PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of experience with IT industry in Quality Assurance as a Lead SQA tester / QA Analyst in Financial, HealthCare, Distribution, Mortgage and Telecom Domains in Client - Server and Web based applications.
• Proficiency in testingClient ServerandWeb based applicationsusingmanual testing techniquesand automation tool.
• QA Analyst, responsible for the review and approval of business requirements, working with the team to documentingTest Scripts,Case Designing,Test Scenarios, Test Plans, Test Data, Test Resultsand otherTest Artifacts.
• Experience in conducting different types ofBlack Boxtesting includingBusiness Workflow, GUI, Data Driven, Database, Regression, Functional, User Acceptance (UAT), System, Load, Stress and Performance Testing.
• Experienced in all phases of theSoftware Development Life Cycle/ Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC)and their interrelationships.
• Working knowledge onQTP(Ver.9.5,10.0), Load Runner (Ver.8.0,9.0),Selenium(IDE), VB Scripting and automation methodologies.
• Around6 yearsworking with all the testing concepts,Software MethodologieslikeAgile, Waterfall and V-Model.
• Performed testing extensively for integration and unit testing of standalone and distributed GUI-based applications and GUI-less SOA Web Services.
• Experience in testing integrated softwareWeb Services through SOAP UIandXML
• Experienced at testingETL\'s and flat filedata transfers.
• Hands on expertise inData ware housing conceptsand tools. Involved in theETL processes & testing.
• Experience in interacting with Business Analysts, Developers, and Technical Support to help them base line the requirement specifications.
• Experience in Bug Reporting tools likeJIRA, HP Quality Center (QC)(Ver.9.5,10.0) and ALM 11.5
• Experience of writingSQLqueriesinOracle and SQL-Serverdatabase systems for backend/database testing.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications onWindows and UNIX environments.
• Experience in developing and analyzingautomation test scripts.
• Experience in reporting and creating dashboards using Qlikview tool
• OutstandingTeam playerwith excellentverbalandwritten communicationpossessing brilliant documentationandinterpersonal skills.Extensive Ability tohandle multiple tasksandwork independentlyas well as in a team.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analysis skills.
• Possess excellent analytical, presentation, problem solving and learning skills as well as a keen interest in the emerging technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0, ALM 11.5, Jira, TFS

ETL: Informatica 7.1/8.1.1/8.6 , Ab inito, Data stage

OLAP Tools: Cognos, Business Objects 5.1.2/6,Qlik View

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 11g Teradata, DB2, SQL server

Languages: COBOL, JCL, C, C++, Java, XML, SQL, VB

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, Java Script, Java Servlets, Web Logic

GUI Tools: Erwin, TOAD, Teradata SQL Assistant

Operation Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Independent team member doing all Systems Integrated Testing responsibilities
• Assisted quality assurance implementation in all the phases of SDLC.
• Initiated scope meetings between System Test and application stakeholders.
• From the detailed requirements and Solution specifications, created test cases for web applications and database validations.
• Extensively involved in analyzing businessand system requirements by conducting walkthroughs to baseline test deliverables.
• Involved in Test Plan, Test scenarioidentification and Test casedesign forfunctional,integration,system, regression,and end to end.
• Involved in setting up the source test data in various formats like .dat file, .ctl file & databases from where the system gets the data from the source location in to the environment.
• Involved in executing Autosys Jobs and ability to debug the job failures and make sure the master jobs completed successfully.
• Validatingthe staging tables with the source data from which the data transferred to the environment.
• Experience in BOXI SAP Business Objects reports validation .
• Validation of data in the object store which is transformed with the business logic as per the requirements.
• After successful completion of Master box execution, involved in validating the outbound tables which the data is consumed by downstream systems.
• Schedule and drive Defect review meetings, validate submitted bugs, assign bugs to different teams involved in resolution, notify relevant business units, research and log root cause analysis for the reported bugs and follow through with a resolution and final testing.
• Design and modified requiredUNIX scriptsand otherSQL validationscripts and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs analyzed test results and creating performance evaluation reports.
• Worked withETL developerswho extensively usedAb Initio, to design mapping to move data from source to target database using Stages to do the functionality.
• Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users.
• Point of Contact in regular project status meetings related to testing.

