SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance and automation testing with strong knowledge of Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in financial application testing such as Health Care, Insurance, Banking and web applications integrated with various legacy systems.
• Hands on experience in analyzing Business Requirement, Functional Requirement, Design specification and developing Test plan and Test scenarios.
• Hands on experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and End to End testing.
• Extensive experience in all testing methods including Waterfall, Spiral, V model, Agile and Scrum
• Hands on experience in Selenium Web Drivers.
• Expert in preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix to map requirement coverage with test cases.
• Experience in executing automated test scripts utilizing Quick Test Professional.
• Expertise inautomatingtheRegression Test Suites.
• Expertise onData Driven,Modular,Keyword Driven Testingand Implementing theLibrary Framework.
• Expertise in performing different tests such as Smoke, Functionality, Integration, GUI, Backend, Data Driven and Regression testing.
• Experience with Quality Center to maintain Business Requirements, Create and update Test Cases, Test Runs, and Test Results for every iteration and report defects and link them back to the requirements.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect management and Bug Reporting using tools like Clear Quest, Test Director, Quality Center
• Experience in writing SQL queries to execute against Microsoft SQL server and Oracle databases.
• Ability to work as independent and team member in challenging and cross platform environment
• Highly motivated team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in working as a single point of contact for all testing activities and as liaison between different teams members and the manager

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, V - Model, Scrum

Defect Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Bugzilla

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, UNIX, SHELL, JAVA,C, C++

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Operating Systems: IBM AIX, Windows, XP, 2000/NT

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Netscape, Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

SR. Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed sprint back log and product back log documents and attended daily scrum meetings.
• Participated in preparing Test Strategy, Test plan and created Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Interacted with Developers and Business analysts to communicate the defects.
• Assured the service met the requirements by carrying out different tests such as Functional, Data Driven, Integration and Regression tests by executing the tests in QC and QTP.
• Extensively used UNIX to check the log files and used Quality Center for test case management and defect tracking.
• Created Test Data for automation & one-to-one mapping of manual test cases to automation test cases.
• Developed automation scripts using QTP.
• Adding checkpoints.
• Used Regular expression and synchronization points in the scripts wherever required.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for Back-End testing using TOAD.
• Participated in review meetings and attended training sessions to understand various business concepts.

Environment: Agile Methodology, QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.2, Oracle 10g, TOAD, Java, Web Sphere, UNIX, IBM AIX.

Confidential, Dover, NH

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Test cases, and Test Scenarios based on the requirements.
• Provide test effort estimates and schedules for the responsible modules
• Performed different tests like Smoke, Functionality, Integration, GUI, Backend and Regression testing.
• Extensively used Bugzilla for defect tracking and reporting.
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability matrix.
• Performed the application compatibility in the versions of Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers.
• Performed Back-end testing by writing SQL queries to check the data at the backend.
• Tracked and reviewed the Defects using Bugzilla.

Environment: V-Model, IBM DB2, Windows XP, C#, Bugzilla

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended cross-functional team and business team meetings to understand the end users’ requirements and documented them.
• Created Test Cases for the application.
• Executed test cases manually and verify the test results.
• Worked on Iterative and Incremental methods as part of Agile Process
• Worked with in a time-boxed iterative approach
• Attending scrum calls for daily updates and work status
• Requirement review and validations
• Involved in the Impact Analysis
• Developed and executed SQL Queries for Back-End Testing.

Environment: MS.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5, TELERIK RADGRID, Bugzilla, MS SQL Server 2008, Agile

Confidential

Database/Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Test cases, and Test Reports based on the requirements.
• Performed different tests like Functional Testing and Regression Testing
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability matrix.
• Defect Tracking & ensuring the defects closure.
• Analyzing Functional Specification documents.
• Estimatinf the Test efforts for the requirements.
• Preparing the Master Test plan and System test Plan.
• Prepared and executed test cases.
• Performing Integration testing, functional testing, Regression testing
• Involved in creating test data for the test activities using the tools.
• Test Case Reviews and provide a walkthrough of the Documents to client team.
• Providing Technical clarifications to the team.
• Defect tracking and management using VSTF.
• Maintaining test deliverables using VSTF and Product studio.
• Worked on automation using Glider Framework similar to QTP Framework.
• Performed Back-end testing by writing SQL queries to check the data at the backend.
• Tracked and reviewed the Defects using HP Quality Center.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#.Net Windows 2000, MSSQL Server 2008, Bugzilla, V-Model