SUMMARY:

• Software Professional over 11 years of diversified experience in QA and Software Development.
• Strong analytical and problem solving techniques, presentation skills, Quick learner and a team
• Player, excellent leadership qualities with strong communication skills.
• Extensive experience in Insurance and Health Care Applications and Domains.
• Extensive experience in QA Methodologies and Testing.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation.
• Exceptional understanding of the QA life cycle, from test plan, test execution, to reporting bugs.
• Expertise in selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Selenium Grid, Extensively used selenium RC using Java to create automation scripts. Designed and Developed selenium framework which helps to create the scripts quickly
• Design and Development of Use Case and Test Case scenarios and root-cause analysis.
• Expertize in Web-Service Testing Using SoapUI, knowledge of XML files analysis, error codes identification and comparisons.
• Plan, conducting User Acceptance Testing, training and implementing new processes and technology.
• Experience in Change Management, Defect Tracking and resolve them.
• Extensive experience in manual testing of Client server, Windows based and Web based applications.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance, and System Testing.
• Thorough understanding of RDBMS in writing queries, stored procedures etc. using Oracle, MySQL, MS-Access.
• Experience of back-end testing on UNIX to check the log files and permission etc.
• Solid experience in Mercury Quality Center, Jira, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, HP ALM and QTP.
• Solid experience in Microsoft tools Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access.
• Experienced in dealing with end clients, coordinating with Business Analyst at various stages of QA life cycle.
• Experience in organizing weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings.
• Cherish leadership qualities and ability to lead a team.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good at multi-tasking and works well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently.

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems: MS-Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/7, Sun Solaris 5.8, UNIX, LINUX.

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, QTP, Quality Center 7.x/8.0 /9.2, Jira, HP ALM and QTP.

Languages: C, C#, JAVA, HTML, ASP.NET, SQL, PL-SQL

Version Control: Rational ClearCase, PVCS

Development Tools: VBScript, JavaScript, Shell script, FrontPage, Power Builder, XML.

Database: MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i/8.0/7.X, DB2, MS Access.

Other: MS-OFFICE, Microsoft Outlook, VISIO, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tysons, VA

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed carrier testing for enrollment and billing work stream.
• Executed test cases manual and automation using Selenium scripts.
• Developed Test Scenarios and Test cases based on the Functional requirements.
• Worked on new functionalities like Age Out, Auto enrollment and Retroactive enrollment.
• Consistently met all deliverables dates for all testing related activities.
• Interfaced with the MAHIX Connector Care Authority (CCA), Billing Vendor (DELL) and Deloitte PMO.
• Supported and worked closely with the hCentive development team for defect resolution
• Participated in Requirement gathering session with CCA, Billing Vendor, Optum team and hCentive team.
• Reviewed and analyzed business requirements.
• Worked in Agile methodology. Attended Daily standup meetings. Participated in Sprint planning meeting.
• Developed Test Scenarios and Test cases based on the user stories (Functional requirements)
• Tested Web Services and XML using SoapUI tool for the local WSDL
• Validated various EDI transactions like 834, 8001, 270/271.
• Validated enrollment transactions to & from carriers (834 file) and Managed Care Organizations (8001 file)
• Responsible for Smoke, Functional, GUI, Regression, System, Integration, Compatibility, and User Acceptance Testing
• Detected Defects, Communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using JIRA and HP ALM.
• Responsible for formulating and executing SQL statements in DB Visualizer and SQL Developer for DB2 database to validate the data in different tables
• Extensively used JIRA and HP ALM for bug tracking and reporting.
• Participated in test execution, issue identification, review and resolution process during QA phase.
• Prepared various test related documents such as Test tracking/progress report, Test Summary report, Defect report etc.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Servlet, XML, DB2, DB Visualizer, SQL Developer, JIRA, Selenium, HP ALM.

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of the all modules.
• Conducted Black Box Testing (Functional Testing and Regression Testing) using WinRunner
• Using Win runner to capture, verify and replay user interactions automatically to identify defects.
• Involved in Setting up the Data for Integration and End-to-End Testing.
• Involved in Verifying the CICS Screens for the Get Available Dates and Capturing the Capacity from the Database Before Creating the Service Order and After Creating the Service Order
• Maintained the WinRunner scripts in Test Director 7.6.
• Wrote Custom functions and Error handling functions in Test Script Language (TSL).
• Utilized LoadRunner for performance, volume and load Testing of the website
• Wrote and executed scripts for load testing using the Virtual User Generator, created and ran Controller scenarios to test the functionality under varying load.
• Involved in Preparing the Test Strategy Document, Test Cases and Test Cases Execution for all modules
• Involved in moving all the Test Cases for all modules and Reporting from Microsoft Excel in to Test Director

Environment: Win runner, Test Director, LoadRunner, Windows 2000/XP, Web Logic, Java and Oracle. Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Robot, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase, MS Office, HTML, Java2.0, J2EE, WebSphere, Oracle 9i, TOAD, MS-Project, Windows 2000/NT, UNIX, Crystal Reports 8.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop life cycle Test documents and conduct Quality Reviews on project artifacts. Also, evaluate Project deliverables quality and compliance to the Quality Assurance Practices.
• Generated the Weekly Defect Reports using Mercury/HP QC for the management to communicate back to the Banking and Credit Agencies.
• Tested Complex ETL Mappings and Sessions based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files and Teradata tables to target tables.
• Designed and developed UNIX shell scripts as part of the ETL process to automate the process of loading, pulling the data for testing ETL loads.
• Created / Designed ETL specifications based on business requirements.
• Provided Efforts estimate and coordinated the test schedule using Agile testing methodology
• Define a number of test cases using quality data end-to-end business processes during the UAT and validated the system set up for transactions and user access in UAT.
• Efficiently used the Error Handling methods and implemented throughout the mappings.
• Created the test graphs to extract the data from the Teradata tables by using the Fast Export utility.
• Responsible for reviewing the Test Plan/system test results with the BSA and Business customer.
• Responsible for providing the status updates to the team on daily basis.
• Involved in testing the Business Objects performance & connectivity across different domains.
• Performed QA and regression testing on report data and data warehouse ETL code.
• Tested the layout, format, font, style etc of the reports based on the requirements.
• Tested the universes and reports in Business Objects.
• Tested the Profiling Report about the incorrect records and matching records.
• Used universe to create multi query, multi-page reports using multiple databases.
• TOAD is used to perform manual test in regular basis. UNIX and Oracle are using in this project to write Shell Scripts and SQL queries.
• Prepared extensive set of validation test cases to verify the data.
• Worked as ETL Tester responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project.
• Creating and executing SQL queries to perform Data Integrity testing on an Oracle Database to validate and test data using TOAD.
• Processed a query to update a field in an Oracle database, to ensure that debt payments are allocated.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.

Environment: QTP 9.5, VB Scripting, Quality Center, Business Objects, Informatica, Toad for Oracle version 8.6.1, Putty, SOAP UI, .NET, DB2, SQL Server, XML, HTML JAVA, MS-Office, IE8, MS-Project, API Testing.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Discussed the Project Requirements with the core team.
• Involved in Functional Study of application.
• Involved in Test cases design, Execution and Defect reporting.
• Involved in GUI and Functional testing of the application.
• Involved in team meetings and KT sessions.
• Tested the Compatibility of Application on different platforms.
• Reviewed the Functional Test cases.
• Involved in the preparation of Release Documents.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems.
• Used IBM Rational Clear Quest to Track and Record the Bugs during all phases of the project.

Environment: Clear Quest, J2EE1.4, SQL, HTML, XML, DB2, Web Sphere, Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle, and People-soft.