QA Analyst

Keerthana

*******@*****.*** 713-***-****

SUMMARY:

. Over 5 years of experience in the IT Industry specializing in Quality

Assurance Testing.

. Experienced with testing Methodologies Agile, Waterfall and "V".

. Developed and executed test plans, test cases, test scripts for various

applications.

. Proficient in creating test scenarios for Manual Testing.

. Experience in manual testing using tools like Test Director and Quality

Center good knowledge in QTP.

. Expert in Regression, Functional testing, System testing and User

Acceptance testing Performance Testing.

. Involved in all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirements

gathering, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, and change

management.

. Experience with bug tracking systems and test management tools and

Metrics Reporting.

. Experienced in multiple Operating Systems, Web Browsers & Compatibility

Testing

. Highly motivated, self-starter able to work independently and

collaboratively within a diverse technical team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

RDBMS : Oracle 9i/10g, MS SQL Server 2005/2000/7.0/6.5, MS Access.

GUI : Visual Basic 6.0/5.0

LANGUAGES : Visual Basic, SQL

TESTING TOOLS : Test Director, Quality Center, QTP, TFS, Bugzilla, Jira.

REPORTING TOOLS : Business Objects 6.5, Xi

UTILITIES : TOAD

OS : Windows 2000/NT, Windows XP

Professional Experience

Siemens

Aug'11 - to date

Houston based software company provides Engineering and Automation Systems

Integration. I worked on OGM project as QA tester.

As a QA Tester/BA I was responsible for testing the application which was

developed in Visual Studio with SQL Server 2008 as the database. I have

defined test cases to perform manual testing identifying bugs in SIT

. Actively involved in analyzing the business requirements within Change

Requests, creating Test Suites, Test Plans and Test Cases (with

parameters for multiple iterations) using Test Manager.

. Execute the test cases in Test Manager and create issue reports on

TFS, for a follow-up with development team to get them fixed and re-

validated.

. Was involved in executing the regression testing on new Builds

. Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and

Modification request issues

. Develop product requirements based on input gathered from a variety of

sources including analysis results and feedback from the user

community

. Interacted with (Offshore)Team providing valid test cases through

business requirements

. Worked with Test Analyst to ensure the defects are tracked and

documented and results communicated to developers and stakeholders

. Interacted with users for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and

explained about each link, tab and search functionalities to the users

. Performed Security testing, Functional testing

. Actively using TFS to keep track of all the various stages of the

issues like active, deployed and validated among different

environments.

. Actively involved in using the various features of the Test Manager

like creating shared steps executed while running the test cases.

. Actively participating in the status review meetings and test case

walkthroughs.

Environment:- C#, .Net, SQL Server 2008, MS Test Manager 2010, MS Visual

Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, SQL Server Management Studio.

American Electric & Power - Columbus, OH

Feb'09-July'10

American Electric Power is one of the largest utilities in the United

States, providing electricity to more than 5 million customers. Worked on

home grown financial and work flow reporting systems.

. Understand the functional requirements of the projects and performed

the functional testing using Manual testing process.

. Actively respond to Customer Requests Via email and telephone Support

. Capture details of each support request in AEP' s Ticketing Systems

. Preparation of test cases, preparation of Test Plans that describes

the features and functions to be tested.

. Execution test cases and reported bugs using Quality Center.

. Managed, Documented and controlled all the Test Cases, test scripts

and test result using QC and also in a status update report using MS

Excel.

. Testing of the entire process including reports and back-end data

validation.

. Perform regression testing after closing the defects or new build

after fix.

. Record and run tests using QTP.

. Involved in User Acceptance Testing, Usability testing.

. Participate in test plan and test cases review meetings.

. Performed backend testing using SQL queries to check backend data and

data integrity.

. Use some of the basic commands while testing UNIX.

. Perform and validate positive, negative, integration and system

testing.

. Preparing Daily Execution Report - Involved in preparing the Daily

Execution Status report and sharing with managers and leads.

. Weekly Status Report - Involved in preparing the Daily Execution

Status report and sharing with the project manager and lead.

Environment: QC9.0, QTP9.0, SQL, Oracle, Windows NT- XP and UNIX

Employers Reinsurance Company (GE) Kansas City, MO

Oct' 07- Dec' 08

Employers Reinsurance Corporation is the one of the top 5 re-insurer.

Client include like Health care, property of casualty and liability

reinsurance.

Worked on the system called SPICE (System Providing International Client

Electronically) as a

Qa tester.

. Responsible for all Core activities around planning and executing

System Integration and User Acceptance testing tasks, which includes

creating Test Plan, Test case development, defect management and test

execution

. Attended design reviews, requirements sessions, core team meetings,

and technical team meetings to understand business requirements and

business operating processes/procedures in order to identify test

scenarios

. Tracking team activities and Identified the Test requirements based on

business requirements

. Interacting with Business Analyst, Development team to understand

business requirements

. Involved in the review & preparation of the Test cases and Test

Scenarios

. Identifying defects and track to closure using Bugzilla defect

tracking tool.

Environment: Java, XML, Oracle, ASP.NET, IIS 6.0, SQL Server, Bugzilla

The Republic Group, Dallas, TX

Feb'07-Aug' 07

Republic Group is leading insurance company which provides insurance to

various sectors. As a Quality Assurance Expert, I worked on Personal

Insurance products. This application is to take the claims from the

customers.

. Prepared the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Responsibility

Matrices for the Application under test.

. Analyzed the specifications in the User Requirements Document,

Functional Requirement and Technical Requirement Documents to develop

Test plans.

. Involved in defining Test cases and test steps.

. Experienced in maintaining the test cases and running them from QC.

. Performed functional testing, integration testing.

. Conducted Regression Testing on various builds of the application and

reported the defects to the developers using Quality Center for the

bug fixing and tracking.

Environment: Windows 2000, HTML, XML, Java, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center.

Providian Financial, San Francisco, CA

Feb'06-Nov'06

Allstate Insurance Company is one of the leading insurance companies

providing auto and home insurance. I worked as a QA Tester on a web based

application, which was developed to meet the on-line insurance requirements

for automobile owners. My job duties include testing of the above windows

application which was implemented in .net using SQL server as backend.

. Worked within a QA team to develop requirements to design test plans

and define test cases module and ensure that all requirements are

covered by the test cases.

. Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.

. Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect,

developers and business users.

. Developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios using the Test

Director and prepared test data.

. Prepared Test Cases for windows application.

. Test the modules manually and make sure that software works

accordingly to the requirements.

. Used Test Director for defect reporting and tracking.

Environment: Test Director, SQL Server, .NET, Windows

Education: Bachelors of Science, Osmania University India

Certification: Effective and Efficient Software Testing

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