PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• ISTQB certified professional with 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Business Analysis
• Multi Domain expertise such as Mortgage Banking, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Rail Road Transportation
• QA experience in Real Estate Loan Origination systems (LOS) like UniFi and IBM’s Impact Lending Suite
• Worked on bug - tracking and test management tools like HP ALM(Quality Centre), JIRA, Clear Quest, Blue Print and Qatraq
• Well acquainted with QA Process, templates and test effort estimations
• Have extensive workable knowledge on Agile methodology
• Business Partner collaboration for requirement gathering and UAT
• Experience in working with onsite-offshore delivery model especially as Onsite/Offshore Lead
• Expertise on Installation, Functional, Integration, Performance, GUI, Database, End to End, Smoke, Sanity, UAT, Compatibility and Regression testing.
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing life Cycle)
• Proficient in preparing test artifacts like Test plans, Traceability matrix, Defect/test summary reports and Release notes etc.
• Adept to End to End test activities from Requirement analysis to Test Artifacts Design, Execution, Defect management and Closure activities
• Facilitated defect triage meetings and worked with cross functional teams such as developers, data architects, business partners, business analysts, user experience group, and Build/Release team
• Web-based, Client-Server and Standalone applications testing. Extensively involved in Product Testing (DBArtisan)
• Working knowledge of XML, FTP and Windows Command Files
• Experience in Shell Scripting and PYTHON
• Good knowledge in Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases
• Hands on experience in ETL Testing and Informatica Tool
• Good at Web Service Testing using SOAP UI and writing SQL queries
• Involved in Production Validation and performed Gap Analysis
• Experience in automation tools like Silk Test, Rational Functional Tester with SAFS framework and trained on QTP
• Very good in understanding/Creating the requirement documents and structuring the test approach

TOOLS:

• ALM (QC)
• JIRA
• QATraq
• Clear Case
• Bugzilla
• Clear Quest
• SOAP UI
• Silk Test
• RFT
• TOAD
• Blue Print

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows & UNIX

Programming Languages: C, PHP & Java

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL & Sybase

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VB Script, Shell Script, XML& HTML.

Configuration Management: MS Visual Source Safe (VSS) & Share Point

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Elicit the requirements in blueprint.
• Creating the Test Plan in HP ALM
• Generating test data in tablets, web and laptops
• Sync laptops and tablets with new version of software.
• Perform functional, smoke, performance and regression testing.
• Perform Compatibility Testing and validate end to end data flow across modules.
• Analyze the defects, log them into QC and track the defect status to closure.
• Give defect walk through to developers for quick work progress.
• Business Partner collaboration for requirement gathering and clarifications.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Work allocation to offshore team and tracking the same.
• Participates in daily scrum meetings for status reporting and sprint planning meetings.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to new team members
• Prepare release notes
• Coordinate the release and perform production validation.
• Work with cross functional teams such as developers, data architects, business partners, user experience group, Build/Release team.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Act as a QA lead for Bank Hub projects.
• Co-ordination with Project Manager and Test Manager for project monitoring tracking and reviews.
• Co-ordination with onshore Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts for requirements gathering and clarifications.
• Business Partner collaboration for requirement gathering and UAT.
• Knowledge Transfer to offshore and new team members in onshore.
• Maintain Testing Workbook for the projects.
• Creating the Test Plan by utilizing HP-Quality Centre.
• Tracking the offshore resource work and giving the updates to onsite QA manager.
• Perform regression, smoke testing and review of the test cases prepared by team members
• Status Reporting - Generating report on a weekly and bi-weekly basis to track projects status.
• Facilitate the defect triage call.
• Defect management using Star Team tool.
• Give defect walkthrough to all Business Analysts and Development team.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings for status updates and issues.
• Regularly communicating with dev, business throughout the test life cycle to provide the required information to the offshore team and make sure no defect leakages.
• Production support and validation
• Work with cross functional teams such as developers, data architects, business partners, business analysts, user experience group, Build/Release team.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements.
• Co-ordination with Project Manager and Test Manager for project monitoring tracking and reviews.
• Prepare test strategy and test plan.
• Reviewing the test artifacts.
• Status Reporting - Generating report on a weekly and bi-weekly basis to track projects status.
• Facilitate the defect triage call.
• Managing daily / weekly / monthly project reports.
• Preparing the Test Summary report at the end of the project release
• Production support and validation
• Knowledge sharing among the team and preparing knowledge gained, lessons learnt documents. new team members joining the team.
• Interacted closely with business users team to understand and analysis the business needs and requirements.
• Design high level test scenarios, test cases based on the requirement documents.
• Generating test data and executing the test cases
• Analyze the defects, log them into defect tracking tool, report and track the defect status
• Perform regression testing and review of the test cases prepared by team members
• Frequent communication with onsite co-coordinator for status updates and issues clarification.

