SUMMARY

• US Citizen, six plus years of experience in software quality assurance (QA) and software testing; specialized in Manual and Automated Testing client - server, desktop and web-based application on banking, financial and government solutions industries.
• Hands on experience in System Analysis, QA Processes, Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and software Test Methodologies.
• Extensive experience in creating and executing of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test data, Test log, Test Summary Report and bug documentation.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software development methodologies and Software Test Methodologies.
• Experience in analysis of system requirement specification, functional specifications and design documentation.
• Expert in Writing, Executing, and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking toolsQuality Center, and Test Director.
• Solid experience in Smoke, GUI, System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Performance testing, Stress testing, Backend testing, Sanity testing, and Regression Testing.
• Hands on experience in Tracking and Reporting of defects using Defect Tracking Tools such as HP Mercury Quality Center, Test Director.
• Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels.
• Experienced in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Extensive experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experienced in tracking and logging Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Extensively written Test Analyzing Report (TAR).
• Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical and end clients.
• Performed structured walkthroughs, Peer Reviews meeting, and testing to carry out verification and validation process.
• Performed back-end and integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end and raw feed by developing and executed complex SQL queries.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in Test Execution and Test Result Analysis.
• Self-starter, team player working on fast-faced development environments committed to the deliverables.
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project.
• Possess strong communication, presentation, problem solving and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Organized, attention to detail, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe (VSS)

Software Testing Tools: HP Quick Test professional, Quality Center, and Test Director

Languages: VB, SQL, XML

Defect Tacking Tools: Quality Center and Test Director

Operating System: Windows XP, VISTA, UNIX

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raritan NJ

Technical Writer / Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the System Requirement Specs (SRS) and developed Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, and Test Analysis Report (TAR).
• Formulates test plans and execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Interfaced with various business groups and other QA team members
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs) and converted them from the old template to the new template format.
• Created Workflows for SOPs and WIs in the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)
• Interacted with Document Owners and business analysts to resolve process issues.
• Reviewed Annotations for EDMS documents
• Converted some Work Instructions to Job Aids
• Developed Use Cases for Global Program Management

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, Hackensack, NJ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the System Requirement Specs (SRS).
• Developed Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, and Test Analysis Report (TAR).
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed both Manual and Automated testing.
• Conducted end to end scenario functional testing.
• Manually ran test scripts for basic functional testing of the Application.
• Involved in Product testing such as iPhone and cameras.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.
• Reporting and verifying the bugs in HP Quality Center.
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involving in reviewing and analyzing the business requirements, functional requirements and software design document.
• Analyzed& Designed Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Analyzing test results to ensure existing functionality and recommending corrective action.
• Creating Test Scenarios with Negative and Positive Scenarios for all functionalities
• Creating Test Data and performing Functional Testing, Regression testing, End-to-End Testing.
• Participating in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Documenting procedures and guiding the users in verifying various transactions on the System.
• Creating Regression Test Suites for every Release
• Creating Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Creating Separate Test Sets for the Each Release Under Test Lab in Mercury Quality Center
• Involving in changing the Test cases for regression testing according to the new functionality of the application and executing them.
• Mentored test team members in a multi-cultural environment.
• Executed of end-to-end testing to evaluate system testing of the application
• Coordinating testing efforts with teammates and User Acceptance Test (UAT) with business users as well.
• Developed and enhanced automated script using Quick Test Regression testing
• Developed detailed test cases basing on use cases, requirements
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are met for the sprints
• Defects were tracked and reported in Quality Center
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Attended the weekly status meetings and create notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the Required Documents for testing.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Business Development Teams (BDT) in the review and Modification of Product Specifications.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan 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 monitor 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.
• Used MS Project to keep track of tasks status and prepared Test Status Reports during test execution processes.
• 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.
• Worked with development and QA team to perform root cause analysis for defects found during testing.
• Involved in identify Bugs and problems, analyze test results, and bug reporting and bug tracking.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Oracle, Toad, Microsoft Office, VSS.

Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ

User Acceptance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documenting Test Plan, Test Cases as per Business requirements for each release.
• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Reviewed Business Requirements and Software Specification Requirements to achieve better understanding of the UAT.
• Support user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Coordinated test scheduling, status meetings, test case reviews, and user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Interacted with users for execution of test cases in UAT.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Involved in setting up QA environment for User Acceptance testing and also supported the users during UAT. Involved in User training of the applications
• Interact with Design and Development teams to interpret requirements as per user’s expectations.
• Design Test Case scenarios for user group community for UAT, conducted UAT, and developed Training Material for users.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Test Director was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Used Test Director 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.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly to update the test documents.
• Developed & executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.

Environment: VB, Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows 98/NT