SUMMARY

• Over 16 years solid IT experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Testing, Cloud Platform Certification, data mining (SAS Enterprise Miner), process mapping, visual modeling and Systems Analysis of N - Tier applications spanning across web-based applications and Client-server applications in J2EE, SOA Integration and EAI Integration environments.
• Work experience with major players in the fields of Insurance, Pension & Benefits, Finance, Re Insurance, Government, Healthcare, education, and e governance.
• Extensive experience in requirements gathering, writing and creating use cases/diagrams, business analysis, process analysis, documentation, test and implementation of Business Applications.
• Extensive experience in Manual and automation testing, User Requirements analysis, Test case /Scenario development, Smoke Testing on Nightly Builds, Infrastructure Testing, Black-Box Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Systems Testing, Back-end Testing, User Acceptance Testing, End-2-End Business Flow Testing, Usability Testing, Application Performance testing, and Creating & Execution of automated scripts.
• Strong experience of testing applications in Server/desktop virtualization environments - Citrix/ VMWARE, Application Servers - IBM WebSphere/Oracle WebLogic, and Windows Server
• Proficient in Issue/Defect Management, Deliverables Management, Work flow management, Document Management, Bug tracking tools, Deployment process, VSS, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel and Snag IT.
• Extensive experience in testing applications with SQL Server, Oracle 9i, Java Script, HTML, Visual Basic, ASP environments.
• Hands-on experience in developing technical/testing documents including QA Plans/Test Strategy /Test Schedulesdocuments, Testing/Implementation Road Maps, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Release Notes, Business Case documents, Functional Specification documents, Test metrics preparation, system requirements, user manuals, UI Guidelines, Enhancement documents, FAB Analysis documents and standard operating procedures.
• Extensive involvements in Test Case Reviews, Test Results Analysis, Development &Design sessions, scrum meetings, New hire trainings, Mentoring Team Members, Task Assignments, Status Reporting, and Demo Readiness activities.
• Experience in Cause and Effect Analysis, Pareto Charts, Critical Path Analysis, Basis Path Testing, Boundary values, Data Flow Testing, Branch Testing etc.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders, Dev Teams, Business Development Teams, SMEs to elicit requirements, to define acceptance tests, to uncover hidden assumptions, to formulate best practices etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 95/NT/2000/XP/7/Vista/LINUX/UNIX

Functional Testing: Selenium, Soap UI, Silk Test, WinRunner

Database Technologies: Oracle Application Express 5.0

Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere, Oracle WebLogic

Bug Tracking/Management: Quality Center, Bug Zilla, Workflow, Track, JIRA, Test Link

RDBMS: SQL PL/SQL, Oracle

Development Processes & Methodologies: Agile Testing Methodology, Waterfall, SDLC, SCRUM, RAD, RUP Processes

Integration Technologies: SOA, EAI, J2EE

Data Mining: SAS Enterprise Miner

Business Processes: Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, IT Governance

ERP Tools: SAP NetWeaver Sales & Distribution & Materials Management, Balance Scorecard, Workflow Builder

Web site Development: HTML, PHP

Mobile Development: Android Studio

Others: UML, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project 2013, Snag IT, Rational SoDA, Project Analyser

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, McHenry, IL

Senior QA & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented business procedure and gather business requirements for the upgrade.
• Used Data warehousing for Data Profiling to examine the data available in an existing database.
• Performed Gap Analysis of the processes to identify and validate requirements.
• Managing day to day Test Activities in Agile development environment.
• Creation of Test Strategies, Road maps and Setting up Test Environments
• Analyzed, prepared and mapped business requirements with data.
• Performing DB Upgrades and Java server’s initializations for every code changes.
• Prepared and reviewed functional and technical designs.
• Involved in preparing of User Stories and subsequent Test Cases / Scenarios
• Involved in strategizing of Test Plans and Test Strategies for end-to-end testing.
• Build and Deploying of Destiny applications.
• Project management using Version One tool
• Creating Chump Tasks, tracking &Managing Tests in Java XP Tool.
• Coordinating with Developers in implementing new features and fixing of issues/defects.
• Coordinating Daily stand ups.

Environment: Java XP Tool, Java, JBoss, Version One, MS SQL, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Analysis - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements, prepare, review and update functional and technical specifications.
• Creating Data Flow Diagrams and Use Case diagrams.
• Data mining using SAS Enterprise Miner.
• Writing Test Plans and Test Scenarios in Agile development environment.
• Creation of Test Strategies and Road maps.
• Preparation of UAT Test cases, based on Acceptance Criteria.
• Involved in Agile development process, SCRUM and Kanban.
• Project Management using JIRA &Preparing & maintenance of Teams Agile Boards using JIRA.
• Creation of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, Sub-Tasks, Defects in JIRA.
• Deployment of QA builds / environments in Unix/Linux environments.
• Testing the products on VMs deployed on Thor (cloud platform).
• Monitoring the error logs in Splunk.

