PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 4+ years of experience in requirement gathering, software quality assurance and software testing for business domains like Forestry (State Government), banking and insurance industry.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.
• Expertise in documenting, reviewing, and executing test harness - test plans, test strategies, test scripts and test cases based on the user stories and/or user requirements document.
• Extensive knowledge of writing User Stories, Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Cases, Defect/Bug Tracing documents.
• Experience in tracking Test Coverage, creating and analyzing Traceability Metrics.
• Expert in performing manual and automated testing for client/server as well as n-tire web-based applications using Mercury/HP tools such as QTP (Quick Test Pro), Quality center and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Worked in defect tracking tool like Mercury Quality Centre (QC) and Team Foundation server (TFS) for reviewing requirements, bug reporting, bug tracking.
• Worked on applications based on Web technologies like J2EE, Java, JSP, HTML, Java Script, AJAX, CSS, and XML.
• Experience in Visual Basic Scripting for creating custom functions and verifications to handle dynamic objects (Descriptive Programming) and used/maintained object repositories using Quick Test Professional.
• Experience with Test Automation using QTP, Test Case Management using Mercury Quality Center.
• Worked on data-driven testing manually using positive and negative data to check functionality of the application. Prepared different set of data for data driven testing.
• Basic knowledge of SQL to retrieve and validate data from databases e.g. Oracle, SQL Server
• Experience with development and execution of Automation Scripts using QTP.
• Experience in performing different kinds of testing - Black box Testing, Smoke, Front End (UI), System, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Compatibility, Load stress, User acceptance (UAT), Release validation testing of web and client/server applications.
• Ability to work as team member and independently if required
• Capability to learn and adept new tools, techniques, approaches & responsibilities
• Data Validation and Verification using SQL queries.
• Conducted data integrity testing by using SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems:: Windows 7/98/NT/2000, UNIX, Linux, Mac iOS.

Databases:: ORACLE 10g, 11g, Microsoft SQL server 2005.

Web Servers:: Tomcat, Apache Server, Web Logic etc.

Programming tools:: TOAD, SQL Plus, Oracle, Microsoft Visual Studio 5.0

Programming Languages:: Java, C, C++, VBScript, UNIX, HTML, XML, X-Query, Java Script, and CSS.

Testing tools:: Quick Test Pro, Mercury/HP quality center, Load Runner

Management Modeling Tools:: Rational Clear Case, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio and MS Project.

Office Tools:: SharePoint, MS Exchange, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

Browsers:: IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lansing, Michigan

BA/QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional design document to write User stories and Use Cases.
• Analyzed Look and feel document to ensure Timber Sale Online application follows Michigan Standard.
• Performed Manual Testing for the GUI and Functionality of the application.
• Creating Test Plan and Test cases based on business requirement documents
• Uploading user stories on Team Foundation Server and creating task for developer.
• Creating and uploading list of tasks for testing on Team Foundation Server.
• Writing a query to create backlog for testing on Team Foundation Server.
• Creating a Sprint review template for team.
• Creating a Task List for Product Owner (PO) Testing.
• Communicating with client about project progress
• Developed Test Plan document to perform UI testing.
• Testing a release on every browser i.e. Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE 10 and on all the devices i.e. Desktop, Tablet and Mobile.
• Designed the Test Plans and Test Scenarios accordingly, which involved reviewing Business flow diagrams, and Data flow diagrams that were created using Use Cases.
• Reported Bugs to developers using TFS.
• Conducted data integrity testing by using SQL
• Performance and Load testing to identify the bottlenecks and improve the response time and throughput.
• Wrote SQL to retrieve and validate data from database.
• Wrote SQL to verify the data from database.

Environment: HTML, Java, Oracle, SQL Server 2005, TFS, MS Office tools e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Visio.

Confidential, Marietta, GA

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creating Test Plan and Test cases based on business requirement documents
• Conduct complex documentation and user needs analysis. Interface with team and staff to develop HL7 integration.
• Involved in testing the conversion of the application into web application using XML based web services
• Assisted JAD sessions to identify the business flows and determine whether any current or proposed systems are impacted by the EDI X12 Transaction, Code set and Identifier aspects of HIPAA
• Reviewed EDI companion guides for all payers to ensure compliance, edit integrity and maintain up-to-date list of payer contacts.
• Worked on EDI transactions: 270, 271, 834, 835, and 837 (P.I.D) to identify key data set elements.
• Regression Testing of Web applications and applications dealing with MEDICAID and MEDICARE Services
• Used Test Director and HP/Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases & Test Scripts that are executed during testing process
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure that application meets business requirements.
• Performed testing for Medicare, Medicaid and X-Over claims for Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)
• Prepared data feeds and data mappings for integration between various systems to follow ICD 10 Code set.
• Involved in gap analysis and implementation of HIPAA 5010, ICD 10 and Claim Validations
• Conducted Gap Analysis, and Gathered User Requirements by Interviews, user meeting, JAD session, and Requirement Elicitation Sessions
• Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology. Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions.
• Backend testing of the DB by writing simple SQL queries to test the integrity of the application and database using TOAD
• Extensively interacted with the stakeholders and the IT Department in finalizing the requirements according to the CMS Compliances/Regulations and HIPAA Regulations.
• Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based on Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
• Data Validation and Verification using SQL queries.
• Conducted data integrity testing by using SQL

Environment: Java, Quick Test Pro 8.2, Clear Case HP Quality Center, Mercury Quality Center, J2EE, UNIX, SQL, Oracle9i, MS Visio. MS Office, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements document and system requirement specification to put together a test plan.
• Performed Manual Testing for the GUI and Functionality of the application.
• Analyzed the application module, data integration requirements and web services.
• Additionally, worked closely with the developers and business analysts to formulate the test cases.
• Tested some of the new features that included the capability to change passwords online, create/edit his profile nickname, View Check images online and sign up for alerts
• Designed and Documented Test Procedures and Test Cases for user acceptance, functional and integration testing using Quality center.
• Assigned severity levels to different test cases and prioritizing them
• Designed the Test Plans and Test Scenarios accordingly, which involved reviewing Business flow diagrams, and Data flow diagrams that were created using Use Cases.
• Analyzed business requirements from Black Box testing perspective, business process and system architecture/design.
• Mapped Requirements to test cases, providing traceability to requirements, creation and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Procedures, Test Data from the requirements document for various applications using Mercury Quality Center
• Used Quality Center for manual testing considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• Manually tested the various navigation steps and basic functionality of the application using Quality center
• Conducted functional testing at GUI level as well as at module level for the end-to-end functionality.
• Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center
• Wrote SQL statements in TOAD to check the validity of database and to do the backend testing.
• Validated the interfaces to legacy systems and authorized web-service requests.
• Collected and analyzed test metrics and subsequently submitting reports to track the status and progress of the testing effort.
• Monitored the successful completion of quality assurance effort at every phase following Agile SCRUM SDLC process
• Developed Load Runner scripts for the performance testing under load conditions and evaluation of reports for the performance analysis.
• Analyzed test results from graphs and reports to track process of repairs and determine the current quality of the application.
• Responsible for creation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Procedures as well as documentation.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reported results and defects in Quality Center
• Analyzed and reported defects using Quality Center and performed retesting after bug fixes.
• Performance and Load testing to identify the bottlenecks and improve the response time and throughput.
• Data Validation and Verification using SQL queries

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Plus, Oracle, UNIX Platform, Tomcat, Load Runner, TOAD, Java, HTML etc.