SUMMARY

• Techno - commercial professional with more than 9.5 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Test Automation
• Experience in Automated and Manual Testing of Client-Server and Web Applications.
• Strong Experience in Claims handling functionalities like Claim Generation, Cause of Loss Handling, Claims Payment and Reports, Credit Bureaus.
• Test applications using JBOSS, J2EE, and Web sphere Application Server and AICS framework.
• Expertise in defining, validating and implementing software testing processes, standards, and methodologies like V-Model, Waterfall and agile methodology.
• Good Knowledge of Batch scheduling using RUMBA/ Attachmate Extra and log files and report verification.
• Running the Background Process using JCL’s.
• Good Knowledge of constructing SQL using WINSQL, SQLPLUS, COMMAND EDITOR, SPUFI, SQL Explorer, TOAD interacting with DB2, ORACLE, MongoDB.
• Experience in FILE-AID to debug COBOL programs.
• Strong Testing skills, Test Planning, Test execution, Test Management, Lead Test Team, Defect Management - Integrating and grouping various stages, Cycle activities
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Test Lead, System Tester, and Developer.
• Very good experience in products testing and applications testing. Well versed with Product Development Life cycle.
• Knowledge of Rational Functional Tester, Selenium for Automation.
• Experienced in writing Project Plan, Resource Plan, Effort estimation, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test cases, Automation Test Plan, Performance Test Plan and other SDLC artifacts.
• Proficient in Establishing necessary testing checklists, templates and standards
• Well versed with all phases of SDLC and experienced in all types of testing like System/Functional Integration Testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, Wave Testing, Implementation Testing, Coexistence testing and UAT.
• Maintained test environment/set-up for different applications and have hands on experience on installing and deployment of software components for testing purposes
• Good knowledge of Bug Life Cycle, Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking System and Bug Reporting using LOTUS NOTES, Clear Quest.
• Maintain and Tweak the JCL’s taking daily back up of all the test environments databases (more than 10000 tables).
• Good knowledge of SharePoint.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages & Tools: Java, HTML & JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, COMMAND EDITORWINSQL, SQLPLUS, EDIT plus, VB, VBScripts. DOORS, ALLBASE, Attachmate Extra, SQL Explorer, TOAD, PUTTY, Clear Case, Clear Quest, BIRT, SharePoint

Databases: All base, Oracle 9i, 10g, DB2, MS Access, MongoDB

Packages: Lotus Notes, MS Office Products

Operating Systems: MPE/iX, Win 9X, Windows XP, 7, MS-DOS, HP-3000, HP-9000.

Testing Suites: QTP, Rational Functional Tester and Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA - Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review deliverables and ensure quality, resolve technical issues.
• Process improvement initiatives.
• Functional and Integration Testing.
• Design Automation framework (Selenium).

Confidential

QA - Lead, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Process automation using in house developed tool “LATITUDE” (Uses Selenium framework for web testing) used for data comparison,
• Identify gaps and design the E2E testing solution.
• Manage across the location teams in different time zones.
• Worked in an agile methodology.
• Conduct daily SCRUM’s.
• To work with business to help in prioritization of work and draw requirements for offshore team
• Analyze and convert functional requirements to technical requirements
• Create High level specifications/designs
• Testing (Design, data and Execution).
• To help in the speedy resolution of issues or queries raised by the client or the team
• To plan and delegate of work. Provide status updates for ongoing tasks to management.
• Back end testing
• Provide subject matter expertise to other project teams
• Review deliverables and ensure quality, resolve technical issues.
• Process improvement initiatives.
• Functional and Integration Testing.
• Design Automation framework using Eclipse.
• Used clear quest for Defect Reporting/Tracking.
• Perl Scripting for data analysis.
• Conduct regular knowledge sharing sessions.
• Prepared and discussed metrics, Defect trend and analysis presentation for monthly software review meeting with management. Created weekly dashboard reports for testing status.
• Reviewed technical requirements, provide work estimates, create, trace, and execute test cases, write and track defects, write and execute SQL using WINSQL, Command Editor, SPUFI,FILE-AID,SQL EXPLORER, TOAD.
• ETL testing
• Testing Reports generated using BIRT.
• Write Stub modules for JUNIT.
• White box testing.

