SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in Software Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Worked on multimillion dollar projects for Fortune 500 companies as QA Analyst.
• Traveled to multiple client locations (US, Canada and India) for team meetings, client discussions and knowledge building sessions.
• Experience working within specified SDLC process and procedures set by the organization.
• Experience working as per organizations compliance standards, internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Applied knowledge of the Dodd - Frank Act to Perform Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing (AML/ATF) surveillance of high-dollar correspondent banking wire transactions via bank’s monitoring system.
• Experience in eliciting functional requirements through meetings, interviews and JAD sessions.
• Performed Gap analysis and developed requirement traceability documents.
• Has proven performance coordinating with internal and external team members organizing reports of analysis and research using data, measurements, reporting, tracking, indicators, and various software techniques.
• Experience in Change management, change request process.
• Experience with Fidelity’s financial solutions: CPG (Cheque payment gateway) - xVision and visionIP. Retail banking: Impacs (IM), Time Savings (ST).
• Experience in waterfall, Spiral, Agile/Scrum, RUP software development methodologies.
• Prepared use cases, user stories and functional requirement specification documents.
• Effective Team Co-coordination, Functional Design, Development, Analysis and Implementation skills.
• Proficiency in requirement analysis, functional specification, gap analysis, UML methodologies, requirement matrix, test strategy, test plan and test case development.
• Expertise in UAT, Unit testing, Performance Testing, GUI Testing, System & Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven & Keyword driven Testing.
• Knowledge of SDLC and various testing strategies.
• Hands on experience with various requirement and defect management tools like RQM, QC, and ALM.
• Master in Business Administration with IT major and finance minor from School of Business, SUNY at Albany.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000

Languages: SQL, Java, VBScript, XML, HTML/XHTML, UML.

Databases & Tools: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL.

Requirement management tools: HP Mercury Quality Center (QC), HP ALM, RQM

MS Office: MS Exchange, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint.

SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

System Solutions: Fidelity s financial solutions: CPG (Cheque payment gateway) - xVision and visionIPImpacs (IM), Time Savings (ST).

Other tools: SOAP UI and HTTP Unit and HTTP Watch, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Mount Laurel, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Manage project dashboard, estimation, releases and management reporting.
• Develop Test Strategy and Test Plan. Perform effort analysis to secure resources.
• Review and provide input to SRSs, SDSs and various functional specification documentations.
• Closely work with LOB and Technology to develop and document functional knowledge about new ACH processing solution introduced by vendor
• Understand the daily operations of the Central Operations unit, whichincludes Wire Transfers, ACH Origination and Receiving, Check and ACH Exceptions, Returned Deposited Items, Item Processing and POD Exceptions/ Returns, Subpoena and Branch Research, Legal Notice Processing, and Check Collections,among others.
• Liaison between business users and technical team, in making sure that both the groups are at the same understanding of requirements.
• Worked throughout the SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizingRUP methodology.
• Attend meetings, define user requirements, assist in the design of the financial processing and reporting processes in the back office, provide regular updates on progress to the Operations Group,participated in testing and user acceptanceof new system,coordinated user son the new system, perform post implementation review and generate post implementation reporting.
• Coordinate with multiple channels and stakeholders to bring them onboard and align to project schedule and timelines.
• Coordinate between distributed and host environment teams to secure and resolve environment issues.
• Enable Test Automation for regression testing efforts.
• Support Unit and Production acceptance efforts for critical fixes.
• Develop and Review Test case, Test script as part of test team.
• Plan and coordinate with data development team for data requirement, data mining and data analysis efforts.

Confidential - NY

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review Business requirement documents and functional specification documents to develop test plans and test scripts.
• Coordinate with business users for demos and covering new requirements and enhancements in the application.
• Worked on .net based ACH manger tool to process ACH files.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations with SME's and to understand thoroughly the business process and the interface requirements which need to be incorporated in the application
• Supported automation team with functional specification and Executed automated test scripts using QTP pro
• Co-ordinate with developers and SMEs, for application upgrades and enhancements
• Developed Test cases and test scripts.
• Log and track defects. Test the bug fixes.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers
• Maintain co-ordination between business line and QA team, between multiple geographical regions
• Facilitate the weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process around application development
• Facilitate QA execution releases for multiple projects/ products
• Plan and Co-ordinate functional testing strategies for success of various product releases with business users and other participating channels
• Undertake Knowledge Transfer sessions on various products between various channels.

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts to provide support for conversion and integration requirements between different channels
• Analyze business requirement and functional specifications to create requirement traceability.
• Facilitate meetings, with stakeholders to continuously improve the QA process for the application development
• Developed Test deliverables such as test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Execute Test cases as per the test plan and requirement specification, documented results in detail
• Used QC to maintained defect repository and followed the bug life cycle until the bugs are fixed or closed.
• Work with the Fidelity’s Integrated Business Applications such as Impacs (IM), Time Savings(ST), Relationship Manager(RM), Credit Cards and Loan System( Consumer and mortgage)
• Worked on SHAW Commercial loan systems and its integration to fidelity business systems
• Used XML tools (SOUP UI) to effectively test, services delivered as part of the new web services architecture as part of platform integration
• Coordinated with various business channels towards SIT and EIT efforts
• Participated in end to end system testing, performance testing, regression testing
• Execute SQL queries for data mining and validations
• Test critical fixes and coordinated with the developers on the releases and environment configuration
• Work on data conversion scenarios, test plan and test script execution
• Analyze customer’s migrated data for any inconsistence and issues
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and on boarding session between various channels

Confidential, NY

Sr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business users to understand the requirements for automation of the process
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion
• Develop System Requirement Definitions, Business and System use cases, workflows
• Accumulate user requirements through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions and translated them into system requirements
• Apply Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagram, ER diagrams and user interface designs
• Conduct online and in person walkthroughs of the entire system with users