OBJECTIVE

• Seeking a fast paced dynamic environment to align my professional skills in the field of System Analysis, software quality assurance, configuration management and software development with strong work ethic and thereby apply technical and interpersonal skills.

SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on System Analysis, Quality Assurance and Business Analyst
• Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and RUP (Rational Unified Process).
• Extensive experience in Microsoft office tools such as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Extensive expertise in SQL and PL/SQL for Back End Testing.
• Expertise in translating user requirements into System Specifications and mapping the process design, work flows for SDLC with documenting and managing business requirements
• Managed End to End Testing efforts for projects including Estimation, Scheduling and Resource Management
• Experienced in gathering and documenting test Scenarios and ability to train users to translate technical requirements and translate them to a business audience
• Documented vision & scope, monitor the changes throughout the project
• Managing strong and productive relationships with business customers, stake holders and co - workers
• Extensively used ETL methodology in testing for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL solution using ETL tools like Informatica.
• Managing strong and productive relationships with business customers, stake holders and co-workers
• Experienced in testing both ETL and BI applications.
• Ensured the QA team meets the deadlines and is flexible based on the needs of the project
• Created Test Plan, Test Environment and Test Strategy Documents
• Extensively created Test Cases for Functionality Testing
• Expertise in Production testing by applying different sets of testing scenarios
• Worked with the project manager for planning and organizing the project activities, and in communicating with other business center mangers and stakeholders of the project.
• Expertise in Manual Testing of Client Server and Web based applications.
• Expertise in GUI, Functionality, Stress, System, Integration, Performance, Configuration, Back-end Testing.
• Expertise in Security Testing.
• Performed Load and Stress Testing
• Reported and Analyzed test results.
• Experience conducting User Acceptance Testing and training of end users
• Possess excellent problem analysis/solving skills, with ability to follow project standards and procedures.
• Possess the quality of being an active member of the team.
• Effective in building and directing technical teams to achieve targeted objectives.
• Ability to quickly master new concepts and applications.
• Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills with good process management skills along with a remarkable ability to gather requirements to bring out quality product.
• Ability to coordinate training sessions and/or meetings to share technical expertise, experience and know-how with team members or individuals in other interacting teams.
• Ability to work in tighter schedules and on different applications at the same time.
• Ability to interact with customers/users with ease and professionalism.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2K/XP, Win NT, UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu

Programming Languages: SQA Basic, SQL, PL/SQL

Automated Test Tools: Win runner, QTP, Load Runner, Rational Team Test

ETL & Integration Tools: Abinitio, TIBCO

Reporting Tools: Test Director7.6, Rational ClearQuest, Quality Center

Front End Tools: MS Word, Mail Merge, FrontPage, HTML, Java Script, JSP, ClearCase.

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, Telnet

Methodologies: AGILE, UML, RUP.

