SUMMARY:

• 14+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance across various domains and technology platforms.
• Managed Quality Assurance of Web, Mainframe & client - server applications for Financial, Pharmacy, Healthcare and Mortgage sectors.
• Expertise in Establishing QA Procedures / Standards to meet International QA Standards, proficient in writing Test Plans, Documenting the Testing Procedures and writing in-depth Test Cases to meet the Testing requirements, In-depth knowledge in the analysis of application’s higher-risk aspects and determining scope and limitations of tests.
• Expertise in Testing Methodologies and Test Plan Formulations.
• Expertise in Test Case analysis & design & Test Script development and Test Coverage.
• Expertise in Test Summary Reports and Defect Tracking.
• Expertise in Test Driven Agile Scrum environment.
• Expertise in reviewing Requirement analysis documents, Use cases, change management documents and configuration management documents.
• Involved in handling the tasks of identifying UAT testers and managing resource plan by coordinating with business stakeholders.
• Proficient in languages like C, Java, Perl, Java Script, TSL.
• Experienced in writing SQL statements and Expertise in Back-end Testing.
• Defect tracking and change management using Quality Center and PVCS.
• Possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work as a team member, as well as independently.
• Strong experience to work in Windows, AS/400, Mainframes and UNIX environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: OS/400, DOS, Linux, UNIX (Sun, AIX, HP), Windows.

Automated Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (HP ALM), Quick Test Pro, Rational Test Manager, Serena Business Manager.

Oracle, SQLServer and MS: Access Defect Tracking & Test

Management Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Rational Clear Quest Web, Merant PVCS Tracker, Team Track (Serena Business Manager)

Borland Star Team, Control: M, Visual SourceSafe, MS Office, AXIOMA. Order Management System Charles River

Application Servers: Web logic, IBM Web Sphere, Java Web Server and IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and Executing Test Cases for Client Acceptance Testing (CAT) Team.
• Responsible for assisting the team members in developing test estimation & scope for CAT.
• Assisting in defining the high level test environment requirements. Test orders creation/redeem/buy/sell using VQUEST & Charles River Investment Management System.
• Preparing and loading the Price, FX, Nav and PCF files as part of ETF Basket Creation.
• Testing full End to End life cycle of ETF from creating baskets in VQUEST to verifying the orders in
• VPACC to sending them to Accounting/Middle office in Charles River.
• Scheduling, Executing Test scripts and Preparing & publishing the Test Summary Reports (TSR).
• Preparing & publishing the post procedure documents.
• Responsible for Quality Control and manual testing of the application.
• Involved in reviewing Business Requirements and Design Documents.
• Attended daily scrum meetings and provided status updates.
• Designed and developed test cases for putting the application on manual testing.
• Validated different reports (Start of the Day Cash, Locked fields, Share Compare etc)
• Used SQL to test backend functionality.
• Oversees the review and sign off of test scenarios
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking and participated in defect reviews.
• Used Control - M for scheduling and processing of the jobs.
• Identifying the activities required to prepare and conducting the tests.
• Working closely with Development team to prepare Data requirements for Testing and identifying
• High- level & baseline test data.
• Provides weekly summary of s, issues and work planned for the next week.
• Interacted with developers, business users to discuss & resolve defects and their priorities. As part of Axioma Regression testing, worked on Axioma Optimizer to generate trade lists and analyzing the trade lists for all the required funds and moving for submission to CRD.
• Actively participated in requirement and design meetings and reviews.

