SUMMARY

• 6 Years of IT experience as a QA Analyst / Business Analyst along wif excellent communication skills and analytical skills.
• Well - versed wif all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), tested various applications based on .Net, C#, VB.net, and Java
• Experience in testing software applications for Functional, Automation, Black box testing, Web Services, Regression testing, UAT in Investment Banking, Retail and E-Commerce domain.
• Skilled in preparation and review of key testing deliverables such as Test Case, Test Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios, Status Reports.
• Deep knowledge of Point-Of-Sale (POS) testing and Trade Order Management applications, maintained and enhanced Retail POS system wif heavy Data Validation and Interface Testing
• Proficient in analyzing and documenting Business Requirements and System Functional Specifications by visual modeling using UML diagrams including Use Case diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and process flow diagrams.
• Extensively worked on UI, Functional, Web Services, cross browser, Automation, ETL, Reports Testing of Web, Distributed Architecture, SOA, Reporting and J2EE applications
• Expert in test strategy, resource management, gap analysis, defect management and test execution.
• Experience in testing mobile applications for Manual testing, Automation testing and UAT.
• Expertise in querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle PL/SQL, Access Oracle, MS SQL Server using SQL, PL/ SQL for data integrity.
• Experience in API testing on Windows based applications, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, financial applications and Commercial Stand-Alone applications using SoapUI and ALM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, Mac OS

Programing Languages: VB Script, JavaScript, SAS

WWW Development: HTML, XML, .NET

Database: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i, MS-SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and DB2

Testing Tools: ALM/ Quality Center, Clear Quest, QTP, Load Runner, Selenium, jMeter, TOAD MS Visual Studio Test Professional, Visual Studio TFS

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, ALM, Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Remedy, JIRA

Requirements Tool: MS Office Suite, MS project, MS Visual Studio, Windows Share point. IBM Cognos

Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model and Agile Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review BRD and SRS, decide and implement the test approach
• Created and maintained Test Scripts and Test Cases based on High Level Functional Requirements Document (FRD) utilizing Visual Studio Test Professional and Team Foundation Server (TFS), for manual, automated (Functional & Regression), and performance/stress testing.
• Develop System and UAT Test Plan, formulate the Test Cases and develop Test Data spreadsheets for basic, alternate, and exceptional flows
• Implement HP ALM for running test sets in batch mode and analyze test results
• Provide Execution Time Estimation to the Project Team
• Ensure the System & UAT test environment is available for test execution
• Conducted extensive data validation by querying the SQL server database
• Perform risk analysis - priority & severity of each of the business requirements
• Involve in automation of test cases across various modules, Web testing, and service/API stand-alone testing.
• Log defects found during the execution phase and track their progress
• Publish of the action items/test cases to be executed on each day of the test cycles
• Organize training and knowledge sharing sessions for the team, attend daily Test Checkpoint Meeting wif all the testers
• Publish Test and Defect Scorecards on daily & weekly basis
• Consolidate the test result summary at the end of each cycle, detailing the pass-fail and execution percentages and the known defects deferred to the next test cycles or to production
• Perform Root Cause Analysis for all the defects found and classify them under the categories of application related, environment related, test data related, missed/new/change in requirements related, product configuration related or process related defects

Environment: Agile, Visual Studio Test Professional 2010, ALM 12.0, iOS, Windows XP, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2012, MS Project, MS-Office Suite 2007, Microsoft Visual Studio, Rally, SoapUI

Confidential, Timonium, MD

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed various Test Requirements after attending walkthrough meetings and weekly staff meetings wif Project Managers and Confidential, PAS and AMS teams.
• Created positive and negative scenarios for different test objectives after necessary inspection of related specifications.
• Prepared Test Data Sets to be fed into various tools such as CRIS Tool, Data Request Service
• Tool, DCAP Tool to verify the data is transferred to and from host application ( Confidential ) and other apps.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Backend, Integration, Positive, Negative, XML testing involved at various stages of software development process.
• Coordinated wif application development team and made sure the requirements provided full coverage of the functionality.
• Ensured every part of the functionalities assigned for the application as per the Design Specifications such as Plan Publish, EOW Manager (Element of Work), Pickups, Dispatch Territory List is covered in Test Objectives.
• Created test cases in ALM and imported in test set module for test execution and made notes if required in various scenarios.
• Found various defects and logging them into Defect Tracking Tool (Remedy), reproduced defects along wif screenshots to development team.
• Worked mostly on GUI to cover different areas of functionality and its features for the Confidential team.
• Drew barriers on MAP area of the functionality to test different territory served by Confidential .
• Planned and executed Backend testing using numerous SQL queries to verify the dataflow from the database.
• Involved in shifting the SDLC from Waterfall to Agile environment at System Testing phase.

Environment: Agile, ALM 12.0, Serene Business Manager (Remedy), Microsoft Office 2013, Visual TFS (Team Foundation Server), SQL Server 2008, Windows 7, .NET, XML, HTML

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Created complex SQL queries using TOAD, and preformed data validation for the Cognos reports
• Tested several complex reports generated by Cognos including Dashboards, Summary Reports, Master Detailed, Drill down.
• Utilized HP Functional Test Suite (HP QuickTest Pro, HP Quality Center) for test automation.
• Participated in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements as well as improve UI\UX Design of company software products.
• Created Tractability Matrices, prepared Test Scenarios, Test scripts and Data conditioning based on the test scripts.
• Ensured that automation test scripts are reviewed, approved and uploaded to Quality Center.
• Reported, monitored and tracked defects to closure in Quality Center.
• Tested applications compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS), browser versions (IE,Firefox, Safari and Chrome) and Mobile Devices (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
• Developed complex SQL queries during End-to-End testing stage.
• Involved in system integration and UAT on later stages of SDLC, prepared Gap Analysis
• Interpreted different performance counters, participated in analysis of load test results and mentor others in troubleshooting issues using Visual Studio Test professional

Environment: Agile (Scrum), IBM Cognos 8, QTP 11, Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server 2008, TOADXML, HTML, .Net Framework2.0, MS Project, MS Visio Studio 2010, Microsoft -Office Suite

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

POS QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported test activities associated wif product Point of Sales
• Synchronized integration testing activities and software scripts.
• Conducted quality audits to ascertain adherence to quality standards and procedures.
• Evaluated and interpreted Point of Sale requirements created by external vendors.
• Developed relevant test strategies and plans and attended test case reviews wif clients.
• Utilized SQL and validation tools to evaluate test results.
• Trained production support associates on latest Point of Sale functions.
• Managed regression test scripts and maintained end user documentation to facilitate hardware and software deployment.

Environment: Agile, .NET, Java, Quality Center 11, MS-Office Suite, Toshiba 4690 OS, SurePOS ACE application

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst/Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing Business requirement and System specifications.
• Identified and documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Developed business process flows, Use Cases, and other documentation for expansion of Client’s loan servicing, securitization, and trading model while coordinated wif Development Team in translating business requirements into design specifications.
• Responsible for Test Plan and Test Strategy development based on Business Requirements
• Coordinating wif QA team members in resolving issues during test execution
• Extensively involved in the modeling and development of Reporting Data Warehousing System.
• Created automation framework and test scripts in Java using Selenium.
• Preformed heavy data validation for the Cognos reports
• Created manual and automated test cases for functional and regression testing
• Created and maintained complex SQL queries using TOAD
• Design and develop functional and load test frameworks and develop automated test suites (Selenium wif JUNIT)
• Identified test cases to automate. Automate those test cases using Selenium RC, JUNIT and Java (Eclipse IDE). Contributed in Framework creation
• Involved in web service testing using REST.
• Performed automated testing using Selenium RC, java JUNIT on Various applications like claim Management
• Used Java Scripting for Unit Testing and to create scripts for testing in Selenium
• Reported Application defects to cross functional teams.

Environment: Agile, Java, J2EE, Windows XP, MS SQL Server, TOAD, IBM Cognos, C#, MS OfficeHTML, Selenium, JIRA, jMeter, REST

Confidential, Long Island, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Scripts and Test Cases utilizing Visual Studio Test Professional and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for manual, automated (Functional & Regression), and performance/stress testing.
• Involved in automation of test cases across various modules, Client-server testing, API testing and Web testing
• Tested the Web Services that captures the new promo codes using REST.
• Automated test scripts for Web services to expose company and contact records to the external system using Pivotal XML Web services API, XML and SOAP.
• Analyzed the applications architecture and implemented enhancements.
• Assisted development team in activities such deploy the Build to UAT.
• Created and implemented relational database, Stored Procedures, Functions designed Tables, views and trigger for the backend database.
• Preformed back-end testing wif shell scripting using UNIX.
• Provided maintenance and fixed small bugs in the Production.

Environment: Agile, Windows XP,.Net Framework 3.0, Load Runner, C# 3.0,Web Service, UNIX, SQL/Server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, ASP.Net, XML, SoapUI, Crystal Reports, HTML