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 wif application development experience on IBM Mainframes using COBOL/CICS/DB2/JCL
• Mainframe testing skills which include modification of Production JCLs for running in teh Test environment, creation of batch test files, Querying of DB2 tables to identify records dat can satisfy teh conditions needed for testing teh application using SPUFI and QMF, strong debugging skill for fixing JCL abends, and noledgeable in execution of Mainframe Jobs using CA-7 Schedule.
• Extensively used teh 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 teh functionality
• Preparation of Daily status reports and weekly status reports to all teh stake holders.
• Used agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure teh new features meet teh customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Coordinated wif offshore team by attending status calls on daily basis
• Responsible for comparing teh Test files wif teh Production files.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing teh business requirements, test plans, test labs and test defects in System Testing.
• Involved in importing of all teh test cases reports in to HP Quality Center databases.
• Testing teh project according to teh Systems Requirements Document and Functional Requirements Document.
• Mentoring team members
• Attending project meetings and ensuring to deliver teh outputs as per teh requirements.
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members
• Monitoring teh 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 teh team for solving abends
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of teh bugs, teh pass-fail reports and teh Test results.
• Analyzed teh 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 teh functionality
• Leading teh offshore and onsite teams and make sure all work done before teh dead line.
• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure teh new features meet teh customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Participated in teh meetings, prepared reports and other supportive documentation to contribute to establishment of standards and procedures for software testing
• Test teh batch/on-line application module(s) to verify whether teh changes meet teh new business requirements.
• Coordinated wif offshore team by attending status calls on daily basis
• Responsible for comparing teh Test files wif teh Production files.
• Responsible for making enhancements to teh JCL.
• Involved in writing teh 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 teh business requirements, test plans, test labs and test defects in System Testing.
• Involved in importing of all teh test cases reports in to HP Quality Center databases.
• Testing teh project according to teh 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 teh tasks of writing test scripts and test cases by referring teh 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 teh tasks of testing and evaluating mainframe interactions wif distributed systems
• Handle responsibilities of preparing detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements
• Created teh defects in JIRA.
• Assigned teh tasks of creating bug reports and performing tracking testing of systems
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query teh DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Participated in teh 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 teh 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 teh new features meet teh customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test teh functionality
• Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT.
• Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.
• Provide technical assistance to teh team for solving abends
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of teh bugs, teh pass-fail reports and teh Test results.
• Analyzed teh data using SPUFI.
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query teh DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Involved in teh review process of junior team members work.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing teh 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 teh business and functional requirements of teh 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 teh status to teh 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 wif users and program developers to ensure application development meets wif teh user expectations
• Performed Web services testing by using SOAP UI.

Environment: SQL Server 2005, QTP, JIRA, Oracle