Environment: UNIX, Autosys R11, Java JDK 1.7, Web logic 10.3.6, Oracle 11.2, Abinitio, ALM 11.0

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of Functional Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications.
• Provided review comments on Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Involved in preparing Test Strategy &QASchedule.
• Prepared Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document, Use Cases.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Data Driven Testing & Ad-hoc testing as required.
• Performed System Testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Performed Interface and End to End Testing
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Involved in creating XML files manually as inputs for functional testing in setting up SOA environment.
• Found and reported defects and subsequently validated the fix, repeating the process until done.
• Involved in root cause analysis of defects.
• Responsible for documenting all the tasks done.
• Experience in CS/TS/Lean and other banking centre processes.
• Involved in Build deployment activities and participated in design (spec) reviews with the Core team.
• Worked closely with the software engineers to ensure successful, high quality releases.
• Involved in preparing Test Outcome Report(TOR) at the end ofTesting.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSL, JSP, UNIX, Windows XP/NT, Mainframe, DB2, Oracle and SQL.

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Operational Testing during Transition / SOE Sociability testing when new applications are packaged to BG AU Servers
• Participating in Daily, Weekly Status Report and defect meetings with Client
• Preparation of the Test Estimates, Test Plans, and Test Strategy Documents
• Providing Estimates and collection of Metrics
• Test case design and execution
• Preparing the Traceability Matrix through QC 9.2
• Reviewing Requirement Specification
• Preparing Effort and Schedule Estimations
• Issues, risks escalation during execution
• Understanding and validating of the BGG process flows
• Documentation of all BGG IMAC process flows liaise with all departments of IBM and BG BAU support Groups continually to confirm all the process are followed and any new process is approved, documented and introduced
• Generate daily IMAC Task reports and issue to DPE, SDM & Team Leader.
• Generate Monthly Reports to show volumes and trending of Change Tickets and Tasks.
• IMAC Coordination of all BGG critical Service Requests

Environment: Web sphere, Visual Age for Java, Windows NT, EJB, JSP 1.0, UML, XML, servlets, JDBC, Allaire Homesite, Oracle, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest and Aix.

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Environment: Quality Center(9.2),Java,JSP,EJB,Oracle9i,Toad,WebLogic Server

Responsibilities:

• Execute the Test Plan
• Project Status reporting
• Understanding the functionality of application.
• All work processes documented Understanding Functional Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications
• Knowledge transfer sessions with team members and T.L
• Design and Execution of Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document, Use Cases, Low Level Design document
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Metrics and Deployment manual
• Provide review comments on Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Requirement Specifications
• Access & Environmental availability
• Test Data Preparation
• Executing the Test Cases.
• Bug tracking and reporting.
• Involved in Functionality testing and Regression Testing for each modified build of the application.
• Defect-free Testing quality
• Presentation of the QA status reports and the defect status reports in the weekly meetings.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Data Driven Testing & Ad-hoc Testing when required.
• Performed system testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing with UAT test scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Functionality, Interface, and Regression testing
• Report defects and subsequently validating the fix, repeating the process until done.
• Tracking and Managed defects using Quality Center
• Work closely with the software engineers to ensure successful, high quality releases.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performed manual testing.
• Performed Smoke, Alpha sanity testing of the application.
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from flat files and analyzed the test results.
• Performed Regression testing, Functional testing and Integration testing.
• Involved in Onsite and Offshore coordination.
• Using Test Director for bug (defects) logging.

Environment: Java Script, ASP, IIS 5.0,Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, VB Script,J2EE, JSP, CES Server, PL/SQL, Oracle, Toad, SQL Server 2000, Unix, Windows NT, Manual Testing, Load Runner and Test Director/Quality Center and QTP.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performed manual testing.
• Performed Smoke, Alpha sanity testing of the application.
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from flat files and analyzed the test results.
• Performed Regression testing, Functional testing and Integration testing.
• Involved in Onsite and Offshore coordination.
• Using Test Director for bug (defects) logging.

Environment: Java Script, Oracle, Toad, Manual Testing, Test Director/Quality Center and Winrunner.

Confidential, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performed manual testing.
• Performed Smoke, Alpha sanity testing of the application.
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from flat files and analyzed the test results.
• Performed Regression testing, Functional testing and Integration testing.
• Involved in Onsite and Offshore coordination.
• Using Test Director for bug (defects) logging.

Environment: Java Script, Oracle, Toad, Manual Testing, Test Director/Quality Center and Winrunner.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Performed manual testing.
• Performed Smoke, Alpha sanity testing of the application.
• Performed Regression testing, Functional testing and Integration testing.
• Involved in Onsite and Offshore coordination.
• Using Test Director for bug (defects) logging.

Environment: Java Script, Oracle 8i, Toad, Manual Testing and Test Director.