PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years experience in Software Development as a Quality Analyst/Business Analyst with strong emphasis in Business Analyst.
• Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Facilitate Project Definition Phase, Analyze and design calls and act as liaison between Business, technology teams and Subject Mater Experts.
• Prepare and work on deliverables like Project Charter, Requirements report, Project Execution plan along with design work objects, Solution quality assurance and Project Implementation plan.
• Collect Business Needs from management, enhance requirements from end user and convert the requests into workable solutions.
• Well experienced in User Stories creation, Use case specifications creation and present to technology tams.
• Identify project risks / dependence and provide recommend solutions.
• Project management activities include project planning, tracking of project cost, project deliverables and resource handling.
• Maintain up to date documents in share point and initiate of sign - off and approval process for all phases of the project deliverables.
• Creation of work breaks down structure by using Responsibility Assignment Matrix to assign the task and ensure the deliverables in time.
• Effort estimation and creation of project schedules.
• Review test plan and test conditions created by QA team and ensures that they are signed off from the required and development teams.
• Develop and perform timely and consistent project reporting such as project status, decisions, action items, upcoming tasks and deliverables with project workbook.
• Weekly project status report preparation and share with core team.
• Perform post implementation validation with Business and perform project closure activities.
• Experience in testing Client/Server, Web based on different environments.
• Extensive knowledge in manual testing. Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts based on the User Requirements Specification (URS) and System Requirements document.
• Experienced in Functional, System, End to End, Regression, Integration, Smoke testing.
• Extensive experience in using bug tracking management tools like Quality Center, JIRA.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for various applications.
• Extensive experience in analyzing, documenting, validating and managing the business requirements of stakeholders and end users related to customized information management systems solution.
• Facilitate Project Definition Phase, Analyze and design calls and act as liaison between Business, technology teams and Subject Mater Experts. Prepare Minutes of Meeting and publish to project team.
• Strong Project Orientation with excellent Team Involvement, Client Coordination and good Written and Verbal Communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, logical skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, TSL and COBOL

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL and MS-Access

Testing Tools: ALM 11.5

Programming skills: ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, JAVA, HTML and DHTML

Methodologies: SDLC 2.0, RUP and Agile (Scrum)

Business Tools: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Visio), iRias, Rally, Share point, SDLC2.0, FILE-AID, CHNAGEMAN, SPUFI.

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project initiation and elicit business requirements into High Level Business Needs (HLBN) as per project vision.
• Submitted Impact analysis request and engage required technology teams based on their response.
• Facilitate Project Definition Phase, Analyze and design calls and act as liaison between Business, technology teams and Subject Mater Experts. Prepare Minutes of Meeting and publish to project team.
• Convert High Level Business Needs to Requirements by using Requirements Traceability Matrix and prepare use case specifications.
• Worked on deliverables like Project Charter, Requirements report, Project Execution plan along with design work objects, Solution quality assurance and Project Implementation plan.
• Perform fit-gap analysis, create and execute charter, business requirements, and project plan for business initiatives.
• Reviewed system/business requirements and technical specifications for adherence to standards and translated business requirements into systemic requirements and detailed functional designs.
• Performed requirement analysis, acted as the liaison between Subject Matter Experts (SME) and developers during the requirement and design phase.
• Identify project risks / dependence and provide recommend solutions.
• Established project scope, assumptions and risks to stakeholders and key participants.
• Gathered approvals for requirements documentation from stakeholders and key participants within the established time frame.
• Developed testing strategy, defined testing scope and testing milestones.
• Documented and implemented Defect Management Methodologies.
• Prepared and owned the test plan, assigned and tracked tasks for the testing team members.
• Developed and executes test cases based on user stories contained within an Agile Sprint.
• Developed/executed test scripts to support business and testing requirements
• Performed test data analysis including finding, modifying, and creating test data
• Involved in test environment establishment required for test execution
• Performed various types of tests including functional, negative, bounds, system, integration, and regression testing.
• Modified the Test Cases on subsequent amendments for each new build.
• Reviewed test results for compliance to specifications and report discrepancies to management.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing.
• Logged all defects in JIRA and did weekly reports for the management.
• Supported integration testing activities in end-to-end test environments that include a variety of platforms.
• Reviewed the content and progress of System test cases and User acceptance test cases.
• Prepared traceability matrix. Planned, executed and tracked regression testing.
• Organized the meetings, reported the progress to client management and escalated issues.
• Implemented the defect tracking strategy
• Involved and played an active role during meetings with Tech Lead, and the team Members Discussing Status Reports Regularly during user acceptance testing.

