SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experience in the field of IT specializing in Software Quality Assurance.
• Excellent knowledge & experience in various domains like Financial Services, Insurance and Banking .
• Highly proficient in manual testing on Client - Server, Web based and desktop applications.
• Strong experience in developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans and Test Cases using requirements and design documents.
• Proficient in all aspects of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Hands on experience with waterfall and agile methodologies of testing.
• Have exposure to automation tools such as UFT and Selenium.
• Experience in Database Back-end testing using SQL queries.
• Proficient in Black Box, Functional, System Integration, Backout, User Acceptance, Regression, GUI, Web and Web Services testing.
• Experience in knowledge transfer and grooming new team members.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, self starter, quick learner, team player, ability to accept and learn from criticism, adaptability and strong work ethic.
• Outstanding analytical, decision-making, problem solving and time management skills with the ability to organize activities in fast speedy team environment.
• Ability to perform effectively and efficiently in team and individually.
• Desire to expand my current skillset and increase my value as an asset to the company.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM Quality Center 12,Quality Center 11, Unified Functional Testing,Quality Center 10, Quality Center 9

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, exposure to VBScript and Java

Domain Knowledge: Financial Services, Insurance and Banking

Operating Systems: IBM Main Frames(Z OS), UNIX, Linux, Windows 7/Vista/XP

Databases: Oracle 12c,Oracle 9i, Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server, DB2

Tools: & Technologies: HTML, Java, MS Office, XML, Documentum 6.7, EMC Captiva, IBM Appscan, WebFocus BI, Oracle ERP R12, SoapUI 5.0.0, Putty, PL/SQL Developer 8.0.1,SQL Navigator 6.3, TOAD,WinSCP 5.1.2, Windows SharePoint 3.0,Informatica,Jira 7.2.8,Window Book, Transaction Management System 11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Covington, KY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing the requirements, project estimation and preparing test plan.
• Responsible for preparing, reviewing and executing test cases.
• Monitored defect life cycle using Quality Center.
• Responsible for organizing defect review meetings.
• Performed Data Validation, by executing SQL statements in PL/SQL Tools.
• Running the scripts using Cron Jobs to create an extract file to load data into database.
• Webservices testing to submit B2B, faxes and sending correspondence.
• Performed System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Backout Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing of the application.
• Created Test Metrics and Status Reports to measure Test Execution.
• Submitted status reports to project team on the progress of the testing.
• Involved in daily standups,grooming and sprint planning sessions as part of scrum team.
• Provide KT to new hires and perform lead activities as QA lead for the scrum team.
• Developed automated test scripts using the existing functions in UFT for regression testing.

Environment: Linux, Solaris UNIX 10, Oracle 11g,Oracle 12c, Java, Windows XP, Windows 7

Tools: Quality Center 12.2,Quality Center 11, Quality Center 10, Putty, PL/SQL Developer 8.0.1,HP UFT,SQL Navigator 6.3,WinSCP 5.1.2,SoapUI 4.5.1, WebFocus BI, EMC Captiva, Documentum 6.7, IBM Appscan, Oracle ERP R12,Jira 6.4.7,Window Book,Transaction Management System 11

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing the requirements and preparing test plan.
• Responsible for preparing, reviewing and executing test cases.
• Monitored defect life cycle using Quality Center.
• Responsible for organizing defect review meetings.
• Performed 'End To End' testing of batch jobs.
• Performed Data Validation, by executing SQL statements in TOAD.
• Performed System Integration Testing and Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing of the application.
• Created Test Metrics and Status Reports to measure Test Execution.
• Submitted status reports to test lead on the progress of the testing.
• Involved in daily status meetings, walkthroughs and test case reviews written by peers.

Environment: IBM Mainframe (Z OS), DB2, CICS, Solaris UNIX, COBOL, PL/SQL, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, Windows XP, Oracle 9i, Powerbuilder, Informatics

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.2

Confidential, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Software Requirement Specifications to write Test Plan.
• Developing the test cases based on the functionality for new enhancement features and updating the scripts for existing ones.
• Manually executed the test scripts to perform testing.
• Created Test Metrics and Status Reports to measure Test Execution.
• Monitored Test Case execution and Defect life cycle using Quality Center.
• Conducted walkthroughs and formal meetings with test and development team members.
• Performed Functionality Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing of the Application.
• Conducted Regression testing using QTP.
• Investigated and documented software faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, J2EE, DB2, Oracle 9i, Mainframe

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.0

Confidential, Baltimore, MD,

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed test cases and scripts.
• Manually executed the test scripts to perform testing.
• Responsible for organizing defect review meetings.
• Coordinated with Developers and Business Analysts in fixing Defects.
• Reported test results to QA management with recommendations and extracted daily defect reports and prepared daily reports of testing status and statistics.
• Responsible for functional walkthroughs with offshore team in India.
• Worked on testing Master User Interface (MUI) (Windows Application).
• Responsible for dropping XML files and checking if they loaded accurately in the application.
• Advance knowledge of current systems and applications by attending department approved training classes and individualized in-house training sessions.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, DB2, CICS, Windows 95, Oracle8i, XML.

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0