PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 5 years of Software Industry Experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst working in Financial, HealthCare and Pharmaceutical domains.
• Highly proficient in Analyzing Requirements/Design documents/Functional Specs and Use cases.
• Strong Hands - on experience in preparing and executing the Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Procedures based on Requirement Documents and Traceability Matrix.
• Highly experienced in software Functional, Regression, Integration and Performance testing using effective software testing strategy.
• Experience working with bug-reporting, bug-tracking and reviewing the defects in tracking tools like Quality Center and JIRA.
• Strong experience working with SDLC and Agile/Waterfall Software development models. Good understanding in implementing RUP (SCRUM) methodology in application planning/designing/development/testing and delivery.
• Working knowledge of writing SQL Queries and preparing Test data. Good knowledge in understanding Unix scripts/commands, retrieving UNIX logs and property files etc.
• Experience collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Peer Developers/QA Analysts, Dev Architects and SME’s to ensure acceptance test criteria is met.
• Experience supporting Pre and Post Production testing activities and troubleshooting the issues that may arise during production implementation.
• Well versed with Version control, Configuration management and Change control procedures.
• Highly motivated, self-starter and result-driven contributor with excellent Organizational & Analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management: HP QC 10.00, JiRA, Microsoft Test Manager(MTM)

Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, SQL Developer, TOAD, PuTTY

Languages: Java 6.0, J2EE (Servlets, JSP, JSF, Web services)

Web/App Servers: Weblogic9, Websphere6, JBOSS3.x, Apache Tomcat

Web related: HTML5.0, Java Script, VB Script, and XML

RDBMS/Databases: Oracle 11g, SQL Server, DB2

Browsers: IE (7-11), Firefox (4-23.1), Opera, Chrome

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000, UNIX/Linux, Solaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement and Functional Specification documents to design/develop detailed test cases for various applications.
• Developed Test strategy, Test plan and Test Cases for Acceptance, Integration, Functional, Regression and Performance testing.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression, smoke, Black Box Testing using Quality Center.
• Executed the Test Plans, functional, grey-box testing of application suite; tested to requirements, defect management, and risk assessment.
• Involved in testing new functionality, improvements in existing functionality and software upgrades, and coordinated with the Development team to fix issues.
• Actively involved in SCRUM activities, Retrospective meetings, Sprint Planning sessions, Planning Board updates throughout project life cycle. Coordinating with SCRUM MASTER in releasing Sprint updates.

Environment: HP QC, JiRA, MS-Office, JDK6.0, JEE (JSP, Web Services), Jenkins, MS-Visio, CSS, HTML, SQL Developer, PuTTy, Oracle 11g

Confidential - Boston, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test cases for various modules of the applications like Provider/Member/Claims/Financial/Prior Auth/Managed Care. Closely worked with other teams/modules in designing the overall application.
• Used Quality Center to document the test cases, track Requirements, Create detailed test scripts, store results and report bugs.
• Performed back-end testing on Oracle Database and developed SQL queries to create test data, verify test results and check the integrity of the database and viewing the database logs.
• Managed all types of change requests, including defects, enhancements, issues and documentation changes using Quality Center.
• Involved in Agile/Spring Planning sessions, Grooming, Spring Demos, Retrospect meetings and in discussions with developers for resolving the bugs. Also Actively participated walkthrough and team meetings.

Environment: Quality Center 8.x, PuTTY, UNIX, Clearcase, Java5, J2EE5.x, WebLogic Server9.x, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Oracle, MS-Office Tools.

Confidential - Oaks, PA

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans; executed functional, grey-box testing of application suite; tested to Requirements, defect management, and risk assessment.
• Developed and executed test cases; worked with Development and QA teams based off shore; Worked extensively with team in India.
• Participated in QA Team meetings; developed use cases by tracking actions from log files on production server; developed test cases for Acceptance, Integration, Functional, Regression, Automation and Performance testing.
• Performed integration and system tests, load tests, stress tests and performance tests.
• Developed and maintained test cases and results; actively participated in the Review and Approval teams for test cases and meetings to promote the procedure.
• Reported bugs using Microsoft Test Manager; Reported status on Unit, Integration and System tests by generating reports from MTM.

Environment: Microsoft Test Manager, Java5, J2EE, Oracle 8.x, WebSphere 4.x, XML, HTML, Rational Clear Quest, MS-Office.