SUMMARY

• Have 8 years of experience as a Sr. QA analyst with expertise in analyzing business requirements to develop effective test plan and approach.
• I have applied my knowledge and skills in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing in all the stages of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• I possess exemplary professional skills in testing tools such as HP Quality Center and Test Director.
• I am Expert in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Interface testing, Integration testing and Logging defects.
• Experience in project estimates, project planning, tasks scheduling, tasks tracking, risks identification, project status review and reporting.
• Excellent at Software testing life cycle (STLC) & Software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Highly Knowledgeable in all phases of testing life cycle, including Requirements review, test planning, test case design, test execution, defect tracking, defect management, reporting, metrics collection, functional testing, Interface Testing, Integration Testing, UAT testing and test automation.
• Experience in type of testing such as black box, Manual testing, functionality, GUI, regression, exploratory, database testing.
• Tested both client server as well as the web - based applications.
• Proficient in scheduling test cycles, testing the product, documenting the reported bugs properly and tracking the bugs until fixed.
• Experienced in performing complex system level testing in heterogeneous Operating Systems (UNIX, Windows) and Web/Application Servers.
• Extensively used tools like Quality Center & Test Director for defect tracking
• Extensively used Remedy & Service Now for change management.
• Verifying code fixes and coordinating testing efforts with developers.
• Excellent communication, leadership, organizing, team building and motivation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Application Management Lifecycle (ALM)

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Center, Application Management Lifecycle (ALM)

Programming Languages: JAVA, J2EE, PL/SQL,K2 Black Pearl

Development Tools: TOAD, SQL PLUS,SQL Developer

Code Management Tools: Clear Case, Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, SQL

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Scenarios and Test Cases according to the business and system requirements
• Executed test Scenarios using both manual and automated testing using Agile Methodology
• Worked with SME and development team to understand the Business logic and processes
• Recorded and executed Test scripts manually using ALM
• Co-ordinate with Developers to write code on backend for automation testing
• Defect Reporting through ALM.
• Involved in UAT testing on application
• Involved in deployment Model Office for Core MMIS and Health Portal
• Participated in reviews and weekly defect report meetings,
• Involved in regression testing for the modified builds.
• Experience with ANSI x12 transactions like 270, 271, 275, 276, 278, 835, 837 etc.
• Intentionally raised defects by giving validations and doing negative testing on applications
• Interacted with developers and Managers to identify and resolve technical issues while performing automation testing using ALM
• Created Interface, Regression testing strategy.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed the reporting process for the Client Email channel, including weekly status performance reports and building presentations.
• Compiled data from both email and web reporting tools to create and maintain performance reports.
• Prepared UAT Test plan and coordinated UAT with stakeholders and business users.
• Performed Interface testing with the all inbound and outbound data and files.
• Involved in Formal and Informal Integration testing.
• Analyzed data to provide insight into changes and recommendations for improvements.
• Developed email segmentation and testing strategies and design marketing dashboards for testing Coverage.
• Worked with manager to prioritize different modules.
• Created reports those are visually and analytically stimulating and clearly communicate values of the project.
• Coordinated with development team and business users to verify the functionality of application.
• Performed functional tests, as well as customer scenario, stress, performance and usability testing.
• Performed cross-browsing testing to verify if the application provides accurate information in different (IE, Chrome, Firefox, Mac Safari, iPAD Chrome) browsers.
• Evaluated the performance of Team Members on a regular basis
• Experience in validating data within a relational database.
• Prepared plan with deadlines and assigned work to the team.
• Lead a daily standup meeting with the team to track the progress of the tasks.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive requirement gathering and identified the Pain Areas.
• Provided Consultation and Proof of Concept of the type of reports that would help the customer
• Achieved Excellent Customer Satisfaction by proposing best and easy method of ordering the API materials
• Streamlined the requirement gathering processes with the client resulting in effective communication and understanding of business needs.
• Ensured a Schedule Compliance of 100% in deliverables over a six monthly cycle by effectively resolving business and technical queries of the offshore team related to application development and database management.
• Testing Co-ordination with Offshore
• Created various triggers, Procedures to fetch the data from Database
• Involved in Unit Testing/System Testing of the developed code.
• Created and reviewed test scripts based on the requirements
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to map design, requirements and test cases.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Testing Team Module Lead/Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Performance Testing.
• Documentation included Creation of Technical Design Document, Functional Specification Document, Production Support help guides
• Involved in Requirement gathering.
• Involved in testing multiple interface of the systems. Main focus was on to test the data flow and format for data and files.
• Created Triggers, Tables and Procedures as per the requirements.
• Involved in Unit Testing of the developed code
• Created Validation Plan, Test Summary Reports
• Reviewed and execute test cases in Quality Centre

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Development/Support Analyst/Testing Team Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in support and enhancement of multiple highly regulated GMP Clinical Trial applications.
• Worked on designing various UI’s for different functionalities like Random Number generation.
• Involved in the development of creating an interface with another system in PL/SQL that fetch the data from one system to other and also make required updates to the data.
• Supported various Infomatica interfaces.
• Involved in Requirement Gathering
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Performance Testing.
• Documentation included Creation of Technical Design Document, Functional Specification Document, Production Support help guides
• Involved in upgrading the software to new version that vendor provided.
• Created Validation Plan, Test Summary Reports
• Created Triggers, Tables and Procedures as per the requirements.
• Involved in Unit Testing of the developed code
• Involved in Coding in Java