SUMMARY

• Experienced QA tester with exposure to several domains like Medicaid/Medicare, Retail, Wireless, Investment Banking, Insurance etc.
• Around 7+ Years experience in the IT industry, involved in complete SDLC including requirement definition, initial analysis, flow of Application, and development of prototype, implementation, testing, debugging & maintenance of software applications.
• Exposure to all phases of QA Testing life cycle with active participation in Software Quality Assurance process.
• Proficient in Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury Interactive Tools (Quick Test Professional 9.0, Business Process Testing and Quality Center 8.2 / Test Director 6.5) and Rational Tools (Clear Case, ClearQuest) Bugzilla (Bug Tracking tool)
• Worked on UAT, System and integration testing of the Major and Minor Enhancements with COBOL, NATURAL, CICS, DB2, ADABAS, VSAM, MQ Series.
• Experience in developing Test Plan, Test Cases, writing Test Scripts by decomposing Business Requirements and developing Test Scenarios to support quality deliverables
• Expertise in Designing and executing automated test scripts using diversified tools.
• Experience setting up automated testing functions.
• Experience in Black - box Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Good understanding of Object Oriented concepts and technologies like Java.
• Good understanding of RDBMS Concepts including Oracle 8/9i.
• Hands on experience working with Application Servers/Web Servers
• Effective interpersonal skills, Positive User interaction and Ability to work in a team.
• Ability to learn new technologies and tools quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, NATURAL, CICS, Java, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL.

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script.

Application Servers: Weblogic, Websphere

Tracking Tools: BMC Remedy, Magic

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Unix, Sun Solaris, Linux, MS-DOS

Testing Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner, QTP, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Selenium.

Databases: Oracle 8/9i, Adabas, MS Access, Sybase.

Automation Frame work: JUnit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TOPEKA,KS

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between technical and business staff.
• Constructed and executed test plans related to Claims and MAR.
• Checked test output and document test results in an understandable format
• Accurately reported status and developed corrective action plans, when necessary
• Performed Tests extensively on Claims Subsystem.
• Used SQL Queries for Data Validation.
• Participated in BA Team meetings for daily and weekly BA testing reviews
• Perform regression testing to assure continuity of quality.
• Tested the premium payments through WEB/Phone with all types of payment methods Credit Card, Debit Card and through check.
• Coordinated with documentation team for user manual & product documentation
• Writing unit Test cases and testing the same for Unit testing before handing them to the testing team.
• Wrote PL/SQL scripts to automate certain operations.
• Participated in Review meetings to check the status of the project, and also for the approval of the Test plan and Test cases.
• Analyzing and prioritizing defects and assign them development for work in progress defects.
• Member of a team involved in designing the Use-Cases, and identifying the functional components of the Analysis Model.
• Go through the requirements documents and roughly estimate the number of test cases / test scenarios that can be written during the requirements phase.
• Coordinated with documentation team for user manual & product documentation.
• Involved in writing the business as well as the technical requirement specifications, analysis and design contribution
• Report files where generated through C code and ran Business Objects reports on DSS Database to cross verify the reports generated through C code in MMIS database,Used letter generator to verify letters are processed accurately.
• Peer review of the other Product’s Test cases and complete the review forms
• Worked on (DSS) function which provides access to the Kansas Medicaid Management Interchange System (MMIS) data and various external data sources. The data is stored in an Oracle and is accessed through the Business Objects application.. Data elements are given practical names and grouped logically for easy location and selection. Used simply common Windows-like features, such as drag and drop, to quickly develop queries

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, SQL, Power Builder 12, Business Objects5.14,Infoview, windows 2000/XP, MS Visio, MS Power point, Letter Generator, Internet Explorer, WinZip files and HTML .

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

MAINFRAME TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Did quality assurance for the programs as per the test data in the test plans.
• Performed system testing and Integration testing.
• Worked on the Integration testing of CICS web services using the SOAP messages and WSDL.
• Worked on the testing of replacement of the CICS green screens with GUI’s.
• Worked on System and integration testing of the Major and Minor Enhancements with COBOL, NATURAL, DB2, ADABAS, VSAM, MQ Series, CICS, including new test JCL preparations.
• Worked with project manager in development of test strategy.

  Expertise in implementing the waterfall methodology.

  Modified the existing DB2 SQL queries to improve application performance.

• Test data, Test Scripts and Test plan preparation as per quality assurance standards.
• Prepared test data as per the functionality of the online and batch programs.
• Performed online and batch testing for CICS, COBOL and DB2 programs.
• Expertise in Test life cycle methodology.
• Coordinating with Development and testing team for any issues.
• Participate in reviews and inspection meetings.
• Attending Team Action Meetings with clients understand priorities, sharing responsibility and providing the work status.

Environment: COBOL II, CICS, NATURAL, Web services, DB2, ADABAS, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, JCL, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, SQL, FILEAID,JCL,SOAP,WSDL, MS Word, Excel, QC,CICS WEBSERVICES.

Confidential, Dallas TX

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases by understanding the Business logic of all functionalities based on the Requirements Documentation and Design Specification.
• Performed System, Integration, Functional and Black Box Testing.
• Used Quality Center Tool to report bugs and interacted with development team for the resolutions.
• Entered bugs with detailed information, error logs and screen shots attached.
• Used SQL Server Management Studio to executed T-SQL Queries and stored procedures and check the results.
• Setup test environment and created test data on need basis and worked with XML Data files and XSLT templates to test email functionality.
• Responsible for maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix using Quality Center.
• Used checkpoints to check the Links and the images, check the location of the text message, check the value in a table cells of the application across several builds and versions.
• Integrated QTP scripts Quality Center to store and execute regression automation test cases for every release and tracked the regression defects thru Quality Center.
• Interacted with Independent Quality Control Unit to ensure testing standards are maintained.
• Create Test Bed (Environment for testing)
• Create Test Data and Analyzing log files on a daily basis
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts and Found Requirements defects.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, MS.Net 2.0, ClearCase 7.1, Windows 2003 / XP, SQL Server 2005, Internet Explorer 6.0/ 7.0 and Firefox.

Confidential, New York NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Making relevant changes to the corresponding online programs to accommodate the screen Changes
• Involved in the analyzing and requirement study of the system.
• Test the online programs and the reports for implemented changes.
• Writing unit Test cases and testing the same for Unit testing before handing them to the testing team.
• Responsible for timely delivery of the deliverables based on prioritizing the modules.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical, presentation, communication and problem solving skills.
• Coordinated on regular basis through email, conferences and tracked progress through weekly status reports.
• Preparation of test plans and test specification.
• Involve in User Acceptance Testing.
• Tested the application performance through remote dialup using VPN client.
• Writing unit test cases and testing the same for Unit testing before handing them to the testing team.
• Designing reports using batch programs
• Conducted weekly meetings for knowledge transfers among team members on-shore & off-shore.
• Did long-term fixes and quick short-term fixes to the issues depending upon the criticality of the issues.
• Coordinated with documentation team for user manual & product documentation.
• Involved in Production support of existing systems.
• Test results are analyzed and test metrics are sent to the manager for tracking purpose.

Environment: Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Visio, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Unix, Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Web logic, Web sphere.