SUMMARY:

• Fifteen years of IT experience which includes Quality Assurance experience in Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Excellent professional skills defining QA Strategies, Procedures/Processes, planning, scheduling, work estimations, assigning and prioritizing the tasks.
• Sound in writing and executing test scripts for Manual and Automated testing using Rational tools and QTP/Win Runner tools.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris, HP, Linux, AIX), Windows (7, XP/NT/2000/98/95)

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase and MS - Access

Testing Tools: Rational Test Manager, Rational Robot, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, Selenium,QTP, Quality Center/ALM, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, and PVCS Tracker, JIRA, Bugzilla, SOAP UI

Languages: C, C++, Shell Scripting, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, SQA Basic, TSL

Web Technologies: Web Sphere, Web Logic, JBoss, J2EE, Java, JSP, ASP, ASP.NET, DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript and JDBC

Middle ware: TIBCO (Rendezvous/Message Brokers/Adapters/Publishers/Subscribers)

EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

• Strong experience in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC).
• Experience in SDLC Methodology of Agile Scrum, RUP and Waterfall Model.
• Expertise in Design, Development, Test Strategy, Test plan formulation, testing Methodology and Documentation Design, and Test status of Summary Reports.
• Analyzing the functional requirements, decompose the requirements and develop test designs.
• Experience in performing Smoke/Sanity, GUI, functional, integration, security, Database, regression, system and user acceptance testing.
• Defining QA Strategies, Procedures/Processes, assignments /workload and prioritizing the tasks.
• Capable of planning, scheduling, work estimations and supervising.
• Coordinating, communicating and managing testing team for a successful completion of project.
• Coordinating with Offshore team for successful test release and audit the off-shore team work.
• Performing Formal Technical Reviews FTR .
• Good knowledge in setup/build test harnesses and implementation of automation framework.
• Knowledge in developing automation Test scripts using Rational Robot and QTP/Win Runner.
• Strong in SQL queries for data verification and backend testing.
• Strong understanding the business model of Telecom/wireless, Mortgage industry LOS, Financial industry, Healthcare systems, eCommerce applications, ETL and Data Warehousing.
• Test environment planning, design, implementation, and configuration.
• End testing effort of multiple projects.
• Excellent debugging, analytical and problem determination skills.
• Used SQL queries to test the data in the database tables.
• Automated functional test cases using Selenium tool.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in functional requirements review meetings and provide the feedback on missing and unclear requirements.
• Prepared test strategy, test Plan, Procedures/Processes, Test Bed and Data Priming for End-to-End testing.
• Define QA Strategies, Procedures, Processes, work Assignments and Prioritizing the tasks.
• Provide work estimates and define the time lines for testing.
• Analyzed and decompose the requirements and interacted with the Business Consultants to develop the test scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL Server for Data Verification and Validation testing.
• Involved in Functional, Integration and Regression Testing of the application.
• Quality Center is used for test case writing/executing and defect tracking.
• Monitor the Defect queue and host the Defect triage call every day in the testing phase.
• Quality Center is used for the Test management tool for the project reporting.
• Co-ordinate with cross teams and follow up to resolve any open/risk issues.
• Attended the project status meetings and report the daily test status to the Project Management.
• Conducted post implementation review sessions to document lessons learned.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL Server 2005, .Net, C#, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Quality Center

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements review and provide feedback on missing and unclear requirements.
• Prepared test strategy, test Plan, Procedures/Processes, test matrix and for End-to-End testing.
• Created Test cases and Test scripts for Functional, and Regression Testing
• Worked with on-shore and off-shore teams assigned the test cases.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing
• Manually tested data from High level to detail level during verifications
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Assisted in training and helping new team members
• Responsible for writing reusable scripts to perform Regression testing on the application
• Coordinate with Business Analyst and developers regarding requirements and issues.
• Attended the project status meetings and report the daily test status to the Project Management.

