OBJECTIVE:

A challenging position to align my professional Software Quality Assurance and Testing skills with a progressive company that allows me to contribute my technical, al and work towards company’s continued success.

SUMMARY:

• ISEB Foundation Certified seasoned IT Professional with 6 years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance. QA skills are augmented by diverse 2 years’ experience in software development and maintenance.
• Worked extensively in a business environment and tested (using manual and automated tools) the application at all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Worked with Agile,waterfall and V model of SDLC.
• Extensively written Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Procedures and performed Manual and Automated Testing for Web - based, Client Server, Database and Mainframe applications.
• Experience in automated testing tools like Mercury QTP and SOAP UI.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Back End and Front End Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Good understanding of quality assurance testing methodology relative to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong in Testing of applications developed in JAVA, .NET technologies and COBOL.
• Extensive experience in Unit, Functional, Nonfunctional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, System testing.
• Bug Reporting and Bug tracking using Test Director, HP Quality Center and IBM Clear Quest.
• Experience working in diverse Applications ranging from Telecommunication, Insurance, Finance and Credit Card Area.
• Excellent team-player with effective interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to remain highly focused and self-assured in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP, SOAP UI

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest

Programming Languages: COBOL, Visual Basic Scripting, Shell Scripting, SQL

Operating Systems: Win /NT 4.0/2000/XP, LINUX, UNIX, MS-DOS.

Middleware: IBM MQ Series, XML

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, MS-Access, DB2, IDMS, IMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Riverwoods, Illinois

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Client's Business Requirements.
• Working in Agile environment.
• Authoring of Testable requirements and Test Scenarios.
• Comprehensive test case creation for User Acceptance and Regression testing.
• Tested different systems like Big browser and Agent facing application.
• Tested acquisition flow in credit card application.
• Tested End to End flow for fulfilling new card application and replacement of cards.
• Perform peer reviews and test case mapping to HP Quality Center.
• Preparation of Test Environment and Test Execution planning.
• Maintained and executed Manual test cases.
• Participated in daily status calls.
• Tracked and reported defects using Quality Centre.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QA Analyst and involved in BRD/FSD analysis & GAP analysis, Test Plan and Test Cases creation based on FSD and BRD document.
• Participated in review and walkthrough meetings to understand business functionality.
• Facilitate and drive kick-off sessions with business users to walk through the test plan, test scenarios and expectations.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase
• Used Quality Center for uploading / writing the Test Cases.
• Used Quick Test Professional to perform regression testing.
• Performed parameterization and generated Data Driven scripts

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• FPI is migrating their international insurance platform consisting of multiple applications involving legacy mainframe to a unified TCS B α NCS platform.
• Working as a test analyst in preparing high level test plan, write test scenarios and test cases for functional testing.
• Analyze Non-Functional requirements for Interfaces and Data Migration and write non-functional test cases.
• Prepare and execute test cases for various interfaces between FPI and external payment systems like HSBC Connect & Ogone.
• Create and Execute test scripts for testing the SWIFT interfaces using MT103 and MT940 SWIFT format messages.
• Using SQL Queries on target database (Oracle 11g) and Source database (IMS/DB2).
• Performing the role of Line Manager for Interface Test team.
• Working with geographically dispersed testing, application development, project management and product vendor teams to manage and execute the project per the planned timelines.

Environment: QTP, ETL (Informatica), Quality Center, Load Runner, Payment Platforms like Ogone & HSBC Connect, TCS BαNCS, SWIFT, Oracle 11g, Unix, Linux, MS Excel, MS Project.

Confidential

System Engineer /System tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with geographically dispersed teams on various performance testing projects. Projects range from browser-based GUI front-ends to more complex transactional back-end systems tested using QTP as well as manually.
• Analyzed Business Solution Documents and software requirement specifications of Customer Service and Collections, writing test scripts, and testing on ProphIT.
• Involvement in the project initiation meetings, requirements gathering, test environment configuration/verification, test data creation/gathering, performance test execution, tuning, analysis of results and issue resolution.
• Supported testing project - scripting (recording, customizing and manually programming), test execution, tuning and results interpretation skills for functional and nonfunctional testing.
• Using QTP for Regression and Functional testing on new builds.
• Developing test scripts and check points for testing using QTP.
• Used Rational Clear Quest as the bug tracking and reporting tool. Logged Defects for GUI Application. Analyzed and identified areas where application failed and resolved defects. Closed Delivered Defects and reopened unfixed ones.
• Produced and documented summary and detailed test reports using Rational Clear Quest.
• Responsible for debugging of testing environment, including hardware, software and middleware.
• Executing Manual and Automated Test Scripts in TestDirector/Quality centre.
• Reporting bugs using Test Director/Quality Centre.
• Creating business scenarios to test functionality and develop scripts, configure tools to test application and execute User acceptance testing
• Verified in-house developed and outsourced API's meet Service Level Agreements.
• Majority of software under test is developed using mainframe, Java, MQ Series and Oracle.
• Familiar with Microsoft Visual Basic in order to support and debug tools used for test data collection and test reporting.

Environment: Quality Center, Cobol, MQ series, Oracle 10g, HTML, Unix, Windows NT/XP, QuickTest Pro 8.0, VBScript,Oracle 9i, MS Excel, TSYS, CICS, TS2 MainframeTechMahindra, Mumbai, India

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• To thoroughly understand and review the requirements of the project
• Develop Code in COBOL and CICS.
• Execute unit test cases to defect reports.
• Individual Development Unit ownership
• PIR (Post Implementation Review)
• Support for UCT (Acceptance testing with User)
• Defect prevention
• Client presentation for particular developments
• Configuration management

Environment: s: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, Micros, unit testing skills, MQ series