SUMMARY:

• Around 16 years of Software experience, of which 12 years in Software Testing and 4 years in Software Development.
• Quality Engineering experience in analysis, design, development, enhancement, implementation, testing, documentation and presenting prototypes.
• Team Lead experience includes Requirement Analysis, Project Planning, Testing and Automation and quality assurance of Unix, IBM Mainframe, Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Excellent communication and leadership with handling multiple projects/teams.
• Proven ability to analyze existing processes and recommend improvements.
• Actively involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Well experienced in ETL Testing using the tools like OBIEE, ODI, Business Objects (BO) and Free Hand SQL etc.
• Experience with Waterfall, AGILE and CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration ) methodologies for Testing.
• Self - motivated, detail oriented ability to coordinate in a team environment with good interpersonal capabilities.
• Well experienced in Manual Testing as well as experience with implementing automation tools framework.
• Have the ability to do Black Box and White Box Testing as well.
• Hands-on experience in testing Web Applications developed using HTML, Java, EJB, JSP, XML, Java Script, VB Script and ASP.
• Well experienced in writing Test Plans & Test Cases, Developing and Maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs and in suggesting suitable solutions to fix the Errors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Q/A & Testing: Manual Testing, Automated Test Tools, Test Plan Design & Test Cases

Testing Tools: QTP/UFT, ALM/HP Quality Center, Green Hat Tester, Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager, Test Director, VATT, QCMBR, Compuware TMS, PVCS Version Manager and QA Partner, DOORS, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition), ODI (Oracle Data Integrator), ALM 11.0/Quality Center 10.0, Putty, Windows 7, MS Office, Oracle, JAVA, WebLogic, HTML, SQL, TOAD, XML, Altova XML Spy, ClearCase, ClearQuest, DOORS, Gems, SharePoint, Worksoft.

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Vantive, Clear DDTS, PVCS Tracker, Lotus Notes, Jira

LANGUAGES: COBOL, Visual Basic, Power Builder, SQL, SQL Plus

Web Technologies: Java, J2EE, JS, HTML, VB Script and ASP

RDBMS: ORACLE, DB2, SQL Server 7/ 2000, SYBASE, TANDEM, Mark Logic.

OPERATING SYSTEM: MVS, DOS, UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP-UX), Unix Scripting(Shell, TCL), OLTP, IBM AIX and Windows NT.

HARDWARE: IBM PC, IBM ES-9000, HP Workstation, Sun Solaris

Others: MS-Office 97, MS-Office Suite, Lotus Notes, MS-Project, VISIO.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. QA/ Lead Analyst

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze requirements.
• Worked on various types of testing including Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration and coordinating with UAT and Smoke testing.
• Used SharePoint to maintain the project related documents.
• Worked on developing Test Plans/Test scenarios/Test Cases using HP ALM.
• Execute Test Cases and manage artifacts in ALM.
• Working with Business Analysts/Dev teams on a daily basis to discuss/resolving issues

Environment: ALM 12.0/ HP Quality Center (QC) 10.0, SOAP UI, VB Script, Java, J2EE, HTML, JS, JSP, XML Marker, Xquery, Mark Logic, REST Service, SOAP Web Services, Spring, Unix, Putty, Jira, Windows7, Share Point, Microsoft Office Project 2007, MS Office, HTML and Work Soft (an automation tool).

