SUMMARY

• Highly motivated professional with 7+ years IT experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst working in Insurance and Health Care Domains
• Excellent professional and interpersonal skills developed through experiences as a team member formanualtesting. Specific testing expertise includes Test Plan Formulation for System Testing, Functionality Testing, Hardware Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Expertise in Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Software testing life cycle (STLC)
• Extensively worked in Waterfall and Agile Scrum Methodologies
• Expertise testing Web Applications & Web services
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirement Document BRD, Systems Requirement Specification SRS and Functional Specification Document FSD
• Proficiency at testing for both Client Server Applications and Web Based Applications
• Adept in using tools likeQuality Center, JIRA.
• Proficient in writing test plan, test cases /scripts, test scenarios formanualand automated testing
• Experience assisting in preparing Test Plan
• Experience in preparing Test Strategies, Test Cases and Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Expertise in Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Smoke and Sanity testing
• Experience working with HP Quality Center, and SOAP UI
• Knowledge of Defect/Bug trackingsystem with the use of tools likeHP Quality Center and JIRA.
• Experience working with Defect Tracking Tools
• Experience in writing SQL queries using MySQL and Oracle Toad
• Experience in testing Web Services using Soap UI
• Experience in preparing the Test Summary Reports
• Expertise in analyzing Test Reports
• Worked withDevelopers, Business AnalystandProject managerto test and document new product and new product enhancements
• Well versed in areas of organization, workflow and time management
• Excellent team player, Quick learner with Good communication and analytical skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Windows 7, 8, Vista, UNIX

MS Tools: MS Office suite

Browsers: Google chrome, Mozilla Fire Fox, Internet Explorer

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Scripting Languages: SQL, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, XML

Testing Tools: Quality Center, SOAP UI, Mercury Quality Center

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum

Defect Trackers: Quality Center, JIRA, PVCS tracker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston VA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the project team and users to understand the functionality of the application
• Participated in Project kickoff and Product backlog meetings, acquired good understanding of the features and the corresponding requirements
• Prepared the Test Plan, Test Cases and RTM
• Analyzed user stories, created test cases to test the functionality of the project
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Browser, and End - to-End testing
• Extensively used Excel to document test cases and test results
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to verify the completeness of the Test cases
• Logged and Tracked bugs using JIRA
• Worked with developers to track defects to closure
• Attended Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings.
• Attended Daily and weekly meeting with QA and Development teams to follow up with the logged defects
• Reported weekly and monthly defect summary report to team lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications
• Prepared and documented the Test cases, Test procedure, Test data and expected results using HP Quality center 9.0
• Performed Functional testing, Integration testing, Compatibility testing, System testing, and Regression testing
• Extensively developed and executed SQL queries for Data validation
• Experience in testing Web Services through SoapUI
• Tested Soap Web services with various XML code requests, added assertions and validated the Response
• Executed the Test cases in QC
• Created and logged Defects
• Involved in full defect life cycle and Tracked bugs using QC

Environment: JSP, SQL Server, Toad, MS Office, MS Visio, HP Quality center, JIRA, SoapUI

Confidential, Powell, OH

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and prepared Test cases
• Created a Test plan folder, detailed Test Cases and formulated procedures for Testing
• Wrote Test Cases using MS Excel and exported to Quality Center
• Executed the Test cases
• Created and logged Defects
• Experience in performing different types of Testing- Integration, Regression, Tested compatibility of application with different browsers
• Involved in identifying potential problems, define problems, and developing potential solutions
• Testing status reporting to QA Lead and Manager
• Involved in Team meetings /Walkthroughs to get problems resolved

Environment: ASP.Net, SQL Server, Windows2000, MS Office Tools, Mercury Quality center 9.0

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Developed the test cases to test functionality, interface of the application
• Tests were planned and managed using Quality Center and performed Manual Testing.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results and metrics
• Conducted Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing
• Analyzed and validated the Reports
• Conducted Regression testing on various builds of the application
• Prepared test data for the AUT as per the specifications of BRD
• Tracked and reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing using Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the Developers for fixing the bugs

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, HTML, SQL, Mercury Quality Center, MS Excel

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in studying the Functional Requirements of the Application.
• Wrote Test Cases as per the Functional Requirements of the Application
• Executed the Test Cases and logged the Defects
• Performedmanual testing using methodologies such as sanity testing, integration testing, functional testing, and regression testing both positive and negative, end-to-end testing of the applications.
• Executed detailed test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Recorded defects using Microsoft Excel and HP Quality Center, dependent upon system.
• Identified defects and interacted with developers to fix problems and enhance the application.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, Java, ASP.NET, HTML,