SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of Experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis and Testing of Software applications
• Experienced in working in Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Over 7+ years of experience using SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripts, Quality Center, Clear Quest and Clear Case.
• Experience in working with Informatica, Ab Initio ETL tool.
• Experience working with Quality Center, ClearQuest, JIRA, JAWS, AMP, Selenium applications
• Good understanding of On - Site/Offshore model with ability to lead the team.
• Extensive experience working of SDLC methodologies, developing test plans, test cases based on requirements
• Experience in working in multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge in integration of various data sources DB2, Oracle, Teradata and SQL Server.
• Experienced in working with SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience working in UNIX and writing UNIX shell scripts.
• Self-motivated, organized, business-minded, and creative problem-solver.
• Consistently successful in analyzing opportunity for process improvement and increase in efficiency.
• Highly Adaptive to a fast paced team environment and with a proven ability to work in a team environment as well as individually.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all phases of project development life cycle.
• Formulated detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Procedures, which included Test Cases/Scripts, capturing Test Results and capturing and resolving Test Anomalies.
• Performed configuration/ compatibility and user interface testing manually.
• Have experience designing and writing training manual templates, design formatting, project planning and writing technical documents.
• Use agile systems and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions, based on agile system, to the organization
• Exported Manual test cases into Quality Center and maintained the same in the Test Plan module
• Performed test case assignments in Test Lab modules of Quality Center.
• Conducted GUI/Usability Testing and Black Box Testing according to specifications.
• Involved in writing complex SQL queries to check the data integrity
• Created test cases manually to perform different types of testing such as positive/negative, functional/regression, interface, black box, screen navigational testing, smoke/sanity testing, exploratory testing or Backend testing
• Wrote complex SQL queries for database validation
• Interacted and gathered all the requirements and created Source-To-Target Mapping.
• Developed UNIX shell wrapper scripts.
• Developed test cases and logged in the results in Quality Center
• Used ClearQuest and ClearCase for defect tracking and version control

Confidential, VA

Programmer/Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in implementing test-plans and test cases built on high-level and detailed design.
• Developed test scenarios for various types of testing of provider and membership modules based on business requirements and maintained testing standards.
• Used Rational Quality Manager to write test cases, analyze the results, track the defects and generate the reports.
• Reported the bugs through email notifications to developers using JIRA
• Worked with Application/Technical Architect and Business Analysts to ensure that the acceptable range for test results and performance gets communicated appropriately to testing team.
• Developed and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and traced the requirements to test cases.
• Wrote test cases and built test suite in Selenium IDE and inspected elements.
• Generated Daily reports and weekly reports on testing status.
• Generated different kinds of reports like defect tracking report, metrics report.
• Audited Business & functional necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a team of business analysts in the Business and Functional requirements and the subsequent documentation effort.
• Managed the QA, deployment and UAT efforts of functionality.
• Developed the system flow diagrams for the application including the activity diagrams, data flow diagrams and use case diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Unit tested Informatica ETL jobs.
• Performed black box/white box testing on the application.
• Developed Test Cases based on the Business and Functional Requirements.
• Responsible for tracking of all the defects and regression testing.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD) to prepare Test Cases based on the Test Plan and Use Cases and attended Reviews to better understand the applications.
• Analyzed test data and Conducted Database or Data driven testing under certain business rules for data population in DB.
• Written and executed test cases in HP Quality Center for the release.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, GUI / design, Block Box, End to end, Navigational and Regression tests during the execution phase.
• Uploaded and executed the Functional Test Cases into HP Quality Center.
• Maintained a Traceability Matrix to uniquely trace and ensure all requirements requested have been addressed, developed and tested.
• Coordinated with business users and development team members to understand business requirement and developed test cases.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plans for testing to be carried out effectively.
• Gathered and Prepared Test data to execute the test cases.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing with the stakeholders and business users to identify bugs and verified resolution through regression testing.
• Executed join SQL statements to validate the inserted / updated data in database.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to verify the test Coverage.
• Logged in to UNIX Servers to access the log files to attach the error information in the defect for the developers to better understand the defect.
• Generated Daily reports and weekly reports on testing status.