SUMMARY

• Results - oriented professional, with 10 plus years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance (manual and automated).
• Looking for a challenging position as a Quality Assurance Test Coordinator using both manual testing and automated testing tools, such as HP Quality Center or Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM).
• Excellent skills in Test Coordination including black box, unit, functional, regression, parallel, diagnostic, system, integration, browser compatibility, client UI, UAT and end-to-end testing
• Extrapolate meaningful business requirements from project documents
• Ability to apply critical thinking when defining/improving processes and practices Coordination of User Acceptance Testing and assisting in testing efforts
• Ability to proactively schedule assigned tasks, construct weekly plans and daily to-do lists
• Ability to understand and apply IT best practices including change management and release management
• Practiced in AGILE software development methodology and RALLY, an Agile-oriented project management tool
• Extensive experience in entire QA life cycle, including developing a test plan, writing test cases, executing test scripts, and identifying, reporting, prioritizing and following and tracking status of defects
• Extensively work with web based application which front end is JAVA and the backend is Oracle 9.0
• Proficient in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience analyzing business requirements and functional specifications
• Excellent back-end testing skills using SQL queries, generating documents/reports to ensure data integrity and validating reports according to business rules
• Sound knowledge of Trade Life Cycle, Reference Data Management and Settlement process of Securities
• Experience in testing Web Applications using Java
• Development experience in web-based and client/server applications; extensive use of SQL, TOAD,PL/SQL
• Documentation of testing using MS Office tools, such as Word, Excel, Power Point
• Broad Multi-tier and Cross-platform skills
• Experience working with offshore teams
• Pro-active and goal-oriented; motivated to learn and use new technologies
• Enthusiastic in meetings, deep-dive efforts, prototype demonstrations, and interaction with Business Analysts, Developers, and subject matter experts in the process of applying business requirements in test planning, test case creation, and execution of testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Bug Reporting Tools: Mercury Test Director for Quality Center 10, Quality Center v11,HP ALM, Defect Tracking System (In House Tool)

Platforms: IBM OS/360, Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT/XP, UNIX, MS-DOS

Databases: MS-SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, 9i, DB2

Data Analysis Tool: StataIC11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEST COORDINATOR

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Software Requirement Specification, Test Strategy, Test Plan and Use cases and prepare Test cases.
• Executing Test Cases and reporting results to respective teams.
• Participate in various phases in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Define UAT Test Plan
• Coordinate with all interfacing applications and test environments
• Oversee all test phases of the in scope applications
• Ensure milestones for UAT for all the interfacing applications are met and entrance criteria to each test phase are satisfied to facilitate smooth progression to each testing phase
• Translates functional requirements into test scripts.
• Facilitates User Acceptance Test sessions with customers, assigning defects to appropriate project team members and tracking resolution to completion using client IT standard tool Quality Center.
• Generating various reports from HP Quality Center.
• Follow-up on issues and escalate to Tech. Dev. Management and Program Office to ensure resolution
• Provide regular updates to Tech. Dev. Management and Program Office on testing progress
• Write Business Scenarios
• Write & Execute UAT test cases
• Contribute to estimate and work plan for business process analysis, extraction of IT requirements, creation of traceability and validation through testing
• Coordinate test planning, schedules and individual tester’s assignment
• Defect tracking, reporting and communication, using automated tool Quality Center
• Validates functional requirements through implementation.
• Responsible for participating in daily bug triage meetings over conference calls connecting two teams QA and development teams in two different places (Toronto, Canada and Chicago, US).
• Responsible for creation of weekly testing metrics depicting overall "health" of testing.
• Document and upload test results to project site for auditing purposes
• Follow-up on issues or defects being reported and ensure resolution
• Liaise with project development team for any defects that have been raised
• Validate defect resolutions and close tickets/issues
• Provide regular updates to Tech. Dev. Management on progress
• Obtain sign-off of UAT

QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD

Confidential, BUFFALO, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed Lead Software Enterprise Quality Assurance role on Healthcare Services team and on Pharmacy team.
• Reviewed requirements documentation and provided feedback on acceptance criteria in "3 Amigos" sessions involving technical resources, business analyst, and subject matter experts. Advised team on whether acceptance criteria could be leveraged for testing documentation, and on whether acceptance criteria could be tested.
• Learned applications being tested for implementation--Health Rules Designer and Health Rules Manager.
• Based on requirements documentation and understanding of application enhancements being developed, wrote test cases for core functionality and newly developed features.
• Entered test cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool; executed test cases within tool for tracking.
• Followed traceability process, leveraging project information from the Rally database, and incorporating it in test case documentation.
• Facilitated testing efforts of team members--subject matter experts. Scheduled and monitored testing; reviewed testing results, and provided assistance in documenting defects.
• Entered defects in ALM; created and distributed defect reports; followed through on status of defect fixes; re-tested and documented re-testing results.
• Reported testing status metrics and adjusted test execution priorities accordingly.

Environment: Windows XP, HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)),RALLY, an Agile-orientedproject management tool, XML, Oracle 10g, SQL Server, MS Excel, UNIX, Toad for Oracle, IBM iSeriese Access for Window (AS 400), Informatica Power Center 8.1.1, Kalido 8.5,Tidal.

QA TEST LEAD ENGINEER

Confidential, MIDDLETON, MA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively working on the following modules, Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, In season Planning, Performance Analysis, Micromarketing and Metadata Manager within IMPS 6.1.3/6.1.3 M3
• Working with offshore team
• Conduct Business Process/Retail Workflow testing
• Responsible for customer defect validation and gap analysis
• Working with Customer Support and Technical Support teams to identify regression testing areas based on customer reported defects
• Identify defects and report in defect tracking system.
• Perform root cause analysis for defects to identify workarounds
• Participate in code reviews for defect fixes and involved in discussions for unit testing the new code
• Build a formal new staff on boarding process.
• Involved in creation of Test plan and responsible for creating Test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Decomposing the work in different modules and assigning work to testes in the team
• Supporting the quality inspection activities of team
• Managed the makeup and design of the team and documentation to enhance future releases and maintenance updates of the application, and to integrate the process into the change management system
• Following testing schedules and project plans, supervised and trained the QA resources
• Responsible for participating in daily bug triage meetings over conference calls connecting two QA teams and development teams in two different places and identifying the severity of the bug
• Responsible for functional, UAT, security, acceptance and regression testing
• Lead the team of 5 testers
• Effectively communicated with business users resulting in added functional requirements
• Conduct concurrency testing
• Write test design and test cases for product enhancements conduct and manage monthly QA process training sessions
• Working with mapfile/metadata to configure/modify KPIs to suit a specific business process need and conduct testing based on the new metadata
• Involved in automation of Batch Processor
• Install and configure builds on AIX, Windows and SUN environment.
• Install and configure builds for Micromarketing
• Conduct Smoke testing once builds were installed
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, defect triage meetings
• Participate in voting of iteration stories in AGILE methodology

Environment: Windows 2000, 8.2Java, ASP, XML, SQL Server, MS Excel, Web logic 6.1, Web sphere, UNIX, AIX 5.2, Solaris 5.9, Windows 2003, UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i,10g, EJB, JSP, C++, VC++, Web logic 8.1, Apache, Active X, XML, Java Script, Confidential Graph Control/Worksheet Client, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, EJB, JSP, C++, Toad.

