SUMMARY:

• Software professional with around 5 years of experience in manual testing of Web based, Client-Server and SOA applications on Windows and LINUX platforms
• Extensive experience with various software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
• Extensive experience with Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Life Cycle , Defect Life Cycle
• Proficient in reviewing and analyzing documents, planning testing activities, test execution, tracking and managing defects and ensuring quality of the application
• Proficient in creating reusable test cases and test data requirements for System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Ability to interact with business analysts, development team and users regarding requirements, testing, and defect tracking
• Performed system testing on .Net based and java based applications
• Performed SOA / Web Service testing using Soap UI
• Proficient in Database Testing and good knowledge of SQL
• Extensively performed System, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Back-end, GUI, Web based testing
• Proficient in managing testing artifacts in HP Quality Center and Test Director
• Proficient in conducting regression testing for production defect fixes, planned and unplanned code drops
• Experience in creating and maintaining the Test Matrix and Traceability Matrixes
• Highly motivated team player, fast learner with excellent interpersonal and customer relational skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director, Jira, Quickbase, Bugzilla

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, DOS

Languages: Java, XML, HTML, SQL

XML Technologies/Tools: XML, XSD, SOAP, XML Spy

Business Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, MS Visio

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access

Knowledge Base: Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD, SOAP U

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review with the Business Analysts to understand the business requirements.
• Extracted and linked functional and business requirements into Quality Center
• Log defects in Quality Center and keep track of the open defects and defect fixes
• Ensure traceability between requirements and test cases for complete test coverage, defect management using Quality Center
• Categorizing bugs based on severity and interfacing with developers to resolve them
• Identify and preparation of test scenarios for UAT and involve in UAT test execution
• Find and created defects with detailed Information and assign to developers
• Perform the Backend validation using SQL Queries and also validated the UI values against the database.
• Used various commands like Select, Insert, Update, Sub Queries, Inner Joins, Outer Joins, Union, Advanced SQL etc. for the data retrieval and manipulation
• Worked with Data base team in writing SQL queries for identification plans & participants
• Actively involved on GUI testing and cross platform browser testing for the web applications
• Performed XML Web Services testing using SOAP UI

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, JIRA, Oracle 11g, Windows 7, XML, SOAP UI

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics
• Executing functionality testing, user interface, integration, system tests, and ad-hoc tests for the homepage on multiple platforms and databases and browsers
• Involved in writing SQL queries and validates data changes
• Created Test Cases in Quality Center and reviewed them with the Test Lead
• Execute test cases in the test environment and document test results for future references
• Performed test execution for End-to-End Business Process Testing
• Reviewing of business requirement, design documentation for completeness and testability
• Effectively communicated testing activities and findings in oral and written formats
• Performed Function, Regression, user interface testing
• Very good Experience in Agile methodology, Sprints and Iteration process

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 10.0, JIRA, Oracle, XML, SOAP, SOAP UI, Windows 7

Confidential
QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing of all documentation for all system level tests, test plan, test cases and validation procedures
• Log Defects in HP Quality Center and keep track of the open defects and defect fixes
• Responsible for reports testing, web user interface testing, back end testing, & integration testing
• Executing functionality testing, user interface, integration, system tests, and ad-hoc tests for the homepage on multiple platforms and databases and browsers
• Involved in testing analytics reports, graphs, and various interactive Dashboards
• Involved in validating the report exporting functionality such as to Excel, PDF, HTML
• Constantly engaging with development team to report and resolve issues
• Worked with product support teams to understand the new changes on the reports
• Analyze the defects technically and retesting of the bugs fixed and closing the defect

Environment:Quality Centre, Oracle 11g, Oracle Developer, SQL, Quickbase, Windows

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements, technical specifications, functional specification and strategic QA documents such as test approach document, and test plan
• Involved in writing of all documentation for all system level tests, test plan, test cases and validation procedures
• Developing, documenting, executing and verifying test cases/ Scripts using Quality Center tool by Interacting with business Team and Development team
• Log Defects with detailed steps and keep track of the open defects and defect fixes
• Participate in daily defect resolution status calls to discuss defects with project management and development team
• Performed XML data mapping during end-to-end testing
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL statements

Environment:HP Quality Center, Oracle, Windows 7, XML, Jira