SUMMARY

• Having 5+ years of experience as a Software QA Analyst in Information Technology Industry.
• Diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, Manual Testing, Automated Testing using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and Load Runner.
• Experience in software analysis, Quality Assurance (QA) testing of Web, Client/Server, and Mainframe application.
• Involved in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from Inception, Transformation to Execution, which includes Design, Development, and Implementation.
• Good Understanding in Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury Interactive tools
• Proficient in writing and analyzing Business/ System Requirements documents and Use Cases, preparing Test Logs and Summary Reports
• Excellent Knowledge in Black Box and White Box testing
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plans, Test Cases, Defect Tracking.
• Experience in performing Integration, System, Stress, Regression, Comparison, Recovery, Performance, Security, Smoke, Failure Point and User Acceptance tests.
• Expertise in GAP analysis and developing Traceability Matrices, and implementation of best QA practices
• Strong ability to understand and document critical data through effective data collection, data analysis and data interpretation
• Utilized root cause analysis to easily, quickly and efficiently rearrange business ideas and processes into logical groupings
• Worked closely with product management and engineering to enforce QA processes and policies.
• Exposure in writing SQL statements to extract data from databases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Load Runner

Applications: HP Quality Center ALM

Operating system: Windows, UNIX, LINUX

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle, MySQL

Database tools: My SQL, TOAD

Tracking Tools: Atlassian Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Meet client/SME to understand Application requirement and prepare master test plan.
• Perform a proof of concept for a new project and present reports to client.
• Identify critical and important functionality and script using HP Load Runner 11.5.
• Enhancing, Modifying and validating new scripts including correlation and parameterization.
• Execute tests and identify issues during performance tests.
• Preparing Automation test scripts for regression testing using UFT 11.50.
• Designing a versatile automation framework for unattended/lights out testing
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of the assigned modules.
• Conducted Black Box Testing (Functional Testing and Regression Testing) using Quick Test Professional.
• Using QTP to capture, verify and replay user interactions automatically to identify defects
• Involved in Setting up the Data for Integration and End - to-End Testing.
• Involved in Preparing the Status Reports Every Week, which includes Revision
• History, test case status, metrics, QA Issues and Defects.
• Interacted with developers on defects status on a daily basis
• Involved in Preparing the Test Strategy Document, Test Cases and Test Cases Execution for all modules
• Porting of Requirements, Test Conditions, execution of scripts, analysis of results and graphs, bugs /issues tracking and management done through Quality Center.
• Creating Automation Scripts (VBScript) in the sprints and stored them in the Test-Plan module of Quality Center.
• Running Automation Test scripts for regression testing
• Prepared automation scripts each build and enhanced for each script execution
• Good interaction with client as weekly base for each script release and status of automation
• Involved in analysis of manual test cases for automate those test cases.
• Involved in automation execution coverage reports.
• Involved in automating test scripts using Hybrid approach.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created QA Task List in order to meet objectives and deadlines.
• Participated in Requirement & Design Doc review session; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint.
• Execute Test scripts to validation correct functionality of application.
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis.
• Use SQL for back-end database validation.
• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality.
• Coordinate Test script Reviews with stakeholders are being held as appropriate.
• Involved in the creation of test plans, test cases and test strategy based on the functional and non-functional requirements and then linking them to maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix through Quality Center.
• Created test status report after each sprint.
• Performed Manual and Automation testing, Compatibility testing and Regression testing and updated the regression tests.
• Prepared Validation document according to the standard template provided by the client.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing manually as well as with the help of automation tool QTP.
• Bug reporting, tracking and documentation on the Bug tracking System using Quality Center.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Lynchburg, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of Test Plans and Test Cases for manual testing and Automated testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Created test scripts for all online leasing testing and classified sections for manual testing.
• Developed and wrote a suite of Test Scripts that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test cases using Quality Center.
• Performed business Functionality testing and GUI testing.
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Tracked test results for management, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defect database using Quality Center.
• Responsible for Creation and maintenance of Test Director Repository, Creation and Customization of TDProjects.
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results using TOAD.
• Executed web tests across various platforms and browsers including NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.6.
• Documented bugs, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, outputs, and content.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with users to analyze current business processes and procedures to help identify gaps and areas for process improvement
• Analyzed and redesigned workflows within and between enterprises in order to optimize end-to-end processes and automate non-value-added tasks
• Client interaction, understanding the processes, documentation, communicating with team members, formulate and present reports & presentation to decision makers
• Developed and coordinated testing plans with the business admin teams for the proposed business process.
• Managed on-going processing procedures to fulfill client deliverables. Resolved problems from other team members.
• Maintained documentation, processing notes and detailed functional specs for all interfaces and procedures.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing test specification for Joomla migration project from Joomla1.5 to 2.5
• Rebuilding the application server and running server updates to ensure a clean environment prior to the beginning of a test phase
• Involved in daily meetings to make priorities for testing
• Involved in Analyzing and creating Test Scenarios based on Specification document
• Design, Review and execute test cases.
• Performed manual testing on various web browsers.
• Validating product images and product information of the shopping cart.