PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of Industry experience in Information Technology and Data Processing field with strong emphasis in Software Quality Assurance.
• Commendable experience in various domains like Financial, Insurance, Banking and Telecommunication industries.
• Hands - on experience with Time & Labor/ Pensions/W2RACS/ EStubs and Financials or other mainframe payroll applications.
• Testing experience on Mainframe, Client/Server and Web Applications with extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing of applications. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing Methods like Waterfall, RUP & Agile.
• Demonstrable experience on GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Sanity, Performance, Stress, Reliability, compatibility, Cross Browser, Security and Database Testing, related Test Cases and Test Results.
• Hands on experience on Test Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Designing, Test Estimation, Defect reporting and tracking, Test result analysis.
• Has good experience in writing complex/detailed Test Plans, QA analysis on all test documentation and improve test documentation process.
• Good experience in developing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test cases by reviewing Business Requirements, Software Requirement specifications and creating Gap Analysis for test purpose
• Experienced in documenting defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest and Bugzilla.
• Experienced in Test Automation using HP Suite (Quick Test Professional and Quality Center) and Rational Tools (Rational Functional Tester, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Test Manager, Rational Performance Tester).
• Experienced with Test Director and Quality Center for Requirements, Test Plan, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Excellent knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management and Testing Life Cycles, SQA methodology and test process documentation and End user training.
• Developed the Test case Repository that contained the pool of Regression Test cases of the business critical components for building the Automated Regression Test suites
• Management skills including implementing and maintaining QA processes and activities.
• Excellent knowledge in JAVA, HTML, DHTML, and .Net technologies
• Hands on experience on Service Oriented Architecture
• Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems.
• Knowledge in Data warehousing tools like Informatica and Business Objects.
• Involved in Configuration Management and New release Requirements Meeting.
• Expertise in Problem solving, Risk assessment, Environment planning and Quality Assurance Methodologies.
• Extensive hands-on experience in testing large, complex software applications designed to automate common business processes, including automated and manual testing
• Maintaining strong analytical skills with the ability to adapt to changing environments and work in collaboration with colleagues.
• Comfortable with change and tight deadlines and able to adapt quickly to new situations and technologies.
• Had positive attitude and is confident enough to accept the challenges to prove One s self.
• Possessed good communication skills and ability to work well both in a group and individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QTP, Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Rational Performance Tester, Selenium Web Driver, File - Aid Client/Server, Share Point, Sarena Team Track, Informatica Power Mart 5.x/6.x, IDE/IDQ, Power Center 5.x/6.x/7.x, Data Stage, Business Objects 4.0/ 5.x/6.0, Micro Strategy, Cognos, Mainframe (TSO,JCL,COBOL), DB2, Terra Data, Clear Quest, Lotus Notes, Web Intelligence 2.x, Oracle 7.x/8.x/9i, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, MS Access, Erwin 4.x, Designer 2000, SQL*Loader, TOAD, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Node JS, SOAP, XML, XML Spy, HTML and DHTML, UML, Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.Net, Netezza, UNIX, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, SanFransisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analyze the Business and Functional Requirements for Bill Pay.
• Responsible to Create detailed Tet Strategies, Test Plans, Test Objectives and Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing for subsequent Releases.
• Involved in Requirements Review meetings and QA turnovers with development, BA & Project Managers.
• Involved in Add Payees and setup the payments for Internal/External/Personal Payees using Business and Consumer Customers in different simulators like M2, Desktop/Tablet and Mobile.
• Perform Device testing using IPhone/Android and Tablet and through Device Connect Simulators.
• Responsible to upload the builds in devices through ITunes and File Mangers.
• Perform Cross platform/Browser testing and make sure all the changes should be updated in all devices.
• Run the Batch Flows using Cron jobs in UNIX.
• Involved in writing the Queries and validate the data in database.
• Analyzed the Job Logs to check the performance of the applications and database.
• Analyzed results of testing sessions and compared the previous and present versions results.
• Participated in Integration Testing and coordinate with other teams to check the Fraud updates in other applications like SIMS and SF.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, E2E Testings.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent Bill Pay versions to make sure that the applications is functioning properly.
• Involved in Status meetings and Defect triage meetings.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress with Statistics reports
• Hardware\Software: Oracle 11G, Pl/SQL developer, TSO, JCL, Beyond Compare Tool, Quality Center 11.0, Unix and Linux servers, Hogan, CUI and CSA, Simulators (M2 Desktop/Tablet and Mobile) and SOAP UI.

