QA Analyst

NISHA MAHEY

Email: *********@*****.***

Phone: 347-***-****

Status: Green Card Holder

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

OBJECTIVE:

* **** ***** ** ****** understanding of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies Seeking for a Software QA Analyst/Engineer/Tester position of a winning organization where creativity, sincerity, skill and performances are the criteria for one's appraisal and recognition.

SUMMARY:

6 Plus years of strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies including development, execution, and maintenance of the Test Plans, Test Result documents and Defect reports.

Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).

Experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Performed Database Validation and Verification using Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.

Rich PL/SQL development experience for Oracle database stored procedure.

Experienced in Implementing and utilizing automated test solutions using tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with profound ability to prioritize and multi task goals in order to meet the time requirements.

Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and training.

Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Experienced in developing the test scripts using Automation Object Model.

Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Excellent working knowledge on both UNIX/LINUX and Windows environments.

Concepts of Object Repositories, Merging of Object Repositories and Shared Object Repositories on HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Experience on handling of Unexceptional events like popup windows during run time using Recovery Scenarios by using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Sound knowledge in Creation of Business Components and Application Areas.

Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Functional, Black Box, Regression, UAT, Smoke, Sanity, Unit and Integration testing.

Experience working in agile environment where I attended Triage meeting, Walkthrough meeting, Daily Standup meeting and (spring planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Demo planning meeting, and Retrospective meeting).

Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment.

Proficient in creating descriptive programming for Data Driven Framework using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Automation Experienced in creating Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework as well as Hybrid Framework.

By using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Experienced in creating Automation for XML File Compares and Flat File Compares.

Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Very dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

TD Bank, N.A.

Cherry Hill, NJ

Job Title: QA Analysis

January 2018 to Present

My Role &Responsibilities:

Involved in developing Test Cases, Test Plan for application.

Worked on Logging bugs in the HP ALM tracking tool.

Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the HP ALM and Monitored

HP ALM.

Analyzed the Discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through HP ALM.

Used SQL to query the DB to verify application front end input value.

Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables.

Automated scripts were developed using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform functional and regression testing.

Developed Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automation scripts using library functions, Data driven tests and Regression tests.

Involved in both Manual Testing and Automated testing using the automated tool Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Expert in creating Data Driven Automation Frameworks using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Performed data driven testing and Keyword- driven Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Expert to Work with XPath with UFT to Identified Web Object in the application.

Regularly updating and maintaining Comprehensive Automation Regression Test Suite containing Test Cases from Previous releases and executing them on Regular Basis.

Experience working in agile environment where I attended Triage meeting, Walkthrough meeting, Daily Standup meeting and (spring planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Demo planning meeting, and Retrospective meeting).

Involved in testing task estimations, review checklists preparation.

Worked closely with developers in reproducing bugs reported.

Analyzed Requirement documents to develop and Execute Test scripts and documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules.

Involved in preparing detailed and reviewed Test cases to cover all the requirements.

Extensively worked with developer in reviewing the requirements.

Involved in Peer reviewing the Team members test scripts also bug meeting.

Involved in functional testing and verify the application according to the user perspective.

Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.

Interfaced with subject matter experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts and Test cases.

Extensively involved in reviewing the scripts with the business people.

Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.

Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency and Constraints.

Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work. Lead brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.

Cultivates and disseminates knowledge of quality assurance best practices and Involved in Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Integration testing, Regression testing

Experience to Conducts internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration and information system performance, as well as corresponding documentation.

Environment: Windows,VB.NET, ASP.NET, SOAP UI, Agile, Version One, HP ALM, HTML, Web Services API, Siebel, HP UFT, .NET, People Soft

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield

Newark, NJ

Job Title: Software Test Engineer

August 2015 to December 2017

My Role & Responsibilities:

Experience to Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).

Experience to Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.

Experience to Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.

Mapped system requirements with Test cases, ensured traceability of Test Cases back to the Business Requirements using HP ALM/ Quality Center (QC).

Performed Manual Testing of Web-based and Client-server enterprise applications and used HP Quality Center (QC)/ HP ALM for test management.

Created test plan based on the requirements, created the test cases and uploaded in Quality Center (QC)/ HP ALM.

Generated different type of graphs, analyzed the result, created the report and published the report By Using HP ALM.

Executed the test cases, reported defects and provided test cases execution status for the required cycle.

Perform different testing from smoke testing to regression testing to functional testing.

Performed Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Security, Configuration and User Acceptance testing manually.

Tested the Application in different Web Browsers and on Multiple Platforms-UNIX, Linux and Windows.

Log defect upon find and send them to developer for fixing.

Identify the severity and priority of a defect and take action accordingly.

Also perform data validation testing. Use SQL queries to extract data from Oracle Database.

Used Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to automate function for the web application. Analyzed the functionality needs to be automated based on the manual test cases and estimated time and efforts for the required functionality.

Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Scheduled the script execution, published results and reported defects as required in HP ALM /Quality Center (QC).

Worked in agile environment, attended daily morning stand up (scrum) meetings, updated daily status on what was done yesterday, what will be done today, and any blocking issues.

Involved with backend testing of the SQL database and verified if the data displaying is correct.

Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency and Constraints.

Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work. Lead brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.

Environment: Oracle 10g, IE, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Windows XP, UNIX, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)/ HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM, IIS.

North Carolina Department of Social Services

Charlotte, NC

Role: Software Tester

January 2014 to July 2015

My Role & Responsibilities:

Analyzed the business requirements and involve in the review discussions.

Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.

Performed System and Integration Testing.

Drafted test cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.

Prepared of Test Plan and analyze integration system impacts.

Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.

Mentored the team members with business functionality.

Performed the Regression Testing to make sure the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly as requirement.

Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results.

Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.

Involved in validating and verifying defects using JIRA, and clearly articulated defect issues.

Performed SQL and PL/SQL and backend validations.

Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform backend database testing.

Wrote PL/SQL scripts and assisted C programmers for Application development.

Developed and documented testing processes, test plans and test cases.

Extensively involved in GUI, backend Oracle testing.

Assisted in definition, creation and validation of test data.

Worked closely with the development team to identify and fix defects and enhancements.

Involved in documenting and analyzing defects and test results.

Performed troubleshoot with UNIX and Database related problems.

Performed necessary research to resolve defects.

Communicated clearly and frequently the status of defects, and the steps to resolution with technical and business teams.

Exercised good judgment within generally defined quality assurance practices, procedures and standards.

Environment: MS Office, Oracle Database 10g, JIRA, Windows, XML, MS Project, XML, MS SQL Server 2003.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILL:

Applications: Java, ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, C Sharp

Testing areas: Web Testing, Database Testing, Client Server Testing

Types of Testing: Black box testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, System testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Sanity Testing, User Acceptance Testing.

Testing tools: HP ALM 12.0 / HP Quality Center (QC) 11.0/ JIRA,

HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT),

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux.

Database: MS SQL Server 2008, 2012, Microsoft Access, Oracle 11g

EDUCATION:

M.S in Computer Application

Major: Computer Information System

Punjab Technical University, India

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:

Available upon Request

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