QA Tester Resume

SUMMARY

Software professional with 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance, looking for a challenging position in a dynamic software organization.
Expertise in various aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle including Requirements Analysis, Documentation of Specifications, Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Maintenance.
Experience with Iterative Software Development methodologies like Agile Scrum.
Expertise in testing web - based applications as well as client-server applications.
Practical experience with various testing methodologies including Black-Box, Smoke, End-to-End, System testing, Exploratory, GUI, Compatibility, Back-End, Regression, Functional and Integration testing.
Experience in working with cross-functional groups across the organization and performing end-to-end software testing.
Hands-on experience with various commercial testing tools like HP Quick Test Pro, HP Quality Center.
Extensive domain knowledge in Healthcare, Banking and Insurance sectors.
Well-organized team player with experience in direct interaction with users.
Worked collaboratively with testers, developers, and other team members in testing complex projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.
Strong result-oriented work ethic with good analytical, interpersonal and conflict - management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, V-Model

Test Management: HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Bugzilla, JIRA

Languages: Java, VB Script, HTML, CSS, XML

Databases: Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, DB2, MS-Access, SQL plus, Toad

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2, Win 7/Vista, VMware workstation, Oracle Virtual Box, UNIX, DOS

Others Tools: Eclipse, Selenium IDE, Web Driver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, and System Requirements Documents in preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
Interacted extensively with the BAs to identify the business needs and organize the testing strategy accordingly.
Conducted formal review meetings with QA Team and Business Analysts.
Created and prioritized test cases in Quality Center.
Prepared test data for testing purposes.
Executed test cases and performed test output comparison.
Reported, Prioritized and Tracked Bugs using HP Quality Center (HP-QC).
Uploaded automated test cases into HP Quality Center (HP-QC), scheduled the tests to be run and configured QC to send email notifications of fail/test run pass.
Performed extensive Regression Testing to ensure that features do not break in the existing system.
Performed extensive System Integration Testing
Actively participated in defect management meetings to investigate software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
Responsible for determining defect priorities, root cause analysis and tracking defects to resolution.
Coordinated test activities and created test progress reports for management reviews.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Oracle 10g, Java, SQL, XML, HTML

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Used Test Plan in conjunction with the Test Cases and Test Procedure during exhaustive testing of the system
Documented test cases and conducted manual testing using HP Quality Center.
Performed manual testing of specific features of the web application.
Parameterized the automation scripts to avoid code redundancy and hard coding of frequently changing values
Created different test cases and wrote the test plan using HP Quality Center.
Documented details of test plans, test cases and expected results in HP QC.
Responsible for determining defect priorities, root cause analysis and tracking defects to resolution.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Oracle 10g, VB Script, SQL