SUMMARY:

• Skilled IT professional with over 11+ years in Sr. Quality Assurance / Software Testing / Developer experience of both Web - Based and Client Server Applications
• Detailed understanding of QA methodology (Agile, Waterfall) to ensure quality control
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Mainframe Testing, Webservices Testing, Database Testing and Automation Testing
• Proficient in different phases of Testing like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, Cross browser Testing and User Acceptance testing
• Proficient in preparing the Test plans, Test scripts and Test cases by analyzing Business Requirements and various other ARTIFACTS with a strong ability to work closely with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post deployment
• Good experience with writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in Oracle and other RDBMS
• Experience in manual testing for the IBM Mainframe & Midrange applications by creating test cases and test plans for any possible upgrades
• Extensive hands on skills in testing on different technologies - Oracle, Unix, Mainframes, TOAD and Webservices SOAP UI
• Running the Automated test scripts to support regression testing for web based application and also to check the functionality of the application
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning and Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting
• Involved in testing various Daily/Monthly Public reports and Regulator reports
• Pragmatic and competent software engineer with strong communication, presentation and problem solving skills as well as very good Interpersonal, Management and Business Skills coupled with many years of technical expertise
• Experience in Banking and Insurance domain
• Involved in various documentation tasks such as daily status reports, weekly progress reports, Requirements traceability Metrics (RTM) and defect logs
• Exceptionally well organized, strong work ethics and a willingness to work hard to achieve employer’s confidence and objective
• Experience in project planning and resource allocation, in addition to day-to-day management of technical development teams including progress tracking, issue resolution, escalation and status reporting
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing Co-ordination between onsite and offshore
• Participated actively in meetings & teleconferences with Users, Business Analyst teams, Development teams, QA team members and Managers on time to time basis for the Releases
• Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and the ability to work in a cross-functional environment. Effectively able to work as a team member as well as independently
• Experience in coding on Cobol/DB2 programs

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM MVS, OS/390, VSE, WINDOWS 9x/NT/2K, UNIX

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, XML, JAVA

Transaction Server: TSO/ISPF

Database & File System: DB2, IDMS, VSAM, ORACLE, SQLSERVER 2000/2005, MS ACCESS

Version Control Tools: CHANGEMAN

Other M/F Tools: TSO, ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, SDSF, DMLO, ADSO, FTP, IBM Utilities, FILEAID, IDCAMS, SUPER-C

Testing Tools: Webservices SOAP UI, QTP 9.5, HP Quality Center 11.5, Clear Quest

Office Tools: Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, MS office

Other: TOAD, RSecure, WS-FTP, RequisitePro, JAWS, Dragon, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing (SIT)
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Performed Sanity Testing for every week on new builds for different environments
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Involved in database testing by writing SQL queries
• Preparation of test case scenarios for the regression phase

Environment: Manual Testing, DB2, RequisitePro, JAWS, Dragon, Quality Center 11.5, XML, Windows, Mainframes, MS Office

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing (SIT)
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Performed Sanity Testing on new application builds
• Preparation of test case scenarios and execution of Production defects

Environment: Manual Testing, Webservices Testing, Oracle, Java, XML, SQL Developer, SOAP UI, Quality Center, Windows

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing (SIT), End to End test
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Performed Sanity Testing on new application builds
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution and also supporting the UAT testing
• Preparation of test case scenarios and execution of UAT and Production defects

Environment: Mainframes, UNIX, VSAM, Manual Testing, MS Office, Oracle, XML, Windows,RSecure, DMLO, ADSO, TSO/ISPF, WS-FTP, Toad, ClearQuest

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing(SIT), End to End test
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Involved in new test data preparation ( ex: Test Data for the submission of different message types)
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Performed Sanity Testing on new application builds
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Reviewed the System requirement document (SRD)/Use Cases for developing high-level Test Strategy
• Coordinating with different departments like DEV, DBA, Product and other testing teams involved in the project
• Running of automation scripts on QTP for sanity test
• Responsible for identifying test cases for automation and developing automation test plans
• Involved in database testing by writing SQL queries
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Worked on Web Services Testing using SOAP UI
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution and also supporting the UAT testing
• Preparation of test case scenarios and execution of UAT and Production defects
• Perform execution on different environments
• Coordinating with the Offshore Team and Client
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Oracle, QTP, XML, Windows, RSecure, WS-FTP, Toad, Quality Center, Webservices SOAP UI, UNIX, VSAM, CICS, Mainframe Testing

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of functional and technical documents Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Extensively involved in Manual Testing and also Developed and maintained automated test scripts in QTP for functional and regression testing
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings and post implementation meetings
• Involved in every aspect of product testing including system, Integration, End to End, Regression and Release
• Analyzed the requirements and Design documents (Use Cases), Developed Test plans for different Testing stages
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Conducted functional, system and integration testing
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database
• Used DML statements for inserting, updating and modifying the databases
• Developed and executed test plans/cases based on business requirement of the application and executed the tests
• Conducted GUI, Functionality, system, Integration, Regression, Support UAT (user acceptance test) and performed Positive/Negative testing for system validations
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution and also supporting the UAT testing
• Coordinating with the Offshore Team and Client
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Manual Testing, Oracle, Windows, Quality Center, Java, RSecu

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing(SIT), End to End test
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Involved in new test data preparation ( ex: Test Data for the submission of different types of claims )
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Involved in backend testing by writing SQL queries
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution and also supporting the UAT testing
• Coordinating with the Onsite Lead and Client on daily basis
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows, Toad, ClearQuest, Quality Center, MYSQL, XML, MS Office

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirements Document and Technical Specifications
• Responsible for Verification of the documents, plans, requirements and specifications
• Involved in preparation of Test plan
• Creating Overlays as per the requirements
• Involved in preparing the test scenarios and the test data
• Preparing, reviewing & executing the Test cases and Test report preparation
• Preparing JCLs for testing in QA environment
• Debugging the jobs in case of failure and rerunning it
• Interacting with Onsite Coordinator on daily basis
• Mentoring new joiners

Environment: Manual Testing, PPFA, Oracle, Java, Unix, Mainframes, JCL, VSAM, ChangeMan

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing(SIT), End to End test
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Interacting with development team closely to ensure testing issues are resolved
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Involved in backend testing by writing SQL queries
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution.
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Mainframes, Manual Testing, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, QTP, DB2, Java, Windows, Clear Quest, Oracle, ChangeMan

Confidential

Test Analyst & Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the Functional Area Testing, System Integration testing(SIT), End to End test
• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Involved in backend testing by writing SQL queries
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution.
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Java, Windows, Clear Quest, Oracle, ChangeMan

Confidential

Test Analyst & Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all aspects of project cycle, Took active part in the business process meetings, requirement gatherings, review of business, functional and technical documents. Preparing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test To Requirements Matrix and all other related test documents
• Performed Writing, peer & group reviews of Test Cases based on Use cases, navigation manual, Mockups and Standard Test Case checklists
• Participated in walkthrough with client and the development team, attended Defect reporting meetings, test management and post implementation meetings
• Interacted with developers and Users/Client to discuss functionality changes of the Products and Review the Change Requests
• Involved in backend testing by writing SQL queries
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing the application
• Created Templates for test scripts to perform Functional & User Interface Testing
• Managing the whole test cycle of test planning, environment setup, test execution.
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly Status Reports and Test completion report

Environment: Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Oracle, Windows, ClearQuest, ChangeMan