Environment: JBOSS, WEBSPHERE Application Server, Clear case, Clear quest, IBM - DB2, RFT, COBOL, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel, TOAD, SQL EXPLORER, PUTTY, UNIX, AIX, LINUX, Selenium (TestNG), MongoDB

Confidential

QA - Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of 13 resources both at onsite and offshore.
• To work with business to help in prioritization of work and draw requirements for offshore team
• Analyze and convert functional requirements to technical requirements
• Create High level specifications/designs
• Preparing Test data for more than 6000 test cases.
• To provide technical expertise to help resolve technical problems involving application and backend database errors.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other project teams
• Review offshore deliverables and ensure quality, compatibility between offshore designed application and customer’s requirement. Resolve technical issues.
• Used FILE-AID to debug COBOL programs, worked with flat files, convert EBCDIC files to ASCII and vice versa, analyze EBCDIC/ASCII data files to investigate production issue.
• Investigate JCL abends using ABEND-AID
• Involved in Backend Testing by writing and executing the SQL queries to validate the results.
• Process improvement initiatives.
• Functional, Integration and Implementation Testing
• Drive the process of preparing and executing around 1200 test cases per iterations.
• Used Lotus notes for Defect Reporting/Tracking.
• Prepared and discussed metrics, Defect trend and analysis presentation for monthly software review meeting with management. Created weekly dashboard reports for testing status.
• Reviewed technical requirements, provide work estimates, create, trace, and execute test cases, write and track defects, write and execute SQL using WINSQL, Command Editor, SPUFI,FILE-AID.
• Create reusable functions, subroutines, UDF, generic function s
• Build hybrid framework using VB/JAVA.

Environment: J2EE, WEBSPHERE Application Server, AICS FRAMEWORK, Clear case, Clear quest, IBM - DB2, Rational Functional Tester, DOORS, COBOL, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 5 members
• Allocating, planning & monitoring the work
• Prepared regression test suites for Regression Testing.
• Prepared Traceability matrix to ensure complete requirement coverage.
• Analysing the Key Requirement Documents & User Interface Specifications.
• Preparing scenario documents for different modules.
• Creating & executing test cases entailing test case modification and test data preparation
• Defect logging & tracking defects open, closed, verifying fixed defects etc.
• Log files verification for the batch cycles and database validation for the batch data populations.
• Interacting with client to resolve project-related issues, analysing the defect & reporting the weekly status
• Reviewing test documents and fixing the defects logged by others.
• Generating Macro’s using VB scripts for automation.
• Generating various test metrics reports
• Performed End to End testing to ensure data correctness (as the output of this application feeds to other application).
• Black Box testing.
• Descriptive programming using QTP.

Environment: IBM Message Queue, DB2, Rational Functional Tester, DOORS, COBOL, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel.

Confidential

Team member

Responsibilities:

• Estimating efforts for test case design & execution activities.
• Maintained QA deliverable components and releases in various stages of development.
• Creating test plan for CAMS (for designing test case worth three billion dollars across United States) & test strategy document for test case design & execution.
• Analysing the Key Requirement Documents & User Interface Specifications.
• Designing & developing test cases after thorough requirement analysis.
• Reviewing the functional requirement documents, test plans & test cases.
• Worked as Software configuration manager.
• Done Defect Management using Lotus Notes.
• Participating in weekly status meetings, process improvement meeting & walkthroughs.
• Version Control using Visual Source Safe.

Environment: J2EE, WEBSPHERE Application Server, ORACLE, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel, VSS.

Confidential

Developer, Application Leader, Team member and Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handled 10 different applications for unit and system testing
• Develop code based on service requests.
• Analysing the problem and making the required code changes.
• Testing at unit, integration and system level using SPEEDIT, TRAXX, VI, ANIMATOR
• Involve in regression testing.
• Applying Production fixes.
• Communicating with the OSC & business partners for resolving all outstanding issues.
• Configuration Manager.
• Automate Testing process by developing macros using VB scripts.
• Developed test cases based on system's documentation.
• Manual execution of the test cases.
• White Box testing

Environment: HP-3000, HP-UX, MPEX, COBOL, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel.