SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of IT work experience in Quality Assurance & Business Analysis with strong business understanding of Retail, Banking, Financial and Airlines domain. Sakshi is a process oriented QA resource with ISTQB certification.
• QA experience includes Team management, Requirement Analysis, Effort Estimation, Test Strategy, Test plan, Test Scenarios, Test Case Design and Review, Test Case Execution, Defect Tracking & Reporting, Test Status Reporting and various Project Management Activities.
• Expert in QA Methodologies, Business Analysis and QA Processes
• Proficient in Functional Testing, UAT, Regression, System Integration, Database Testing, Mobile testing of Web based and Client/server applications.
• Expertise in Web Services Testing using SOAPUI
• Experienced in various phases of Software Life Cycle. (SDLC and STLC) and sound knowledge of Iterative, Agile and Waterfall models.
• Expertise in Domain: Banking and Financial services (Mortgage, Basics of Banking) and Retail.
• Expertise in Tools: HP ALM Quality Center, SOAP UI, JIRA, TFS, QTP and Clear View 4.0.
• Has complete knowledge of testing - related artifacts, such as Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Metrics, Test Summary Report, Defect Summary Report, and QA Status Reports.
• Expertise in Test Cases Design, Review and Execution, QA Reporting, Defect Management, RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)
• Coordinating Onsite-Offshore modeled projects.
• Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL and basics of UNIX.
• Data Integration & Mapping testing, ETL Testing
• Defect Co-coordinator: Issue analysis, tracking and reporting
• Expertise in MS suite like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Outlook.
• Ability to work independently or as a team with minimal supervision.
• Team Mentoring, Excellent Presentation Skills and exceptional communication skills.
• Delivered various Maintenance and Enhancement projects
• Assisted Automation team in Scripting Regression Suites
• Worked on Product Implementation Projects and Migration Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Skills: Functional, Mobile, ETL, Web-Services testing.

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM Quality Center, JIRA, TFS, MTM.

Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, LINUX and MS-DOS

Data Bases: Oracle 10g, 11i, PL/SQL, MySQL and MS Access

MSSuite: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point and MS Outlook

Other Tools: SOAPUI, Putty, TOAD, VSS 6.0, Tortoise SVN, MSP, ETL

Technology: Java, .net, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

• Extensively involved in the data mapping sessions for over 30 systems of record within the bank to the industry leading mortgage application Loan sphere MSP.
• Designed and developed test scripts for over 3000 data fields in the data definition document.
• Developed SQL queries to do source to target type of validations for various work streams to confirm data transferred with the application of stated logic in the data definition.
• Helped Line of Business with scenario specific data pull from various backend systems using Toad as well as Splunk.
• Engaged in extensive KT and brainstorming sessions with various teams involved in the conversion program related to Director and Passport Scripting.
• Heavily involved in Data Conversion validation event spanning 3 to 4 weeks and over 100 members both at the backend and UI level.
• Executed Test scripts to cover various scenarios and opened defects in ALM whenever necessary, triaged them with LOB and BKFS for root cause analysis and closure.
• Involved in sending daily QA status reports to PTM’s and leadership.
• Verified all the conversion/verification messages sent by BKFS as part of the initial validation for the conversion event.
• Identify and Analyze Quality Risks in Testing
• End to End Test Planning, execution and delivery
• Identifying, prioritizing and resolving defects and tracking of defects
• Requirement Analysis, Effort Estimation, Scheduling & Planning

Tools: Toad, MSP Director, HP ALM, AS400,SQL server, Passport.

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

• Working in agile based scrum team model
• Determine Testing scope & Develop Test Plan & Strategy
• Implement Software Quality Assurance standards and best practices
• End to End Test Planning, execution and delivery
• Identifying, prioritizing and resolving defects and tracking of defects
• Requirement Analysis, Effort Estimation, Scheduling & Planning
• Deliver Sprint Testing and Release Testing (System Integration)
• QA activities - test planning, design and review & Test Execution.
• SQL Testing, Data Integration Testing, ETL, UAT.
• Responsible for sending the Risk assessment before the sign off.
• Selenium Test scripts execution

Tools: TFS, MTM, Microsoft office, Oracle SQL Developer.

Confidential

Sr QA Engineer

• Working in agile based scrum team model
• Task tracking in JIRA
• Requirement understanding and Analysis
• In Pod (Sprints) and Out of Pod (Release) Test Deliverables
• Daily Reporting to all stakeholders.

Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, SharePoint, Microsoft office, MS SQL Developer, Confluence

Confidential

Confidential, Fort worth, TX

QA Test Lead

• Coordinating with Business Clients and 3rd Party for Product Implementation and Requirement Understanding.
• Day to Day QA Activities
• Defects management activities and Issue tracking
• Mobile Testing for application product “Payday1”- iOS, Androids and iPhones, iPad.
• Implemented financial products to bridge gap between payday loans and credit cards - RISE and Payday1

Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0, Target Process, SharePoint, Microsoft office, MS SQL Server management Studio, DNN, Message finder, Responsinator, Browsera, Mobile testing on Androids, iPhone, iPad.

Confidential

QA Lead

• Working in agile based scrum team model
• Quality deliverables and Ownership of various releases, Daily Status meetings for all the applications,
• Sending the Reports from Clear View v4.0 to stakeholders
• QA Metrics and Release plan.

Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0, Toad For Oracle 9.5, Putty, SOAPUI pro 4.5, XML

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Analyst

• Test Plans, traceability matrix, test case design and review, Test Execution.
• Identifying, prioritizing and resolving defects and tracking of defects
• Requirement Analysis, Effort Estimation, Scheduling & Planning
• Daily Reporting to all stakeholders.
• Onsite offshore coordination
• Managed a multi-vendor QA team

Tools: Quality Center 11.0, Rally, CPI- Mainframe, Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Confidential,San Antonio, TX

QA Analyst

• Team lead for a team of 6 entrée level Testers.
• Team was responsible for Test designing and Test execution for enhancement.

Tools: nQuality Center 9.2, SQL Server 2000