SUMMARY

• Motivated and enthusiastic professional with six plus years of experience in software quality assurance software testing in various industries including financial, healthcare, SRM and government solutions industries
• Seeking to pursue a permanent or consulting position to contribute the value of my diverse technical, business acumen and professional experience in analyzing business requirements/ user story, creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Test Log, Bug documentation, and Test Summary Report.
• Solid knowledge of all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall model, and Agile/SCRUM development methodologies.
• Experience in testing standalone, client - server, web-based and database related application.
• Well versed with Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, and User Acceptance Testing
• Expertise in analyzing requirements documents and design documents to develop system test plan, and test cases.
• Expertise in conducting peer reviews, technical reviews and procedure walkthrough.
• Experience in bug tracking and bug reporting using JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Experience in manual and automated testing using industry standard tools HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), SOAP UI, and Selenium
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintain detail QA documentation.
• Proven skills in Quality Assurance, Software Testing and System Verification and Validation.
• Experience in SRM, SAP, E-Banking and E-flow software, Budget, Fund Management, and Records Management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in 508 Testing using JAWS and WAVE
• Organized, attention to detail, able to manage multiple projects and meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills with the ability to co-ordinate activities in a fast paced team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Languages: SQL, Java

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

Database Verification Tool: SQL Plus, TOAD

Technology: SQL, JAVA

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Test Management and Defect Tracking tools: JIRA, Quality Center, ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alexenderia, VA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translate user and/or system requirements into functional testing strategies and test conditions
• Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to gather and analyze Business Requirement Document, Use Case, and Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
• Work closely with development and product management teams to establish test strategies, test cases, execute tests, and provide feedback to both developers and end users.
• Identify and facilitate issue resolution with functional and technical groups.
• Develop comprehensive system test plan.
• Test 508 compliance for disable people using Jaws and Wave.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all approved requirements.
• Perform functional testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Collaborates with project team members or customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions.
• Work closely with the testing and development team on daily basis to maintain the frequent builds that are being pushed on stage and make sure each builds are being tested accurately.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Identify, confirm, report and manage defects through resolution using HP ALM.
• Design and developed UAT test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Coordinate UAT testing activities with the testing team, development team and the stakeholders.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using JIRA.
• Develop and execute SQL query for backend/ database testing.
• Involved in Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, and ensuring accuracy.
• Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the business requirements are signed off.
• Develop automation scripts in Java using Selenium Web Driver.
• Prepare project related presentations and provide progress reports to the higher management and stakeholders using MS Office.

Environment: SQL Developer, Selenium, HP ALM, JAWS, WAVE, JIRA, MS Project, MS Office.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Planning, scheduling, executing, and reporting tests to validate functionality of new features.
• Participate in test plan and test case reviews, maintain testing issues lists and follow up as necessary.
• Participated in project sprint planning, execution, testing and releases on Scrum methodology.
• Build test scenarios and test cases to determine the system meets all approved requirements.
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional and Regression Testing, and Security Testing.
• Worked closely with the Systems team, Business Analyst, Developers and UI team to resolve the requirement issues, deployment issues, and change management issues.
• Responsible for reporting of risks, impediments, sprint and release progress.
• Coordinate with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in the application during testing.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Manually tested data from High level to detail level during verifications.
• Create and execute SQL queries to fetch data from Oracle database to validate the user interface (UI).
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.

Environment: J2EE, Quality Center, JIRA, Microsoft Office, UNIX, ORACLE.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in executing and verifying of Test Cases and Procedure.
• Review User and System Requirement Specification and developed Test Plan and Test Cases and Procedures.
• Manually performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries.
• Assist in writing user stories, develop test cases and identify acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Functionality Testing, Database testing, Performance testing etc.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
• Regularly interacted with Developers, Business Analyst and Users.
• Created the Regression Test Cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing.
• Involved in end-to-end system testing.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitored defect status.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity and performed Database Testing for the application.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.

Environment: XML, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP

Confidential

Financial Analyst / QA

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the payment on time and accurate payments of private payments, foreign payment, overseas &advance settlement and reclaiming of VAT. SRM, SAP and Electronic Banking Software.
• Smoothly arranged all logistics support for Finance department like Departmental meetings, Audit Committee, Risk Management Committee, Regional Audit, workshops, LOS and other programs as per expectation
• Worked closely with project manager, stakeholders and business analyst to define: test scope, gap analysis, risk analysis, and test dependency.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
• Worked closely with the stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements.

Environment: SAP, SRM, SVN, UNIX, JIRA, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL