SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of extensive experience working as a QA Analyst/ Tester in Banking and Finance Industry, with solid experience in Quality Analysis, software validation and business process re - engineering with, proven ability to articulate business values.
• Expertise in Manual Quality Assurance Test Execution and Analysis.
• Strong knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Test life Cycle, QA processes, policies, standards and Test methodologies and procedures.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Process and Quality Assurance methodologies.
• Extensive experience in defect management triage them daily basis using HP ALM (Application LifeCycle Management).
• Experience in analysis of Software Requirement Specifications, use cases, and development of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Extensively used SQL, PL/SQL for backend testing of Oracle and MS SQL Server and mainframe DB2 databases.
• Broad technical and functional knowledge of HP Quality Center (ALM).
• Solid experience in automation development and creating new frameworks using Java and Selenium WebDriver, .Net C# and Selenium and Python and Selenium WebDriver, automation using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experience in in Manual Testing along with skills in Automation Testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center.
• Experience Black Box, Smoke, Functional, Back-End, Positive, Negative, Regression, System, UAT testing.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills and good team player.
• Capability to adapt and learn new tools, techniques, and approaches.
• Strong communicator and skillful in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse team members in projects.
• Energetic self-starter with excellent analytical and organizational skills. Achieves goals, objectives and milestones in an accurate and consistent manner.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal, Customer Relational Skills, and Problem solving Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Tester/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and perform ambiguity reviews of project documentation, use cases and functional specification documents for Global Branch Foundation.
• Work and communicated with application development teams to clarify requirements and project documentation.
• Performed Manual testing for the Functionality, GUI of the Web applications.
• Executed flat files and wrote testcases for the mainframe applications.
• Created test data from Web app using Selenium automation tool.
• Prepared time estimation for Automation scripts QTP and Requirements.
• Prepared test case, automation test scripts and executed whenever required.
• Analyzed and cleared picture of the Business requirements for the Change requests on Leasing application in Mainframes.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects from MS Excel, MS Word to Quality Center.
• Involved in front end, Data reconciliation testing of all the dashboards using Data watch application.
• Tested development programs in Mainframe before signing off to production.
• Designed Automation approach for end to end testing of all system.
• Created matrix, for generating reusable methods (keywords) for Automation team.
• Reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Specification documents for writing test cases.
• Worked on Waterfall methodology for migration of Mainframe database.
• Configured Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Tested the Web services Framework designed by using .Net and Mainframe technologies.
• Actively involved in test planning and prepared test plan document and effort estimation document.
• Worked with Business Analyst and took suggestion from them and based on that prepares Test Data.
• Support the Global AML Monitoring Committee by preparing pre-reads, taking minutes.
• Followed software testing methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Generated test cases, test scripts also actively involved in reviewing test cases.
• Prepared Automation test script and executes test using HP Quick Test Professional QTP.
• Used HP Quality Center to ensure efficient documentation of QA activities.
• Report and review the defects in HP Quality Center and Jira Defect tracking systems.
• Responsible for developing the test modules in the HP Quality Center for the new requirements.
• Implemented and executed several SQL queries for backend testing.
• Response time, Transactions per second were calculated by using HP Load Runner.
• Tested the modules on the application by Manual Testing and data validation using SQL queries.
• Developed Test Plan, Master Test Strategy, Test Agreement, and Test Scripts.
• Writing SQL Queries for setting up Test data.
• Designed and developed SQL queries to perform back-end testing.
• Log, track, and verify resolution of software and specification defects, documenting all phases of QA process using Quality Center.
• Documented all Test Cases in Quality Center. Executed both manual and automated scripts from HP Quality Center.
• Documented all phases of the QA process. Create test plans, test scenarios, ambiguity and other needed documentation to ensure high quality QA deliverables and accurate projected timelines. Maintaining Issue/Defect Logs.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended sprint meetings, interacted with the development team and product owner to get a better understanding of high level user stories.
• Reviewed and validated QA test estimates based upon project scope, complexity and testability.
• Analyzed business requirement and designed test plan, test strategy, test scenarios and test cases.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to match the requirements with the test cases and test results.
• Facilitated System Integration Test (SIT) plan walkthrough meeting and presented test plan, test strategy and test cases to the project team for their feedback and sign-off.
• During test execution, worked effectively with the product owner and developers to accommodate the frequently changing requirements and sorted out the ambiguities and made sure that maximum testing was done.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and End to End Testing.
• Scrupulously worked with SQL Queries to retrieve the data from database and performed backend testing.
• Logged all the defects identified during testing phase in HP Quality Center (QC) test management tool, reported to the development team with proper priorities and severities and retested defects after they were fixed.
• Expedited defects triage meetings on weekly bases.
• Executed the tests to verify the web GUI using Quick Test Pro.
• Produced functional specifications and led weekly meetings with developers and business units to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met.
