PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Expertise in Black Box testing.
• Experience with creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases.
• Involved in System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Security Testing, GUI Testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance (UAT) testing.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Participated in Daily Stand Up meeting in Agile methodology .
• Participated in Sprint Planning for User Story Estimation and User Story selection.
• Participated in Retrospective Meeting after every Sprint to discuss the Hindrances and Accomplishments.
• Extensively interacted with Stakeholders, Deveolpers and Business Analyst.
• Worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Utilized Quality center 10.0 for defects tracking, analyzing, documenting and communication
• Experience in testing applications in Banking, HealthCare and Insurance sectors
• Use of the Bug tracking tool BugZilla, Jira, Jama,ClearQuest, Quality Center to manage the Software testing process
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as SQLServer and MS - Access
• Experience in SQL DML, DDL and DCL statements, TOAD 10 interface to database
• Used SQL Queries to ensure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Proficient with tools such as MS Office, Visual Source Safe, CVS.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Good organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management: QualityCentre10.0,Jama4.2.7

Programming Language: Visual Basic, Java, SQL, C, C++, SQL*Plus

Scripting Languages: TSL, VBScript, Java Script

Web Technologies: ASP 2.0/3.0, HTML, DHTML, XML,UML

Application Software: MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint and MS Outlook, Lotus Notes

Databases: Oracle 8i/8.0/7.x, MS SQL Server, MS-Access, Toad

Web servers: IIS, Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere,Unix

Protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, TCP/IP

Bug Tracking Tools: Bug Zilla 2.18.2,IBM Rational Clear Quest7.1.1.3, Quality Center 10.0,Jama 4.2.7,Jira 6.0.8

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Deloitte

Responsibilities

• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements, developing theTest Plan, Test ScriptsandTest Cases.
• Involved in performingGAP Analysisto verify that test cases matches to the user requirements and reported Defects inJIRA
• Identified Test Data for different Scenarios in Eligibility and Enrollment
• Derived and developed Functional, Regression Test Casesfrom Use Cases and Test Scenarios and Executed the Test Cases
• Participated in requirement and design meetings and hosted Test case review meetings.
• Involved in testing every new build manually Sanity Testing/Smoke Testing and reported if the most important functionality of the build failed
• Involved in Integration testing after integrating the different units
• Performed Browser Compatibility Testing on Different Browsers Like Safari, Fire Fox, Chrome IE 8,IE 9
• Documented and reported the bugs using JAMA/JIRA and provided the management with key metrics.
• Actively Identified User Acceptance Test Scenarios and Executed UAT Test cases on the application.
• Coordinated with Developers for Defect analysis and performedRegression Testing
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the bug life cycle using Jira
• Attendeddaily/weeklymeetings with developers, application managers, and business partners to discuss upcoming software releases and test cycle results
• Actively participated in all stages ofSDLCandSTLCand Actively participated inDefect life cycle

Environment Spring 3.x, Hibernate, Core Java, J2EE,JSP, Struts, Corticon, DB2, TOAD, Web sphere, JavaScript, JSON, Html,, CSS, JunitJama 4.2.7, Jira 6.0.8

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities

• Participating in Daily stand up Scrum meeting (Agile Methodology) and reporting daily status and progress to the Scrum master on my task status.
• Participated in Preparing Detail Test Plan (DTP) for a 2 week Sprint.
• Responsible for executing the validation plan and methodology for validation
• Built Scenarios and wrote Test cases for each user story based upon acceptance criteria.
• Performed Smoke and Sanity Test when the build is deployed for the Sprint
• Performed Integration Testing on application to determine if it functions as expected after Integrated
• Performed Functional Testing and GUI Testing
• Regression Testing after fixes or modifications
• Tracked and logged Defects using IBM Rational Clear Quest
• Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs, as they got resolved.
• Performed Break fixes for Defects in production
• Worked on RTM(Requirement Traceability Matrix) in share point to fill the gap between the Requirements and Test cases
• Executed and Documented the Teat cases and Test Results.
• Worked on Scheduler to Scheduled Monthly or Weekly Batch Jobs to generate Reports on High Risk patients
• Identified the Test data to Validate the Test Results for the Reports generated
• Have assisted the Automation team for creating the Test Bed for Keyword Driven Frame Work. And Data Driven Frame work.
• Have closely worked with the End Users (Horizon Blue cross Blue Shield Nurses) to understand their Requirement Needs in Walk through Meetings.
• Participated in Daily Scrum Meetings, Requirement Walk through Meetings, Bug Review Meetings, Sprint Planning, Retrospective Meetings

