SUMMARY

• A detail oriented QA Test Analyst / Software Tester with five plus years of experience in manual and automation testing in various business domains including banking, government solutions and healthcare industries.
• Strong knowledge and skills in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, release and maintenance.
• Solid experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Software Testing, System Verification, Software Test Life Cycle, QA Standards, and QA Test methodologies.
• Experience in Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall development processes.
• Experience in sprint planning, product backlog grooming, user story analysis, and sprint demo.
• Expertise in analyzing requirements/ user story, writing test plan, test cases, execute test, create RTM and test summary report.
• Solid experience in system testing, Integration testing, functional testing, regression and UAT testing.
• Experience in manual and automated testing using industry standard tool suit HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA SOAP UI, and Selenium.
• Expertise in conducting Peer Reviews, Technical Reviews and procedure Walkthroughs.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries for data verification, data validation and data integrity
• Experienced in tracking and logging Defects using ALM and JIRA.
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the capability to present and articulate complex concept.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Testing Tools: ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), JIRA, SOAP UI Quality Center, Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Eclipse, TestNG

Programming Languages: SQL, and JAVA

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Version Controlling Tools: SVN (Subversion), VSS

RDBMS/Database: SQL server, ORACLE, and MS Access, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involve in interacting with the stakeholders, development team, and business analysts in understanding of the business requirements, use cases and design documents.
• Involve in reviewing and analyzing product backlog, sprint planning, user story, and use case document.
• Use JIRA to manage user story and tasks for user story in Agile board for any sprints
• Develop comprehensive system test plan.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all the approved requirements.
• Perform Functional testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Analyze and ensure test results and changes/defect are reflected in the test case and test cases are updated appropriately based on resolution
• Work closely with the testing team and development on daily basis to maintain the frequent builds that are being pushed on Stage and make sure each builds are being tested accurately.
• Involve in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Use ALM/Quality Center to update requirements, create test cases, record and track defects.
• Design and developed UAT Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Create customize reports and graph in ALM.
• Use WAVE and JAWS to verify the 508 accessibility compliance.
• Develop and maintain automated regression test cases using SeleniumWebDriver
• Coordinate UAT testing activities with the Testing Team, Development Team and the stakeholders.

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, SQL, Oracle, SOAP UI, XML, Selenium, WAVE, JAWS, Microsoft Office, UNIX, 508

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in test plan and test case reviews, maintain testing issues lists and follow up as necessary.
• Attended weekly Review meetings with project team to understand the new changes, Implementations and schedules and provided inputs from test execution perspective
• Participated in project sprint planning, execution, testing and releases on Scrum methodology.
• Built test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all approved requirements.
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional and Regression Testing, and Security Testing.
• Worked closely with the Systems team, Business Analyst, Developers and UI team to resolve the requirement issues, deployment issues, and change management issues.
• Responsible for reporting of risks, impediments, sprint and release progress.
• Coordinated with end - users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in the application during testing.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from Oracle database to validate the user interface (UI).
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Manually tested data from High level to detail level during verifications.

Environment: OBIEE, J2EE, Quality Center, Version Manager, JIRA, Microsoft Office, UNIX, ORACLE.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Ensured that testing activities meet business requirements and systems goals
• Overseeing execution of all software testing activities, tools and techniques
• Involved in execution of test cases and record defects
• Verified requirement traceability from System Requirements through test cases and defects
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Functionality Testing, Database testing,
• Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
• Regularly interacted with Developers, Business Analyst and Users.
• Created the Regression Test Cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing.
• Involved in end-to-end system testing.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitored defect status.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity and performed Database Testing for the application.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using JIRA

Environment: JIRA XML, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP