SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• An I.T Professional working over four years in Software Quality Assurance and Testing in IT services and Financial industries. Professional experience in Software Development Lifecycle SDLC , testing methodologies and software testing techniques. Specializing in Manual and Automated Testing of client/server applications and web-testing. Seeking a technically challenging position as a Software Tester to pursue career advancement and expand technical skills to deliver professional quality software.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Methodologies and Techniques and analyzing required documentation to understand project needs, reaching milestones and following the phases for waterfall Agile methodology.
• Good understanding of various software development models like Waterfall and RUP. Liaise with developers, business analysts and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Adept at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality and regression testing. Domain knowledge of CRM and Case Management tools. Expertise with Testing Tools such as Quality Center, Clear Quest and OnTime.
• Experience in updating system Test Plans in accordance with the software requirement specification. Experience in analyzing Use Cases, writing Test Cases, executing Test Cases and creating reports for all the phases of the QA lifecycle.
• Experience in Manual testing GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Field Validation Testing, Regression Testing, Backend testing and End-to-End Testing of Client-Server as well as Web Applications.
• Expertise in Black box testing methodologies on applications developed under Windows and UNIX. Experience in SQL, DML, DDL, writing SQL and testing scripts for Backend Testing against relational Databases. Performed Testing of database applications developed with Oracle and SQL Server.
• Wrote several test cases for Functionality, Regression and System and tested the application manually. Experience of producing Test Metrics and Project Progress Reports. Exposure to QA principles like SEI CMM Levels, ISO 9000, Configuration Management and Change Management.
• Experience in Test Management, Bug Tracking and Reporting Systems. Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Controls.
• Highly motivated, detail oriented and ability to work independently as well in a team, with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, OnTime, QTP.

Platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP, UNIX.

Databases: Oracle 10g, 11g , SQL Server 2008.

Query Tools and Languages: SQL .

Version Control: PVCS, CVS., Sharepoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed End-to-end, Functional, System, UAT and Regression testing.
• Analyzed Use Cases and Business Requirements. Wrote Initial Test Cases based on Use Cases and Test Plan. Coordinated Reviews for Initial Test Cases with the Business Analyst. Drafted reports from the reviews.
• Based on the feedback from the Business Analyst refined Initial Test Cases. Wrote Detail Test Cases. Executed Test Cases per the Test Plan. Logged Test Results, Created Defect Reports and weekly and monthly Test Reports.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing of the final product. Documented user responses. Handle the tasks of explaining UAT scope, criteria and entry/exit strategy to less trained professionals.
• Performed Risk analysis, Identified Risks, Assessed Risk Probability and Identified short term and long term Risk Mitigation Strategy. Participated in Walkthroughs for Use Cases, and Test Cases. Reviewed Test Results with Test Lead and Development team.
• Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Performed Positive and Negative testing with Boundary Value Analysis. Performed Adhoc, Sanity and Smoke testing.
• Wrote and executed SQL statements to validate data.

Environment: Oracle 11g, VB.Net Windows, Visual Studio 2008, .Net framework 3.5, SAS 9.1., Google Docs

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and business requirements and generated Traceability Matrices, Test Cases accordingly. Updated Test plans and wrote Test cases based on the requirement specifications document and managed them using Quality Center.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions. Wrote detailed test cases for Functionality, Regression and System testing. Performed Sanity Tests and Smoke Tests before a fully fledged testing effort was started. Performed Functional, System and Regression test cases.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing of the final product. Documented user responses in various test scenarios. Performed backend testing by executing various SQL queries and validated data in various reports. Wrote and executed SQL queries to support testing of the Back end.
• Tested Back end scripts for data validation. Performed End-to-end Functionality Testing of Application.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues. Performed defect tracking and management using Quality center. Attended various meetings, walkthroughs and inspections to address the project issues. Performed UAT Testing of reports and other functionalities in the system.
• Gave valuable inputs throughout the SDLC life cycle.

Environment: HTML, SQL server 2008, SQL, Quality center, Windows 2000, QTP, Sharepoint

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Derived test scenarios from functional specifications. Verified requirements coverage during walkthroughs with business analysts. Created Test Matrix using Test plan and responsible for implementation of Test cases.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements. Updated test case document with the results. Wrote and modified SQL scripts to support data validation. Used SQL queries to extract data from the target tables to ensure data mapping requirements were implemented.
• Used Ontime for bug tracking and defect management. Investigating bugs and reporting to the developers. Created Test Reports. Participated in System, UAT and Regression testing. Designed positive and negative test cases using Black Box testing techniques. Used Ontime for bug tracking and defect management.
• Tested GUI results and compared with database values using SQL Queries. Participated in UAT and interacted with the users to address their issues. Weekly status updates to project manager regarding test team progress. Participated in various meetings and addressed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Maintained Test Completion Report to inform rest of the team members about Defects Open, Postpone, Close at Release level.

Environment: HTML, XML, Oracle 9i 10g, SQL, Windows NT, Microsoft Office Suite.