SUMMARY

• Thirteen years of experience in Web based Java applications, Mainframe and Client/Server applications testing, Mobile testing using Manual, Mobile and Automation testing.
• Has a very strong business understanding of Banking, Financial, Retail and Airlines Domain.
• Experience with QA Testing methodologies like Agile Methodology, Waterfall, and Scenario Based approach.
• Experience in application architecture design, database design, object modeling and software development lifecycle.
• Experience in Mobile testing(Android, Mobile website and iPhone)
• Extensive experience in Mercury interactive (QTP, WinRunner, Test Director, Quality Center) and rational tools (Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest).
• Manual testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Stress/Load Testing, and System Integration Testing expertise.
• Well versed with Black Box and White Box testing.
• Ability to write test plans, test cases, test procedures and test scripts from requirements and Use Cases.
• Experience in developing Traceability Matrix and defect metrics report to identify the latency and slippage of defects.
• Expertise in Analysis of Problem Severity, Defect tracking system and Defects reporting system.
• Have Experience in drafting Test scenarios and Test plans from ETL code whenever required.
• Good Expertise in ETL testing, Oracle/SQL testing.
• Have extensive knowledge on Data reconciliation, Data integrity testing and Data profiling.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

QA Lead/Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Client, Business, and Development teams for requirement analysis.
• Worked closely with the Business in the analysis of requirements and test to Client needs.
• Extensively used Omniture event verification using Charles and httpfox.
• Analysis of Functional & non - functional Requirements, Business Requirements, Use case documents, and User Interface Specifications for creation of deliverables such as Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Conducted review meeting with Business teams to review test scenarios, created and documented test plan & detailed test procedures for the application and Exit report for every Sprint and Service..
• Tested in Web based Java applications, Mobile apps and also Client- server applications.
• Validate mobile apps (iPhone and Android) on different versions of Operation system and screen resolutions.
• Validated Responsive website on iPhone and Android devices.
• Was involved in maintaining the Traceability Matrix. Used TD to trace the defects and the Requirements.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Worked with SQL queries for backend verification to check for the product status.
• Performed User Acceptability testing for major releases.
• Driving daily Defect/Bug review meetings with business, environment and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by team.
• Coordinate with offshore on daily basis.
• Extensively used SOAP UI tool to perform testing on REST web services
• Validated WSDL with the use of different assertions using SOAPUI.
• Validated Web Services using SOAPUI.SentSOAP request to check web services dataand analyzed the responsePerformed data driven testing by usingJDBCconnection, Excel sheet as data source.

Environment: .NET, Mingle, Fiddler, Httpfox, Xenu, CQ5, SQL server, Java, MS Word, MS Excel, Tortoise SVN, Sharepoint, Charles, TFS, Selenium, SOAPUI.

Confidential, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Client, Business, and Development teams for requirement analysis.
• Worked closely with the Business in the analysis of requirements and test to Client needs.
• Analysis of Functional & non-functional Requirements, Business Requirements, Use case documents, and User Interface Specifications for creation of deliverables such as Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Conducted review meeting with Business teams to review test scenarios.
• Created and documented test plan & detailed test procedures for the application and Exit report for every Sprint and Service.
• Was involved in maintaining the Traceability Matrix. Used TD to trace the defects and the Requirements.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Worked with SQL queries for backend verification to check for the product status.
• Retested the fixed issues and approved the software changes for enhancements by generating Modification Requests.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center 9.0 for Test management and execution of test cases.
• Performed User Acceptability testing for major releases
• Driving daily Defect/Bug review meetings with business, environment and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by team.

Environment: Java, Java Script, HTML, Quality Center 9.0, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel, Sharepoint Oracle 9, JBoss, Unix and TOAD

Confidential, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Client, Business, and Development teams for requirement analysis
• Worked closely with the Business in the analysis of requirements and test to Client needs.
• Analysis of Functional & non-functional Requirements, Business Requirements, Use case documents, and User Interface Specifications for creation of deliverables such as Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Created Test Plans, Test Strategies, and Test Metrics/Logs for System Acceptance Testing in HP Quality Center.
• Followed Scenario based approach in writing Test Cases.
• Extensively worked on Gap analysis.
• Handling a team of four, allocating work and preparing status reports.
• Responsible for periodic updating of Test Plans and Test Cases as per Requirement Specifications.
• Driving daily Defect/Bug review meetings with business, environment and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by team.
• Worked with SQL queries for backend verification of Company Blue Bookings & Reporting.
• Developed HTML and javascript tools which are used for testing.
• Execution of Automation Scripts for Test Data (reservations) creation for SabreSonic Kiosk Check-in Application
• Provided technical assistance to teams in Kiosk Machine/Check-in application questionnaire.
• Verified the Check-in functionality in Mobile devices for Mobile Check-in.
• Attended the weekly Business Requirement Meetings, Project Status Meetings with the Business, Project, Development, and Testing Teams to table the Testing issues and thus bring them to a closure.
• Retested the fixed issues and approved the software changes for enhancements by generating Modification Requests.
• Mentored Interns in QA methodologies and activities, applications under test; trained several members of the team on Quick Test Professional and Quality Center tools by conducting demo sessions and by creating standard operating procedures.

