SUMMARY:

• Extensive years of experience in testing Insurance, Retail and Supply Chain applications.
• Experience includes working in Property and Casualty Insurance and Group Personal Accident.
• Experienced in working on all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in testing health insurance applications
• Experience in following Agile, Waterfall and Iterative Methodologies.
• Expertise in testing Guide wire Policy Center, Claim Center insurance and other web - based applications.
• Experience in collaborating with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, SMEs, Business Analysts, Developers and other Stakeholders to review and validate Requirements.
• Experience in JIRA tool for reviewing Stories, creating Issues and tracking Progress.
• Experience in Functional, System Integration, Negative, Regression, System testing, End to End Testing and Browser Compatibility testing.
• Experience in ATG testing using ATG Framework modules BCC and CSC.
• Expertise in documenting and maintaining QA test process and procedures and creating a repository of test documentation.
• Experience with testing mainframe applications
• Experience in design, review and execution of Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Experience in creating, documenting, maintaining and modifying Test Plans.
• Involved in Defect management, Bug reporting and Bug scrubs with key Stakeholders.
• Experience with automation testing tools like Selenium, Cucumber
• Worked as a defect manager for the UAT Phase and experienced in UAT Testing.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis and reviewing Functional Specifications.
• Worked as a Test Lead for the Pre and Post Release Testing.
• Experience with SQL queries and Database Testing, Web service testing
• Extensive experience in working with onshore and offshore model
• Effective at transferring knowledge, developing reports for higher management and team player experience in working together with consultants from other firms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: My SQL, SQL Server 2000

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Lisa, Cucumber

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, ALM/HP Quality Center, Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and analyzing requirements and user stories and keeping track of the new business requirements
• Working as per “Agile” Methodology
• Identifying the scope of the testing required.
• Interacting with Business/SME and Business Analysts for the clarifications.
• Creating tasks for test scenario, test cases and test execution for each story in JIRA.
• Preparing test scenarios and test cases based on the requirement and getting reviewed by the Business / SME.
• Executing the test cases and defect management in JIRA and Quality Center ALM
• Testing the mainframe applications
• Identify regression test cases for Automation testing using Cucumber
• Working with SQL Queries and database testing
• Presenting the timely status to the stakeholders and management and taking feedback
• Presenting demo's to the business whenever needed.

Confidential

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and analyzing requirements and user stories; and keeping track of the new business requirements.
• Identifying the scope of the testing required.
• Developing and implementing test objectives, test strategies, test plans.
• Working as per “Agile” Methodology.
• Balancing test resources as per needs and their individual skills.
• Identifying skill gaps and planning training for the identified test resources.
• Evaluating and identifying the required test management tools to perform Manual, Automation, Stability and Performance testing.
• Training the team members to use required tools.
• Managing & performing test planning activities for test case design.
• Monitoring the test progress during each Sprint / Iteration.
• Constantly assessing the work assignment to each of the resources and re-balance or re-allocate them as required.
• Checking during Daily Scrum meetings if there might be any delays in achieving the schedule and hold required discussions with testers to figure out the issues they may be facing and strive to resolve them.
• Scheduling & executing daily QA meetings within the test team to make sure everyone is aware of what the fellow team members are doing.
• Presenting the timely status to the stakeholders and management and taking feedback.
• Preparing any risk mitigation plans in case there are any delays are foreseen.
• Leading, guiding and also monitoring the analysis, design and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.
• Ensuring that content and structure of all the testing documents and artifacts are well documented and maintained.
• Documenting, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing all processes and procedures for testing are established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Logging issues and bugs identified in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
• Daily and weekly assignment of testing tasks to team members and re-assigning them to another resource, as required.
• Participating in automation framework development for Selenium and automating Guidewire Claim Center testing using Selenium.
• Performing Efforts Estimation for the Automation Testing of required user stories.
• Reviewing defect reports and assigning defects to relevant developer and development manager.
• Reassigning returned defects and assisting the concerned test member, as required and ensuring the resolved defects are re-tested and test cases are updated with latest results and screenshots.
• Updating the software test plan, as required and at the end of every Iteration and sprint delivery.
• Reviewing daily and weekly status reports of team members with respect to their testing activities such as Test Scripting, Test Execution, Defect Reporting and Retesting of defects.
• Improving the test processes based on the suggestions by Project Members and by day to day working experience.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and analyzing requirements and user stories; and keeping track of the new business requirements.
• Identifying the scope of the testing required.
• Developing and implementing test objectives, test strategies, test plans.
• Working as per “Agile” Methodology.
• Preparing the Test Plan based on the Requirements
• Preparing the High Level Test Scenarios
• Assigning the test case preparation of different modules of the application between the team members
• Reviewing test cases, executing the test cases and reporting defects on Quality Center.
• Working on Functional, Regression and UI testing.
• Working on bug triage and sending daily reports to leader ship team and preparing reports on a daily basis

Confidential

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Agile methodology.
• Writing high level scenarios and test cases on Quality Center.
• Reviewing test cases, executing the test cases and reporting defects on Quality Center.
• Mapping test cases and requirement on Quality Center
• Working on Functional, Regression and UI testing.
• Working on bug triage and sending daily reports to leader ship team.
• Preparing the reports on daily basis.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis and reviewing functional Specifications
• Test Scenario/ Test Design creation, Peer Review and Execution of Test Cases
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression testing, Negative testing
• Defect reporting and tracking using Quality Center

Confidential

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preliminary discussion of the project with the core team
• Test plan creation, Review and Execution of Test Cases
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Adhoc Testing, Regression testing, Retesting and Database Testing
• Defect prioritization, reporting and tracking using Defect Tracker
• Monitoring regression testing and ensuring the reported defects to closure
• Preparing Test Execution Metrics.
• Actively involved in UAT support, bug analysis.
• Actively involved in warranty phase of the project.

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understand Functional Usage and corresponding Data Flow
• Develop Test scenarios and then detailed functional/technical test cases
• Manual Testing for all test cases and bugs
• Automate regression test cases using Selenium IDE
• Release Testing (ad-hoc, functional, regression) for major builds & minor patches
• Defect Management from identification to resolution through Bugzilla tool