SUMMARY

• A Software Professional with over 9 years of experience in Functional Software Testing across Fleet Management, Property & Casualty Insurance and North American payroll.
• 1.5 years of experience in Financial Services domain with Confidential Inc.
• 1.5 years of experience in Payroll domain with Confidential .
• 2 years of experience in Mobile Gaming Domain at EA Mobile.
• Strong IT experience in Software Quality Assurance for Web based, Client - Server and n-tier applications with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications
• Comprehensively worked on Offshore-onsite model including the role of Team Lead.
• Worked on HRMS module of SAP for creating employee data and to run Payroll.
• Sit with Business and Identify Service Requests to be merged with Weekly or Quarterly releases
• Develop test strategy towards developing master test data in Payroll.
• Worked on Business Process Testing approach to author test scripts.
• Received appreciation letter from AVP and Manger of Confidential .
• Proficient in Black box, Regression, Functional, System, Sanity, Smoke and Integration testing.
• Aware of testing standards published by IEEE, Six sigma and ISO .
• Experienced in Waterfall SDLC, V Model, Agile, RAD, CMM testing process.
• Expert in analyzing requirements, understanding use-cases, preparing Test Plans and Test Scenarios, organizing Test Data, executing Test Cases and preparing signoff documents.
• Hands on experience in Manual and Automated testing using Quick Test Pro(QTP) and Quality Center
• Experienced in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Familiarity with Agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental).
• Well versed with Interruption testing and functional testing of mobile application.
• Certified HP Accredited Integration Specialist.
• Certified ISTQB Foundation level certification on 2nd December, 2007.
• Experienced in Policy Premium rating using Excel to validate Policy premium.
• Leveraged my testing experience in Test Analysis, Test Case Generation, Test Execution, Defect Management and Peer Reviews.
• Adaptable Team player with good multi-tasking and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2007, Symbian, Unix

Environment: Client/Server and Distributed Environment

Languages: C, SQL, VB Script

Tools: HP QTP v10, HP QC v10, ALM v11, OFSAA, Jira v2.0, Toad, TeamTrack, MS SharePoint, PuTTy, Filezilla, Oracle HRMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

QA lead/Onsite-Offshore coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Allocate work to Offshore.
• Be part of the UAT and application walkthrough to the user.
• Validate the file layout and mapping of html file of the EDI file to be fed to the web service.
• Created EDI Web UI where user can configure contact and the associate files.
• Created a UI for EDI transaction of Vendor functionality.
• Resolve environmental issues and Application queries of the offshore.
• Guide offshore team and work together to meet the project deadlines.
• Estimate efforts and provide the same to management for project planning.
• Validate the data flow and the file specifications to be as per standards.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional and Regression Testing
• Prepared Reverse KT docs for enhancements/new functionalities.
• Solving queries and issues of the team while authoring Test Cases.
• Responsible for Garnishment functional testing in the project.
• First level of Quality checks by reviewing Test Cases.
• Bug Tracking and Reporting in QC.
• Prepare metrics and publish to management.
• Prepare signoff package and get signoff from Business Team.

Environment: HP ALM, Windows 2007, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Office 2007,.

Confidential, San Dimas, California

QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Create and Maintain Automation Test scripts.
• Run scripts using QTP using Descriptive Programming
• Create and maintain test data in SAP.
• Guide offshore team and work together to meet the project deadlines.
• Estimate efforts and provide the same to management for project planning.
• Extract Tax and Garnishment files from ERPs
• Validate the data flow and the file specifications to be as per standards.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional and Regression Testing
• Prepared Reverse KT docs for enhancements/new functionalities.
• Solving queries and issues of the team while authoring Test Cases.
• Responsible for Garnishment functional testing in the project.
• First level of Quality checks by reviewing Test Cases.
• Help Team in Test case execution and resolve any functional queries.
• Monitoring Test Results on a random basis.
• Bug Tracking and Reporting in activeCollab.
• Prepare signoff package and get signoff from Business Team.

Environment: HP QTPv10 Windows XP, Windows 2007, Mainframe, ActiveCollab, SAP HRMS, ALM v11,ActiveCollab, Toad, MS Office, PuTTy, Filezilla

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Test Engineer and Rating team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead for Premium rating team.
• To verify forms or letter generated in Unix box
• To provide Test Effort estimates to aid Project planning
• Enhanced images of the software in storyboard during specification phase.
• Responsible for analyzing Requirements.
• Perform Root cause analysis to discover the troublesome modules
• To work with development in developing a premium rating tool and provide Inputs.
• To Play SMEs part and Review test scripts
• Get down time log in case of environment down time and speak to environment maintenance team for future risk mitigation.
• Responsible for off-shore team’s work.
• Responsible for identifying the risks and escalation.
• Responsible for test Scripts authoring and review.
• Verify policy premium after every legal update or changes.
• Trained the new joiners by taking Sessions on applications.
• Responsible for Peer reviews of test scripts.
• Log defects in the Bug tracking tool called Teamtrack.
• Pull reports form Bug tracking tool and publish every week for Deliver and engagement managers.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2007, Mainframe, QualityCenter v8.0, Teamtrack, CTCGui v6.7 for MVR Simulation, MS Office, PuTTy, UNIX

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying the risks and escalation of issues
• Author test Scripts in Quality Center
• Bug tracking and retest of the Test cases impacted.
• Train the new resources by conducting knowledge transfer sessions
• Peer review of the test scripts prepared by the team members
• Responsible for executing the test Script and log defects in the Bug tracking tool called Teamtrack
• Create test data as per the pre-requisites.

Environment: Windows XP, CICS, QualityCenter v8.0, Teamtrack, CTCGui v6.7 for MVR Simulation, MS Office

Confidential

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• As part of Code release group(CRG), I was responsible for Testing the apps in final phase of QA and send them to implementation.
• Get the information of the application that are defect free from QA and are ready to go live.
• Run the Code release check list to validate the app stability incase of Calls, messages and other alerts to the Mobile device.
• Talk to QA leads and ensure that testing is going as per the test plan without any delay.
• Log the defect in Bug tracking tool called Jira.

Environment: Windows XP, Symbian v 9.3, Sony Ericson Proprietary software, Jira 2.0, Motorola Razr V3i, Sony Ericsson W910, Nokia N93i, Nokia N95,Nokia N-gage, Nokia PC suite.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Download the JAD and JAR files for the apps built on Java platform using WAP.
• Run the apps on various devices such as Nokia Nguage, Nokia N91,Sony ericson K200 etc.,
• Run the Code release check list to validate the app stability in case of Calls, messages and other alerts to the Mobile device.
• Ensure that testing is complete before the release date.
• Any bugs found should be logged in Jira, a Bug tracking tool.

Environment: Windows XP, Symbian v 8.0, Sony Ericson Proprietary software, Jira 2.0, Nokia 6010, Nokia 6020, Nokia 6220, Sony Ericson K700, Sony Ericson K750i, Nokia PC suite.