SUMMARY

• 8 years of professional experience in Information Technology with diversified experience in software analysis test design and execution. Detailed knowledge of formal test methodologies. Application testing expertise includes planning, process implementation, automated regression and system testing.
• Result - driven Quality Assurance professional with solid knowledge in manual and automated software testing and extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall models
• Experienced in writing System test plans, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts according to the business specification given.
• Good understanding and working experience in ETL process.
• Experience in Web based applications and Object Oriented Technologies. Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status.
• Working knowledge of source code management and configuration
• Solid understanding of the Source to Target data and Data base testing.
• Experience in ETL testing in SaaS
• Experience in leading QA teams and building QA strategy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL VB Script, Visual Basic and HTML

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Selenium

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 & Windows XP/XP Pro, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Tera Data and MS-Access

Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, TFS, Test Track Pro, IBM ClearQuest, Jazz

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Firefox

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Power point and MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage all QA efforts for the team
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Test Plan, Test strategy, Test cases, Test scripts
• Ensure the test cases and test scripts are written according to BRDs and Data mapping documents and they are traceable and repeatable.
• Responsible for Analytics testing for the Confidential 1 application
• Responsible for writing SQL to do data and Data base Validations in all points of Data.
• Following Agile Development methodology with design and development evolving as the project progressed in development life cycle
• Involved in daily standups, Sprint planning and Sprint retrospectives/ceremonies
• Backlog grooming for user stories based on stake holders needs
• Responsible for testing multiple applications including client/server web applications spanning multiple projects
• Report/summarize test results to the team and management.
• Involved in web and client server based testing
• Serve as a member of User Acceptance Team. Executing test scripts on various tests applications, including Unit testing, Regression testing, System Testing and UAT Testing. Responsible for Organizing and Documenting test process. (Developed Test Conditions and test Scripts).

Environment: Win 7, SQL Server 2008, MS TFS, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, IBM Rational software tools (Jazz)

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage all QA efforts for the team
• UI, Functional, Web Services, cross browser, ETL, Reports Testing of Web, distributed, SOA, Reporting, legacy, J2EE applications in the Scientific Services and Repository Team
• Responsible for overseeing and resolving issue related to Quality Assurance for Scientific Services
• Responsible testing 'software for Sales application', applications that are used in different clinics including Donor centers, transplant centers, cord blood bank, coop registries, for the transplant process.
• Lead and delegate responsibilities between QA team by providing clear guidelines on the scope and deadlines for testing the Sales application.
• Work with management staff and QA staff and peers to improve QA process, in making in more efficient and robust.
• Created Test plan for the Scientific Services team identifying all areas of testing, risks and mitigation factors.
• Created Test strategy for each major changes which identified the points for testing
• Take part in Daily scrum to update status of testing, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives where application requirements, design and changes were put forward by stakeholders, including product owners, stake holders, developers, Quality Analyst and Business Analysts.
• Work with Product owners and stakeholders in creating product Backlog, grooming and prioritizing it every sprint
• Took part in user story planning, writing and prioritizing in every sprint
• Responsible for writing effective test cases from user stories
• Conducted Regression test for all test cases every sprint and included additional test cases with the progress of sprints
• Created Business Requirement documents communicating clearly technical information to non-technical stake holders.
• Performs data mining to spot trends, performance enhancement opportunities
• Worked in migration project to migrate the data from RRSW (fox pro application) to Labvantage (new application)
• Perform Data Validation at all level of data from source to Target tables in SSIS and SSRS
• Write complex queries to interpret data mapping to compare data

Environment: Win XP, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Soap UI, IBM Jazz, Excel

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr.QA Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in JAD sessions in reviewing business requirements and design specimens
• Coordinated with the IT Director and QA Manager in deciding the tools that needed to be used in the project
• Worked also in identifying and troubleshooting systems and tool issues and in streamlining and improving the QA process
• Initiated in documenting key QA processes to facilitate the QA team
• Worked with the Application Manager and the QA manger in setting up time lines for project delivery
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions for the new and existing QA staff.
• Automating and maintaining scripts for regression testing in Selenium
• Developed Test strategy for every iteration
• Testing the GUI for case management application
• In JAD sessions identified GUI components and their functionality from stake holders and composed test cases accordingly.
• Wrote and executed UI test cases and Analyzed test results and trends provided feedback for process and performance improvements.
• Created test data for execution of test cases and test scripts
• Created complex T-SQL scripts for backend testing for MS SQL Server which included validating triggers and stored procs

Environment: QTP, Selenium Win XP, SQL Server 2008, MS TFS, MS Excel