PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Quality Assurance Consultant with 11 years 8 months of Industry experience in Retail and Healthcare domains - Expertise in Effort Estimation, QA Project Management, Requirement Analysis, Test Plan, Test case Design, Test case Execution, Manual and Test Automation and Defect management.
• Strong expertise in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Testing Methodologies.
• Lead Analyst for successful projects Automated Test frameworks, Standards using Selenium and UFT (QTP).
• Solid experience in SQL and Database Testing, Integration Testing, Application Testing, SOA Testing, Reports & BI testing
• Proficient in programming languages like Java, VB Scripting
• Gained experience working on multiple database systems like Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, DB2
• Act as a Test Consultant with extensive knowledge in user interface, analyzing system specifications and business requirements, Test Plan Formulation, Test Strategy process implementation, Developing Business/Functional Scenarios, Test cases, Test Data, RTM, Effort Estimation Sheet, Product/Project Environment Checklist, Review of Test Artifacts, Root cause analysis and Defects Analysis Reports etc.
• Act as SME on all the projects with extensive business and technical knowledge
• Knowledge on Lean Concepts and Agile Methodologies
• Lead the successful Confidential implementation including PLM Interfaces (SOA Testing) for Retail Customers with great coordination with Onsite and Offshore team.
• Experienced in SOA Testing using SOAP UI Tools and part of multiple integration projects
• Managed and provided support during UAT Testing for multiple projects and organized the business meetings.
• Works closely with Business Analysts and Applications Development Team during software Analysis, development to include areas of applications development, operations/technical support and security.
• Strong experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing
• Expertise in Quality Center, JIRA, Clear Quest and Test Director which includes Uploading Requirement, Test cases, Execution of Test Cases, Logging Defects and Generating the reports/graphs.
• Responsible for project review, escalations, quality assurance, tasks completion, delivery of the tasks, customer interface & project status reporting for the project.
• Excellent troubleshooting, issue resolution and follow-up with interpersonal communication skills.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Massachusetts, MA

Automation QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Build and Execution of automation test scripts for ATC Oracle R12 EBS modules using HP UFT
• Designed automation framework for functional and integration test scripts and created functions in library files and maintained the automation repositories
• Write and execute SQL scripts from Oracle DB
• Performed System, Regression and Integration testing on Oracle EBS R12 application modules Property Management, General Ledger, Accounts Payables & Receivables, Inventory Management.
• Generated metrics for assessing software quality and evaluated results.
• Coordinated software testing work schedules, requirements, and issues with other local and remote groups, including Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Software Development teams.
• Adhere to and propagate the software validation process, guidelines, and standards.
• Provided oversight and QA validation during software releases.
• Administerd and control defect tracking database and oversee defect process resolution.
• Contributed to process improvements by providing input to departmental procedures related to software development.
• Participate in critical analysis, design, and change review meetings for software developed by ATC Development team

Confidential, Marlborough, Massachusetts

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Build and Execution of automation test scripts for Confidential Oracle R12 HCM and Finance modules using cFactory and UFT applications
• Perform System, Regression and Integration testing on Oracle EBS R12 application
• Generate metrics for assessing software quality and evaluate results.
• Coordinate software testing work schedules, requirements, and issues with other local and remote groups, including Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Software Development teams.
• Adhere to and propagate the software validation process, guidelines, and standards.
• Provide oversight and QA validation during software releases.
• Administer and control defect tracking database and oversee defect process resolution.
• Contribute to process improvements by providing input to departmental procedures related to software development.
• Participate in critical analysis, design, and change review meetings for software developed by Confidential Development team and by third parties.

Confidential, Woburn, Massachusetts

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided estimates for functional and automation testing of OBIEE R12 report application for all the UST modules
• Designed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases based on functional and technical requirements
• Coordinated with offshore team on daily task allocation, review of test artifacts, test processes and procedures
• Worked with various functional groups - Organized and provided support to the Business teams during SIT and UAT sessions
• Designed and Developed automation scripts in UFT using Data Driven Framework for different Web applications like Noetix, Discoverer, OBIEE and Cognos BI applications.
• Validated the performance of the reports using automation scripts.
• Performed Security testing for all the user groups and validated their access to respective modules
• Developed and executed automation scripts using UFT for OBIEE and Cognos reports data validation.
• Documented, troubleshooted and isolated problems encountered during testing.
• Created and Maintained the entire testing life cycle in HP ALM as an Admin
• Logged the defects in ALM and tracked them to closure. Conducted defect triage meetings with the project team
• Generated test metrics in ALM which includes Test Summary and Defect Summary reports and sent the Testing Status report to Project and Business teams.
• Participated in Business Review meetings for Test Plan and Test cases

Confidential, Marlborough, Massachusetts

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead analyst for comprehensive and regressive functional QA testing of HCM system after a major patch application (RUP) to Oracle instance, testing includes:
• HR - Hire, Rehire, Terminate, Transfer, ESS, MSS and other transactions.
• Payroll - Quick Pay, Payroll Run, Retro Pay, Batch Element Entry (BEE), Payroll tax processes, parallel testing and also other transactions in Payroll.
• PTO - Validating the PTO Carry over Process, Validating the PTO plans attached to the associates.
• Advanced benefits - testing for associates enrolled in FSA and commuter plans, including creation of flat files containing Participants Demographic, Participants Enrollment & Participants Contribution records, Rates testing and 401K & 401K Roth ER Contribution
• Developed Automation Regression Test Sets for Oracle HRMS modules using Selenium IDE
• Validated Oracle Inbound and Outbound Integrations
• Validated New Jobs, Benefit Programs and Plans, Compensation Participation and Postprocesses, PTO Balances and Carry over process for all new DC implementations
• Validated Fast Formulas and Configurations
• Designed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Performed data validation for EIS reports against Oracle EBS application
• Participated in Business Review meetings for Test Plan and Test cases and Supported Business during UAT
• Test Management in Quality Center as Project Admin. Conducted Defect Triage meetings.

