PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing as Senior Quality Analyst of Web, Client/ Server Product based IT applications based on Lotus Domino 6.5/8.0
• Extensive knowledge in Database testing in RDBMS using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validating business rules
• Lead participation in release sign off of the product
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle STLC
• Extensively used QTP Quick Test Professional to automate the manual test cases.
• Expertise in writing, executing test cases, usage of various databases, tools for bug tracking and generating reports like Defect Tracking Tool
• Expertise in coordinating with cross-functional team members to ensure that software meets QA standards
• Extensive experience in Black box, Functional, Integration, GUI, System, UAT and Performance testing
• Proficient in MS-Office, TOAD, MS-SQL Developer Tools
• Experience in testing applications on various browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari as well as Cross-Browser compatible applications.
• Strong analytical skills, combined with effective communication, organizational skills and planning ability.
• Independent and self-directed Can work with minimum supervision.
• Exceptionally organized with great ability to work on multiple projects at once.
• Expertise in Functional and Technical documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development team for effective test coverage, preparation of use cases and test cases/scenarios based on functional requirements.
• Conducted Daily Status Management Test Management metrics and shared them with customer.
• Performed core-level Testing to ensure data consistency by writing and executing SQL statements on the database
• Actively participated in Requirement Walkthrough sessions with the client and involved in discussing the scope of requirements with the business analysts.
• Participated in feasibility analysis of customer centric solutions that could be implemented using the product.
• Coordinated test planning activities with the client team.
• Active participation in the testing team by estimating effort for various customer centric products.
• Actively participated in identifying test scenarios, documenting them and reviewing them on a product to product basis.
• Performed detailed test case preparation and review of different customer centric products.
• Performed manual testing of products in system testing and integration testing environments.
• Performed running and maintaining the regression test suite after each product release.
• Conducted and participated in defect triage meetings.
• Actively involved in creating test summary reports and defect reports.
• Lead participation in release sign off of each of the product
• Actively involved in preparing Root Cause Analysis and Lessons Learnt documents after the release of all products
• Identifying required test data and assign execution among the team members
• Bug tracking and setting Priorities Used Defect Tracker Tool.
• Participated in all major deployments of the product.

Environment: Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, MS Project, MS-SQL 2005, Notrix Jobs, Defect Tracker tool

Confidential

Role: Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed and supported UAT and reporting status consistently to ensure that software and systems meet minimum company standards and defined end-user functional and system non-functional test scenarios.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development team for effective test coverage, preparation of use cases and test cases/scenarios based on functional requirements.
• Conducted Daily Status Management Test Management metrics and shared them with customer.
• Performed core-level Testing to ensure data consistency by writing and executing SQL statements on the database
• Used knowledge of business processes and quality assurance on testing across entire product life cycle stages from requirements to implementation.
• Maintain requirements traceability matrix and conduct necessary reviews to ensure test cases appropriately translate and map to requirements.
• Perform black box, white box, functional, GUI and acceptance testing for Web and Client/Server applications.
• Assist business users to perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Verified that the application will not suffer any catastrophic failure during the run
• Create test data and expected results for test scenarios using production data set and mockup data using SQL and interact with project team members to ensure the data is available for testing.
• Lead participation in release sign off of the product
• Major participation in deployment of the product.

Environment: Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, MS Project, MS-SQL 2005, Notrix Jobs, SmartDraw, Defect Tracker tool

Confidential

Role: Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation of Functional design document, consisting of different Reports required, by interacting with the Business users
• Creation and maintenance of Notrix jobs for data transfer between GPS application and MS SQL Server
• Creation and maintenance of tables, views and databases in MS SQL Server 2005
• Developed report design specification documents
• Designed and developed Reports using Crystal Reports 10
• Integrated two different SQL databases within a report for generation of specific data
• Created various report formats such as Cross Tab Reports, Standard Reports, OLAP Reports, and Master Detail Reports
• Integrated the Crystal Reports with the Prompt Screens for parameters required for report generation
• Created various formulae, set parameters and conditions depending upon the selection criteria
• Developed drill down reports and various chart reports
• Worked on reports consisting of more than 10 sub-reports including drill-down sub reports .
• Handled both dependent and stand-alone sub reports
• Extensively worked on reports that contained several parameters static and dynamic cascade prompts
• Set filters, suppression formulae and used highlighting expert to show the data the users would like to see in a more concise and presentable format
• Communicated reporting changes, enhancements, and modifications through written documentation so that issues and solutions are documented for future reference
• Provided user/system documentation and testing of reports for final deployment

Environment: Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, MS Project, MS-SQL 2005, Notrix Jobs, Crystal Report 8.0, Visual Studio for Crystal Reports

Confidential

Role: Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements, preparing test plan, writing Test Cases and testing of modules such as Security, Display, etc.
• Preparation of test scripts and created and executed Test Cases manually to conduct the System Testing.
• Identified, Documented and Tracked defects in Defect Tracker Tool
• Ensuring that Test Cases cover all requirements, not missing any, and also that Test Cases and Test Report are meeting the agreed quality standards.
• Developed test plans, test cases, test scripts and procedures, traceability matrix, and test result reports.
• Prepared preconditioned data for negative and positive testing of the application.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when it encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Involved in review meetings to identify the enhancements and modify the Functional Test Cases as required.
• Worked closely with Developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Lotus Domino 6.5, Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, MS Project, Notrix Jobs

Confidential

Role: Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirements and prepare Test cases for the identified scenarios
• Test different modules like Timesheet and Data Migration
• Co-ordination with the Business team for the functional help
• Manually perform the Functional testing and integration testing.
• Developed test plans, test cases, test scripts, traceability matrix, and test result reports.
• Ensuring that Test Cases cover all requirements, not missing any, and also that Test Cases and Test Report are meeting the agreed quality standards
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when it encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Provide support to the end users during UAT
• Co-ordinate with development team for the issues faced
• Send Daily and Weekly status update mails to the client

Environment: Manual Testing, Lotus Domino 6.5, Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, MS Project