SUMMARY

• Around Four years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst.
• Experience in Manual, Automation and Back - End testing of web based and standalone applications.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC).
• Experience in Developing Test Cases and Test Summary Reports using Business Requirement Documents and Use Case Documents.
• Experience in Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Negative Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Performance Testing.
• Exposer to test tools using QC, Test Director, Mantis Tracker.
• Very good understanding of Agile Methodology and waterfall model.
• Have experience working with SharePoint.
• Responsible for Analysis and Defect Tracking using HP Quality Canter, Test Director and Mantis Tracker.
• Strong skills in backend testing using SQL queries on Oracle RDBMS using Toad and SQL Developer.
• Proficient in using Test Management Tools like HP Quality Centre, for both client-server and web-based applications.
• Have Experience Backend Data base testing Using SQL Server, SQL developer and Oracle Toad.
• Have Experience with HP QC Test cases and Execution, Defect tracking.
• Had Scrum meetings every day and walkthrough with the PM and team members to discuss on test progress and issues.
• Proficient in creating Daily Status Reports for the managers to keep track of Defects by Percentage.
• Effective communication skills / presentation skills (verbal / written) for both highly technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent skills on Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel).
• Knowledge in writing SQL Queries in Oracle.
• Highly motivated, organized and result oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with capability of adapting to fast changing requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Centre, Test Director.

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, and VB Script.

Databases: Toad, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008.

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP, UNIX.

Utilities: MS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Involved in manual testing of the application and developed several Test cases based on requirements.
• Used Excel sheet for documentation of Test cases.
• Logged Defects in Mantis Tracker for reporting new issues and verified the existing issues.
• Communicated with the Team lead and Developer and mailed the defect details such as defect id, description, screenshot of module that caused the defect, navigation steps of Test case and verified if the defect is fixed.
• Performed Regression Testing of the application and retested the application after the defect is fixed.
• Executing Test cases repeatedly after the defects are resolved and reported pass/fail result of Test cases.
• Involved in Smoke, UI, Functional, Regression and System testing.
• Attended weekly Team meetings and discussed about the updates and defects to be resolved.

Environment: Test Director, HP Quality Centre, UNIX, Windows 2007, MS Office.

 Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of business requirement documents and designing test scenarios and test cases.
• Involved in designing the test steps, writing test cases and running tests.
• Created positive and negative test cases to validate the functionality.
• Documented the test results and log the defects in Version One.
• Had Scrum meetings every day and walkthrough with the PM and team members to discuss on test progress and issues.
• Defect Review Meetings with the Dev. team and QA team.
• Developed and maintained the Traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Performed Smoke, UI, Functional, Integration, Regression and System testing.
• Performed more Performance testing from Development stage identify the software processes that directly influence the overall performance of the system, for each process, determine the input parameters that will most significantly influence the performance of the system. It is important to limit the parameters to the essential ones so that the set of test cases selected will be of manageable size, early performance testing with distributed application.
• Participation in daily status meeting, defect tracking and resolutions.

Environment: Test Director, HP Quality Centre, UNIX, Windows 2007, MS Office.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of business requirement documents and designing test scenarios and test cases.
• Regression testing for each of the new builds with fixes.
• Created Test cases in HP QC.
• Reported the defects using Quality Centre. Monitored the status of the defect and assigning to the right developer, business etc.
• Tracked the defects using the HP QC and attending the Defect status meeting to track the status of the bug fixing.
• Responsible for doing the manual testing and tracking all the screenshots to report the bug in a proper format to the development team. Save the input/output for updating the test case with proper input values in case of an issue.
• Worked with different kinds of Joins, Inner Join, Left Join, Right Join statements joining multiple tables to collect data as per the Client requirements.
• Created Excel Pivot tables organized the data generated from the reports. Arranged the data fields to Summarize, Count and filter the data accordingly to meet the requirements.
• Experience in implementing different options in Oracle like Partitioning to eliminate duplicate records from report tables etc.
• Used Toad to run the SQL queries for Oracle database. Wrote some of the SQL queries to facilitate the testing by updating the record in the backend.

Environment: SQL, Toad, HP Quality Centre, Windows 2007, MS Office.

Confidential,  CA.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases after going through the business requirements.
• Developed and Test Scenarios based on the Requirements.
• Conducted Review meetings for Test Scenarios.
• Wrote the test cases using the Excel sheet as well as the QC.
• Performed and documents the test case results in the sheet after performing the manual testing.
• Investigated software faults and interacted with Developers to resolve Technical issues.
• Save the input/output for each of the executed test case for proper documentation.
• Worked with the developers to reproduce the defects.
• Participated in defect status meeting, write the notes and follow up with the team until the bug is fixed or assured.

Environment: MS Office, Quality Centre.