SUMMARY:

• A competent professional offering 8.0 years of experience in the IT industry with wide range of experience in Business System Analyst and Software Testing Life cycle processes.
• Extensive QA experience in different phases of lifecycle, including Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Extensive experience in analyzing, reviewing and understanding of Business/Functional & Testing requirements
• Experience in working with QTP descriptive programming, Keyword driven and Data driven and Hybrid Frameworks.
• Domain expertise includes Financial Market Data (Six Financial Information Provider, Credit - Suisse), Retails banking, Payment service, Investment Banking (trading - Swift Messages), Capital Market ( Confidential ), Regulatory reporting (RBC - Dodd Frank) , Healthcare & Multimedia & Entertainment Domain.
• Holds the distinction of working onsite (Johannesburg, South Africa & NY, USA), wherein involved in project implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, risk analysis to quality management in line with standard guidelines & norms.
• Well versed with Agile Methodology and experience in using JIRA as tool for Agile.
• Proactively worked in FDD (Feature-Driven Development) & TDD (Test-Driven Development) environment.
• Adept in end-to-end software testing from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding, testing & de-bugging of applications
• Involved with both static (reviews, walkthroughs, inspections& peer review) and dynamic testing.
• Experience in JAWS and Chromevox for 508 compliance & W3C testing.
• Review Section 508 compliance and develop checklist and test case for web-accessibility testing like Color contrast.
• Sound knowledge of Software Integration, Regression, UAT (User acceptance testing), Usability, Back End, Front-end, Functional, System, Browser and Compatibility Testing.
• Excellent analytical & logical abilities coupled with team management skills
• Expertise in data warehousing, database design, and business intelligence.
• Excellent knowledge in extraction, cleansing and modification of data from/to various data sources like flat files and databases
• Excellent knowledge of CAPA (Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions).
• Good understanding and hands on experience with web technologies like HTML, XPATH, XML.
• Responsible for requirements gathering/review/approvals and gap analysis.
• Experience in Web services testing using SoupUI 3.6
• Proficient in writing and executing complex SQL queries.
• Performed Online testing using Mainframe (CICS), QA batch Testing and Manual Testing
• Efficient and versatile team player with a positive approach to all tasks. Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defect Reports, and Weekly Status Reports.
• Worked with various test management/Defect Management with tools like ALM (Quality Centre) and JIRA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, V model

Configuration Management Tool: Quality Center (ALM) & TFS (Team Foundation Server), Confluence

Version control: SVN(Subversion)

Accessibility Tools: Jaws and Chromevox

Languages: VB Script, XML, SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripting

Database: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, DB2, TOAD, Oracle Dev

Automation Testing & Other Tools: QTP, SoupUI 3.6, Tectia(Unix), Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Sr. Quality analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Document, Software Design Document, Software Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Document.
• Involved with Test Strategy and Test Plan in agreement with the project stakeholders.
• Managed testing effort for UAT test teams for project before production (go-live).
• Created test strategies to detail testing activities from requirements gathering thru defect management thru UAT to production.
• Holding status update meeting and daily stand-up call and weekly call (Agile) with relevant stakeholders.
• Review Section 508 compliance and develop checklist and test case for web-accessibility testing like Color contrast.
• Involved in Review Test scenarios, Test scripts prepared by the team and ensure business signoff.
• Involved with both static (reviews, walkthroughs, inspections& peer review) and dynamic testing and keep all documents in Confluence .
• Coordinating on daily basis with offshore team.
• Involved in testing like - UAT, Functional, Integration, Regression and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing, Maintance testing
• Performed ADA using Chromevox tool.
• Determining tasks to all testing team members and conducting meetings with them.
• Participating in daily and weekly call to discuss status and progress with the client.
• Involved in Test case testing, Execution, Defect Tracking and publishing closure report
• Determining tasks to all testing team members and conducting meetings with them.
• Identifying and debugging all the defects related to the project.
• Participated in Daily Scrum/Stand-up/status meeting, Sprint planning and demo meetings, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts, developers, DBA and others.
• Prepared PTA (Prod Testing Acceptance) and sign-off.

