SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in the field of IT industry in Manual Testing, Mainframe Testing, Quality control, HP ALM, Quality center and Web Testing.
• 4.0 years of experience in Testing of Mainframe batch and online applications.
• Around 5 years of domain experience in Health care insurance and 3.5 years of domain experience in ERP and banking.
• Have sound knowledge of Software Development/Test Life Cycle, Test Methodologies and Testing Processes.
• Extensively worked on End to End testing including Requirements Analysis, Planning, Test scenario, test case preparation and execution of Smoke testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Working with clients and Business team in gathering all the requirements
• Involved in Requirements Traceability, Test case Execution, defect Tracking & Reporting and Test management through HP ALM.
• Assigning the Tasks to offshore team and coordinating with the development team to fix the defects.
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Analysis.
• Involving in Functional, Regression and Integration testing and involved in test cases review with business team for Functional Integration scripts.
• Involved in Testing of mainframe application both batch and online by running the Jobs.
• Expertise in using Mongo DB, Toad, Soap UI, Filezilla and HP ALM.
• Responsible for timely defect - free deliverables from offshore & onshore.
• After System testing there was no single defect found in integration & E2E testing phases and received appreciations from clients
• As a Test Lead, Leading the Team in all QA related activities, status calls, Weekly/Monthly Status report, MOM’s and Defects triage calls, Work Request Logs, Dashboards, Defect Report and participating in Audits and proactive in identifying and bringing up the project related issues to management and clients.
• With High Testing efficiency were able to increase offshore QA team (initially started with 2 member and going to increase to 15 members) and provided very good quality support to Dentacom application overall.
• Actively participated in - Traceability matrix and System Testing.
• Experienced in HP ALM, HP Quality Center for Requirements Traceability, Test case Execution, Defect Tracking & Reporting and Project Management.
• Conducting the Technical interviews in the Organization.
• Good experience with File-Aid, Endevor, VSAM, CICS and SPUFI.
• Strengths include strong customer interface, problem-solving and negotiation skills, estimations, requirement analysis, designing, programming and testing.
• Involved in Walkthroughs and Review Meetings.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as well as independently.
• Self-motivated, innovative, hardworking and flexible with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Load Runner and QTP and Soap UI.

Test management tool: HP ALM, Quality Center, Test director.

Operating Systems: Z/OS, MVS, UNIX, WINDOWS 2000/XP/NT/7/8

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, Java,.Net

Database: Mongo DB, TOAD, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server developer, DB2 Command editor

File Organization: VSAM, PS, PDS

Tools: ENDEVOR, FileZilla, SPUFI, FILE-AID, DB2 FILE-AID, Live Editor, Edit Plus, Nova Track and VSAM.

Debugging Tools: XPEDITER

Messaging Servers: MQseries

Transaction Server: CICS

Configuration Management: ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as Onshore QA Test Lead for testing the CCP, EHB and TCE Applications.
• Assigning the tasks to offshore team and interacting with the development & clients to deliver the tasks on time.
• Working with clients and Business team in gathering all the requirements
• As Onshore Test Lead, Leading the Team in all QA related activities, status calls, Weekly/Monthly Status report, MOM’s and Defects triage calls, Work Request Logs, Dashboards, Defect Report and participating in Audits and proactive in identifying and bringing up the project related issues to management and clients.
• Planned and Managed Test schedules using Release Dates.
• Preparing Test Strategy, Test plan documents and sharing to client.
• Involved in preparing the system & integration test scenarios, test scripts and giving Test evidence walkthroughs to the client, business team.
• Involved in defect triage and QA status calls with client, SA and development team to resolve the critical and major defects.
• Providing QA metrics & Estimations to Management and clients
• Involved in Requirements Traceability, Test case Execution, defect Tracking & Reporting and Test management through HP ALM.
• Testing the Total data Migration from VSAM files to DB2 database using File-Aid.
• Extensively worked on CICS online testing and processing the claims through online & Batch.
• Analyzed business and technical requirements to create detailed test cases/scripts.
• Tested the batch and online application module(s) to verify whether the changes meet the new business requirements.
• Generated detailed Test Plan & Test Cases by understanding the business logic & user requirements.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Involved in documenting and maintaining quality process.
• Created Test scripts for Regression testing.
• Test data mining using Mongo DB, SQL developer, Toad and Command editor.

Environment: Manual Testing, Mongo DB, Toad, SQL developer, HP ALM, Mainframe Testing, VSAM, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, JCL, DB2 FILE-AID, CICS and .Net.

