SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of experience as Sr. QA Analyst or similar role with specialized testing in Web - based, Client/Server, Back-end and N-tier applications on UNIX, Linux and Windows environment.
• Interfaces with technical Client Service Managers, development teams, and other Operations staff to both perform and continuously improve quality measures.
• Work collaboratively with business analysts, project/program managers, and developers to share ideas and provide critical feedback at all levels.
• Good experience in AGILE delivery process of software using SCRUM.
• Good understanding of quality assurance testing methodology relative to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in definition and Implementation of Test Life Cycle (Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution & Defect Management) using HP ALM/Quality Center, Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server), Rally, JIRA & Version One.
• Experienced in Web Services Testing using Soap UI.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) aspects such as developing Test Plans, Test Cases (Manual / Automated), Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts, Traceability Matrices and Test Environments.
• Expertise in Functionality testing, GUI testing, UAT, Integration testing, System testing, End to End testing, Back-end testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Data-Driven testing and Regression testing.
• Expertise in developing, publishing and execute Test plans, Test procedures & Test Results.
• Experience in designing Specification Templates and preparing Training/Knowledge Transfer manuals.
• Skilled in understanding the business processes, analyzing and optimizing the processes, defining scope of the project and User Requirements and converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and Technical Specification.
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking and reporting.
• Experienced in Database Testing using SQL queries on RDBMS databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access.
• Strong domain experience in Healthcare, legal & Financial.
• Good team player and have ability to work independently in time sensitive environment.
• Excellent Communication skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem solving ability, analytical and programming skills in high speed and quality conscious.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Quality Center, TFS, Rally, JIRA & Version One

RDBMS: Oracle, Sql Server, DB2 and MS Access

Web Development: HTML, XML, XML Spy

Open Source Test Tools: Soap UI 4.0 & 5.0

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, SMTP, DNS and DHCP

Other Tools: TOAD, Sql developer, Salesforce

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and Iterative Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Effective communication between QA Peers, Business and Development Groups.
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• AGILE delivery process of software using SCRUM methodology.
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Review and Sign-off the Test Cases documents.
• Curam external application is used for applying for the health insurance.
• Identifying the Regression Test Cases from the current release test bed.
• Merge or move the Identified regression test cases from the current release with the regression test bed.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, testing results and performance baselines etc.
• Create and track various Incident and Change trackers using Service NOW service management tool.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepare the Test Summary Report at the completion of project.
• I closely worked with the users in performing user acceptance testing.

Environment: Curam, Java Springs, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Developer, Version One and JIRA.

Confidential

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Test Plan, designing Test Cases and evaluating Test Results.
• Executing Test scripts and Test case for all common activities.
• Participation in Peer Reviews of Test Cases.
• Active participation in Peer Reviews of Test Cases.
• Preparation of System Test Summary Reports.

Environment: WCC7, MDM10, DB2, Java/J2EE, RAD V8, WQS, ETL, Mainframe/CA7, Harvest, Web Sphere, Quality Center, Fitness, ANT, Build Forge, AIX, Wily, VPM, Version One.

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Effective communication between QA Peers, Business and Development Groups.
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• AGILE delivery process of software using SCRUM methodology.
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Review and follow-up for the Sign-off on the Test Cases/Test Scripts documents.
• Executing SQL Queries using Oracle and SQL Developer.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, testing results and performance baselines etc.
• Identifying the regression test cases from the current release and moving into Regression folder in HP ALM.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepare the Test Summary Report at the completion of project.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, SQL Developer, Informatica, Version One, JIRA and HP ALM.

Confidential

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participate in testing kick-off meetings.
• Designing test cases.
• Participation in Peer Reviews of Test Cases.
• Execution of test cases against the QA environment.
• Creating defects into Quality Center and follow-up on the defects until closure.
• Preparation of System Test Summary Reports.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, J2EE, Oracle 9i, DB2, Sybase, Mainframes and Quality Center.