PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential .Chicago

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for timely and accurate testing of Web platform.
• Responsible for creating test scripts in J Meter for capacity, Performance and functional testing.
• Participated and managed Junit automation framework in behavior driven test development environment.
• Performed Web Services Testing using HTTP client
• Created algorithms using python and connected data for data driven functional testing in the compute health platform.
• Created comprehensive test cases to verify business, functional, and non - functional requirements for all testing phases of the project
• Executed test cases and reported issues to the team for functional testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing and compatibility testing in multiple test configurations and environments.
• Managed testing feedback, prioritized defects and communicated regularly with developers to ensure proper resolutions
• Generated test status reports and communicated test progress to the team
• Documented test data, analyzed test results, made recommendations, on how to refine the system to better suit user needs and expectations
• Assisted QA Lead to train and mentor junior QA team members and cross-discipline team individuals to conduct test executions
• Participated in requirements discussions and project sprint planning for scoping and estimations
• Recommended enhancements and took ownership of initiatives to improve the overall quality of deliverables
• Analyzed regression scripts to determine gaps and redundancy.
• Point of contact for triggering xml and csv files to conduct test executions.

Environment: Python, J Meter, Blaze meter, Selenium Web driver, Mongo DB, Jira, Microsoft SharePoint, Junit, Java

Data Science Alumni

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience with GitHub, Python, SQL, AWS Jupyter notebook
• Developed predictive model on fashion images from MNIST dataset for capstone project.
• Approached Data wrangling, Data cleaning, EDA, Data analysis using python.
• Used machine learning algorithms using Logisitic Regression, Classification, Knn clustering, decision tree, gradient decent, grid search, Random Forest.
• Web scrapped information from Twitter, express INC, for image processing and NLP using Selenium, X Path, beautiful soup (Python).
• Deeper understanding and knowledge on Sklearn, Skimage libraries for machine learning.
• Introduction to Python, R, jupyter notebook, Matplotlib, Pandas
• Deep dive into pandas for data wrangling, Exploratory data analysis
• Working knowledge of data in files to work with a variety of sources from unstructured/semi-structured text files (.txt) to delimited/structured/nested format files like excel, csv, json, xml etc.
• Data manipulation with SQL

Confidential, Rosemont

QA/ data analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked Closely with Business Users and Vendor team to understand the requirement changes/ enhancements for both CL and AS/400
• Understanding all sets of environments for code delivery and promotion for build development and testing from QA and UAT standpoint.
• Understanding the need of sign offs under strict timelines.
• Participated in Test planning to understand the scope of functional/Regression testing for CL enhancements.
• Participated in defect triage calls to update the vendor team about the detected issues. Also prioritizing these issues per severity and timeline.
• Created test scenarios per Loan flows, followed by test cases upon approval by Business leads and PMO's
• Executed test cases in SILK central, while validating data per the latest version of business specification and data mapping changes.
• Performed Functional, Ad hoc, System integration, Regression and smoke testing.
• Involved in all major code promotion and Post Go-Live Release activities.
• Understanding the need to communicate and circulate the updates between IT development teams and vendor teams including business users, development team, Project managers.
• Schedule QA project status meetings and publish meeting minutes for CL enhancements.

Environnent: SILK Central, Mainframe/AS 400, Microsoft .Net, ASP.Net, MS SharePoint, Star Team

Confidential, Libertyville

Sr. QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business cloverleaf team to understand the need of testing of Subtaxanomies of finance domain for both AF (auto- finance) and DM (default manager) applications.
• Initiated meetings and group discussions on daily basis to understand the specifications of narratives.
• Developed positive and negative test scenarios based on the approvals in JAMA
• Developed test cases based on the scenarios provided by the cloverleaf business experts.
• Co- ordinated with ADG teams to run the batch jobs to validate the output in FIS and third-party applications.
• Created and prepared the data needs through parameterizing the XMLS for the execution of test cases.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, SIT, Regression, UAT tests based on Analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications and end-user needs.
• Verified Database to determine successful output of test data from the application by establishing Database connectivity.
• Executed the test cases and logged the defects in JAMA for incorrect output.
• Participated in defect Triage and environment calls on daily basis, to verify the environment in order to perceive execution.
• Involved in planning of Regression phase and solely dependent of creating regression suite for finance domain.