Modeling tools: MS Visio, Poseidon, and Microsoft Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr Quality Tester and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding high-level architecture and discussing rationale for potential changes. Participate in meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Attended weekly meeting to discuss progress and modification to test plans due to change in business requirements and facilitated meetings with a variety of participants from executive- to staff-level positions
• Document the requirements and provided assistance in research and analysis of required change to developers
• Daily Coordination with Offshore DEV team in regards to Development, UT and Deployment of Word Forms activities and played a role in bridging the gap of concerns between Developers and Business Users
• Created positive and negative test scripts and various test scenarios to ensure all the aspects of requirements are covered and also the existing workflow for generating the reports and related functional features of Vision application are not affected by the change
• Conducted thorough QA Testing of Compliance and Cosmetic changes in Reports to make sure the requirements are met
• Responsible to maintain the status of QC according to the activity’s release date, Severity/Priority, QA/DEV/UAT estimates and to upload the required documents
• Supported Business users in performing the UAT and documented the defects or new requirements if any
• Responsible to conduct Post Production testing to ensure the changes has been delivered to Production as it was tested in staging environment
• Used the SQL queries accordingly to pull the data from Oracle Database through SQL Developer and Toad for Oracle platforms for the purpose of clarifying the Requirement and Analysis. Testing of particular activities and assist the Business when required
• Engaged with Business users throughout the whole process of SDLC
• Provided daily inputs to Project manager and the related resources involved
• Solely Responsible to fix any Cosmetic issues on Reports including Page Margins, Text Alignment and other issues from scratch to Deployment
• Used ClearCase tool to create views, rebasing the stream, checking Out/In the code and update the status to Release team
• Extensively involved in gathering the Business requirements and Functional specifications and involved in recurring meetings with DEV, JAVA, DB team and stakeholders to clarify the concerns of QA and UAT for implementing the Versioning Code of Word forms (upgrade application architecture) in order to Preserve existing Commitments, Policies and Endorsements
• Requirements/Analysis, Coordination with DEV team, QA and UAT to Validate the new change to implement page number functionality on each page of policies, commitments, endorsements and Invoice
• Validated the Policy Risk Rates on Policies by using different sets of calculation and ensured it works as expected
• Conduct the Smoke Testing in Local environment before moving the code to a Stable Staging QA environment.
• Responsible to submit daily Activity Status report, weekly status report and Monthly status report
• Responsible to provided estimates to the Business for DEV/UT/DEP/QA for the Activities depending on the change is required
• Actively coordination with external teams to ensure a smooth execution phase
• Responsible to ensure timely delivery of deliverables and adherence to deadlines.

Environment: Vision, SQL, Oracle, Quality Centre, ClearCase, Microsoft Project, Toad for SQL, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio 2008

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis, Requirement documents, Functional, Technical Specification and other project artifacts as needed.
• Involved in working with the development team to clarify requirements as needed and to ascertain level of effort and feasibility.
• Responsible to ensure the smoothness of Evaluating all origination channels while targeting specific risk concerns such as incomplete asset documents, income calculation errors, etc.
• Validation/verification of: AUS data integrity, employment, MI coverage, SS numbers, assets and appraisal review
• Generate Functional Requirements specifications to Complete full re-underwrite of loans including re-calculation of income, assets and liabilities (reconcile 1003 with credit report)
• Review the loan files against investor and agency guidelines
• Review of all initial disclosures, which include GFE, TIL, STD, etc.
• Responsible to make sure the Address and satisfy conditions before shipping file to investor, to allow for minimal investor conditions
• Conducted Post Production testing and involved with Business users and stakeholders
• Identify the root cause of identified defects and system hard core stops to ensure that loans do not close with defects
• Conducted Defect Meetings and Team Status Meetings providing testing updates.
• Involved in Performing Back End Testing Manually using complex SQL Queries.
• Provided inputs to the Project Manager on the testing schedule and time frame.
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification.
• Design Use Case and Review Meetings.
• Createdand Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure test coverage of all requirements
• Timely escalation of issue’s related to different teams to ensure an early resolution.
• Updated the Test Scripts for Regression build based on the enhancements to the application
• Scheduled and coordinated for Performance Testing of the application.

Environment: VisionLoanReview, Selenium, Rapid SQL, Ration, Rational Clear Case, Microsoft Visio, Perl and Toad for SQL

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Represented team Visionet at various financial clients as Advisory/Business and QA Analyst and at times acted as a Project Manager and Delivery Lead.
• Primarily responsible for Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis, Requirement documents, Functional, Technical Specification and other project artifacts as needed.
• Worked as a liaison between business and technology to ensure quality implementation of a client requirement.
• Responsible to ensure the Production doesn’t breaks by conducting positive, negative and regression testing in Production
• Create business process models for Current business processes and identify business process improvements
• Conduct requirement gathering sessions for Future State business processes, Integrations requirements, reference data setup and Data analysis
• Create Business Process models for Future State Processes using Visio
• Generate Functional Requirements specifications including Use Cases, GUIs, GUI to DB Data mapping, Integrations and navigations
• Review Test Scenarios and Application Acceptance Criteria to ensure requirements coverage for project components
• Participate in SIT and UAT phases for projects
• Involved in working with the development team to clarify requirements as needed and to ascertain level of effort and feasibility.
• Conducted Defect Meetings and Team Status Meetings providing testing updates.
• Attended Change Control Meeting for approval of change requests and raised testing concerns.
• Involved in Creationand Maintaining Traceability Matrix to ensure test coverage of all requirements
• Timely escalation of issue’s related to different teams to ensure an early resolution.
• Scheduled and coordinated for Performance Testing of the application.

