SUMMARY:

• IT professional with a Senior Quality Assurance Team Lead / Analyst record for developing and leading successful QA project and solution in both Waterfall and Agile environment.
• Diversified experience in web application, client - server, network, multimedia, and database projects in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Expertise in all phases of the software life cycle risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Hands on experience with functionality testing, UAT, GUI testing, regression testing, web testing, backend testing, system testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing and data driven testing using Mercury and Rational tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, IBM ES9000, IBM-370, Windows

Languages: C, C++, Pro*C, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, HTML, SQL

Databases: Oracle (11g), Information Management System Database (IMS DB), DB2/SQL, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), Time Sharing Option/Interactive System Productivity Facility (TSO/ISPF), Customer Information Control System (CICS), Easytrieve, Query Management Facility (QMF)

Tools: Test Director, CA RELIA Workbench, IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational Clear Quest, MICROFOCUS WORKBENCH, IBM WORKBENCH, DBArtisan, TOAD (9.5), CA Harvest Change Manager, Unicenter Service Desk, Putty, Autosys 11.3.5, Informatica 9.5.1, QTP 11, Doors 9.3, Altova XML spy 2013, Quality Center (10.01).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created, Designed and modified the Test cases.
• Participated in UAT and Regression testing.
• Created Test Plan, Test summary document and gathered artifacts during the Testing cycle.
• Created and manipulated test data using Altova XML spy and TOAD.
• Performed root cause analysis of the defect and documented it using Clear Quest during the execution phase.
• Provided testing estimate and created Regression suite test cases for the various projects.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to map between the requirements and test cases.
• Created test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality of the Informatica graphs.
• Validating the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according to the transformation rules and data completeness.
• Written Test Cases for ETL to compare Source and Target database systems.
• Implemented Agile QA methodologies.
• Extensively tested of data accuracy and generation of Reports.
• Execution, Monitoring and validation of Batch Job using Autosys and validation the backend tables using SQL.
• End to End production testing and validation of Autosys job

Platform: Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Altova r11.0 XML spy, Quality Center, TOAD, Autosys, Putty, DOORS, Informatica 9.5.1

Confidential

Team Lead/Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all the Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.
• Analyzed and reviewed Business requirements, functional specifications and design documents to Develop Test requirements, Test Plans, designated Test cases and Test Scripts
• Conducting walk-through of Test Strategy documents.
• Worked with the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on a Quality Assurance plan
• Ensure that QA process is documented, communicated and adequate to ensure agreed quality levels for all the application.
• Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements, working with the project Business Analyst to ensure all requirements are tested.
• Coordinated performance testing and ensures that performance standards are communicated and documented.
• Performed Manual Functionality testing, Integration testing on Client server and Web application
• Responsible in influencing the direction of the automation effort, schedule and prioritization.
• Oversees determination of need, selection and implementation, and maintenance of QA tools.
• Participate in UAT planning and execution activities for business
• QA issue prioritization and resolution facilitation.
• Manage the planning and execution of product testing efforts including the associated hardware and personnel resources to meet customer committed dates
• Analyze requirements during the requirement analysis phase of project.
• Involved in performing both Frontend and Backend testing
• Written complex SQL queries using multiple joins and sub queries for validating Reports generated either monthly or quarterly.
• Facilitates weekly Quality Assurance meetings and maintain agenda.

Platform: Windows, Oracle 10g, CFMX 7

Tools: Toad For oracle 10.6, CA Harvest Change Manager, Unicenter Service Desk, HP Quality Center 11, QTP 10, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, MS Word, Excel, Access

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and execute test cases using test plans and functional specifications.
• Backend database testing in Oracle environment including validating stored procs, jobs and triggers.
• Participate in the design spec reviews to understand design, contribute quality requirements and ensure testability
• Installed the code and conducted the Functional, System, Integration, Regression and End to end testing.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Validated more than 150 reports per project that were developed using Abinitio. These reports were validated for all the country which uses AOL services.
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.
• Worked with the Call center in AOL for end to end testing for the entire work flow from when the user purchase a product to his final bill and generating the financial reports for AOL
• Used Scheduling tools such as Autosys to Schedule and run the jobs
• Provided Training and Supporting Documents for projects which were outsourced.

Platform: UNIX, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, HP-UX 10.x and Sun Solaris 5.6

Tools: Toad For oracle, Test Director, Internet Explorer, MS Word, Excel, Access, Embarcadero DBArtisan 7.3.0 and AOL’s proprietary tools

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Agile QA test analyst ran scrum meeting, which included daily stand up, iteration planning and release planning
• Designed, implemented, and maintained TSD (Test Strategy Document) for CADM software.
• Validated new tables and query performance against these tables that were created due to the Migration.
• Used bug-tracking tool Cleartool to track the issues generated during testing.
• Performed Transaction driven test cases from start point to the final bill.
• Implemented automated testing methodology.
• Validated test cases in both the old and the new DB for checking the data validity
• Used Cleartool to track the issue generated during Testing
• Developed number of programs using Unix Korne shell, Pro*C and PLSQL for testing the application
• Performed Acceptance testing to demonstrate to the client testing experience of the GUI in terms of compliance with the standards functionality
• Responsible for creating detail design and specification documents.
• Developed and implemented the code and participated in the production install
• Developed and executing the unit and integration testing cases before QA hand off.
• Demonstrated the installation and execution procedure of code to the assigned QA engineer.

Environment: UNIX, SQL, PL/SQL, C, IBM Clear Quest, Pro C, oracle 8i, SQL*loader, Sun Solaris 5.6

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing and presenting the SDD (System Design Document)
• Reviewed the business requirements and created specification documents with the changes required in the existing code
• Responsible for analyzing and updating the existing COBOL programs to meet business requirements.
• Developed and executing the unit and integration testing cases before QA hand off.
• Demonstrated installation and execution of code to assigned QA engineer.

Environment: COBOLII, IMS DB, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, ISPF, CICS and EASYTRIEVE.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing and presenting the SDD (System Design Document)
• Responsible in design, development and implementing the project
• Developed and executing the unit and integration testing cases before QA hand off.
• Developed and maintained COBOL code for the applications Financial Accounting System and Personnel Management System.

Environment: COBOL, PLI, JCL (JES2/JES3), DB2/SQL, QMF, VSAM, TSO/ISPF and CICS

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planning the software Project and creating Algorithm
• Creating the system design document, Detail design document, coding
• Responsible for Code review walkthroughs
• Application was developed using C on UNIX system

Environment: C, HP-UNIX 10.x