Resume of QA Analyst

Title
QA Analyst

Primary Skills
Test Director, W/Runner

Location
US-TX-Houston

Posted
Feb-26-08


Objective: Software Quality Assurance Analyst with strong testing experience in a wide variety of
Projects and environments and also with strong experience developing test strategies, test plan and
test cases based upon requirements. Expertise in analyzing test results, reviewing and reporting defects.
Experience in web application, client-server, network, multimedia, and database applications. Quick learner and a team player.

Skills:
· Experience in Software Quality Assurance and support environments.
· Experience in Manual, Automated and Back-End Testing. Using Test Director, Win-Runner and Informatica testing tools.
· Strong Knowledge on the phases of Software Development Life Cycle. (SDLC) Methodology Waterfall, V Model.
· Work closely with the developers through several Software Development Life Cycle from Initiation to Implementation.
· Strong experience in creating Test Plan, converting and documenting requirements into Test Cases.
· Responsible for developing test strategy alternatives and maintaining test logs..
· Analyzing and verifying results for the project assigned to completion in order to provide 100% quality.
· Expertise in coordinating bug defects by writing, analyzing, reviewing and reporting them. Experience performing Functionality testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing, Integration, Negative testing, User Acceptance (UAT) Stress Testing and Regression testing on several applications as needed to minimize defects.
· Extensive work experience in designing Test plans, defining Test cases, performing Verification and Validation, maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with other Team members, Developers and users to debug the errors.
· Experience modifying and executing automated testing scripts (primarily with Winrunner and
Test Director).
· Strong experience in Black Box Testing.
· Experience in testing Web, client/ server, and database applications.
· Exposure to Agile methodology.
· Quality oriented, mind setup and problem solving skills with a Test-To-Break attitude.
· Efficient in implementing established standard, procedure and methodologies.
· Experience in using SQL to verify test cases in database application testing.
· Experience in ETL Data Warehousing, database testing using Informatica for Workflow process.
· Profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work, and meet critical deadlines within budget guidelines.
· Ability to learn quickly new concepts in emerging technology and work under pressure.
· Ability to work independently and multi task without negative impact to timelines or quality.
· Hand on experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements, and developing functional and technical requirements.


Technical Skills:
O/S MS-DOS, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP.
Languages: C, C++, JAVA, SQL, XML Design.
Database: Oracle 8.0, MS SQL Server. Sybase,
MS Access, Power Builder, DB2.
Software: MS-Office, MS-Project, SAP, PeopleSoft.
Web Technologies: HTML, Tomcat, Java, .NET, XML, J2EE. Tibco, MQ Series.
Testing Tools: WinRunner 7.0/7.5, Test Director 7.0/7.6,,8.0,8.2, PVC Tracker, Quality Center,
Test Strategies: Functionality testing, System Integration Testing (SIT),
NegativeTesting, Graphical User Interface (GUI) Testing,
User Acceptance (UAT)Testing, Stress Testing,
Performance Testing and Regression testing.
ETL: Informatica Power Center, Datastage.
Data Access Tools: TOAD.

Professional Experience:
Feb/2007- to date: Devon Energy Corporation: Houston Tx.
Position: Quality Assurance Analyst.
Environment: ETL, Oracle8i, Test Director 8.0, Informatica 7.1.2. Winrunner. , Windows
9x/NT/2000/XP. Unix, RPG, As400, Java, Visual Basic,

Responsibilities: Currently working as a Quality Assurance Analyst in order to:
· Created test plan and test cases for manual and automated testing from the business requirements to match the project's initiatives.
· Tested to verify that all data were synchronized after the data is troubleshoot, and also used SQL to verify my test cases.
· Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected result.
· Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Test Director.
· Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Metrics (RTM), Software Metrics, Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports and SQA Report using Test Director.
· Perform black box testing by designing and constructing test cases, test data and test execution.
· Verify defects and Perform database functional, integration and regression testing as needed to minimize defects.
· Responsible for gathering requirements from the Subject Matter Expert. (SME).
· Perform defect Tracking and reporting with strong emphasis on root-cause analysis to determine where and why defects are being introduced in the development process.
· Tested data migration to ensure that integrity of data was not compromised.
· Involved in the entire software development Life Cycle of the projects from Initiation to Implementation.
· Performed execution phased: Executing test cases, identified products issues, wrote detailed bug reports and participated in bug review during the product development stages.
· Participated in Risk Management to help determine best use of development and testing resources.
· Used Test Director, to manage the entire process and log in defects.
· Provide update to management on testing status and some other issues

· Carried out and oversee test execution for Business scenario, User acceptance and Regression testing.
· Performed database validation according to the business logic by comparing the source to the target.
· Tested Data Warehousing application on Oracle Database.
· Worked as ETL Tester responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project.
· Creating and executing SQL queries to perform Data Integrity testing on an Oracle Database to validate and test data using TOAD.
· Ran workflows created in Informatica by developers then compared before and after transformation of data generated to ensure that transformation was successful.

Nov /2006-- Feb 2007: Volan Inc: Houston Tx.
Position: Quality Assurance Analyst.
Environment: Window XP, Oracle 8i, Winrunner, J2EE, Test Director 7.5, SOAP, (Simple Object
Access Protocol), Informatica 7.1.2.
Responsibilities:
· Worked with customers to develop user acceptance tests for internet based business application.
· Ensured that the application meet quality standard for performance consistency and usage by performing functional testing and regression testing.
· Documented, managed and engaged in error diagnosis for system run process.
· Prioritized implementation and application functionality including minor bugs and major enhancements.
· Involved through initial phases of Software Development Life Cycle system, scope and requirements.
· Wrote and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected result.
· In the execution phase, I executed test plans, run test software, identify product issues, wrote detailed bug reports and participated in bug review .
· Tested to verify that all data were synchronized.
· Tested data migration to ensure that integrity of data was not compromised.
· Create test plans and tests cases and used SQL to verify my test cases.
· Performed database validation according to the business logic by comparing the source to the target.
· Ran workflows created in Informatica by developers then compared before and after transformation of data generated to ensure that transformation was successful.

American-Re Insurance. Houston Tx:
Sept 2005- Oct 2006
Position: Quality Assurance Analyst.
Environment: Window XP, Unix Test Director7.5, Winrunner 7.5, TSL, Java, C#.
Responsibilities:
· Performed database verification using ODBC files to access the database.
· Performed functional, regression, security testing.
· Created Excel data tables to drive the data driven aspect of the automation.
· Perform defect Tracking and reporting with strong emphasis on root-cause analysis to determine where and why defects are being introduced in the development process.
· Established test lab procedures and organized lab to run in a batch mode for maximum usefulness as a shared resource.
· Responsible for the creation of the Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases. Generation of various Test Scenarios & Test Cases. Test cases review and Test Execution.
· Created a function library that has scripts that are called at the beginning and another function that is called at the end of each test run.
· Acted as a customer advocate working to ensure the product met customer expectations which yielded a high customer satisfaction rating
· Communicated with users for the business rules.
· Involved through initial phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
· Create test plans and test cases for manual and automated testing.
· Perform regression, integration and functional testing.
· Responsible for developing test strategies alternatives.
· Performed Record and Playback and Test Synchronization with Winrunner.
· Responsible for gathering requirements from the Subject Matter Expert. (SME).
· Used Test Director Tools for organizing and managing the entire process.


Education:
University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 1993-1998
Major: Computer Science.
Courses/Seminars /Workshops:
Mercury Interactive Test Suite. (WinRunner, Test Director, Informatica, SQL, Toad, Pvc Tracker.)

Salary Requirement: $60,000 and above

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