SUMMARY

• 6+ years of diversified experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing in Retail and Banking Domain.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing, Browser compatibility testing, and peer testing in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in developing and Executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Management, Defect Tracking and Test Reports based on the Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Specification and Use Cases.
• Proficient in using Excel as well as testing tools like Quality Center and Quick Test Professional for both client/server and web based applications.
• Expert in performing root cause analysis of defects.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and importance of QA in Development/ Enhancement and Maintenance of software applications.
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall development environment with ample knowledge of Scrum methodology.
• Experience in Database Testing using SQL to validate the consistency of data.
• Excellent skills in performing Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Experienced contributor in Requirement review, walk - through and daily scrum meetings.
• Working experience with on site and off shore team based on the schedule.
• Good team player with the ability to lead, manage and work independently in a time sensitive environment
• An assertive and quality-driven self-starter with excellent organizational, leadership & decision-making skill
• Highly skilled in undertaking multiple responsibilities with minimum supervision, meeting schedules and project deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skill with the ability to rapidly adapt to changes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC)

Languages: C, VB Script, Java, HTML/XML

Databases: MS SQL Server

Software Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Windows 7, Windows 8

Others: SharePoint, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed web based application and identified critical functionalities.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Documentation (BRD) to gain understanding of SOS,
• Information and Wrench buttons implementation.
• Participated in meetings with BA and Developers to understand the scope of testing.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for assigned modules.
• Created and Executed Test Cases manually as well as verify the actual results based on expected results.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and End to End Testing.
• Documented and reported all found defects in Quality Center.
• Provided validation of data through SQL queries.
• Manually created, developed and executed Test Cases for both Negative and Positive testing.
• Prepared Test Plan for assigned module as a part of the testing team. Test Plan detail included the testing
• Scope, requirements, strategies and all compulsory resources.
• Executed manual testing for all scenarios on application.
• Managed System Integration and Black Box testing.
• Located and documented in detail all defects found for development to review.
• Provided detailed documentation for development team on errors to ensure clear and concise understanding of the issue and to minimize any fatal errors for final release.
• Conducted functional, regression and system testing in order to ensure that new code is not causing issues and that defects have been corrected.
• Worked extensively with development team to create status reporting.
• Maintained extensive logs of all testing activities through Test Director.
• Attended meetings and walkthroughs, participated in responsibility for team's weekly status.
• Performed Adhoc Testing and User Acceptance Testing by working intimately with development and Project Manager to ensure the final product is stable to go live.

Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, Agile, Ms Office Suite, SQL

Confidential, Irving, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in testing the functionalities related to sales tracking, Point Of Sale scanning, ordering forecast, adjustments, custom retail price and promotions in POS.
• Involved in Integration, Regression and End to End testing on Store and Merchandising application interfacing with POS.
• Established and managed traceability matrix with proper test coverage.
• Participated in peer reviews of functional specification, application previews, and test plans/test cases.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to interpret test results
• Interacted with Developers to follow up on Defects/Issues
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Assured customer satisfaction with proper documentation and reports.
• Created appropriate test plan, test cases and test scenario for the testing.
• Conducted Manual Testing of the application

Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, Agile, Ms Office Suite, SQL

Confidential, Irvine, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Development team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the Test plans.
• Performed manual testing before converting them into automated scripts.
• Developed automated Test Scripts and Test Cases on the basis of Test Plan.
• Prepared Traceability Matrices based on the SRS and requirements documents.
• Involved in implementing QA methodology.
• Worked with development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.
• Developed test data to meet requirements.
• Conducted the Smoke testing to check the High level functionality of the application.
• Performed automated test using Win Runner Tool and Manual tests on several client-server and Windows applications. TSL Scripts are generated for Functional Testing of the application.
• Involved in Design, Develop and Execution of automation test scripts for web applications.
• Performing various types of testing, inserting sync and check points (GUI, Bitmap, text check points), enhancing using TSL.
• Developed Test scripts in TSL and enhanced scripts using Win Runner.
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Black Box testing and Regression Testing.
• Maintained and executed test scripts by using Test Director and analyzed the results.
• Logged and traced defects using Test Director.
• Responsible for weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts.
• Detect defects, communicate to the developers using bug reporting tools and tracking the defects.
• Written various SQL queries and performed backend validations, executed various DDL, DML statement.
• Organized Walkthroughs and Inspections with development managers and reviewed the status of the application testing.
• Documented Test cases, Test results and Test procedures.

