OBJECTIVE

• To attain a competitive position in an organization, where I can implement the requirements of the given tasks and enhance my skills, which can capitalize on my background and provide me with a path to succeed. Exceptional ability to achieve immediate and long - term goals and meet operational deadlines to work with innovative techniques, complimented by proven ability.

SUMMARY

• I am a Professional having experience in diversified information technology and business experience. A dedicated self-motivator with the abilities to multitask, provides thorough analysis of data, and solves problems.
• Proven success in managing multiple projects simultaneously. A team player with strong leadership, organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated leader with demonstrated success in the development and implementation of new processes that improve efficiency and productivity. Executive experienced in General Management, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources and new business development. Proven leadership skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation
• Strong knowledge of Quality Assurance and Analysis with emphasis on Front End Testing (Functional Testing and GUI Testing), System Testing, Stress, Load and Regression Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications and in Load and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)/Beta testing.
• Proficient in creating Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts and Test procedures based on business requirement documentation for the testing of application software.
• Hands on working experience on Mercury Interactive Testing Tools like Load Runner, Quick Test Pro and Quality Center.
• Testing of Web Applications, Client-Server, and Database Projects on Windows.
• Ability to communicate effectively with different individuals of various internal and external groups - Stakeholders, Users, Business Analysts, Development, Technical Support, Testing team and Project Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center, Rational Clearquest,, Jira

Languages: C/C++, HTML, XML,SQL, UNIX.

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access, TOAD

Defect Tracking: Quality Center, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCaseTools MS Visio, Project, Outlook Express, MS Outlook

Scripting Languages: VB Script, UNIX Shell Scripting.

Operating Systems: MS Windows 2003/2000/XP/CE, DOS 6.22.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. QA/BA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the User Requirements Document and prepared the detailed Test Plan.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Responsible for the day-to-day tasking of the QA team with people in Onshore, near shore & Offshore.
• Studied complex worksheets to extract business rules for different product types.
• Coordinated with the business team to get clarifications on the business rules.
• Used Quality Center for Mapping the Test cases with the Requirements.
• Used business rules to develop efficient test scenarios & test cases to improve the quality of testing.
• Wrote data driven tests to check how application performs with different sets of data.
• ­Managed & Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression & UAT Testing.
• Participated in regression testing of the modified build.
• Worked on mainframe systems to check the business rules of the application.
• Interacted with Project team and users to get information about the application and decide various tests that can be performed for the specific application.
• Used Quality Center extensively for Establishing Trace ability to Requirements, Test Cases, Bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Organized daily defect meetings with developers and other project team members to resolve the explored defects and to update the application status.
• Functioned as the point of contact for the development team for any clarification on any UAT Lab Testing Issues for LEAN, INTERACT,& CLMS Applications.
• Responsible for working with application team in UAT & Coordinated daily review of open issues.
• Responsible for communicating project status reports, defect reports both internally and to the client.
• Participated in the daily testing status calls involving development, business and Configuration team & provided status of the various projects handled.

Environment: DB2, Sybase, Java,.Net Quality Center, Mainframe, Jira,, MS Office.

Confidential

Sr. QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirement document & System requirement documents to created a details Test Strategy & Plan.
• Performed Gap Analysis between SRS, BRD & TS & P.
• Created the Test strategy & Plan document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Attended weekly/daily Team meetings & project meetings and provided with update on the status on the Projects handled.
• Co-Ordinated with Technology & Project teams to identify the overall testing strategy and to get clarifications on the business rules.
• Conducted various meetings with technology, business & project teams to identify the testing needs and responsibility for the concerned downstream systems associated to the application on this project implementation.
• Documented the requirements in the Requirement Module of the Quality Center.
• Created Test Scenarios & Test Cases based on the system requirement documents.
• Conducted weekly status meetings, and conducted walkthroughs for team members, and documented the proceedings
• Involved in QA life cycle starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, Executing, Reporting and Tracking.
• Responsible for communicating project status reports, defect reports both internally and to the Project Teams.

Environment: Java,.Net Quality Center, QTP, Mainframe, MS Office, Visio

Confidential

Sr. BA/QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System specification documents, Business requirement document and developed both manual and automated test scripts.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Prepared the test scenarios and Test Cases based on methodology being utilized.
• Executed the test plans & cases, set up hardware/software environments, recommend improvements to programmers and document results.
• Helped the developers to identify bottlenecks due to high web server connections and database server connections from application end users.
• Analyzed & Validated AML/KYC for multiple WMW applications.
• Analyzed & Validated Client On-Boarding & Data Governance.
• Gathered requirements & validated Brokerage account opening application.
• Prepared the test databases, maintain, and update it as per the requirement.
• Maintained the testing environment for entire functional testing group that includes prepared the test environment setup from scratch and also for the next patch released.
• Checked the updates of project and installed new build of testing tools used by the QA group.
• Performing Back end testing with extensive use of SQL Queries to check the validity of the backend data of the ETL Process done.
• Maintained and checked the Version Control mechanisms.
• Performed the Manual Testing for functionality testing.
• Conducted Functional, System and Integration testing, regression testing.
• Conducted Regression test for every emergency fix done by developers in the Production Env.
• Performed White Box test based on preset path and conditions.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them.
• Given the Product Support with trouble shooting and give the solution for the same.
• Performed user acceptance testing on the web site to determine the ease of use. Performing all aspects of QA best practices, staff coordination and communications.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Performed smoke testing, security testing, GUI testing.
• Performed & Managed the testing life cycle for the WMW Applications EAO,SCP, Master Profile & Mainframe Systems implemented with release code.
• Performed & Managed UAT for Data Migrations & ETL for NFS Conversation.
• Performed & Managed End to End Testing .
• Supported Business Users on User Acceptance Testing.
• Modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track the problems and resolve the technical issues.
• Performed Positive, Negative and Black box testing on the application.
• Assisted the Informatica developers to create source and target definitions in the repository using Informatica Source Analyzer and Warehouse Designer, create transformations, mappings, sessions, workflows to load data into the target.
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets with the user expectations. Played a major part in testing and timely delivery of the product.

Environment: Oracle 9i, DB2, Sybase, Rational Test Manager, Jira, Mainframe (3270), Quality Center, QTP, Rational Clearquest.