SUMMARY

• Software Professional with over 10 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Lead all aspects of testing across various groups of QA which includes System, Integration, Regression, Automation, Release Management and UAT and Production.
• Worked asOnsite Lead showcasing excellent communication and cross cultural skills in interfacingOnsiteand offshore testing teams and ensured on time and quality deliverables
• Testing of Different domains like Health care, Insurance, Financial (IB), Mortgage, Retail and Logistics and Ecommerce applications.
• Possess excellent skills in Manual Testing along with skills in Automation Testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP), Mercury Quality Center.
• Vast experience with a variety of software development methodologies and a proven ability to adapt to any project environment allowing for effective management and execution on any project.
• Vast experience working in environments with products/technologies like, IBM Websphere MQSeries, IBM Websphere Message Broker, Java/J2EE, JMS,.Net and Oracle technologies.
• Expertise in Analysis of Requirement documents & Business Rules.
• Supporting the Project Manager in estimating and planning the project activities (Project Plan)
• Proven ability in Software development principles and methods for design, development, testing software Web application, and Client - Server application.
• Experience includes the testing of Client/Server, SOA and WEB applications using Manual and automated testing tools like Quality center and Quick Test Professional.
• Leading teams and projects, driving organizational initiatives
• Experienced in coordinating end-to-end testing with clients and functional teams.
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting and SQL programming to resolve business problems of various nature
• Handling Multiple Projects and Teams simultaneously and also able to work on individual projects.
• Experience in Preparing Test Plan.
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Cases from the requirement documents
• Expertise in Writing, Reviewing and Executing Test Cases
• Experienced in Bug tracking and Reporting systems.
• Conceptual Knowledge in Load testing, Performance testing, and Stress Testing.
• Extensively involved in Scrum methodology(Agile) and Waterfall and specialized in Verification & Validation and entire SDLC model
• Test and quality management activities including requirement analysis, project scoping, estimations, planning, change management, risk management, Issue management, metrics analysis, staffing, mentoring

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Test Automation Tools: QTP, Win Runner

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script

Operating Systems: Win 9X,XP,NT, MS-Dos, UNIX

Configuration Management Tools: Clear Case, Visual Source Safe

Languages: C, Java

Databases: Oracle8i/9i, SQL Server 2000/ R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Miami FL

IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with appropriate users and development to identify requirements for development projects and activities.
• Primary liaison between Test Team and Project Managers.
• Writing and executing software system test plans and test cases. These scripts were developed after reviewing the business requirements documents and technical specifications documents.
• Regularly followed up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing and performance tuning.
• Performed testing on ATG E-Commerce application which is external facing application to test the functionality.
• Developed SQL queries to query database to test backend process of application
• Identify problems and solutions to learn specific of the requirements.
• Determine test approach, methods, Unit, Integration, Functional, Regression and System testing.
• Analyzed and documenting detailed program information working and interacting with software developers and members of various other dependent departments.
• Active participation in regular project status meetings related to testing.
• Participated in daily meetings to discuss defects, issues and risks of project
• Work with the Project Manager to identify resources, scope and limitations of testing.
• Identify Applications risks, issues and set priorities.
• Prepare Test Status report on weekly demand during planning and execution to summarized progress and results.
• Prepare Test Summary Report at the end of testing phase with results of readiness of system deployment to production. .
• Created RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to match requirements and design specifications to a positive and negative test condition, also to show coverage of each testable requirement.
• Provided Test Planning schedule to Project Manager.
• Maintained and provided status and progress of project activities.
• Report status of testing activities as defined in the Test Plan and/or Test Management Plan.
• Prepared Project Test Plan to outline scope, objectives and approach of software testing efforts.
• Assigned task to testing team members to ensure that they all have sufficient work in project.
• Participated in continuous quality improvement of established testing processes and standards.
• Conducted Peer Review of test artifacts.
• Assisted in defect reporting in an effort to communicate to the appropriate personnel of the various stages of defects.
• Supported the design, development, testing and implementation of new business and support applications.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Interface and Integration Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Check / Review the Test Cases document System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers.
• Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
• Keep track of the new requirements from the Project.
• Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Develop and implement test plans.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Test Manager.
• Escalate the issues in the application to the Client.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Organize the meetings. Preparing the QA Test Strategy, Test Plan and Scope ofTesting.
• Assigning and Tracking all theTestingactivities and the Tasks of the Team members.
• Preparing the test metrics fortestingactivities in different Phases of SDLC.
• Ensuring and maintaining all the documents needed for Audit.
• Define and review System Integration, End to End Regression and UATtesting.
• Supporting and guiding the UATtestingand Production teams to resolve production issues.
• Responsible for testing and maintenance of HL7 formatted data-interchange and integration with a variety of Clinical/Financial Systems
• Responsible for delivering integration aspects of projects, in support of the stated integration and project goals
• Testing (System and Integration) of several Clinical/Financial applications of such as main HIS, LAB, RADIOLOGY, HR etc.
• Provide technical integrated solutions for Hospital's business needs, best practices and regulatory compliance.
• Responsible for testing of interfaces using Enterprise Application Integration tool like Cloverleaf.
• Responsible for parsing, extraction and testing of the HL7 transactions from HL7, XML or proprietary formats.
• Conformance to the Industry standards like HL7 and XML for messaging
• Testing functional capabilities of healthcare applications, including testing of healthcare workflows across the enterprise.
• Testing conformance to healthcare industry frameworks and security requirements (e.g., Meaningful Use, HIPAA, FDA requirements, VA requirements)
• Undertaken major roles in the development, testing, refinement and implementation of middleware platform, and management of the versioning and deployment of releases and patches.

