SUMMARY

• A forward thinking, capable and committed Sr. Test Analyst with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co - ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a structured environment.
• Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes.
• 4+ years experience with PBM HealthCare Company like Confidential, 5+ years of experience in IT leading company like Cognizant and 7+ years testing experience in Healthcare and Banking.
• 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, XP) and Waterfall models.
• Experience in open source tools like Selenium, Junit, Eclipse
• Knowledge in handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver, writing test cases using element locators and executing test cases and reporting defects.
• Experience in Data driven testing, Cross browser testing and parallel test execution using WebDriver and selenium Grid.
• Hands on experience in automation web applications using Selenium WebDriver, JUnit in java programming in TestNG framework.
• Proven expertise in test design, test development, and QA of cost-effective enterprise level application systems, middleware, and web solutions that exceed client's business requirements and expectations.
• Proven experience using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center (ALM), CA Agile Central Rally
• Hands on expertise with test automation tools such as HPQTP (Functional Tester) 10/11, UFT and Selenium.
• Experience in performance of Build Validation and Verification, Positive and Negative, Boundary Values Analysis, Equivalent Classes partitioning, Smoke (Sanity), Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Ad-hoc (Exploratory), Cross - Browser, User Interface and User Acceptance tests.
• Proficient in multiplatform (Windows, Unix) and cross browser testing such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
• Excellent knowledge of Agile & Scrum development environment, multiple web browsers, and automated testing suites
• Hands on experience in writing SQL queries, DB2 queries for Backend testing and End-to-End testing.
• Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional Requirements
• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specification documents
• Involve in meetings with stakeholders in relation to critical data information and test execution cycle completion.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing
• A hard working, open-minded individual possessing excellent communication, presentation & interpersonal skills with willingness to learning new technologies/sharing ideas and can work under tight schedule.
• Comfortable working as a member of integrated team as well as independently.
• Provide technical training to associate team members on QA processes and application domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Testing tools: Test Harness, HP ALM, CA Agile Central Rally, HP QuickTest Pro, HP Quality Center 11.0, QTP 10/11, UFT, Selenium, PMF, Clear Quest.

Web Applications: HTML, XML, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET, J2EE, JavaScript, VB Script, Shell/Perl Script, PL/SQL, C, C++

SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban

Operating Systems: Windows7, Windows XP, Windows NT/2000, Windows’95/98, UNIX, DOS

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL Server, My SQL, ODBC

Languages: Mainframe, PL/SQL, C, HTML

GUI Tools: Visual Basic 6.0, .NET, TOAD, Visual Studio.Net

Packages: MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Access), MS FrontPage

Servers: BEA Web logic, IBM Web Sphere, Tuxedo, Apache

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix

SR IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in diversified fields of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies like Water Fall and Agile.
• Expertise in requirement analysis to prepare Test Scenarios and Test Plan.
• Experienced in developing framework using POM for the web application and executing test scripts using Maven and GitHub.
• Proficient in analyzing the SRS (Software Requirement Specification), Functional Design Documents and AUC (Application Use Cases) to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Cases for Manual as well as Automation Testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance
• Good experience in Database Testing (SQL and PL/SQL) and querying the database.
• Performed Functionality, Integration, Regression, System, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing during the various phases of the application.
• Experienced in Bug Tracking to Prioritize, classify bugs and tracked defects.
• Create clearly written scientific reports and communicate the essence of these reports and papers through effective presentations and discussions.
• Assisted with automation of test data manual processes by writing VBA code and using macros and formulas to minimize the time in creation of data setup.
• Worked as a liaison between business team and development team, translated business specifications and requirements into functional test cases.
• Used Quality Center (HP ALM 11.0) for maintaining and tracking defects.
• Specialized functional knowledge in Healthcare domains.
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Good interpersonal skills, hardworking and zeal to learn new technologies.

Confidential, NJ

IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements document, functional specifications document to prepare Test plan and Test cases.
• Involved in Testing of business processes for the upgraded system.
• Experience on issue analysis, code debug, Unit testing and SDLC process.
• Performed Automation testing for Functional and Regression testing using Java Selenium WebDriver.
• Developed and executed almost 250 Selenium automation scripts.
• Prepared test cases using element locators and selenium WebDriver methods.
• Explored teste cases using java programming features and TestNG annotations.
• Performed cross browser and parallel test execution using test Grid.
• Used agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Worked as a liaison between business team and development team, translated business specifications and requirements into functional test cases, worked closely with the development team both onsite and off shore on analysis & design to meet business requirements and site roll out.
• Performed various automated tests and ensured continuous regression tests on applications using QTP and Selenium.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using Rally, HP ALM, Quality Center and adapted to meet the needs of clients.
• Tested application on multiple application servers like Web Logic Application server and Web Sphere application server.
• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Prepare Test Summary Report at the end of testing phase with results of readiness of system deployment to production.
• Performed Back end Testing-using DB2/SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate the inserted and updated data.
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Lead initiative for proper detailed documentation of QA reports.

Confidential, NJ

Pega QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile Methodology.
• Involved in vision meetings along with Product Owner in defining and documenting acceptance criteria.
• Participated in Sprint planning sessions to understand Sprint goals, user stories and technical tasks.
• Analyzed requirements during requirement analysis phase of the application and Test Cases document preparations.
• Involved in test execution and performs System Integration testing, Regression testing & QA testing.
• Verify all bugs are put into bug tracking tool Project Management Frame work (PMF), Clear Quest, check all bugs marked resolved at the end of testing.
• Used MS Word for Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Used PMF to track project updates and created assignments.
• Identified impediments and risks and escalated to the scrum master to resolve for the smooth progress of sprint cycle.
• Worked with peer teams in gathering test data requirements.
• Supported and coordinated overall testing efforts.
• Attend daily scrum call meetings to discuss about the status and impediments.
• Sending the daily status reports to my QA Manager.
• Ensure to meet the QA deliverables by timelines.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst/B&D

Responsibilities:

• Building and Deploying the application through UNIX scripts.
• Developed manual test cases by decomposing use cases for specific functional requirements
• Prepared a check list containing the test Scenario based of sub-features like Business logic, Data repurposing, User Interface.
• Interacted with Business teams and Developers to understand business requirements and bug fixes.
• Created and maintained traceable matrices. Used this matrix in performing impact analysis for changing requirements.
• Worked with Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center
• Verifying UNIX batch jobs.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.
• Performed Integration testing to verify the data interface between various application modules.
• Performed System and Regression testing for new releases.
• Worked with developers to reproduce errors and resolve software anomalies.
• Coordinated communication between various teams to insure consistency and accuracy across test plans, user manuals and training materials.

Confidential, Netherlands

QA Analyst/Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Test plan of the testing process and determine the test environment requirements for the application.
• Prepared a check list containing the test Scenario based of sub-features like Business logic, Data repurposing, User Interface.
• Managed the clear quest data base where all the Issues were logged.
• Performed manual test to conduct functional and regression tests on the application
• Attended defect review meetings and discussed the defects with dev and business on a daily basis.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Regression Testing, Automation testing, Unit testing of the Application
• Attended Technical Meetings to discuss Issues with Developers.
• Supported the QA team in testing the application for usability, functional and performance issues.