SUMMARY

• A Senior QA engineer and Business Analyst with 8 years experience in Business Process, Quality Assurance methodologies, techniques and tools, working at various capacities in finance and insurance.
• Experience includes gathering and documenting requirements to creating test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test summary report.
• Areas of expertise include various types of testing, from smoke test, Confidential test, integration test, data conversion test, regression test to user acceptance test (UAT), making extensive use of various testing tools such as HP/Mercury Quality Center to document and manage testing components and traceability.
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and critical tasks in fast paced environments.
• Excellent in client coordination, managing expectations, communication skills and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business: Requirements Gathering, Client Interaction, Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) document, QA documentation, QA methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative, Agile), Smoke testing, Confidential testing, Integration testing, Data conversion testing, Regression testing, Middle - tier (ESB) testing, User acceptance testing (UAT).

Languages: Java, People Code (Peoplesoft), ASP.NET 1.1

Databases: SQL Server 2008, DB2, Oracle.

QA Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center, Rational ClearQuest, Compuware QADirector, TestPartner.

Other Tools/Products: Kofax Capture 9.0, Onbase, xPression, Solimar/Rubika, XML Notepad, MS Visio 2007, MS Office suite, SharePoint, Rational ClearCase, Visual Studio 2005, Visual SourceSafe, Dreamweaver, Gunther

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - West Trenton, NJ

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with different departments including Cash Management, General Accounting, and IT (ESB, PeopleSoft, Kofax and Onbase developers) to understand their business process flows and create test scenarios.
• Created test plan and test scenarios based on the process flows, requirements document and transformation logic in data mapping document.
• Performed test execution, logged defects and verified the resolved defects.
• Helped business users with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensured that the application would function according to the defined business requirements.
• Assisted project manager with project estimates. Participated in project status meetings to keep track of issues and the project schedule.

Confidential

Data Conversion Testing

Environment/Tools: People code, SQL server 2008, HP/Mercury Quality Center, Kofax Capture 9.0, OnBase

Responsibilities:

• Performed Confidential testing for various PeopleSoft Accounts Payable (AP) features including payment processing which enables user to create payments for the vouchers that have been entered, approved, and scheduled for payment. This includes pay cycle manager, pay cycle job, pospay and reconciliation functionalities.
• Performed payment processing for different payment methods such as Check and ACH.
• Processed payments for vendors on Levy and Backup Withholding.
• Processed financial transactions such as Payment Request Transactions, Cancel Transactions (Stop/Void), and Recovery Transactions.
• Performed Data Conversion testing for payments by executing SQL queries and matching the fields in source (ETL staging tables) and target (Peoplesoft tables). Validated record count, data and transformations.
• Performed Confidential testing for various PeopleSoft Accounts Receivable (AR) features including processing of recovery receipts, miscellaneous receipts and returned checks.

Confidential

ESB testing

Environment/Products: Java, WAS/WPS, SQL server 2008, HP/Mercury Quality Center, XML Notepad, xPression, Solimar/Rubika, OnBase

Responsibilities:

• Performed Confidential and integration testing for a Confidential layer (ESB) that serves as a data assembly layer a.k.a CPU between source systems and the check production/storage utilities.
• The XML produced by CPU was captured and validated manually for different expected tags and data. The XML was also mocked up for certain scenarios.
• The XML was then fed to xPression and the printout was tested as per the requirements.
• Retrieved and validated the EOB/Check images stored in OnBase that was sent from xPression.
• Responsible for getting the checks scanned through Gunther machine and validating whether each envelope had documents with correct sequence numbers.
• Used Kofax to perform Confidential testing for the processes necessary to scan and image documents generated from PeopleSoft AR and Mainframe.
• Validated incoming mail and outgoing mail barcodes using hand scanner.
• Performed Kofax validation to test batch class recognition server (document separator), validation (keywords) and export connector to OnBase.
• Performed OnBase validation to test OnBase keywords, Auto Name String, Workflow and verify the stored images.
• Performed integration testing between Guidewire products (ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, Underwriting) to Peoplesoft AP and Peoplesoft AP to CPU.
• Processed different types of payments through the different pay cycles and validate the output XML from Peoplesoft AP based on the mapping document.
• The XML produced by Peoplesoft AP was captured and validated manually for different expected tags and data. The XML was also mocked up for certain scenarios.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Consultant

Environment/Tools: Microsoft Visio, Mercury Quality Center, MS Office suite, ASP.NET 1.1, SQL Server 2005, Bug Zero, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Compuware TestPartner, QADirector

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Business Unit to understand their business needs.
• Specified requirements and analyzed the major enhancements made to the existing application.
• Provided inputs to the developers through Use Cases, workflows, storyboards and business modeling.
• Wrote Test Plans, executed manual testing, logged defects and verified the resolved defects.
• Built and maintained automated test cases used for regression testing.
• Created automated Test Scripts; used Compuware’s QADirector to execute specific sets of test scripts and analyzed the results.
• Performed the required Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and Confidential and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Ensured that the application would function according to the defined business requirements, processes, and specifications.
• Participated in Project Tracking and Oversight (PT&O) meetings to keep track of issues and the project schedule.