SUMMARY

• 8 years of diversified IT experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance of Enterprise solutions based on Desktop, Commercial Web - Based & Healthcare Applications.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and Scrum.
• Effective coordination with Developers, BusinessAnalysts, SME (Subject Matter Experts) and Business Users to go over the Change Requests, Design Docs, requirements and defects.
• Good experience in analyzing the business requirement for designing Test Strategy, Test Scripts and Test Cases, ensuring quality throughout the project lifecycle by tailoring to agile methodologies (Scrum and Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Extensive experience in creation of QA testing process, System Test Plans and Release Level Test Strategy, creation and execution of test scripts, test scenarios, test cases and data sets; analysis and reporting of test results based on Requirement specifications.
• Experience with Automation testing using HP - Quick Test Professional (QTP / UFT) and Selenium.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing of Web based, Client/Server, Internet applications and XML files using Automation Tools on Windows platforms.
• Expertise in Performance Testing using Load Runner - Identify the scripts for Stress Testing, Volume testing and Load Testing.
• Extensively performed Smoke testing, System testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing, GUI testing, User Acceptance testing, Interfaces testing, Compatibility testing and cross functional testing.
• Sound Knowledge of Business Intelligence Systems in Healthcare Industry - Good experience using BI reporting tools such as OBIEE.
• Experience in REST API Services, SOA/Web Services testing using SOAP UI pro.
• Proficient in writing SQL Queries to perform Backend/Database testing.
• Experience working with various test management tools, requirement tools, and Defect reporting tools such as Bugzilla, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Experience providing quality assurance on IT projects having a minimum one-time cost of two (2) million dollars.
• Experience in quality assurance frameworks, methods, and practices, such as ITIL v3, IEEE 829 and ISO 2000.
• Excellent organization skills, ability to prioritize multiple activities and objectives in a rapidly changing environment, and deliver quality service.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills - ability to clearly explain technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business cases, participated in JAD sessions to analyze business requirements and analyze the impact of changes on the existing Functional Requirements / specifications.
• Participated in monthly Release Planning meetings to review the epics taken for the Release and break them down to user stories by following SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
• Attended Sprint Planning meetings to review and shortlist the user stories for each upcoming Sprint.
• Coordinated with Tech Lead, Product Owner and BSA to finalize the Acceptance Criteria for the upcoming User Stories.
• Provided Level of Effort (LOE)/Story Points for the User Stories needed to test the upcoming changes around MediCal and Medicare eligibility programs.
• Involved in various internal and external design review meetings
• Attended daily Stand-up meetings within the team to discuss current progress and impediments, ensured that any impediments faced by the QA team are addressed towards resolution.
• Prepared detailed Test Plan/Release Level Test Strategy for every Production Release and got it approved by the Tech Lead and Product Owner as part of the QA process.
• Prepared component checklists for verifying correctness for each build.
• Planned for the comprehensive testing strategy for the various modules (tested manually) by creating Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test Cases in HP ALM.
• Performed System testing and Integration testing for each 2 weeks Sprint. Followed agile methodology norms to accomplish tasks for the Sprint.
• Performed Interface Testing for SAWS and MEDS interface - Import Services from various services endpoints. Identified the Automation Scripts to Synchronize with Application Under Test
• Mentored Confidential related projects - Monitored Sponsor assignment emails & Managed UAT defects for assignment & closure.
• Created various test scenarios for validating new enhancements using automation testing tool HP - Quick Test Professional.
• Maintained Business Intelligence Data validation reports using OBIEE Reporting tool.
• Document test findings and debug the Report as part of Release readiness.
• Conducted frequent audits to ensure that the reports are in line with the Requirement Specification.
• Performed Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during different Cycles of the Release.
• Attended Defect Triage Review meetings with the Product Owners and Development Tech Leads to go over the validity and severity of the defects.
• Conducted demos with Tech Leads and Product Owners to demonstrate the outcome of testing.
• Prepared Dashboard reports for tracking daily status on Sprint stories and QA metrics like defects status and test execution status.

Environment: HP - Quick Test Professional QTP/UFT, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, SQL Server, .Net, Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional, XML, HTML,JIRA, T-SQL, MS Excel, MS VISIO, MS Project, MS Word, IE, Fire fox, Chrome, MS Power Point

Confidential

UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended various Grooming sessions with Tech Lead, Product Owner and BSA to finalize the Acceptance Criteria for the upcoming User Stories.
• Attended various design review meetings provided by developers to go over the upcoming functionality.
• Created test scenarios, test conditions, test cases, test data, maintained traceability matrix between requirements and test scenarios to establish adequate coverage.
• Participated in Sprint Planning meetings to review and shortlist user stories for each upcoming sprint. Provided estimates and created tasks for the various User Stories in HP ALM.
• Prepared Test Plan/test strategy for every production release and gained approval from the Release Stakeholders.
• Created Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test Cases in HP ALM for functional testing coverage.
• Performed Smoke, System, Functional, Integration, Cross browser testing and Regression testing during different cycles of the release.
• Communicated any impediments faced by the QA team to the Project Stake holders and ensured that the impediments get resolved in a timely manner.
• Attended Defect Review meetings with Product group and development team to track the status of the defects.
• Involved in Accessibility testing - Worked with Developers to ensure that the accessibility defects are resolved.
• In accordance with the approved User Acceptance Test (UAT) Plan, develop and execute test processes, procedures, test cases and scripts to ensure all system requirements are met and that the system functions as expected. This includes end-to-end testing; business process/role based testing and unscripted testing.
• Document all test results and anomalies and conduct retests as appropriate.
• Performed Load and Stress testing using Load runner - performance center on external interfaces connecting to coveredca.com portal.
• Performed functional testing of REST API services using SOAP UI. Executed and validated various XML files for testing applications that used Web Services.
• Performed Interface Testing for SAWS & MEDS Interfaces - Tested Web service compliance with New Schema Updates.
• Used OBIEE - BI Reporting tool for creating Plan Management and Financial Management related reports.
• Help Performance team to Identify Performance Testing Scenarios and Parametrizing the Scripts.
• Created and executed automation scripts using HP - Quick Test Professional to perform Regression testing of various Interfaces and validated test results.
• Ran Regression Suite on every release by triggering scheduled jobs in test environment to run Quick Test Professional automation scripts.
• Wrote various SQL Queries to perform Database testing to validate the front-end values with back end.
• Performed Multi-browser testing on various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• Created defects, participated in defect review meetings, tracked defects to closure, updated defects status, generated test execution results report and distributed to project stakeholders

Environment: HP - Quick Test Professional QTP/UFT, HP - Load Runner, HP - ALM, Oracle SQL, PLSQL, .Net, JAWS, XML, HTML, UBS - COTS, MS VISIO, ORACLE – BPM, OBIE, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, IE, Fire fox, Chrome, MS Power Point

Confidential

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business requirements analysis, created use case diagrams, flow diagrams.
• Created and/or reviewed user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, test matrices, and other QA documents to ensure sufficient test coverage based on requirements and specifications.
• Provided testing estimates and testing tasks to assure complete testing coverage
• Worked closely with QA peers, Development partners, Product Managers and other project team members
• Created test plans to test features/applications at the user interface level, including functional tests, performance tests, workflow tests, install tests, globalization/localization, and interoperability tests using JIRA
• Participated in test case reviews with QA, Development & Product Management teams
• Performed functional tests, System Integration testing, Regression testing on applications related to Confidential .com.
• Ran automation test scripts to perform regression testing on the application using QTP.
• Parametrized the Automation test for subsets of data and added verification points as needed.
• Created test scenarios, test data, test cases, and uploaded them to test management tool - Microsoft Test Professional.
• Performed database level validation associated with functional testing.
• Effectively communicated with remote teams (Offshore) and ensured that the Project Deliverables are completed within the given timeframe.

Environment: SOAP UI, HP – QTP, HP – Load Runner, JIRA, T-SQL,TFS, Microsoft Test Professionals, Oracle SQL, PLSQL, JAVA, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, XML, HTML, MS Project, MS Word, IE, Fire fox, Chrome, MS Power Point, MS Excel

Confidential

Sr Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plans, test scripts, test scenarios, and schedules based on functional requirement specifications and design documents.
• Performed Black Box Testing, White Box Testing & Grey Box Testing.
• Performed Regression testing using QTP scripts
• Developed, executed and maintained automation scripts using QTP and Quality Center.
• Performed Defect Tracking using HP Quality Center Tool.
• Assist QA Management to perform Root cause Analysis of Defects to analyze the severity - worked closely with developers to investigate root cause, and thoroughly verified the fixes.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries and verified Data Integrity.
• Reported defects to the team lead and helped the developer resolve the technical issues.

Environment: HP – QTP/UFT, HP – Quality Center, Oracle SQL, PLSQL, .Net, HL7, SCM 5.5, XML, HTML, ORACLE 9i, MS Project, MS Word, IE, Fire fox, Chrome, MS Power Point.