Confidential

QA Module lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the sprint plan meetings and understand the User Stories
• Create test matrix for the defined user stories in each sprint
• Executing test scenarios report the defects to development team and track to closure.
• Run the Asset Ingestion process and verify the output files, data in the centralized database.
• Automate the regression suite using shell scripts.
• Run the tests for the response from web service using SOAP UI tool.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings.
• Run Integration test between different components like AI, BPM and EGIS for each major release.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements.
• Prepare test strategy and test plan.
• Evolving the schema, Reloading the metadata and rules of database to a new software version.
• Authoring, Reviewing and Executing test scenarios
• Prepare the test data using ATLAS or insert records into test schemas.
• Run the ETL job using Informatica.
• Verify the warehouse tables after the ETL job completion.
• Generate the reports in Oracle Business Intelligence Tool and verify the data.
• Defect Posting, Tracking and managing the Defect Summary Reports
• Prepare the test summary report for each phase.
• Participate in Weekly meetings and frequent communication with project stake holders for status updates and issues.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicit the requirements.
• Report the ambiguities among the design (FRD/HLD/QDD) documents.
• Design and review the test cases for query tool/ My jobs modules.
• Execute the test cases on respective releases.
• Defect Posting, Tracking and managing the Defect Summary Reports
• Verifying test state CRs, related to querytool module and running SQL scripts, verifying the results whenever required as part of CR verification.
• Preparing and reviewing test reports.
• Preparing the Project Test Metrics as per Applabs Process to derive the statistical data for faster decision making
• SQA (Software Quality Assurance) for the project and conducted audit every month
• Participated in Weekly calls and frequent communication with onsite co-ordinator for status updates and issues

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements.
• Prepare test strategy and test plan.
• Involved in database schemas evolution, loading metadata, rules and update app server to the map software version
• Authoring, Reviewing and Executing test scenarios for different components
• Identification of the regression set for automation.
• Authoring, Debugging and executing shell scripts for command line jobs.
• Verifying the log files and reporting the issues with minute precise details
• Involved in designing of test scripts and executing them in batch across different releases.
• Defect Posting, Tracking and managing the Defect Summary Reports
• Preparing the Project Test Metrics as per Applabs Process to derive the statistical data for faster decision making
• Developed test scripts in RFT for Query tool/Atlas and executed them in batch across different releases
• Documented all the features of the project as per the process
• SQA (Software Quality Assurance) for the project and conducted audit every month
• Participated in Weekly calls and frequent communication with onsite co-ordinator for status updates and issues

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements and prepare a test strategy
• Evolving the schema, Reloading the metadata and rules of database to a new software version
• Authoring, Reviewing and Executing test scenarios for different components
• Verifying the results at back end - Oracle database
• Executing and debugging python, shell and SQL scripts
• Verifying the log files and reporting the issues with minute precise details
• Defect Posting, Tracking and managing the Defect Summary Reports
• Preparing the Project Test Metrics as per Applabs Process to derive the statistical data for faster decision making
• Participate in Weekly calls and frequent communication with onsite coordinator for status updates and issues
• Knowledge Transfer sessions to new team members

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and Execution of test cases
• Review activity of Test cases
• Authoring and execution of test scripts using Silk Test.
• Performed the following types of testing:
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Reporting the defects.