OBJECTIVE:

A challenging position to align my professional Software Quality Assurance and Business Analyst skills with a progressive company that allows me to contribute my technical, educational and work towards company’s continued success.

SUMMARY:

• ISEB Foundation Certified seasoned IT Professional with 10 years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance and Business Analysis.
• Worked with Agile, waterfall and V model of SDLC.
• Extensively written Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Procedures and performed Manual and Automated Testing for Web - based, Client Server, Database and Mainframe applications.
• Exposure in automated testing tools like SOAP UI.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Back End and Front End Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Extensive experience in database testing using SQL queries.
• Good understanding of quality assurance testing methodology relative to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong in Testing of applications developed in JAVA, .NET technologies and COBOL.
• Extensive experience in Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, System Testing.
• Bug Reporting and Bug tracking using JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Experience working in diverse Applications ranging from Credit Cards, Retail & Manufacturing, Telecommunication

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, Jmeter

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center

Programming Languages: COBOL, Visual Basic Scripting, Shell Scripting, SQL

Operating Systems: Win /NT 4.0/2000/XP, LINUX, UNIX

Middleware: Confidential MQ Series, XML

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, DB2, IDMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Functional Test Lead

• Good experience in Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Well versed in analyzing Requirement, System Specification, Use-Cases and Technical specification.
• Tested Web Services /XML /SOAP and RESTful services using SoapUI tool.
• Experience in writing Test Plan, Test Cases for Web and Client / server applications.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Good experience in Oracle, SQL queries.
• Experience in testing Web services using SoapUI tool.
• Good at bug-reporting and bug-tracking using Test Management tools like Jira.
• Proficient in test execution and management of testing defects.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements and analyzing business scenarios from testing perspective.
• Working as UAT lead for Customer Due Diligence/KYC Application.
• Analyzed Business Solution Documents and software requirement specifications of NICE-ACTIMIZE.
• Writing/modifying test cases for new releases.
• Creating test data as per test case needs and testing.
• Testing data flow till downstream application and database.
• Coordinating with business for production testing.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts, gathered information and business logic to make available data needed to execute Test Plans through Use Case Review Meetings and Elaboration Sessions.
• Prepared Status Reports and Project Summary Reports.

Environment: JAVA Applications, ALM, Client-Server applications, Lotus notes data base. SAR files, CDD application.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Working as a lead tester for Neto application.
• Writing test cases for compliance requirement of BMO.
• Creating combination loans for Mortgage and Consumer.
• Understanding client needs for compliance testing.
• Testing MLS and XAM loans till downstream applications.

Environment: Dot Net Applications, ALM, Client-Server applications, Oracle Data base

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Client's Business Requirements.
• Working in Agile environment.
• Finalizing user stories and Acceptance criteria.
• Authoring of Testable requirements and Test Scenarios.
• Comprehensive test case creation for User Acceptance and Regression testing.
• Tested different systems like big browser and Agent facing application (ORION).
• Tested acquisition flow in credit card application.
• Tested Web based application.
• Tested Mobile application using IPad, Android devices.
• Used Rally tool for agile nature of project.
• Has through knowledge of Scrum and Kanban processes.
• Tested End to End flow for fulfilling new card application and replacement of cards.
• Perform peer reviews and test case mapping to HP Quality Center.
• Preparation of Test Environment and Test Execution planning.
• Maintained and executed Manual test cases.
• Participated in daily status calls.
• Tracked and reported defects using Quality Centre.

Environment: J2EE Applications, Quality Center, Mobile applications, Rally (Agile management), Client-Server applications.

Confidential

QA Test Lead International Platform

Responsibilities:

• FPI is migrating their international insurance platform consisting of multiple applications involving legacy mainframe to a unified TCS B α NCS platform.
• Working as a test analyst/lead in preparing high level test plan, write test scenarios and test cases for functional testing.
• Recording automated test cases in QTP and running them via Quality Center.
• Prepare and execute test cases for various interfaces between FPI and external payment systems like HSBC Connect & Ogone.
• Execute test cases for Data Migration and validate the control, actuarial and reconciliation reports. Validate the data which was migrated via ETL tool (Informatica) using SQL Queries on target database (Oracle 11g) and Source database (IMS/DB2).
• Prepare test cases for interface performance and execute them via Load Runner.
• Performing the role of Line Manager for Interface Test team.

Environment: QTP, ETL (Informatica), Quality Center, Load Runner, Payment Platforms like Ogone & HSBC Connect, TCS BαNCS, SWIFT, Oracle 11g, Unix, Linux, MS Excel, MS Project.

Confidential

QA Consultant TSYS ProphIT

Responsibilities:

• Projects range from browser-based GUI front-ends to more complex transactional back-end systems
• Analyzed Business Solution Documents and software requirement specifications of Customer Service and Collections, writing test scripts, and testing on ProphIT.
• Involvement in project initiation meetings, requirements gathering, test environment configuration/verification, test data creation/gathering, performance test execution, tuning, analysis of results and issue resolution.
• Produced and documented summary and detailed test reports using Rational Clear Quest.
• Responsible for debugging of testing environment, including hardware, software and middleware.
• Executing Manual and Automated Test Scripts in Test Director/Quality Centre.
• Reporting bugs using Test Director/Quality Centre.
• Creating business scenarios to test functionality and develop scripts, configure tools to test application and execute User acceptance testing
• Participated in Virtual Teams with DBA's, SA's, Middleware support, Project Managers, Release Managers and external vendor support personnel.

Environment: Quality Center, Cobol, MQ series, Oracle 10g, HTML, Unix, Windows NT/XP, Quick Test Pro 8.0, VBScript, VB, ASP, .Net, IIS, Oracle 9i, MS Excel, TSYS, CICS, TS2 Mainframe

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/System Tester

Responsibilities:

• To thoroughly understand and review the requirements of the project
• Prepare test plans, write detailed test cases, create test data, etc.
• Execute test cases and report defects
• Individual Development Unit ownership
• PIR (Post Implementation Review)
• Support for UCT (Acceptance testing with User)
• Defect prevention
• Client presentation for particular developments
• Filling error reports
• Configuration management

Environment: s: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, Micros, Test Case development skills, and Manual testing skills, MQ series