Confidential, Marlborough, Massachusetts

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in daily project status meetings and requirement gathering meetings.
• Estimated entire QA efforts for the Hyperion Planning Testing.
• Coordinated with Development and Business team on scheduling the integration jobs (Datastage and ESP) on Test environment.
• Performed SOA testing for integrations.
• Designed automation scripts to create and maintain hierarchies in DRM Application using Selenium IDE
• Validated the data flow between DRM Application, Sales Planning Applications PACE, Expense Planning Applications EPMA and EssBase.
• Managed testing activities like Data Stage Job scheduling Testing and Integration Testing.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Case Design for Functional and Integration Test cases.
• Documented Test Results and Communicated issues to Developers.
• Provided the Root Cause Analysis of defects to the different teams for faster issue resolution and to improve the overall testing quality. Responsible for project review, escalations, quality assurance, tasks completion, delivery of the tasks, customer interface & project status reporting for the project.
• Defined defect management system with defect tracking and maintaining using Quality Center. Conducted Defect triage meetings to track and closure of defects.

Confidential, Massachusetts, MA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed QA team of 5 members, successfully completed the testing for all the Phases with great Onshore-Offshore coordination.
• Participated in CRP Session with Business and Technical teams for the Requirement Analysis during Multiple phase of Confidential Implementation.
• Reviewed the Functional and Technical Specification documents and provided comments
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Case Design for Data Loads and Confidential OOTB Configurations & Customizations.
• Validated Integrations with Adobe Illustrator and designed products in AI
• Automated scripts for PLM Libraries using Selenium IDE
• Designed and Developed automation regression sets for Confidential application modules, which are used to execute at the time of each release post Production.
• Performed SOA testing for PLM integration with Supplier Hub application to maintain Vendors.
• Supported Business during CRP, System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing meetings
• Reviewed all the test artifacts
• Provided the Root Cause Analysis of defects to the different teams for faster issue resolution and to improve the overall testing quality. Responsible for project review, escalations, quality assurance, tasks completion, delivery of the tasks, customer interface & project status reporting for the project.
• Defined defect management system with defect tracking and maintaining using Quality Center. Conducted Defect triage meetings to track and closure of defects.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Requirement Analysis for the Confidential Sure Scripts requirements.
• Prepared Test Plan and System & Integration Test Cases
• Created, optimized, reviewed and executed Oracle SQL queries to test the Database scenarios and involved in Peer-review.
• Prepared Test Data using XML to test the Confidential Web services.
• Performed SOA testing for Web services and validated input and output Xmls based on the mappings
• Performed Regression, Functional and System Testing and logged defects in Quality Center.
• Review of Test Case results and Tracked issues to closure.
• Analyzed defects and found out the root cause for the issues in IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Collection of daily works and Status report generation.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated offshore team and assigned tasks to team members on daily basis.
• Understood the Functional and Integrational Requirements for PLM Configuration and Customizations modules for Catherines and Lane Bryant brands in CSI.
• Prepared Test Plan and Test case documents for Configuration & Customization modules, PLM to PO WMB Interfaces.
• Executed Confidential System testing for Confidential Configuration OOTB Libraries, Season Line Planning, Calendar, Product Planning, Sourcing and Vendor Portal, BOM, Tech Pack, Costing, Product Workflow, Weighted Average Report and Assortment forms.
• Performed SOA testing for PLM to PO Interfaces using WMB Interfaces and validated Input and Output queue messages using WebSphere MQ Queue Manager.
• Analyzed Data flow between PLM Interfaces and PO Legacy system and performed End to End testing between PLM System and PO(Mainframe) System.
• Performed Sanity Testing for Confidential as part of Production Enhancements testing.
• Defect tracking in Quality Center. Sent Test Execution Report to project team on Daily Basis.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Team of four members as a Team Lead. Analyzed the requirements based on BSD and BTRD.
• Created Functional Test Plan Document and Test Case documents.
• Experienced in generating test script based on BSD and TSD.
• Created, optimized, reviewed and executed Teradata SQL test queries to validate transformation rules used in source to target mappings and verify the data in target tables.
• Modified of test cases based on the requirement change via Change request.
• Performed Regression, Functional, System Testing, SQL tuning and debugging of ETL process.
• Analyzed defects, found out the root cause for the issues and tracked issues to closure in Quality Center.
• Collection of daily works and Status report generation.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements from BSD and BTRD.
• Designed Functional Test Plan Document and Test Case documents.
• Experienced in generating test script based on BSD and TSD.
• Created, optimized, reviewed and executed Teradata SQL test queries to validate transformation rules used in source to target mappings and verify the data in target tables.
• Performed Regression, Functional, System Testing, SQL tuning and debugging of ETL process.
• Analyzed defects, found out the root cause for the issues and tracked issues to closure in Quality Center.
• Collection of daily works and Status report generation and sent to Onsite team member.