Test/Sr. QA Lead Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze requirements, mapping documents and trigger documents using DOORS
• Developed test cases and test scenarios using requirement documents, trigger documents and mapping documents in Quality Center/ALM.
• Experience in Data Ware Housing projects.
• Performed System testing, Regression, Database/Back End testing and Integration Testing.
• Validate the XML files based on XSD using Altova XMLSpy for Integration Testing.
• Expertise in run autosys jobs using UNIX commands to process xml files.
• Expertise in jil autosys jobs when code migrated for new release
• Expertise using Gems (Graphical Enterprise Message Service) graphical user interface utility for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
• Expertise in run FALCON Cycle to process and update the new production data into test environment
• Knowledge on run EPI process for new and existing properties from TRAX will be moved to Equator
• Experience creating and executing complex SQL queries and joins using TOAD for Database/Back End testing
• Report and track the defect tickets and requirement task tickets using Rational ClearQuest
• Perform RTM to find gaps between test cases VS requirements.
• Used SharePoint to maintain the project related documents
• Experience in document the daily status reports and Test Summary Reports for final sign off
• Attended daily and weekly meetings with fellow QA, Development, BA and Functional Analyst team members
• Worked on Business Rules Testing in Business Acceptance Test(BAT) team.
• Business rules testing using XML, WSDLs and automated QTP scripts.
• Prepare test data for business rules based on the requirements and run them using the QTP scripts.
• Worked on different business rules testing of Auto Decisioning(AD) and Case Management(CM) systems.
• Rules validation using back-end database using Oracle 11g DB
• Performing Shakeout of AD and CM when new builds are deployed to the test environment.
• Execution of test scenarios in HP Quality Center (HP QC).
• Performed lead responsibilities on a daily basis representing business/team and management meetings.
• Analyzing the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Technical Requirements docs (TRD),
• Creating Test plans and preparing detailed test scripts and test cases for the Functional Testing of Services.
• Add/Update Test scripts as the change requests(CRs) take place.
• Performed Business Objects testing activities.
• Working in SOA testing environment.
• Developed Scripts in Green Hat Tester test tool to perform various Services testing.
• Prepared WSDLs and database mapping documents and verified the XML documents (XML Spy).
• Performed Configuration Management activities like creating build deployment tickets in Test/UAT environments, starting and stopping of the test servers upon receiving request from the test/UAT teams.
• Supported UAT Testing with UAT teams after completion of System Testing.
• Organized Team Meetings as well as attending status meetings with development teams during the requirements and development life cycle.
• Performed Interface testing and verified the loans that have been picked by the jobs.
• Performed Back end testing through Toad Query tool
• Verified outputs against the Oracle database using SQL queries
• Documented and tracked the defects encountered while running the Test Cases using Rational Clear Quest
• Monitored UNIX logs in the back end to check for any errors.
• Performed the Requirements Traceability in DOORS
• Used HP Quality Center(QC) to create/prepare test cases/scenarios, execute the test cases and also to track the test results.
• Participated in technical meetings and walkthroughs.
• Performing Smoke tests on different test environments for new initiatives and production fixes.
• Preparing Test Summary reports for various test initiatives .
• Querying the Oracle database for back-end testing using SQL queries.

Environment: ALM 11.0/ HP Quality Center (QC) 10.0, QTP/UFT, VB Script, Java, JSP, XML, Altova XML Spy, Toad for Oracle 11g/10g, Unix, Putty, Windows7, SAS, Ab Initio, ETL, Autosys Scheduler, Rational Clear Quest (CQ) 7.1.1.4, IBM Rational DOORS 9.3, Business Objects and Free hand SQL, GEMS, Share Point, Green Hat Tester and Microsoft Office Project 2007, MS Office, HTML.

Lead Test Engineer

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various Data ware Housing/ETL projects as a Lead QA Engineer.
• Worked and Implemented Oracle ETL tools such as ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) and OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) for testing ETL projects.
• Preparing Test Plans/TSD (Test Strategy Document) for each ETL project .
• Help prepare test team with test data for various releases where applicable.
• Represented QA in Business/Requirements meetings.
• Worked with DEV team on a daily basis discussing/resolving the issues.
• Analyzing the Business Requirements Document (BRD), Technical Requirements docs.
• Performed Configuration Management activities like creating build deployment tickets in Test/UAT environments, starting and stopping of the test servers upon receiving request from the test/UAT teams.
• Supported UAT Testing with UAT teams after completion of System Testing deliverables.
• Documented and tracking the defects using JIRA.
• Monitored UNIX logs in the back end to check for any errors.
• Performed the Requirements Traceability in Test Link.
• Participated in technical meetings and walkthroughs.
• Supported testing of Production fixes.

Environment: ODI(Oracle Data Integrator) and OBIEE(Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition), BI Publisher, PL/SQL Developer for Oracle 11g, Unix, ETL, JIRA, Test Link and Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Lead/Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr./Lead QA Engineer

Confidential

Environment: Java, EJB, JSP, Java Script, XML, Mercury Quality Center 9.0(QC), QTP, TOAD for Oracle 9.5Oracle and Agile methodology.

SR. QA/Lead Engineer

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Environment: Java, EJB, JSP, Java Script, VC++, XML, UML, CORBA, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clearcase, Rational Test Manager, RUP, Web SDLC, AIX, Solaris 7.0, DB2, Oracle, SQLSERVER 2000.