Technologies Used: Manual (Functional) Testing, SQL Developer, Quality Center 11.0& Jira

Methodology: Agile Methodology

Confidential, NJ

Associate / Test Lead - Automation

Responsibilities:

• Carrying out detailed study of the change request and requirement specification document.
• Handling scenario identification and writing test cases for critical enhancements.
• Designed, Developed and Executed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Procedures based on the Functional specifications.
• Involved with both static (reviews, walkthroughs, inspections& peer review) and dynamic testing.
• Developed traceability matrix to ensure all the requirements are covered for testing.
• Involved in Creation of Automated Scripts, executed the same and analyzed the results in QTP.
• Worked on Data Table (Data Driven), Object Repository, Expert and Keyword View Framework.
• Involved in Framework designing (Hybrids Framework).
• Responsible for Recovery Scenario Management/Exception Handling through QTP.
• Reviewed test cases and executed the test cases with QTP (Automation Tool) & manually.
• Validated the data at back-end and Database Integrity by using different SQL Queries.
• Created the test environment for Staging area, loading the Staging area with data from multiple sources.
• Involved in Test case testing, Execution & Defect Tracking.
• Determining tasks to all testing team members and conducting meetings with them.
• Coordinated with team members, developers located in various time zones.
• Identifying and debugging all the defects related to the project.
• Participated in Daily Scrum/Stand-up/status meeting, Sprint planning and demo meetings, weekly assessment meetings with business analysts, developers, DBA and others.

Technologies Used: QTP, SQL Developer, Quality Center 11.0& Jira

Methodology: Agile Methodology (FDD & TDD)

Confidential

Associate / Test Lead - Automation

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Document, Software Design Document, Software Requirement Specification and Functional Requirement Document.
• Managed testing effort for UAT test teams for project before production (go-live).
• Created test strategies to detail testing activities from requirements gathering thru defect management thru UAT to production.
• Holding status update meeting and daily stand-up call and weekly call (Agile) with relevant stakeholders.
• Involved in testing like - Functional, Integration, Regression and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing.
• Managing new requirements from the project.
• Determining tasks to all testing team members and conducting meetings with them.
• Participating in daily and weekly call to discuss status and progress with the client.
• Involved in designing the Hybrid Frame work (Keyword & Data Driven Framework).
• Worked on Data Table (Data Driven), Object Repository, Expert and Keyword View Framework.
• Responsible for Recovery Scenario Management/Exception Handling through QTP.
• Reviewed test cases and executed the test cases with QTP (Automation Tool) & manually.
• Extensively performed Mobile testing on different types of operating systems such as IOS and Android
• Performed testing on the app using Emulators & Simulator.
• Experience in Mobile Application testing includes UI, Functional/Non-functional, Regression tests, Device compatibility tests, Performance tests, Security interoperability testing, Usability testing.
• Worked on different types of projects on different platform such as Mobile and tablets.
• Mobile testing in agile environment using actual devices.
• Logged & tracked all the defects related to the project.

Technologies Used: QTP, Sql& Quality Center 11.0

Methodology: Waterfall Model

Confidential

Associate / Test Analyst (Automation) Cum Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in (As Business Analyst):
• Define, plan, coordinate and obtain information requirements to support and module releases.
• Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development lifecycle so as to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, are implemented accurately and the full impact is understood by the business owner
• Interface with internal business users as well as various IT development groups so the needs can be clearly understood, expectations managed and change initiated.
• Act as the point of contact between the business units and IT.
• Perform analysis for business applications.
• Use systematic techniques for specifying requirements - like use-case scenarios, process modeling and data-flow diagramming.
• Involved in Designing documents like-Project Version Document, Use Case, Business Requirement Document, Requirement traceability matrix (RTM), Functional requirement specification (FRS)/ Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Involved in (As Test analyst):
• Involved with Test Strategy and Test Plan in agreement with the project stakeholders
• Holding status update meeting and daily stand-up call and weekly call (Agile) with relevant stakeholders.
• Involved in Review Test scenarios, Test scripts prepared by the team and ensure business signoff
• Coordinating on daily basis with offshore team.
• Involved in testing like - UAT (User acceptance testing), Functional, Integration, Regression and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing, Maintance testing
• Responsible for scenario identification & test case writing for critical enhancements.
• Involved in Test case Design, Execution & Defect Tracking.
• Reviewing designed test case by team members
• Execute the test cases.
• Conducting Smoke Testing before demo to client and executing regression suite
• Created the test environment for Staging area, loading the Staging area with data from multiple sources.
• Extraction of test data from tables and loading of data into oracle tables using SQL
• Prepared PTA (Prod Testing Acceptance) and sign-off.
• Discussed doubts / queries with Development Team / Client.
• Logged the defects in defect tracking tool / bug report.

