SUMMARY:

• Close to 7 years progressive Information Technology experience primarily in the area of Software Quality Assurance.
• Extensive experience in Web Application testing, Mainframe application testing, Client Server testing, Database, ETL, Data Conversion and Reporting testing.
• Experience in various types of testing includes Functional, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Black - box testing and End-to-end testing.
• Worked on several Web Application, Data intensive and analytical project as Quality Analyst through all stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Expert in working on all stages of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Participated in developing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test procedures.
• Expert in developing creative Test Cases and Test Script to validate applications, reports and data.
• Proven skills in identifying product quality issues, process flaws, bugs and defects.
• Experienced in writing the QA reports.
• Experience in application database testing, data migration and conversion testing, data integration testing, ETL testing.
• Experienced in Report Testing
• Very good knowledge of Relational Databases and understanding of ERDs.
• Very good skills in writing SQL Queries, relational database concepts using SQL Server 2008R2
• Developed complex queries using joins, group by, Having and complex criteria
• Used HP Quality Center for Bug Tracking
• Able to work independently, with the Project Managers, Developers, Business Analysts and Customer support, in a fast paced environment.
• Self-motivated, strong organizational skills, reliable, capable to learn quickly new technical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Quality Analysis: Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager, QTP, Bugzilla, Redmine, TFS

Database: SQL Server 2008R2, 2012, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Reporting: SSRS 2008R2

Languages: SQL, HTML, C

MS Office: Excel, Word

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003, Server 2008R2, Mainframe

Data Integration: SSIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Software QA Tester

Roles and responsibilities:

• Reviewed product requirement documents and functional specifications.
• Involved in developing test strategy, test plan, test case and test evaluation summary documents.
• Performed various types of testing such as: Functional, Integration, System, Regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Performed manual testing of mainframe application.
• Used Quality Center as bug tracking tool
• Document key outputs, lessons learned, results and logs to be archived for future projects
• Developed and executed test scenarios and prepared test data to meet the requirement by using the Business and functional Requirements.
• Involved in system test and user acceptance testing.
• Coordinated with client and business team in case of clarification and collection of business requirements for all releases.
• Coordinated with developers to fix the problem and enhancing the application.
• Developed and maintained test cases based on system flow and field validation by using positive, negative, boundary, and null value testing scenarios.

Environment: Mainframe, XML, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JQuery, Windows, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint 2010

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Software QA Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked on Agile Methodology.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.
• Conducted daily Scrum meeting and also assisted management and team to achieve sprint goals.
• Participated in whole life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from planning, Capturing, Creating, Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects.
• Performed Web Application testing.
• Conducted GUI testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Performance and User Acceptance testing on the application.
• Created test data for various test cases.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.
• Created and executed some SQL queries to fetch data from an SQL Server database and to validate and compare the expected results with those actually obtained.
• Worked with Business Analysts and Users to understand application requirements including data workflow.
• Tested various operating systems on different environment for data validation and verification.
• Maintained defect logs and coordinated defect fixing with development teams.
• Performed Smoke, Regression and functional testing.
• Tested the conversions of data from Legacy systems to the new application by using complex SQL statements to compare the converted data against the source data.
• Tested SQL Server Reporting services Reports.
• Performed testing on Data Analytics.

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JQuery, SQL Server 2008R2, SSIS 2008 R2, SSRS 2008R2, Windows, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint 2010

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Software QA tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Reviewed product requirement documents and functional specifications.
• Involved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents.
• Performed various types of testing such as: Functional, Integration, System and Black box, Regression testing, Load testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Performed manual testing of this Web based application.
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL queries to review and ensure that the correct data was retrieved.
• Developed complex SQL queries using techniques like Joins, sub-queries, functions etc.
• Used Quality Center as bug tracking tool
• Document key outputs, lessons learned, results and logs to be archived for future projects
• Performed Testing of Reporting applications by extracting data from reporting databases and validating reports against them.
• Developed and executed test scenarios and prepared test data to meet the requirement by using the Business and functional Requirements.
• Involved in system test and user acceptance testing.
• Coordinated with client and business team in case of clarification and collection of business requirements for all releases.
• Coordinated with developers to fix the problem and enhancing the application.
• Developed and maintained test cases based on system flow and field validation by using positive, negative, boundary, and null value testing scenarios.

Environment: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JQuery, SQL Server 2008R2, SSIS 2008 R2, SSRS 2008R2, Windows, MS Excel, MS Word, SharePoint 2010

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities

• Remote meeting with users.
• Developed report prototypes in excel to confirm requirements
• Prepare test cases & perform testing to ensure delivery of objectives
• Develop SQL queries using multiple tables to verify the reporting database against source application data.
• Exported the test case data to excel and communicated issues with ETL developers.
• Performed testing of SSRS reports having multiple parameters, cascaded parameters, lists, cross tabs, charts, drill downs, linked reports.
• Perform Data Analysis by using SQL queries.
• Created documents using creative ideas using Snag it to show the report UI and functionality issues.
• User SharePoint 2007 to maintain the QA issues and track the defects until resolution of the issues.
• Worked closely with report developer and ETL developers to communicate QA issues and get them resolved.

Environment: SQL Server 2005, SSRS 2005, MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio