SUMMARY

• Highly competent, dynamic and organized Senior QA Engineer with 7 years of experience in SDLC, test methodologies and handling end - user communication and coordination with 6 years in leading the project delivery.
• A versatile professional possesses a high awareness of practical issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability and emerging technologies in the IT industry.
• Results oriented professional with an analytical mind and proven ability of excellence to get results, conduct research, and ensure adequate supervision with efficiency.
• An efficient communicator with good leadership, organizational, team building, motivational and project management skills.
• Motivated individual seeking Senior QA engineer position in the prestigious organization where I can utilize my skills and offer opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Experience & expertise in Requirement Analysis, preparing Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Test plans, Test Execution & Results Reporting and Test Management process through HP ALM.
• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle, Testing methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Extensive experience in Onshore-offshore model with strong concentration and enormous success in ETL, MDM Informatica and Data warehouse Testing with client-focused delivery and maintaining a track record of releasing high quality products within proposed schedule and budget.
• Validated the data based on data transformation rules and processed data which are sourcing from flat files and relational databases such as Oracle 11g.
• Experience & expertise in Database / ETL testing /MDM Testing / Manual Testing / UI Testing /Mobile Testing/ Report Testing concepts i.e. testing of Feeds, Tables / Categories, DataMart’s, Web UIs and Business Reports.
• Suggested and implemented the improvement process to the projects by building up POC, so that projects run smoothly with high quality work at all times.
• Good understanding in Master Data Management concepts, methodologies and ability to apply this knowledge in building MDM solutions.
• Good understanding of Entity Relationship and Data models.
• Worked on landing tables, staging tables, base objects, hierarchies, foreign key relationships, lookups, query groups and packages.
• Extensive experience in using HP ALM for Test Planning & Execution, Requirement Management, Defect tracking and Reporting.
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing and Regression testing through automated testing tools like HP UFT, Selenium and by using internal Macro Framework
• Involved in the end to end testing process of the Insurance policy i.e. entering the quote, issuing, renewing, endorsement, claims and termination.
• Worked on different Comparative Raters used to quote insurance policies and various third-party system involved in Insurance Domain in Personal Lines of Insurance
• Work with SME’s, DBA team frequently on scope of optimization and on continuous improvement of the Test process to ensure quality of data.
• Involved in different methodologies like Agile Scrum and Waterfall model.
• Able to work independently, self-motivated, good team player and quick learner at modern technologies.
• Leadership qualities, problem solving and troubleshooting skills, strong analytical, multitasking, execution skills and presentation skills with ability to co-ordinate activities and interact with end users in a fast-paced team environment and ensure delivery within time frame.
• Experienced in the Post-Implementation activities and documentation for the completed projects which were installed in Production under a release. Also involved in documenting and preparing the job-aid documents with step-by-step description for easy understanding of end users.
• Ability to learn new subject Areas and tools quickly.
• Hard working, highly motivated and reliable individual with a constructive approach to the business, client and to other team members.
• Very Good verbal and written communication, strong experience interacting with clients, end-users, requirement gathering, understanding requirements, and analyzing solutions. A team player with strong aptitude towards interpersonal communication with ability to work in team and independently.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

System Quality Analyst (SQA) Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and clarifying the requirements with BA and Product Owner.
• Preparing the Test Strategy document and get it reviewed by project team and incorporating the Review comments.
• Coordination across all testing phases, i.e. requirement analysis, test planning, test execution, defect management and test documentation.
• Worked on the testing of CCAR /RRP/DataGx Reports generated as per the requirements.
• Preparing test plan as per business requirements and uploading them into HP AML.
• Writing the SQL queries (medium to complex) to test that Data Marts are created as per the requirements.
• Involved in testing of Feed Files & Categories including Primary Key, Foreign Key, views etc. as per Data Warehouse concepts and ensure that they are created (including elements mapping) as per the requirements.
• Worked on MDM Informatica UI and Database testing used to Master the source data.
• Involved in the testing of Business Reports and ensure that reports are generating as per the requirements.
• Uploading the testing results and tracking defects in HP ALM.
• Preparing the traceability of Requirements -> Test Cases -> Defects in HP ALM.
• Assigning the work to offshore team; walkthrough of the requirements with offshore team, clarify their questions & issues and keeping the track of project.
• Managing the team and coordinating as bridge between client & team.
• Providing daily status to project team and keeping them updated with the day-to-day work and issues.
• Attending Pre-planning meeting, Planning meeting, Daily Standup, Demo and Retro meetings.
• Maintaining the stories and tracking progress of stories in IBM RTC tool.
• Automating the test cases through ETL tool (or excel macro) to validate that results generated by SQA prepared queries and Datamart are matching.
• Creating the scripts in HP UFT to automate the regression testing and executing the scripts for regression testing.
• Worked on multiple projects simultaneously.

Environment: ETL Tool, Internal system, MDM Informatica, Squirrel, Oracle 11g, MS Office, IBM RTC, Selenium and HP ALM.

Confidential, Reading, PA

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements to come up with the strategy to test the functionality / change in the system.
• Preparing and providing the test estimates of the project.
• Preparing the Test Strategy to test the project and get it reviewed by Business and incorporating the Review comments.
• Preparing the Test Plan (Test Cases) and get it reviewed by Business and incorporating the Review comments.
• Reviewing the Test Strategy & Test Plan of team members and providing them the review comments.
• Executing the test cases and uploading the results in QC / ALM.
• Coordinating with other teams which are also involved in the cross-track projects.
• Defect reporting and tracking in QC / ALM.
• Reviewing the defects raised by the colleagues / team members.
• Provide daily, weekly, monthly and release wise status reports to the management.
• Performed application production checkout for various releases.
• Handling unexpected/unplanned client requests.
• Actively participating in the meetings with business and developers to understand the requirements.
• Involved in the end to end testing process of the policy i.e. entering the quote, issuing, renewing, endorsement, claims and termination.
• Apart from Manual Testing, involved in Mobile testing, e-Commerce testing.
• Worked on Team-site and Live-site tools used for creating and maintaining the content of websites.
• Involved in Comp Rater testing that is used for mapping the fields from Rater to Client applications.

Environment: Policy Admin System (Windows and Web), Oracle 11g, MS Office, MS Excel, HP QTP, HP ALM, Mainframe, Comp-Rater application