SUMMARY:

• 8 years of Professional Experience in QA Testing (Manual &Automation) with solid understanding QA Principles & Testing Methodologies.
• Expert knowledge on complete life cycle of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Support.
• Experience working in Client/Server and Web Based applications
• Extensive experience working in Financial, Healthcare, Banking and Pharmaceutical applications.
• Highly Proficient in different types of testing like Functional, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Smoke & Sanity Testing, Exploratory Testing
• Experience working in an Agile Development environment.
• Having Good Knowledge on SDLC, STLC and Bug Life Cycle.
• Hands on experience in analyzing the high level requirements, developing User Stories, Test Plans, writing Test cases, creating RTM, building test data using Excel & SQL queries, testing & documenting issues and collaborating with development teams to resolve issues using tools like Quality Center.
• Conducted and Participated Standup Meetings with QA Team Members in Agile Environment, Iteration Planning and Team Retrospectives.
• Hands - on experience in Documentation of all Stages of Testing using QC.
• Coordinating with the Project Manager, IT BA and IT Developer for Test Case Review and Escalating risk that impact the Timelines and Deliverables.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills. Proficient in using MSOffice products (Word, Excel, MS Access). Experienced in planning, scheduling and coordinating tasks
• Responsible for defect management Using Quality Center and Atlassian Jira (defect logging, defect Tracking, Troubleshooting, Documentation, status updating and defect reports).
• Highly capable in analyzing the things as required and Expertise in identifying the solutions for complex requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem solving in Implementing Quality Assurances and Testing Methodologies for large enterprise and web applications.
• Motivated team member who enjoys sharing new ideas and mentoring other programmers.
• Highly capable in analyzing the things as required and Expertise in identifying the solutions for complex requirements, Excellent technical, communication and time management skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems:  Windows 95/98/2000/XP, UNIX

Web Development:  HTML, XML

Scripting Languages:  VBScript

Databases:  SQL Server 2008, 2005

Testing Tools:  Manual Testing, HP Quality Center, QTP, Basic JIRA

Test Strategies:  Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Integration, System, Regression Testing, User Acceptance, Smoke, Sanity, Black Box, White Box Testing.

Browsers:  IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari

Methodology:  Waterfall, Scrum Agile, SDLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional Testing by Understanding the Functionality, Requirements and Design Steps.
• Involved in analyzing and review database business and functional requirements, reviewed mapping transformations
• Designed and developed Test Plan and test cases based on the Functional Requirements specification.
• Involved in Functional Testing, System Testing and Unit Testing.
• Involved in Integration Testing, UAT, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing, UI Testing and Regression Testing.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing on Virtual Machines.
• Performed creating issue, Reporting and Tracking the issues using Jira.
• Participated in BRD Review Meetings and IAT New Development Weekly Demos.
• Participated in Triage Meetings to discuss the bugs and priority of issue.
• Worked Closely with Developers to isolate and reproduce the Bugs.
• Involved in Testing the Web application both manually and automation using Selenium Framework.
• Designed, Developed and Maintained Automation Scripts Using Selenium Web driver.
• Involved in creating and updating the Function Driven Automated Framework Using Selenium Web Driver with Java .
• Created complex SQL Queries to validate donor’s information on different DB’s by joining more than 6 tables from different data bases.
• Created and maintained defects using Jazz, Jira and reported to the development team
• Responsible to work with Business Analysts and Users in completing the UAT
• Worked in Agile environment. Attended daily stand up and iteration planning meetings.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts to clarify the requirement specifications.
• Participated in weekly status meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications and submitted the status report.

Environment: Windows7, SQL Server Management Studio, Sybase, Java, Jazz, Business Objects Data Integrator, Oracle 11g, Jira.

 Confidential,CA 

Team Member - Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Updating QA status with business team on daily basis
• Carried out all the testing related activities like preparing test data, design & executing the test scripts, evaluating the bug status & preparing the bug reports.
• Following up on defects with development team
• Defect management involving preparation of Defect Report (DR) status verification.
• Participation in self and peer reviews.
• Involved in daily, weekly project status meetings.
• Involved in identification of focus areas for Maintenance releases.
• Involved in Analysis of Issue to Trouble Report conversion for the test cycle.
• Issue resolution and clarifying the Trouble Reports with Customer/Onsite counterparts.
• Analyzed system requirement and business requirement documents and provided the Effort Estimation
• Involved in Testing the Web application using Selenium Automation Framework.
• Responsible to run automated test scripts for Smoke and Regression test in lower environments.
• Created and maintained defects using Test Track and reported to the development team
• Responsible to work with Business Analysts and Users in completing the UAT
• Worked in Agile environment. Attended daily stand up and iteration planning meetings.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts to clarify the requirement specifications.
• Participated in weekly status meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications and submitted the status report.
• Creation of documentation such as Test Strategies, Master and Component Test Plans, Test Scripts (Cases), Test Execution Guides, Status, Defect and other Reports
• Participated in the creation, distribution and walkthrough of software test cases, test scripts and other documents surrounding testing activities and ensure that all testing activities and deliverables are conducted/produced in compliance with company standards
• Used HP Quality Center for Test Case management, Test Case executions, Defect Tracking and Reporting Test progress to the Project management teams.
• Creation of Automated Test suites for the Smoke Tests and Regression Test using SELENIUM
• Created user defined functions to reduce the redundant code and enhanced the scripts.