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Sr.QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Business and Functional Requirements for Pricing.
• Responsible to Create detailed Test Plans and Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Walkthroughs, Peer Reviews and QA turnovers with developments & BA.
• Participate in Daily and Weekly standup & status update meetings for updating day to day activities.
• Run the Tivoli Job Schedules and Jobs for Security Master Pricing.
• Responsible to validate the Different Vendor Feeds which flows the data through nightly batch process.
• Responsible to validate the Raw loads and Normalization and Consolidation process for Golden Copy Prices.
• Responsible to validate Dashboards for different Exceptions and Graphs.
• Involved in upload the Bulk prices through XLS and CSV files and validate on the Business UI.
• Involved in writing the Queries for validating and comparing the data with Source databases.
• Worked on validating the Transformation Logics and implementation parts from Source to Target.
• Analyze the Business and Functional Requirements for Money Market Reform Changes.
• Responsible to Create detailed Tet Strategies, Test Plans and Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing for subsequent Releases.
• Involved in Requirements Review meetings and QA turnovers with development, BA & Project Managers.
• Responsible to validate all Money Market Components after batch cycle runs.
• Responsible to coordinate with different downstream applications for checking that changes.
• Run the Detailed Audit Reports and send to the responsible stockholders.
• Supporting and providing the necessary data for downstream applications from Security Master.
• Involved in Status meetings and Defect triage meetings.

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the AIFMD Business and Functional Requirements.
• Responsible to Create detailed Test Plans and Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Walkthroughs, Peer Reviews and QA turnovers with developments & BA.
• Participate in Daily and Weekly standup & status update like Agile Scrum meetings for updating day to day activities.
• Participate in Playbook Review meetings and Production release review meetings.
• Run the Tivoli Job Schedules and Jobs for AIFMD Extracts & Mappings.
• Involved in writing the Queries for validating and comparing the data with Source databases.
• Involved in creating and uploading the .CSV files for running the Calculations.
• Involved in running the API streams for creating .CSV files automated process.
• Worked on validating the ETL mappings for Source and Targets.
• Worked on validating the Transformation Logics and implementation parts from Source to Target.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Involved in report testing to validate the detailed reports.
• Involved in Creating new snapshots, filings and running the calculations on Advise UI.
• Involved in validate the data for each question against with Source files for Regulatory Reporting.
• Involved in perform the regression testing for subsequent activities for reporting.
• Logged the defects & Worked on reassigned defects.

