PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and implementing the QA methodologies, Analysis, Testing and Implementing manual and automation test for Client/server, Web based mobile applications.
• Experience of testing in various domains like Insurance, Retail, eCommerce (POS, Store Inventory Management System, Warehouse management system, and Oracle RMS & RPM), Banking Industries.
• Demonstrated experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies across all phases of the SDLC.
• Experience in Black box, White box and Grey box testing
• Expertise in quote and trade related - data associated with equity, fixed-income, financial derivatives, currency, and other investment instruments.
• The term market data traditionally refers to numerical price data, reported from trading venues, such as stock exchanges. The price data is attached to a ticker symbol and additional data about the trade.
• Strong Subject Matter expertise in Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Trading Cycle, Portfolio Analysis, Bonds and Bond Trading Cycle, Bond Pricing, Derivatives, Portfolio Management and Wealth Management.
• Experienced in conducting Application Functional, Smoke, System, Integration, GUI, Regression, Usability, Security, Load, Performance and UAT testing.
• Good experience with executing Performance, functional, regression and Load Testing capabilities for web services both using manual and automation testing techniques.
• Experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test cases, Test Reports for both Manual and Automation.
• Management tools like HP - QC, Test Central
• Extensively used QTP for creating Test Automation Frameworks and reusable Scripts
• Wrote and executed SQL queries for backend validation using Aqua Data & DB Visualizer tools.
• Involving in the Defect life cycle (Detecting, Tracking, Classifying and reporting bugs through Defect Tracking System) in Quality Center, Bugzilla and JIRA.
• Maintained test logs, test suites and reports providing guidance to the testing team understanding the functionality of application.
• Actively participated in meetings to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.
• Proficient in Database testing using SQL Queries and Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) of data from Legacy systems using Data Stage, generating reports to ensure Data Integrity and validate business rules
• Proficient in XML, HTML, Java script, VB Script, .NET based application testing
• Experienced in testing the web services, SOA, WSDL, SOAL, XML
• Extensive experience in preparing documentation on Testing metrics, Change control, QA Status reports, QA Summary reports, QA Test logs, Issues Report and Defect control.
• Ability to interact with Project teams, Business Analyst and Developers.
• Strengths include excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to provide solutions from a functional and technical perspective and to meet deadlines.
• Experience of using SharePoint for document control and updating test cases and test plan, etc.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.
• Involved in JAD Sessions, walkthrough meetings and daily standup meetings
• Participated in bug meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug. Manually retested the application for smoke testing and regression testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix (Vi, Scripting)

Languages: JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, OOPS,TSL

Web Technology: JAVA and J2EE, webMethods7

Test Management: HP Quality Center, Test Director, Microsoft Test Manager,Team Foundation Server,Visual Studio Team System 2010

Defect Management: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Bugzilla

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Selenium, IBM Rational RequisitePro, ETL- (Extract,Transform,Load)- Informatica Power Center 8.5.1Performance

Tool: /Web Services Testing: Load Runner: HP / SOAPUI /SOAPUI Pro /XML-Test Tool

Spreadsheets: MS: Excel, Quantrix Modeler

Databases: SQL Server 2008, Oracle, MS SQL, Squirrel SQL Client, DB2 and ETL-DW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Brookings, SD

Sr QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussions with the Team on Quality Analysis, Manual Testing, Automated Test Tools and Defect Tracking Tools.
• Involved in Analysis and Design of Functional Specifications to Identify Test Requirements, Design Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Data with expected output.
• Engaged in various meetings with the Compuware customer service representatives to perform diagnostic testing of the automation tool in case of object recognition failure or any other critical testing issue. Installed patch accordingly
• Used the Compuware's QA Director to plan, design, implement, execute and evaluate the tests
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different modules.
• Conducted Data Driven Testing using parameterization in Win runner using data table functions to test the application with different sets of data.
• Enhanced scripts by adding reusable functions and scripts.
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure that the links are established as per the documentation provided.
• Used database checkpoints to check authenticity of the data send to the database.
• Involved in performing different types of Testing Functional, Integration, System and Regression.
• Involved in testing the functionality and usability of the System for end user perspective.
• Tested modified/new Oracle forms and database using SQL for its functionality.
• Wrote SQL validation test case according to the business.
• Wrote complex SQL sub-queries using various joins.
• Frequently communicated with developers and senior QA team members to assist in the clarification of technical issues
• Executed test scripts, co-ordinate and conducted System and UAT testing.
• Involved in UAT and interfaced with automation team to ensure the automated scripts comply with system test requirements.

