SUMMARY:

• Immense experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in testing Web - based applications as well as Client-server applications.
• Strong experience in creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually using Quick Test Professional to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Setup of Test environments and Test Data in AS400 systems.
• Proficient use of the ALM, Quality Center and Test Director to manage the software testing process.
• Good exposure to various bug tracking tools, such as BUGZILLA, JIRA, etc.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression and Black Box testing and having good knowledge on White box testing.
• Experienced in all stages of testing, installation testing, smoke testing, regression testing, new feature testing, integration testing, security testing, browser testing, backend testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, GUI testing, configuration testing, ad-hoc testing and system testing and worked in Normalization support.
• Good experience as SAP Test consultant.
• Experience in participation and driving of concept commit, execute commit, BRD reviews, FSD reviews, TDD reviews, Test scenarios review and Test cases review.
• Experience with end users to support UAT testing.
• Advanced knowledge of relational database design, SQL, stored procedures and SQL Reporting Services.
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
• Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure that data is entered properly in the right tables when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Experience in using Teradata to access databases in order to retrieve data in the process of Backend testing.
• Fairly good knowledge testing the applications on multiple browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome) for the purpose of Browser-compatibility testing.
• Experience with Agile Software methodologies.
• Proficient with tools such as MS Office and Visual Source Safe.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools and Bug Tracking: QTP, Selenium Webdriver, SOUPUI Pro, ALM, Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA

ETL Tools: DSP, Cransoft

Languages: HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, C

Application Software: MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Database: Teradata, Oracle 8i/ 9i/10g/11g, DB2,MS SQL Server 2000, MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, Vista, Win7, UNIX, IBM Mainframes, AS400

Web/App servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere

Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall and V - Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Data.
• Executed the test cases manually and reported the defects through HPALM.
• Performed Data Migration from Legacy to SAP system.
• Involved in testing of SAP Material Master and FICO modules.
• Tested the posting in FI module for Account Receivables and Account Payables in Finance module
• Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective actions.
• Involved in Functional and System testing of the application.
• Performed manual testing for user interface of the application under test.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Participated in Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported, tracked and verified of bugs and bugs fixes using HP ALM.
• Co-operated with developers and support in solving general QA environment problems.
• Creation and execution of new Preload and Postload Validation Scripts for Cutover data conversion including automated (DSP®) and Manual conversion tasks.
• Review of scripts for accuracy, modify as needed.
• Create and Maintain reference documents for all Quality & Control Validation documentation for Conversion Objects identifying location of documentation on the Customer document repositories.
• Provide Consulting to Customer Business Users on Customer Q&C Standards for Conversion validation documentation and scripts.
• Coordinate with Customer Conversion and Q&C staff on validation script generation, execution and approval.

Environment: SAP R/3, HP ALM, Windows, MM, DSP tool, Cransoft, SQL Server, MS Excel, SharePoint .

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design software QA methods and procedures for use by QA and development staff to ensure all information systems meet minimum company standards and end user requirements.
• Provide the Level of Estimates for dashboard testing and data validation tasks.
• Identifying Test Scenarios and prepare the Test Scripts which meet the functional requirements.
• Work closely with the other members of the Functional and BI team in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for software developed in Agile environment.
• Co-operate with the BI team to insure the effectiveness and quality of the components and systems developed.
• Interacting with the Functional team to insure the requirements are meaningful and correct.
• Generating/Enhancing VBScripts, executing the test scripts, analyzing test results using QTP Implement the test plans and test the quality of software products.
• Execution of Functional, GUI, Smoke, System, UAT and data validation test scripts.
• Created the Metrics scripts required for metric calculations for dashboard reports.
• Good experience in back-end testing by running the complex SQL in Teradata database.
• Using Global/Local - Test/Action Parameters and Data-Sheets to create data-driven testing
• Involved in ETL testing process between data warehouse and Data Mart by using SQL queries and formulas embedded in MS Excel for validation.
• Extensively used ALM to keep track of bugs and testing efforts and update the status of the defect before daily defect meeting.
• Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs as they got resolved.
• Supported with testing when there is production issues by doing Emergency Bug fix testing.
• Co-ordinate with Development and Business team for Defect resolution.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix and Requirements mapping, issue logs.
• Responsible for consolidation of Daily Defect Reports, Build Reports and status e- mails.

Environment: HP ALM 11, QTP, Version One, MicroStrategy, Visual Crossing, Java, ACI tool, Teradata SQL Assistant 13, Oracle 11g, MS Excel, Toad, SharePoint, Unix, Red Hat Linux 5, WebLogic 10g.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System/ Business requirements and identified the test scenarios based on requirements.
• Created test plans and test cases based on the BRD/ FRD for functional and graphical user interface testing.
• Executed test plans in QA, Staging and Production environment, which mainly involves Sanity and End-to-End testing.
• Performed backend testing to validate the data by developing and executing SQL queries.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plan document from the requirements.
• Understanding and testing the complex Confidential Rx-Claim process, its new functionalities and medical claims process.
• Doing Functional, Integration and UAT testing on the application.
• Used Share point as central document repository for the entire test and project related documents.
• Setup of test environments and test data on AS400 environment.
• Tested Submitted Jobs inBatchand validated the data.
• Involved in scheduling and preparing batch jobs on mainframes using JCL.
• Executed AS/400 Jobs by calling from the Command line and validated the data.
• Worked with Objects of Type File, Pdm, Module and Member.
• Tested the AS/400User Interface Screens.
• Support to offshore testing team based in India and communication with various teams across regions.
• Review of the test cases and test results documents prepared and tested by offshore team.
• Responsible for delivering product builds, analyzing build results and contributing to technical documentation.
• Prioritized problems based on the effect of the application on the end user.
• Efficiently used Quality center to log the bugs.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, AS400 system, HP QC 10, DB2, RPG, Sinon, Java, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Windows7, CITRIX, SharePoint.