Environment: Cloverleaf, EGate, UNIX, Perl, XML, SQL Server, Quality Center

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirements review
• Provides Test estimates to new functionalities
• Manage the testing team
• Tracking issues concerned with Development
• Communication with Design team to sort out technical issues with Dev Team to forward the same once the issues/ queries are sorted out.
• Actively involved in creation of detailed test plans test cases and test scenarios for different application modules according to functional requirements and business specifications.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, regression testing as well as ad-hock testing.
• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and reviews.
• Reviewed requirement specification and functional design documents for completeness and testability as well as ambiguity and inconsistency.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing QC as defect tracking system and Confluence as knowledge and documentation management system.
• Tested applications compatibility on different browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome).
• Involved in defect reporting, defect tracking and defect reproducing.
• Developed complex SQL queries during End-to-End testing stage.
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing on later stages of SDLC.
• Used Regular Expressions to identify dynamic objects.
• Written Recovery Scenarios and Custom Check Points
• Log the defects in QC
• Performing Defect Management.
• Followed agile methodology (Scrum).
• Prepared Deployment Instructions.

Environment: .NET 4.0, VB.NET, MVC3, WCF, AJAX, JQuery, OOP, Windows Services, IIS 7.0, SQL Server and SSRS 2008 R2, IntelliVUE, UML, MS Visio 2007 and MS MPP 2007,QTP,QC9.0

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project
• Verification of Functional Specifications and Design Documents.
• Provides test estimates to new functionalities
• Manage the testing team
• Delegate tasks and track the same
• Tracking issues concerned with Development
• Communication With Design team to sort out technical issues with Dev Team to forward the same once the issues/ queries are sorted out
• Reviewing the Test cases in the Quality Center
• Performing Defect Management
• Preparing and Managing the metrics
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client.
• Performed Data Driven Automation Framework Concepts
• Involved in Regression testing usingQTPand enhanced the scripts by adding functions and inserted Synchronizationpointsin scripts whenever necessary.
• User Defined Environmental Variables used as Global data to exchange between Main Test Action and QTP functional library.
• Created checkpoint to check properties of various objects in QTP.
• Created User Defined Functions in QTP to enhance the reusability of scripts
• Coordinate in administering and managing the bugs in Quality Center
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Delivering the weekly and Monthly status report to PM and Higher Management.

Environment: AS/400 V5R2MQ, DB2/400, MQ Series, RPG36), QTP, Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Cases according to business and user requirements
• Participated in requirement analysis process and performed high level requirement analysis for the functionality of the application.
• Managed and executed test scripts for each releases
• Performed software defect reporting and bug tracking for different levels of testing such as smoke, functional and regression testing
• Experienced with Defect Reporting, Tracking and Resolution capabilities
• Prepared and tracked Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) with the test cases developed.
• Scheduled daily objectives, participated in Defect report meetings, Sprint meetings periodically.
• Tested using RMA application.
• Prepared Risk Log.
• Execute test cases using QTP
• Record Test Execution Results in QC tool (under Test Lab module)
• Participated daily in Sprint meeting
• Involved in Sprint planning

Environment: C#, ASP.net, MSSQL-2000, J2ee, JBoss, QTP and Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verification of Functional Specifications, Use Cases and Design Documents.
• Involved in Writing Test Plan.
• Scenario Identification, writing Test cases and executing the Test Cases
• Performed Requirement traceability matrix.
• Managing defects in Synetracker.
• Re-Testing for Failed Test Cases/Scripts after the Defects are resolved/fixed
• Involved in review and authoring the automation scripts.
• Involved in identifying the test scenarios.
• Business Participated in Test case and Defect Review Meetings with development and Team.
• Generating the daily status/weekly status reports.

Environment: JAVA, Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, TOAD, MS-SQL server, DB2, JCL, Windows-2000, EPIC, Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating test documentation and procedures using the requirement documents.
• Design and develop test plan, test strategy, test cases and execute test scripts.
• Developed and exported Test cases for various modules in Quality Center
• Performed defect reporting and bug tracking using Quality Center
• Performed supporting test issue resolution and communicating test results with other teams.
• Experience with Defect Reporting, Tracking and Resolution capabilities.
• Preparation and tracking of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Performance, User Acceptance testing, and Data Validation testing
• Created and maintained Automated Regression Suite.
• Defining project tasks and estimates and QA status reporting.
• Schedule daily objectives, participation in Walkthrough and Defect report meetings, status meetings periodically
• Performed Regression Testing by using automated test tools QTP 8.0.

Environment: Java, JSP and Oracle8i, Mercury Quality Centre 8.0, Quick Test Professional, XML-SPY 2004