SUMMARY

• A Software Quality Assurance specialist with about 7+ years of experience
• Extensive knowledge of quality assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using waterfall testing methodologies
• Experience in documenting and executing test cases manually to ensure proper business compliance
• Comprehensive knowledge of the techniques of software application testing and end - to-end system testing
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC phase of testing, validation of functional components, and tracking defects
• Good understanding in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Compatibility, System, Stress and User Acceptance (UAT) testing of web and client/server applications
• Good exposure on Bug Life Cycle
• Well versed in the process and techniques of software defect logging and tracking
• Expertise in converting requirement documents to test cases and implementing Manual Testing Process based on the test plans and test cases
• Good knowledge of structured testing methodologies, testing tools and full testing life cycle including design and development of test plans, test cases and test objectives
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Experience using Hp Quality Center, and Jira for tracking bugs
• Familiar with QTP for automation Testing
• Ability to quickly master new concepts, applications, and manage multiple tasks with shifting priorities and timeframes
• Ability to accept and promote a culture of continuous learning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Rational Robot, Silk Test

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director, Clear Quest, Jira

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/NT/ XP/7/VISTA, UNIX, MSDOS

Languages: SQL, XML

Databases: Oracle 11g, MS Access, SQL

Miscellaneous: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software QA Tester

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Environment: Manual Testing, JAVA, VB, Oracle, Rational Clear Quest, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Handle the tasks of designing test cases and strategies by gathering and reviewing business requirements
• Involved in creating Test procedures and the development of the system Test plan
• Develop Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functionality, Stress and Regression Testing
• Perform test case preparation, execution, defect logging and tracking in quality center using test plan, test lab and defects modules respectively
• Handle the tasks of providing directions in peer review to ensure that the product deliverables meet the deadline
• Responsible for conducting integration and regression testing under the guidelines of senior staff
• Interface with the developers to resolve technical issues and investigate software bugs
• Perform execution of the test cases manually to verify the expected results
• Perform Configuration Testing, Usability Testing, and Functionality Testing
• Interact with Business Analysts/Developers for collecting requirements
• Import requirements, test cases from Word to Quality Center
• Accurately monitor and record results in test documentation

QA Tester

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Environment: WinRunner/LoadRunner, HTML, Java, Oracle, Quick Test Pro,UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with management and the client’s business analysts for obtaining business requirements and translating the requirements to development specifications
• Prepared Manual Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the Application under test
• Tested software to identify and resolve problems from an end users perspective
• Participated in co-ordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Executed test cases manually and verified actual results against expected results.
• Involved in Regression testing and System testing.
• Manually tested the GUI for this Point of sale Application.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Participated in weekly team meetings, where test status and defects were discussed.
• Conducted Functional, Integration and Security testing.
• Maintained test metrics and bug database and generated monthly reports
• Analyzed, wrote reports & communicated results to colleagues & managers
• Tested Reports functionality and result applying Business rules with estimated Results
• Used a shared drive on the network to track and log the defects.

Software QA Tester

Confidential, Warwick, RI

Environment: ASP 3.0, SQL server 2000, IIS 5.0, Windows 2000 server, Silk test, Silk performer, Test

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the specifications and requirements to develop the use cases
• Involved in project planning, co-ordination and implementation of QA methodologies, also participated in meetings to discuss the enhancement and modification request issues
• Drafted test strategies, and test cases based on functional specifications
• Tested developed software against specified requirements
• Manually tested the flow of the application functionality.
• Performed user acceptance testing on the web site to determine the ease of use of the web site
• Conducted Regression Testing of the time tracking application to verify the defect-fix.
• Batch testing was performed to play back test against new, untested versions of the application to identify application defects.
• Did manual testing for the back end database.
• Performed performance, stress and load testing using silk performer.
• Created and reported defects using bug tracking using Test Director
• Responsible for maintaining test matrix and traceability matrix

Software QA Tester

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Environment: Java, Mercury (WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director), Unix, SQL, Oracle, HTML, and Clear Case

Responsibilities:

• Determined test strategies based on requirements
• Developed test cases
• Performed smoke test and basic functionality tests manually.
• Prepared pre-conditioned data for testing the application.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, Security and Regression testing manually.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Test Director.
• Manual Testing was done to perform functional testing on the User interface.
• Responsible for weekly status, Updated showing the Progress of the automation testing effort.
• Involved in manual testing of applications on Windows and UNIX environment.
• Applied Configuration Management and version control of related documentation
• Managed the manual testing of the reporting solutions in the UNIX environment.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an ORACLE database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.

Software QA Tester

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Environment: JAVA, VB, Oracle, Rational Clear Quest, UNIX.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business processes and functional requirements
• Involved in the design of Test Plan
• Developed Test Cases based on business requirements
• Performed end-to-end manual testing of the application
• Involved in System and User Acceptance testing
• Conducted Performance Testing to ensure the appropriate response time of the application
• Conducted GUI and functionality testing
• Identified, reported and tracked defects using Test Director
• Organized daily defect meetings with developers and other team members to resolve the explored defects and to update the application status
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused Confidential making the application more reliable