SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience as a Quality Assurance specialist in designing, testing and implementing Client/Server and Web - based testing applications on Windows.
• Good knowledge of Object Oriented methodologies, Documentation and Testing Tools.
• Proficient in Black Box, Functional, Sanity, Smoke, Integration, System, Regression, System and User Acceptance (UAT), Database, End-to-End and Compatibility testing.
• Expertise working in Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Good knowledge in Working with Agile Tools like Rally, Jira
• Experience in creating test plans, test strategies and involved in all the phases of SDLC.
• Design test cases, Create Traceability Matrices and write manual scripts in excel/word templates and Test Director/Quality Center.
• Experience in activities which includes understanding the Requirement Specification, Preparing Test plan, Executing Tests, Maintaining Tests and Defect tracking, Data creation and Management.
• Experience with test case creation, defect identification and tracking in HP ALM Quality Center.
• Created QTP scripts for regression testing of web applications
• Competence in using Quality center for analyzing, monitoring and status reporting.
• Generate Reports to represent QA progress, blocking issues and notable highlights using QC.
• Thorough knowledge of defect life cycle and hands on experience with defect management using Quality Center and Test Director.
• Experience in working with in-house and offshore teams.
• Excellent skills and thorough hands on experience with functional and regression testing of .NET, Windows, Web and Java applications.
• Identified the test cases to be automated.
• Created Data Driven tests by using Parameterization
• Expertise in working with Database Connections like Oracle, MS SQL, SQL and DB2 in QTP.
• Experience in creating Test Strategies, working with project teams, Clients and Third parties to identify risks and dependencies
• Experience in working with Business Users during User Acceptance Testing
• Experience in tracking the new requirements and coordinating the changes in testing cycle accordingly
• Excellent testing experience in all phases and stages of Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with good working knowledge of testing methodologies, disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling.
• Hands on experience in preparing test data and basics of SQL.
• Good experience in data migration validations, data validation, Flexible in accepting various duties and assignments and helpful in managing the changing priorities and needs of projects
• Participated in daily SCRUM stand-up calls, SPRINT review meetings, defect calls and project status meetings
• Enhanced QTP scripts using different checkpoints, parameterization and regular expressions
• Skilled in developing Actions in Quick Test Pro to parameterize specific components of a test and reuse actions to streamline and modularize the scripts
• Experience in developing automated test scripts using VBScript in QTP
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment and multitask with ease
• Innovative, analytical approach to solving complex test problems and performing troubleshooting
• Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
• Possess excellent communication, decision making and trouble shooting skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7

Languages: C, SQL,HTML,XML

Test Management Tools: HP ALM Quality Centre, JIRA

Tools: QTP, Eclipse, Winbabs, Amadeus Altea product suite

Defect tracking tools: Quality Centre

Mobile App testing tools: Perfecto mobile

Methodologies worked on: Waterfall and Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Eagan MN

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop re-usable core as well as application specific- functions using QTP
• Developed various smoke testing scripts to run on weekly builds of the application.
• Perform Regression Run
• Performed mobile testing of airline application
• Tested applications compatibility on different browser versions(IE, Firefox, and Chrome) and Mobile Devices (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
• Monitoring/Assisting team members in developing scripts/framework related components.
• Developed and maintained several technical documents related to framework and set-up environment.
• Worked closely with Development team, BA and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of Management to understand and analyze the requirements.
• Responsible for defect tracking and defect reporting.
• Participated in meetings by providing constructive inputs for the quality improvements and communicated with peers effectively.
• Performed detailed study of functional and business requirements from the client.
• Preparing implementation strategy and providing the Support for implementation of the programs
• Test case/data preparation, execution and verification of the test results using QC tool.
• Conducting review meeting with the team and coordinating with offshore
• Reviewed the test cases written based on the Change Request document.

