Senior QA Analyst

Experience Summary:

Having over 6 years of progressive experience in Software testing, I have been involved into different phases of Software Testing Life Cycle, have an extensive knowledge on Selenium automation tools, and have got good Knowledge of Test Management Tool like HP Quality Center 9.2 and SpiraTeam and got good communication and presentation skills.

• Possess extensive experience in understanding of Testing methodologies
• Expertise in writing Technical Documentation and performing Analysis, Black Box testing, White box testing, Functionality testing, GUI testing, UAT, Integration testing, System testing, End to End testing, Back-end testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Usability testing, Mock Testing, Accessibility testing, Data-Driven testing, Regression testing, Performance testing, Web services testing, Browser testing, Stress testing, and Soak testing.
• Having very good domain knowledge on information media entertainment.
• Possess clear understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle STLC , that includes Requirement Study, Analysis, Test design, Automation scripting, Test execution, Defect logging and reporting.
• Thorough experience in Agile, Scrum Methodologies.
• Good database knowledge using SQL Server.
• Have experience on different operating systems like Windows XP / Windows 7 8 and Macintosh.
• Have extensive knowledge on Test Management Tools Quality Center and SpiraTeam.
• Hands-on experience using Selenium Tools.
• Good knowledge on SAP Testing.
• Have got good knowledge of SoapUI.
• Extensive experience in bug triaging and/or Defect Prevention Analysis and strong Debugging skills.
• Quick and easy adoptability: adopted new test methodologies and techniques while testing the projects.
• Work collaboratively with business analysts, project/program managers and developers to share ideas and provide critical feedback at all levels.
• Good in developing, publishing and execute Test plans, Test procedures, Test Results.
• Skilled in understanding the business process, analyzing and optimizing the process, defining scope of the project and user requirements and converting user requirements into business requirements and Technical Specification.
• Good experience in testing Web services and implementing Service Oriented Architecture SOA .
• Hands-on experience in java programming.
• Good experience in testing mobile, Android applications
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, reporting using industry standard tools like Quality Center/ SpiraTeam.
• Good working knowledge of MS-Office Outlook, Outlook express, Word, Excel and Power point .
• Experience in database testing using SQL queries on RDBMS databases like Oracle, SQL Server.
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with good work ethics and ability to interact with individuals at all levels of the organization
• ISTQB Certified Professional

Technical Skills

Hardware / Platforms Windows 98/XP/2000/2003/Seven. Macintosh

Programming Languages C, Java

Databases SQL Server 2000,2005 2008

Scripting Languages HTML, XML,CSS, VB Scripting, Python, Javascript

Test Automation Tools Quality Center, SpiraTeam, Selenium RC Webdriver , Selenium IDE, VSTS, Eclipse, Firebug.

Relevant Project Experience

Confidential ,California

Senior QA Analyst

Project Objective: To meet the requirements of the business in using the web applications of the project related to licensing of the pictures/maps to be used on books for classes K-12 and also to enable users for online learning.

Project Description: Digital Asset Management project where continuous enhancements are made to the application with the new requirements of the business and successfully integrated other Web applications 'Mediabin' and 'Permission Broker' into the current HOTS project thus making it the single application where users will get the all three web services under one application.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participated in Kick off meetings and Walk through meetings with Development, Business and other QA Team.
• Thorough experience in Agile, Scrum methodologies.
• Very good experience in Accessibility testing, used to test the application by different roles so as to test the access to different kinds of users for different modules/links in the application
• Requirement Analysis, participate in the requirements elaboration sessions
• Responsible for project level Testing schedules and resource planning.
• Automation of test cases using Selenium RC/Webdriver
• Responsible for building the dashboards using the html,xml, CSS Javascript.
• Writing simple to complex SQL queries for testing purpose.
• Performed Soap testing to test web services
• Attended trainings on Soap testing
• Writing scripting tools for data computation
• Test case design, Test Execution.
• Defect Management.
• Generating the detailed reports of the Bugs, Test Execution summary reports.
• Key Role in delivering error free Production Releases.
• Conducted the team meetings for discussing the status and issues.
• Attended trainings on Mobile testing
• Weekly/Daily reports to clients based on the status of execution/defects.
• Taking up Status calls and Defect calls.
• Have actively participated in delivering Quality application by also suggesting Nice to have features and which were accepted and implemented.