Environment: Selenium,JIRA, Windows NT/2003/XP, .NET Framework, Oracle, Apache, Staging Servers, Test Manager, VM Ware, V Sphere, SQL Server, TOAD, SOAP UI

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Written Test Strategy/Test Plan and prepare the test planning, scheduling and work estimations.
• Worked on improving QA Processes by reviewing and evaluating existing practices with standard testing guidelines
• Created and executed Test cases for Functional, Integration and Regression Testing
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database
• Analyzed requirements, Quality Metrics, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes
• Designed and implemented process for a Quality Assurance Supply chain Test Environment
• Maintaining the test documents, bug tracking, reporting the bugs, Email Notifications to the developers Using Quality Center
• Involved in Browser Compatibility Testing (Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 11, Netscape Navigator, Safari, Google Chrome and Fire fox) for checking the compatibility of AUT
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL queries (stored procedures, triggers, and optimization) on the Oracle SQL Developer
• Involved in Events Notifications Triggered to the Clients and Distributors Testing
• Responsible for writing reusable scripts to perform Regression testing on the application when a new feature is added or any feature has been modified
• Logged the Defects in JIRA with Screenshots attached for failed test cases and issues.
• Coordinate with Business Architecture and developers regarding issues with requirements, functional/user acceptance testing

Environment: Jira, JD Edwards, Windows NT/2003/XP, .NET Framework, Oracle, Server, SOAP UI, IE 6/7/8, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Safari 5.0, Netscape Navigator and Google Chrome

Confidential, Sharon, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Written Test Strategy/Test Plan and prepare the test planning, scheduling and work estimations.
• Co-ordinate with cross teams and follow up to resolve any open risks/issues.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with offshore team and technical mentoring
• Monitor the Defect queue and host the Defect triage call every day in the testing phase.
• Attended daily Agile Scrum meetings and provide the test status to the team
• Executed the performance testing for heavy traffic modules using Load Runner to analyze the behavior of the application under different load conditions
• Designed and implemented process for a Quality Assurance Virtual Test Environment comprised of host machines with Virtual PCs
• Enhanced the Test Scripts through Parameterization, Regular Expressions, and adding various Checkpoints to verify the functionality of the application
• Responsible for writing reusable QTP scripts to perform Regression testing on the application when a New feature is added or any feature has been modified
• Highly Experienced in Home and Commercial Loans process on Mortgage Application.(Worked on HUD, Loan Disbursement)

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Windows NT/2003/XP, .NET Framework, Oracle, Apache, Staging Servers, Test Manager, VM Ware, V Sphere, SQL Server, TOAD, SOAP UI, IE 6/7/8, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Safari 5.0, Netscape Navigator and Google Chrome

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional requirements, Use Cases to prepare test plan, Test Matrix and test scripts.
• Reviewed the Functional specifications, requirements document to determine the functionality of the application.
• Written Test Strategy/Test Plan and prepare the test planning, scheduling and work estimations.
• Co-ordinate with cross teams and follow up to resolve any open risks/issues.
• Participated in meetings with Business Managers, Business Analysts to understand and document business requirements and functional specifications for the Workflow
• Created Business Rules Spread Sheet (BRS) as needed and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements and link it to the test cases
• Responsible to determine the GAP Analysis between the As-Is / To-Be Business Process Flows
• Performed Bill calculation Obtaining accounts receivable activity (payments, adjustments and balance forward) from PeopleSoft Accounts Receivable (PSAR).
• Created TER (Test Execution Record) executed test cases and generated reports using RQM
• Used Clear Quest to log defects and coordinated with developers in resolving the defects
• Participated in use case/defect calls, peer-reviews, testers touch point, and walkthrough meetings
• As a Project Testing Team member, responsible for Managing the Defect process for the project and ensuring Traceability to Requirements and Test Cases

Environment: People soft Account Receivable, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office, PQRS, CQM, HEDIS SQL Developer, SharePoint Tracker, Java, J2EE, JSP, HTML, XML

Confidential, Coraopolis, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding business requirements, requirement gathering, analysis and documentation with domain experience in banking, mutual fund and insurance industry.
• Experienced in Home and Commercial Loans and Mortgage Application.
• Analyzed Functional requirements, Use Cases to prepare test plan, Test Matrix and test scripts.
• Reviewed Functional requirements document to determine the functionality of the application.
• Involved in functional requirements review meetings, analyze and decompose the requirements.
• Involved in writing the test plan and test Strategy, scheduling and work estimations.
• Defining QA Strategies, Procedures/Processes, assignments /workload and prioritizing the tasks.
• Analyzed the requirements and interacted with Business Analysts to develop the test scenarios.
• Coordinated with offshore, onsite, Business, UAT and production support teams to oversee Test Execution.
• Utilized Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, SQL and Toad, Java 5, Eclipse, IBM Clear case, WebSphere, Mainframes, CSS, JCL, ClearCase, XML, Oracle 10g, UNIX, J-unit Test case, Top Link 9 g/11 g, Crystal Report