Environment: Quality Centre v11.0, QTP v10.0, Microsoft Excel, MS Word, Java

Confidential, Denver CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Daily Standup Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings and retrospective meetings
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to link User stories, test cases and defects
• Performed extensive Manual Testing and identified scenarios for Automation
• Performed mobile app testing on Confidential app.
• Performed GUI testing, Adhoc testing, Cross-Browser testing, Security, Regression testing on web application.
• Utilized Jira to log defects and manage changes in the requirements
• Coordinated Defect Triage meetings to re-evaluate defect severity ratings, prioritize defects and assign defects to various team members
• Handled Knowledge Transition Sessions and prepared KT materials on the application under test to new users.

Environment: QTP, Jira, XML, VB.NET, SQL Server 2008

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Quality Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirements, design meetings, review, analysis of requirements, and design documentation.
• Performed black box testing and user acceptance testing.
• Performed manual testing and automated testing using Quick Test Pro
• Identified many critical defects.
• Tested the compatibility of the application with different platforms.
• Coordinated with the clients for analyzing user requirements, functionality, project overview, and risks.
• Provided support for Unit and UAT testing as required for the application.
• Used Quality Center to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, JAVA,C++, MS Office Suite, XML, Business Objects, MS Project Plan, UML Tools, Oracle 9i, SQL, Quality Centre

Confidential, Denver CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases in HP ALM and executed them.
• Involved in writing the Test Plans based on Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documents.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Created Test sets in Test Lab to move all the test cases from Test plan to execute the test cases.
• Prepared test cases for data validations
• Developed and involved in Manual Testing based on Use cases developed.
• Trained and coordinated with the team members in understanding the requirements and test cases for UAT.
• Involved in preparation of System Test Results after Test case execution.
• Effectively coordinated with the development team.
• Reported software mismatches (from the test planning), to the development team using HP ALM.
• Involved in various testing phases
• Well exposed to Software Development Life Cycle and Test methodologies.

Environment: Windows XP, oracle 10g, Java tools, HP ALM,QTP

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Helped in work force management and also worked as test lead in absence of lead
• Raising and tracking of Problem tracking records till they are resolved
• Involved in testing to verify that all data provided syncs with the requirement.
• Created the test data & Coordinated with Developers/Leads in resolving bugs.
• Providing testing inputs to the Project team
• Validating if the test data created is appropriate for the requirement
• Hands on experience setting of Quality center for projects and domains, created user groups and project folder structures.
• Delivered many sessions to many other teams on the functionality and applications used for data creation
• Created many documents on test data creation and process required for the peers
• Delivered daily status reports to the clients

Environment: Windows XP,QTP, HP ALM, Amadeus product suit, Winbabs

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing test plans, testing strategy, test cases and execution of the complete test cycle for the business needs
• Performed backend testing
• Extensively coordinated with the Engineering team/Product team/QA team to discuss challenging issues/bugs/features faced while testing the product.
• Have run many SQL scripts to verify data in the DB
• Interacting with developers and trying to track/verify bugs in the corporate Bug database and ensure smooth progress and completion of the QA cycle
• Experience in documenting Functional, Technical Specifications and Test Cases.
• Was also involved in testing the Cabin crew application in several releases

Environment: Quality Center v11.0, SQL Developer, Unix, Java Utility, Macros, Linux, Windows XP,Eclipse

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Involved in developing comprehensive system test plan and created the test cases translating the technical requirements into verifiable and testable scenarios.
• Created Test Scripts and written Test Cases Using Excel.
• Worked on Regression Testing.
• Detected Defects, Communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center.
• Executed manual test cases
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Uploaded test scenarios, test cases and defects to Quality Center
• Expertise in QA Testing and performed end-to-end testing.
• Developed test cases, test scenarios using the Quality Center and prepared test data.
• Identified bottlenecks, and discussed the same with business analysis team, developers and technical architects and attended meetings.

Environment: JAMMY, Bugzilla, Windows XP, Apache