SUMMARY:

• 3+ years of Experience in the IT industry with emphasis on Quality Assurance/Software Testing with exposure of both Manual and Automated testing tools. Expertise in validating and testing, Client - Server and Web-Based Applications in different environments.
• Expertise in Banking, Financial and Retail domains.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile- Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall methodologies.
• Good knowledge in Retail banking, Loan Life Cycle and Mortgage Loans.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Reports based upon the business requirements.
• Experience in Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, Unit, Integration, System, Front-End and Back-End Testing, Regression and Functional Testing.
• Performed sanity testing, smoke testing, Usability testing and Security testing and Volume testing on various applications.
• Experienced in reporting bugs using Bug tracking tools such as Rally, JIRA and Rational clear quest.
• Involved in Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing Gap Analysis.
• Used Online Monitors and Graphs to analyze the results. Experienced in reporting defects using Defect tracking tools such as Rally, JIRA and Rational clear quest and Rational clear quest
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspection meetings to review Test scripts and results.
• Working knowledge in Oracle on UNIX Environment.
• Strong technical skills in SQL to extract data for data analysis and user interface (UI) testing. Performed Back-End testing by using SQL commands to verify the database integrity.
• Good Documentation and Process Management skills with an ability to effectively understand the business requirements to develop a quality product and a Good team player with the ability to lead, manage and work independently in a time sensitive environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms Used: Sun Sparc, HP, IBM Mainframe

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris

Test Tools: Geb / Spock, Cucumber, Rational Tools (RTC, RRC, RQM etc), LoadRunner, QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, TestDirector, Quality Center, Watir, WatirCraft, FitNesse, Selenium, Java / JUnit, Apache JMeter, JIRA Suite, Rally, 508 compliance testing

Scripting: XML, HTML, UNIX Shell scripting

Web Technologies: Java, .Net, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, HTTP/HTML, ASP, JBoss

Application Servers: WebLogic, ATG Dynamo, WebSphere

Web Servers: Apache, TomCat, JBoss, Sun Web Server, Stronghold Apache

Platform, Tools: J2EE, Siebel, DOORS, Tuxedo, Eclipse IDE, JBoss Rules Engine

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Ruby, Groovy, PL/SQL, TCL, Visual Basic

Databases: Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL, MS-Access, SQL Server, Sybase

CM / Continuous Integration (CI) tools: Subversion, Git, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven

Process Methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Waterfall

Bug Tracking: HP Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager. Rational Clear Quest, RALLY and BugZilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role as a member of QA team in an Agile Scrum Development Team.
• Involved in Development of Test cases and Test plan using HP ALM.
• Automated test scripts, created and maintained reusable Actions of Mobile application.
• Ran the scripts on multiple environments (QA and UAT) to ensure that requirements were still met.
• Involved in setting up the test environment for execution of Test cases.
• Created and Maintained Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Created and executed complex SQL queries to the Oracle Database to validate and test data
• Carried out GUI, Functionality, Integration, Regression and Data Driven Testing.
• Logged errors, reported defects, determined priorities, did Regression testing and closed by using Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM).
• To retrieve the data from various Tables and to test the database, wrote SQL Queries.
• Reported and managed defects according to Defect Life Cycle and coordinated with the developers on Defect’s Status on a regular basis and performed re-testing using ALM.
• Participate in various meeting and discussed Enhancement and Modification request.
• Reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Worked with business analysts for UAT testing.
• Performed UAT by formally documenting the results of each test and provided error reports and correction requests to the developers.
• Worked with change management tools, Subversion, Git, TortoiseSVN and Eclipse IDE.
• An expert in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases. Actively participated in daily Agile Scrum activities, stand-ups.
• Worked in a fast paced, constantly changing environment with Agile methodologies. Worked with Scrum Team estimation of stories and sizing of effort to include the representation of the test automation and engagement with Continuous Integration (CI).
• Consistently increased visibility into the test process using test management tools and reports and effective communication.
• Continually involved key stakeholders in the design, testing, and acceptance processes. Designed, built and managed complex test environments.

