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, educational and work towards company’s continued success.

SUMMARY

• ISEB Foundation Certified seasoned IT Professional with 7 years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• 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.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Back End, Front End Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Extensive experience in testing Web services using SOAP UI.
• Extensive experience in database testing (oracle) using SQL queries.
• 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, Load and Stress Testing.
• Bug Reporting and Bug tracking using Test Director, HP Quality Center and Confidential Clear Quest.
• Experience working in diverse Applications ranging from Retail & Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Insurance, Banking 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, HP UFT

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

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

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

Middleware: Confidential MQ Series, XML

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Analyst Discover

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Client's Business Requirements.
• Extensive experience of Point of Sale transactions of Credit Card.
• Authorization of Credit Card transactions.
• Working in Agile environment.
• Finalizing user stories and Acceptance criteria.
• 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 Web based application.
• Tested Mobile application using Ipad,Android devices.
• Used Rally tool for Agile nature of project.
• Has through knowledge of Scrum And Kanban processes.
• 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.

Environment: J2EE Applications, Mainframe Applications, QTP, VBScript, Unified Functional Testing, Mobile applications, Rally (Agile management), SOAP UI, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, Client-Server applications.

Confidential

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.
• Testing web services using SOAP UI.
• Performed parameterization and generated Data Driven scripts.
• Designed SQL queries to extract data from the database for validating actual results.
• Record defects in HP Quality Center tool and perform functions for defect management.
• Participate in the defect calls involving geographically dispersed teams and provide daily/ weekly defect reports to the Project/Test managers.

Environment: J2EE, UNIX, SQL, XML, SOAP UI, Oracle10g, QTP, VBScript, Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Test Lead International Platform

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.
• Recording automated test cases in QTP and running them via Quality Center.
• 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.
• Execute test cases for Data Migration and validate the control, actuarial and reconciliation reports. Validate the data which was migrated via ETL tool (Informatica) using SQL Queries on target database (Oracle 11g) and Source database (IMS/DB2).
• Prepare test cases for interface performance and execute them via LoadRunner.
• 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:

• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on the functional and business specifications for GUI, Web and Client Server Applications. Provided Test Steps to complete the Test Cases. Executed Test Cases in accurate and timely fashion.
• 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 manually.
• Involvement in the full performance testing cycle: project initiation meetings, requirements gathering, test environment configuration/verification, test data creation/gathering, performance test execution, tuning, analysis of results and issue resolution
• Performed Data Driven, Regression, Functionality and User Acceptance.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase
• 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.
• Tracked Requirement Coverage by linking Requirements-Tests-Defects
• Executed Scripts through Quality Center and identified defects
• Designed and Executed detail-oriented manual tests, analyze results and generate defects
• Tested the Change Requests to validate the changes made in the production environment.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts, gathered information and business logic to make available data needed to execute Test Plans through Use Case Review Meetings and Elaboration Sessions.
• Logged and communicated failures to Development Team, provided feedback in a constructive way.
• Reviewed Peer Review Meetings, internal and external review meetings for Application Test Plans.
• Updated Test Plans based on changes in the Use Case Package. Evaluated and Automated Test Cases using Mercury Interactive QTP Tool.
• Worked on Agile Model of SDLC
• Performed Ad Hoc Testing as Required ensuring System Quality.
• Prepared Status Reports and Project Summary Reports at completion of the Test Cycle.
• Performed System Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Test Director, COBOL, Oracle 9i, HTML, UNIX, AS400,Windows NT/XP. Unix, QuickTest Pro 8.0, VBScript, MS Excel, TSYS, CICS, TS2 Mainframe