PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced Quality Assurance Analyst with 8 years of experience in the Information Technology, involving analysis, both Manual and Automated testing of Client - Server and Web applications, with focus towards Health Insurance and Financial domains.
• Experience in using HP Application Lifecycle Management (QC), QTP for Client/Server Applications, Selenium IDE for Web based applications and SoapUI, browser rest clients for API, Integration testing.
• Experience in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Agile methodologies.
• Strong Experience in System testing, Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, Performance testing and User Acceptance testing UAT of a given software application for different software releases, builds and patches.
• Strong skills in all phases of testing: test planning, documentation, test data set-up, execution and defect analysis and tracking. Worked extensively on creating and executing test cases and writing test scripts using manual/automated methods.
• Experience in Creating Test Procedures, defining Test cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interaction with team members in fixing the errors and worked as a coordinator for Projects tested offshore.
• Worked on Selenium IDE to Automate Testing of Web Application, modified test scripts which includes sequence of commands to be executed.
• Experience in backend database by writing and executing SQL queries using TOAD, SQL+ and used PL/SQL to extract complex results from database.
• Strong working experience in Windows and Unix/Linux platforms.
• Experience with MS-Visio for model diagrams and MS-PowerPoint for presentations.
• Expertise in providing clear, concise expression in speech and written work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/2008/XP/7/8, Red Hat Linux 4/5

Testing Tools: HP ALM (QC), QTP (WinRunner and LoadRunner), MTM (MS Test Manager), Selenium Web Driver, SoapUI, Rest clients

Scripting: UNIX Shell, VB scripting

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 9i/10g/11i, Toad, Sql+

Others: TFS, IIS, Tomcat, JBoss, Jenkins, WinMerge, Eclipse

Remote Admin Tools: RDP, Putty, WinScp

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Enfield, CT

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the testing of advanced financial services application at a high level of detail and coordinate with developers and the business team in the execution of the primary responsibilities, including:
• Creation of test cases and test data. Reviewing and analyzing results of test cases and exercises.
• Preparing documentation summarizing test results and providing clear status reports.
• Communicating with developers on and business team clients on specific application issues.
• Helping to define test automation strategy. Using tools to create and execute automated regression tests, ensuring reliability of each release. Prioritizing QA issues and facilitating issue resolution.
• Provided technical expertise in testing and is responsible for testing quality from start to finish, which includes editing and maintaining test strategies, transformation of test strategies into test plans.
• Provided technical expertise in testing and product knowledge in the development of prioritized test requirements and test cases, construction and execution of test plans, and the evaluation of test results.
• Defined the test requirements and cases; participated to ensure test plans and scenarios deliver high quality solutions that satisfy business requirements.
• Monitors scope and requirements changes, assesses the impact on the test management deliverables.
• Create Defect Status report for Development Team and Stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Provided accurate estimates and reports of test progress. Derived the test scenarios/cases in accordance with testing strategy and risk based test methodology; ensures traceability back to requirements and solutions, and ensures quality in the representation of defects for correction and during retest.
• Work with theBusinessTeam to review UAT validation scenarios and execute the UAT test cases.
• Generated Operations for the given WSDL and Endpoint.
• Executed the web services in different environments using SOAP UI.
• Provided the Functional, Integration testing, Regression testing, Performance testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT) Testing and End to End Program Testing signoff. Assisted with business acceptance testing to enable signoff from key stakeholders and project sponsors.

Environment: Windows, Linux, Java, HTML, XML, JSP, Servlets, Quality Center (HP ALM), SOAP UI, Selenium, Oracle11i, TOAD, SQL+, SCP, WSCP, FTP, SFTP.

Confidential, Tampa, FL.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing /trouble shooting EDI transactions 834,820,837 using in-house built tool and used MTM (MS Test Manager) for other parts of application testing.
• Tested the patent portal using UI layer tool like Selenium WebDriver and performed load testing using HP LoadRunner in pre-prod environment before signing off releases.
• Mocked up enrollment 834 data using companion guide to build test data files
• Prepared test data files of enrollment 834 and 820 EDI transactions for testing in XEServer.
• Created test data for enrollment EDI for all the loops to have required personal information.
• Tested EDI 820 Initial payment method - credit card, EFT, Paper Check, ACH and Recurring payment set up by creating mock up data
• Tested a SQL Query Based Extractor Tool which extracts trading partners profile into CSV format (Comma separated value) from Trading Partner Management.
• Responsibilities including Functional requirements documentation, preparing test strategy coordinating team-testing efforts, maintaining defect logs, preparing and reporting QA metrics. Evaluated manual QA test plans, Test Strategy and help Team lead with estimates.
• Responsible for entire testing life cycle including requirement analysis, test strategy, master test plan creation, test scenario identification, test steps creation, and execution in quality center.
• Participated in peer-review sessions to base line technical requirements high-level design, detailed design, test scenarios and test scripts.
• Coordinated project activities with various teams and conducted testing reviews, test reports, test result reviews with development team and various project teams.
• Performed front end transactions and validated against back end database using SQL.
• Executed functional, integration, regression and smoke testing.

Environment: MTM, TFS, HP LoadRunner, SOAP UI, Selenium, SQL server, SQL Developer, Windows, HTML, XML, RDP, WinSCP, FTP.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap Analysis for application developed in Java
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) was followed throughout the project and all artifacts are generated for each discipline.
• Executed the test cases by making use of test management tools Test Director and Quality Center.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT).
• Worked with SQL, PL/SQL and functions to test the database integrity (Oracle).
• Created Traceability between Requirements in RequisitePro and Test Cases in Test Manager.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement
• Conducted Regression testing, initial level testing for various combinations using Manual and automated scripts.
• Responsible for generating defect reports and report to project manager.
• Interacted with Business People and Developers to exchange the updated Functionality specification.
• Responsible for Reviewing test cases and defects logged by all the team members
• Created and maintained automation test scripts using QTP for smoke and regression testing using data provided in EXCEL sheets.
• Tracked the defects using Rational Clear Quest and generated defect summary reports.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.

Environment: Quality Center (HP ALM), QTP, Oracle11i, TOAD, Windows, Linux, Java, HTML, XML, JSP, Servlets, Tomcat, SCP, WinSCP, FTP.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing the High level and Detailed Test cases for Registration and Billing modules.
• Involved in detailed Functional testing for various Modules like Registration, Cancellation and Billing for various plans and services.
• Performed Regression testing of the application and verified the applications expected behavior at different stages of the testing process.
• Involved in the System testing of the application.
• Involved in Test Coverage Matrix, requirement analysis and Requirement Traceability and Defects evaluation process.
• Tracked and documented the defects in Quality center and reported the defects to the developers through Quality Center.
• Performed Database testing by writing SQL queries.
• Maintained the Test log Defect reports and also monitored the resolution of Defects.
• Developed test cases and analyzed the functional test cases and technical specifications.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing before a fully-fledged testing is implemented for the application.
• Developed automated scripts using Quick Test Professional to perform functional and regression testing.
• Created automated test scripts for Regression Testing. Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Written SQL queries for checking the Data Transactions and Database Integrity in Oracle.
• Interacted with end users and business groups to obtain specific system requirements and developed business and technical specifications.
• Generated detailed reports on the pending bugs, pass-fail report, and comparison chart.
• Participated in requirements walkthroughs, kick-off meetings, and Project meetings.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Windows, Java, Tomcat, Oracle and XML.