OBJECTIVE:
Seeking as QA Software Testing position in both Front End and Back End Testing with Agile Testing experience.

HIGH LEVEL QA SUMMARY

Solutions-focused Quality Assurance (QA) professional with 4 years of progressively responsible experience involving business analysis, QA reviews, product testing, evaluation, and issue resolution. Results-oriented leader with an extensive background coordinating major QA and testing projects, defining key deliverables, establishing milestones, and overseeing multidisciplinary team members. Possess a solid history of success in delivering projects ahead of schedule and under budget while dramatically improving quality of products. Consistent track record of developing and implementing highly effective business process improvements, increasing overall efficiency, and meeting or exceeding end user requirements.

Analytical and Administrative Strengths:

• Business Process Modeling
• Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Issue Identification and Evaluation
• Solutions Development and Execution
• Workflow and Efficiency Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to multi-task
• Regression and Performance Testing
• Functional, System, and Negative Testing
• Team Building and Management
• Customer and End User Support
• SQL, UNIX, Shell programming
• Agile, Waterfall project methodology
• Strong analytical skills

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Platforms: UNIX, Linux, Windows (NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista), Macintosh, MS-DOS.
• Programming languages: SQL, HTML, UNIX/Linux shell, PL/SQL, XML.
• Database systems: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
• Web Server : IBM Web sphere, Data power(IBM), Weblogic
• Networking: SS7 signaling & protocols, TCP/IP
• Defect-tracking software: JIRA, Mercury Quality Centre
• Tools and Utilities: MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Exchange , Accurev, Toad

Education

• Confidential. University,
• Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ June 2011 to Present 
QA Analyst
Domain: Insurance
Project Description: 
Confidential Auto Insurance application to gather insured information to get claims from JAVA based front end talking with web server to application server to Oracle database to gather all information with multiple screens.

• Audited Business & functional necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.
• Participated in implementing test-plans and test-cases built on high-leveled and detailed design.
• Broadly performed manual testing, constraints verification tastings, and functional testing.
• Involved in the Test Case walkthroughs and assessment meetings.
• Cooperated and performed with development group to resolve difficulties encountered in a test execution.
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle Test databases.
• Involved in audit meetings and received initiative to reach QA testing goals.
• Utilized Test Director to perform a test plan, track executions against plan throughout testing and handle faults from start to resolution.
• Followed up with standard software testing life cycle (STLC) to perform different types of testing for various projects
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing, and Regression testing, on different versions of the application.
• Participated in meetings with client to present future functionality of the application in order to collect information to learn about their need and send this information to the test manager
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.

ConfidentialMarch 2009 to September 2010
Software QA Analyst
Domain: Finance
Project Description: 
Testing of unsubscribed user data removed from Batch Process for Confidential to obtain better performance of application for temporary UNIX based data storage external database transformation. Set up data for Test Cases and data validation using UNIX, SQL, and basic Shell Script.

• Interacted with Business Team, Business Requirement Gaps Analysis, Customer Experience and Impact Analysis of application.
• Developed strong Testing strategy including Test Environment set up and identified needs for testing for each release.
• Gathered LOE of project with Project Planning department and identified resource allocation based on assigned project.
• Worked with Business team in Kick Off meeting for each project to identify basic functionalities, customer expectation, ROI and Testing involvement of Testing.
• Contributed to and monitored test planning, test preparation and scripting, and tested execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures.
• Interfaced regularly with peers and management regarding test related topics including the coordination of test related initiatives with QA Test Leads, Project Managers, Development Managers, and other QA Core team members.
• Assessed risk to quality service based upon results of verification and validation. Monitored adherence to established test standards and procedures. Standardized QA Process using Testing Methodology, Process Improvement.
• Participated in both internal and external process improvement projects like QA, SIT, UAT Testing with business & Marketing and External Vendors team.
• Provided QA consultation services to support users of related test processes.
• Managed verification and validation activities for production modifications in production enhancement, interact with user, involved in automation of health check of application.
• Involved in back End testing with use of UNIX utilities in testing to find data validation using awk, grep, sed, cut, vi editor, wc –l, etc.
• Ability to multi-task effectively, excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to fine details
• Participated in all phases of the IT Project Delivery Framework, including review of complex business and functional requirements.
• Maintained document template libraries and internal project documentation like QA Test Plan, Local procedure, QA Test Results,etc
• Organized and/or facilitated team member training sessions in each new application to implement process.
• Strong Project Management skills including Test planning with LOE, test estimation and resource plans, and test environment set up.
• Knowledge of relational databases like Oracle Database 11g to validate data testing in back end using complicated SQL script using Oracle functions.

Confidential October 2007 to February 2009
Software QA Analyst
Domain: Health Care
Project Description: 
Involved in Testing of Real-Time application for Confidential with JAVA based Front End to locate Hospital, Doctor with all requests to pre-defined database to maintain and obtain information with application log validation with UNIX server using UNIX Utilities.

• Involved in the creation of test plan, test cases, and test procedure required for manual testing and to initiate automated testing.
• Performed different kind of testing such as Functional testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Involved in the modification of the existing scripts parameterization of the new as well as existing scripts.
• Manually performed GUI and Functionality testing of the Application front end using testing methodology.
• Attended weekly meeting with team leads, manager, and developers to discuss the issues encountered during the creation of the test cases/scripts.
• Used Test Director as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing.
• Tested the application with agile development processes and in an iterative development environment.
• Created DB Queries using SQL, manually tested them, and documented them in the test plan in order to test the Excel Based Application.
• Used Microsoft Excel sheets to create a Traceability Matrix and the Test Matrix, which provided an accurate database of the bugs and helped estimate and analyze the development process.
• Developed back end process validation using UNIX Utilities like awk, grep, sed., and validate results.
• Used Test Director to analyze, track and report defects. Worked on uploading all the Test cases to the Test Director for the current and prior releases.
• Performed Defect Root Cause Analysis, interacted with related Team, and tracked defects in a Test Director.
• Performed impact analysis and executed test scenario with Regression Testing.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews, and participated in QA meetings.
• Involved in change control at each new changes by discussing impact of current functionality, release notes, and preparation for production launch.
• Adhered to established standards and methodologies. Utilized tools and methodologies to improve individual effectiveness and to increase efficiencies in the QA process.
• Developed and sustained appropriate relationship with peers and other project team members.