SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of professional experience in Informational Technology (IT) with emphasis in Quality Assurance (QA) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies.
• Experienced in SQA (Software Quality Assurance) including Manual and Automated testing with tools such as READY API, Junit/TestNG, Quality Center, JIRA, POSTMAN, REST CLIENT and SOAP UI.
• Experienced in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using Ready API, POSTMAN, SOAP UI.
• Experience in Developing and executing the test cases using Junit and TestNG framework.
• Strong Knowledge in Software Architectures like, n - Tier, 3-Tier, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web Services using TIBCO and MQ series.
• Expertise of web services and XML based technologies likeSOAP, XML SPY.
• Strong experience with SOA architecture which include Soap Web Service and RestFul Web Service Testing
• Expertise in functional, data-driven, load testing for web services and web based applications using SOAP UI.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team and track the bugs till closure.
• Strong experience in ETL testing and tool like Power center, MDM and winscp.
• Experience in Business Functionality Testing, Smoke testing, User Interface testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, End-to-end Testing, Manual Testing, UAT testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Documentation and Reporting.
• Excellent understanding of Test Methodologies and the overall Software Development Life Cycle (RUP and Agile model) from requirements to product release.
• Excellent skill in finding bugs and over defect management, using bug tracking tools - Clear Quest, Quality Center, etc.
• Experience on testing Web based, Data warehousing, and Client/Server Applications, which include various technologies like Oracle Database.
• Experienced on writing SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick learner, strong analytical skills, team player, good mentor and possess positive attitude.
• Excellent on Working with Sterling commerce tool and have experience in Order management system (OMS) and entire store to store fulfilment management system.
• Excellent on working in Mainframe JCL, COBOL, CICS and DB2.
• Excellent in Automation testing of all API using selenium, Jenkins and Ready API
• Excellent in performance testing using load runner and LoadNG

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: SOAP UI 3.6/4.0/4.5, Quality Center 10/11, JIRA, POSTMAN, REST, CITRIX, CHANGEMAN, Clear Quest,Bugzilla, Sterling OMS tool, Load NG, Power center, Informatica tools, SSRS Report, Micro strategy report tools.

Support tool: Remedy, Kintana, SLA reports

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, TOAD

Testing Frameworks: Junit, TestNG, Rails, Ready API, CITRIX, READY API

Scripting Technologies: Groovy script

Build Tools: Gentran, Mercator, EDI tools, CITRIX, CHANGEMAN

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins

Database Technologies: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

MS Office: Outlook, Access, Excel, Word, Power Point, MS Project, Microsoft Visio

Platforms (OS): Linux, UNIX, Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis

Sr.QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of system design document and creating stories and test scenarios.
• Preparation of test strategy document, test cases and reviewing it with client for closure.
• Preparation of test data, execution of test scenarios and tracking the result in JIRA and QC.
• Reporting the defect to all stake holders and taking it to closure.
• Creating stand up meeting for testing update and defect tracking.
• Participating in kick off meeting, developer review meeting and project requirement as well System design document review meeting.
• Assisting client in UAT testing.
• Doing functional, system, ETE, UAT and release testing.
• Doing regression testing with every release. The regression testing includes running the iteration suite of last time scenarios once again find out no new bugs occurred. Keeping a set of scenario or automation suite to re run again and again every functional or release is part of regression testing
• Documenting the result, daily status report with respect to completion and issues and the project closure report with all data with respect to testing perspective.
• Technical responsibility includes working in Putty, Soap UI, REST, oracle, SQL, Jenkins, JIRA, QC, TOAD, Web services.
• Automation testing of all API using selenium, Jenkins and Ready API
• Automating API using Ready API Pro tool
• Automation of entire business scenarios like enrolling a member, giving in the segment and then running the transaction to verify the rewards using SOAP UI READY API Pro.
• Performance testing of API using JMETER/ Load NG which will verify successive run of transaction at a time and system performance.
• Load testing for performance measurement of API using Load UI NG Pro tool and Load runner
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API.
• Developed Web Service Test with SOAP UI to test SOA platform.
• Define software quality metrics that lend traceability to the software lifecycle in order to measure and track delivery dates, defect rates, and burn rates.
• Designed automation stepsfor testing API, identifying objects and creates test scripts.
• Analyze testing results and defects, and provide recommendations to development team.
• Reported the bugs/defects through Quality Center.
• Worked in Agile Scrum Development Environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Participated in daily, weekly meetings and technical reviews. Prepared reports showing the testing efforts.
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data with complex SQL queries from oracle database.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Performed regression tests on the application to assure proper functionality of the site after new builds using Clear Quest.

