SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of IT experience as a Business analyst and test engineer.
• BA Information Technology Professional with diverse experience with emphasis on software quality assurance and testing in the Retail, Banking and HealthCare industries.
• Good at supporting product and services as per Business Requirements.
• Accomplished and proven with significant experience meeting testing deliverables, implementing and maintaining the testing environment, and working closely with other teams to maintain release schedule.
• Proficient in writing test plans and test cases, and performing smoke, integration, systems, user acceptance.
• Closely work with Stakeholders, Developers, Testing team and offshore team.
• Expertise in manual testing of client/server and web - based applications using Mercury Interaction Test Suite and Microsoft Test Manager.
• Solid knowledge in Automation testing.
• Good knowledge in agile methodology of the software process.
• Solid knowledge in manual software testing and extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile and Waterfall models.
• Successfully completed a set of software testing projects for Retail domain.
• Proven experience using Microsoft Test Manager and defect tracking systems, such as HP ALM, JIRA, and Spira.
• Experienced in functional, regression and knowledge in stress/load performance testing of web-based and client/server applications using Mercury Interactive Test Suite, Win Runner, and Load Runner.
• Skilled in the evaluation of software requirements and development of QA plans, QA test scripts, and acceptance criteria for various testing phases.
• Extensively used Teradata to perform various SQL Queries to test the back end functionality of the application, and retrieve and validate data for Database testing.
• Proficient in converting the detail design specifications to build the testing life cycle including writing test cases, test scripts.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Comfortable working as a member of an integrated team (Product, BA, Development and Implementation teams), as well as independently.
• Helped to ensure that high severity bugs are caught during the QA phase, and provided appropriate feedback to the development group on usability, functionality, and quality of user experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP, MS Windows 98/95, Mainframe Z/Os

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager, HP ALM,JIRA, Spira, Mainframes Screens, Load runner,Swagger,Rally

Databases: DB2, MS SQL Server & DB2

Languages: SQL.

SD Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, created and maintained software test plans and scenarios based on technical specifications, business knowledge and documentation, ensuring the developed software performed as detailed.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing of Retail care applications.
• As a member of the Scrum team, participated in daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings, as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Identified, analyzed and documented defects using Team Foundation Server as a defect tracking system.
• Worked closely with the Development, BA and QA teams, as well as stakeholders and members of management.
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting, and defect reproduction.
• Ena to end testing for E-commerce site for iteam setup
• Well manged test environment for E-commerce for smooth experience for end users
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports, and other test related documents.
• Participated in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC.
• Coordinated and/or executed test execution cycles, report defects and enhancements, and evaluated the severity of the problems found.
• Validated that system output accurately reflected business requirements as outlined in requirements and design documents.
• Reported on the status of software testing.
• Evaluated the quality of software using software stability, user impact, and project schedule as guides, ensuring management was informed of issues throughout the testing cycle.
• Provided advice and assistance to the QA team in the planning, implementation and evaluation of modifications to existing operations, systems and procedures.
• Worked closely with offshore Development and QA teams to assign QA tasks.

Environment: qTest, JIRA, Asana, Excel, MS Office, Oracle,Java, Selenium,API:REST/ SOAP, Swagger, Postman,Agile.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Business Analyst, Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.
• Participated in the manual testing of some test cases.
• Served as a member of the User Acceptance Testing team, wrote enhancement requests, and worked with the perspective of the user.
• Created automated test scripts using Mercury.
• Coordinated with developers to fix bugs, and conducted functional (positive and negative) and integrity testing.
• Conducted unit, integration and system testing.
• Participated in a weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Performed smoke, security, GUI, user acceptance testing.
• Completed end-to-end testing.
• Conducted performance, load and stress testing of the application by creating virtual users.
• Participated in maintaining the test matrix.
• Defined transactions to measure server performance under load by creating rendezvous points to simulate a heavy server load.
• Completed defect tracking and bug reporting using Spira.

Environment: Java web based applications, HTML, Quality Center and Oracle SQL.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test cases and Test plans for new functional modules.
• WrittenGrey boxandBlack boxtest cases based on the User and Business Requirements.
• Actively involved inSDLCandSTLCprocess and used tools likeALM, Selenium RC/Web driver, JMeter, SOAP UI, SSMSandVisio.
• Worked onSelenium IDE, the integrated development environment forSelenium scriptsusingFirefox, Internet ExplorerandGoogle Chrome.
• Developed regression scripts usingSelenium RC.
• Tested the variousService Oriented Architectures (SOA)spanning across various web services usingSOAPandWSDLacross various applications usingSOAP UI.
• Extensively usedMySQLproficiently during data migrations. performed data pattern testing checking using SQL
• Automated the regression test cases using theSelenium&TestNG.
• Attended Daily Stand-Up meetings and provided QA status updates on different user stories.
• Automated the Test Cases usingSelenium RC, Java EclipseandJUnit.
• Actively participated during functional and regression test cycles. Supported all major production releases.
• Performed standalone testing ofSOAP/HTTP servicesusingRaw Soap Requeststep in Lisa Itko .
• Expertise in tracking the Defects and log them onQuality Centre, JIRA, Source Forge, Gemini, Clear QuestandVisual Studio.
• We used to create and test the policies based on the given requirements by using Duck creek tool, which is basically used to create insurance for auto and property.
• Worked closely with the Business Users while performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in staging environment.

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Appian, SharePoint, SOAP UI, JMeter, Junit, Mockito, Quality Centre/ALM, Eclipse, Duck creek, Postman, XPATH, Java, HTML, agile, SQL

Confidential, NC

Business Analyst, Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project baseline documents like requirements documents and Functional Specification to formulate the test cases.
• Involved in informal reviews, technical reviews, static code analysis.
• Involved in Creation of Test Plans and Test cases.
• Involved in Functionality Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing.
• Responsible for planning, designing,implementing,and evaluating tests.
• Conducted manual testing for the entire application and stored the results in Quality Center.
• Conducted functionality,interface,and regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Involved in System testing and UAT.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing
• Executed SQL Queries for Database Testing.
• Documentation of the automation results, execution scripts, pre-requisites,and assumptions.
• Tested the application for Broken Links to ensure proper navigation.
• Created Bug Reports after the Test Execution.

Environment: TFS, Postman, REST API, SQL Server.