QA Engineer SQL Skills

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, and testing tools.
• Experience in developing test plan, assessing risk, filing appropriate defects.
• Management and execution of test scenarios and test cases and, where possible, develop and execute automated test scripts to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements.
• Ability to create test plans and test cases by analyzing requirements, setting up test environments, understanding and executing test scripts with little supervision.
• Proficiency in database testing, read/write/execute SQL queries to validate inserts, updates & extracts from a SQL Server/Oracle database. Compare the UI with the backend data and uncover issue.
• Proven experience with web services / API testing (REST and SOAPUI)
• Perform various types of testing, including Performance, Load, Regression, Integration and Functional.
• Identify test data, execute the test cases, and report defects. Good experience with various defect tracking tools (JIRA, Bugzilla etc)
• Take a proactive role in researching and implementing more effective test practices.
• Estimate, track and analyze defect metrics associated with testing activities and help identify problem areas in the application.
• Provide timely updates and elevate critical risks to project and management teams.
• Good verbal and written communication skills for collaborative team environment and technical documentation
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting/debugging skills to resolve technical and business issues.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities in a highly dynamic, fast paced work environment.
• Working experience in Health Care industry is highly desirable.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS or similar required (minimum).
• Between 8-10 years’ QA experience, including5 or more years of manual testing.
• Experience with RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) and database query writing/execution.
• Experience testing standalone, web, backend systems and/or mobile applications.
• Expertise in testing methodologies, test plans and test case development.
• Strong experience testing software at API level using SOAP UI, Post Man, REST Client etc
• Well versed with defect reporting process.
• Experience writing and maintaining test cases and related documentation.
• Good to have experience in automation tools like selenium web driver or similar tools.