SUMMARY:

• 8 years of diversified experience as QA Analyst (Manual & Automation) in testing software systems.
• Strong understanding of software Development Methodologies like AGILE (SCRUM), and Waterfall.
• Strong understanding of quality assurance testing methodology relative Software Development lifecycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC).
• Participated in complete Software Testing Life Cycle, analysis of business and functional specifications and formulation of Test Plan and Test Requirements.
• Extensive experience in working on various test strategies and in preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, and analyzing Test Results.
• Good understanding of scripting knowledge and involved in creation and implementation of Test scripts.
• Proven expertise in creation of Data Driven QTP frameworks
• Experience using QTP VBScript utilizing descriptive programming.
• Experience Performing all kinds of tests including Black, Smoke, UAT, End to End, Integration, Functional, Stress, Regression, System testing, Web Testing.
• Strong Understanding of Database Management Systems (Oracle, SQL Server) and experienced in writing SQL Queries for Business application to validate Data.
• Good knowledge on UNIX commands.
• Experience in RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (PL/SQL), MS Access and associated SQL Programming Knowledge.
• Strong experience in Web services testing usingSOAP UIand Good Knowledge of SOAP web services concepts like web - request, response and WSDL etc.
• Experienced in Defect investigation, Tracking and Logging using Quality Center, Clear Quest.
• Ability to work independently & as well in teams and expertise in defining, establishing, and managing full lifecycle Quality Control Process.
• Ability to collaborate with testers, developers, project managers and other team members both in off shore and onsite in testing complex projects
• Good technical and analytical skills along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT / 2000 /XP/Vista/7/8, UNIX

Languages: C++, VB, Java and SQL

Packages/Tools: Microsoft office suite

Test Automation Tools: HP Quick Test Professional/UFT

Test Management Tools/Others: Quality Center/ALM, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Quality Manager, SOAP UI, Version One.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and verified business and systems requirements, system delivery specifications and technical system design documentation.
• Analyzed User Requirement documents and developed Test Strategies /Methodologies.
• Provided estimates for QA activity and CR’s for this project.
• Defined overall software testing strategy and testing plans for applications under development.
• Designed and Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases according to functional and business requirements.
• Architected and implemented QA processes (e.g., defect tracking, test case management, automated testing strategies, etc.)
• Actively participated in the daily scrum calls to provide daily status updates and collaborate with other scrum team members.
• Performed Manual and Automated software testing such as System Testing, Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Black box testing, Data Driven Testing, Back End and Front End Testing.
• Write Complex SQL and checking if the data in target table populates correctly by writing complex SQL queries.
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Prepared the L1, L2, L3 Charters for the implementation of HIPPA 5010
• Identified the impacts the HIPPA 5010 & ICD 10 project had on enrollment Claims, FEP (Medicare and Medicaid program).
• Involved in preparing the Methodology document for the HIPAA implementation.
• Implementation of 5 key aspects of HIPAA - Transactions, Identifiers, Codes, Privacy and Security, Non-Compliance issues and penalties
• Prepared and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure complete test coverage.
• Developed new functional and regression scripts as well as modified and updated old functional and regression scripts.
• Reported bugs/errors in the Clear Quest and ensured issue/problem resolution was communicated in a timely an effective manner between System/Project Managers, Developers and QA Analysts.
• Submitted weekly status updates and created First Time Pass Rate Reports showing the progress of QA Software Testing.
• Created Test Cases and Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of the application.
• Demonstrated and presented the functionality to client at the end of each sprint to get User Story acceptance.

Environment: Agile, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Quality Manager (RQM), SQL server, UNIX, VB Script, MS Visio, SOAP, Version One, HP UFT/QTP, XML, HTML.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the Test Strategy, creating the Test Plans and the Test cases basing on the Business requirements document.
• Review Business and Functional Requirements and develop Detailed Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Interact with Business Team and Development Team to review Detailed Test plan and Test Case document
• Responsible for raising defects using Mercury Quality Center and track them to closure.
• Responsible for generating reports using Mercury Quality Center to deliver the End of testing notes to various teams that would help analyzing loopholes.
• Created test cases in test plan and executed them from test lab in Quality Center.
• Automated test scripts using QTP.
• Work with the Business Team to review UAT validation scenarios and execute the UAT test cases.
• Involved inbatchtestingwhich includes the process of execution of the job and to get completed successfully and generates an extract in the target location.
• Validating the web server logs using UNIX commands.
• Validate Web services built in SOA Architecture using SOAP UI.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to verify data in the target tables.
• Create Defect Status report for Development Team and Stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Updated SharePoint Document Management tool for accessing and updating the Test deliverables.
• Responsible for performing Post Deployment validation at the time of release / implementation.
• Conduct Test Status meetings with the Business Team, QA Manager, and Development team to review Test Progress and discuss business critical issues identified during application validation.

