SUMMARY;

• A result - oriented professional with an overall experience of 8 years in Software Testing & Quality Assurance in the IT sector.
• Having good knowledge in Payments (GPP), Credit Cards and Healthcare IT domains.
• Adept in designing and executing test cases, test scripts and scenarios.
• Well Versed in Functional Testing, System testing, Regression testing, GUI application testing, Backend testing and Automation Testing.
• Experience on Confidential SQL and fair knowledge on UNIX/LINUX.
• Good understanding of all phases of SDLC.
• Experience on Tools such as HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) and Quality Center (QC).
• Good team player with excellent communication skills and capability to work efficiently and effectively under tight deadlines and pressures.
• Having demonstrated professional skills in the projects assigned, taken initiatives and responsibilities in the overall development of the system.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX, Red Hat Linux

Databases: Confidential 10g

Tools: Confidential SQL Developer, TOAD, Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.5MS Confidential Server 2005, SQL Plus, Putty:

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, VSTS 2005

Others: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Data/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with the client for the requirement & System Option setup
• Understanding the functional specifications and gaining knowledge of domain.
• Creating test scripts and test data for GPP core functionalities, interfaces and FCL.
• Involved in Creation of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules.
• Worked as Subject Matter Expert on GPP
• Creating test scripts and test data for GPP core functionalities, interfaces and Funds Control.
• Good knowledge on SWIFT messages (MT 103, 202, 191 etc) and standards.
• Excellent knowledge on the flow of payments and clearing houses such as BOOK, EURO1, INTERO, STEP1, SWIFT, TARGET etc.
• Experience working on GPP functionalities such as - Account settlements and posting requests, MOP selection and Bank Routing, Pricing, FX and Cross currency conversion, FATF compliance, Reject/Return, PI/SN matching, Posting Restrictions, Various queues(Repair, Codeword, Posting restriction, NSF, Cancel, AUTHEX, DUPEX etc), Holiday testing scenarios, etc.
• Reviewed test cases of colleagues and new joiners.
• Provided knowledge transfer sessions and trainings on the application to the team.
• Processing payments through GPP, retrieving data through SQL and checking results.
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using SQL Plus on UNIX.
• Experience in use of database joins, sub-queries, Restricting and sorting data, data manipulations.
• Extensively worked on SQL (DDL, DML) and performed backend testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating test scripts and test data for GPP core functionalities, interfaces and Funds Control.
• Logging & Tracking Bug status through Bugzilla.
• Involved in the complete defect life cycle.
• Creating test data based on the test cases and executing the test cases.
• Good knowledge on SWIFT messages (MT 103, 202, 191 etc) and standards.
• Experience working on GPP functionalities such as - Account look up Requests, Account settlements and posting requests, MOP selection and Bank Routing, Pricing, FX and Cross currency conversion, FATF compliance, Reject/Return, PI/SN matching, Posting Restrictions, Various queues(Repair, Codeword, Posting restriction, NSF, Cancel, AUTHEX, DUPEX etc), Holiday testing scenarios, etc.
• Using SQL to retrieve data related to accounts, customers and other details for executing test case steps using Confidential SQL developer.
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing.
• Used SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing
• Inserted various check points like bitmap check points, text checkpoints and database check Points to check the functionality of the application using QTP
• Performed Data driven testing to validate the data and develop effective Automated QTP Scripts
• Viewing and attaching Traces of payments through UNIX.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Author test cases using Quality Center 9.2
• Execute the test cases and test scripts using Quality Center 9.2
• Defect entry and tracking in Microsoft VSTS 2005
• Worked in the Clinical Documentation module
• Peer review of test cases
• Performed Black Box testing, Functional testing, User Acceptance testing, Regression testing, Integration testing to check the application is error prone according the requirement specifications.
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using Confidential Server.
• Participated in preparing Defect Metrics
• Participated in Hot Fix testing and Bug Bash
• Worked closely with build integration team, business analysts and developers in order to perform testing activities as per schedules.

Confidential

Quality Assurance/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the business requirements and preparing test scenarios
• Interacting with client directly in terms of requirements query resolutions and daily reporting.
• Author test cases for Issuer and Acquirer functionalities
• Prepare test data for execution of the test scripts
• Prepare Data Guidelines/Requirements and Coordinating Test Data preparation
• Execute the test cases and test scripts for Issuer and Acquirer functionalities
• Handling Defect Log for the whole team
• Defect tracking in Dashboard (MS Excel)
• Maintain Test execution logs

Confidential June

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements and Functional documents.
• Designed test procedures and test cases.
• Extensively involved in testing the application manually.
• Involved in Smoke, Integration, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed System Testing, Installation testing, Performance Testing, User interface testing and work flow testing.
• Documented and reported the defects to developers.