SUMMARY

• QA Analyst with 6+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance.
• Experience in Banking, Retail, Mortgage and Health Care Industry.
• Proficient in performing functional, regression, integration, and end - to-end testing of the application through test automation and manual testing processes.
• Extensive experience in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and Quality Assurance methodologies (Waterfall and Agile).
• Vastly Experienced in analyzing business requirements and functional requirement specification of an application
• Expertise in preparing test strategy, test plan, test summary reports, test cases, and test scripts for automated and manual testing based on User Requirement, and System Requirement documents
• Skilled in Analyzing, Writing, developing and executing test plans, test cases using Quality Center based on different project requirement and creating bug reports.
• Good Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedules with overall project schedules. Highly Skilled in Test report generation to show test coverage.
• Experience in Defect Management Tracking, Software Quality Assurance, Test Execution, Documenting and analyzing Test results.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing of Applications, Strong Experience in Client/Server, and Web-based applications
• Hands on experience in backend Database testing and proficient in writing SQL Queries using TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer.
• Strong Communication Skills, team player and motivated to acclimatize new technologies.
• Self-Starter with good understanding and goal oriented approach to problem Solving issues.
• Managed QA / testing through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle including scoping, design, prototyping, usability test, development, unit test, functional test, integration test, system test, user acceptance, release, maintenance, and support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7, UNIX and DOS

Testing Areas: System,Regression, GUI, Functional, Integration, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, and End to End Testing, Hardware Testing

Test Management tools: TFS, MTM, HP Quality Center,ALM Quality Center, SoapUI, QTP, Version One

Databases: Oracle, My- SQL, SQL Developer, Query Express, MS Access

Environment: Architecture: Client Server Applications and Web Based Applications

Languages: SQL, VB and HTML,XML

Defect Tracking Tool: On Time, Quality Center,TFS and MTM

Project Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile - Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business requirements, functional requirements and other development documents.
• Participated in creation and execution of test plan, test design, test data development, test scenarios
• Walkthrough the test plan with the project team. Document the list of items that require corrective action. participated in the functional and requirement review meetings with business analysts and development team
• Analyzed BRD for writing scenario and test cases and maintain traceability between business requirement, scenario and test cases.
• Interact with QA leads, Project Manager, and Subject Matter Expert.
• Writing test cases on Excel and uploading test cases from Excel Sheet to Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and write the queries in Team Foundation Server to create and save the area path.
• Create test suites and test execution schedule in MTM
• Executed Test Cases and reported defects manually of the application by using MTM and TFS
• Tested front end POS application with various hardware interfaces.
• Process the batch files.
• Tested functionality on Handheld device GOT and 7G-Scanner with different versions
• Perform smoke testing for new build, and perform comparison testing between old system and new system
• Performed back end testing for the database by using Oracle and Query Express for SQL queries and data tables
• Check and verified the log files for making sure that correct file got created and verified the data inside the log files
• Perform GM package installation and ran automated scripts on the system for new build
• Performed Functional, Regression and End to End testing for POS, and Back Office
• Tested POS applications using various payment option using credit card, check and cash payment option
• Perform Integration testing and execute the test cases using ALM Quality Center
• Tested the entire application covering various workflows in the approval transaction ranging from pending status to authorized etc.
• Create test execution report and defect status report at the end of the day.
• Managed the defect tracking system worked closely with the developers and development team to ensure on time high quality product delivery.

Environment: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Team Foundation Server (TFS), ALM Quality Center,Query Express, SQL Developer, Dos, Windows, ASP.NET, MS Office, Uniface

Confidential, MN

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing and documenting Product Test Plans; Assisted in writing efficient and effective Master Test Plan, Test Strategy, System Testing
• Responsible for analyzing the functional requirements decomposed and summarized the requirements manager module of Quality Center
• Validated HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act) Transactions 834 and maintained HL7 (Health Level 7) Standards.
• Performed manual testing for the Web based application
• Performing GUI, Reliability, Compatibility, Cross Browser testing
• Inspected and worked on XML web services application using SOAP UI
• Writing and reviewing manual test cases and customizing in Quality Center as needed by manual test team.
• Responsible for Functional, Integration, System, Regression, usability testing and database testing
• Executed SQL statements for data extraction for verification purpose
• Performed end to end testing on web based application from front end to back end
• Developed and maintained traceability matrix between requirement and test cases
• Assisted developers in Smoke testing by going through SQL queries and executed multiple queries through TOAD
• Administered defect tracking and defect reporting using Quality Center
• Communicated with QA lead and developers regarding bug reports and progress status

Environment: SQL, Oracle, HTML, XML, Web Service, UNIX, HP Quality Center, Toad, Windows, MS Office.

Confidential

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Document
• Worked in Agile environment, involved in Project Effort Estimation, attended SUM and retrospection sessions on daily basis.
• Worked in the form of sprint team with business analysts and development team
• Involved in entering requirements, developing test plan and test strategy, test scope
• Participated in SCRUM and SPRINT meetings. This was the target process environment
• Designing the test steps, writing test cases and running test scripts using HP Quality Center
• Worked closely with developers and other QA members to define test requirements and developed test cases based on the Business requirements and System requirements.
• Reported bugs using Quality Center once verified fixes and closed bugs
• Ensured the appropriate parties review and sign-off on test cases prior to test execution
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox, Google Chrome etc.,
• Extensively executed SQL on DB2 tables to gather test data for all test cases and to determine successful transaction of data from the application
• Wrote SQL queries using TOAD
• Executed accurately and concisely Report Progress, Defect Status using Jira for Bugs.
• Established complete end to end traceability between business requirements and test cases
• Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports, Test Summary, Requirement Traceability Reports and Test Statistics

Environment: MYSQL, Quality Center, Version One, QTP, Oracle, MS Office, Web logic, Windows and UNIX

Confidential

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement reviews for various releases with change requests and functionality enhancements
• Followed Agile Methodology for project development and QA
• Participated in Daily Scrums meetings and followed Sprint model for implementing Agile Methodology
• Worked in the form of sprint team with business analysts and development team
• Involved with Weekly Agile Meeting and discuss about progress, required modification and upcoming work.
• Discuss about some potential issues and communicate with developer in order to make appropriate solutions
• Scripted test cases and database scripts for various complex business scenarios and executed the same for each sprint
• Performed extensive manual testing and cross browser regression testing on the web based mortgage application system
• Administered defect tracking, defect reporting and defect management system
• Worked closely with Development team to track all the identified bugs and bring it to closure

Environment: Quality center, Version One, HTML, XML, TOAD and SQL Server, SOAP UI