Environment: Agile, Quick Test Professional 11.5, HP Quality Center UNIX, SOAP UI, VB Script, SQL Server, Java.

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took a leading role in manual testing, actively involved in creation of detailed test plans, test cases and test scenarios for different application modules according to functional requirements and business specifications.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing
• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as iteration reviews.
• Worked closely with Development team, BA and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of
• Management.
• Took an active role in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements as well as improve UI\UX Design of company software products.
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing.
• Tested applications compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS), browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome)
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Involved in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Utilized HP Quality Center (HP QC) as a bug tracking system.
• Engaged in testing of project related specifications and requirements for completeness and correctness during early phases of SDLC.
• Involved in data profiling, data assessment, documenting the anomalies and evaluating the discrepancies from the DB Validation report and fixing it by using SAS.
• Updated the data rules spreadsheet that will be used to update allowed values, findings and profiling results.
• Identify which data elements to be assessed and loaded into Trillium Discovery
• Identified the anomalies in Property and Casualty, Health and Life Insurance data, and followed up with the SMEs to find if it is an unexpected result or an anomaly
• Worked on Trillium tool for Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) to remove duplicate records, Data Validation and Data Profiling.
• Share the results with Stakeholders and Data assessment core tea.
• Analyzed Data which are in Mainframe environment.
• Maintain project schedule and update the SharePoint site with the completed assignments of the team.
• Reviewed, maintained and updated the changes in project plan for Phase 1
• Worked on Auto, Fire, Life, Mutual fund, Health, Groupings, Auto claims data.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Agile Methodology, SQL, Advance MS Excel, MS Word, Windows 7, Java.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Matrix.
• Developed Data flow Analysis and Modeling for Healthcare applications and categorized the applications according to HIPAA 5010, ICD 9.0 and Institutional Guidelines.
• Used Quality Center and Test Director for Tracking and Reporting also followed up with development team to verify Bug Fixes, and update Bug Status.
• Test Cases were designed based on Use-Cases and Requirements in Test Director.
• Maintained requirements in Test Director and requirements are traced to Test Cases in Test Director.
• Created Automated the Test Cases using Quality Center, Monitored the Defect Tracking process, trouble shooting and generating customized Graphs and Reports for the Client.
• Development of Automated Test Scripts using VB Script for all the identified Test Scenarios.
• Parameterized the Scripts and enhanced them according to the Test Cases.
• Implemented appropriate test coverage (Functional/Database/Security/Performance) to drive efficient Defect Discovery and ensure Validation against Functional/Technical Specifications.
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions and Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP.
• Involved inRESTAPI Testing using SOAP UI.
• Developed BPT Test Cases and tested the whole application and defects are isolated.
• Involved in Back end Testing and execute the SQL queries.
• Generated reports using Quality Metrics Data, Prepared Test Metrics and reported to the Team Lead.
• Developed SQL Queries for checking the Data Transaction.
• Participated in various meetings for discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests

Environment: Agile, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional 9.2, MS Excel, MS Word, UNIX, VB Script, SOAP UI.

Confidential, Clark, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation and execution of Test Scripts using QTP.
• Manually tested the application functionality and developed Automation test scripts to perform functional and regression testing and prepared automation test scripts, Methods and functions in QTP.
• Involved in the preparation of Test Plan as per business requirement.
• Prepared Test Cases in Quality Center based on Use-Cases and Requirements, and executed test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Written Test Cases and Performed GUI, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Black Box testing.
• Analyzed Software and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing of different application versions.
• Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
• Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP for testing the application for multiple data.
• Interacted with developers and Users to resolve critical and major bugs.
• Created and maintained regression test suite to check the progress of the testing process by performing identical tests before and after fixing defects.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP 9.5, VB Script, Quality Center 9.2, Windows XP, Oracle, MS-office

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Test Director for designed and developed test plans, scripts, and tools using the detailed business requirements document provided by the work streams. This included performance and regression testing where required.
• Developed automated scripts and defined test case scenarios.
• Used Test Director to execute the test plan, track execution against the plan.
• Prepared defect reports.
• Worked with closely with other team members in understanding the business requirements and in definition, creation and execution of the test scenarios and approaches.
• Worked in the agile development environment and participated on standup and retrospective meetings.
• Expertise in planning/executing Black Box testing on Web application.
• Test Activities included Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Defined and implemented the QA methodology, strategies and metrics.
• Testedweb servicesusing SoapUI.
• Experience of developing test scripts in Quick Test Pro (QTP) both manually and automatically by using VB Script and recording the application
• Proficient in using automated tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), Soap UI, and Quality Center

Environment: s: Test Director, MS SQL, UNIX, Agile Methodology, Visio, Java.