SUMMARY:

• Highly Motivated IT professional with diversified experience in the areas of Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Spiral Methodology.
• Software Quality Assurance (QA) experience testing Data Warehouse, Database (ETL & BI), Web, and Client - Server Systems and Applications for Web Technologies in Financial services sector.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using Data Stage.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements.
• Manual and Automation testing, developing test lab, participation in testing tool evaluations, walkthroughs and, risk identification and test planning.
• Experience in manual as well automation testing and hands on using Automation testing tools such as Win Runner and Load Runner and IBM Rational suite.
• Experience in GUI functionality testing, Black Box testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Performance, Load and Stress testing, Black Box testing, Integration, System testing
• Manual Testing expertise includes creating Test Plans and executing Test Cases, Data Driven Testing, Back End Testing (on Oracle using SQL queries) and Data Integrity Checks on the Database.
• Strong knowledge and experience with programming Languages like C++, JAVA, Visual Basic.
• Experience in establishing the Requirement tractability matrices, test case to requirement traceability and various status reports.
• Highly effective in communicating with Developers & end-users, and translating scientific information into everyday language.
• Experience in writing SQL-queries, PL/SQL procedures.
• Ability to adapt to new and ever changing Technology.
• Have experience on various environments like UNIX and Windows platforms and Unix Shell Scripting.
• Excellent multi-tasking and time management skills and developing resource plans.
• Motivated team player with excellent analytical and detail oriented skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional, Para soft, SOAP UI

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Scrum Framework, Waterfall

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center

Web Technology: HTML,XML

Reporting/ Other Tools: SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS 2005), Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio 2003/2005, Toad, SQL Modeler

Software Packages: SQL Sever Management Studio 2000/2005, MS-Office, MS-Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and analyze business requirements through functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Co-ordinate with developers to understand and analyze the HLD (High Level Documents) and DD (Detail Documents) to prepare test plan and get the WSDLs and XSDs.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings and provide the day-to-day status.
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and had done manual and automated testing using PARASOFT SOA test toal.
• Involved in the platform migration project of APON from Mule CE to EE Version to verify the change of the XML format well received in the newer version.
• Performed functional, regression, smoke and load testing using PARASOFT SOA test tool.
• Prepared implementation documents for testing methodology.
• Quality Centre was used to track, monitor and document the defects during the testing effort.
• Checked logs for responses captured using Putty Manager.
• Comfortable in working with Windows and Unix Environment.
• Create test data by understanding the Java Scripts and XML.
• Worked extensively with various databases including SQL Server, Oracle and DB2.

Environment: Java J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, Application Server, XML, XSD, HTML, JDBC, AJAX, Oracle SQL, Para soft (automation testing and load testing tool), Putty manager (check logs), rally and Quality Center.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Key/User requirement document, specifications and involved in developing test plans, testing strategies, test procedures includes what will be tested and what will not tested.
• Worked in Automation Testing Team. Involve in planning of automation testing framework using QTP and building the test environment for automation testing.
• Converted all requirements from MS Access into Requirement module in Quality Center
• Provide traceability of all requirements using Quality Center by linking with test cases
• Assist Subject Matter Experts (SME) to design business components and quality assurance tests, during development using Business Process Testing (BPT) in Quality Center
• Responsible for planning and execution of Integration Test and Systems Test and development of business scenarios.
• Performed testing by using SOAP UI to automate web service testing for input and output validation of SOAP messages using SOAP Response assertions.
• Facilitated weekly Team meetings among Test Group team to discuss the Testing Issues/Progress and later to update testing status to Project Manager and Project Team Members.
• Coordinated the creation of test cases, test scenarios andtesting status/progress reports and ensure that appropriate test cases have been built.
• Used the Test Plan module in Quality Center to build and configure business process tests by combining business components into an effective testing structure.
• Prepared Test Matrix to keep track of the manual test cases that has been automated.
• Responsible for Integration, System and Regression testing and interacted with developer lead to resolve critical defects
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.

Environment: Java J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, Application Server, XML, XSD, HTML, JDBC, AJAX, Oracle SQL, SOAP UI (automation testing and load testing tool), Putty manager (check logs), rally and Quality Center.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for the newly developed modules.
• Identified the scope of the functional and non-functional testing, Identified business scenario and test cases from the Business Design document and Technical Design document.
• Analyzed Business requirements, module specific functionalities, identified testing requirements and formulated Test plans. Test requirements were then documented in Test Director.
• Set-up and executed test scenarios for system, regression testing as and when new builds was rolled-in.
• Participated actively in requirements reviews and managed test requirements using Test Director.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities of different insurance modules based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Responsible for mapping documents, creation of test plan, test scenarios, test cases of unit, system testing, system integration testing, remediation and configuration of client servers system for HIPAA compliancy.

  Performed Risk adjustment assessment from Medicare compliance, Validated, Extracting Medical Records (MR), Collaborate business objects for web portal development.

• Responsible for Web services XML testing using SoapUI tool.
• Used SoapUI to create web service requests and validated the responses.
• PreparedTest cases, wrotetest scriptsfrom varioustest scenariosacross builds
• Involved in Integration testing, ensure that all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with Master test plan.
• Developed automation test scripts to test the database by retrieving the data from the tables using Mercury QTP and VB Scripting.
• Involved in Backend Database testing in Oracle using SQL.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.

Environment: Java J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, Application Server, XML, XSD, HTML, JDBC, AJAX, Oracle SQL, SOAP UI (automation testing and load testing tool), Putty manager (check logs), rally and Quality Center.