• Delivered various test matrix documents like UAT defect analysis report, root cause analysis, Project test effectiveness, Production defect analysis report, and defect acceptance report as a part of test deliverables.
• Executed SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the backend.
• Used Quality Center to plan tests, manage test assets, create and run manual and external scripts to check GUI and functional features of the AUT
• Converted Functional requirements into detailed scenarios and test cases.
• Performed data drive testing to validate the same set of operation with different set of data
• Enhanced QTP script using recovery scenarios for error handling
• Communicated to Line of Business team, QA team and UAT Manager about issues, concerns and risks.
• Analyzed portfolio management, investment planning, financial planning, customer support and investment strategy tools and processes
• Developed Test Cases and Scripts for functionality and Regression Testing.
• Involved in configuration testing.
• Used MQC to organize the testing process and to manage and report defects.
• Organized daily test status summery report to the project team using execution status reports.
• Prepared and nattered test summery report to product owner, development team during Sprint review meetings.

Confidential, Birmingham, Alabama

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.
• Prepared Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification.
• Understand the ETL Design and Mapping documents and identify the Test Scenarios and prepared the Test cases.
• Developed test cases in the test lab of HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Involved in developing Automation scripts using UFT/QTP.
• Prepared test scenarios and test cases in HP ALM/Quality Center
• Involved in Smoke Test, Integration, End to End, RBT, and ETL Workflows testing.
• Provide ongoing support to UAT defect management, test data coordination, data mining and batch issue resolution.
• Managed the Metadata associated with ETL processes used to populate the data warehouse.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Wrote complex SQL, PL/SQL Testing scripts for Backend Testing of the data warehouse application.
• Created high level use case diagrams, process composition diagrams and data modeling
• Reviewed Informatica mappings and test cases before delivering to Client.
• Extensively performed ETL and QA Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.
• Used UFT/QTP to perform Regression testing upon new builds and updated the scripts accordingly.
• Responsible for preparing and executing System Test Plan and Test cases using HP ALM/Quality Center
• Performed Business Process Testing using BPT (Business process testing) module of HP ALM/Quality Center and UFT/QTP.
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries for extracting data from multiple tables.
• Preparation of System Test Results after Test case execution.
• Ability to use testing tools to execute tests (HP ALM/Quality Center)
• Designed and developed UNIX shell scripts as part of the ETL process to automate the process of loading, pulling the data for testing ETL loads.
• Managing, tracking, documenting defects using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Data Integrity, System, Compatibility testing.
• Extracted Data from Teradata using Informatica Power Center ETL and DTS Packages to the target database including SQL Server and used the data for reporting purposes.
• Validating the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according the data mapping provided that satisfies the transformation rules.
• Installed the UFT/QTP for automating test cases and developed user defined functions to support Automated Scripts, used Data Driven Testing and Data Base accessing techniques to support the Scripts
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using HP ALM/Quality Center
• Wrote SQL queries to validate source data versus data in the data warehouse including identification of duplicate records.
• Responsible for different Data mapping activities from Source systems to Teradata.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts and Unix Shell scripts to perform back-end testing on the oracle database.
• Agile testing process focused in (functional and non-functional requirements, compatibility, load, stress, end-to-end, defect removal, alpha/beta, scenario and others) and analyzes and reports test results
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for managing and reporting defects.
• Prepared Test status reports for each stage and logged any unresolved issues into Issues log.
• Validated the ETL Scripts in the Target Database (Oracle) for creating the cube before migrating it to SQL Server.
• Investigated software bugs and reporting to the developers using HP ALM/Quality Center Defect Module.
• Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using UFT/QTP.
• Preparing and supporting the QA and UAT test environments.
• Communicated discrepancies determined in testing to impacted areas and monitored resolution.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements specifications and authored test plan, test strategy, test scenarios and test cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Facilitated test plan and test cases walkthrough meetings with project team for their feedback and sign-off.
• Attended daily stand up meetings with product owner and development team focusing on user stories.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix Document to ensure that all the requirements had sufficient coverage for thorough testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Executed SQL queries and tested frontend developed data in the databases.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing using IE, Chrome and Firefox.
• Defects were logged and tracked using HP Quality Center (QC) communicated to development team with proper priorities and severities and retested fixed defects.
• Organized weekly defect triage meetings.
• Ability to act as a UAT analyst and be a subject matter expert for the company's internal
• Experienced in Working closely with Project Managers to understand UAT resource requirements from the business.
• Proficient knowledge in various types of Software Testing such as Unit testing, Integrated testing, System Testing, Black box testing, Positive Testing, Negative testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, Volume Testing, Data Driven Testing, Back end Testing and Regression Testing
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems such as Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and UNIX.
• Extensive knowledge of SDLC and STLC methodologies.
• Submitted the daily test status summery report to the project team.