SUMMARY

• 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA) especially in QA of web - based and client/server applications from medical, pharmaceutical and communication domains
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including test planning, defect tracking and managing defect life cycle
• Extensive experience in preparing test plans, test scenarios and test cases according to requirement documents and generating test reports and test documentation for both manual and automated tests
• Experience in complete SDLC including analysis, design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing, data migration and compatibility testing
• Experience in waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, and Iterative project development methodologies
• Adept in using testing tools such as Quick Test Professional (QTP): recording/running scripts, split actions, creating reusable actions, synchronization, parameterization, inserting checkpoints and capturing values
• Good exposure in writing SQL queries for both MS SQL server and Oracle database platforms
• Experience in using bug tracking tools such as Quality center, JIRA and Bugzilla for documenting software defects. These bugs are appropriately assigned to software developers and tracked through to resolution
• Experience working either independently or as a team member
• Extensive experience working with both onsite and offshore teams
• Motivated team player with strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills and writing skills
• Capable of handling multiple tasks and multiple responsibilities at the same time with the flexibility to adapt to new environments
• Hardworking team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality center, Jira and Bugzilla

Testing Tools: QTP and Quality center

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL and PL/SQL

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, Java Script and VB Script

Other Tools: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project and Visio

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL plus and MS Access

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/98/95/2000/XP, Windows 2007, 2010 and Windows7, MAC and LINUX

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed QA processes collaborating with the development team for ensuring high quality software releases using Scrum methodologies
• Reviewed business requirement documents and the technical specifications
• Designed and executed the test plans and test cases using business requirements
• Attended daily standup meeting for daily work progress and planning
• Created test data for both positive and negative test scenarios
• Performed system testing, functional testing, integration testing, data migration and GUI testing
• Tested application’s compatibility on different versions of various browsers (IE, Firefox and Safari)
• Closely monitored requirements, functional specifications and updated test cases as per changes in requirements
• Ensured that the quality of the software delivered to the client with each software release met the standards of the client by testing the software against defects and new feature requests
• Performed smoke testing of each build of the application in order to verify stability of the build
• Tested new features of the application to verify if the features requested by the client work as desired
• Executed backend testing using SQL queries on SQL server to verify if the data is properly stored in the database
• Wrote test cases and performed data migration testing
• Performed Regression testing to prove that the new code has no adverse effects on the current system
• Reported defects using JIRA and helped developers reproduce the defects by isolating the cause on different environments
• Interacted with off shore teams to resolve defects and functional issues of the application
• Actively Participated in Functional requirements review meeting and weekly team meetings
• Followed HIPAA implementation guidelines

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, Java, SQL, Oracle 9i, Jboss, Agile, Scrum

Confidential, Chicago IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business and development teams to understand the user requirements
• Developed detailed test plan for system testing based on functional requirement document
• Wrote and executed test cases both manually and using automation tool QTP
• Maintained traceability of test cases using Quality Center
• Documented test results and the changes
• Executed functional test cases for integration testing as per test plans and test scenarios
• Developed automated scripts using QTP for functionality and regression testing
• Generated user defined re-useable actions for function library
• Performed data driven tests by parameterization and tested the application using various data sets
• Involved in testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with the development team for fixing the issues
• Performed functional, regression and data driven testing using QTP
• Enhanced the scripts by reusable actions, checkpoints, synchronization points, parameterization and modular tests in QTP
• Reported and tracked defects using Quality Center
• Participated in user acceptance testing before product release

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP, UNIX and Visual Source Safe.

Confidential - Chicago IL

QA Tester / QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed business requirement documentation (BRD) to gain understanding of POS implementation
• Participated in meetings with business analysts (BA) and developers to understand the scope of testing
• Involved in working with all phases of SDLC
• Created test plans, test scenarios and test cases for assigning modules as well as to verify the actual results against the expected results
• Performed smoke, functional, and integration testing and assisted in usability testing
• Actively involved in Positive and Negative testing to ensure the process is fully tested, including additional scenarios that may not be covered in test plans
• Executed test cases and logged defects using Quality center and tracked them to closure
• Performed validation of data using SQL queries
• Actively participated in functional requirements review meetings and weekly team meetings
• Worked closely with development team to make sure that the product met the required user specifications

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, SQL Server 2005, SQL Navigator, Toad and Java