Environment: HP Quality Center, VPACC, VQUEST, Charles River, Control-M, SQL Server, MS-Office, Agility Global, AXIOMA.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

• Preparing and Executing Test Cases for End to End (E2E) Team..
• Identifying high risk areas and preparing test cases for non - gap/AS-IS functionality inclusive of rule configuration and role permissions across the platform.
• Reviewing and preparing Test cases for the Gaps.
• Updating Impact/Trace Matrix with Test Scripts and Test Scenarios.
• Reviewing & Confirming QA Entry Checklist for various Test Environments.
• Coordinating with Business users for identifying new gaps.
• Assists in preparation of E2E Testing process, reviews E2E test scripts, documents results and provides feedback to resolve shortcomings.
• Identifying new test cases that can be automated.
• Testing Role-based test ID management - working closely with BA s to develop the strategy which will have the ability to share generic test ids for each role in test environment
• Responsible for preparing and executing SQL queries & perform testing from front end / user interface
• Interacted with developers, users and various members of MPX/MAX/Onbase/LPP teams to discuss and resolve any issues in Test Case Preparing and their priorities.
• Participates in the review and validation of Test Plan.
• Participates in the Impact Matrix reviews.
• Oversees the review and sign off of test scenarios

Environment: HP Quality Center 10/11.0, MS Office. SharePoint, Oracle, CHASE Mortgage Processing Application.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Downingtown, PA

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and Executing Test Cases for Product - Rate Code mapping Functionality using Enterprise Product Catalog (EPC) tool.
• Preparing Test Data for EPC Tool by creating various Service IDs, Rate Cods.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing of EPC tool Technical guidance on understanding of test cases scheduled to be automated.
• Universal Data Base Tooling - UDB Offline Content Builder Testing.
• Coordinated defect review meeting(s) identifying the bugs in UDB-OCB dynamic builder tool and used the tool to develop assets.
• Involved in UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts Handle the tasks of explaining UAT scope, criteria and entry/exit
• Executing the QTP scripts written by off shore team.
• Helping to build a better, more efficient & structured process for COD (content on demand) automation.
• Provided feedbacks and understanding of the bugs to developers.
• Reviewed beta version of dynamic builder after bug fixes.
• Supported the design queries from TATA Elxsi offshore team.
• Prepared and Executed Remote Control Test cases
• Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately & Efficiently.
• Workout a demo-plan for demonstrating the functionality of the scripts.
• Worked on getting all remote control test cases into HPQC with proper description.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, Quick Test Professional 10.0, MS Office, Oracle 11g.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in testing the enhancements to CATGLOBAL application, tested the key issues like User access and roles, Test center availability, Candidate initiated registration, Candidate online test administration and Candidate Search.
• Tested the role - based access to candidate registrations, Configuration (incl. test form availability) Reports and Voucher Programs.
• Tested the Examiner Markup functionality as part of examiner review.
• Created and tested Mystery Shopper Registration Functionality as part of Examiner-Markup testing.
• Extensively involved in testing Configuration settings, Custom Data Configurations & Exception Process.
• Logged into BI Portal and verified the GUIDS and Tested the GUID text files after the Active Batch job.
• Involved in writing Test cases and developing Test Plans.
• Created and tested the sample exams.
• Created traceability matrices to support test plan and test cases.
• Document and escalate defects as per standard processes.
• Used IBM Rational Clear Quest 7.0 for defect management.
• Document all testing results in standard format and Assisted with Go/No-Go deployment decisions.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center 10.0 for test management.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression & Acceptance Testing.
• Created smoke test cases for the end to end process of the successful & failure path of the application.
• Responsible to recommend and implement changes to enhance the effectiveness of QA strategies.
• Prepared and Executed SQL queries as part of backend testing.
• Tested the application on different browsers and verified the links of the application.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, IBM Rational Clear Quest 7.0, MS Office, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, .Net.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plan, setting up the Test Environments and Test Data.
• Prepared Test Scripts and Scenarios for Confidential User Interface.
• Prepared Test Scripts and executed scenarios and tested the Confidential product s auditing logic what why and in which order the rules fired.
• Prepared and executed the Regression Testing Scenarios.
• Acts as a lead in the creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews & the development and execution of test plans and test scripts.
• Developed and tested the test scenarios for rules creation and rules firing to meet payors' specific and unique requirements.
• Prepared & ran the batches in Confidential tool & tested the results against the input in Test Scenario Generator (TSG).
• Tested the rules functionality and verified the rules set up.
• Tested the detailed claim information such as rule explanations, edit justifications & Claim audit trails.
• Build and manage the overall test process, according to the Agile methodology.
• Verified the various reports like Autofeed and Recommendation etc.
• Participates in the review and validation of project plans for each iteration.
• Oversees the review and sign off of test scripts.
• Prepared and executed various SQL statements for backend testing.

