SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of software Quality experience as SQA Engineer, Validation (V) Consultant with strong trouble - shooting, problem solving and analytical skills in in manual testing involving Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Database testing.
• Demonstrated applications that are developed in Client Server and Web Based Environments.
• Excellent performance in testing and analysis of Mobile Apps, HealthCare, Insurance and financial domains.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Process and well versed in various Software Quality Methodologies
• Expertise in Integration testing, Sanity/Smoke testing, and Functional Testing, Regression testing, System testing, and UAT, Usability testing, and performance testing manually and using automated testing tools.
• Experience in testing application using testing tools such as QTP, Selenium, Quality Center, Team Foundation Server
• Experience in mobile application testing using Android and iPhone devices
• Experience in working with Multiple Relational Databases like Oracle 9i/8i/7.x, DB2, SQL Server 2000
• Knowledge in the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) of data into a data ware house/date mart and Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects Modules (Reporter, Supervisor, Designer, and Web Intelligence).
• Create and maintain traceability matrix across all modules of requirements/ Test Plan/Test Lab/ Defects in HP Quality Center
• Experienced in reporting and tracking defects using various defect tracking tools like Quality Center and Test Foundation Server.
• Excel in creating test plans and writing/running test scripts to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality. Serve as a value-adding member of QA teams with experience in both waterfall/Agile processes.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Capability to adopt and learn new tools, techniques and approaches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, VB

Environment: Windows NT, 2000, 2003

RDBMS: Oracle (7.x/8.x, 9i, 10g), MS SQL Server 2000, MYSQL 5.5, DB2

Tools: Toad, SQL Developer

Testing tools: QTP, Selenium IDE, Quality Center/ALM, Load Runner, Test Foundation Server, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Boston, MA

Senior Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in gathering System Requirements from Analyst, Understanding of Use Cases, business flow, technical Gaps.
• Involved in test planning, writing test cases/scripts, test case automation and test execution Planned Testing Strategy, Set up Test Environment, Developed QA Test Plan (QA, SIT, UAT) and reviewed with cross functional team.
• Working with an Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high quality work with every monthly iteration
• Involved in Screen Oriented testing with manual function testing with object testing and maintained business flow and use of complicated SQL Script to validate data.
• Involved in Parallel Testing like DB or Operating system upgrade or migration to make sure current functionalities still works.
• Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status
• Using ALM, documents and works to resolve all problems; reports progress on problem resolution to management.
• Works with business unit and 3rd party partners throughout SDLC to deliver high quality products.
• Have proven experience working within an agile development team and be able to cope in a very fast paced environment where the skill of prioritization is critical.

Environment: Java 1.7, Java Applets, oracle 10g, Windows 2003 server, ALM, UNIX

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting triage meetings on a daily basis to explain the defects to vendor
• Prepared estimation of new system and their modules
• Participating as a key team member in planning and coordinating the testing of the product, test plans with core Business Team
• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.
• Tested for data in the database by writing SQL queries for SQL Server before testing the module.
• Worked with SQL, PL/SQL functions to test the database integrity.
• Worked on functionality, regression, GUI, AdHoc, Exploratory, browser/OS compatibility testing. Performed cross-browser testing using Selenium API (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, MS Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera).
• Involved in designing and developing Data driven automation framework Java Scripting and automated them using Selenium.
• Conducted Cross Browser testing to check the compatibility of the application with different Browser's.
• Defect logging, defect tracking, verification & closure activities using JIRA.
• Always been flexible in taking up any testing activities at any point of time. Example, Client test manager asked me to take up another project based on the recognition in the current project.
• Handling multiple projects with ease

Environment: .Net, C++, Apache Tomcat 5.5,S Jira, Sql Server 2005,pl/sql, Junit, Windows 2003, XML,Java Script, VMware, Web Services, HTML.

Confidential, NJ

Manual Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and software requirement specifications documents and performed Gap Analysis to identify variant between Customer Operation and business requirement logic.
• Mapped test cases to requirements to ensure complete test coverage, Identified test data requirements.
• Attended review meetings with business analysts, development team and end users to understand functional requirements.
• Writing high level test cases and low level test scripts in QA Test Plan and review with cross functional team to baseline
• Validate GUI and Back End testing process by developing strong SQL script and UNIX utilities to validate data and test set up data.
• Interacting with team to identify gaps in application, understood application flow, user expectation to test better application.
• Logged and followed defects in defect tracking system through lifecycle (from creation to resolution) Created weekly issue logs and provided documentation to discuss and share with the team for resolution to common problems and solutions.
• Provided management with daily statistics of the test creation and execution and discuss blocking issue.
• Performed regression testing to validate that the new code has no adverse effect on the current system. Writing test plans and test cases, updated in each release with Revision History and save in Quality center.
• Tracking defects with severity using Quality Center and involved in defect root cause analysis.
• Provided weekly management status reports and coordinated meetings between test team and development team to review defects. Performed sanity testing on new builds on various environments, set up test data in each release.
• Supported Change Control by reviewing impact of all modules planned all release schedules, back out plan.
• Followed software testing methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Performed Functional testing to check if the application is error prone according the requirement specifications.

Environment: Java1.6, Tomcat6.35, Centos5, Mysql5.5, Quality Center, MSexcel

Confidential, Woburn, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.
• Performed manual testing on different payment connectors like Global,Tsys, Apriva, and Payment tech.
• Performed testing on different cards like Visa, Master and Amex cards.
• Tested for data in the database by writing SQL queries for SQL Server before testing the module.
• Worked with SQL, PL/SQL functions to test the database integrity.
• Conducted Cross Browser testing to check the compatibility of the application with different Browser's.
• Defect logging, defect tracking, verification & closure activities using JIRA.
• Performed testing on VMware environment.

Environment: Java 1.5, C++, Apache Tomcat 5.5,S Jira, Sql Server 2005,pl/sql, Junit, Windows 2003, XML,Java Script, VMware, Web Services,HTML.