SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of diversified professional experience in Software Quality Assurance Analyst /Tester/Engineer in testing Web App., Client - Server Appl., Data Warehouses, Databases, ETL Testing and Large Corporate Reporting Structures with immense Information Technology (IT) background, diversified exposure in both Manual Testing and Automation Testing, implementation of QA methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Agile -Scrum, Agile-Kanban and being involved in the complete Testing Life Cycle
• Hands-on in requirement analysis using Business & Functional Requirement documents, Use Cases, Solution Definition documents, Technical Design documents and conducting knowledge transfer & training along with business analysts, developers and end-users, designed and Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, maintained Traceability Matrix followed by Bug Tracking and Reporting. Strong experience in full Black Box Testing that includes Functional testing, GUI testing, System Integration testing, End-2-End testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT).
• Well-versed with designing and Developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, maintained Traceability Matrix followed by Bug Tracking and Reporting, with Strong hold in full Black Box Testing that includes Functional testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), ETL Testing (End to End), GUI testing, System Integration testing, End-2-End testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing, Production Support and User Acceptance testing (UAT).
• Proficient in database/ Back End Testing by writing & executing SQL Queries and exposure to various relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and extensively used various Test Management & Defect tracking tools like Quality Centre, JIRA, and Win Runner, Front end testing for various modules like login, Trading, Risk calculation, Payment options, etc.
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium 2.0, HP QTP, HP Quality Center, HP BPT and HP ALM.
• Expertise in Selenium automation using Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium WebDriver.
• Worked with financial, Banking, Credit Card, Commerce Solution, Trading, Investment banking and expertise in Equity and Fixed income securities and derivatives (options and futures) products. Expertise in Merchant On-Boarding Process.
• IT Skills Extensively used various Test Management & Defect tracking tools like Quality Centre, JIRA, and Win Runner, performed web services testing (XML) using Soap UI, XML, performed backend testing using SQL queries to check the data accuracy and integrity, exposure to Version Controlling Tool like SVN and CVS, and experienced in creating & executing test scripts, scenarios, performing UAT, ETL tools (Control-M, Tivoli and Autosys), Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, Java, .Net, SalesForce (Sales, Lead, Oppurtunity Apps), PeopleSoft On-Boarding Application testing
• Industry experience - Banking, Insurance & Financial Services
• Experience in Back end testing using Oracle and SQL Server
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication skills, Ability to manage conflicting interests and identify compromises, Ability to deliver results under pressure, Ability to travel as needed.
• Specialize in working with clients, stakeholders and business owners at all levels with superior communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skill.
• I go beyond expectations for fixing/trouble shooting and issue in no time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ETL Testing Tools: Ab Initio

Automation Tools: HP Quick Test Pro, Selenium, iMacros and Excel Macro

Microsoft Testing Tool: Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Test Edition)

Defect Tracker/Testing Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, IBM RQM(Rational Quality Manager), IBM RTC(Rational Team Concert)

Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce, Sqoop, Flume, Hive, Pig, HBase, YARN, Oozie, Impala, Zookeeper, Kafka, Cloudera Manager, Spark

Hadoop Distributions: Apache Hadoop, CDH4, CDH5, Hortonworks and aws (amazon web services)

Other Tools: HP BPT, Putty, WinSCP, Control-M, Tivoli, Blueprint, Peoplesoft, MKS and Autosys

Scripting: Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, Java Script, VB Scripting, Python.

Methodologies: Waterfall, iterative, Agile Scrum, Hybrid and Agile Kanban

Languages: Visual Basic Script, ASP.NET, .NET, ADO.NET, SharePoint 2007, C#, C, Java, HTML, XML.

Databases: Oracle 10.7/9i/11i/8.x, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5, MS-Access, DBMS, Teradata.

Version Control: MS Visual Source Safe (VSS), Concurrent Versions System (CVS), MS Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Reporting Tools: IBM Cognos Report, PTO and ROL-CST.

Office Tools: MS-Office

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2000/98/Vista/, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows Server 2003/2008

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and developed QA/Sprint Test Plan using Testing Methodology.
• These projects are executed in Agile-Scrum flow
• Cleared the old regression test scripts for LoanSphere Portal application based on current build version.
• Scheduled call with automation team to go through modified scripts and coordinated on developing automation test scripts
• Participated in sprint planning calls
• Participated in Daily Scrum meetings
• Created test plan, test cases and test case execution in IBM RQM application
• Raised defects and accessed user stories in IBM RTC application
• Performed end - to - end testing for LoanSphere Portal and SSO applications after each sprint
• Execution of smoke test cases after each build, monthly patching’s and hotfix’s
• Created Manifest document for each user story for functional testing/Sprint cycle.
• Upload all Manifest documents to SharePoint
• Involved in production deployment call and performed production validations after deployment (SSO application)
• Performed testing on DR environment by changing the hostfile (added DR IP address in hostfile, cleared temp file and launched production URL on new IE browser).
• Tracked all user stories for SSO application in TFS
• Executed the SQL scripts for data validations(SSO GUI to Database table entry)
• Executed IBM Cognos reports for audit purpose and validated the report data with database data.
• Provided QA certification for completion of QA testing and ready for release.
• Provided KT sessions to India team on LoanSphere Application
• Participated in weekly team meetings(all app’s), weekly project meetings and daily team meeting(SSO&LSP app)

ENVIRONMENT: IBM RQM, IBM RTC, MS SQL Server, MS TFS, IBM Cognos reports, LoanSphere App, SSO App, Selenium, Excel, MS Word, MS SharePoint, MS PPT, SnagIt and Rest API-Soap UI

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, User Stories, Functional Requirements and understood customer and developed QA/SIT Test Plan using Testing Methodology.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Metrics (RTM), Software Metrics, Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports and SQA Report using Testrail.
• Responsible for testing cloud based integrations between different systems (Fusion HCM to ADP, HCM to Kronos etc.) and component parts of the application to ensure that it functions properly
• Created business flows in the confluence.
• Performed the tasks of testing inter process communication, shared data, and sub systems.
• Performed responsibilities of executing end-to-end testing for each module, components, and sub systems of the application.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts regarding the Gaps in the business requirement document and worked with BA to fix the Gap’s.
• Coordinate with ADP 3rd party testing team for performing integration testing between Fusion HCM to ADP.
• Created test cases for SIT, End to End testing and Regression testing.
• Worked with automation team (selenium) to guide on the integrations can be automated and how can we make it effective automation testing using Jenkins.
• Performed the tasks of testing inter process communication, shared data, and sub systems
• Entire project is performed in Agile methodology with 3 weeks of sprint cycle

ENVIRONMENT: Testrail, Confluence, Oracle Fusion HCM, Taleo, Oracle Finance, ADP, Kronos, Excel, Jenkins, Mulesoft, IssueTrack