NIVEDITA B
Ph 770-***-****
Smyrna, GA
**************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
An experienced Quality Assurance Analyst seeks challenging position as a QA
Analyst with a dynamic organization that utilizes my team building,
analytical and problem solving skills.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
. A Result-oriented professional with over 6 years of experience in the
field of Software Quality Assurance testing with various web-based, Saas
and Client-server business applications.
. Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),
testing techniques and methodologies.
. Experience in leading and coordinating activities with offshore QA Team.
. Experience in analyzing complex business, technical, and functional
requirements and translate them to Test cases, and prepare detail Test
plans.
. Revise Test plans throughout the testing cycle and communicate status to
Project team.
. Strong understanding of Manual Testing and tracking defects.
. Experience using Quality Center to manage the software testing process,
executing tests.
. Experience using Quick Test Professional and Selenium IDE automation
tool.
. Hands on experience using Load Runner, OpenWebLoad tools.
. Experience in Functional Testing, Regression testing, Compatibility
Testing, Integration Testing, Positive & Negative Testing, Black Box
Testing and User Acceptance (UAT) testing.
. Proven expertise in analyzing Test results, tracking bugs using Quality
Center, Bugzilla, Bug Tracker and providing Statistical reports.
. Experience with Back - end Data Validation testing using MySQL, SQL
Server, and Oracle.
. Ability to interact with developers, Project manager regarding Testing
Status, Defects and track using various tools.
. Experience working in Agile Development.
. Knowledge in Web Service testing.
. Good team player with excellent written, communication, and interpersonal
skills along with exemplary problem solving skills.
. Experience in communicating with clients directly to understand and
resolve issues.
. Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced, time-sensitive environment,
with an ability to meet deadlines and motivate others at all levels in
the achievement of individual and organizational goals.
. Flexible and versatile to adapt to new environment and work on any
project.
. Attention to detail and am a very quick learner, interested in learning
new skills.
IT SKILLS
Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional9.0, Quality Center9.0, Selenium
IDE 1.0, WinRunner, LoadRunner, OpenWebLoad, Junit, Eclipse
IDE.
Bug Tracker: Quality Center, Bugzilla
Web Servers: IIS, Apache
Databases: Oracle 8.0/9i, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, MySQL, SQL
Query Analyzer.
Programming: Java, PL/SQL, .Net, VBScript, XML, HTML, JavaScript,
DHTML.
Operating Systems: MS Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, DOS
Other Tools: MS Office Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, TOAD, .Net
Reflector, Crystal Reports, Informatica.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nuesoft Technologies May
2009- Present
QA Representative
Nuesoft Technologies provides practice management and billing software
solutions to physician's office, clinics, colleges and universities.
Responsibilities:
. Develop functionality, Regression, acceptance test cases for applications
using SRS and SDS documents.
. Review test cases written by QA Team.
. Perform functionality, regression, acceptance, compatibility, performance
testing on applications.
. Manage multiple projects developed in Java and ASP.NET and oversee QA
team members offshore.
. Communicate with Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Development team
for better understanding of the requirements.
. Attend SRS peer review meetings and discuss the functionalities for
better understanding of the requirement and discuss on any issues with
testing the functionalities.
. Perform thorough GUI testing on application and report bugs using
internal bug reporting tool.
. Report and track bug till it is resolved.
. Work on issues reported by support team and communicate with development
team for the fixes.
Environment: IE 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, Firefox 3.0.14, windows xp, MAC, SQL server
2000, ASP.Net,Java.
Peakabou Inc. Dec 2008
- April 2009
QA Tester
Peakabou is a website developed to post online classified ads with a search
engine, email verification and billing and payment for each sponsored
links.
Peakabou.net is a social network website for Business and Personal Users.
It allows you to search people, friends in different groups.
Responsibilities:
. Understand the Business Requirement Documents of functional components
and Business Requirements.
. Write Test cases for Functional, Usability, Browser Compatibility
Testing and Regression Testing.
. Perform Positive and Negative Testing.
. Perform Browser Compatibility Testing.
. Interact with the Project Manager for better understanding of the
feature requirement and implementation.
. Provide daily update on progress of testing.
. Report bugs/defects and suggest application improvements.
Environment: IE 7.0, Windows XP, MySQL, PHP, BugZilla.
Mabest LLC, Delaware Aug
2008 - Nov 2008
QA Engineer
Mabest LLC has developed a web application called Wisheo which is a most
innovative way to organize and manage group gifts and wishlists with
friends. It is the first application that allows users to setup wishlists,
organize group gifts, and collect contributions directly from friends
participating. Wisheo is unique in the sense that it enables multiple
friends to contribute together to fund more expensive gifts on the
wishlist, effectively creating a private "gift" fundraiser within the
user's social graph.
Responsibilities:
. Analyze and review the functional, technical and Business requirement
documents.
. Understand the application functional requirements and generate the test
cases.
