SUMMARY:

• To acquire a full - time position as a QA Engineer for an organization offering challenging projects and career advancement in a stimulating, innovative and fun work environment, with opportunities for ongoing professional education.
• Over 5+ years of experience in software industry especially in Software Testing with Good experience working in an Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Expertise in diverse domain technologies like Insurance, Banking, Finance, Healthcare.
• Strong understanding of User Acceptance Testing protocols and methodologies.
• In depth knowledge in implementing Test Driven Development and Behavioral Driven approach for web-based projects and windows Applications.
• Continuously improving quality assurance methodology including creating & maintaining realistic & practical test environments, production monitoring and evangelizing company on quality, risk assessment, and customer success factors, Business Requirements Analysis, System Specifications Analysis, User Interfaces design.
• Ability to Create test strategies, test plans, positive and negative test cases using testing tools.
• Experienced in Web Application, Mobile and manual testing for both front-end and backend.
• Good in requirement gathering of different phases of Test effort like Pre-testing, Acceptance testing and testing phase.
• Strong database skills that include building/maintaining tables and indexes, building/maintaining SQL queries both simple and complex for backend data validations.
• In depth experience working with manual test cases.
• Ability to Collect Test metrics on regular basis and working on gathering Test input data.
• Experience in Reviewing skills in the Requirements for testability, conducting walkthroughs with developers and other team members.
• Proficient in developing the applications, system application support and user training documentation for the users.
• Extensive experience in Understanding the Design and High-Level architecture of the software and work closely with the developers and End Users to deliver a bug free and easy to use software.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential (Irving, TX)

Designation: QA Engineer

• Strong knowledge in Medicare Part D with expertise on testing the Enrollment Web Portal, validating TRR and other pre-enrollment functionalities.
• Extensive work experience in FACETS and Benefits testing with proven capabilities of delivering mission critical projects.
• Introduced Initiative called ‘Do You Know’ - a bi-weekly newsletter where information (CMS, Med D, tools or technology related) that applies to Quality Assurance is shared with the team for awareness and knowledge sharing/development.
• Helped team to acquire test automation tool - ADPART.
• Provided LOE for both small and large projects after analysis of requirement documents.
• Wrote a detailed Test Plan and Test cases which aligns with the requirement documents.
• Performed test validations using RXCLAIM application
• Performed both negative and positive scenario to capture every functionality to find any potential defect present.
• Organized and well managed test deliverables using SharePoint
• Mocked up test data to fulfil test scenario successfully
• Performed back end validations using various SQL applications such as Toad, Oracle, SSMS.
• Involved and attended project meetings, discussing issues with the developing team and get it resolved in time.
• Responsible for setting up test environment and test databases.
• Performed Regression testing against the various builds of the application
• Mentored testers and conducted some extensive hands on training for new hires to develop a strong understanding of the applications.
• Worked in fast paced environment closely with business, product owners and BA for successful completion of project.
• Performed ETL Testing and had data loaded in backend via SSIS EDT packages.
• Validated Transformation rules alongside the data flow from staging server to the target server
• Attended Defect Triage meetings with the developers and business team to effectively manage defects.

Confidential (Westlake TX)

QA Analyst

• Develop Test Plan which includes a detailed strategy and resources for the software to be tested.
• Performed extensive testing on CIV and Sales Platform - web-based applications for bankers
• Responsible for conducting user Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in testing the web service using SOAP UI tool, sent SOAP request and verified SOAP responses.
• Develop, review and executed test cases in HP QC/ALM from the requirements document to assure requirements have 100% coverage
• Develop the RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to ensure that all requirements are covered.
• Prepared and facilitated TRR (Test Readiness Review) meeting to confirm all tasks are completed before test execution.
• Create test data using Generate Data tool and perform verification and validation.
• Working knowledge of SoapUI, QTP and Test Complete Automation tool.
• Performed Smoke, functional, integration, regression, and end to end testing.
• Develop and execute SQL queries using MySQL and Toad.
• Maintain weekly status report of test case execution and inform team leads of the testing progress.
• Document defects and assign to the appropriate developer and re-execute the defect when fixed and closed the defect if passed.
• Tracking defects using HP ALM Defect tracking tools.
• Attend test meeting to discuss weekly work status and any outstanding issues.
• Work closely with test leads, developers and users to track and resolve defects and assist in reproducing them.
• Develop Test results summary report for management at the end of testing.

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

• Documented Test plans, Test Cases and decided schedules for Test Case Execution.
• Involved in implementation of Agile SDLC methodology
• Prepared the traceability matrix to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.
• Analyzed requirement documents, use cases and created test scenarios and test cases for different releases/phases/products of data solution.
• Complex test scenarios were designed for Motor Vehicle Reports (MVR) and Auto Insurance Claims (ALIS) which were ordered through outside data providers like ChoicePoint.
• Used TOAD as well as Oracle DB to manipulate SQL queries to verify the data in the database.
• Conducted System Testing, GUI Testing and Cross Browser compatibility testing during the releases and interacted with the developers to resolve any technical issues.
• Tested the various Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) spanning across various web services using SOAP UI.
• Performed manual and functional testing on various parts of the application and used QC for bug tracking.
• Wrote and executed complex SQL queries to validate Back-end data.
• Performed Risk Analysis of entire application and its deployment and documented the risk associated with it.
• Performed Functional, regression, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing for the various applications.
• Create test data perform verification and validation using varied degree of test data to test for Negative and Boundary type test scenarios.
• Worked closely with the business and the technical leads to analyze the data required for testing and verifying functionalities of Quantum application.
• Documented the test procedures and findings and reconciled the actual and expected test results for any discrepancies.
• Identified and assessed the severity of the defects, updated defect tracking logs and worked with the developer to ensure that all defects are resolved.
• Prepared and facilitated TRR (Test Readiness Review) meeting to confirm all tasks are completed before test execution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing: Automation testing (QTP, Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Junit, SOAP UI) and Manual.

Database/RDBMS: Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, Teradata SQL Assistant; SQL Server management Studio,

Languages: JAVA, SQL, VB Script, HTML

Business Modeling: MS Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Adobe Acrobat

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Testing Tools: Quality Center, ALM, Citrix, Rally, JIRA, Hadoop 2.0, Map Reduce, Bootstrap, Hive, ABINITIO, iMacros8.0

Mainframe: PICSQA, DB2, VB Script, Hadoop

Operating System: MS DOS, Windows, UNIX

Business Domains: Health Care, Financial