OBJECTIVE

• A dedicated & professional QA Analyst with Five years plus of Manual testing experience in Application Management tools including HP ALM, Quality Center and QTP in Client/server and Web based applications in Healthcare, Banking, Retail, and Airlines.

SUMMARY

• Quality Assurance Analyst with 5+ years of experience in the areas of Software Testing/ Quality Assurance, Business requirements Analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) activities.
• Extensive experience in creating test plans, test cases, executing, maintaining test cases and creating the Requirement Test case Traceability Matrix(RTM)
• Participated in requirements analysis and closely worked with Business Analyst to understand detailed business and get clarifications to questions
• Experience in working with various testing tools HP - ALM/Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla for Test Management activities like writing Test Cases, maintaining traceability by linking the Functional, Business Requirements with the Test Cases, test case execution and logging defects
• Experience in GUI Testing, Functional, System Testing, Integration Testing, Automation of GUI Testing, Regression Testing and Database testing
• Experience in Manual testing and able to execute, support Automation Testing
• Created robust test data to test multiple test conditions and Generated test execution and Defects reports on daily basis
• Have worked on mainframe online application and have basic knowledge on mainframes backend navigation
• Prepare clear documentation for all test results to validate with Client/Business.
• Have worked in all phases of software testing life cycle (STLC) and good understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Have worked waterfall, iterative and Agile SDLC methodologies
• Closely worked with development teams on track and to retest defect fixes
• Hosted defect triage meeting to bring all project stake holders to discuss on open defects and next steps to fix, accept defects based on business priority
• Results-oriented, dedicated and self-motivated professional with excellent verbal and written communication, and organizational and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP ALM 11.0, HP Quality Center 10, and QTP

Operating Systems: Windows XP/ 7,8, Windows Servers 2003,2008

Bug tracking Tools: Bugzila 3.2.4, Jira 4.0

Relational Databases: MS SQL, My-SQL, SQL-Server 2008/2012, Oracle 9i and 10g

Applications tested: XML, JAVA, and .NET

Project Management tools and browsers: MS Office Suite 2010, SharePoint 2010, MS Project 14.0 and Snagit 11

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, Iterative and V-Model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual testing, Regression testing using QTP, defect (bug) tracking.
• Wrote Test Cases and Test scripts based on the business rules and requirements.
• Test Cases were incorporated for both positive and negative test conditions.
• Involved in Preparing Testing Environment and Test Data which included all functionality of the application.
• Worked in ICD10 sub-projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Participated in Daily Scrum standup/sit-down calls, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospective
• Participated in Functional Walk-through to validate the application design against the Test Cases
• Performed Manual Testing like Build Acceptance testing, Functional testing, Boundary value testing.
• Performed System testing for the entire application such as Compatibility testing, GUI testing, and Usability.
• Extensively used ALM for loading Test Cases, executing Test Cases and printing status defect
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Test Cases and Defects.
• Developed test scripts for Functional, Regression and Data driven testing using QTP on web based module.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to verify the data flow in the database
• Used QTP for testing the compatibility of the application with different browser.
• Used HP ALM for the defect management and requirement tracking
• Participated in walkthroughs and weekly meetings with the project stakeholders.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0,Agile and waterfall, QTP 11.0, Java, Web Logic Server, MS Access, PL/SQL, MS Office suite 2010, Windows 7, SharePoint.

Confidential, Richfield, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases based on the Test Scenarios.
• Developed the Test cases after going through the requirement document.
• Developed test scripts and involved preparing Test plan.
• Maintaining the Traceability Matrix.
• Creating, Maintaining and Modifying test scripts in web based environment on HP ALM
• Performed SQL queries for validation of conversion test cases from legacy system
• Designed and executed test cases for front-end and back-end validation using SQL
• Defined and documented test plans for applications and ongoing projects
• Defects were Tracked, Reviewed, Analyzed and Compared using HP ALM.
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process
• Worked closely with the business analysts and developers to identify the processes that can be automated.
• Preparation of Test summary reports.
• End-to-End testing for web application.

Environment: HP ALM 11, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, SQL, Windows XP, ASP .NET

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked in anAgile Methodology. Attended daily stand ups and sprint plan meetings every two weeks to review the user storiesfor Mobile POS software.
• Analyzeduser storiesprior to preparing the test casesfor purchase module.
• Used Quality Center for preparing the test cases and manual test execution.
• Involving with Development team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to create Test plan.
• PreparedTest Casesfor functionalitiesof purchase modulebased on the user stories.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Quality Center.
• Interacted inPeerReviewto verify the accuracy of the test cases against user stories.
• Created aTraceability Matrixto map test cases with user stories to ensure complete test coverage of functionalities for customer look up.
• ExecutedSmoke Testingof the application once deployed in testing environment as part of entrance Criteriaof returns.
• PerformedSystem Testingto review the system’s ability to create purchases or returns of scanned merchandiseby using UPC code.
• Engaged inUI Testingto test the usability, look and feel of the application based on the specificationsof the Mobile POS functionalities.
• PerformedFunctional Testingfor the merchandise look up module by UPC code to search in different store locations.
• PreparedSQL queries to retrieve pricing for each item by category from system database for back end testing.
• ConductedRegression Testingafter the defects were fixed to make sure other components of the application is still working properly.

Environment: Windows 7,Java, Oracle 10g, Quality Center-10.0, SQL Toad- 9.0

Confidential - Seattle, WA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for execution andmaintenance of manualtesting, reporting of test results and defect management.
• Communicatingexecution statusto the Test Lead
• Developed and executed test cases using Test Management tool Quality Center
• Understanding ofend to end solution testing- Application, Integration, Database, Data Validation
• Involved in analyzing the requirements and creating thetest plans
• Involved in preparing Test Scenarios and Outlines for test scripts.
• Developed the test cases for the functional, system, integration, Regression testing.
• Verified if new fix is impacting existing functionality.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the Developers for fixing the defects.
• Attended Daily defect meetings with team leads, system analysts and business analysts to discuss the issues found during various testing process

Environment: MS SQL 2008, MS Office 2007, Windows XP,Quality Center.