SUMMARY:

• 8 + years of experience as software QA Analyst / Tester in Software Testing/Quality Assurance.
• Experience in testing of Client Server, Web applications, N - tier, SOA based applications and Web services using Automation tools and Manual testing methodologies.
• Expertise in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models/frameworks using Agile Process, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), test management and testing life cycle methodologies.
• Expertise in analysing functional and design specifications and experience in preparing Test plans, test schedules, designing and executing test cases, test matrices, document process management and maintaining check lists.
• Experienced in maintenance of Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Expertise in conducting Functional, Integration, User Acceptance, Regression, Stress, Performance, Load, Production and System testing following best testing practices, testing strategies and Methodologies using automated testing tools and well versed with the use of defect tracking tools.
• Adept in reviewing Test Procedures, Test plans, Test Scenarios, defining System & Integration Test Cases, executing Test Cases, Test Data reviewing.
• Maintenance and executing detailed Test scripts for User Acceptance Testing (UAT), analysing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and UAT and also assisted in Post - Production testing.
• Experience in writing SQL queries and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and involved in data manipulation and database testing on Oracle using SQL scripts.
• Expertise in testing of Client-Server, N-Tier, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications using Automation Tools QTP, Win Runner, Quality Center, Test Director, Load runner, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Apache JMeter and SOAP UI.
• Expertise in developing automated regression test scripts, automating processes and Setup.
• Expertise in gathering requirements for Load Testing, developing performance test scripts, preparing the Scenarios to fulfil the project specific needs, analyse the test results and report the bottlenecks.
• Specialized in QA Methodologies, testing of software components for build/release testing and end user focused. Good exposure to six sigma quality concepts.
• Involved in gray box testing of WCF based Web services and web applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C++, C#, Java, .Net, ASP .Net, HTML, XML, Unix Shell, SQL and PL/SQL

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Center, Rational tools, Selenium, Apache JMeter, Mercury Tools Win Runner, Test Director and Load runner, SOAP UI.

Bug reporting tools: Quality center, IBM Rational Clear Quest 6.2, Jira and Mantis.

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VBScript

Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, DB2, MS-SQL Server 2005/2008, MS - Access

Database editors: SQL Developer, TOAD, SQL*Plus, SQL Server management studio.

IDE: Eclipse 3.4/3.6, Visual Studio 2008/2010

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XSLT, ASP.Net, Servlets, JSP, STRUTS.

Application Servers: WebSphere5.0, Web logic 8.1/10.3, IIS 5.1/7

Version Control tools: PVCS, CVS, Rational Clear case and TFS.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/7, UNIX and Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Buffalo grove, IL

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, functional requirements to prepare the Test Plan and Test Strategy.
• Verified and reviewed the web Service Specification documents, Mapping Documents and Interface Specification and prepared Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Analyzed the Testing Requirements to identify and create Test Data.
• Responsible for creating SOAP and RESTful web Services Test Suites based on WSDL and End Point URI’s in SOAP UI.
• Created Services, Resources and Methods (PUT, POST, GET, and DELETE) for RESTful Web Services using the End Point URI’s or WADL.
• Created Interfaces, Operations for SOAP Web services using the WSDL.
• Good understanding on creating MOCK web services.
• Automated the Test Steps in SOAP UI(Free Version) and SOAP UI(Pro) for SOAP and RESTFul services.
• Created Reusable Regression Test Suites which can be run for every Pre Production Release across CVS using SOAP UI and LISA.
• Validated Test Steps for the web services using Assertions.
• Automated the Results and populated the Data from External Sources in SOAP UI Free Version using Groovy Scripts.
• Connected to external Data source in SOAP UI Pro using Data Source and Data Sink Test Steps.
• Good understanding in XML and JSON formats used in SOAP and RESTFul web services.
• Tested Web services (SOAP and JSON Request & Response) and Orchestrated Web Services by creating test suites, test cases and test steps in SOAP UI.
• Executed the Mass Production Regression Suites using Test Utility Tool.
• Documented the Test Results and shared the Knowledge across team.
• Responsible for walkthrough of the Design Documents and provided Signoff for Test Artifacts.
• Logged defects, Tracked Requirements, Maintained Test Cases and Results using QC and ALM(Application Life Cycle Management).
• Analyzed the Defect in the Data Power Logs and the IIB Logs and also in the Unix Servers.
• Validated the Test Case results by executing SQL queries in AS400, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server Databases.
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, End To End testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing. Provided support for the User Acceptance Testing(UAT)
• Validated Data power logs and IIB logs to check the SOAP error codes and descriptions are writing in.
• Responsible for Demonstrating the Test Results on Test Completion to all the stakeholders interested in the Project.
• Good Understanding of Medicare (Med D) Webs services and also tested and consumed them as part of CVS Web Services.
• Expert Knowledge on Retail, PBM, Specialty and Digital Services in Health Care Domain.
• Expertise in Waterfall, Iterative Incremental SDLC Models.
• Day to Day interaction with offshore team of 10 for the status, Issues, Clarifications and all Testing Related Activities.

environment: Java, J2EE, SOA, Web services, SOAP5.0, JSON, HTML, Java Script, UNIX, Oracle 11g, AS/400, QC, LISA, Oracle web logic 10.3, SQL Developer.