Skill Set & Tools: Microsoft office Suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, ALM 11.5, Clarity, Rally, Share point, PMDB and SDLC 2.0.

Confidential, IL

Business Analyst/QA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the User/Business requirements and Functional specs documents.
• Conducted and documented Fit/Gap analysis of existing systems and worked with System Architects to review and propose options for effective Information Technology solutions.
• Responsible for handling business needs assessments and cost/ benefit analysis to align the technology of the company with their business strategies.
• Collect Business Needs from management, enhance requirements from end user and convert the requests into workable solutions.
• Developed User Stories, Use case specifications and present to technology teams.
• Developed Test Cases from System requirements specification (SRS) & Functional requirement specification (FRS) documents.
• Documented existing processes or workflows and determined future processes or workflows within the business and functional requirements documents.
• Involved in all the quality assurance phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Identified UAT participants and assists in developing test cases, validating all requirements are tested from Quality Assurance through to product implementation.
• Worked in writing test scenarios using requirement documents from the business for different iterations.
• Implementing the project in different Iterations using Agile Methodology.
• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Preparation of test release report, test result analysis and estimating project tasks.
• Created and documented the Test Design for each functional area mentioned in Test Plans.
• Executed test cases and logged defects.
• Involved in Black Box Testing of the GUI application
• Participated in Functional, Integration, System, GUI, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Maintained Test Logs and Reports in Quality Center and tracking reports preparation.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents.
• Performed Smoke tests on for every build from development.
• Checked the data flow through the front and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Attended weekly project meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings.

Skill Set & Tools: Microsoft office Suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, HP Quality Center, SharePoint.

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases Document based on business requirements.
• Involved in designing the Test Partner scripts using Manual Test Cases.
• Created and executed the test cases for various scenarios, and participated actively in system, integration, performance and regression testing for every new build released.
• Extensive experience in testing Confidential POS application.
• Involved in writing test plans, test cases for schedule my terms functionality at POS.
• Involved in test planning, creating test plans, estimating hours for the new functionalities and regression testing for the existing functionality.
• Documented test cases for Regression testing for Confidential POS when new functionalities were added for every release.
• Involved in providing demos to business team and end users on new functionalities that were implemented at Confidential POS application for every release.
• Provided UAT Testing status information to the Project Manager, and various Business Stakeholders.
• Manual execution of generated Test cases for both the user and administrator modules.
• Performed Development Integration, System Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing for the data services.
• Performed Black box testing for the functionality of new POS applications.
• Tested a batch process, which allowed users to retrieve database restoration information using DB2, MVS JCL.
• Using SPUFI for updating /inserting/deleting the test db2 tables.
• Tested all batch jobs (JCL, COBOL/DB2) for the Confidential POS application.
• Performed Functional testing, Batch testing, System testing Performance testing and Regression Testing to see the entire functionality.
• Creating test case and test sets, tracing them to requirements and executing them in Quality Center.
• Preparing status reports and defect reports for daily status meetings and sending them to all the stakeholders of the project.
• Involved in Database testing by writing & executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in an appropriate tables & manually comparing the results with front-end values.
• Analyze all Report Bugs for continuous process improvement and keep tracking on the SDLC critical path.
• Responsible for reporting bugs through the Quality Center and verified known bugs against new builds.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensuring the execution of UAT Test Cases and documentation of test results.
• Entered the defects into Quality Center and manages the resolution and documentation of these defects.
• Assigned those bugs to developers by using Quality Center a bug tracking tool (Verifying that all the reported bugs fix thru software developers)
• Interacted with the developers in fixing all the problems.