SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Agile SCRUM/ Kanban environment/methodologies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, story acceptance testing and automation of story tests
• Experienced in Black Box, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, UAT, Functional and Nonfunctional Testing, Regression testing, System testing, and Performance testing
• Results - driven QA professional with Bachelors level education, and proven track record in increasing productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow through abilities
• Ability to meet project deliverables under aggressive deadlines
• Ability to work independently and as part of a dedicated team
• Extensive experience in all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure technical completeness and accuracy
• Extensive experience in writing test plans, test cases, creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Experienced in direct customer interaction during the project life cycle
• Decisive, energetic, focused team leader/player who leads high-performing teams through implementing change and improvements
• Extensive experience in customizing Vuser scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation query, transaction point, and rendezvous point and creating scenarios using Load Runner controller
• Extensive experienced in Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, MS SQL Server, Win 95/98/2000, Win NT/XP and using oracle tools Toad, SQL Developer
• Exposure in development practices like Unit testing, Test-Driven criteria’s
• Extertise in testing on handheld/mobile devices
• Expertise in Selenium Scripting
• Experienced in Web services, REST Services (JSON) and Automation Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 11/10/9, Load Runner11/9.52/8, Test Director, Quick Test pro, Performance center9.52/9.5, Selenium

Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, RUP, Path Analysis

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT/7.0/VISTA, UNIX, Sun Solaris

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, C++,C#, JAVA, UML, COBOL, JCL

Software Tools: MS Office Suite, Clearcase, TOAD, Autosys, Erwin, SiteScope, TFS, JIRA

Databases: Oracle 9/10/11i, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0, MS Access, DB2, AS400, TOAD

Web Servers: IIS 4.0/5.0, Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle 10i App Server, Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience reading technical specifications, Experience with data reconciliation and Proficiency using industry-recognized testing tools
• Demonstrated experience in executing test plans and documenting results
• Work with PO and development teams to identify product backlog, participate in backlog grooming, whiteboard sessions, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives
• Create and execute story tests, and automate story tests
• Test strategy, planning, effort estimation and test schedule
• Test data preparation, Script development, scenarios execution, and monitoring and metrics collection. Involved in both automation and Manual testing activities to ensure quality deliverables
• Work closely with other members of the Development Team, IT Research Team and Marketing to review the designs of systems, implement test plans, and test the quality of software products
• Preparation of Test Cases to cover complete scope of functionality based on functional requirements. Involved in test case reviews and approval.
• Identification of Positive and Negative Test Scenarios flows based on business requirements of application
• Involved in Build Verification, Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT and Boundary Testing .
• Assist users and IT development staff in validation efforts
• Participate as necessary in Information Technology process improvements
• Analysis of results, reporting the identified issues and results summary to the Dev Team, Integration team, Support team and Data services team for further analysis and recommend corrective action upon failures.
• Defect reporting, status tracking, analysis and documentation of test results to assist in modification of software code.
• Wrote test cases to test the backend database by retrieving the data from the tables using SQL Queries
• Process SQL statements in LAWSON Database to verify payroll data against Tax reporting output.
• Participate in OneNeck maintenance window and involved in testing activities in pre and post Deployment windows.
• Work with scheduling, task assignments and status tracking for change requests, Customer issues, data change requests for Cyclic/ISE and bulletins
• Work with Integration services like SAP, Workday, Kronos, Infor for payroll tax compliance and tax calculation.
• Certify internal products which included Eforms, Tax factory and Compliance Factory.
• Proven record of leadership in QA team . Provide Knowledge transfer, training of products and Methodologies as needed.

Environment: Salesforce, Apache Tomcat/ 8.0.43, Oracle 10.2, DB2, Informix, Tomcat 5.5.0, Unix 2.6.0.0, JAVA, C/C++, MS SQL server, Web services, SOAP UI 4.5, WINCVS 2.0.2.4, Windows 2007, z/OS, Windows Server 2008 R2, VMWare, JMesa Tool, Win SQL Professional 7.0, Selenium, JIRA, JMeter, Load runner11.0, HP ALM

Confidential, CT

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of requirements for the project, ensure understanding from the team, identify, escalate and resolve issues with respect to requirements for quality deliverables
• Understanding Functional requirements and Design documents
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Black Box, White Box and Grey Box Testing.
• Creating SOP’s and Identification of Test Scenarios flows based on business requirements of application
• Analysis of results and reporting the identified issues and results summary to the Dev Team for the further analysis
• Developed Vuser Scripts in Virtual User Generator
• Performed Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance and Performance testing using Load Runner
• Performance test execution using Load Runner
• Performance Monitoring
• Collect and collate test results
• Analysis of Performance test results and publish reports
• Defect reporting, status tracking and analysis
• Prepare test results summary report and executive summary report

Environment: Load runner11.0, HP ALM, Unix 2.6.0.0, JAVA, Putty, ASP, Oracle 9.2.0.4, AS400, SiteScope, Mainframes, COBOL, DB2, SQL, Web services, Performance center 11.0,TFS, JIRA, Windows XP, Windows 2003,Windows 2007,Windows 2008