SUMMARY

• Over 8.3 years of expertise as a QA Engineer in Manual/Automated Testing of Service Oriented, Web based and Client Server Architecture.
• Excellent knowledge of all aspects of the full life - cycle test procedure and inherent verification and validation testing techniques including Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Cross Browser Compatibility, User Acceptance and Database testing.
• Expertise in Manual/Automated Testing of Web based, Client/Server, Internet applications using a wide range of testing tools including HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center.
• Experienced in testing forClient/Server and Web based applications.
• Extensive experience in testing of large client server applications, Web based applications, Logistics Applications and Middleware applications on various Window and UNIX Environments.
• Hands on experience in Testing Core Banking product applications related to Loan Originating applications
• Handling a team of 6 members at offshore since 2 years and looking after the allocation of team members at onsite
• Good in project management activities by maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center
• Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies
• Sound knowledge on Core banking applications Domain
• Business knowledge on SAP - M&M module
• Hands on experience in SAP testing on the module MM for Internal projects
• Development and execution of Test Strategies Test Plans complete with test criteria test Strategy, Test Case documents, Requirement Traceability Matrix and allocating project schedules for System testing.
• Point of Contact for Estimating the Hours on Designing of Test cases, Scenarios and execution using Test Point Estimation method.
• Point of contact for designing the Casual Analysis Reports against the defects
• Hands on experience on UAT testing and co-ordinate with business validation team to get signoff
• Good hands on experience on Performance testing
• Analyzed the End user Business scenarios for Performance Testing and hands on experience in creating the VuGen scripts in LoadRunner
• Hands on Experience on creating scenarios in Controller module of LoadRunner.
• Hands on experience in validating the Graphs like Hits per Second/ Transaction response time/ Pages download per second/Percentile in LoadRunner performance tool
• Hands on Experience on ETL testing and Cognos report testing for limited duration of 1 year
• Hands on Experience on ETL Testing using Informatica tool for 6 Months.
• Hands on experience in validating business rules using various transformation rules of Informatica..
• Hands on experience in Functional testing tool QTP on record and playback method
• Good Hands on experience on Parameterization using QTP tool
• Wide knowledge of Defect management process and Bug Reporting Tools in Quality Center/JIRA/ClearQuest.
• Experience working with .Net, C#, Java and C++ based applications.
• Excellent proficiency in executing SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Extensive experience in RDBMS including Oracle, SQL Server and My-SQL
• Validated SOAP Request and Response messages using SOAUP UI.
• Expertise in functional, data-driven, load testing for web services and web based applications using SOAP UI.
• Excellent understanding of Test Methodologies and the overall Software Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, RUP and Agile model) from requirements to product release.
• Strong Knowledge in Software Architectures like Client-Server, n-Tier, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), J2EE and Web Services.
• Able to work collaboratively with testers, developers and business in testing complex and large projects and maintain detail QA documentation
• Sound knowledge on Derivate markets and the Investment banking
• Excel at collaborating across departments and geographical locations to complete projects on tight schedule
• Team player and fast learner, who has a passion for Quality products.
• Proficient in all phases of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect
• Knowledge on Health Care Domain and Facets.
• Knowledge on Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tool: HP Quality Center (8.0/9.1/11.5 ), Quick Test Pro(QTP) 9./9.0/8.2/8.0 , UFT 11.5, SOAPUI (5.1), Browser Shots, IBM-RQM

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, HP - QC, IBM- RTC

Language: VBScript, Visual Basic, XML, HTML

Database: SQL 2008/2009, Oracle-10g, MySQL, Informatica, Cognos Reporting Tool

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Unix

Other Tools: LoadRunner - 8.1 & 12.0, Ms-Dos, MS-office, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Netscape

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Albany, NY

Sr.QA Engineer/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review requirement documents and implemented the details to write test plan, Test scenarios and test case by creating module folder structure.
• Analyzing the BRD’s and business scenarios and designed the test cases for execution.
• Estimations on the executing the test cases
• Raising the tidal job request to ensure the data has been loaded into the target tables
• Applying the logic and designed the queries against the business rules of the requirement
• Executing the queries against the business rules and validate the count and Null check/Duplicate check and prompts check
• Logging the defects in Rational Team Court Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability
• Testing the Cognos Reports Based on the Business Documents.
• Designing the queries for the report and validating the data between the DB output data and Report data
• UI validating of Cognos reports.
• Participating in the UAT sign- Off meetings and helping the UAT team to sing-off the validating task assigned to me and to our offshore team and onshore resources.

