EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 14 years of diversified experience as a QA Test Lead in manual (Batch and Online) and Automation testing, and experience as Business Analyst in Banking, Insurance domains and Inventory control Systems.
• Extensively worked on various phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including Requirement analysis, Estimations and Schedules, Test Plans, Test Reports (Test Plan Reports, Execution Reports, and Defect Reports), Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Bug Tracking.
• Strong Experience in the area of QA Life cycle for Mainframes and Web based applications.
• Good experience in Personal Banking, Medicare & Medicaid projects as QA Lead analyst & good knowledge on understanding of CMS guidelines & HIPPA rules.
• Good Experience in Inventory Quality Control systems as QA for the conversion project. Gained good knowledge on Inventory planning and replishment systems.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process and Software Testing Lifecycles and expertise in Analysis, Design, Testing and Quality Assurance of various applications.
• Extensive experience in Black Box Testing, Functionality Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Bug tracking system & process and Database Testing using SQL.
• In - depth knowledge of full Software Development life cycle experience in AGILE and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proficient and hands on experience in using ALM,Quality Center (Defect, Test Plan, Test Lab modules)
• Extensive experience in manual testing of applications on Mainframe and JAVA, .NET Environments. And experience in executing Automation Test scripts in Selenium.
• Experience in testing HOGAN Retail Banking Systems and tools like UMBRELLA programming environment and business modules like Integrated Deposits System (IDS) and Customer Information System (CIS).
• Strong Knowledge in HOGAN IDS, CIS, IBM Payment Director, Cheque processing, EDI 834 file testing, CMS TRR process, SOAP UI Testing.
• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and training other Team Members
• Exceptional Analysis skills with an ability to transform the needs of the Business User and stakeholder into Functional/Technical requirements.
• Experience in business analysis activities with the objective of new business identification, proposals, SOW's, Functional documents.
• Experience in documenting Business Requirements document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD), and in Coordinating JAD/RAD sessions for gathering requirements, data and process models, screens, and Report designs.
• Proficient in developing Use Case Diagrams, Flowcharts Behavior Diagrams (sequence diagrams and activity diagrams) based on UML methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Strong in Analyzing Business Requirements & Develop comprehensive Test plans, Test Strategy to ensure comprehensive Requirement Traceability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA: Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Test Plans, Estimations, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Reviews, Bug Reporting, Test Execution Reports, Status reports, Issue log, Check point meetings, Risk Analysis, Test closure reports

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Clear Quest, Soap UI, QTP, Selenium, Mainframes applicatons(CICS,JCL)

Project management Tools: JIRA, ALM,RTC

Languages: COBOL, PL: 1, JCL, EASYTRIEVE

Platforms: Windows 2000/XP, UNIX.

Database: Oracle SQL, DB2

Version control tool: Clear Case, Github

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process analysis, GAP Analysis, Use Case Modelling & Analysis and Use Cases.

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• To understand functional requirements & prepare Test plans as per new systems.
• Coordinating with business Users to know the actual functionality to make sure nothing is missing in functionality.
• As a Quality Lead Analyst facilitate trainings, meetings between the BA, Users and remaining development teams.
• Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities which are developed on Guideware Claim center.
• Designing and execution of the test scenarios in QC
• Executing Test Scripts written in Mainframe commands, validating data against Mainframe CICS screens.
• Integration and System Testing using SOAP UI to make sure components coded in webservices.
• Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects,Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
• Cloud web based Testing and also tested downstream applications of dataware flow using ETL tool.
• Reporting part - As part of this project COGNOS reporting tool is getting replaced with TABULA,Tested reports which got generated using COGNOS tool and compared with new reports of Tabula.
• Preparing Test data for Test Script execution in QC, Preparation of Test status and Test summary reports

Confidential

QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To understand functional requirements & prepare Test plans as per new systems.
• Coordinating with business Users to know the actual functionality to make sure nothing is missing in new functionality (Gains).
• As a Quality Lead Analyst facilitate trainings, meetings between the BA, Users and remaining development teams.
• Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities.
• Designing and execution of the test scenarios
• Automation testing by using QTP, Monitoring team Test Scripts for Integration and System Testing
• Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
• Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
• Co-ordinate the work between offshore and new Vendor(Gains)
• Cloud web based Testing
• Preparing Test data for Test Script execution
• Preparation of Test status and Test summary reports
• Will be part of UAT and production validation support.

Confidential

QA Lead Analyst/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through brainstorming, interviews and surveys.
• Used JAD Joint Application Development sessions, brainstorming sessions and personal interviews to acquire business requirements from business users and stakeholders.
• Executed discussions with stakeholders from both business side and IT side in order to elicit high level requirements and estimate project feasibility.
• Conducted surveys among different end users in order to gather detailed requirements, and documented business requirements.
• Conducted Visio to develop use case model. Produced a development plan for the overall project and prototypes.
• Created UML diagrams including activity and sequence diagrams by using MS Visio.
• Created business requirements document and functional requirements document.
• Determined functional and nonfunctional requirements with the help of user interviews
• Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and UML Unified Modeling Language methodologies
• Created various tests for System Architects and Quality Assurance Analysts.
• Involved in defect tracking to encounter specific requirements for a successful project implementation.
• Conducted UAT with business users.
• Performed in depth data analysis identifying data issues in the application and worked with business to develop resolutions to those issues.
• Designing and execution of the test scenarios, End to End testing of the application being developed
• Interface and Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing
• Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
• Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
• Assigning work to the team and reviewing their work
• Mentoring new joiners and junior team members in preparing test cases

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To understand functional requirements & prepare Test plans.
• Coordinating with the Client on the new requirements.
• Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities.
• Designing and execution of the test scenarios
• Executing Automation Test Scripts written in Selenium
• Interface and Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing
• Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
• Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
• Co-ordinate the work between offshore and Onsite
• Web Testing and Letter Verification Testing
• Worked on Batch Testing, SOAP UI Testing
• Preparing Test data for Test Script execution
• Preparation of Test status and Test summary reports
• Involved in UAT and production validation support

Confidential

QA Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• To understand functional requirements & prepare Test plans.
• Coordinating with the Client on the new requirements, Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities.
• Interface and Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing
• Worked on Batch Testing, SOAP UI Testing
• Testing HOGAN business modules like CIS and IDS application enhancements,
• End to End testing of HOGAN applications
• Involved in UAT and production validation support, Impact analysis of system for the programs to develop.
• Coding for the new functionalities and Unit Testing, Review of the code developed by the team and support till delivery Co-ordinate the work between offshore and Onsite