Environment- IE-8, Windows XP, Java Version 1.5 (Runtime) / Java 5, Spring 3.0.5, Hibernate 3.5.0, SQL Server-Toad10, WebSphere Application Server 7, Clear Quest7.1.1.3

Confidential, Franklin Lakes NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Participating in Daily stand up Scrum meeting (Agile Methodology) and reporting daily status to Scrum master on my task status.
• Review requirements participate in design walkthrough meetings.
• Used Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology to Understand the Use Cases in detail to create Test scenarios
• Closely worked with Product owner for the approvals of Test Deliverables.
• Processed Point of Sale (POS) claims in Customer Information Control System(CICS) for Retail and Mail claims
• Provide/define data prep requirements.
• Creating & Recognizing Test Data to write test cases
• Done Extensive rule based Functional testing and created Boundary value Test cases.
• Traceability Matrix Management and Obtain approvals.
• Executing the test cases and identifying bugs.
• Reporting the bugs to the developers using in house Project Management tool.
• Participating in Bug Review meeting with Developers & BA.
• Update QA daily status reports and weekly reports.
• Participated in preparing Regression test suite and done extensive Regression Testing.
• Performed Smoke and Sanity Testing.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing.
• Participate in Retrospective meeting after the end of each Sprint to discuss the short comings.
• In the “Scrum team” as a tester I am responsible to perform comprehensive Functional testing in order to pass the “Quality Gate.
• In each Sprint my responsibility as a Tester is to test the application thoroughly and deliver defect-free product.

Environment- IE-8, Mainframe - Rumba Version 6.1, DB2, Pega

Confidential, Health Highway CA

SQA Engineer

Responsibilities

• Created and implemented test plans and test scripts based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Analyzed Business requirements and Functional requirements.
• Effectively implemented QA methodologies, strategies and plans all stages of STLC.
• Worked on HL7 interface integration testing(UI)to ensure that information is able to flow correctly between applications.
• Worked on HL7 interface system testing(UI)- end-to-end scenario testing to ensure all modules of all applications are able to integrate correctly.
• Performed Security Testing to ensure the Data transferred to other Heath Care facilities is Accessed by only Authorized personnel
• Involved in the creation of test plan, test cases and test procedures required for Testing.
• Using Quality Center to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases using Quality center.
• Used Quality Center as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects using Quality center.
• Writing validation queries using SQL.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them.
• Actively participated in Status reporting meetings and interacted with development team to discuss the technical issues.
• Conducted result analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.

Environment: Visual Basic6.0, oracle 10g, windows XP/NT, Quality center 10.0.

Confidential, San Bruno, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested the application for cross browser compatibility on IE, Mozilla and Fire fox.
• Extensive experience in creating, executing and helping clients for UAT Testing.
• Attended user meetings communicated with the teams.
• Participated in Stand up meetings to update the tasks in Scrum Meeting in Agile methodology.
• Interaction with the Product owner to discuss the functionality of application and performance issues.
• Analyzing existing environment with available documentation and application.
• Preparing Test Plan / Test Cases for Integration and System Testing
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Used the SQL’s and verified the SQL Server database for the purpose of data verification.
• To run the SQL queries using TOAD
• Executing Test Cases and Bug Reporting using BugZilla2.18.2
• Carried out Regression testing and System Integration Testing
• Carried out Positive and Negative testing.
• Creation and maintenance of Test Reports & Test Data
• Review and analysis of Client Requirements
• Extensively interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and end users to test according to their requirements.
• Involved in Black Box testing, System testing Integration testing, Regression testing, Acceptance testing and Functional testing
• Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document
• Testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Performed GUI, Functionality and Backend Testing.
• Executing Test Cases and Bug Reporting using Jira 3.0
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing.
• Involved in weekly meeting and walkthroughs for project status and updates.
• Detected bottleneck defects and implemented a plan to handling the bottlenecks

Environment: HTML, Java script, VB Script, Oracle, Windows XP, IE, Jira 3.0, HTTP/HTTPS.