SUMMARY:

• More than 12+years of IT experience playing various roles in Quality Assurance, Software Development and Business Analysis.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with extensive experience specifically in Requirement Analysis/Review and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Good knowledge of Waterfall and Agile Methodologies. Actively involved in Agile Ceremonies - Sprint/Iteration Planning, Daily standup, Sprint Review/demos, and Product backlog grooming and Retrospective cadence meetings.
• Thorough architectural understanding as part of STLC of Web applications, Legacy systems, Salesforce applications.
• Strong domain knowledge expertise in Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance - Auto Insurance, Student and Auto loans.
• Proficient in writingTest Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Summary Reports for both Manual and Mainframe Testing.
• Experience in Functional testing, Integration and Regression testing, GUI testing, Frontend/Backend testing, System testing and Sanity testing.
• Worked on writing the Rubyscripts and experience with QTP.
• Knowledge of Automation Testing Frameworks - Ruby Cucumber, Data driven, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Keyword driven and Page Object Patterns.
• Experience in Ruby Selenium WebDriver to automate functional, regression testing.
• Extensively worked in Quality Center for Requirements, Test Cases, Business Components, Test Results and Defect Management.
• Created reusable Test Assets like - Test Plan Templates, Process documents and Excel marcos for test data setup.
• Experienced in executing the System Test Batch Cycles and ability to understand and resolve system test abends based on resolution log.
• Good exposure to JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and various Mainframe tools.
• Knowledge on the release planning process, IM and business partners to support, plan, manage and implement major, minor, emergency and off-cycle releases.
• Experience in test co-ordination with upstream and downstream systems.
• Involved in daily QA status meetings internally to resolve the issues and had good co-ordination with developers, Test Manager and team members and preparing daily QA Status reports.
• Experienced in managing test cases using Quality Center, reusing of test cases and traceability matrix.
• Performed walkthroughs, Peer Review meetings, and testing to carry out verification and validation process.
• Ability to perform risk analysis to meet deadline, self motivated, detail oriented and energetic. Flexible in adapting to any new environment and working on any project.
• Ability to self-manage and prioritize tasks and work independently as well as in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows and OS/390 On IBM 3090

Databases: VSAM, DB2, IMS-DB and Oracle

Domain: Auto Insurance, Auto and Student Loans

Tools Manual Testing: Quality Center, Star Team, DeviceAnyWhere Studio, Tealeaf, Input Accel, RTC, XMLSpy and SquirrelSQL.

Mainframe Testing: PDSE, SPUFI, DB2ADMIN, TSO Impact, SCM, FILE AID, Control - M, STWB, BAS, Zeke Scheduling, SDSF and File Manager.

Automation: Ruby, QTP, Cucumber, Rspec and Selenium-Webdriver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Quality Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and understanding the requirements based on individual Product Backlog Items.
• Followed Agile Methodologies for all of the project activities.
• Involved in extracting, discussing and refining user and business process requirements from SMEs.
• Designed and developed Test plan based on BRD and User Stories.
• Experience in writing automated acceptance tests in a behaviour-driven development (BDD) style.
• Experience in Selenium WebDriver to Automate Functional, Regression Testing.
• Worked on debugging Ruby script for the correctness of developed code using Ruby Mine.
• Worked on updating of Ruby scripts for the manual rating and create quotes, policies and do servicing fortheNAPS policies.
• Writing automation scripts for the BRM using Ruby programming.
• Used RubyMine IDE to write Gherkins and generated step definitions and methods using ruby/ Cucumber
• Familiar in creating Gherkin source (. feature) file in Business Readable and domain specific language.
• Involved in the creating the Story Cards and effort estimation.
• Participating in 3 amigo discussions as analyst with requirement analyst and developer to discuss and prioritize the story cards.
• Participating with requirement analyst writing the acceptance criteria for story cards.
• Actively involved in Show and Tell meeting with business partners and participated in demo on the story cards.
• Actively involved in the Retrospective with team
• Reviewing User Stories and other functional specification documents.
• Attend and engage in daily stand-ups, weekly Core team meeting, and test plan walk meetings and provide status updates to QA management.
• Performed walkthroughs, Peer Review meetings, and testing to carry out verification and validation process.
• Attend project Meetings as appropriate (E.g. Kick Off Meeting, Weekly Status meeting, Requirement Walk through meetings, Defect meetings, Project Test Plan peer Review, Project Level Test Plan Walkthrough, System Test Entrance and Exit Criteria meetings).
• Responsible for understanding the requirements for assignments within the project. Identify requirements which are unclear and incomplete and send email communication to the Test Lead and Requirement Analyst identifying Requirement Issue.
• Develop customized Test Data ( Confidential Policies) and setup Flow for Unit Testing according to Confidential Development Email Request. Identify / Setup Policies prior to System Testing.
• Develop Test Scripts / Scenarios that trace to the Requirements against the Business Requirement document and covered all possible scenarios to perform End to end Testing and thus ensuring good test coverage. Also include Business Critical scenarios provided by the Business Analyst with the Test Plan. Update the Test Plan on the server that can be accessed by the project Team. Documented Test Strategy, Listing Project Summary, identifying Companies and Products affected, etc.
• Discussed the Approach, Standards and Procedures, I will be using for System Testing with the Peer Review team and Business Team and incorporated the changes suggested by them.
• Executed Te;st Plans and Test cases according to Project schedule and report Defects using HP Quality Center. Defect Management and Tracking using through ALMQuality Centre.
• Responsible to save and send data to the downstream area for their System Testing.
• Responsible to communicate Test Project status, Resolve and Escalate issues and ensure effective End to End Testing.
• Complete the UAT / UET checklist and send it to the UAT / UET Analysts prior to UAT / UET Testing.
• Communicate System Testing Sign OFF at the end of System Testing to the Project Team, upload the Test Plan in the Release Website after system Testing Sign Off.
• Responsible for carrying out Production Validation. Also responsible for validating defects, those are under the Production Warranty support.
• Responsible for carrying out First Day reviews and testing first 10 Production policies, if the analyst is assigned to New Company Project.

