Senior Test Analyst/lead Consultant Resume
AtlantA
PROFILE SUMMARY
- Over Ten years of IT Experience in Software Testing (Automation Testing and Manual Testing).
- Good understanding of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and involved in the entire Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) comprising of Requirement analysis, Test Planning (Test Strategy, Test Data Strategy, Test Plan), Test Designing (Test Scenarios, Test cases/Test scripts), RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix), Test environment/Test data setup, Test Execution and Test Summary reporting.
- Experienced in handling multiple projects/systems in parallel.
- Managed resource allocation including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability.
- Mitigated the risks by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery Groups.
- Proficient in writing scripts on Visual Studio(C#/.Net) to perform the automation Testing.
- Proficient in Quick Test Pro (QTP), Rational, Quality Center (QC), Test Director and QA Center.
- Proficient in BDD (Behavior - driven development) testing and writing feature files.
- Conducted the walk thru with the clients for Test plan and test scenarios. The interdependencies between the systems were identified and the change in the requirements was identified and proposed to the business.
- Designed Test plan that includes determining the in scope, out of scope, assumptions, dependencies, risk mitigation, test data, project plan and test schedule.
- Worked with the project team to devise best practices and continuous improvement of project delivery.
- Reduced test time and number of defects caused by late code arrivals by 60% with new mitigation strategy.
- Prepared the metrics for every month to present it to clients. The metrics includes Schedule Variance, Effort Accuracy variance, Requirement variation percent, Test case design productivity, Test case execution productivity, Percentage of Test cases executed, pass percentage, blocked percentage, Defect density, Defect Removal Efficiency, Defect Leakage.
- Standardized the document format for Test plan and Test scenarios across the department(AOC).
- Gained knowledge on MembersEdge & NPS and guided the entire team to learn and use the tool.
- Worked in Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies. Experience in Leading a team of QA professionals and coordinating all activities of the QA process and coordinating with Clients.
- Automated the Common Output System for testing. This reduced the manual effort by 60%.
- Conceptualized and implemented an automated system which replaced the existing manual process of report generation. This in turn facilitated the increased productivity of clients by 4.5% every month.
- Experienced in handling change requests, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects and managing Defect Life cycle.
- Mentored and documented the retrospective process after a project launch enabling the team to learn from both the good and the bad.
- Creating the weekly status reports on testing progress and presenting the same to clients.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Domain Knowledge: Person/Cases in Courts, Healthcare Claims, Healthcare Providers, Membership & Billing, Payments and Processing Systems
Operating systems: Windows, OS 390, Z/OS, Mainframe
Testing Tools: TFS (Team Foundation Server), Quick Test Pro(QTP), HP/Mercury Quality Center(QC), HP ALM, Selenium, Load Runner, SOAP UI, Cucumber, Microsoft Visual Studio(.Net), Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS), Jira, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest
Other Tools: Requisite Pro, Confidential -MembersEdge, DB2 Tools (SPUFI, QMF, Move/Access, File Aid for DB2), SQL, SharePoint, WMB/WTX, WinZip, Putty, HPExstream, Document Generator, Citrix
Language (Basics): C#, Gherkin, VB Scripting, C, C++, Java, COBOL, JCL
Database: DB2, SQL Server, PL/SQL
Packages: Lotus Notes, MS Office - Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, MS Visio
Methods: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Senior Test analyst/Lead Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Performed Automation & Manual testing that includes functional testing, smoke testing, integration testing and regression testing.
- Business requirement analysis. Knowledge acquisition from the business and transfer the same to the team at offshore.
- Created and maintained Project Plan/ Schedule, and to track the project deliverables individually and to ensure that the project is in delivered as planned. Prepared the daily and weekly reports.
- Based on the estimates, determined the resources required, and derived an optimized resource Plan.
- Prepared Test Strategy, Test Data Strategy, Test Plan, Test scenarios with the help of BRD, FRS, HLD, LLD and other supporting documents. Verified the Test Plan and Test Scenarios with the BA’s and walk thru of the same with managers, SME’s and BA’s of all domains. Created the Test scripts, RTM based on the high-level Scenarios. Guided the offshore on the same.
- Involved in End to End testing of a Claim. Designed a holistic approach for testing, to ensure that the Test data can be reused across systems, and complete Claim life cycle is tested. This in turn reduced the effort for TC writing and Test data setup, and in turn Test execution.
- Hands on Experience on Confidential -MembersEdge/Metavance, Confidential -NPS, Confidential -BlueBase, EMOL.
- Lead the complete offshore team on all the tasks to ensure the project deliverables are completed on time.
- Prepared the Unit Test scripts in C# for all scenarios, and helped the offshore for the same.
- Prepared a Quality review checklist and ensured that the deliverables are delivered to client after the Quality Review is complete. Handled a Team of 5 members and reviewed all the documents.
- The failed test cases were logged into Clear Quest. Closely worked with the BA’s and developers for defect fixes.
- Documented and reported various bugs during the Testing process. Tracked and followed up on the defect to prevent aging. Escalate aging and priority defects. Retesting the resolved defects/issues after the developers fix the defects.
Confidential, Olympia, WA
Web Services Integration Tester
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for writing the code/scripts in C# and perform End to End testing (That includes both manual and automation testing).
- Responsible for writing the Gherkin format files in visual studio to perform Behavior Driven Development.
- Reviewed the Technical and Functional specifications authored by the agency.
- Designed the Test Plan and designed the approach for testing the project.
- Wrote the Test scenarios to ensure the data is transferred correctly across the network.
- Involved in writing C# scripts in Microsoft Visual Studio for performing the automated testing of AUP Web Service and PAU Web Service.
- Performed web services testing and validated the request and response. Used SOAP UI to perform the web services Testing.
- Expert on writing queries to fetch the data from ODS/EDR and validation of the person replication details.
- Automated Client UI Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver.
- In-Depth knowledge on Individual Person Details and Person case history details.
- Hands on Experience on JIS, SCOMIS and third-party vendor applications like Odyssey.
- Expert on reading and validating NIEM-conformant XML’s (National Information Exchange Model).
- Validated the files on BizTalk Server before the person details are loaded onto Odyssey.
- Performed regression testing with scripts written in Visual Studio(C#), after the defects were fixed by the developers.
- The failed test cases were logged into TFS. 32 defects while testing the EDR Proof of Concept and 72 defects were logged in SC-CMS.
- Each iteration was 2 weeks long and the tasks, stories were tracked on TFS.
Confidential, Eagan, MN
Senior Test analyst/ Team Lead
Responsibilities:
- Performed manual testing that includes functional testing, smoke testing, sanity testing, integration testing, regression testing and UAT/BAT testing.
- Prepared Test Plan, Test scenarios with the help of BRD, FRS, HLD, LLD and other supporting documents. Verified the Test Plan and Test Scenarios with the BA’s. Helped the offshore to create the manual Test cases, RTM and test scripts based on the high-level Scenarios.
- The Interdependencies between the systems were identified and the change in the requirements was identified and proposed to the business. Review of Test execution/deliverables prepared by the team.
- Validated the Premium invoices generated through the WMB (Java Testing).
- The validation that matched the requirements and FRS were considered as pass. The failed test cases were logged into Clear Quest.
- Documented and reported various bugs during the Testing process. Tracked and followed up on the defect to prevent aging. Retesting the resolved defects/issues after the developers fix the defects.