Environment: & Tools: Rapid SQL, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, UNIX, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

QA Lead/ ETL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in working with the Development team and Business users to clarify requirements as needed and to ascertain level of effort and feasibility.
• Actively involved in Daily stand-up meetings with Project Manager and team to discuss the updates/issues
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirement Documents, Project Plans and Functional Specification.
• Attended Use Case Review and Design Review Meetings.
• Created Application Understanding Document and updated it accordingly with Iterations
• Responsible to submit daily SIT Status report, weekly status report, Monthly Portfolio status report and SIT Sign-Off Report
• Conducted daily meetings with off-shore resources to interpreted the Project requirements and Plans
• Created a Master Test Plan, Test Scenario and Test Scripts based on the scope and schedule of the project
• Uploaded Test Cases into Mercury Quality Centre 9.2 and Performed Back End Testing Manually using complex SQL Queries.
• Logged the Defects in QC with appropriate Severity and Priority and Conducted Defect Meetings and Team Status Meetings providing testing updates.
• Attended Change Control Meeting for approval of change requests and raised testing concerns.
• Provided daily inputs to the Project Manager on the testing schedule and its time frame.
• Created Test Scripts from use cases and Requirements Documents
• Perform Smoke Test before moving the code to a Stable QA environment.
• Reviewed the HLD and LLD Documents and interpreted them to Off-shore resource
• Tested the ETL mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing)
• Executed Test Scripts for Functionality Testing and reported defects in Quality Centre.
• Validated the Columns, Data completeness for Data Migration by using SQL Queries
• Validated the SSIS Package Configuration by coordinating with Developers team.
• Createdand Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure test coverage of all requirements
• Ensured testing schedules are met during different iterations to ensure a timely release to production
• Develop the Test Scripts for Regression build based on the enhancements to the application
• Identified, Reported and Tracked Defects in Quality Centre
• Created and Updated Test Execution Matrix and Defect Matrix.
• Provided regular status updates to Project Manager on high priority issues and Testing Progress.
• Coordinated with the Reporting team to make sure that required data is displayed in reports

Environment: & Tools: ETL, SQL, Oracle, Quality Centre, RAT, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Toad for SQL, Toad for Oracle, Visual Studio 2008

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the meeting with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing Team for Requirements gathering in Definition Stage.
• Designed Plans to pay provider based on specific reimbursement arrangement.
• Facilitated the Customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Involved in the Data Movement between Systems validated the Business Requirements.
• Verified the correlation between the UML diagrams and developed detailed diagrams.
• Conducted the JAD Sessions to understand the detailed requirements.
• Increased process efficiencies and reduced development cycle time across department by spearheading the implementation of the full lifecycle software development methodology.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology to augment software development.
• Conducted Defect Meetings and attended status meetings with Development Lead and Business Manager
• Attended Change Control Board Meetings to approve Change Requests and Enhancement Requests
• Worked closely with the project team in planning, coordination and implementing QA methodology.
• Reviewed Test Plan in accordance with the business requirements and scope.
• Created and updated Test Environment document
• Created Functional Specification Documents and Detailed Design Specification.
• Actively involved with Testing team in creation of Test Cases and Test Scripts to test the functionality of application from Use Cases and Functional Specification documents
• Involved in Functionality, Batch and Regression Testing manually.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and stored in Test Director

Environment: Microsoft Visio, RUP, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Windows, SQL, UML, Test Director.