PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of diversified experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Having an experience in Software testing including methodologies, Test plan, Test cases, black - box testing, white-box testing, and functional testing.
• Experienced in performance testing using JMeter for various APIs
• Experience in working on applications of various industry domains like Insurance, Life Insurance, Banking, Finance and retail.
• Experience in coordinating offshore and onsite QA model
• Strong knowledge of the QA Best Practices, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Methodology, Testing Standards, Test Processes, and Test Methods to validate and ensure the quality of software through testing. Experience in and Web-Based Applications.
• Expertise in Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Black Box testing , System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Software Validation Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, and Stress Testing.
• Involved in UAT test strategy, planning test plans, script and scenario, developing UAT process, traceability and reporting
• Perform the tasks of designing and developing test procedures to meet business requirements
• Worked in Minnesota for a while.
• Experienced in Using Test Management tool - ALM Quality Center, Microsoft Office.
• Experience in testing stand-alone, client server and Web based applications using automation and manual testing techniques.
• Experience in testing various test cases in Windows 95, Windows 2000, and Windows XP in LINUX environment.
• Experienced in using defect-tracking tools like Bugzilla, Clear Quest Element tool ALM Quality Center, Jira, Rally, and Test Directory.
• Good working experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of applications to be regression tested
• Experienced working in Waterfall, RUP and Agile (SCRUM) methodologies.
• Well versed with Office utility tools such as MS Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint, Outlook, Remedy
• Having good knowledge of QTP, My SQL, J meter, Load-Runner, SOAP UI.
• Knowledge and experience in DBMS and SQL queries
• Worked in tight schedules on different web and windows applications
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers , technical support and help them base line the requirement specifications
• Ability to understand & analyze business processes & workflows
• Work closely with core development team and business team during all the phases of SDLC
• Easily adaptable to any new Technologies and Business environment
• Experience in developing high level documents, test plans and test strategy
• Knowledge on HIPPA Rules
• Ability to interact with cross- functional teams.
• Worked closely with Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Developers to track down the requirements
• Experienced working in a team as well as an individual contributor

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP), Win Runner, ALM Quality Center, Rational Suite (Test Manager) JIRA, Rally, Bugzilla, Rational ClearQuest, Test Director

Operating Systems: OS390, Windows XP, 2000/98/NT, HP-UX, LINUX, MAC OS

Databases: SQL Server 70/2000, MS Access

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Spiral and RUP

Languages: VB Script, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, .Net, Visual Basic

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Share point, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plans, Test Summary report, different test documentations, Test Design specifications
• Involved in Preliminary discussions of the project, project planning, Main Frame weekly cycles
• Involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle
• Working on pulling the data from different servers, analyzing the data from Test environment and from the Production environment
• Implemented all automated UAT Testing methodologies.
• Wrote UAT test plan immediately after the requirement have been finalized by the product owner and BA
• Performed Regression, Functional, Ad hoc, Sanity, UAT,
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix for both the projects
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool using ALM Quality center.
• Involved in eliciting requirements, creating test cases, executing test cases, implementation planning, and implementation execution.
• Tested various APIs using SOAP UI.
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool using ALM Quality center.
• Prepares Deferred defects/ Product defects report
• Created temporary tables for validations after understanding the transformation logic.
• Tested several UNIX shell scripting for File validation and also PL/SQL programming
• Wrote SQL queries for searching, creating and updating test data.
• Prepare Test Data, Test Grid, Test scripts for UAT and Business Testers
• Wrote T-SQL programming for implement Stored Procedures and Functions for different tasks
• Insured that Production Control Staff was up-to-date on Control-M procedures and software use
• Involved in the preparation of TRM (Test Responsibility Matrix) which is defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Involved in the development of RTM(Requirements Traceability Matrix) for completeness and correctness of the Testing process
• Compared the actual result with the expected results. Validated the data by reverse engineering methodology i.e. backward navigation from target to source.

