SUMMARY

• As a Senior software QA tester with six (6+) years of experience in full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes(both web based and windows based).
• Qualifications include six plus years of QA software testing experience in software development and user - acceptance testing experience.
• Advanced command of various testing suites, agile methodologies and monitoring tools; and cross-platform skills in Windows, Linux and UNIX. As QA Analyst, experience in all phases of software lifecycle, developing Test Cases, Test Plan, Web Services and Web based applications.
• Good experience in Banking, Financial and Insurance with strong business and functional domain knowledge.
• In depth knowledge of SDLC (software development life cycle) phases like requirements, analysis/design, development and testing: Agile, V-model, Spiral, Waterfall.
• Functional experience including Insurance, Financial,banking.
• Involved in Test designing by preparing High Level Scenarios & Test Cases by verifying BRD’s
• Software experience in reviewing Test procedures, creating Test plan, defining Test cases, reviewing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensively used SQL and PL/SQL to understand, implement and test the application.
• Very good experience in web services testing using SOAP UI.
• Experience in ETL process of data transformation, sourcing, mapping, conversion and loading.
• Experience in testing at every phase of the development process: Functional, Integration,Regression,User-interface,Acceptance,System,End-to-End, Data-Driven, Front End andBack End testingin both manual and automated modes.
• Involved in developing and executing Test Cases for Functional, Data Validation and Regression testing.
• Good working experience using Quality Center.
• Participated in requirement review meetings, analyzing requirements, developing test plan and test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect management, Reporting and tracking
• Proficient in financial, banking and trading concepts such as Annuities, capital market - (Fixed Income, securities), foreign exchange, bonds and derivatives, insurance, Mortgage, mutual funds and check processing.
• Extensively used SQL and PL/SQL to understand, implement and test the application.
• Involved in User Requirement Gathering, User Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis.
• Experience in using UNIX commands.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent Documentation and Process Management skills with an ability to effectively understand business requirement to develop quality products.
• Conducted extensive review and analysis of existing QA and Development Practices and worked on the continuous improvement to yield effective solutions.
• Effective Time Management Skills and consistent ability to meet Client Deadline.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP, UNIX, Windows 7

Software Testing: Manual testing,webservices,ETL,database testing

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Load runner, Soap UI,ALM 11.5

Languages: TSQL, SQL

Databases: Oracle 9, 10,11g, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Access 97/2000

Tools: SQL * Plus, Toad, Microsoft Office Suite, OMNI Station, SunGard EXPAG

ETL Tools: Data stage 8.7

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, VB Script, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr.QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and understanding the Functional Requirements/ Design Documents.
• Prepare Test Cases and test data for Functional, Negative, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Creation of different files (Seed, CR, TDA and Adjustment Files) as part of test data preparation.
• Validation of Input and MVAS Output files based on functional requirements.
• Testing end to end MVAS functionalities by accessing the respective portals and perform step by step testing.
• Perform end to end UI testing of STAC functionalities such as Eligibility, Vesting Calculations and Employer Contribution Calculation.
• Review and understanding of STAC rules based on Client setup.
• Validation of Input, STAC Output and MVAS Output files based on functional requirements.
• Verifying the implemented ETL code against the corresponding mapping document and confirming the data loads from source files into the target tables
• Testing ETL mappings on business user requirements and business rules to load the data from source flat files and RDBMS tables to target tables
• Creation of the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status report related to project.
• Defect logging, Retesting and tracking using ALM.
• Develop and maintain test scripts, analyse the results of scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.
• Participate in weekly status meetings and coordinated with the Developers and Testers to resolve andclose defects.
• Actively participated in all phases of testing life cycleincluding document reviews, and project status meetings.
• Attend the project touch point meetings with Business users and Business analysts, Test Plan review meetings.
• Interact with Business users and coordinating with them for testing the application and also for defects retesting.

Environment: OMNI Station, SunGard EXPAG, MVAS, Microsoft Office (Excel with macro),Oracle 11g, HP UNIX 10.20, ALM 11.5, Ultra Edit, TOAD, Datastage 8.7

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Developers and BA’s to meet the requirements.
• Planning and estimating the application test processes and to prepare the test plan, strategy and RTM documents.
• Manually tested the Functionality, User Interfaces and Security of the web application.
• Performed Black Box testing of the application.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reported results and defects in Quality Center.
• Compared and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly
• Worked closely with Project team to meet the dead lines.
• Conducted Functional, System and Regression Testing of the application during various phases of Development, enhanced existing and developed new Manual test scripts for the new change request.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing.
• Tested the web services using SOAP UI tool
• Browser compatibility testing is performed for different operating systems and different browsers available in market in UI testing.
• Worked closely with Business group and prepared UAT documentation for UAT.
• Provided Test report and defect analysis details to QA Manager/Lead to make GO/NO-GO decisions when necessary.
• Identify defects in aggregate tables and report data, enter defect in Quality Centre and coordinate with developers to resolve them based on defect severity and priority
• Worked on releases and phases of test and production environments.
• Performed defect analysis of the real time issues in the production environment.
• Responsible for testing Hot fixes and Main Releases in Production.
• Regression suite being implemented to test all aspects of functionality of the application in all environments.
• Used Putty to connect with third party systems and monitor the data transfer between the two parties
• Get the data from front end application and compare with the data received at server using Toad.
• Provide release sign-off from QA perspective and involve in post deployment activities and production support.

Environment: WINDOWS (MS Word, MS Excel, Access),HP Quality Center, Oracle, UNIX, HP LOAD RUNNER, TOAD,SOAP UI

Confidential, Ohio

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported development of Functional Specification Documents (FSD)and conducted Gap Analysis between BRD and FSD
• Involved in discussions with business, development and user groups to familiarize with requirements
• Created requirement traceability matrix and manage the defects using Quality Center.
• Derived Test plans from technical specifications and Business requirements.
• Created test plan, test design, test scripts and uploaded into Quality Center.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application Front-End and Functionality, back end testing
• Developed QA Test plan for covering functional, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Reviewed UAT Test Plan, Wrote SQL queries to check the test results in SQL Developer
• Used Quality center for tracking bugs and retesting.
• Ensure full retest of any fixed issues.
• Involved in Regression Test, in execution and supporting Acceptance Tests.
• Verified, Validated, and Transformed the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Reported the daily status of test cases executed/failed, worked with business analysts to assure new functionality changes were reasonable regarding existing physical design.
• Provide weekly test schedule to PM and Project Lead.
• Guided the area testers for completing the Testing Phase of the projects.
• Responsible to manage the Bug list after every new build and assign the existing bugs to concerned developer.
• Involved in the Agile Scrum Process

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Visio)HP Quality center, MS SQL Server, Informatica, HTML, HTTP, XML, Windows

Confidential, Providence, RI

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in design walkthroughs and reviews
• Designed and developed test scripts in Quality Center
• Reviewed test scripts written by peers
• Involved in System Integration Testing and UAT
• Performed extensive Regression testing
• Reported and Tracked defects using Quality Center
• Executed QTP regression scripts as and when required
• Performed browser compatibility testing with different versions of IE, Netscape and Firefox
• Performed OS compatibility testing on various versions of Windows and MAC systems
• Validated reports against Oracle database

Environment: Windows, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Visio) SQL, HP Quick Test Professional 8.2,HP Quality Center, Oracle, UNIX