SUMMARY

• 8 years of diversified experience as a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst in Mainframe, Client - Server and Database Applications.
• Good experience in all phases of SDLC and STLC.
• Strong Experience in various domains like Banking, Retail, Insurance and Health Care
• Good experience in designing and developing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix and User Manuals.
• Good experience in Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing.
• Expertise in writing and executing Test Cases/Scripts and Test Scenarios satisfying Requirements.
• Good experience in testing Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Specialized in testing and validating XML, XSD, XPath Syntax, Web Services, MQ Series, SOAP Messaging etc.
• Expertise in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, Defect Management And Defect Tracking, Test Scripts & Reports for delivering utmost Quality product.
• Self-motivated and high target oriented individual with application development experience on IBM Mainframes using COBOL/CICS/DB2/JCL
• Mainframe testing skills which include modification of Production JCLs for running in the Test environment, creation of batch test files, Querying of DB2 tables to identify records that can satisfy the conditions needed for testing the application using SPUFI and QMF, strong debugging skill for fixing JCL abends, and knowledgeable in execution of Mainframe Jobs using CA-7 Schedule.
• Extensively used the tools such as QMF, SPUFI, File Aid and TSO
• Experience in various bug tracking tools - Quality Center( ALM)
• Good experience on working Agile Methodology and Waterfall Model
• Good experience on front-end and back-end testing.
• Experienced in analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Detailed Functional Requirements (DFR), Use Cases and System Design Specifications (SDS).
• Good experience in Onsite-Offshore Delivery model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Testing/Modeling/Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, JIRA

Programming Languages: Cobol, JCL, CICS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

RDBMS: DB2, SQL, MS Access 2000

Web/Application Servers: SOAP UI

Mainframe Tools: File-Aid, TSO, SPUFI, QMF

Scripting Languages: UNIX, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minomonee Falls, WI

Sr Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality
• Preparation of Daily status reports and weekly status reports to all the stake holders.
• Used agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Coordinated with offshore team by attending status calls on daily basis
• Responsible for comparing the Test files with the Production files.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing the business requirements, test plans, test labs and test defects in System Testing.
• Involved in importing of all the test cases reports in to HP Quality Center databases.
• Testing the project according to the Systems Requirements Document and Functional Requirements Document.
• Mentoring team members
• Attending project meetings and ensuring to deliver the outputs as per the requirements.
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members
• Monitoring the Error events and resolving them.
• Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT.
• Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.
• Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Analyzed the data using SPUFI.

Environment: Hp (Alm), Spufi, Db2, JIIRA, HP QC(ALM), CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, TSO

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr QA Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality
• Leading the offshore and onsite teams and make sure all work done before the dead line.
• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Participated in the meetings, prepared reports and other supportive documentation to contribute to establishment of standards and procedures for software testing
• Test the batch/on-line application module(s) to verify whether the changes meet the new business requirements.
• Coordinated with offshore team by attending status calls on daily basis
• Responsible for comparing the Test files with the Production files.
• Responsible for making enhancements to the JCL.
• Involved in writing the queries by using SPUFI
• Responsible for loading and unloading data from tables.
• Executing test cases and verified actual results against expected results.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing the business requirements, test plans, test labs and test defects in System Testing.
• Involved in importing of all the test cases reports in to HP Quality Center databases.
• Testing the project according to the Systems Requirements Document and Functional Requirements Document.
• Mentoring team members.

Environment: HP QC(ALM), CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, TSO

Confidential, Vernon Hills, IL

Sr QA Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

• Perform the tasks of writing test scripts and test cases by referring the specifications of requirements
• Handle responsibilities of analyzing test results and troubleshooting environment issues
• Responsible for verifying database interaction defects as well as conduct performance and capacity testing
• Assigned the tasks of testing and evaluating mainframe interactions with distributed systems
• Handle responsibilities of preparing detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements
• Created the defects in JIRA.
• Assigned the tasks of creating bug reports and performing tracking testing of systems
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query the DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Participated in the meetings, prepared reports and other supportive documentation to contribute to establishment of standards and procedures for software testing
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members
• Monitoring the Error events and resolving them

Environment: JIRA,QTP, CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, TSO

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality
• Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT.
• Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.
• Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Analyzed the data using SPUFI.
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query the DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Involved in the review process of junior team members work.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing the business requirements, test plans, test labs and test defects in System Testing.

Environment: HP QC(ALM), CICS, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, TSO

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business and functional requirements of the application and also developed detailed test plan and test cases.
• Identified and documented defects using JIRA to ensure applications functionality and was also responsible for communicating the status to the team in bug meetings.
• Executed test cases using both manual processes and automated test tools.
• Wrote SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Monitor all EDI file processing and perform troubleshoot on processes to resolve all transaction file issues and perform tests on same and provide support to all client issues and maintain documents for all operational procedures according to data requirements.
• Validated tests by crosschecking data in backend on SQL server using SQL Queries.
• Assisted client implement User Acceptance Test (UAT) including creating Test Plan, generating test data, designing test cases, preparing test environment and executing test.
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets with the user expectations
• Performed Web services testing by using SOAP UI.

Environment: SQL Server 2005, QTP, JIRA, Oracle