SUMMARY:

• Nearly 7 years of experience including 2 years as BA/QA working as an accomplished facilitator between Stake holders and IT teams along with writing Test Cases and test scenarios for Client/server and Web based applications. Exposure to various industry verticals such as IT Consulting, Finance & Health Care. Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment and meet stringent deadlines.
• Highly experienced in problem solving techniques and liaising between SMEs, Stakeholders, business users, and technical teams
• Highly experienced in Business Requirement elicitation process and techniques, conducting JAD sessions, focus groups, Project Meetings, Reviews, Mock - ups and Walk-through sessions
• Experience in mapping AS-IS processes, developing process solutions through brain storming sessions and designing TO-BE processes using UML diagrams such as Process-flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Data-flow Diagrams
• Well conversant with documenting both functional and non-functional requirements, Use Cases, Technical Specifications and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), Conducting GAP analysis, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements
• Developed Traceability Matrix based on defined business rules
• Strong experience working closely with Requirement Change Control Board (RCCB) to perform the Impact Analysis and determine the Effort Estimates in requirement changes
• Experience assisting Project Manager writing Business Case, preforming Cost Benefit Analysis, Resource Management process and defining Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Proficient in writing Test Cases, Test Scenarios for Manual Testing.
• Exposure on all the phases of SDLC & STLC.
• Experienced with testing methodologies and preparing Traceability Matrix.
• Detailed understanding of QA methodology ( Agile, Waterfall ) to ensure quality control.
• Experience in manual testing while using test management tools: QC & ALM.
• Testing skills include Regression, Functional testing, System Testing
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Software quality standards and configuration management and change management and Quality procedures.
• Highly motivated, self-starter able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse technical team.
• Experience in Bug Tracking System and technically sound in knowledge.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with capable of working efficiently under stress and tight deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Office including Excel
• Access
• Visio Balsamic Wireframes UML SQL JAVA QC
• ALM 11.0 & JIRA

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA/BA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions for effective communication of views between stakeholders and gathered and updated business requirements.
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with the project manager and development team during different stages of the product life cycle.
• Modified Use cases and updated BRDs to reflect changes in business need.
• Handled change management by logging in CR (Change Requests) and communicating to Testing and Dev team.
• Prepared Business Process Models that depicted modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level
• Used prototypes to demonstrate and verify the behavior of the system
• Used Visio to create the business architecture model for faster application development.
• Provide technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Involved in Functional test of new products and Regression test for existing products during each QA release cycle.
• Analyze system requirements and develop test conditions and test cases.
• Performed various types of testing such as Smoke, Regression and Functional.
• Created test scenarios and test cases based on functional documents and User stories
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected results and maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries to verify data in tables.
• Executed automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver.
• Involved in updating the Test Procedure document, iteratively, whenever a Change Request is done.
• Involved in writing Test Cases for High priority Functional specifications and Business requirements of the application.
• Actively participate in the team meeting with the Developers, Business Analyst and Support team to understand the test requirements effectively.
• Participate in Review meetings, Walkthrough and Defect meetings.
• Attended daily status meetings and weekly team status meetings for reporting testing status.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

QA/BA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organized Joint Application Developments (JAD) with end-user/clients/stake holders and the IT group to gather requirements in order to re-engineer the existing process
• Analyzed and designed the requirements for a new system based on the Agile methodology.
• Created mock ups and wireframes to help facilitate the conversion of business needs into technical requirements.
• Managed change requests and status reporting.
• Documented and maintained user manuals.
• Analyzed the Functional Business requirements and Design documents, and Developed Test strategies for different Testing stages.
• Developed Manual Test Cases to test the functionality and behavior of the application.
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected results and maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Performed various types of testing such as Smoke, Regression, Integration, Functional and End-to-end testing.
• Analyze system requirements and develop test conditions and test cases.
• Created functionality test cases after establishing critical values and workflow.
• Involved in updating the Test Procedure document, iteratively, whenever a Change Request is done.
• Involved in System, Functional, Integration, Regression, and Connectivity.
• Involved in writing Test Cases for High priority -Functional specifications and Business requirements of the application.
• Analyze system requirements and develop test conditions and test cases.
• Participate in Review meetings, Walk-through and Defect Triage meetings. Attended daily status meetings and weekly team status meetings for reporting testing status.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Finance/Accounts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Staff augmentation for project based or staffing based contracts with understanding of both the client and candidate sides of the placement process.
• Provided full lifecycle recruiting by working with subcontracting agencies on corp-to- corp basis and maintaining contractor agreements
• Demonstrated technical background to closely manage and identify key talent throughout the recruiting process and managed the internet-based recruitment process based on changing priorities and client needs.
• Developed and implemented creative recruiting strategies.
• Internet sourcing and recruiting, post positions, write job descriptions, attend job fairs, facilitate networking, which includes referrals and job boards.
• Strategize with teammates to accomplish weekly business growth goals. Provided back-up support to teammates as needed.
• Involved with cold calling initiatives to target new clients. Attended initial client meetings with consultants. Direct client interaction to qualify requirements
• Providing resources for projects based on the client needs and initiatives and recruiting of IT professionals as per the client requirements.
• Participated in all aspects of full life cycle of recruitment and marketing for information technology staffing & Project consulting firm.
• Met with clients, vendors and consultants for improving existing and new relationships
• Negotiating with consultants on compensation package and coordinating with the legal department and HR for contract agreements
• Dealing with other consulting firms and providing resources to meet their requirements and mapping project requirements with available skill sets.
• Consistently follow up on client satisfaction and manage process from start to finish.
• Follow-up with clients for new requirements, managed time sheets, sales projection, tracking resumes and customer leads
• Responsible for Accounts receivable, reconciliations and follow ups.