SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance & Business Analysis in Information Technology as a Quality Analyst/Business Analyst/Database /Reporting Testing in Business Process Design/Re - engineering/Modeling, Change Management and Web based Application Design/Development in domains of Finance including Retirement Plans, Credit Cards, Mutual Funds Health Insurance and Claims.
• Participated in all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Delivery and Maintenance.
• Adept in performing various types of manual and automated QA including Unit tests, Integration tests, System tests, User Acceptance tests(UAT), Functional tests, Regression tests, Back End tests.
• Extensive experience in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Manual, Automated Testing, Implementation and Deployment for the applications developed in .NET, Visual Basic, Web Service HTML, Java, ASP, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Excellent working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing Methods in Waterfall, RUP, Scrum& Agile Methodologies.
• Expertise in Requirements Gathering through direct user interviews and workshops, facilitating JAD sessions, performing GAP analysis with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements & document variances and featuring steps to overcome gaps.
• Competent in analyzing and creating Narrative Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Data/Flow/Navigational flow diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams.
• Experienced in recording tests, debugging tests, editing scripts, running test scripts and analyzing results using testing tools Selenium, Quick Test Professional.
• Experience with Test Director and Quality Center for Requirements, Test Plan, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Working Knowledge on API testing, Web Services testing & Flex based web application testing by using QTP.
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases using requirements and reporting defects using various defect tracking systems.
• Proficient in preparing object repositories, reusable actions and test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Strong experience in Database/Backend testing using SQL.
• Experience in writing the Defect reports and developing test scripts, Traceability Matrix and Test Environments.
• Experience in Version Control and Change Control Tools like VSS.
• Highly motivated self-starter able to work independently in a diverse technical team and posses excellent analytical and communications skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mercury (Test Director 8.0,Win Runner7.0/7.1,QTP,Quality center), Quality Centre9.0,Test Directory 8.0, VSS 6.0,TOAD, Oracle 9, SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012, C,TSL, Shell Scripts, Visual Basic,.Net, Java Script, MS Office Suite,HTML,XML,ASP,.Net, Java Script, Visual Basic 4.0/5.0,6.0 and Oracle developer 2000, MS DOS,Windows 9x and Windows NT/2000/XP,UNIX,IBM-Mainframes, Software development Life cycle(SDLC),RUP, Waterfall, Agile.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Developed Test Strategy/Test Plan and Test Scenarios based on Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification Documents.
• Participated in Review meetings with triage team.
• Participated in Peer Reviews and Walk through meetings with Development and Business teams for various activities in the Project.
• Develop test scripts to verify the correctness, scale, performance and usability of the distributed SQL database engine for reporting purposes.
• Designed, Build And managed data analytics tests that leverage SQL & related Reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Data for Online Code Manager Positive and Negative Scenarios.
• Preparation of Test Data Produced Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM’s) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases and defects.
• Analyzed results of testing sessions and presents results.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for Daily Status reports with updated Management summary and Test Execution progress.
• Performed Regression Testing for the subsequent versions to make sure that the application is functioning properly.

Environment: Mainframes, COBOL, C#.Net. SQL Server, Waterfall Methodology

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for any Functional, Testing and Offshore Team Effort Issues.
• Responsible for all the effort of understanding the requirements, Creating & delegating all the Test Documentation for the team.
• Understanding the Functional design document and identifying the functional gaps.
• Reporting & prioritizing all the defects for the identified functional gaps.
• Involved in to the Script development, peer review, test script execution, defect reporting and defect tracking tasks.
• Involved in to the Functional Testing (Defect verification) in different environments.
• Involved in to the Regression Testing in different environments.
• Involved in to the System Validation Testing in different environments.
• Updating Enhancement status to the onsite/higher management on daily/weekly basis.
• Understanding the Functional design document and identifying the functional gaps.
• Involved in development of Test Cases and Test Data.
• Involved in to the Functional Testing (Defect verification) of various patches.
• Automate the test cases using Selenium IDE and web driver.
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium. Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium IDE.
• Executed automated Selenium scripts and reproduced failures manually.
• Involved in multiple browsers testing using Selenium RC.
• Execute UAT Scripts internally, prior to delivery of code to customer for User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed UAT regression testing after the defects were fixed.
• Involved in to the Regression Testing of various patches.
• Involved in to the System Validation Testing of various patches.

Environment: C# .NET, Java, COBOL, Mainframes, Oracle, Agile & Scrum Methodology

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for any Functional, Testing and Offshore Team Effort Issues.
• Responsible for all the effort of understanding the requirements, Creating & delegating all the Test Documentation for the team.
• Understanding the Functional design document and identifying the functional gaps.
• Reporting & prioritizing all the defects for the identified functional gaps.
• Involved in to the Script development, peer review, test script execution, defect reporting and defect tracking tasks.
• Involved in to the Functional Testing (Defect verification) in different environments.
• Involved in to the Regression Testing in different environments.
• Involved in to the System Validation Testing in different environments.
• Updating Enhancement status to the onsite/higher management on daily/weekly basis.
• Understanding the Functional design document and identifying the functional gaps.
• Involved in development of Test Cases and Test Data.
• Involved in to the Functional Testing (Defect verification) of various patches.
• Execute UAT Scripts internally, prior to delivery of code to customer for User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed UAT regression testing after the defects were fixed.
• Involved in to the Regression Testing of various patches.
• Involved in to the System Validation Testing of various patches

Environment: C# .NET, Java, COBOL, Mainframes, Oracle, Agile Methodology

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and technical requirements, developing strategic Test Plans.
• Involved in formulation of Test Cases and Test Data and responsible for executing the Test Cases using Test Director.
• Participated in walkthroughs and inspections to discuss the defects logged in to the defect tracking tool (Test Director) with the developers and the Business Analysts.
• Converted manual tests to automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Using Quick Test Professional automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality.
• Parameterized the test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Enhanced the script by inserting checkpoints for checking objects, pages, text and tables in the website using QTP.
• Performed Regression testing each time a new functionality is added or a defect is rectified using QTP.
• Generated Defect report and performed defect review.
• Interacted with developers to discuss the technical problems and reported bugs using Test Director.

Environment: HTML, XML ASP.NET, SQL Server

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing manual test scripts to include functional test, UAT test.
• Analyzing the requirements by interacting with developers and business analysts.
• Involved in walkthroughs with Business Analysts to clarify issues related to requirements.
• Conducted GUI automated testing using Winrunner.
• Performed functional testing and UAT.
• Conducted Regression testing and data driven testing using Winrunner.
• Found and reported defects using Test Director.
• Investigated and documented software faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL, Windows NT

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and documenting the specific functional requirements.
• Requesting for clarifications in the Functional Documents from Business Analyst.
• Performed Project Management activities like Task Monitoring & ensuring proper utilization of human resources.
• Executed Test Scripts to test for Functionality, GUI and Regression testing.
• Involved in Integration testing of different integrated modules.
• Involved in System testing.
• Reviewed test cases in the automation perspective to list of the test cases that can be automated as well as to identify the reusable actions, functions.
• Developed automated test scripts for Regression Testing on various Hot Fixes using automated tool: QTP.
• Used Test Director to maintain Test Scripts and manage any type of change.
• Modifying the Test Scripts as per the new enhancements.
• Conducted Result Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.
• Update the Dashboards to report the status for the offshore team.

Environment: Java, J2EE, FDR mainframe, Oracle on Windows 2000