Environnent: JAMA, Oracle 11g, Java, Microsoft .Net, ASP.Net, SQL developer 4.0, MS SharePoint, Beyond compare

Confidential, Naperville

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved Business requirement Analysis, Functional Requirement Preparation, Over All Design, Use-Case analysis, Initial Summary, Risk Analysis, Test Plan development, Test Case generation, Test script Preparation, Documentation and Test Execution.
• Created and executed various XML scripts for testing each individual functionality & Regression Testing of the applications for enhancements.
• Designing Test Cases and creating components were designed based on Requirements in HP Quality Center
• Participated in peer review meeting for created Test plan, test cases and analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Strong experience in automating web application testing using selenium web driver.
• Well Versed in handling elements in Selenium web driver.
• Created test cases using element locators, Web driver methods, Java and C# programming
• Participated in the development of data from the existing systems
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System, Regression tests based on Analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications and end-user needs.
• Developed test cases based on the scenarios provided by the testing coordinators.
• Involved in preparation of Test Data for reports and manually checked when required.
• Worked closely with users and Application developers to ensure that application development meets to user s expectations.
• Retested the modifications after bugs were fixed and deployed in the platform.
• Reported the bugs through email notifications to developers using HP Quality Center
• Generated Problem Reports for the defects found during execution of the Test Cases and reviewed them with the Developers. Worked with Developers to identify and resolve problems.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, HP Quality Center, Java, IBM DB2, Data Stage, Web services, Oracle 11g, Eclipse, Selenium IDE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA/ data analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in participating full software development life cycle and release life cycle for testing activities - from test planning, test execution to test monitoring, status reporting, work scheduling, alpha testing, beta testing prior to RTM and documentation for Commercial Card Custom Objects.
• Hands on experience in developing test plans and strategies for handling e-commerce solutions
• Participated in Business Analysis, Software Requirement Analysis and Data Analysis.
• Worked in close collaboration with the project managers and business system analysts to gather analyze and document the functional requirements.
• Involved in gathering requirements for setting up the Test Environment such as Test Server and Test Data.
• Participated and worked closely with Design and Engineering teams in technical design/ Architecture discussions, QA Suggestions and regarding solution of critical path deliverables & releases for business users.
• Provided review comments on Business Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications
• Preparation of Test Cases based on FRD, Use Cases, Low Level Design document.
• Involved in analyzing the change requests (CR’s) by providing the impact and test estimations.
• Creation of High Level Test Scenarios, Deployment manual and Test Metrics
• Involved in ETL testing by using SQL Developer, executing the SQL queries for Data Verification and Validation (for ensuring the data in the database matches the data in the Output File of Reports/Mappers)
• Involved in preparation of Test Data for reports and manually checked when required.
• Verified Database to determine successful transaction of test data from the application by establishing Database connectivity through SQL commands.
• Used Unix Commands to run the Mapper and Report batch jobs for generating the output files when Automation Batch jobs are on hold.
• Performed smoke testing & Functional testing for the Reports/Mappers deployed to QA Environment.
• Used beyond Compare during Regression Testing phase and data migration testing phase for data comparisons between Source and Target Systems.
• Expertise in using HP ALM 11.0, HP Quality Center.
• Used HP QTP 10.0 for regression testing the reports and mappers for each new core release and analyzed the execution results.
• Created, Updated the Test Cases under Test Plan using HP Quality Center.
• Executed the test cases manually and logged the defects in HP Quality Center.
• Involved in Risk Management and avoiding Defect Leakage.
• Involved in all the Major Go-Live and Post Go-Live (Warranty) Release activities.

Environment: HP ALM11.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, SQL Developer 3.0, Rational Clear Quest, Notepad++, Beyond Compare 3.5, HP QTP 10.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint, Data Stage 8.0/8.5, Altova Map force (DEU), Crystal Reports, Java, Microsoft .Net, ASP.Net, Windows NT, Solaris/Unix, Internet Explorer.