SUMMARY:

I am introducing myself as Confidential . I am an experienced QA Analyst with an emphasis on Manual & Automated Testing. I am working in Nationwide Insurance for almost 2 years as a Test Analyst. I worked with Prestige Application, Cyber Life Application, Underwriting Desktop Application and I pipeline Application. In Nationwide Insurance I worked as a Build, Run and Release Tester in different applications. Currently I am a part of UD Release testing team. The current project I am working as a part of P2020 Project. I am well versed in SDLC/STLC concepts, practices and procedures. Experience in Web Based Application as well as Client Server Applications. I have knowledge in writing test plans, test strategies, test cases, use case design, text execution and defect management. I am proficient in black & white box testing, regression, user acceptance & load and performance testing. I also have reasonable experience in ATDD using Ruby, Cucumber, Ruby Gems, Watir and Page Objects, as well as experience in writing Gherkin scripts, writing step definitions, automating test scenarios and participating in Three Amigo sessions. I am very passionate about learning new testing methods and processes that benefit the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, HP QC 11, JIRA, Soap, SQL, Ruby/Cucumber, QTP, Access, Power point.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SQA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts based on the business requirements.
• Developed test plans and test case strategy for functional testing based on the functional requirement documents.
• Developed and performed execution of test scripts manually to verify the expected results.
• Analyzed and understood functional and non - functional requirements, business rules associated with different projects.
• Performed functional, integration, unit, and regression testing.
• Documented all test cases, test scripts and test execution results in Quality Center.
• Performed smoke testing to ensure the stability of different QA environments.
• Performed regression testing, negative testing and assisted in UAT testing.
• Used HP Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Raised defects in Quality Center and assigned to developer for fixing and retested them after being fixed.
• Responsible for scheduling and running batch jobs, debugging and reporting defects in QC.
• Experienced in reading data from excel spreadsheets, converting them to excel sheet and supplying the same to the automation cycle.
• Worked in a fast paced environment in close association with Developers, requirements analysts
• Participated in reviewing Solution Requirements Deliverable (SRD) and Actuarial Specification Documents (ASD).
• Assisted to the Reviewing Component Design document
• Participated in creating Master Test Strategy.
• Attended the weekly Project status meeting and discussed the upcoming events
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Worked on the preparing Test Plan from High Level Design Document, the Solution Requirements Deliverable (SRD) and Actuarial Specification Documents (ASD).
• Reviewed the High Level Design Document, Solution Requirements Deliverable (SRD).
• Assisted to the subject matter experts to learn more about the Life Insurance Product.
• Participated in internal QA Peer-Reviews
• Understanding the Business requirements and preparing the functional test cases
• Updating the test cases as per the new requirements changes, UI changes
• Investigated Software defects and interacted with Analysts, Developers to resolve technical issues.
• Analyzed and understood client business requirements. Identified scenarios and test conditions.
• Attended Project Lesson learned meetings
• Assigned defects to developers through QC and updated their status accordingly.
• Reported periodic project status and updates to the QA lead and QA manager.
• Defined testing criteria, planned, created and executed test plans in a mainframe environment
• Validated the mainframe data to browser values.
• Compared the plan description file, issue age file and rate utility file values with mainframe data .
• Experience in working with Windows, Client-Server, Web based as well as Mainframe related applications
• Experience in working on Mainframe with CICS
• Experience in working with Citrix Receiver

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested Confidential company website manually and with Ruby Mine, Cucumber automation.
• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents, Designer documents, Solution specification and the Functional Specification.
• Attended PRD (Project Requirements Document) review to determine business requirements both functional and non-functional
• Writing Step Definitions/Automating test scenarios and Writing Gherkins.
• Prepared Test Cases using mapping documents, data scope documents and the solution specification documents.
• Interacted with senior peers or subject matter experts to learn more about the data.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification and Design documents.
• Used GEMS tools to generate the XML responses to test positive & negative scenarios based on the test cases.
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve defects.
• Performed Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing and Back end testing.
• Reported the Bugs/Defects using Quality Center 11 defect management tool
• Participate in Defect Review Board meetings to resolve bug related issues with developers.
• Participated in daily defect resolution status calls to discuss defects with vendors, project management and users.
• Responsible for communicating Defect Status Reports to business in project meetings.

Confidential

Tax Associate

Responsibilities:

• Filed taxes with IRS using the forms (including 1040 and 1040A &1040EZ)
• Experience in calculating and analyzing itemized deductions and exemptions.
• Experience in analyzing the retirement savings contributions credit, child tax credit and earning income credit etc.
• Experience in filing tax with clients with several W2 forms for the federal, states and cities.
• Experience in calculating the tax and tax refund using newly introduced the Healthcare act and Medicaid.
• Conducted tax interviews with clients.
• Offered additional products and services.
• Generated business growth.
• Hands on experience in calculating the sales and property tax and analysis.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in reviewing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD).
• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Execution of Test cases and Test Scenarios.
• Tested the application-using Quality Center.
• Executed Test cases manually.
• Analyzed the results and reported the bugs in Quality Center.
• Attended the weekly status meeting and discussed the upcoming events.
• Understand the functional requirements of the projects and performed the functional testing using manual testing process.
• Preparation of test cases that describes the features and functions to be tested.
• Managed, Documented and controlled all the Test Cases, Test scripts and Test results using QC.
• Performed in regression testing after closing the defects or new build after fix.
• Involved in Record and run tests using QTP.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, Usability testing.
• Involved in UI testing.
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Involved in preparing the Daily Execution Status report and sharing with managers and leads.
• Weekly Status Report - Involved in preparing the Daily Execution Status report and sharing with the Project manager and lead.
• Tools: Microsoft office, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional
• Technical Environment: QC, Load Runner and SQL Database under Windows platform.