Environment: Oracle 11g/Microsoft SQL, SSIS, SSAS, MS Office, Loan IQ, QTP,BEA Web Logic server 8.1 SP4, MS Projects, Win2000, fire fox, Clear Quest, Java, Rational Test Manager, Rational Functional Tester, Quality Center

Confidential, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended walk through sessions in Collecting various Business and Technical Requirements and developed the various test cases for data validation and business function validation.
• Conducted Data-Driven Testing (DDT) with multiple of Test Data and verified the functionality for completeness and correctness using QTP.
• Created Automation QTP framework (Data Driven and Confidential word driven )following and practicing best Automation rules for documentation and testing functionalities of the Application Under Test (AUT).
• Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different sets of test data.
• Created and executed various QTP test scripts using VB Script language.
• Maintained a prescribed testing guidelines and quality control procedures, developed requirement documents and test plans in a development environment, worked with all aspects of the development life cycle, responded to urgent situations, by prioritization.
• Automated the manual test cases, by scripting (TSL) Functional based and Data Driven test cases and execution of (Regression Testing) test cases through Quality Center.
• Wrote test scripts and used QTP to automate the tests to check all functionality of the application, and then run these tests on each new build.
• Developed reusable actions to use in different tests and querying data from the backend using VB Script.
• Wrote scripts simulating Regression Test Cases using QTP Tool.
• Responsible for unit testing and Integration testing of application.
• Coding of test procedures for creating Virtual users and calculating transaction times for performance test using Load Runner and tracked the critical business transactions under load.
• Preparing and Reporting Daily/Weekly Status Reports.
• Performed various ETL testing using Power Center Informatica to verify cleansed and filtered data is loaded into different datawarehouses to avoid duplication of data.
• Coordinate validation testing with other upstream/downstream systems.
• Performing requirement analysis for new projects and change requests.
• Production Remedy (Severity 1) testing support.
• Participate in QA testing estimation process.

Environment: QTP, Oracle 9i, MS Office, Windows XP, HTML, Toad, SOA, UAT, SharePoint, Agile methodology.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements in order to design test plans that will test the Web-service.
• Used Quality Center for test and bug management.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts on a daily basis to discuss the requirement specifications.
• Attended daily scrum meetings, to give the status of the work being done.
• Attended review meetings with the business unit, to discuss the status of the project and also to discuss the requirements that need to be developed in the next sprint.
• Executed JAVA script to test the functionality, MYSQL to validate, update and insert new data into SQL server database
• Worked on Amdocs clarify CRM to deliver a single unified view of the customer and a single solution for service and support, sales and ordering, and marketing and analytics.
• Used different win forms to test the application (to create monthly bills, make payments, disburse the payments and File loads).
• Performed end-to-end, regression and functional testing whenever a new build was released into testing environment.
• Performed browser compatibility testing, to ensure same UI and functional behavior of website across different versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome.
• Interacted with Offshore team to discuss the test scenarios to resolve issues.

Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case), Statistics, IBM Web Sphere, XML, SSRS, Mercury, MS Office, Oracle, SQL Server Reports

Confidential, Miami, Florida

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases for functional and business requirements.
• Executed test cases manually and logged defects in Quality Center.
• Retested defects and made necessary updates in Quality Center.
• Attended review meetings with business analysts and developers to discuss defects.
• Performed integration and regression testing.
• Performed Interface testing(Validating data content and format on XML files that sent and received from third party vendors)
• Attended daily defect meetings with Developers, Business Users and Management
• Used Quality Center to create and maintain new Domains and Projects
• Creating Regression test sets for various test projects and updating the test set after each test cycle
• Performed backend testing using UNIX and SQL queries
• Mentored and built skills in more junior members of the QA team.
• Participated in the project meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, XML, Unix, SQL, Excel, MS word, Window XP.