SUMMARY:

• Professional with 7 years of experience in software industry specializing in Software Testing/Quality Assurance and Analyzing
• Business Requirements, Development, Implementation and Support of various Web/ETL Applications and Host (Online, Batch, Coolgen) applications.
• Applications followed Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Experience includes working predominantly in Retail, Financial Services and Telecom domains.
• Possess good analytical skills coupled with interpersonal, communication, presentation, self - organizing skills, assertive and a committed team player.
• 7+ years of experience in all phases of manual testing in Retail, Financial Services and Telecom domain.
• Strong experience in Web Applications, ETL and Host (Online, Batch, Coolgen, Stored Proc) applications testing.
• Excellent proficiency in understanding of complete Software Development life cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in Agile/Waterfall testing.
• Experience in Planning, Writing, Executing test cases for JAVA/ETL/Host/Unix applications.
• Experience in analyzing business requirements and software functional requirements specifications of an application.
• Extensive experience in entire QA life cycle, which includes developing test plan, design and execution of test cases and test scripts for regression testing.
• Proficient in performing Smoke testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, User acceptance testing, End to End Testing of the application.
• Extensive experience in Test Management Tools like HP Quality Center. Created ‘Requirements Traceability Matrix’ using Quality Center 10.
• Experienced in writing SQL/ DB2 queries for Database validation(Terradata, DB2, IMS DB, Oracle).
• Experience writing ETL test scripts.
• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter with good understanding and goal oriented approach to problem solving issues.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs, and interaction with business analyst, and developers for better understanding of requirements, functionality and business processes for testing of the application.
• Proficient programming in Mainframe.
• Good working knowledge of UNIX commands.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM

Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Center, JIRA

Operating systems: Unix, Windows, Mainframe MVS, OS/390

Languages: Cobol, JCL, CICS, Mantis, ATG/Java, Coolgen, ETL

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, Oracle, Terradata

Tools/Products: IBM Utilities, File-Aid, Endeavor, Control-M, SELCOPY, Sync Sort, CA7, SPUFI, JMR, SQL, Command Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from Business team and perform the System impact analysis
• Prepare the Test Strategy and Detailed Test Plan based on the impacted Systems due to new requirement changes.
• Get the Test Strategy and Detailed Test Plan documents reviewed with Business team.
• Developed traceability analysis matrix to cross reference Requirement and Functional Design Specification.
• Review the Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Get the approval for Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Business Team.
• Ensure the Test Data and Test Environment is ready to start test execution.
• Extensive testing on applications created using ATG/Java, ETL and Mainframes
• Checked data flow from front end to back end using SQL queries.
• Performed volume testing to ensure the job failures in production
• Review the test results.
• Tracking the defects and test execution status in QC
• Conducting defect triage meeting with project team, and update the status of the defects and test execution.
• Communicate and coordinate with the project team on testing status and issues reported.
• Document all the testing deliverable adhere to client requirements and standards.
• Perform Test Completion Report walkthrough and get approval from various Stakeholders to close the testing phase.
• Worked under strict time constraints and meeting deadlines efficiently.
• Support User Acceptance team during UAT phase.
• Provided the required SME (Subject Matter Expert) support for the implementation team.
• Worked on Production issues.

Environment: IBM-Z/OS, Terradata, IMS, Coolgen, ETL, ATG, Java, Unix, CA7, Manual Testing, Waterfall, HP Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Tester/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing Test Plans based on Business Requirements Document (BRD) and prepared the Test cases and Test Procedures using Quality Center.
• Performed manual testing of the functionality of the application by using varying data on different test runs.
• For each feature positive and negative test cases were written using Quality Center.
• Collaborated with applications leads to communicate and resolved issues and coordinate test efforts across multiple enhancements and defects.
• Interfaced with development teams to report defects and track defects using Quality Center.
• Prepared Test Data for system testing as per the specifications.
• Participated in Meetings and Walkthroughs, interacted with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.
• Working with an Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high quality work in monthly iterations.
• Studied and analyzed the Functional Requirements and System Design specifications and interacted with developers for changes in requirements if any.
• Involved in backend testing using UNIX commands.
• Involved in smoke test, integration and regression testing automation Framework using QTP and Quality Center.
• Developed Test Cases to test the application agile methodology.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to extract the data from Database tables.
• Generated the detailed reports of the Defect and Assigned defects using QC 10.

Environment: IBM-Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VAgen, Java, SQL, DB2 Z/OS, SPUFI, File Aid, Expeditor, SCLM, HP Quality Center, Manual Testing, Agile.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirements and provide the detailed Test Plan.
• Provide testing effort estimates for testing phases like System Test, System Integration Test.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and tasks of Testing team - this includes Project scheduling, Resource planning and Reporting
• Provide knowledge transition to the team on the functionality of the project.
• Review the test scenarios and test cases.
• Created Test Data for testing various kinds of test Scenarios.
• Performed Integration Testing in Vendor Development environment and System Integration Testing in SIT environment and User Acceptance Testing in Pre-production Environment.
• Validate the test results and share them with business team to review and approve.
• Document all deliverables adhering to client requirements.
• Logged Defects and tracked them to Closure.
• Performed Regression Testing when the build comes with defect fixes.
• Participated actively in all the team meetings.
• Perform Test Completion Report walkthrough and get approval from various Stakeholders to close the testing phase

Environment: IBM-Z/OS, JAVA, Mainframes, ETL and Quality Center 9.2

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed by a dedicated team with domain expertise, outside the development community.
• Performed in a dedicated environment with file and financial controls mirroring production environment.
• Participate in test plan preparation and test case walk through.
• Provide test data information for each test case
• Attend Status review meetings with client which are conducted twice everyday.
• Create and maintain current data templates
• Create and maintain data repository for all testing environments
• Perform environment cleanup by deleting obsolete accounts
• Coordinate and resolve data related issues
• Test the software for various projects and fixes as a single release for both changed and unchanged functionality.
• Certify the release prior to production move.
• Create and maintain logs of all data related issues and their resolutions

Environment: IBM-Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, DB2, TSO, JCL, Librarian, Xpeditor, DFSORT, Syncsort, ICETOOL, VSAM, SPUFI, File Aid, IBM Utilities