SUMMARY

• More than 7 years of work experience in Quality Assurance including Manual, Automation and ETL testing.
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Expertise in Requirements analysis through various modes of communication like walkthrough, meetings, chat etc with Business Analysts, Product Managers and developers.
• Experience in developing framework changes to include various functionalities but not limited to, handling windows, popups, page navigations, robot framework. Integration of tools such as Auto - it to handle functionalities not supported by Selenium
• Hands on experience with developing object repositories using XML.
• Working knowledge on creation of automation scripts using Java and Selenium.
• Expertise in working and leading a team with Requirements Traceability matrix, project and QA data.
• Experience in cross browser testing using IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
• Good experience in software test estimation using Function point analysis and ad-hoc estimation processes.
• Experience in testing UNIX shell scripts written for ETL processes to schedule workflows in Autosys and Power center.
• Experience in using tools such as SharePoint, Tortoise SVN, and Version One.
• Strong knowledge of using testing tools such as HP QUALITY Center 11(ALM), 10 and JIRA and Team Foundation Server(TFS)
• Experience working in various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile.
• Experience in supporting project turnovers, production deployment and UAT.
• Worked extensively on all phases of testing Functional testing, Regression testing, Test designing, Test execution, Defect reporting.
• Experience in providing daily, weekly, monthly reports to all stakeholders.
• Experienced in various other QA activities like metrics reporting, audits, data reporting, Compliance activities.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to quickly understand client’s business needs.
• Involved in meetings to gather information and requirements from the clients.
• Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: JAVA

Project and defect management tools: HP Quality Center 11.0(ALM), 10.0, Team Foundation server 10/12, JiraVersion one

Frameworks(Automation): Page object Model, Keyword driven

Configuration management tools: SharePoint, Tortoise SVN

Waterfall Models: Waterfall, Prototype and Agile

Connection tools: Informatica Power center

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server

Batch tools: UNIX

Browsers: Internet Explorer 8,9, Firefox, Safari, Chrome

Operating Systems: Windows XP,7, Apple Macintosh

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Technical Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the lead BSA in requirement gathering and preparation of BRD with direct client interaction.
• Involved in estimates and actuals at the end of the month for billing purposes.
• Helping the developers and testing team to understand the requirement.
• Requirement analysis BRD, requirement walkthrough from Business Analyst and Development team and information gathering from different sources.
• Software test estimation using different techniques and provide actual efforts.
• Preparation of test planning documents and providing knowledge transfer to the offshore team for testing
• Working as a test lead and provide appropriate guidance to the offshore team for them to complete the testing without any hiccups.
• Execute batch processing and verify the jobs status and data-flow in database tables
• Testing UNIX shell scripts written for ETL Processes to schedule workflows on Autosys.
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files)before loading into target database
• Verification of connections of source and target databases using Informatica Powercenter tool.
• Validation of data in between source and target after running Mappings by the developer team
• Test results review and walkthrough with the Business Analyst and the developer.
• Providing to status reports to the various stakeholders and client on a daily basis.
• Sign-off from the various stakeholders after the testing is complete.

Environment: SQL Server, Sybase, UNIX, Powercenter, Sharepoint

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis through emails/calls/chats, document management and version control using SharePoint.
• Software test estimation using Function point analysis, planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsible for testing a variety of Health Benefits and Insurance suite of products and assisting testing a related product when necessary. Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues. Verifying QA database with advanced SQL queries including joins.
• Work closely with other testers and developers to improve automated framework with bug fixes and change requests.
• Testing of audio as well as video contents of the application
• Working and leading a team with the requirements traceability matrix (RTM), project data and QA data.
• Working in mobile application testing for the application in android and iOS platforms using emulators and handheld devices. This includes testing the application over emulators/Wi-Fi networks and on available network operators.
• Working with testing the security features of the application before production release.
• Metrics management and providing project metrics to senior management on a bi-weekly basis
• Supporting project turnovers in weekends and performing UAT and production support testing
• Leading and assisting a set of people in various day to day activities which are not limited to project management, metrics management, data reporting, project Audits, noncompliance action items etc.
• Testing in inter-continental languages like Spanish and French using translator tools.

Environment: DotNet, TFS 2010/2012, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, Version One.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis for the modules to be automated/POC of the application to be tested
• Analysis/development/modification of the framework to be used for developing the tests
• Framework changes to include various functionalities but not limited to, handling windows, popups, page navigations, robot framework. Integration of tools such as Auto-it to handle functionalities not supported by Selenium
• Designing and coding the automated tests using java’s advanced features like Robot framework
• Creating object repositories using XML
• Running and scheduling of the automated tests
• Defect reporting

Environment: Java, Selenium, Auto-it.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup for the automated tests to run
• Analysis/development/modification of the framework to be used for developing the tests
• Data setup for Requirement analysis for the modules to be automated
• Designing and coding the automated tests using java
• Run the automated tests
• Report any defects to the developer.

Environment: Selenium Webdriver, Java

Confidential

Quality Control Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis through emails/calls/chats, document management and version control using SharePoint.
• Software test estimation using Function point analysis, planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsible for testing a variety of Health Benefits and Insurance suite of products and assisting testing a related product when necessary. Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Work closely with other testers and developers to improve automated framework with bug fixes and change requests.
• Testing of audio as well as video contents of the application
• Working and leading a team with the requirements traceability matrix (RTM), project data and QA data.
• Working in mobile application testing for the application in android and iOS platforms using emulators and handheld devices. This includes testing the application over emulators/Wi-Fi networks and on available network operators.
• Working with testing the security features of the application before production release.

Environment: Dot Net, JIRA, Tortoise SVN

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis through emails/calls/chats, document management and version control using SharePoint.
• Software test estimation using Function point analysis, planning and execution, primarily functioning in an integration test capacity
• Responsible for testing a variety of Health Benefits and Insurance suite of products and assisting testing a related product when necessary. Responsibilities include test plans, test cases, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying work requests/bug reports, and helping recreate customer issues.
• Work closely with other testers and developers to improve automated framework with bug fixes and change requests.
• Testing of audio as well as video contents of the application
• Working with a team with the requirements traceability matrix (RTM), project data and QA data.

Environment: Dot Net, HP Quality Center