SUMMARY

• About Five years of extensive experience taking up a challenging assignment in Software Assurance/Business Analysis that provides me an opportunity to apply my analytical, documentation, and testing expertise for the organization and excel under pressure in deadline driven environment with superior interpersonal communication and technical documentation skills.
• Experience in Software QA and Testing Methodologies, verification and validations in all phases of the SDLC.
• Well versed with various types Software Development methodologies - Water fall, Agile, RAD, JAD.
• Solid Experience on tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, ALM, Load Runner, and Clear Quest.
• Experience with Utility Tools like TOAD for Oracle, My SQL, SQL Plus
• In depth technical knowledge and understanding of Data Warehousing, Data Validations, OLAP, SQL, and ETL.
• Experienced in DW projects ETL testing against DW testing with Informatica, Ab Initio and data stage tools.
• Good Knowledge on Business intelligence, OLAP, Dimensional modeling, Star and Snowflake schema, extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process
• Ability to develop complicated SQL script for Data validation testing by running SQL script, procedures.
• Expert in review and analyze requirements, use cases, technical specifications and database designs.
• Expert in Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, Test stories, and Requirement traceability matrix.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

BA & QA Tools: HP - Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP), LoadRunner, Selenium Rational

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center 8.6/8.5, Ab Initio 2.13/2.15, SOUP UI, Web Services.

DBMS/Query Tools: TOAD for Oracle 8.6, My SQL, SQL Plus

Languages: C, Javascript, VB, Pascal, XML, HTML, CSS,PHP

BI / Reporting Tools: IBM Cognos, Autosys, MicroStrategy

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows - Vista, XP, 98, 2000, NT 4.0 UNIX .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated to created user requirement document for several components by extensive interactions with the user teams, development teams and management teams.
• Identified enhancement opportunities, and made recommendations to senior management, based on issues identified on the application, user feedback, industry trends, and benchmarking of competitor websites
• Developed a detailed Test Plan for the testing effort of the User Interface.
• Developed Test Cases based on the requirement documents.
• Used MQC to track bugs, analyze results and generate performance reports.
• Participated in the Creation and maintenance the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allows more than 2000 users login at the same time, and observe the behaviour of the system by using LoadRunner Controller
• Created Scripts for the running of various Metrics using QTP for Regression.
• Used LoadRunner performance monitor to analyze the performance/stress/valume/load condition of the application.
• Executed SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the backend.
• Performed user acceptance testing (UAT), and integration testing.
• Used MQC for bug tracking, reporting and storing the client requirements and managing test plans.
• Provide training, maintenance and support for end users after every upgrade and enhancement through user manual and presentations.

Environment: Quality center - ALM, QTP, Oracle 8.0, LoadRunner, Windows XP and UNIX

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on business requirements
• Provided functional, GUI, and Regression testing
• Testing User Based Access Control by identifying all the type of users present in the system and their expected access levels to all components of the application.
• Participated to provide training for users of Resource Analysis project application system.
• Work as a liaison between IT and Business Units as well as performing system matrix testing
• Performed Load, stress and Performance Testing.
• Conduct Back end testing using SQL
• Involved in writing test cases using MQC based on the requirements
• Report all defects found that relate to requirements compliancy to ensures that these defects are fixed by developer
• Update the user guide document to match the new requirements
• Design the blueprint for the web based application system
• Provide guidelines and best practices regarding interface design and human factors analysis.
• Developing a prototype or interactive design to improve the division’s web site inside the agency using VISIO.
• Worked with the users within the department to investigate business processes associated with project initiatives and suggest system alternatives.
• Made Presentations to Team members, Directors, and Senior Management.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Assisted with the development of project timelines and updating the crosswalk calendar sheet, adhering to project deliverables.
• Regularly scheduled meetings to review the project status/plan with senior technology staff
• Provide data analysis reports by interpreting auditing data into graphs.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office (MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint), MS Project, MQC, QTP, SQL, Oracle.

Confidential, Timonium, MD

QA Specialist Intern

Responsibilities:

• Develop a template that work as a master schedule for the organisation using an Excel application.
• Work with the Employment Coordinator to understand and participate in the recruitment and hiring processes to enhance system process.
• Followed the company’s standards in documenting Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedure using Business requirements document and Functional requirements document of the system.
• Performed Database testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions for Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Use Cases to discuss certain issues with stake holders. participated in the creation of the Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Participated in Developing user manuals, presentations and training manuals as per project specifications and timelines.
• Conducted Functionality, Positive, Negative, Data driven and User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.