SUMMARY

• Competent Software Tester with 8+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology.
• Extensive experience in QA/Testing Analyst offering full life - cycle experience Software quality assurance with a wide variety of projects and environments on Client-Server, ERP, Mainframes and Internet/Intranet environments on both Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Excellent experience working with Stakeholders, Business Analysts and the development team to understand the business and technical requirements of applications with QA Methodology to ensure good Quality Control.
• Experienced with supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers.
• Experienced in planning and executing System Integration, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficient in core Java and good experience in creating JUnit tests.
• Thorough in developing automation test scripts using Selenium.
• Experience in manual and automated testing of web based, middle tier and client server applications.
• Strong experience in testing applications in various line of business, mainly government, Insurance and e-Commerce industry
• Proficient in Unit, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance, System Deployment, GUI, and Smoke testing and SOA Web Services Testing.
• Strong leadership skills in managing QA project activities and workload, project test cycles, QA test resources.
• Support continuous improvement processes, analysing problems and recommending actions to resolve or improve.
• Strong knowledge in Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Experience with querying and analyzing data using SQL with Oracle and SQL Server
• Extensive experience in creating data extraction queries for gathering test data for back end data flow validations.
• Experience in performing business function tests at various stages of SDLC like build verification, Integration, System, User acceptance and Regression which includes Black box Positive and Negative testing.
• Intensive professional skills to be a team player with high level of energy as well as an individual contributor in manual testing as well as using test automation tools.
• Excellent Communication skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem solving ability, analytical and programming skills in high speed, quality conscious, Multitasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium, Web Driver, Rally, WinRunner, QTP.

Test Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA.

Web Technologies: C, C++, VB, .Net, Java, SOAP, HTML, DHTML.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Toad

Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000/XP,Unix, MS-DOS

Content Management systems: Episerver, Reddot, Immediacy, and Sitecore

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended the Business and Functional 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 formal and informal Peer Review meetings to discuss the Project Test Plan documentation.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix and conducted Test Readiness Sessions with business analysts to ensure all requirements are mapped.
• Wrote Test cases for Regression, System and Functional (Positive and Negative) testing.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform database testing.
• Procedures and functions for validating various test data for Functional testing.
• Extensively used Soap UI for Web services testing.
• Used REST client, and postman applications for testing Rest Web services.
• Extensively used Rally for defect reporting and tracking.
• Found some high severity functional bugs for which Oracle SR’s have been opened and this helped multiple projects.
• Thoroughly executed functional, regression, smoke and acceptance test cases and analyzed the test results.
• Automated the regression test suite using Selenium web driver and TestNG.
• Performed testing of the application on various browsers.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes acceptance testing, functionality testing, and regression testing of the Application.
• Worked as a team to set goals and achieve them.
• Involved with remote teams in India to discuss the issues / fixes.
• Highly customer oriented and thoroughly tested the application.
• Provided status reports regularly to the team during testing phase.
• Provided support to User Acceptance Testteam.
• Perform testing and validation of production tickets and issues.

Environment: Java, Web Services, Tomcat, Oracle 10.g, JDBC, Ajax, WSDL, SOAP, Rest, Linux, HTML, JavaScript, Eclipse, RAD, Rally, CSS

Confidential - Burbank, CA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented quality assurance processes, methodologies, test estimations, test plans, test cases to assure the delivery of high quality Content Protected Media products.
• Good knowledge on Agile Software Development Methodology.
• Implemented Selenium 1.0 automation framework using Junit/TestNG for various features.
• Provided active participation in various business, technical and sprint meetings.
• Proficient knowledge in Mobile Testing.
• Designed selenium web driver data driven automation frameworks using Java to pump huge data into application.
• Used JIRA for defect reporting and defect tracking.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes acceptance testing, functionality testing and regression testing of the Application.
• Involved with remote teams in India and worked as a team to achieve the goals.
• Performed testing of the application on various browsers.
• Thoroughly verified data integration by writing SQL queries.
• Tested credit card validation APIs using the SOAP UI.
• Mentored newly hired QA interns.

Environment: Agile, MySQL, Windows, Linux, Selenium, Java, SOAP, Maven, SVN, JIRA, Navicat, Bugzilla.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis and Risk Analysis of applications.
• Analyzed business requirements, module specific functionalities, identified testing requirements and formulated test plans.
• Documented and executed Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts based on baseline requirements.
• Performed positive and negative test cases to test the response of the application under test by creating Data Driven Tests.
• Involved in the Quality Assurance Activities and Testing of the Web application which was designed and developed for the application.
• Tracked defects, captured, managed and communicated through defect reports, changes and project issues using Remedy ticket tracking system.
• Interacted with users and conducted UAT effort.
• Weekly conducted status meetings and defect review meetings with test team.
• Reported periodic project status and updates to the QA Manager with the help of different test metrics. Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Attended Change Request (CR) meetings and updated Test Cases and Test Procedures to reflect those changes.

Environment: ASP.Net, C#, Java Script, VB Script, RUP, Windows XP, Oracle, TOAD, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, AJAX, Query Analyzer, Visual Source Safe, SnagIT.

Confidential

Lead test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Requirement Analysis, Developed Test plan and Test cases/Test Requirements as per the business requirements.
• Participated in Peer Review Process with the Project Team and Reviewed SRS/SDS and Test Strategy/Plan document.
• Converted Business requirements and design documentation into test design products Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Used Lotus notes and Quality Center to store Test Plans, Test Requirements, Test Scripts and for Defect tracking.
• Prepared requirements to test cases mapping (Requirements Traceability Matrix) to ensure the test cases cover all requirements
• Lead meetings between QA and development teams to resolve interface details
• Performed Requirement, Intersystem, End to End, External and Regression Testing and Verified data integration using SQL.
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to -follow defect reports, logged them into Defect tracking tool & QC monitored their progress and verified the fix.
• Liaised with Development, Business and UAT testing teams as necessary
• Involved with functional, structural, FAT, UAT, regression, performance and stress testing
• Conducted User Review Meetings for User Buyoffs on Test Results.
• Provided training to QA team members.

Environment: ASP .net, Windows XP, Oracle, HTML, XML,SQL, Bugtracker.net, Reddot, Epi server, sitecore.

Confidential

Software test engineer

Responsibilities:

• According to functional specification and requirements, documented the test plan.
• Created test requirements, test cases and link the test requirements with the test cases and designed the test steps.
• Prepared requirements to test cases mapping (Requirements Traceability Matrix) to ensure the test cases cover all requirements.
• Performed functional and regression testing.
• Performed Black box testing for functional flow of the application.
• Perform ad-hoc tests to uncover defects and log them.
• To retrieve the data from various tables and to test the database, wrote SQL queries.
• Performed positive and negative testing of the application for identification of bugs afterfixing of errors in each subsequent build during the process of development.
• Maintained test suite for regression testing.
• Executed the test cases, analyzed the test results and reported the bugs.
• Reported bugs to the development team and analyzed the actual and expected results.
• Used Bugzilla for bug reporting and tracking.
• Actively participated in Status reporting meetings and interacted with development teamto discuss the technical issues.
• Worked as a team to set goals and achieve them.

Environment: C++, UNIX, Oracle, SQL Loader, Bugzilla