SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in Information Technology in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive knowledge of QA Standards methodology, QA framework, and QA process
• Expertise in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) Manual Testing.
• Excellent Knowledge of Waterfall and agile models of SDLC.
• Well versed with defect tracking tools HP ALM and QTP.
• Experience in Testing Client Server applications, Web application using both Manual and Automated testing tools.
• Strong skills in Back - End testing using SQL queries generating reports to ensure data integrity.
• Experienced on working with Excel sheets like loading data in and out.
• Used checkpoints, applied the concepts of regular expressions, parameterization using VB Scripting changes in QTP.
• Involved in regression testing, system testing, integration testing, smoke testing, performance volume testing.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing/ Defect Tracking Tool: HP ALM, QTP

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script

Databases: MS SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005/2008.

Operating Systems: Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst

Confidential, Southlake, TX

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, Developed and Documented Test scenarios and Test Plan, Test cases in accordance with the Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Specification documents and use case documents.
• Participated in the agile development methodology, iteration and agile release process.
• Worked closely with the developer to create, design and develop the web page using web method.
• Involved in Requirement Assessments to see if new requirements impacted existing business functionality
• Ensured the appropriate parties review and sign-off on test cases prior to test execution.
• Involved in functional, Integration and Regression and performance testing after release of each sprint.
• Performed test on the application in different scenarios after release of each sprint.
• Involved in End to End test of whole application
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from database.
• Involved in the User Acceptance testing (UAT) to check the reliability for end user.
• Test system for various discount like veteran discount, seasonal discount, underage’s discount etc.
• Test whether receipt print the exact discount or offers that is leveraged

Environment: HP ALM, JavaScript, SQL, Windows, MS Office

QA Tester

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Formulated a detailed Test Plan, after analyzing business requirements and software requirements artifacts and described all the activities to be undertaken in the whole software Testing effort.
• From both Business and Marketing need to be implemented in New POS.
• Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using the system requirement document.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures for Test changes
• Performed Unit, System, Integration and UAT testing as per business requirement.
• Verified email retrieval based on credit and debit transactions
• Executed QTP automated test scripts from Quality Center to perform Integration & Regression testing

Environment: Windows XP, MS SQL 2003, SQL, HTML, Oracle9i/10g, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center.

POS QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Design Phase, together with members of the Product team, developers, and DBAs for e-commerce and POS testing.
• Attended weekly meetings in order to address any new developments.
• Analyzed the Business and Technical Documents to understand the Data flow from Front End to Back End and also supported the promotional management efforts.
• Performed Sanity testing, Smoke testing, Positive and Negative testing and Usability testing.
• End to End testing for daily operations at POS which involved various functions such as inventory in-stock, price changes, clearance markdowns, sales & returns, promotional discount with exchanges credit card payments answer phone.
• Also for Credit card, Debit card and Gift card authorization validation at POS and backend.
• Extensive knowledge in testing web services via soap.
• Handled testing activities for implementing and rollback procedures while deploying enhancements into production.
• Worked closely with the User Acceptance Test Coordinator, Project Manager and Business System Analysts to understand business processes and develop concrete UAT cases.
• Planned designed, executed and evaluated Performance tests of web application and services and ensured.

Environment: Agile, HP ALM, JavaScript, MS SQL, MS office, Oracle.

Web Application QA Tester

Confidential

Responsbilities:

• Learned application business requirements, technical specification and installation guidelines in an Agile Environment.
• Identifying Integration User-Stories and Tasks during the Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning Sessions.
• Attending Test Plan Design Meetings with the Integration QA team, to discuss and analyze the sprint user stories and tasks and to answer questions on how the Integration team should build their scripts.
• Developed Test Scripts for cross-browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), setting Desired Capabilities for different browsers for browser compatibility testing.
• Used Quality Center as Test Repository for Requirements, Test plans.

Environment: Selenium, MS SQL, Quality Center, QTP.