OBJECTIVE:

Detail - oriented professional with 9 years of progressive Information Technology (IT) experience in multi domains with a focus on Quality Assurance on web based and client server applications, technical analysis sessions, supporting development and testing teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and nurturing exceptionally good client relationships.

SUMMARY:

• Acted as a focal point and leader to all quality related programs - Directed QA activities to ensure maximum quality and effectiveness.
• Well expertise knowledge in Health insurance, media and Financial.
• Strong experience leading and managing software test team on offshore and Onsite.
• Strong experience as configuration lead/Managing release while deployment at UAT and Production
• Prepared quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, recalls, corrective actions, and re-validations.
• Experience in review of Requirements document, Requirement Analysis, Design documentation, Functional specification and Risk Assessment. Strong experience in developing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Extensive experience in running various levels of tests such as Unit, Integration (White Box), System, Regression, User Acceptance Test (UAT), Backend (Black Box).
• Strong GUI / API testing with the ability to validate with written SQL to DB.
• Adept in multi-tasking and handling multiple tasks/projects at the same time.
• Sound knowledge and expertise of preparing various documents like Production readiness, deployment instruction, and rollback plan etc. documents required in testing environment using my strong documentation skills.
• Directed employees to ensure highest standard of quality so that the organization meets both internal and external requirements - Ensured that all quality standards are met by all departments, by explaining the importance of maintaining quality standards.
• Strong experience in health care industry particularly in CMS (Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA Rules) and Health Insurance Exchanges related models, claims and encounter data submissions
• Extensive experience in Automated Testing tools UFT/ Selenium/Load runner.
• Very good exposure of testing applications on wide range of Mobile handset of different vendors which includes Nokia, Samsung, Google G1, Sony Ericson, Motorola, Windows Mobile, HTC, LG, I phone and many more.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Testing Tools: Selenium, QTP/UFT11.0,Load Runner

Test Management Tools: Mercury Quality Center/ALM 11.0, Test Director, JIRA, Test Manager, TFS ALM, Rational Clear Quest

Script Languages: SQL,VB, HTML, JAVA, XML,CSS,Perl, PHP, shell, Ajax

Database: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MYSQL

Business Intelligence(BI): SSIS,SSRS,SSAS, Crystal Reports

Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/2000/XP/Vista, Linux, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential -Princeton, NJ

Test Lead

• Work closely with the QA and Development teams in understanding testing needs and priorities, and working with the automation team prioritize and deliver on projects that are defined
• Coordinates with the Release Manager and QA Manager
• Proactively suggest improvements to the overall testing infrastructure and methodologies
• Expansion of the automated test case coverage for regression and new feature tests
• Helps maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures; code quality metrics (as decided by the program), dependencies, and notification lists
• Establish close working relationships with development teams, business analysts and business partners
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Created automation f ramework and test scripts using selenium WebDriver for multiple platforms and browsers testing. Also performed manual testing for the same.
• Design, develop and implement Page Object Model Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing framework utilizing Java, TestNG and Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed automation test cases, executed these test scripts and logged defects in JIRA/ALM.
• Cucumber is used for entire Regression Testing along with selenium as primary tool for the test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Conditions.
• Transferred the defects to developers where they logged on to them and solved.
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application development using Selenium.
• Used SVN Subclipse repository for efficient remote team working, also stored the framework and all the developed test cases.
• Used Firebug/ IE Developer Toolkit to capture and validate CSS Locators, HTML ID to identify elements.
• Configured Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Maven tool and created Selenium Automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to next quarter release.
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from SQL Server.
• Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium WebDriver(JAVA) with TestNG.
• Performed Integration and Regression testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application using Selenium
• Regular build jobs are initiated using Continous Intergration (CI)tool with Jenkins and JBehave

Environment: Selenium webdriver, Git, SVN, Jira and Jenkins.

