SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of experience as Automation/Manual QA/Software Tester with involvement throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QTP on various operating systems and platforms using top leading testing tools HP Quality Center (QC, ALM), SQL and QTP.
• Experienced in Quality Assurance & Software Testing with over 6 years performing Manual Testing using industry leading tools in Web applications and Client/Server environment
• Expertise in using HP Quality Center (QC, ALM) & Jira for Test, Defect Management
• Deep understanding and involvement throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and intense development methodologies - Waterfall, Agile.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) based upon the business and functional requirements, Use Case, User Stories, RFP (Request for Proposals), Environment Infrastructure Design, Framework Design, User Guides on Automation Tools and ALM.
• In-depth knowledge of executing Structured Query Language (SQL) using SQL queries for Backend Testing against SQL Server and Oracle Databases
• Involved in maintaining Test Results, Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing Gap Analysis
• Leading experience in organizing Walkthroughs with Developers, Business Analyst, Project Managers, Service Matter Experts and other teams.
• Experienced in reporting bugs & UI flows using Defects tracking tools such as HP Quality Center (QC, ALM), and Jira
• Good documentation and Process Management skills with ability to effectively understand Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirement (FRD), Flow Chart to develop quality QA Artifacts and product.
• Effective Time Management Skills and consistent ability to meet client/business deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team player with the ability to lead manage and work independently in a time sensitive environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS Windows XP Professional, Vista, 7 & 8Testing Tools: ALM, HP Quality Center (QC), JIRA, SQL and Selenium

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel, Visio, Citrix

Databases: SQL, Oracle

Languages: .NET, SQL, Visual Basic, C#

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Performed Functional, White Box, Black Box, System, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Used HP Quality Center & JIRA for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Managed weekly meetings with the QA team to obtain status, gather innovative ideas for continuous process improvements and delegate work load.
• Collaborated with Business System Analysts and internal stakeholders to create test scenarios.
• Attended use case and technical specifications review sessions with product and architecture teams to provide feedback in the elaboration phase.
• Created test plans outlining the scope, approach, schedule, resources and deliverables.
• Developed test case template and implement the template within the testing team to write test cases in a systemic basis.
• Identified testing methodology for load, stress testing based on the business processes and analyzed the business requirements along with Product Manager.
• Inserted and configured manual correlation to handle dynamic data into script including unique session value.
• Configured Ramp Up, Ramp Down, and calculate proper duration of the propose Load test.
• Administered the Load Test and Analyze test result using LR analysis to pin point the bottle neck and reported to development team.
• Generated daily status reports, weekly reports, defect reports and testing summary Reports.
• Maintained professional and close relation with the peer members as well as other teams.

Environment: Quality Center (QC), Quick Test Professional (QTP), .Net, Windows NT, SQL, MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle.

Confidential, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the lower level business requirements from higher-level functional business requirements.
• Involved in development of Test Plan and Test Specifications as per clients business requirements.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test case for System Testing.
• Manually checked the important features of the application before going for automation testing.
• Created Object checkpoints to verifying object physical properties on various builds for regression tests using QTP
• Updated Object Repository to make the change propagated across all scripts that reference the changed objects.
• Validated the data in the database using database checkpoints.
• Created standard, Text, Bitmap Checkpoints to verifying object physical properties on various builds for regression tests using Quick Test Pro.
• Reported and tracked testing progress in the bug tracking system Test Director.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Troubleshoot new releases and production issues.
• Performed data driven tests using Quick Test Pro’s Data Table (an integrated spreadsheet), manipulated the Data set to create multiple Test Scenarios, and imported data into Data Tables from a Database using SQL queries to check the application’s Database consistency and in and out flow of data.
• Participated in QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.

Environment: ASP.Net, Broad Vision, SQL Server, Windows NT, QTP, Regression Testing, Jira, MS Office.

Confidential, KY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system Requirements specification & Functional requirements specifications to understand Business rules of Application.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
• Performed HP Quality Center (QC) Administrative & Project Customization as per request from PMs
• Wrote Test Cases, tracked Bugs and created Reports using HP Quality Center (QC)
• Reported Defects using HP Quality Center (QC) and followed up with developers to discuss updates about Defects Status and Regression Testing
• Conducted Manual and Regression Testing for each Build and Version
• Wrote Structure Query Language (SQL) queries to check proper data population in application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against Oracle Database
• Conducted Functionality & Cross-Browsing Testing for checking GUI, web forms, links and transaction verifications, and as well in the back-end Databases
• Used SQL queries to write stored procedures, Joins, Functions, Views for Backend testing System

Environment: Windows 7, Windows XP, Quality Center 10,Jira, ALM, QC, SQL

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual testing.
• Analyzed Functional Requirement & High level Design documents to Prepare and execute the test cases and end-end scenarios.
• Performed functional, regression, UAT, cross browser testing in different operating systems like windows, Unix and Mac.
• Conducted regular reviews to enhance the test cases.
• Involved in Run test Plan, Test cases & Test Execution.
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Quality centre.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports.
• Mostly Focused on Regression Testing.
• Supported technical issues for the product, post go live.
• Participated in all review meetings.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings, sprint planning meeting and retrospective meeting.

Environment: C# .net, Asp .net, MSSQL, Quality center, MS-Office, UNIX, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Agile.