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as Test Lead for testing the CAQH, HIX, EHB, CCP, CDT, NPI & AAC Applications.
• Updating and Maintaining project quality assurance documents like Work Request Logs, Weekly/Monthly Status report, Dashboards, Defect Report and participating in Audits.
• After System testing there was no single defect found in integration & E2E testing phases and received appreciations from clients
• As an Test Lead Leading the Team from front in all QA related activities, status calls, preparing Execution status, MOM’s and Defects triage calls and proactive in identifying and bringing up the project related issues to management and clients
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Analysis.
• Involved in Testing of mainframe application both batch and online by running the Jobs.
• Involved in Mainframe Testing of EDI transactions for HIPAA 5010 electronic transaction standards
• Involved in testing of data Migration from VSAM files to DB2 database using File-Aid.
• Extensively worked on CICS online testing and processing the claims through online & Batch.
• Writing functional Scenarios and test cases for CAQH, HIX, EHB, CCP, CDT & AAC applications by referring ADS documents, Functional Requirements and Business Requirements.
• Testing of application by executing functional, integration & system test cases through Quality Center.
• Understanding of functional requirement by referring Business Requirements Design documents and by attending Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Involved in online testing, Tracking and Reporting defects through Quality Center.
• Directly interacting with the Client/Onsite on daily basis to resolve all work related issues and updating the Work status for keeping everybody on the same page.
• PEER review for all sorts of progress and understandings.
• Always provided on call support along with late working hours and also weekend support also ensuring that all the deliverables should be intact.
• Updating and Maintaining project quality assurance documents like Work Request Logs, Weekly/Monthly Status report, Dashboards, Defect Report and participating in Audits.

Environment: Mongo DB, Toad, Soap UI, SQL developer, Manual Testing, Quality Center (10), Mainframe Testing, VSAM, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, JCL, DB2 FILE-AID and CICS.

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Module Lead for testing the both AAC and PPACA Applications.
• Testing of application by executing functional, integration & system test cases through Quality Center.
• Understanding of functional requirement by referring Business Requirements Design documents and by attending Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Writing functional test cases for AAC application by referring Functional Requirements and Business Requirements.
• Involved in online testing, Tracking and Reporting defects through Quality Center.
• Directly interacting with the Client on daily basis to resolve all work related issues and updating the Work status.
• Reviews and Daily status call with Onsite for keeping everybody on the same page.
• PEER review for all sorts of progress and understandings.
• Always provided on call support along with late working hours and also weekend support also ensuring that all the deliverables should be intact.
• I am the only POC at offshore for doing all ECM letters and AAC test case preparation.
• As a part of this release I took the ownership of delivering all the required deliverables in time.
• Updating and Maintaining project quality assurance documents like Work Request Logs, Weekly/Monthly Status report, Dashboards, Defect Report and participating in Audits.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center (10), SQL server 2008, Java, Edit plus, NovaTrack, Live Editor and Silver Light (.Net).

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Module Lead for testing the both Redwood and DCP Applications.
• Involved in Testing of mainframe application both batch and online by running the Jobs.
• Testing of application by executing functional, integration & system test cases through Quality Center.
• Involved in UI testing of all DCP screens and provided Mainframe production support for Redwood application.
• Reviews and Daily status call with Onsite and Nearshore for keeping everybody on the same page.
• PEER to PEER review for all sorts of progress and understandings.
• Always provided on call support along with late working hours and also weekend support also ensuring that all the deliverables should be intact.
• I am the only POC at offshore for doing all DCP and Redwood SRs.
• Proactively Organized KT sessions for the new joiners in the team and gave them all sorts of input also helping them in their way execution.
• As a part of this release I took the ownership of delivering all the required deliverables in time.
• Integrates the acquisition of knowledge or skills (e.g., team-sharing, lessons learned, sharing information databases) into day-to-day work.
• Understanding of functional requirement by referring Requirements Design documents and by attending Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Involved in online testing and capturing the Test results and updating in Quality center.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, SQL server 2008, .Net, JCL, DB2 and File-Aid.

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Testing of mainframe application both batch and online by running the Jobs.
• Testing of application by executing functional, integration & system test cases through Quality Center.
• Reviews and Daily status call with Onsite and Nearshore for keeping everybody on the same page.
• PEER to PEER review for all sorts of progress and understandings.
• Always provided on call support along with late working hours and also weekend support also ensuring that all the deliverables should be intact.
• Learnt Command Editor IBM DB2 tool for validating balances of different customers.
• I am the only POC at offshore for doing Balance Management Validation.
• Proactively Organized KT sessions for the new joiners in the team and gave them all sorts of input also helping them in their way execution.
• Running the mainframe batch cycles.
• As a part of this release I took the ownership of delivering all the required deliverables in time.
• Coordination/communication other departments and Work status reporting
• Help to the team members to resolve problems/issues
• Involved in online testing and capturing the Test results.

Environment: Manual Testing, Mainframe Testing, COBOL, JCL, Quality Center, DB2 File-Aid, and SPUFI.