Environment: C#, Windows7, SQL Server Management Studio, Test track, Selenium Web Driver, Visual Studio 2010.

Confidential, CA

Automation QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Automation Regression Test Suite (develop, maintain & run) Functional testing, Inter system testing, Defect coordination, Test Status, User Acceptance Testing(UAT) and signoff for monthly releases with respect to functionality as a   QA .
• Attended the Business Requirement Document (BRD) review meetings conducted by BA team to better understand the application functionality and to gather Functional requirement Document (FRD) to create the Test Plan and Test Scenarios.
• Involved in Creating and executing the Test Cases based on Business Requirement Documents.
• Involved in Functional Testing, System Testing and Unit Testing.
• Involved in Integration Testing, UAT, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing, UI Testing and Regression Testing.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing on Virtual Machines.
• Performed creating issue, Reporting and Tracking the issues using Jira.
• Participated in BRD Review Meetings and IAT New Development Weekly Demos.
• Participated in Triage Meetings to discuss the bugs and priority of issue.
• Worked Closely with Developers to isolate and reproduce the Bugs.
• Involved in Testing the Web application both manually and automation using Selenium Framework.
• Designed, Developed and Maintained Automation Scripts Using Selenium Web driver.
• Involved in creating and updating the Function Driven Automated Framework Using Selenium Web Driver with Java . .
• Developed automation scripts for Production Smoke Test and scheduled automation run for every night on Production. Provided the report on automation results.
• Ran Automated Scripts for Regression Test and reviewed Automation results and provided the Report.
• Extensively worked on developing, reviewing and execution of Scripts on various builds to validate functionality of application in Agile Environment.

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, TestNg, Java, Jenkins, MongoDB, Groovy/Grails, Jira.

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed business test scenarios based on Requirements Documents/ Functional.
• Designed and developed Test Plan and test cases based on the Functional Requirements specification.
• Coordinating with Business partners and Developments as early as Project Initiation Phase to understand the high level business needs.
• Development of Test Plans and Test cases for Manual as well as QTP Testing.
• Work with other QA team members in the strategy and setup of tests.
• Tested application as per business requirements.
• Performed various type of testing like Functional testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Smoke Testing and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Technical writing of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in writing SQL queries to retrieve the data and checked the validity of data in the backend DB2 tables.
• Responsible for created, tracked, reviewed, analyzed, stored test data and compared using Quality Canter.
• Performed UAT Testing and interacted with Business people.
• Report all the test report and bugs in Quality center.
• Daily interacts with the Developers and Business Analyst to clarify the requirement specifications and change requests.
• Participated in weekly status meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications and submitted the status report.

Environment: VB.Net, Windows XP, DB2, Quality Canter, QTP, Oracle 9i.

Confidential, Allen TX 

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test planning, test strategy and effort estimation. Allocated work among the team accordingly.
• Performed activities related to Test Planning, Test Case Scenario, Test Case Designing, Test Scheduling, Test Estimation, Test Execution, Defect Tracking.
• Involved in Daily stand up meetings, Story review meetings throughout the project.
• Acted as a Business Analyst to gather the Test requirements and developed Test Scenario Documents.
• Created RTM and mapped the stories to the Test cases.
• Documenting defects and working with Developer to resolve defects
• Worked with MS Word, Excel, Access, HP Quality Center, and Microsoft SQL.
• Conducted manual exploration testing to proactively identify the issues and bugs with the web sites.
• Developed manual test scripts.
• Established Traceability across requirements, test scripts and defects in Quality Center to maintain traceability and to track requirements testing status.
• Performed Smoke testing in the Test Environment prior to test execution.
• Gathered testing status from Quality Center and create status reports from Analysis charts and reports.
• Documented test information, test data, bug reports, test results in Quality center

Environment: Windows 7, Windows 8, MAC, MS SQL, HP Quality Centre, Manual Testing, Bugzilla, Zendesk, Ace project, Visual Source Safe.