Quality Assurance Analyst
CurrentPerformed Web-based testing of payroll related application modules.- Responsible for testing (Smoke, Blackbox, Regression, integration, functional & GUI) the solution before releasing it to production.- Worked as part of an agile team to write high-quality test cases, test plans, and related documentation using JIRA and Confluence.- Performed API testing using Postman and Swagger.- Performed backend database testing in MSSQL environment including validating stored data, procedures, triggers, and jobs.- Discussed business needs, identified regression test items, designed and reviewed test cases, uploaded to JIRA, and executed at each release.- Worked closely with Business Analysts and Business Owners while taking business requirements and designed test plan and test strategy.- Proactively resolved projects impediments by participating in daily scrum meetings with the agile team and achieved seamless project delivery.- Documented test results, recorded bugs, and defects found in JIRA.- Helped development team in diagnosis and replication of product defects and bugs.- Managed JIRA tickets: Identified requirements, created user stories/Epics, tracked progress, logged and closed bugs.- Actively represented QA in scrum activities such as product backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint estimation, daily stand-up, sprint retrospective, and sprint reviews.- Conducted peer and internal review to standardize QA Artifacts; presented to QA Manager and distributed to managers associated with the project for rollout.- Mentored & coordinated functional system integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for multiple project phases; reviewed the state of quality and defects for application under test.- Documented modification requests for all the defects detected and tracked the defects fixing process to closure.