SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in analysis of Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), software design documents (SDD), use cases design documents and development of software test plans, test strategy and test cases.
• Extensive knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), waterfall model, V - Model and Agile development methodologies.
• Solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, analyzing Business Process Flow and functional specification.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Load and Performance Testing, Regression Testing and Baseline Regression Testing.
• Extensive experience in developing SQL queries for backend-testing, using ORACLE and SQL Server database.
• Experience with testing tools including JIRA, HP Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager, Quick Test Professional, and LoadRunner.
• Extensive experience in designing and performing Verification, Validation, and test scripts.
• Expertise developing and maintaining Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work, and meet critical deadlines.
• Self-starter, strong analytical and problem solving skills, able to work independently and as part of a team. Possess outstanding communication and motivational skills, resulting in excellent rapport with employees and team members.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and focus the team to commit towards achieving goals.
• Self-motivated, team oriented, have strong communication skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, priorities, meets project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Excellent communicator and client relationship manager, able to diagnosis client needs and set and satisfy client expectations.
• Experienced team player, committed to delivering high quality results to the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center/ALM, Load Runner, VSS, SVN

Rational Quality Manager: Toad, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Testlink, TOADLanguages VB, SQL, XML, HTML, C, .Net and Java

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Software Tester

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering/analyzing the System Requirement Specification, User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specification and Software Design Document.
• Verified functional changes per requirements by creating test cases.
• Conducted regression testing through use of test cases, to ensure new functionality has not compromised existing functionality. Made necessary redlines to include latest enhancements, changes, and/or reworks to allow traceability and ensure changes are monitored in the next test set.
• Ensured that all artifacts for projects required by QA were properly prepared as per best practices.
• Attended project team meetings to discuss and agree upon what and how much functionality was to be included in each release.
• Tested to verify that all data were synchronized after the data is troubleshot.
• Developed complex SQL queries to verify data in the back end.
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected result.
• Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using HP ALM (Quality Center).
• Performed black box testing by designing and constructing test cases, test data and test execution.
• Performed defect Tracking and reporting with strong emphasis on root-cause analysis (RCA) to determine where and why defects are being introduced in the development process.
• Tested data migration to ensure that integrity of data was not compromised.
• Involved in executing test cases, identified products issues, wrote detailed bug reports and participated in bug review during the product development stages.
• Participated in Risk Management to help determine best use of development and testing resources.
• Used ALM to manage the entire process of logging defects.
• Provided updates to management on testing status and some other issues.

Environment: Oracle, Quality Center, Windows XP, UNIX, Java, Visual Basic, QTP.

Senior QA Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD) and provide feedback to business owner for Java web based applications.
• Peer reviewed Requirements Document, SCR (System Change Request) documents before they were baselined.
• Developed comprehensive Test Plans for Major Releases and test cases for all releases.
• Provided LOE’s for both minor and major releases.
• Worked closely with the business as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes.
• Attended IT/QA kick-offs to get a good understanding on the new release.
• Verified all the defect/trouble reports were closed prior to deployment in the multiple Environments.
• Conducted Smoke/Stability testing before conducting full functionality testing.
• Tested the functionality of each release based on the Requirements.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases for various Business Services/Methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Conducted GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Performance testing, Backend testing, Sanity testing, Regression Testing and User acceptance testing in different environments.
• Trained junior test engineers as required by providing professional leadership and guidance.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development Team, QA Manager, and worked closely to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependencies.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Involved in preparation and execution of test cases for an application.
• Performed UI Testing on the application web Interface.
• Created Standard checkpoints, Text checkpoints to check the application’s current behavior to its behavior in previous version using QTP.
• Conducted 508 Accessibility testing on various projects using JAWS screen reader.
• Coordinated UAT testing activities and reported progress.
• Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team members.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Developed detailed Test summary reports on the final outcome of every release.
• Coordinated with the Configuration Management team to baseline all the final documents.
• Attended the weekly QC team status meetings and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: Oracle, Toad, JIRA, Windows XP/7, Java, QTP, SnagIt 8, JAVA

Software Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Performed System Testing, System Integration test (SIT), End to End (E2E), D2D Test, Environment Shakeout test, Implementation Shakeout test, regression testing, UAT test and Production test per the needs of the application and record Issues / Defects and track in Quality Center.
• Participated in End to End testing flowing orders from Order entry to Billing
• Verified defects and performed database functional, integration and regression testing as needed to minimize defects.
• Conducted backend testing of the applications by executing SQL commands.
• Extensively used SQL queries using TOAD for data validation on the backend.
• Documented TRR (Test Readiness Review), TAR (Test Analysis Report), Test Execution Report, and Test Log for all the testing activities.
• Formulated RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) from FRD (functional requirements document) using quality Center.
• Set up the Test Environment and Test Data Set for different Test Scenarios.
• Wrote SQL Queries to check database, analyzed and investigated data integrity issues.
• Imported requirements, created Test Cases, Validated requirements with Test Cases, and generated reports using Quality Center.
• Managed the testing process, tracked and logged defects using Quality Center. Generated detailed bug report. Took part in bug review meetings to resolve the defect issues.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing by developing and executing automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Performed Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data using QTP.
• Developed user defined functions, wrote descriptive programming, created data dictionary, recovery scenarios, optional steps to support automated scripts.
• Attended meetings actively with fellow testers to analyze and evaluate the progress and performance of the application, developed testing schedules and monitored progress against the schedules. Also, interfaced and followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

Environment: Quality Center, XP, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, VSS, Visual Basic and Java

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Required Documents for testing.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Business Development Teams (BDT) in the review and Modification of Product Specifications. • Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Required Documents for testing.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Reviewed functional and design specification documents, identified test conditions, ambiguities, conflicts and risks.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitored defect status.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Regression and Smoke Tests on the new enhancements added to the web application.
• Responsible for generating of various Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Cases Review and Test Execution.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database.
• Used Quality Center for defect management and VSS for version control.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases and took into consideration the product module priorities.
• Performed functional and regression testing using Quick Test Pro and Rational Functional Tester.
• Monitored resources to identify performance, bottlenecks, analyze test results and report the findings to the clients, and provide recommendation for performance improvements as needed.
• Developed Base line scripts for Performance, Load and Stress Testing of the application using Load Runner.
• Analyzed the Business requirements, Performed ambiguity reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application.
• Worked with development and QA team to perform root cause analysis for defects found during testing.
• Involved in identifying Bugs and problems, analyze test results, bug reporting and bug tracking.

Environment: QTP, Rational Functional Tester, Quality Center, Load Runner, Java, HTML, UNIX, Oracle, Toad, Microsoft Office and VSS

QA Tester

Key Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for documenting test cases as per Business Requirements for each release.
• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.
• Tested Internet Application on different browsers using previous and current versions.
• Defined the test strategy for customer requirements to include designing, writing, and executing test cases and procedures.
• Regularly followed with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Used Quality Center to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed Functional Testing using Quick Test professional.
• Met with the developers and technical content writers on a regular basis and update the test documents
• Developed & executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed various testing types with inserting sync points, check points (GUI, Bitmap, text check points), enhancing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed and executed Error Handling and Exception cases to run the automated scripts uninterrupted using Quick Test professional.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT/2000/XP