QA Tester

SHRIJANA THAPA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experience in both Manual and Automation testing for web-based applications.

• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) specializing in testing as per Waterfall, AGILE/(SCRUM)

• Preparation of test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test execution and defect management using HP Quality Center.

• Experience in reviewing different types of documents like Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional

Requirement Documents (FRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD), and Technical Design Documents (TDD).

• Experience in Smoke, Functional, System Integration, End to End, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Database, Usability,

Regression, Security, Compatibility, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.

• Used automation tools like HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) for functional and regression testing.

• Experience in database testing using SQL queries – used in data validation, data integrity, ETL transaction and reports.

• Developed required SQL scripts for database testing and performed backend testing, by executing the SQL queries. Wrote

SQL queries to extract data from the Tables.

• Experience in preparing Test data by retrieving data from Relational Databases Oracle, MS-SQL.

• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by assisting one on one end user.

• Experience in Bug tracking tools like Clear Quest, Bugzilla and Extra view.

• Excellent Analytical, Interpersonal and communication skills. Result oriented, committed and hard working with a quest to

learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.

• Team player, Self-starter with excellent presentation, communication, coordination, documentation and interpersonal skills.

TECHINCAL SKILLS

Operating System MS Windows XP/7/Vista, Mac OS, iOS, Unix

Browser IE, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari

Databases SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, DB2

Languages SQL, VBScript, XML, C, C++, Java

Project Management Tools Jira, MS Project

Requirement Management Tools Rational RequisitePro

Modeling Tools MS Visio

Testing tools QTP, SoapUI

Defect/ Change Management tools HP Quality Center, Bugzilla

Versioning Tools Revision Control, CVS, IBM Rational ClearCase

Applications/ Other Tools Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint

EDUCATION

• Management Information System (MIS), Stratford University, Virginia

• Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Tribhuvan University, Nepal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bluestem Brands, Inc Eden Prairie, MN November 2012 to December 2013

QA Tester

Bluestem Brands, Inc. owns the Fingerhut.com, Gettington.com and PayCheck Direct brands, which offer consumers a robust selection

of consumer products with shop-at-home convenience, via direct mail catalogs and online shopping. In addition to offering thousands of

brand-name products, the Fingerhut.com and Gettington.com brands offer a variety of payment options.

Fingerhut.com, project is based on Products Management includes the feature product description, product images, product details and

Payment Gateway includes a method of payment against order placement like Credit cards; Debit cards, Gift card, Bank account etc

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile (Scrum) Methodology to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.

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• Involved in designing the test steps, writing test cases and running test scripts using MS Excel and later using test management

tool HP Quality Center based on the test plans, business and technical documents.

• Performed Smoke test for each build and extensively involved in Functional testing to ensure that the software components of

the system adhere to project standards and functional specifications.

• Performed System Integration testing, End-to-End testing and Security testing.

• Implemented HP Quality Center for requirement management, test design, test execution, defect logging, requirement mapping

with test cases.

• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements during the QA testing phase using HP Quality

Center.

• Generated and analyzed standard and customized reports, graphs, and documentation in Quality Center.

• Developed required SQL scripts for database testing and performed backend testing, by executing the SQL queries.

• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the Tables.

• Managed testing activities, test assets, documents, reports in SharePoint.

• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by assisting one on one end user.

• Created test execution report, test completion report for test Sign Off, documented the testing process and test evaluation

summary.

• Writing reports, documenting and communicating test results to the project manager.

• Coordinating weekly bug triage meetings.

• Attending daily scrum meetings and weekly team meetings both on site and off shore teams providing the day to day updates

on the testing schedules.

Environment: Agile (scrum), Windows, Quality center, SQL, MS-word and MS-Excel.

TCF Bank, Wayzata, MN August 2011 to

September 2012

QA Tester

TCF Bank is the wholly owned banking subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation, a bank holding company headquartered in Wayzata,

Minnesota.

Project was Online Finance module that has various features for Brokerage Services, Loans and Mortgages and Online Services for all

customers. Customers can apply online for loans and mortgages directly from the bank website. The application was designed to

minimize the effort of customers to apply for Brokerage Services, loans and mortgages. Testing included new features and enhancements.

Application was tested on various browsers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the requirement documents like BRD and FRD

• Created test scenarios, test cases to perform different level of testing based on BRD

• Utilized Agile (Scrum) methodology to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures.

• Analyzed requirement updates and mapped them with the respective test cases using HP Quality Center (QC).

• Writing and executing test cases in HP Quality Center (QC).

• Involved in smoke testing, functional testing, system integration testing, UI testing, database testing, regression testing

and security testing.

• Maintained the test execution results and review reports.

• Logging, tracking and reporting defects in QC.

• Involved in testing web services for credit card transaction using SoapUI.

• Involved in writing SQL queries for stored procedures using Query Analyzer and matched the results retrieved from the batch

log files.

• Perform database testing to ensure the ETL process for the data being extracted, transformed and loaded through Informatica.

• Used SQL queries to perform back-end testing of the application.

• Created reports, documented and communicated test results to the project manager.

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• Participated in UAT testing with SMEs. Created test cases for UAT using various use cases identified during the Requirements

definition stage.

• Participated in decision making and Defect Tracking Meetings with BAs, Developers, QAs and other stakeholders.

• Actively participated in team meetings and review meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, windows, MS-Word, MS Excel, Informatica

Med Impact Healthcare System, San Diego, CA January11 - June2011

Software Tester

The MedImpact pharmacist support center features pharmacy benefits related information as well as self-service tools to help

participating pharmacists provide quality, cost-effective pharmacy services to MedImpact members.

This Project relating to Med Impact Healthcare system, divided in to four modules, Registration, Allotment, Approval, Reports and web

note book is the important feature in the project. The components are used to retrieve information from database for different type of

navigation. When the company receives the orders for testing, the product will be registered in register module. The registered products

will be allotted to the chemical analyst for testing. The tested products details, test details, test processing details will be registered in

web notebook, which is provide secured data for each user. The entire process details are stored in different tables. Finally the reports are

handled for the particular product information.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plan for the testing effort of the module

• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the applications under test

• Interacted with Business Analysis team to validate requirements

• Developed and executed Test Cases based on the requirement documents and managed it using Quality Center

• Interacted with the developers to help resolve critical issues

• Planned, Coordinated, and Monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion

• Involved in implementing the test strategy and performing various analysis

• Involved in conducting meetings with the Internal Management to assist with Enhancement Requirements clarification, Data

Gathering and Feasibility Studies

• Manually tested the Graphical User interfaces of the application for Functionality Testing

• Performed Sanity Testing manually

• Conducted Integration, Security and Regression testing for each build and version

• Performed Back End Testing manually using complex SQL Queries and Query Analyzer by connecting to the database server

• Maintained Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Data Requirements Matrix

• Reported bugs using Quality Center

• Assisted in writing scripts for regression testing

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, .net, SQL Server

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