SUMMARY:

Experienced Business Analyst and Project Manager with deep domain knowledge in software testing life cycle, broad range of experience including QA Testing/Software Testing with 5+ years of experience on several SDLC projects and varied QA efforts. Successfully demonstrated project management skills to facilitate on - time and cost-efficient project completion involving Agile methodology

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Full cycle experience in end to end implementation of a product from its inception to go-live
• Lead in creating documentation specs for various deliverables and their sign off from the customer.
• Cross functional experience with understanding the business, requirement gathering and documentation of requirements.
• Executing 2-week agile Sprints and coordinating the project efforts as a Scrum Master.
• Release management by creating release page with release notes, services to be deployed. Detailed release planning including roll back plans, scripts and Resource Planning.
• Diversified experience in Analysis, Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Business Analysis, Project Management and Release planning.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing life Cycle.
• QA Process and Defect Management life cycle.
• Functional testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Database Testing, End to End Testing.
• SQL queries for database testing
• API and SOAP UI testing with partners.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Project Rooms, MS Project, Visio, Test Director, JIRA, QA Complete, Bugzilla, MS Office.

Software Process/Methodology: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Business Analysis, Requirement gathering, Project Plan, Resource Planning, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), UML, Agile, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, Iterative, Bug Life Cycle (BLC), User Stories, Use Case.

Software Testing Types: Manual, Functional, Integration, Data validation, Regression, Smoke, Negative, User Acceptance (UAT), Build Acceptance (BAT), End to end testing. Also, expertise in Stage and Production testing.

Languages & Database: HTML, SQL, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL Server.

Other Tools: SQL Navigator, MS Office, Putty, WinSCP, Oracle Developer, PG Admin, Unix, SQL Developer, SOAP UI, XML.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kennesaw, GA

Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements during the discovery phase of the project and understand their business model and processes.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams from multiple organizations to develop an effective multi-domain solution for enterprise client while maintaining awareness of solution architecture to facilitate efficient communication with upstream and downstream systems
• Develop configuration integration endpoints, workflows, and other components of the solution
• Write documentation for solution configuration, testing, and pseudo-code for client and internal departments (Development, Quality Assurance)
• Create Requirements Specification documents based on the requirement gathering workshop including Visio diagrams for the process flows.
• Configure and testing the application and working with the offshore team for a complete end to end testing cycle.
• Build and configure the application on customer’s environment for UAT
• Data Migration from the old system into STEP and working with the customer on their Go-Live strategy

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Monitored projects and its requirements and ensured its completion before deadline.
• Oversaw working of project life cycle and coordinated with various departments for same.
• Provided technical support to project managers and evaluated customer requirements.
• Analyzed industry trends and monitored its effectiveness on equity research systems.
• Release management and planning including building the release page, details of services to be deployed. Roll back plan, resource planning and post production follow ups.
• Coordinated with IT and business groups and provided various financial requests.
• Participated in various analysis sessions and designed product lifecycle.
• Documented all system changes and migration processes.
• Experience in the documentation of specifications, creating step-by step technical and user manuals with illustrations, designing and implementing new processes and technology.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for understanding the functional requirements and design of the business application.
• Excellent communication skills, leadership and management abilities and an effective team player.
• Worked closely on generating process Workflows & Design flows as part of the technical design.
• Demonstrated ability to remain flexible, unfazed and on-track in an environment of tight deadlines and high expectations.
• Efficient in translating Business Requirements into Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, write, execute and retest test cases with edge scenarios.
• Review test cases and test plans with PM and Development team following a 2-week Agile sprint cycle.
• Ensure traceability matrix.
• Follow the defect life cycle till closure. Co-ordinate defect review activities and meetings.
• Perform UAT testing every time a new provider has been integrated.
• Perform integration testing, SOAP UI testing for the front end and back end of the application.
• Verifying and validating details from the test plan with the logs - Interceptor and server regarding the API calls testing.
• Reporting bugs in JIRA and working closely with developers and architects.
• Validating data through Logs and SQL Queries.
• Determining the scope of the project and providing estimates based on that.
• Working closely with the offshore team and coordinating activities.
• Managed an onsite and offshore team of QA for various projects.
• Co-ordination and segregation of work onsite and offshore.
• Meeting regarding requirements and business analysis around drafting in scope and out of scope testing efforts.
• Digital website testing for Confidential . This includes various browser compatibility testing and Android/iOS software testing.

Technical Environment: Unix- Putty, Toad, MySQL, WinSCP, SOAP UI, JAVA application. PGAdmin, JIRA and Bugzilla.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Testing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Exploratory testing of new products in development and competitor products.
• Writing test scenarios, test cases and executing the test cases.
• Following up with the bug life cycle till the bug status has been closed/resolved.
• Working with the development team, R&D team to understand the requirements and process flow.
• Review web-based application and identify critical functionalities.
• Gathering, Understanding and Documenting Requirements.
• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specifications documents.
• Participate and create Test Plans.
• Manually create, develop and executed Test Cases.
• Execute manual testing for all cases.
• Create test plans to detail the testing scope, requirements (high level), strategies and all needed required resources.
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT ) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing.
• Document and report all found defects in Bugzilla.
• Provide all data validation through SQL queries.
• Responsible for preparing User’s Manual.
• Preparing Test Scenarios & Test Cases and performing Manual Testing of the application.
• Performed GUI, System and Regression Testing of the application.

Environment: Bugzilla, SQL Server 2005, SQL Navigator, Visual Basic 6.0, Windows XP, Java.