Technologies Used: Toad, Tectia, Quality Center 11.0, SVN& Jira

Methodology: Agile Methodology (FDD & TDD)

Confidential

Associate / Test Analyst (Automation) Cum Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Carrying out detailed study of the change request and requirement specification document
• Handling scenario identification and writing test cases for critical enhancements.
• Managing new requirements from the project
• Involved in preparation of effort estimation and sharing the same with client.
• Determining tasks to all testing team members and conducting meetings with them.
• Participating in daily stand-up and weekly call to discuss status and progress with the client
• Review various reports prepared (Audit Purpose) by test engineers.
• Performing smoke testing before demo to client and executing regression suite
• Identifying and debugging all the defects related to the project
• Developing PTA (Prod Testing acceptance) test summary repost and providing sign-off on all testing deliverables
• Logged & tracked all the defects related to the project

Technologies Used: Toad, Tectia, Quality Center 11.0& Jira

Methodology: V-V Model

Confidential

Test Analyst (Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in (As Business Analyst):
• Define, plan, coordinate and obtain information requirements to support and module releases.
• Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development lifecycle so as to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, are implemented accurately and the full impact is understood by the business owner
• Interface with internal business users as well as various IT development groups so the needs can be clearly understood, expectations managed and change initiated.
• Act as the point of contact between the business units and IT.
• Perform analysis for business applications.
• Use systematic techniques for specifying requirements - like use-case scenarios, process modeling and data-flow diagramming.
• Involved in Designing documents like-Project Version Document, Use Case, Business Requirement Document, Requirement traceability matrix (RTM), Functional requirement specification (FRS)/ Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Involved in (As Test analyst):
• Executed detail study of the BRD (Build Requirement Document).
• Created test plan which involve creating test cases using Quality Center for different testing like Sanity, System, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Scheduled the new Batch test jobs and create off-market & on-market request with Mainframe (CICS).
• Worked on Data Table (Data Driven), Object Repository, Expert and Keyword View Framework
• Enhanced scripts by adding various checkpoints such as text area, standard, bitmap, table, and database checkpoints using QTP.
• Involved in Creation of Automated Scripts, executed the same and analyzed the results in QTP
• Responsible for Recovery Scenario Management through QTP
• Involved in preparing effective documentation which is the driving force for the forth coming releases and is used by the Business team
• Involved in programming with VB script to write reusable functions, and setting up the startup files for loading the libraries and configuration in QTP.
• Reviewed designed test cases and executed the test cases with QTP (Automation Tool) & manually
• Defects are tracked until it goes to a closed state.

Technologies Used: QTP, Toad, Quality Center 11.0, WinScp

Methodology: Waterfall Model

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Details study of the BRD (Build Requirement Document) document.
• Involvement in scenario identification & test case writing for critical enhancements.
• Cross Browser Testing on IE, Firefox and safari.
• Review Test cases, executing the test cases.
• Logging & tracking of all the defects related to the project.

Technologies Used: Integration Testing, Web testing, Quality Center

Methodology: Waterfall Model

Confidential, New Jersey

Test Engineer

Technologies: Window XP, Quality Center 8.0

Methodology: V-V Model

Responsibilities:

• Involved with Test Strategy and Test Plan in agreement with the project stakeholders
• Involved in Review Test scenarios, Test scripts prepared by the team and ensure business signoff
• Involved in testing like - Functional, Integration, Regression and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing, Maintance testing
• Responsible for scenario identification & test case writing for critical enhancements.
• Involved in Test case Design, Execution & Defect Tracking.
• Involved in peer review of designed test case
• Execute the test cases.
• Extraction of test data from tables and loading of data into oracle tables using SQL
• Prepared PTA (Prod Testing Acceptance) and sign-off.
• Discussed doubts / queries with Development Team / Client.
• Logged the defects in defect tracking tool / bug report.