Confidential, NY

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of use case diagrams, analysis and design models using use case activity diagrams and Rational unified process
• Reviewed the Functional specifications, requirements document (Retail and equities) to determine the functionality of the application
• Tested Reports on fixed income business with current clients
• Tested the financial Information exchange (FIX) protocol
• Created Test Plan and reviewed Test Cases
• Created various check points as part of Automation testing using QTP
• Automated regression test cases using QTP
• Utilized VB scripting extensively to automate functional test cases using QTP
• Created Virtual Objects, regular expressions, recovery scenarios and functions in QTP
• Coordinated with offshore, onsite, Business, UAT and production support teams to oversee Test Execution
• Reviewed Test Cases written by offshore Team and also assisted UAT team in writing Test Cases, Test Scenarios and testing the application
• Tested Confidential Business Objects reports using Toad
• Experience in Software SDLC and Project Management
• Used Traceability matrix to trace Test Cases with requirements
• Used status reports, Test Summary reports and Test Progress report with various test metrics
• Utilized Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application
• Used Boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning techniques in creating Test Cases and Test Data, using these techniques prepared effective Test Cases and data
• Verified CICS screens and validated the client data
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance, System and Usability testing of the application
• Utilized Black Box, White box and Grey box testing methods on different modules of the application
• As part of Black box testing used Equivalence and Boundary value analysis
• As part of White box Testing examined the internal structure of the program that includes Statement coverage, structured basis path, Decision coverage, condition coverage and multiple conditions coverage
• As part of Grey box testing pepped in to database tables, used SQL for database query and loading data sets to confirm functions
• Utilized SQL queries and Join operations to Test source and Target database tables
• Automated front end Actimize screens using QTP and performed Data Driven & Data base testing
• Utilized Lookup Transformation in validating the warehouse customer data

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, SQL and Toad, Java, Web Sphere, MainframesCICS, JCL, ClearCase, QC, QTP, XML, Oracle 9i/10g, UNIX (Linux and Solaris), Weblogic, PVCS, Business Objects, WSDL

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Provided the flow diagrams for various modules of the project
• Scheduled meetings with developers, system analysts and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion
• Assisted the technical team in understanding and developing the appropriate functionality of system
• Identified business issues and defined the required solution to ensure delivery
• Reviewed detailed test cases with in-depth description of each test scenario of the system according to guidelines
• Played a key role in planning, testing, and implementing system enhancements and conversions
• Reviewed the Functional specifications document to determine the functionality of the application
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases from the Business Required Documents
• Utilized Water fall SDLC model
• Performed System, Black box and White box testing of the application
• Performed Manual Testing and Automation on different modules of the application
• Performed Data Driven & Date base testing using Quick Test Professional for some web screens related to front end
• Utilized Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application
• Involved in importing Source/Target Tables from the respective databases and Tested Transformations (Joiner, Routers, Rank, Filter, Expression, Aggregator), Mapplets and Mappings using Designer module of Informatica
• Worked closely with the business as part of data validation after loading
• Participated in projects review meetings and prepared trouble-shooting guides for Production support group
• Verified the Source and Target Definitions in Informatica PowerCenter Designer
• Tested Informatica graphs which extract data from flat files and loads into Oracle and Teradata databases
• Monitored the sessions using Workflow Monitor
• Used different data validation techniques to validate data and to report errors
• Used Lookup Transformation in validating the warehouse customer dat.
• Knowledge of moving application packages from Dev to QA and Production

Environment: Java, J2EE, Informatica PowerCenter, Mainframes, CICS, SQL, OracleCVS Mapping Designer and Transformation developer), Quality CenterQTP, ER-win 4.0, Linux, Windows

Confidential, VA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing test plans, documenting bugs, and communicating with Development, Operations, and Product Management
• Prepared Test Strategy Document and test cases to test the Quality Analyst Requests (QAR) on a project-to-project basis
• Worked extensively on UNIX environment to transfer QAR from production to test environment, linking binaries to the latest versions got from every new build, bouncing the appropriate servers to pick up the latest version of the binary, moving form-related files from status to UNIX
• Performed Functional, regression and database testing
• Executed SQL queries to perform backend testing
• Created and executed Test Script using WinRunner for System, Integration and Regression Testing
• Scripts are developed using modular method, where most of the scripts are reused
• Used GUI check points, Database Check points, Synchronization and Data driven functionality
• All common functionality, repeated steps are created as public functions. Made use of these functions in other scripts
• Executed automated regression test scripts for each release
• Performed extensive functional testing on all international Confidential clients

Environment: HP UNIX, Windows XP Professional, TestDirector, Oracle 9i/10g, SQLPL/SQL