Environment:

Windows XP, Windows 7, Quality Center, SpiraTeam, Selenium RC Webdriver , VSTS, Eclipse, Firebug, SQL,Visual Basic, VB scripts, Java, JavaScript.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Project Objective: To meet the requirements of the business in using the web applications of the project related to customization of content to be used on books for classes K-12 and also to enable users for online learning.

Project Description: The Program Customization Engine PCE is a content-planning tool that will enable convenient searching and reuse/repurposing of content developed for HMH products. The PCE will allow Editors to customize content faster based on individual state standards.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis.
• Participate in the requirements analysis sessions/calls
• Test case design based on the requirements.
• Peer reviews of Test Scripts maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Test Execution and identifying the regression suite based on impact matrix
• Prepared Understanding Documents of the flows in the application
• Defect Management.
• Onsite-Offshore communication.
• Key Role in delivering error free Production Releases.
• Have taken the initiative of preparing documents that were useful for the Project Shared Repository and also that were useful for the Testing team.

Environment:

Windows XP, Windows 7, Firefox, Macintosh, Quality Center, SpiraTeam, Selenium IDE,, MS Office, SQL

Confidential

Test Engineer

Project Description: Worked as a Test Engineer on different web based client server Applications of PNC Bank to manage their Loan approval process for Home, Business and Auto.

Responsibilities:

• Design Planned Create Reviewed and Analyzed the Manual Test cases Written in Quality center 8.2.
• Interact with QA Analyst, Developers to clarify the Issues related to Test Data, Test cases Design, Flow, Features and Functionality of application.
• Checking and modifying basic functionality of Manual test cases.
• Create and modify functions for different functionality and add in Function library, Load this function library in each test.
• Create different Recovery scenarios and add it in recovery scenarios folder in Quality center Test plan. Add recovery scenarios with tests.
• Record and writes Test scripts in different environment and Add-Ins using QTP 9.1/8.2
• Customize and Enhance the Test Scripts defining various Checkpoints, Synchronization points, Input value, Output value, Parameterize Test, Define Regular expression.
• Execute and run the test, View and Analyze the Test result in QTP and Quality center.
• Change test status in Manual as well as Automation folder when status change for any test.
• Handle unexpected events that occur during the Test Run
• Attends code review, Project status meetings, Walkthrough and Inspections.

Environment: Quick Test Professional QTP 8.2, , Quality Center 8.2, Java, Internet Explorer, MS office, SQL, JDBC, .NET, Window 2000.IBM Main Frame 3270.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Project Description:

Indian customers are increasingly demanding a domestic wire offering that guarantees full text distribution with in depth on-line coverage and in regional languages. The immediate business and project aim is to deliver domestic distribution circuits to drive high volumes and penetrate further into the Indian corporate, PR and IR market. There is therefore a requirement to deliver a client facing, light weight editorial processing tool that enables a core three step process of release upload, release verification, formatting tagging and release distribution.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis.
• Participate in the requirements analysis sessions/calls
• Test Design and Test Execution
• Peer reviews of Test Scripts maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Defect Analysis Reporting
• Prepared Understanding Documents of the flows in the application.
• Generating the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report.
• Have actively participated in delivering Quality application by also suggesting Nice to have features and which were accepted and implemented
• Have taken the initiative of preparing documents that were useful for the Project Shared Repository and also that were useful for the Testing team.

Environment:

Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Quality Center, SQL server 2005, MS Office