Environment: MKSTools, HP Quality Center, DevTrack, VSS, VMware virtual machines, SharePoint, BeyondCompare, MS Office, MS Visio, Windows XP, SQL Server.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Oaks, PA

Responsibilities:

• Working with the QA manager and distinct QA teams to continuously develop refine and document a robust, efficient and effective culture sensitive Quality Assurance process for the User Experience and Activity Management teams in Global Wealth services.
• Responsible for the design, development, implementation, maintenance and audit of all QA team related artifacts including Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios.
• Provides weekly summary of s, issues and work planned for the next week.
• Compiling and publishing formal reports on defect analysis and root cause classification statistics.
• Participates in design sessions with business leads, BA s and Technical Leads.
• Participates and manages the tracking and reporting of defects or issues and the escalation of
• Showstopper, Critical and High items.
• Prepared & executed the test scenarios for User Experience which Includes checklist of page - related items, Screen Layout, Label/Value, Scrollbars, Dialogs, Dropdowns, Terminology & Language.
• Created various End Clients, Accounts, Portfolios and tested the Clients and Accounts List pages and other summary pages.
• Tested the Cash positions and Overdrawn Accounts.
• Tested the Activity Management Life cycle.
• Tested the milestones for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) activities.
• Worked with Configuration Management team to define Entitlements for creation of various users across the platform.
• Tested the Transaction Reporting Interface which gathers and electronically transmit client side data for reportable trades to Financial Services Authority (FSA) via the Transaction Reporting System.
• Identify and resolve common User Interface (UI) issues across the platform with a minimum of effort and raise awareness of the importance of maintaining professional UI standards and consistency.
• Performed Integration and System Test in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Reported software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Analyzed user requirements, and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Tested the impact of Daylight Saving Time changes
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end-users
• Involved in handling the tasks of identifying UAT testers and managing resource plan by coordinating with business stakeholders.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Merant PVCS Tracker 7.5.2.0, HP Quality Center, Borland Star Team 2005, MS Office, MS Visio, Windows XP, Oracle 10g, TOAD, Apache, Weblogic.

Test Tool Specialist

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• Written test Plans, test Cases, Test scripts, test scenarios for the Quality releases and Maintenance releases for RxClaim system.
• Used Standard Naming Conventions for claim setup.
• Responsible for running regression tests on WinRunner.
• Performed testing Rx Claims processing, claims submission and Data Conversion.
• Creating Baseline files for Automating Regression Tests.
• Developing test scripts using Winrunner in - built functions.
• Modified test scripts and added new functions according to the enhancements.
• Written and worked with Rumba functions for AS/400 in Winrunner.
• Worked extensively with Terminal Emulator functions.
• Sending Claim information to AS/400 that will enable us to Query the test results from ARPEGGIO Data Access component.
• Creating and running the batch data scripts.
• Creating defect reports and documenting test results in Test Director.
• Performed Integration and System Test in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Reported software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Analyzed user requirements, and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Used Confidential s Document Management system DOORS for document management.
• Tested the application under HIPAA privacy practice i.e. Ensuring, Protecting, Streamlining and simplifying customer s records.
• Maintaining HIPAA health care privacy practices and HL7 standards.
• Used Rumba Software to access AS/400 application.

Environment: Winrunner 7.5, Test Director, AS/400, MS-Office, Oracle, Java, JSP, WebSphere.