Environment: Informatica-9.5, Oracle, Cognos Reporting Tool, IBM-Rational Team Court, IBM- Rational Quality Manager

Confidential, Collierville, TN

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business scenarios and designed the test cases for execution.
• Updated the Test plan and reviewed as per the check list
• Estimated the hours for module for test design and test execution
• Defects were documented in Defects module, and test steps were written in test plan module.
• Walkthrough with client for signing off the test cases and data Conducted full functional, integration, regression and User Acceptance testing based on business requirements and
• Demo has been given to the client against the stories and Tasks
• Triggered the queries to ensure the data got loaded into the DB tables
• Creating DSR and WSR to my upper management

Environment: Java, Web sphere, Oracle, DB Visualizer, Agile and Windows-XP, WinSCP

Confidential, Georgia

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business scenarios and designed the test plan for execution.
• Designed Test cases and test data for the test plan to be executed
• Provided the KT to the Nepal Team for similar project operations
• Walkthrough with client for signing off the test cases and data
• Demo has been given to the client against the stories and Tasks
• Logged the work efforts into the JIRA Management tool
• Estimate the work hours for myself and for other testing resources
• Triggered the queries to ensure the data got loaded into the DW tables
• Logged the issues in the JIRA tool
• Provided a rough release notes to my Manager

Environment: ORACLE -9i, DMExpress -6.5.,JIRA.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business mappings and Technical Requirements to understand the application.
• Participated in identifying the strategy to follow to migrate the Informatica data into the DMExpress Tool.
• Acquired Knowledge on Informatica to know how the data is navigating from source target with reference to the Filters & Aggregators and loading into the Target table.
• Hands on Experience and knowledge on DMExpress
• Performed the workflows Unit testing on some modules in DMX tool.
• Designed the Knowledge Transfer document internally for the new joiners in the project
• Executed the workflows as batches of DMExpress through Unix server
• Executed the workflows as batches of DMExpress through Informatica server
• Executed the workflows directly from the Informatica box by indentifying the Workflows and validated the results in the Monitor tab.
• Handled the team 7 members from offshore
• Co-ordinate with Onshore team by tracking the productivity of the resources
• Estimated the time taken for the workflows to be migrated from the Informatica to the DMExpress
• Desinged the Test Strategy document and Test scenario to be followed for testing the workflows of various LOB’s
• Executed the test cases in HP-Quality center and raised the defects.

Environment: Teradata -12.0, Informatica- 8.6.1, Oracle- 9i, DMExpress -6.5 & 6.9, DB2 - 9.5, Unix,QC - 10.00 Tool

Confidential - NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the draft version of the functional test plan.
• Prepared a Query log as per the company standards
• Manual Test cases were created to validate the functionality of the application.
• Involve in the Data base testing.
• Managed defect tracking through clear quest.
• Peer reviewed the test cases.
• Designed the Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in client interactions and reporting on a daily basis.

Environment: C#.net, Oracle-9i, Manual Testing, Ascential-Datastage-7.5.2, Manual testing, QC-9.0 Vision

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Sr.Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Functional Requirements discussion from scratch.
• Developed Test Plan and prepared Defect Segregation sheet for Casual Analysis Report (CAR)
• Designed Test cases for all the online Modules.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrices to map the Use Cases, Test Cases against the Requirements.
• Verified the Reports Layouts and cross-verified the displayed data with Data Base.
• Interacted thoroughly with the Client for the Functional and alignment issues on Reports.
• Responsible for reporting, tracking and reassigned the bugs using the Compuware tracker
• Analyzed the End user Business scenarios for Load Runner
• Creating and enhance the VuGen scripts in LoadRunner
• Analyzing the different load behavior scenarios
• Creating the different load behavior scenarios
• Involved in major enhancements like Correlation and Parameterization

Environment: .Net, MSSQL-2005, Windows XP Professional, Manual testing, Compu Tracker, LoadRunner-9.0 Vision

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Functional Requirements discussion from scratch.
• Developed Test Plan and Involved in Preparing CAR (Casual Analysis Repot)
• Developed Test cases for all the Modules and uploaded some test cases to Mercury Quality center.
• Thoroughly validated all the Reports alignment and cross-verified the data displayed with respect to the Data Base.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrices to map the Use Cases, Test Cases against the Requirements.
• Developed module wise and Integrated Test Scripts for regular builds.
• Responsible for reporting, tracking and reassigned the bugs using the Compuware tracker.

Environment: .Net, MSSQL-2005, Windows XP Professional, Manual testing, Compu Tracker, LoadRunner-9.0, Cross Browsing tool, SOAP UI

Confidential, Chicago

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Functional specifications Study
• Developed Test cases and reviewed
• Fired SQL Queries to verify the UI data with respect to the Data Base.
• Key resource for KT s
• Responsible for reporting, tracking the bugs using Mercury Quality Center.

Environment: Java, Oracle and Quality Center

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Functional specifications Study
• Developed and Peer -reviewed Test Cases
• Responsible for conducting Functionality and Regression testing
• Responsible for preparing daily status reports
• Responsible for reporting, tracking the bugs

Environment: Java, Oracle and Quality Center