Environment: ALM Quality Center11.0, Data Mapping, Data Analyzing, Main Frame, web based tools, Lotus notes database, Manual Testing, Windows XP, IE, Mozilla, Waterfall, MS Excel, Macros, SOAP

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

• Prepared test plans and test cases for manual testing.
• Developed the test cases according to requirement.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression and UAT, Smoke testing based on requirements and the software design document
• Tested various RESTful APIs using Groovy as a language Spock framework for automation testing and Groovy-Grails Tool Suite / IntelliJ as a tool.
• Involved in writing Hive queries for Hadoop data processing job testing using Hue as a tool, HiveQL as language and Oozie workflow.
• Tested backend bulk-loaders using CQL and Apache Cassandra database and automated the testing using Camel and grails.
• Tested the code across platforms such as QA, Stage, Prod and was involved in Production support.
• Performed performance tests for various APIs using Apache JMeter and automated it in Jenkins using grails code.
• Performed regression tests for various APIs in Jenkins.
• Experienced in using GitHub (web based hosting), Git (revision control system), Jenkins Enterprise (Continuous Integration software) and JIRA (Issue tracking), Splunk.
• Prepared the traceability matrices to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.
• Wrote SQL queries for searching, creating and updating test data.
• Interacted with various teams to trouble shoot and resolve their issues.
• Created Wiki pages to be used by team mates and production support staff.
• Following Agile Development Methodology.
• Helped and worked on UA Testing as responsible for UAT from QA team
• Interacted with developers for resolving the defects and setting the priorities.
• Worked extensively onsite- offshore model
• Had a Good working rapport with offshore as well as onsite team members
• Attended daily stand up meetings and helped scrum master if any roadblocks to team

Environment: Groovy, Spring, XML, Json, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Apache Cassandra, DataStax DevCenter, Groovy-Grails tool suite, Splunk, IntelliJ, Maven

Confidential, Eagan, MN

UAT Analyst

• Involved in Preliminary discussions of the Project with the Core Team according to Business Requirement Document.
• Prepared test plans and test cases for manual testing.
• Developed the test cases according to requirement.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression and UAT, Smoke testing based on requirements and the software design document
• Helped and worked on UA Testing as responsible for UAT from QA team
• Implemented all automated UAT Testing methodologies.
• Wrote UAT test plan immediately after the requirement have been finalized by the product owner and BA
• Involved in planning the UAT with Business Analyst for Business owners
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
• Prepared the traceability matrices to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.
• Wrote SQL queries for searching, creating and updating test data.
• Interacted with DBA's, Developers, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers during different phases of SDLC
• Resolved all customer issues/ queries and ensured customer satisfaction at all times
• Supported documentation across extended testing team as directed by UAT Manger.
• Successfully completed all the functionalities in all the two weeks sprints without carried over
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool using ALM Quality center.
• Involved in seven steps in UAT testing.: Analyze business requirements, identify UAT scenarios, defined UAT test plan, wrote UAT test cases, executed test cases, confirmed the defect free application and made sure that business objective is met.
• Provided status reports to QA Manager.
• Involved into assessing if the system can support day to day business and user scenarios and ensure the system is sufficient and correct for business usage.
• Used ICD-9 HIPAA compliance codes for Identify the particular medical injuries.
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
• Supported documentation across extended testing team as directed by UAT Manger.
• Successfully completed all the functionalities in all the two weeks sprints without carried over
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool using ALM Quality center.
• Involved in seven steps in UAT testing.: Analyze business requirements, identify UAT scenarios, defined UAT test plan, wrote UAT test cases, executed test cases, confirmed the defect free application and made sure that business objective is met.
• Interacted with developers for resolving the defects and setting the priorities.

Environment: ALM Quality Center, Manual Testing, Windows XP, IE, Agile, Mozilla, SQL Server

Confidential, New York, New York

QA UAT Coordinator

• Creating the detailed test plans, test cases and executing it.
• Wrote UAT test plan immediately after the requirement have been finalized by the product owner and BA
• Involved in planning the UAT with Business Analyst for Business owners
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
• Involved in seven steps in UAT testing.: Analyze business requirements, identify UAT scenarios, defined UAT test plan, wrote UAT test cases, executed test cases, confirmed the defect free application and made sure that business objective is met.
• Interact with developers for resolving the defects and setting the priorities.
• Have Good working rapport with offshore and onsite team members
• Supported documentation across extended testing team as directed by UAT Manger.
• Provided status reports to QA Manager.
• Resolved all customer issues/ queries and ensured customer satisfaction at all times
• Implemented all automated UAT Testing methodologies.
• Involved in the preparation of TRM (Test Responsibility Matrix) which is defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Involved in the development of RTM(Requirements Traceability Matrix) for completeness and correctness of the Testing process
• Developing test plan and test cases using web tracker.
• Implementing the test case and test process with project time frames
• Interacted with DBA's, Developers, Systems Engineers and Network Engineers during different phases of SDLC
• Analyzing the Low Level Design (LLD’s) and High Level Design(HLD’s) documents as part of UAT
• Generated various Test metrics, Daily status report, Weekly status reports, Monthly status report, QA Status report, Bug report, and Risk analysis document
• Prepared Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performing Black Box and Regression Testing
• Report and assign bugs using web tracker.
• Create, update, delete, and check data using SQL.
• Attending daily defect prioritization and routing meetings .