QA TEST ENGINEER

Confidential, BEAVERTON,OR

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained overall Test methodology, Test strategy, Documenting Test design, Test cases and editing and executing Tests cases.
• Validated the Confidential Metadata in ETL
• Validated data transformations in ETL for extracts & conversions
• Executed each business function with Confidential test data
• Validated Excel Metadata models
• Tested Fact Data for stock inventory, store/warehouse transfers, approve transfers, Purchase Orders,sales, Geo-Product, Location Hierarchy, Merchandise Hierarchy
• Run RMS Batch jobs to process orders/transfers
• Involved in functional, regression, integration, concurrency, security and UAT
• Used Autosys, a cross platform scheduler to run the Job.
• Developed SQL Queries to test the application for data integrity with extensive knowledge of database
• Identified defects and reported in bug tracking system.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
• Involved in checking the functionality of the system in pre/post production release processes
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved along with review meeting.
• Created, validated and executed automated test scripts in HPQC
• Participated in defect scrub meetings to discuss and prioritize identified defects
• Responsible for Test Case creation, Execution and reporting bugs using Defects Tools Quality Center 9.0
• Organized training for team members on Quality Center
• Responsible to send daily status report of test cases/activities done during the day
• Effectively communicated with BSA and AE team in added functional requirements
• Collaboratively worked with Business Users to help them identify the user acceptance scenarios before the GO LIVE.
• Helped the Business user in documenting the Confidential business processes involved in Confidential IMPS.

Environment: Windows XP, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, XML, Oracle RMS, SQL Server, MS Excel, UNIX, Toad for Oracle - 8.6, IBM iSeriese Access for Window (AS 400), Informatica Power Center 8.5.1, Autosys.

QA TEST ENGINEER

Confidential, MIDDLETON, MA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on the following modules Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, In season Planning, Performance Analysis, Micromarketing within IMPS 6.1/6.1.1/6.1.2/6.1 HFs
• Subject Matter Expert for WS Creation, WS Functions, WS Template, WS Set Editor, Micro Marketing, Plan Management, Template Manager, Dimension Manager, and Batch Processor
• Conducted concurrency testing
• Conducted Business Process/Retail Workflow testing
• Wrote test design and test cases for all modules
• Conducted peer and CFT reviews for test design and test cases
• Installed and configured builds on AIX, Window and SUN environment.
• Installed and configured builds for Micromarketing
• Conducted Smoke testing once builds were installed
• Extensively involved in Cross Platform testing.
• Excellent skills in Black box Testing.
• Identified many defects and reported in defect tracking system.
• Performed root cause analysis for defects to identify workarounds
• Conducted demos/training on various modules within IMPS
• Extensively worked on I18N (Internationalization) for 6.2
• Worked on HOT FIXES - 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 for different customers.
• Mentoring new people onboard on the product
• Got Best Achievers Award for successful release of Confidential -IMPS 6.1

Environment: Windows 2000, Java, ASP, XML, SQL Server, MS Excel, Web logic 6.1, Web sphere, UNIX, AIX 5.2, Solaris 5.9, Windows 2003, UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i,10g, EJB, JSP, C++, VC++, Web logic 8.1, Apache, Active X, XML, Java Script, Confidential Graph Control/Worksheet Client, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, EJB, JSP, C++, Toad.

QA ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation of Test plan and responsible for creating Test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Supporting quality inspection activities of team the
• Responsible for participating in daily bug discuss meetings over conference calls connecting two QA teams and development teams in different places including offshore and identifying the severity of the bug and discussing issues
• Responsible for functional, UAT, security, acceptance and regression testing
• Responsible for executing the Manual test cases and reporting the bug.
• Responsible for smoke testing
• Responsible for UAT testing
• Used MS Excel for writing test cases
• Effectively communicated with business users resulting in added functional requirements

Environment: Windows, ASP.NET, IIS, C#, VB scripting, SQLserver, MS Excel websphere, UNIX

QA TESTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing end user requirements, specifications and business rules to prepare test plan and test cases.
• Writing test scripts and execute test cases
• Responsible for smoke testing
• Extensively communicated with business user and development team to resolve issues
• Participating in the review of application designs, business/functional requirements for pricing and stock market
• Developing/executing tests, documenting bugs, regression testing and automated test scripts
• Documenting test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Analyzed user requirements attended change request meetings.
• Developed and conducted system and user acceptance testing before installation of the application on user environment

Environment: PVCS tracker, SQL, C++, JAVA and Windows NT, Oracle.