

• Testing of web / desktop applications.
• Experience performing backend testing using SQL Queries
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and Test Methodologies.
• Strong experience in developing Test plans, Processes and Test Cases from requirements document, use cases, and from an existing application.
• Collaborate with BA's, developers and other SME's to elicit, analyze, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements.
• Good exposure to QTP.
• Using HP/Quality Center for writing test cases, executing test cases, and reporting defects.
• Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience developing SQL scripts for manual database level testing
• Experience in the analysis of Bug Severity, and Bug Tracking Reporting.
• Day to Day experience working in an Agile environment.
• Good team player with an ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment.
• Excellent communication and trouble shooting skills.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Quality Analyst

• Write detailed /modular Test Scripts/Scenarios based on Functional Requirements.
• Wrote SQL scripts to load data into tables.
• Collaborate with BA's, developers and other SME's to elicit, analyze, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements.
• Work with business segment testers as need to support User Acceptance Testing, working closely with SME's and Business to ensure user criteria are clearly defined and testable, test data is available, and test results and defects are documented and addressed.
• Create daily/weekly test execution metrics and status reporting.
• Wrote SQL Queries for validating reports and troubleshooting data quality issues.
• Assist the Project Managers to drive project team to defect resolution.
• Work on multiple programs/systems as a project team member and these projects are of lower to moderate complexity within assigned development environment.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

• Monitored ATM and batch files in a TCP/IP production environment which requires ATM configuration files to be reviewed/analyzed, software updates, and authorization link batch files, which include daily transactions.
• Involved in testing data reports. Wrote several SQL queries for validating the front-end data with the backend.
• Managed and supported the day-to-day operations of the Line Business ATM Lab while collaborating with Vendors and Senior Management on new ATM products that were being tested in the Lab.
• Worked with ATM specialists NCR, Diebold, Hyosung and Wincor at the Lab with others to resolve complex software issues during ATM machines testing.
• Wrote scripts, uploaded, and utilized ATM scripts resolution into Quality Center
• Assisted with creation of and maintained QA procedure documents.
• Wrote several complex SQL queries for validating Cognos Reports.
• Contributed to and monitored execution of testing better practices and continual QA process improvements.
• Wrote customized SQL queries for business needs.

Confidential

Software QA Tester

• Documented and executed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on baseline requirements.
• Conducted System and Functional Testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing.
• Logged the bugs found in Test Director.
• Analyzed Test Results and created Reports.

Confidential

Software QA Tester

• Involved in analyzing system design specifications and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Exported requirement, test cases into the Quality Center, run manual test cases from test lab and log defects from defects module.
• Followed up with standard software testing life cycle STLC to perform different types of testing for the projects.
• Wrote SQL queries for validating reports.
• Participated in peer review meeting for created test plan, test cases and analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Participated to create Test Analysis reports TAR and stored them into the Quality Center.
• Performed Functional Testing using Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL queries to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.