Environment: Windows 2000 Professional, Waterfall, HTML, Asp, C++, VB script, XML, MS Excel, MS Office and Java Script.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester / BA

• Business Analysis of the Functional requirements of the application testing, development of functional specifications and project planning
• Prepared a UAT, UI, Functional, final Regression Testing Plan and tested.
• After completion of Final Regression cycles, concentrated on User Accepting testing (UAT) to correct feedback in two types of approaches such as Alpha Testing and Beta Testing.
• Involved in the coordination of UAT and coordination of users.
• Interacted with End Users and clients for verifying user requirements, managing change control process updating existing documentation as part of Business Analysis.
• Worked with Content Management System by frequently updating the common database.
• Involved Backend Testing (Database Testing) for Data Validation and Data Integration.
• Done some Negative Testing and Error Handling Testing on the messages followed.
• Tested the application from the customer point of view with respect to ease of use and look and feel of the application as part of UI.
• Involved effectively in the Software development life cycle (SDLC) right from requirement phase through Various Testing phases.
• Analyzing the Low Level Design (LLD’s) and High Level Design (HLD’s) documents as part of UAT.
• Experience with HP BPT (Business Process Testing) for Test Design, Test Creation, Test Maintenance, Test Execution.
• Execute and wrote test documentation for Test Plan, Test Design and Test Strategy, Test Cases.
• Updating of UI test cases and test scripts according to changing requirements in the Use cases as obtained from DOORS from time to time.
• Involved effectively in the Software development life cycle (SDLC) right from development through testing phases.
• Involved in the preparation of TRM (Test Responsibility Matrix) which is defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Involved in the development of RTM(Requirements Traceability Matrix) for completeness and correctness of the Testing process

Environment: Java, Agile, HP Quality Center, Web Logic, VB Scripting, MSSQL., HTML, XML, MS Visio, Access, Java Script Confidential, TX

UAT Test Analyst

• features developed in the application as per the user requirements as part of UAT
• Experience in different Testing methodologies like Functional testing, Regression testing,Unit, Integration testing,Exploratory Testing, GUI testing,System Testing,User Acceptance testing(UAT),Installation,Compatibility and Load testing.
• Excellent Analytical & Problem Solving Skills,Written and verbal communication skills.
• Involved in the Requirements Meetings,Review Meetings continuously with developers and users and modifying the Test Cases accordingly to test the new features developed in the application as per the user requirements as part of User Acceptance Testing.(UAT).
• Analyzing the Low Level Design (LLD’s) and High Level Design(HLD’s) documents as part of UAT.
• Experience with HP BPT(Business Process Testing) for Test Design,Test Creation,Test Maintenance,Test Execution.
• Execute and wrote test documentation for TestPlan,Test Design and Test Strategy,Test Cases.
• Designed Planned Created and Executed TestCases and made Testcase Selection Review.
• Executed Test Batches after completion of wrting of testcases as per requirements.
• Involved Effectively in the Software development life cycle(SDLC) right from development through testing phases.
• Involved in the preparation of TRM(Test Responsibility Matrix) which is defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Involved in the development of RTM(Requirements Tracebility Matrix) for completeness and correctness of the Testing process
• Attended daily status meetings, go no-go meetings.
• Identified defects and logged defect using Test Director/Quality Center.
• Attended defect meetings and tested production defects.

Environment: Manual Testing, Base24, Win6530, Quality Center, Java, Java script, web sphere, WebServices/Webmethods, XML, XSL, ESSBASE 7.1.3/6.5.3, web logic, HTML Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, SQL Navigator, TOAD, Windows XP, UNIX.