SUMMARY

• 9+ years of IT experience with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance and in Manual as well as Automated Testing of web - based applications
• Experience in Finance & Capital Markets Industry
• Experience with working in Equities and Fixed Income Securities
• Extensive knowledge in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from initiation and definition to implementation and support
• Extensively worked on Agile, RAD, Waterfall methodologies
• Followed Release Management and change management process
• Extensive experience in writing detailed Test Conditions, Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and also with test data creation
• Performed Front End Testing (Functional Testing & GUI Testing), White Box testing, System Testing, Smoke (Sanity) Testing, Ad Hoc Testing, Black Box testing, End-2-End testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT), etc
• Extensive knowledge about Business Use Case definitions, UML, and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions
• Extensive knowledge of RDBMS concepts and SQL, joins, sub-queries, aliases, etc
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) extensively
• Experience working on Selenium WebDriver using Java
• Experience working on COBOL Z/OS Mainframe based applications
• Experience testing Restful Web services (XML/JSON)
• Expertise in various Test Management tool, Quality Center
• Expertise in various Defect tracking tools including JIRA, Bugzilla, BMC Remedy System
• Excellent quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills
• Extensive experience with QA functionalities, Problem Analysis, Defect Tracking
• Participated in test review meetings, defect review meetings, walkthroughs to discuss requirements, test status, issues and open defects
• Experience in UNIX and Windows environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Selenium, Quality Center, Remedy System, JIRA, Bugzilla

Databases: Oracle 10g/8i, My SQL, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access

Query Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Operating systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000, UNIX, Main Frame

Middleware Technologies: RESTful, SOAP (WSDL)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plan and test cases by analyzing the requirement document.
• Involve in Black Box Testing, System Integration Testing, End-To-End Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing to ensure that the functionality of the application matched with the Business Requirement.
• Responsible for co-coordinating with off-shore resources (QA analysts), responsible for deliverables from the off shore team.
• Participate in team discussions regarding the process, functionality, and changes in the product.
• Coordinate with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements using Quality Center.
• Test all Fix Tags and its corresponding values for FIX 4.2
• Validate the mapping of the XML files in order to test the application
• Test the Account Related Queries on Mainframe
• Create multiple test scenarios based on business rules to create data driven testing.
• Perform the Back-End Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Implement Page Objects, Data Driven automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver.
• Perform Functional testing, RESTful web-services testing using XML/JSON.
• Develop the test cases in the test Management tool, Quality Center, and logging the bugs through Defect tracking tool, BMC Remedy system.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, COBOL Z/OS Mainframe, Java, Selenium 2.47.1, JXL API 2.6.10, Eclipse. XML, FIX 4.2, BMC Remedy System, SQL, Windows XP

Confidential, AZ

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing all phases of software testing for assigned components ensuring Test plans, Test Strategies and Test cases are completed to meet business requirements.
• Participated in team discussions regarding the process, functionality, and changes in the product.
• Developed test cases & assigned appropriate requirements to each test case using Test planning and management tool Quality Center (QC)
• Worked on Agile SCRUMs and participated in sprint planning and daily stand up meetings
• Coordinated with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements using Quality Center.
• Involved in Black Box Testing, System Integration Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Regression Testing
• Used BMC Remedy System to log the defects.
• Created multiple test scenarios based on business rules to create data driven testing.
• Did GUI testing: tested the screen navigation, graphics and hyperlinks, etc to make sure that these are established as the requirements required
• Run the SQL queries to fetch test data and backend (database) testing to validate the database.

Environment: Quality Center 10, SQL, Java, COBOL Z/OS Mainframe, Windows XP

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the test plan for the new Regulatory and Compliance changes introduced by SEC into AOM (already functional among the clients) to avoid any pre-trade credit risk.
• Managing all phases of software testing for assigned components ensuring Test plans, Test Strategies and Test cases are completed to meet business requirements.
• Leading efforts to improve QA practices by identifying, proposing and implementing move of test case development into the Quality Center tool from MS Excel, Word.
• Coordinated with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements using Quality Center.
• Involved in Testing of SDLC and done the GUI Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, test scripts and logging the defects
• Performed cancellations, correction, replacement and inquiry on the order through mainframe and validate the aggregate value on the GUI screens.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Manual Testing.
• Performed the back end testing by executing SQL queries for validating output data in the database tables.
• Bug Report generation and defect tracking using Quality Center 9.2

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, SQL, VB.net

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Client Requirements and converted them in to Test Requirements.
• Analyzed the dependencies over the End User Requirement.
• Reviewed the reported Test Cases.
• Involved in the testing such as Functional, GUI, and Regression.
• Verified the Progress of the Testing at different intervals.
• Verification of the Test Results after Every Cycle of Testing.
• Communicated in between the Senior Management, Development Team and Testing Team.
• Involved in the Team Management.
• Extensively used UNIX to check file data.
• Performed in Smoke (Sanity) Testing, Ad Hoc Testing, regression testing, Security testing, and re-testing in UNIX environment.
• Performed the Back-End integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database.
• Bug Report generation and defect tracking using JIRA

Environment: JIRA, Oracle 10g, SQL, VB.net, UNIX, HTML

Confidential

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents and business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Cases
• Conducted Functionality and Back End testing during various phases of the application
• Involved in performing Functional Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems
• Tracked and reported defects using Bugzilla
• Prepared Test Summary Report

Environment: .Net, Bugzilla, SQL server 2000, HTML, Solaris, Windows XP