Environment: JIRA, Java, SOA, tcServer, Oracle SQL, Selenium RC, Robot IDE, Linux, Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

Confidential, IL

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing testing requirements and test environment setup.
• Infrastructure Testing in Cloud environment.
• QA Test Automation for Platform-as-a-Service.
• Created Provisioning Requirements &Test cases, including tcServer, Mule, PostgreSQL, Hperic, GemFire, Splunk.
• Created Scenario-based test cases and failover test scenarios.
• Provisioning VMs in POD management server.
• Created test cases from Requirements and Puppet manifests.
• Designed & tested Test Management Console as part of test execution of TestLink Integration.
• Created and analyzed WSRR test Cases.
• Single point of failure testing in GemFire Data Fabric / Web Session.
• Executing test runs of the Cucumber scripts for failover scenarios.
• Executing and verifying Resource Checkers in Springsource Tool Suite.

Environment: TestLink, Trac, Java Spring Framework, SOA, JPetStore. vBlock, vCenter, vSphere, GemFire, Hyperic, Mule, tcServer, PostgreSQL, vSplunk.

Confidential, NY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and derived Test Cases/Scenarios from Business Requirements/User Stories.
• Implemented and followed Agile Testing Methodology and extensively involved in Portfolios/Tracks/Sprints/Validation/Verification/Go-Live phases.
• Extensive success in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Executed Functional, Smoke Testing on Nightly Builds, Integration, Back-End, Ad-hoc and Interface Testing.
• Testing applications in distributed environments - WebSphere/Weblogic-Oracle/SQL.
• Involved in Portfolio Planning, Implementation Road Map, Solution Design Document, Release Notes, UAT Test Plans, and Performance stats.
• Mapping Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional Requirements to User Stories.
• Providing Bug Resolutions and troubleshooting techniques to Dev teams.

Environment: WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle 11g, JAVA, J2EE, Firefox, IE, UML, Chrome, Safari, VM-Ware, Selenium.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Scenarios/Test Cases and executing the same.
• Performed Functional, Smoke, Integration, System, Adhoc Testing, Back-end and User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed Business and User Requirements to identify and derive Test Scenarios/Test Cases.
• Review of Test Cases to ensure the requirements aremeted to their expectations.
• Preparing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Task Prioritization, Task Assignments to the team and Status Reporting to Managers.
• Prepared Release Notes, UAT Test Plans, Performance stats.
• Created and maintained Master Bug Sheets for defects traceability.

Environment: Oracle 9i, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2005/2007, JAVA, J2EE, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, VM-Ware, Crystal Reports.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior QA Analyst & QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Scenarios/Test Cases and executing the same.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed Business and User Requirements to identify and derive Test Scenarios/Test Cases.
• Primary responsible for Functional and Integration Testing of Self-Service, Enrollments, Contributions, Pension and Loans modules.
• Reviewing of Test Cases to ensure the complete test coverage of user requirements.
• Preparing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Task Prioritization, Test Schedules, Task Assignments, and Status Reporting.
• Analyzing Test Results and preparing Test Reports and Test Metrics.

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios &Functional & Regression Testing of the application.
• Automation testing of by Silk Test, Report Generations, deployment and kickoff process.
• Analyzing of Probabilistic Loss values.
• Involved in Loss estimations and analytics &Compare exposure data with AIR’s US Exposure Database.
• Test Results analysis and Status Reporting.

Environment: VC++, .NET, SQL, IE 5.0 & above (Embedded Browsers)

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functional Testing of the Application.
• Verifying and validating the replacement values.
• Assessing and estimating the accuracy of the replacement costs for residential units and individual condominium units.
• Testing the application with different building costs and codes and verifying the values.

Environment: Web-Based Application, VC++, .NET, SQL, IE 5.0 & above.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed study of user requirements to get a better understanding of the functionality and Determining test approaches and methods.
• Involved and developed QTP-Automation frame work, Test Strategy, system test plan and Scripts.
• Wrote/Recorded scripts when necessary and customizing the recorded scripts, running the scripts.
• Developed custom QTP function libraries (like Object Oriented Functions, Database Functions, and Utilities etc).
• Converted the Object Repository from local to shared Repository.

Environment: VB.net, Java Script, AJAX, MS Visio, Quick Test Professional 9.5/10, Quality Center 9/10, MS Team Foundation Server.

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer & Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manual Testing: Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Validation Testing, Integration Testing, Installation/Uninstallation Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Load & Stress Testing.
• Developed and Modeled: Test Plans, Test Strategies, Integration Test Plan, Acceptance Test Plans, Templates & Checklists, Standards, Test Cases, Functionality Test Procedures, Performance Test Procedures, Created ideal Test Environments, Defined User patterns, Defined Quality Process and Models, Prepared Product Manuals & Online helps.

Environment: VB, VC++, ASP, COM+, XML, XLST, MSMQ, IE 5.5 and above, SQL 7.0 & 2000, Windows Advanced Server, Win 2003 & Win XP, Windows Professional/Advanced Server, Back-End Testing, WinRunner 7.0 &Load Runner 6.5.