SUMMARY:

• Around 6 Years of Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing with demonstrated skills in user acceptance testing
• Performance Testing, system testing, regression testing and Automation, Manual testing.
• Implement QA methodologies, practices and processes in all kind of environments including Mainframes
• Client/Server and Web applications,, Property and Casualty Insurance Domain.
• Has gone through the complete phase of software Development and testing life cycle (SDLC/STLC) including system study, analysis, testing and maintenance/End - to-end Testing.
• Strong experience in manual testing and web application testing.
• Automation, enhancement of scripts, check points in automated scripts for Functional, regression, verification and validation testing (Black box testing).
• Extensive experience in creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts for both Manual and Automated Testing environment.
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance & User Acceptance (UAT) / Beta Testing.
• Strong experience in using Load Runner, Compuware JIRA, Mercury Test Director, Serena Team Track, TFS/MTM, HP Quality Centre/ALM for defect tracking.
• Effectively demonstrated strong technical skills working as a Web Tester.
• Good knowledge of Online and Batch application and Testing Methodologies.
• Working experience in Waterfall methodology and Trained in Agile methodology.
• Experience in working as QA/BA with various teams and business analysts, developers, database managers, external and internal Customers.
• Basic Knowledge of writing SQL queries/statements, RDBMS DB2 database and its concepts.
• Effective Business Analysis skills and technical skills in and Insurance applications.
• Experienced in understanding functional specification and attending requirement walkthrough.
• Successfully lead and delivered projects on various technical platforms and functional domains.
• Exceptional combination of technical, writing and verbal communication skills.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently.
• Excellent personal, interpersonal, and customer relationship skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Mainframe, VBScript, VS COBOL - II, JCL, CICS

Operating systems: z/OS, OS/390, MVS/ESA, MS-Windows 2007/NT and XP

Automation: Compuware Test Partner, QTP/UFT, ITKO-LISA, TFS/MTM

Database: DB2, MS-Access, Oracle SQL

Defect tracking tools: JIRA, Quality Center, Serena Team Track, Mercury Test Director, TFS/MTM, HP ALM/Quality Center

Other Tools and software s used: MS-Office, MS-EXCEL, MS-VISIO, PowerPoint, Mac, Android/iOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: TFS/MTM, HP ALM/QC

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements (BRD), System Methodology documents (SMD).
• Studied DSD, provided QA Estimation.
• Coordinated requirements & testing strategy between Microsoft Tribridge and client on CRM integration.
• Identified applications would be impacted with this change and Testing would be mandatory for different browsers, mobile and tablets.
• As a lead created, prepared, and conduct of quality assurance reviews and the development and execution of test plans and test scripts
• Collected the information related to ongoing application upgrade and their impact on different applications, benefits and risk of implementation of CRM MS Dynamics.
• Was involved in Scrum meetings/Print panning.
• Participated in sprint grooming sessions and prioritizing, sizing stories.
• Provided QA status in daily stand up calls.
• Used TFS to create task for user stories and followed complete cycle till task gets closed.
• Used Quality center to keep track of test scripts created for the project.
• Log the defects in HP ALM/ QC and kept track of defect life cycle.
• Documented all phases of QA process on SharePoint.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Financial Test Lead

Environment: WinSQL, Oracle, TFS/MTM, JIRA, Oracle people-soft

Responsibilities:

• As a Financial Test lead, responsible for designing financial testing scenarios, test cases.
• Coordinate with data analysts and explain data criteria needed for testing.
• Validating daily, Monthly and quarterly Financial data in SIT (System Integration Testing).
• Wrote test cases in TFS/MTM.
• Log and track the defects in Jira and TFS/MTM.
• Created daily reports in designed Excel spreadsheet with pivot tables.
• Attending daily status meetings and update the status of testing and discuss defects if any.
• Ran Billing and GL (General Ledger) SQL queries to validate the daily, monthly and quarterly reports in SIT.
• Validate the AR (Account Receivable), Earnings, Advance Premium, Future effective premium reports by running people soft queries on monthly basis.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: Mainframes, MVS/TSO, JCL, CICS, DB2, Web Test, QTP, VBScripts, MS-Excel, SQL, MS-Access, JIRA.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements (BRD), System Methodology documents (SMD) created Test plans, and attended project kick-off meetings, Status meetings, Defect meetings.
• Collected the information related to ongoing application upgrade and their impact on ICD-10 implementation and created awareness within the departments regarding the need, impact, benefits and risks of ICD-10 code application.
• Ensured the traceability and reuse the test plan and test cases for the different phases of testing.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases and execute it to make sure functional and Non-functional requirements are met.
• Involved in providing about the ICD-10 codes and 5010 standards, its requirements.
• Performed impact analysis on applications for deadliness of ICD-10 conversion.
• Conducted Functional Testing, Joint Functional Testing and UAT, documented and reported user feedbacks to management team.
• Used HP ALM Quality Center to log defects and track defects life cycle.
• Prepared agenda of status meetings.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Team Lead

Environment: Mainframes, MVS/TSO, JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VBScripts, MS-Excel, SQL, MS-Access, JIRA, Win Runner

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements (BRD), System Methodology documents (SMD) created Test plans, and attended project kick-off meetings, Status meetings, Defect meetings.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts to understand the test requirements.
• Prepared requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Involved in deciding test strategy based on Risk analysis.
• Created Test scenarios and test cases based on test and functional requirements.
• Estimated the test data, time and efforts required. Prepared agenda of status meetings.
• Execute test cases manually and analyze results.
• Automate test cases using HP Quick Test Pro / QTP
• Used JIRA to log the defects and kept track of defect life cycle.
• Emphasized on negative testing to test the system performance.
• Used SharePoint extensively for documentation.
• Created a model/template Excel workbook which can be used for almost all projects after minor modifications.
• Prepared sign-off documents, coordinated weekly status meetings and prepared MOMs (minutes of meeting).
• Wrote SQL queries (DDL, DML) to update, modify data in the database.
• Created Test Automation Strategy and presented it to the Management.
• Maintained all the Regression suits for the Projects.
• Provided test and defect reports to project sponsors, quality assurance and business managers.
• Assisted users during user acceptance testing and involved in post-production verification.

Confidential, Lowa City, IA

Team Lead

Environment: CICS Mainframe, JCL,, Changeman, File-Aid, VBScripts, MS-Excel, SQL, MS-Access, QTP, HP ALM Quality center.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Requirements.
• Consulted with functional business areas to determine technical solutions.
• Created RTM (requirement traceability matrix).
• Set up use cases, diagrams and documentation as input to test resources.
• Created Test Plans, design and modify test cases according to the requirement changes.
• Advised and facilitated testing efforts of business users during UAT.
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support.