Environment: Soap UI, READY API, TestNG, ALM (QC11), JIRA, JENKINS, POSTMAN, REST CLIENT, PUTTY, Web services, Data driven environment using READY API, LoadNG, JMETER

Confidential - Richfield Minneapolis

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements & participated in requirement sessions to understand & identify missing, ambiguous, inconsistent requirements.
• Evaluated Business Requirements for testing needs and looped with business to improve them.
• Followed Test Driven Development (TDD) as much as possible and written test cases using QC and JIRA for every relevant class.
• Developed/Updated System Test Plan, Test scenarios and Test Scripts as per the requirements and Change Request Document.
• Worked in Teradata to extract EDW data into the report.
• Worked in MDX, CUBE technology and UI to test
• Worked in SSRS and SSIS reporting tool
• Defect were logged in BugZila for tracking purpose

Environment: EDW, Teradata, SSRS report, SSIS report and MDX query

Confidential, Seattle

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Defined data requirements and elements used in XML transactions.
• Troubleshooting, resolving and escalating data related issues and validating data to improve data quality.
• Extensively tested the Business Objects report by running the SQL queries on the database by reviewing the report requirement documentation.
• Validating the reporting objects in the reporter against the design specification document.
• Validating the data files from source to make sure correct data has been captured to be loaded to target tables
• Extensively used Informatica to load data from Flat Files to Teradata, Teradata to Flat Files and Teradata to Teradata
• Executing and monitoring jobs through Control-M.
• Reviewed Informatica mappings and test cases before delivering to Client
• Written Test Cases for ETL to compare Source and Target database systems.
• Testing of records with logical delete using flags
• Supported the extraction, transformation and load process (ETL) for a Data Warehouse from their legacy systems using Informatica and provide technical support and hands-on mentoring in the use of Informatica for testing.
• Interacting with senior peers or subject matter experts to learn more about the data
• Identifying duplicate records in the staging area before data gets processed
• Ensured that the mappings are correct and conducted data validation testing.
• Validating the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according the data mapping if satisfies the transformation rules.
• Involved in validating the aggregate table based on the rollup process documented in the data mapping.
• Written several complex SQL queries for validating and verifying the data across different databases including SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 10g.
• Prepared test plans/test schedules with inputs from Project manager and development team
• Tested the application by writing SQL Queries and creating pivot views as to perform back-end testing.
• E2E testing, System testing and UAT support to client.
• Worked in Sterling order Management tools, Informatica, Control M,MDM, SQL, Unix,FTP, Teradata.

Environment: MDM, Informatica, Powercenter, Winscp, TIBCO,unix, FTP, Sterling commerce tool for order management, Control M

Confidential, Mooresville NC

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in complete ESB migration of client from AIX to Linus platform
• Running various data file for as many as 50 application in AIX and registered the response data for the same
• Running the same files in new Linus environment and comparing the response with AIX environment
• Preparing data comparison report and logging the defect if the output is not same
• Doing regression testing in both AIX and Linux
• Defect tracking, logging and prevention during the testing.
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status report of the execution.
• Uploading the test result in QC.
• Worked in Queue, Listener, web UI

Environment: MQ Web service subscriber and publisher, FTP, Listener

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business analysis and requirement gathering
• Preparation of High level design, low level design and system definition document
• Review technical artifacts with client.
• Coding and unit testing the code in Mainframe and ETL
• Assisting independent testing team in SIT,
• Assisting client in UAT and bug fix
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status report of the project development.
• Worked in Mainframe, COBOL, ETL, TIBCO, Informatica, JCL
• Worked in COBOL, JCL,VSAM and DB2

Environment: COBOL,JCL, VSAM, Sterling com, Infomatica, DB2, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Firebug, SQL, Intertest, Changeman, Endevor, TIBCO

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business analysis and requirement gathering
• Preparation of High level design, low level design and system definition document
• Review technical artifacts with client.
• Involved in coding and enhancement of program
• Involved in testing, map creation and AIF layout for EDI transaction like 834, 835, 837,820
• Involved testing, map creation and AIF layout for of inquiring EDI like 270/271
• Involved in testing, map creation and AIF layout for status and acknowledgement EDI Like 276/277
• Analyzing and Providing solution for the various production issues
• Monitoring system job, Data and mailbox.
• Act as technical as well as level 2 supports.
• Tracking and maintenance of the bugs in the code.
• Assisting independent testing team in SIT for enchantment and development of application
• Assisting client in UAT and bug fix
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status report of the project development.
• Worked in Mainframe,ETL, Remedy, Kintana,JIRA
• Worked in COBOL, JCL,VSAM and DB2

Environment: COBOL,JCL, VSAM, GENTRAN, Mercury, Remedy tool, Kintana tool

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in creation of Letter of credit, Invoice and Payment system of Confidential bank
• Preparation of High level design, low level design and system definition document
• Review technical artifacts with client w.r.t to bank trade and wealth management domain.
• Involved in coding and enhancement of program
• Tracking and maintenance of the bugs in the code.
• Assisting independent testing team in SIT for enchantment and development of application
• Assisting client in UAT and bug fix
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status report of the project development.
• Worked in Mainframe, ETL, Remedy, Kintana, JIRA
• Worked as DP anchor of the project.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS.BMS mapping tool, DB2, FIRCOSOFT