Environment: Agile, SQL, HTML, XML, UNIX, Oracle, ALM.

Confidential, DE

BA/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the scope of the project by facilitating the scoping session with internal users
• Designed the acceptance criteria and test plans for the project
• Created and updated issues in the form of epics, stories, tasks and sub tasks onto the JIRA application
• Worked closely with users and product owners; understood their needs of improvement/ enhancement about the Petra tool and gathered requirements and wrote them as stories in Jira
• Worked in Agile environment, actively participated in sprint planning meeting and prioritization of product backlog with the product owners
• Facilitated the planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, the daily standup call and Sprint Retrospective meeting
• Prepared the Functional Specification document; Created UML diagrams, including use cases diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, and webpage mock ups
• Prepared the test plan; wrote and executed Test cases/ scripts in ALM for each iteration during system testing, logged defects in ALM, assigned those defects to the responsible developer and retested them once they were fixed and closed them in ALM as well as in Jira
• Collaborated closely with front-end developers to develop different GUI business requirements - conducted code reviews, issue investigation, code debugging, program login definition, and front-end testing
• Was leading the QA and assisting with UAT; Prepared the test plan, strategy and test cases. tested the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure acceptance and validation of stories
• Managed the test cases, execution of test cases and defects in ALM.
• Maintained Requirements traceability matrix throughout the application development lifecycle

Environment: Agile, HTML, XML, Windows, JIRA, SQL, UNIX.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mortgage Loan Application (MLA): The project was to automate a semi manual(Semi-Automated) loan origination application and the existing paper based mortgage Loan in to a fully automated web based mortgage Loan Life Cycle application. I was also involved in developing the Mobile Application for Loan Origination Module.
• Responsibilities
• Analyzed RSDD (Requirement Specification Design Document), functional specification & Test Plan and create test cases for Manual Testing.
• Involved in Test plan development.
• Executed Test cases in a well set up environment in various stages of SDLC.
• Manually performed Smoke Testing.
• Developed and maintained automated ATDD test scenarios.
• Involved in writing extensive SQL Queries for back end testing oracle database.
• Retrieved files using SQL statements and UNIX commands.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements and performed gap analysis
• Performed positive testing and negative testing manually.
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems and investigated and reported defects using JIRA.
• Set-up, co-ordinate & conduct system & UAT testing with Business analyst and end-field users after the applications were all set.
• Modified test scripts created by the system test team to meet UAT needs
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Updated and reported the status of existing issues and day-to-day activities to QA lead and project management.

Environment: Agile, HTML, XML, Windows, JIRA, SQL, UNIX.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Dealt with all kinds of financial instruments such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, etc.
• Analyzed system specification, and Business requirements and developed test plans for the testing of Benefits Online Banking application.
• Wrote Test Cases in Excel based on Technical Specifications, Functional Specifications and Business rules for online application system.
• Interaction with the legacy SME, business and IT team for technical clarifications.
• Performed GUI testing, Ad -hoc testing, Negative testing, User Acceptance testing.
• Wrote Test Scenarios, Test cases in excel sheet.
• Participated in Leadership Meeting, Defect Call Meeting to discuss about the issues.
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems and investigated and reported defects using Quality center.
• Performed verifications on fixes in multiple environments. Clearly documented and communicated fix success, failures and status updates, as appropriate.
• Escalated issues to the QA Lead when necessary.
• Wrote simple to medium SQL queries to verify the database tables for the data retrieval from the GUI.
• Developed scripts and test cases for Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Stress Testing.
• Updated and reported the status of existing issues and day-to-day activities to QA lead and project management.
• Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, Oracle SQL, MS Word, MS Project, MS Excel.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, MS-SQL Server, Web Sphere 5.0, Apache, C++, CORBA, Java Applets, Java Servlet, MS Office, Visio Technical, Harvest, Doors, Windows NT, UNIX - Sun Solaris2.8, middleware COM and back end SQL Server