Confidential, Grapevine, TX

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Pervasive and Confidential upgrade requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents for Pervasive Upgrade and .Net framework Upgrade.
• Wrote the test cases and mapped with the requirements using Test Manager.
• Participated in Review meetings with Confidential triage team.
• Participated in Peer Reviews, Walk through meetings and QA turnovers with Development, Business and other QA teams for various Confidential Activities in the Project.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing and User acceptance Testing.
• Preparation of writing the test cases to measure the performance of the Tidal job.
• Responsible to run the Confidential Jobs, Process files and Batch process.
• Preparation of Test Data for Confidential Positive and Negative Scenarios.
• Responsible to check the no of records has been updated / processed / exported by a job to calculate the accurate performance.
• Analyzed the Job Logs to check the performance of the applications and database.
• Analyzed results of testing sessions and compared the previous and present versions results.
• Participated in Integration Testing and coordinate with other teams to check the Confidential updates in other applications like POS, Middleware and Ecommerce.
• Worked with users to review test results to ensure they meet expected results
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress with Statistics reports.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent Confidential versions to make sure that the applications is functioning properly.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Execute the test scripts on Confidential old and new versions and compare the test results.
• Worked on BI dashboards.
• Execute the SQL scripts and compare the results with old and new versions of databases.
• Prepared the UAT test plans and assist to users to execute the UAT test scripts.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr Data warehouse Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the KP Data ware house business and functional requirements.
• Analyzes, develops, modifies and test online and batch programs to meet user requirements for the different systems handled.
• Participated in Kick off meetings for KP sprint work assignments.
• Participate in Standup & Scrum meetings for updating the day to day project activities.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents for KP Data ware house project.
• Worked on validating the Source and Target Data Models and DW schema designs.
• Worked on validating the Golden Gate Extract Configurations to run on the EPS Application Database.
• Worked on Golden Gate Replication Process from One Database to other Database.
• Worked on Multi EPS store set up and configurations on AIX server.
• Worked on flat files and Control file flows from Golden Gate to Landing Zone.
• Worked on validating the DDL scripts for ODS schema generations and confirm that KP ODS schema were generated with the existing table names in EPS and reflect the revised table structures with Meta data columns.
• Involved in validating the DDL generator for external tables.
• Worked on validating the Dimension and Fact tables in DW.
• Responsible to create the EPS transactions for all the financial events identified by KP and internal Confidential designers.
• Involved in Data flows testing from EPS transaction logs to Golden Gate and Golden Gate to Landing Zone and Landing Zone to ODS.
• Involved in validating the static data loads from source to target tables.
• Analyzed exceptions to the data resulting from the EPS by validating the business logic using business requirement documents.
• Prepared SQL queries for verifying the outputs in Oracle Database for all events.
• Worked on validating the ETL mappings for Source and Targets.
• Worked on validating the Transformation Logics and implementation parts from Source to Target.
• Involved in SDL components like Metadata, Schema.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Involved in complete flat file regression testing and validate the Flat File Writer to ensure that it still functions correctly in a standalone EPS configuration for Multi EPS stores.
• Involved in validating the BI screens on reporting tool.
• Involved in Report testing based on the KP requirements.
• Involved in Web service testing using SOAP UI for new RX creation and Drug Inventory Management and Store Based Mail Orders.
• Worked on Point of Sale for RX sold and Voids and Credit Card Authorization Process and Post Payment Requests.
• Worked on BI Dash boards.
• Logged the defects & Worked on reassigned defects.
• Interacted with end users to obtain their specific system requirements.
• Prepared the Demo Scripts for demoing to Kaiser Permanent for all user stories.
• Involved in Sprint Demonstrations for clients.
• Prepared Testing Status reports and Defect status Reports.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr QA Analyst\Ecommerce Tester

Hardware/Software: Agile Scrum, Java, J2EE, JSDK 1.5.0, IBM WebSphere 6.1.0.21, IBM Http Sever, DB2, Aqua Data Studio 8.0, Anthill Pro, Share Point, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Functional Tester 8.1.1, Requisite Pro 7.1.1,Rational Performance Tester, PVCS, ATG Service Center 9.2, Rally, Message Queue, Java & Java Script.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the EEOCM requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents for Enterprise eCommerce online code manager.
• Participated in Review meetings with EEOCM triage team.
• Participated in Peer Reviews and Walk through meetings with Development, Business and other QA teams for various Online Code Manager Activities in the Project.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Data for Online Code Manager
• Analyzes, develops, modifies and test online and batch programs to meet user requirements for the different systems handled.
• Preparation of Test Data for Online Code Manager Positive and Negative Scenarios.
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM’s) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• SQL’s are written using DB2 database.
• Analyzed results of testing sessions and presents results.
• Worked with users to review test results to ensure they meet expected results
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress with Statistics reports.
• Prepared test plans and Test Procedures and also automated Test Scripts in RFT.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent Online Code Manager versions to make sure that the applications is functioning properly.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Coordinated with Aquity Group, Advantage Systems.
• Involved in designed and development of Automation test plan including details of automation scope and effort estimation.
• Involved in design and development of automation framework Data driven framework for Online code manager.
• Implemented Excel driven automation framework with the functions created in Java Script and steps written in excel.
• Created user defined generic functions using Java Script programs as part of implementing automation framework.
• Involved in development and maintenance of regression scripts with Rational Functional Tester 8.1.2.
• Involved in execution of regression scripts, fixing the scripts and analysis of results.
• Implemented data pools, verification points, SQL verification, XML verification, writing the results into the Excel in the regression scripts.
• Responsible for Weekly status reports/Updates showing the Progress of the Application under testing on weekly project team meetings.
• Responsible for preparation of Test Log and sign off documents

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Sr QA Analyst\Mainframe Tester