. Generate the automated test scripts for reusability.
. Perform functionality testing on the application using automated tool
Selenium IDE.
. Enhance the test scripts generated in Selenium IDE using JavaScript.
. Provide regular test status and test summary report.
. Report defects and suggest application improvements.
Environment: Firefox 3.0.*, Selenium IDE 1.0, Windows XP.
Memba Velodoc
April 2008 - July 2008
Test Engineer
Requirement to transfer, publish, send or share large files in corporations
using Mailboxes or Email attachments is difficult due to size limit. Memba
developed an add-in application Velodoc for Microsoft Outlook. Velodoc
Outlook Add-in allows transfer of large files directly from Outlook. The
File Transfer uses a variety of file transfer server platforms including
Velodoc Enterprise Edition, Velodoc XP Edition, FTP servers, Amazon S3,
Microsoft BITS Server.
Responsibilities:
. Understanding of the application, Business requirements, Functional
requirements.
. Interact with the Team Lead to clarify the functionality of the
application.
. Extensively performed Manual Testing.
. Develop the Automated Test Scripts.
. Perform Positive and Negative testing.
. Configuring the Test Environment, designing and executing test cases
based on specifications.
. Involved in Functionality Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
. Responsible for executing test cases, debug the issues using .Net
Reflector and report the defects.
. Provide weekly statistical report.
Environment: Quick Test Professional, Windows 2000/XP/2003, Outlook 2007,
SQL Server 2005, ASP.Net, MS Excel.
GMAC Home Mortgage, Chicago Feb
2008 - April 2008
QA Engineer
GMAC Home Mortgage is an integral component of GMAC Financial Services. It
is a homeownership company. The primary purpose of developing the
application is to assist residents in search and purchase of new/old homes.
Application is developed with various search features namely homes at
specific location, property type, GPS Coordinates, Search by listings or by
map. Authentication features to access certain modules of the application.
Email notifications for the registered users and also feature to setup an
appointment with the Agent (website owner) to get details of property in
person.
Responsibilities:
. Analyze and review the functional, technical and Business requirement
documents.
. Develop Test Cases and execute using automated tool.
. Perform Functionality testing on the application.
. Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and
Negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing.
. Develop and execute VBScript to add data to the Data Table.
. Perform Browser compatibility testing and Boundary Value Testing.
. Provide regular test status and test summary reporting to the QA Team
Lead.
. Execute test cases, identify bugs, retest and report defects through
Bugzilla.
. Create test input requirements and prepare the test data for data driven
testing.
. Perform Back End testing by writing SQL queries in Query Analyzer to
check data integrity using phpMyAdmin.
Environment: Quick Test Professional, Windows XP, Windows 2000 server,
Microsoft Internet Explorer, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, Bugzilla, BrowserCam.
Talisma Corporation, Bangalore
Sep 2003 - Dec 2007
Test Engineer
Talisma has developed Customer Interaction Management (CIM), Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) and Talisma Knowledgebase to cater to the
needs of financial services, Online Retailers, call center, education, and
clients who deal with activities related to deliver a truly exceptional
online customer service. This product has been tailored to fulfill the
needs of such institutions with good inbuilt features, and gateways to
future enhancements.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in complete Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
. Extensively performed Manual Testing on web based and client/server
application.
. Automated Test Scripts using QTP as required.
. Analyze user requirements and interact with system architect, developers
and business users.
. Use Quality Center for Test case, Test Plan writing and Test execution.
. Use Quality Center MS Word and Ms Excel add-in to transfer requirements,
test plans, and defects into Quality Center tool.
. Extensively performed Functional Testing and Regression Testing of the
applications.
. Test case preparation for various modules according to Functional
Requirements.
. Update test cases and test strategies based on latest requirements.
. Extensively performed Data Validation Testing by executing SQL queries in
Query Analyzer.
. Report daily status to QA Lead and QA Supervisor.
. Discuss extensively with development and customer service team in depth
about the problems in design, functionality to make the application more
robust and user friendly.
. Communicate with Maintenance Team for better understanding of the issues
reported.
. Communicate with clients for better understanding of the issues and help
in fixing the issues.
. Communicate and work with people of all technical levels in a team
environment.
. Maintain excellent performance and exceed Client's expectations
consistently throughout project.
. Investigate and report bugs using Talisma CRM, Quality Center, interact
with Team members, MIS team, developers to resolve the issues.
. Participate in requirement and development walkthroughs and test meeting
with the Business Analysts, Developers, Test Coordinators and development
lead.
. Submit weekly status updates and reports showing the progress of Software
Testing.
. Worked as Single point of contact for Maintenance Team to assist them in
resolving high priority issues from client's eBay, Dell, Microsoft, DHL.
Environment: Windows NT/2000 server, Quality Center, QTP,SQL Server 2000,
Microsoft Internet Explorer, VB, .NET.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering from Visveshwaraya University, Karnataka, India
References available upon request