SUMMARY

• Highly Experienced Business Analyst and Test Engineer professional with over ten years combined experience in Business Analysis, Automated, and Manual Testing in a project life cycle. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills, project management skills and analytical ability to transform company practices into fresh, cost - TEMPeffective solutions leading to more efficient operations.
• Well-versed with teh Software Development lifecycle (SDLC), Waterfall model, and Agile methodology.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills with ability to coordinate activities in a team environment.
• Conducted project functional walkthroughs and Joint Application Development Sessions involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent travel meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in teh client’s organization
• Expertise in analysis of Software Requirement Specifications and development of System Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Summary Report (TSR).
• Prepared detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in HP ALM after thorough review of teh finalized requirements in FRD or Change Requests.
• Analyze and Understand teh Functional specification documents Business requirements documents, and workflows
• Manage and oversight all UAT environments, coordinate release schedule with release team.
• Hands-on experience performing Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, positive-negative data driven testing, Back-end testing, User Acceptance testing.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database table
• Experienced in documenting Defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with development team, clients, and members of teh project management team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, technically challenging work environment.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent travel meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in teh client’s organization.
• Experience on testing on vast different types of mobile application

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Office Tool: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Excel

Automated Testing: HP Quick Test Professional (UFT 11.5)

Test Management: HP Quality Center 10.0, IBM Clear Quest, Micro strategy, Informitica

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, ALM, Quality Center

Mobile Applications: Perfecto Mobile, IOS, Android

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Business Systems Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Collect data from sales, and finance departments to use in establishing organizational structure.
• Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with entire team to develop and execute project quality plans.
• Present detailed reports about teh meaning of gatheird data to leadership and help them identify scenarios utilizing modifications in teh data.
• Organized quarterly projection data gatheird by senior analysts in an orderly way for executive management.
• Reported bi-monthly data analysis findings to leadership to use in making organizational decisions.
• Used advanced Excel functions to generate spreadsheets and pivot tables.
• Participated in collecting, organizing, and interpreting data.
• Analyze data to dig into teh root cause of any technical issues.
• Identified areas where operational efficiency can be improved through automating reports.
• Facilitated teh communication between various functional teams and teh vendor to determine teh application problems, remediation approaches, and teh implementation path.
• Responsible for working closely with various stakeholders groups to build business requirements and functional design documents.
• Review test cases and scenario documents prepared by teh unit testing team and make recommendations wherever necessary.
• Participate in daily defect meeting calls and coordinate teh user-acceptance testing efforts with teh business users and teh SME.
• Performs audit on all data for teh purpose of business development resolution.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Collaborate JAD sessions with product owners, stakeholders and scrum teams to understand and translate customer’s business and technical requirements.
• Guide teh development teams and QA teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution.
• Functional walkthrough for teh scrum teams.
• Develop new business strategies and business models, taking all aspects into consideration and providing insight into how these strategies will benefit teh company.
• Lead teh company in teh execution of business strategies and internal projects to ensure teh desired result is achieved quickly and TEMPeffectively.
• Involved in Smoke testing for teh user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories.
• Conducted GAP and Root cause analysis while to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives.
• Produced technical business application requirements for junior testers and lead teh automation process.
• Create and groom backlog of user stories in an agile development environment.
• Tracked Defect statues utilizing JIRA to re-test defects to ensure that requirements have been met as expected.
• Participate in solution design and concept visualization, create user interface mockups, prototypes and demo solutions to stakeholders.
• Extensive Experience with REST, SOAPUI & WinSCP.
• Performed Mobile testing as well as Cross-browser compatibility testing.
• Produced teh defect summary reports daily for reporting and tracking everyone’s work.
• Performed various forms of System integration testing (SIT).
• Managing vendor application (Paymentech, Accertify, AEPA Media Player, ESB etc.)
• Tracking testing activities of resources using ALM and ITQ system and reporting status to management daily.
• Investigated, Identified, and proposed solutions for current production Data Cleanup by quantifying affected accounts.

Confidential, Patuxent River, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Requirements Specifications, Use Case Diagrams, High Level and Detailed Process Flows, Domain Model as well as standardized a process that decreased requirements gathering and analysis.
• Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Responsible for coordination with UAT team to set up UAT testing and Functional walkthrough for every sprint.
• Involved in teh code review for teh user stories.
• Diagrams and Domain Model as well as standardized a process that decreased requirements gathering and analysis.
• Updated SharePoint Document Management tool for accessing and updating teh Test deliverables.
• Responsible for performing Post Deployment validation at teh time of release / implementation.
• Conducted meticulous GAP and Root cause analysis while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives.
• Guided teh development teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordination of both offshore and onsite team’s daily tasks planning, assignment and tracking.
• Worked with offshore QA team to approve test cases and import them into HP-Quality Center.
• Coordinated resources from lines of business, off shore, and project stakeholders to provide multiple project testing coverage.
• Collected and provided information for metric reporting.
• Prepared traceability matrix to map teh requirements against teh test cases and validated teh test coverage analysis.
• Lead QA team members with requirements gathering, test approaches, use cases, and manual tests.
• Used Perfecto Mobile to test Mobile applications on multiple devices
• Writing and Executing Test cases for Android, IPhone and IPad Testing.
• Tested and coordinated mobile applications in both Native and Web environments and validated teh mobile application functionality on physical smart phone hardware devices and virtual device like Perfecto Mobile.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for importing teh files into teh RCIS me Series Development System and verifying teh data being loaded as per requirements.
• Planned, designed and implemented application database code objects, such as stored procedures, triggers, cursors, tables, views, joins and statements for applications.
• Designed SQL code to validate report criteria.
• Performed functional, regression, system, cross browser, end-to-end and other types of testing.
• Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium.
• Verify Manual Release and Check Release for front end and Backend using SQL Queries.

Confidential, Sioux Falls. SD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Logged defects in ALM and produced teh defect summary reports daily for reporting and tracking everyone’s work.
• Performed Integration, Functional, UAT and Regression testing on various applications.
• Performed Security testing of teh basic security levels in teh application security mechanism.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts and functional analysts, analyzing creating and testing teh permissions for various levels.
• Performed functional cross browser, end-to-end and Mobile testing.