Hardware/Software: Mainframe (TSO, ISPF, JCL), DB2, Java, J2EE, Java Script, MQ, Web Services SOAP UI, Message Queue, Ms Access, Advanced Query Tool, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, Rational Clear Quest.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the CAB requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents for Book Keeping.
• Participated in Review meetings with Internal and External Stake holders.
• Participated in Peer Reviews and Walk through meetings with Development, Business and other QA teams for various Book Keeping Activities in the Project.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress with Statistics reports.
• Participated in complete QA life Cycle.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Data for Book Keeping.
• Analyzes, develops, modifies and test online and batch programs to meet user requirements for the different systems handled.
• Used FILE-AID and TSO/ISPF to allocate, manipulate and browse files.
• Created Batch files for testing the Backend application.
• Preparation of Test Data for Book keeping Positive and Negative Scenarios.
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM’s) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases
• Run the Job flows.
• Analyzed results of testing sessions and presents results.
• Worked with users to review test results to ensure they meet expected results
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Have good experience in Report Testing using Report Repository (XACT).
• Prepared test plans and Test Procedures and also automated Test Scripts in QTP.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent Book Keeping versions to make sure that the applications is functioning properly.
• SQL’s are written using SPUFI or QMF to query the DB2 database on mainframe Environment.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Coordinated with BKS, RDP Teams for Data Cross verification.
• Involved in designed and development of Automation test plan including details of automation scope and effort estimation.
• Involved in design and development of automation frameworks (Key Word driven and Data driven frameworks) for Bookkeeping.
• Implemented Excel driven automation framework with the functions created in VB Script and steps written in excel.
• Created user defined generic functions using VB Script programs as part of implementing automation framework.
• Involved in development and maintenance of regression scripts with Quick Test Professional V9.02.
• Involved in execution of regression scripts, fixing the scripts and analysis of results.
• Implemented data pools, verification points, SQL verification, XML verification, writing the results into the Excel in the regression scripts.
• Responsible for Weekly status reports/Updates showing the Progress of the Application under testing on weekly project team meetings.
• Responsible for preparation of Test Log and sign off documents.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Senior QA Analyst

Hardware/Software: Java, J2EE, Mainframe (TSO, ISPF, JCL), DB2, Ms-Access, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Requisite Pro, Java, Java Script, Windows XP, File - Aid Client/Server.

Responsibilities:

• Used IBM Rational Clear Quest to keep track of the various RM’s (Client Request Method) for production and Releases of System Testing.
• Analyze the PPMS requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents for various PPMS releases.
• Participated in Kick off meetings and Walk through meetings with Development, Business and other QA teams for various PPMS releases in the Project.
• Participated in complete QA life Cycle.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Data for 1099 Periodic and Non Periodic.
• Analyzes, develops, modifies and test online and batch programs to meet user requirements for the different systems handled.
• Used FILE-AID and TSO/ISPF to allocate, manipulate and browse files.
• Created Batch files for testing the Backend application.
• Prepared Test Data.
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM’s) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases
• Run the Job flows.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Have good experience in Report Testing using Report Management Distribution System (RMDS).
• Prepared test plans and Test Procedures and also automated Test Scripts in Rational Functional Tester.
• Debugged the application in Xpediter/TSO and made changes to the values according to
• Test Cases such as Test condition and Expected results.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent PPMS versions to make sure that the applications is functioning properly.
• SQL’s are written using SPUFI or QMF to query the DB2 database on mainframe Environment.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Coordinated with People soft Team for Data Cross verification.
• Involved in designed and development of Automation test plan including details of automation scope and effort estimation.
• Involved in design and development of frameworks (data driven and modular frameworks) using IBM rational tools.
• Implemented Excel driven automation framework with the functions created in java and steps written in excel.
• Created user defined generic functions using Java programs as part of implementing automation framework.
• Involved in development and maintenance of regression scripts with IBM rational functional tester V7.01 and Ver 8.0.
• Involved in execution of regression scripts, fixing the scripts and analysis of results.
• Implemented data pools, verification points, SQL verification, xml verification, writing the results into the Excel in the regression scripts.
• Responsible for Weekly status reports/Updates showing the Progress of the Application under testing on weekly project team meetings.
• Responsible for preparation of Test Log and sign off documents.