Confidential, Bowie MD

QA Team Lead

• Worked with the project manager for planning, organizing, and communicating project activities in agile environment.
• Work with business team for estimate on future roadmap and discuss test strategic and releases to production.
• Prepare deployment scripts, deployment instruction and all production readiness documents for UAT and production.
• Responsible for every new release and production testing.
• Timely providing support to UAT team before going 'Go-Live'.
• Participated change request board meeting for deployment on environments.
• Involved in performing different types of Testing Functional, Integration, System and Regression, User Acceptance.
• Enhanced the automated Regression Scripts using selenium WebDriver.
• Generated several weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, parametric, drilldown and linked reports using SSRS.
• Working on TFS Automatic CI build for Source, dev, QA Environments.
• Created the Automation framework using Selenium.
• Created Test case using Java programming feature and TestNG Annotation.
• Create and provide QA Metrics (summary and progress report) to management on a weekly basis and updating Wiki pages
• Writing complex SQL queries to validate data and logic.
• Involved in the testing of Risk Adjustment domain related models such as CMS-HCC, CDPS and CRG, HIX system, RAPS and 5010 Submissions, ICD-10 Implementation and Transition

Environment: SQL2008, Selenium webdriver, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, TFS 2013, 11.0, NETJava.TestNG, Jenkins.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete QA Lifecycle activities like Pre-testing phase, Acceptance Testing Phase, Testing Phase and also in User Acceptance Testing.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT) using Quality Center
• Created Test data, Test procedures, Test cases, writing automated test scripts and documentation.
• Responsible for leading and managing software test team on offshore and Onsite.
• Worked on Cross-browser for testing.( Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Safari, Opera, Avant, Maximo, Google chrome)
• Involved in end-to-end testing of the Mobile Applications.
• Responsible for Script creation, maintenances and execution using QTP Automated the test scripts for functional testing and performed backend testing by creating database check points using QTP
• Generated an execution grid in the Test Lab module of Quality Center, group test cases and executing them simultaneously.
• Execute performance / load / stress and other non-functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior. Address all technical issues, facilitate the resolution and necessary follow up with PM, IS/IT, Development, and other cross-functional departments.
• Linked defects to requirements, tests, test sets, test instances, runs, run steps, and other defects to determine the status of defect using JIRA.
• Developed and executed Exploratory Testing.
• Managed documents in SharePoint.

Environment: VB Script, Quality Center, JIRA, Load runner, XML, JAVA,linux, iOS, Android, HTML5, QTP

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting walkthroughs with various groups for understanding the application flow and process.
• Performed functional, integration, regression, data-driven, and GUI testing.
• Designed and developed SQL queries for verifying the Database updates
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve the information from the databases to check whether the information has been updated.
• Managed the encountered bugs during the testing process by entering them to the Quality Center
• Performed regression, functionality, system, front end, back end, negative, positive and User Acceptance Testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Used various QTP functionalities (Ex. Call functions, Parameterization) to enhance test script quality and affectivity. Reviewed business requirements and system specifications and wrote test plan for the installation, GUI, functional, Regression, and integration testing
• Tested a number of complex ETL mappings, mapplets and reusable transformations for daily data loads.
• Creating test cases for ETL mappings and design documents for production support
• Managed and mailed defects to other user that enables quality assurance personnel about defect repair activity.
• Generated reports and graphs to demonstrate the progress of the testing activities such as test plan, test cases, and defect management

Environment: Quality Center, Visual Basic, Oracle, SQL, Microsoft Visual Studio, QTP, TFS,ETL

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely interacting with development and project teams to understand system requirements.
• Developing detailed Test Plans and Test Cases from business requirements and use cases.
• Creating test cases based on Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis and Cause-Effect Graphing Techniques.
• Performed end-to-end testing of the functionality on the screens and web Pages in the application
• Reviewing existing test cases and adding additional, more complex test scenarios based on the application functionality
• Executing appropriate automation test scripts whenever a Change Request was completed
• Automation of Capture of GUI Map Files, Recording of Test Cases and Creation of batch Files
• Identified defects, tracking of defects to Closure and generating defect reports using Quality Center’s Defect Module
• Performing Back-end testing using SQL Server 2005
• Writing and executing SQL queries to extract data from the database and for data validation testing
• Using Quality Center to store all test documents - test cases, results, metrics, defects and reports.
• Involve user acceptance testing (UAT) and maintenance.

Environment: HTML, SQL Server 2005, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Microsoft Visual Studio