SUMMARY:

• I have over 8+ years of experience in IT as a QA Analyst/Tester with specializing in providing innovative, well - designed solutions to meet the client’s needs.
• Has excellent experience in Quality Assurance, and Manual. I am a good team player and communicator, and thrive on new challenges and welcome the opportunity to learn and apply new technologies
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle, Test processes and Test Methodologies.
• Expertise in analyzing Business requirements, Use case documents and design Test scenarios, Test cases and also prepare and reviewing Traceability matrix.
• Good testing skills includes develop and execution of Test plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts, and participates in QA reviews and documenting QA activities.
• Hands on experience in preparation of effective Test cases (complex, End to End, business flow, Scenarios based, Component based), test case execution and filing and tracking of defects.
• Experience in Manual Testing on windows and client server based application.
• Expertise in various types of testing like Functional test, Integration test, Black box, White box, System test, User Acceptance test (UAT), Regression test, smoke, SOA Testing SOA using web services, Database and End to End testing.
• SMEs in User Acceptance Test practices.
• Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life cycle.
• Experience in test Management tools like Quality Center.
• Involved in Developing and Executing Test Plan, and Test cases based on the Business.
• Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, and Use Cases.
• Create Testing Status and Defect Matrix for reporting to the Management.
• Excellent at assessing testing processes, create and implementing and SQA strategies using Agile-test methodology.
• Testing both type of application, like Web-based and Client Server Application.
• Well versed with testing methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and waterfall.
• Attend Meeting with Business and Development teams to get proper understanding of the application.
• Performed manual testing extensively - primarily Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI, Database and Backend Testing.
• Prepared reports like Defect Statistics and Tracking, Weekly and daily status reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Process/Methodology:Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), UML, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, Bug Life Cycle (BLC), User Stories, Use Case, PLC, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Spiral.

Software Testing Types:Manual, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Negative, User Acceptance (UAT), Build Acceptance (BAT).

RDBMS:SQL Server 2012/2008R/2008.

Database Tools:SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio.

Business Intelligence:SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Integration Services (SSIS).

Programming Languages:TSQL

ETL Tools:SQL Server Integration services (SSIS).

Reporting Tools:SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

HTML:HTML.

Others:MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Excel Macros, and MS Visio).

Operating Systems :Windows XP/2000/Vista/7, Solaris 5.10, Suse Linux 9.0

Defect tracking tools :Bugzilla, Quality Center, Test Tracker, Clear Quest .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements and specifications were understood and documented to facilitate classification of the Test Cases
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plans for System Testing using Quality Center
• Involved in co-ordination with business analysts for translating requirements to test cases
• Leverage deep knowledge of Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Options and derivatives while writing test cases
• Used Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues
• Worked with QA Manager and Project Manager on testing team assignments and planned and reviewed the Test Cases for Functionality, Security, Database and Acceptance testing
• Executed test cases manually. Compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing
• Performed Automated Functional and Regression Testing and System Integration Testing of the application using QTP
• Documented the defects and their trailing history in the Quality Center and helped developers identify the modules and code sections to be fixed by executing the related scenarios with different combinations of data
• Maintained Configuration control so that the delivery is compatible with the associated documents.
• Worked on electronic trading, trading cost analysis, market structure and regulation, trading business areas, to analyze trading volumes and trends to provide trading management solutions to meet requirements of Front office and Middle office.
• Used SQL or source applications to create data necessary for testing purposes
• Actively participated in backend testing while validating the data, manipulating and updating the table using SQL in MS SQL Server.
• Assisted in the implementation of QA processes to ensure correctness of data flowing through each stage of the Informatics based ETL process.   Participated in the requirements, design, and release readiness reviews.   Created and maintained test documentation and test plans.  
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT.
• Performed Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unit Testing and Documenting.
• Actively participated in daily Scrum meetings and monthly Sprint meetings to communicate the test results and highly adept at testing in an AGILE environment of Software Development Life Cycle.

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Clear understanding of Equity trading, bonds and trading.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Developed test plans, testing strategies and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of systems.
• Followed the functional requirement specification (FRS), and Business Requirement Document to support preparing the test case test bed.
• Performed manual testing considering the base line of developed test plan and test case considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• Executed test cases developed by self or by peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution.
• Categorized the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries using Toad to access the database.
• Wrote and modified test scripts by inserting logical commands to handle complicated test scenarios for testing.
• Prepared Test Metrics for measurement by keeping a record of the number of test cases passed and failed and details of failures.
• Worked on Implementation of various risk management tools and concepts; valuing Bond/Derivative trading portfolios; accounting guidelines applicable to derivative trading practices.
• Made sure the client’s project team has a good knowledge of functionality prior to beginning the implementation and trained new staff members: operational support, application support etc. and reduced or eliminated key-man dependencies thus increased self-sufficiency.
• Created “to-do” lists over the course of the training with the project team, which contain follow - up items for both parties that enabled the work to precede quickly and efficiently once the implementation, begin.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed the GUI testing by defining GUI checkpoints to check frames, tables, links, images, and image links.
• Performed back end testing using SQL statements to validate the UI values against the database
• Created QA Master Plan in co-ordination with the QA Manager, prioritized and distributed the tasks to the team for effective execution.
• Formulated a Test Plan and manual Test Cases that comprehensively tested the critical components of the application.
• Performed manual testing and End-to-End Test Cases to test the various modules and the integration between them.
• Inserted checkpoints to verify web page characteristics such as links using Quick Test Professional
• Inserted GUI and database checkpoints to verify web page functionality.
• Actively involved in identifying the critical defects that had a high impact on the overall functionality of the application.
• Logged critical defects in the bug tracking system and assigned them severity and priority based on the impact to the application.
• Involved in managing the weekly status reports that detailed the manual test execution percentage and also the ratio of the passes versus failed test cases.
• Mapped manual test cases to requirement updates and change requests.
• Used Defect Tracking System of Quality Center to Report, Update and Analyze Defects during the entire Software Testing Process.
• Worked on post-production issues to make the application stable in production environment.

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities: 

• Interacting with Onsite people, Taking clarifications regarding applications 
• Involved in writing Test case documents and execution of test cases.
• Assisting Team Lead for preparing the test plan/strategy. 
• Prioritizing, Reporting and Tracking of defects using Bugzilla 
• Experience in preparation of System Test Report and Change Request. 
• Prepare time estimates pertaining to QA  project plans 
• Involved in Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing, Smoke Testing, and Browser Compatibility testing. 
• Responsible for the implementation of configuration management. 
• Defect logging and Defect follow up in bug tracking. 
• Coordinate with the Dev team for new builds. 
• Daily updates to the QA Lead and Project Lead on the progress of the project. 
• Participate in Technical Review Meeting. 
• Prepare release summary reports/Status report. 
• Exported the test run data to external spreadsheet from Quality Centre, and performed detailed analysis. 
• Using Quality Centre, to store all test documents - test cases, results, metrics, defects and reports.