Applications& Tools:  Confidential, Rate Factor Report, MRPO, Quality Store, Quality Center, RTC, SPUFI, Ruby, Cucumber, SquirrelSQL, XMLSpy and File Manager

Lead QA & Batch Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Analyze Business Requirements and functional specifications, co-ordination with the test lead or business for requirement gathering and clarifications for the creation of test scenarios.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Business, End-to-End and Regression testing.
• Peer review with an objective to find the defects, walkthroughs to the client and business team, reviewing the test cases for quality.
• Involved in execution, test result review and preparation.
• Creating test policies using QTP scripts and updating of scripts,
• Conditioning of test data for mainframe and manual test case execution.
• Defect logging into QC and addressing the defect till closure.
• Attending the defect call with Business and Development team at the time of execution.
• Perform and execute system test batch cycles for METS UAT and TR3 regions.
• Interact with the system batch on call persons.
• Preparation of system test batch cycle result.

Applications& Tools: METS, InputAccel, SCRA UI, CRM, Workflow, Pulse, CIG and AppWorks, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional

Test Analyst

Confidential 

Responsibilities

• Analyzing the business and functional requirements and prepare test scenarios.
• Develop Test Cases and mapping of requirements.
• Peer review of test cases and results.
• Validation and Executing of the test cases.
• Defect logging and addressing the defect fixes.
• Reporting the execution progress on daily and weekly basis.
• Actively taken part in Onsite & Offshore communication.

Developer/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Gather the requirements from onsite and understand the requirement and communicate with onsite co-ordination for more clarification if needed.
• Providing the low level design document and development.
• Preparing the unit testing environment and test cases.
• Reviewing peer codes and unit test plan.
• Provide system test batch support.
• Analyzing and validation of production defects and enhancement project for Auto loan and Credit Card applications.
• Prepare test cases and test data setup.
• Execution, test result preparation and defect logging. Attending the defect meeting.

Applications& Tools: PDSE, VSAM, LIBRBRIAN, TSO Impact, SCM, Control-M, Quality Center, Star Team

QA &Batch Analyst 

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Preparation of system test batch cycles.
• Perform/execute system test batch cycles.
• Resolution of all system test abends as pre resolution log.
• Interact with the ONCALL persons or Dev team.
• Maintain System Test Libraries by adding the new checked in components in system test environments for every release.
• Test JCL’s setup.
• Convert Prod JCL’s to Test and create a GDG base.
• Attend Release Commit meetings and test requirements meetings and users which will explain the committed CR’s and their testing strategies.
• Thorough analysis on the COBOL-DB2 programs in case of any system test abends and update the same in the results.
• Prepare the batch results.

Tools: PDSE, SPUFI, LIBRBRIAN, TSO Impact, SCM, Control-M, STWB, BAS

Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Involved in preparing inputs for the manual test cases.
• Involved in creating manual test conditions and test cases in QC.
• Preparation of test Data Setup for the manual testing.