Professional Summary:

Over 7+ years of experience in the IT industry as a QA Analyst in QA Life cycle experience (Manual and Automated) in testing applications using Mercury Interactive Tools in Financial, Insurance, Health Care domains. Strong in Analyzing Business specifications and Develop Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and Execute those keeping in focus Verification and Validation Criterion.

Experience Synopsis:

• Very strong in defining and execution test scenarios & test cases based on system specifications and functional requirements documents provided.
• Experience in software testing and system design and requirement analysis. Well versed with White Box testing, Black Box testing, Functional testing, GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing, Security testing, performance, Load and Regression testing.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile-Scrum Test Methodologies and test processes.
• Worked closely with test analysts, developers, support group to ensure test environment and data readiness.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skill, self-motivated, detail oriented, time bound, responsible team player and ability to coordinate in a team environment to maintain effective team relationship.
• Experience in writing T-SQL and SQL Queries.
• Independent and self-sufficient, proactive in improving testing methodology and analyzing test results.
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment .Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle
• Experience in mentoring and managing offshore team members.
• Closely worked with developers and managers to nail down the technical problems.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.
• Flexible and Adaptable to all kinds of stressful environments.
• Quick learner with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration
• Strong verbal and oral communication skills.

Technical Skills: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access, Oracle, TOAD, Win Runner 8.x, Quick Test Pro,8.x/9.x, Quality center and Rational Clear quest and Test director 8.x, C, C++, JAVA, HTML, SQL/PLSQL, T-SQL, Visual Basic, Java, VB script, SQL Server Management Studio.

Professional Experience:

Confidential , MN

Senior QA Analyst

• Analyzing and reviewing the user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Analyzed the Test Scenarios and Conditions for each cycle.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Participated in writing HLS (High Level Scenarios) Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from business and functional requirement documents.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually, for functional testing purposes. Written detailed test plans and performed functional tests manually.
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Execution and Test status reports.
• Mentored local and offshore team members.
• Performed Black-Box Testing and Functional Testing.
• Used the T-SQL’s and verified the SQL Server database for the purpose of data verification.
• Involved in validating the data, which has been populated into the database tables using SQL Server Management Studio Interface
• Used Clear Quest for defect tracking and reporting.
• Interacted with Business Experts and Developers for resolving the defects.

Hardware/Software: Quick Test Professional 9.0 (QTP), Clear Quest, Quality Center 11.0, Documaker,ID3 Admin System(IBM) – AS400, SQL Server 2008 R2, T-SQL, MS-office Excel, Windows XP.

Confidential , Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

This application was developed for online services in Banking, Lending and Investing. These services are broadly classified into personal and corporate. This site also provides the Up-to-date business news including Checking & Saving, Home Mortgage, Insurance information and numerous other services. The team used an iterative/agile approach with unit tests and weekly releases.

• Worked on testing the complete Application as per the Functional Requirement Document.
• Reviewed Business Requirement documents and the technical specifications.
• Developed test plans with detailed testing scope, strategy, hi-level test requirements, and necessary resources.
• Facilitated agile development process in the company including requirements and design processes. Developed build and release scripts.
• Wrote detailed test plans and test cases and executed manually for Functional Testing.
• Performed Regression test to ensure product integrity after modification and enhancements.
• Analyzing user/business requirements, writing test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional, GUI and security testing.
• Analyzing and reviewing the user/business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Analyzed business and functional requirements in order to support the Loan PC, PC debt and T-deals work stream.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually, for functional testing purpose and Stored in Quality Center.
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements.
• Used the T-SQL’s and verified the SQL Server database for the purpose of data verification.
• Exposure to various different Unix servers to validate the outputs and writing SQL statements to validate the output in the different databases
• Used Quality Center 9.0 to store Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and for defect tracking and reporting

Hardware/Software: Quick Test Professional 9.0 (QTP), Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server 2005, T-SQL , SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS), MS-office Excel, Windows XP, XML, Web services

Confidential , Memphis, TN

QA Test Engineer

Confidential offer a comprehensive range of health care services and medical programs designed to meet health care needs. I was a QA tester for the hospital management system. This application was a client/server developed in visual basic as the front end and Oracle as the backend This application has access and editing medical records, surgery management material, assets, facilities management, patient registration/ appointment and sub stores management.

• Analyzed Requirements, involved in identification and documentation of required system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios (Positive and Negative tests)
• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts.
• Involved in setup and configuration of test environments.
• Performed the Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements on Oracle 9i Database.
• Verified data integrity by Backend testing of the application by writing SQL queries.
• Developed and executed Test Cases and Test suites For Black-Box Testing.
• Tested HL7 EDI interfaces with HIPAA medical compliance billing software.
• Performed manual testing of the website to determine ease of usability of the website.
• Designed Test Plan and Test Cases using Test Director.
• Performed System, Integration, Compatibility and Black-Box testing of applications.
• Conducted Functional Testing of the application.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and Validation Matrix.
• Used Test Director for Bug Reporting.
• Played a major part in testing and timely delivery of the product.

Hardware/Software: Oracle, QTP, XML, Test Director, MS-Word, EDI interfaces, HL7, MS-Excel.