Environment: Java, Java Script, HTML, SQL Server, Quality Center 9.2, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel, Quickbase, TOAD, Teradata, Unix.

Confidential, MD

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Business Analysis and requirements gathering.
• Followed Agile methodology.
• Studying functional requirement specifications, technical design documents and related artifacts.
• Responsible for the effort estimation, planning, and execution of chunks of testing activities
• Participated in BRD walkthroughs and analyzed business requirements, design document and prepared requirement review report
• Designed test strategy for the project.
• Involved in Data analysis and prepared required test data for validation of test cases.
• Reviewed test cases prepared by offshore team in accordance with defined guidelines and processes.
• Created and documented test plan & detailed test procedures for the application and Exit report for every Sprint and Service..
• Liaise with Business Analysts and responsible for driving issue-log meetings on regular basis.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center 9.2 for Test management and execution of test cases.
• Involved in front end GUI testing, Backend SQL Server database validations testing and Validating TIBCO response with the Flex output.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Preparing and updating all business stakeholders regarding project status with daily reports.
• Coordinating with offshore project team members to achieve project goals through status meetings and reviews.
• Conducting Regression Testing whenever some code module is changed.
• Participation in peer reviews of test artifacts.
• Interacted with Development managers to discuss the outstanding issues.
• Participating in Retrospectives.
• Responsible for periodic updating of Test Plans and Test Cases as per Requirement Specifications and Business rules.
• Daily Status, Stand-up Meetings, Scrums with Business, Development, and Test team to report the test status planned, accomplished, and issues
• Driving daily Defect/Bug review meetings with business, environment and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by team.
• Conducting Sanity Testing on the load environment before performance test begins.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing (UAT) and System testing.
• Ensured proper sign-off at all stages of the QALC (QA, UAT and Prod).
• Responsibility to trigger TIBCO XML request and compare the values of Response file with the database.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Chordiant, TIBCO, AbInitio, Flex, VBScript, Java Script, HTML, TOAD, Unix, Flex, SQL Server, Quality Center 9.2, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel.

Confidential, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, use case documents, functional specs & assisted QA team lead in writing the test plans.
• Resource planning and allocation to meet project deadlines, managing team work-flow to achieve goals, project planning, day-to-day planning of all activities related to testing, build management, and release management.
• Designed Test scripts and test cases in Quality center.
• Developed test plans for executing and maintaining the test environment and also to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Validated and evaluated the automated and standardized trade processes; trade flow management that included business rules; trade monitoring and dashboard reporting; exception-based processing and reporting; communication with business partners in industry standards and protocols
• Performed Regression testing and automated the test scripts using QTP.
• Automated manually written test cases by using QTP.
• Develop/Debug complex SQL scripts/queries for data verification to compare the expected results with database and analyzed the data and the calculations for its correctness in transaction testing.
• Performed manual testing like both positive and negative testing
• Worked on different phases of testing. User acceptance testing, Functionality testing, UI testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Conformance Testing and Interface testing.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality center.
• Validated and evaluated the automated and standardized trade processes; trade flow management that included business rules; trade monitoring and dashboard reporting; exception-based processing and reporting; communication with business partners in industry standards and protocols

Environment: ASP.Net, BizTalk 2004, SQL Server, NUnit (Unit testing), SWIFT Interfaces - SWIFT Alliance Workstation, Quick Test Pro (functional testing), Load Runner (stress testing), Quality Center, QTP, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GUI interface testing at client side
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Created requirements traceability matrices to trace the test cases back to the business and technical requirements.
• Extensively tested and validated Worked on the the Extract files (Member, Group and Benefit data) that were generated from Oracle database using SQL Stored Procedures and UNIX Scripts.
• Weekly Status Meetings with Business, Development and Testing teams for escalation of issues
• Developed test cases, test scripts manually and also used automated tool Win Runner.
• Prepared the test data for positive and negative testing used in data driven testing.
• Parameterized the test and performed the data-driven testing.
• Used SQL to retrieve data for database testing.
• Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Test Director.
• Participated in reviews of client requirements.
• Was involved in maintaining the Traceability Matrix. Used TD to trace the defects and the Requirements.
• Involved in various tests - Functional, Regression, User Acceptance tests and Validation
• Helped for Production support and maintenance team.

Environment: Java, C, C++, Oracle, MS SQL, Win Runner, Test Director, WindowsNT, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Identified the test requirements based on application business requirements and blueprints.
• Developed test scenarios and test procedures based on the test requirements.
• Participated in Preparing Test Plans.
• Wrote Manual Reports.
• Develop/Debug SQL scripts/queries for data verification and data analysis for its correctness in transaction testing.
• Performed Integration testing, Regression testing in house custom software.
• Performed Database testing.
• Documented errors and implemented their resolutions.
• Created test scripts, executed test scripts.
• Developed Test Objectives and test Procedures.
• Performed GUI and functionality testing

Environment: Struts, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JavaScript, CSS, Tag-Lib, Java/JSP, XML, Intellij IDEA, Apache Tomcat 4, JBOSS, Test Director, Ms-Word, Ms-Excel, Mainframes((COBOL, DB2, QMF, DB2, MVS).