Environment: C, C++, HTML, Visual Basic, ORACLE, SQL, TOAD, Manual Testing, Win Runner, Test Director, Tomcat 5.0 and WINDOWS NT

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Manual/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed both manual and automated testing to conduct functional and regression tests on the application.
• Wrote automation test plans and prepared the automation test matrix for each regression cycle.
• Used QTP for functional and regression testing of the application to make sure transactions and business processes work as intended and Developed VB scripts
• Reviewed Business requirement Documents and functional requirements
• Created and maintained Shared Object Repositories (Merge object repositories of different modules) to enable QTP to identify the various objects in the application
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements
• Prepared Test Cases, according to the functional specification
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end
• Performed Back-End testing on the application by writing SQL queries in MS SQL Server
• Wrote and Enhanced test cases and test scripts to meet new functional requirements as per the new business requirements
• Enhanced QTP scripts by inserting Standard Checkpoints, Database Checkpoints, Table Checkpoints and Page Checkpoints
• Conducted data-driven testing using parameterization
• Reported and tracked defects using Quality Center
• Generated various reports and graphs from the defect module of Quality Center

Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, Java, MS SQL Server, QTP

Confidential, Indianapolis

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed a Test Plan for System Testing.
• Reviewed business requirements and developed detailed Test Cases to ensure testing of the entire application.
• Executed test cases in a timely manner, and evaluated and researched critical problems and questions to determine root cause.
• Involved in Documented the impact of migrating from the HIPAA 4010A1 transaction set to the HIPAA 5010 transaction set.
• Worked on EDI transactions, HIPAA standard transaction codes including EDI 837, 835, 834, 277CA and performed analysis and testing of such transactions.
• Validation of data design, data validation and data mapping from ANSI formats to proprietary formats; and from the proprietary format back to ANSI formats
• Design, analyze and performed Integration and wrote System requirements on different leading health care software’s such as FACETS.
• Validate EDI Claim Process according to HIPAA compliance.
• Test HIPAA regulations in FACETS HIPAA privacy module.
• Prepared EDI files to validate EDI transaction sets.
• Worked with Healthcare Benefits Online (HCBO) to test online portals of different clients and functional testing of Real Time and Batch jobs using EDI.
• Worked on different EDI scenarios for batch processing.
• For planning purposes, generated EDI transactions daily and monthly reports from EDI
• Completed several HIPAA 4010 and 5010 Projects, included Medicaid and Commercial entities.
• Projects include claims and enrollment testing as well as NPI and medical coding and ICD-9 EDI testing.
• Creation of a Mapping Document for ICD9 Codes to ICD 10 Clinical Modifications and Procedural Codes.
• Understanding and assessment of the current ICD 9 codes used by the State

Environment: MS Windows, FACETS, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office (PowerPoint, MS Word, MS EXCEL), Web 2.0, SQL, Oracle, SDLC, Agile

QA Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, technical specifications and design documents to understand the flow of the applications.
• Used Quality Center to write Test Plans and manage Change Control.
• Used QTP for Regression and Load Runner for Performance test.
• Configured script and scenario run time settings to customize the way the controller executes a user script.
• Prepared and Executed test scripts using QTP.
• Tested web services using SOAP UI and Selenium IDE
• Executed SQL queries to verify that the database reflects the change of log in session.
• Used Visual Source Safe for version control and Doors as a requirement management tool.
• Checked the maintainability, supportability, usability and reliability of the application under test.
• Performed front end, back end, black box, positive, negative, load, stress, usability, GUI test.

Environment: Software/Environments: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, QTP and Quality Center.