SUMMARY:

• UAT/QA Test Analyst with more TEMPthan 10+ years of professional experience in IT with an extensive background in quality assurance and testing Methodologies. Ability to lead, train and motivate team members. Excellent self - starter and ability to do multi-tasking, prioritize tasks to maintain highest quality while reaching the timeline. Expertise in testing for different Software Development processes like Waterfall and Agile Model.
• An accomplished QA with extensive experience in Software Testing and Quality Management
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Methodologies and Techniques
• Proficient in using testing tools like HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA
• Knowledge in Install DB Set- up/ Testing Interface, Sever Set-up and testing
• Experience working in AGILE, Scrum and Waterfall Models Methodologies
• Experience in analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and System Design Specifications (SDS)
• Having good knowledge in REST API
• Strong Experience in GUI Testing, Functional, Black Box, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), Backend Testing and Production Validation Testing
• Expertise in Test Case Design, Test Execution, Defect Management, Defect Tracking, Test Scripts and Reports for delivering utmost Quality product
• experience in Backend Testing using SQL and Unix basic commands
• Knowledge of execution of SQL queries to ensure data integrity to meet business reporting requirements in data warehouse testing and business object reports.
• Experience testing .NET, Java and Windows web-based applications
• Worked with Business, QA, Development teams and Vendors for major releases, reproducing customer issues, patch testing and successful release of patches
• Coordinate UAT testing activities done by the Business Users and securing sign off on the patches released to UAT
• Coordinate defect review meeting between various stake holders.
• Extensive Domain knowledge in Health, Financial Services, Tele Communications and Oil & Energy Services
• Trained team members on HP's Quality Centre, ALM and different Testing Methodologies and practices and guided them in handling respective individual projects
• Versatile team player with strong communication and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g,11g, MS SQL Server 2005/2000/7.0/6.5, MS Access.

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0/5.0

LANGUAGES: Visual Basic, SQL,HTML

TESTING TOOLS: Test Director, Quality Center ALM,QTP, TFS, Jira

REPORTING TOOLS: Business Objects 6.5, Xi

UTILITIES: TOAD, Netezza.

OS: Windows 2000/NT, Windows XP,Unix, power point, excel, vision.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minnesota MN

UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• We Worked on United Health Care IHR Integrated Health Record(Portal) application ECDH project Cadillac certified in HIPAA, Fraud and Abuse worked on UAT Test Framework test strategy IHR modules goals and scopes.
• 2 validate the data coming through from different sources like flat files, XML, spreadsheets.
• UAT metrics testing on health ACO providers, ACO members, ACO panel,
• Data validation(Foundational Data) Functionality in Scope member/provider rosters,
• Demographics, eligibility, etc
• Transactional Data functional in scope claims labs drugs patient summary and all available views etc.
• clinical policy(HEDIS) 131 rules identified to be tested SBR(single Best Record) member record and all data within the member record is correctly reflected.
• Provisioning /Access
• Access through the link tile, Access directly through the web URL, Correct roles and permissions are working.
• Security(validate that sensitive condition are appropriately hidden/unable to be viewed by the user and no breaking of the glass is allowed.
• worked on test strategy test plan, write the test scripts for several main modules test the test data login to ALM to raise the defects.
• Retest the data till close the bug.
• Worked on IHR Daily UAT result Summary.
• Write the daily test results track the work percentage for others testers.
• Worked on full cycle of testing.
• Project planning
• Requirements
• design
• development(No)
• testing
• post development
• Breakfix work order
• forms
• ther
• release
• Release management
• Testing
• Deployment
• Other

Confidential

UAT/ Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge of Agile & Scrum development environment, multiple web browsers, and automated testing suites
• Hands on experience on, User Acceptance Testing phases, programming technologies, and automated testing fundamental concepts
• Performed the tasks of assisting agile tester in conducting test plans and test cases
• Extensive knowledge of agile software testing and development lifecycle.
• Worked on fast paced environment with sprint cycles and CR’s.
• Review and analyze client-specific system requirements and scope of services
• Analyze functional and technical system design for testability
• Collaborate with project team to understand and prioritize system testing efforts
• Prepare and develop test approach document, identify test scenarios and prepare and review of the test cases
• Preparation of Requirements Traceability, Test Plan, Test Completion Report and Defect Analysis reports
• Give a walkthrough of the test approach and seek Business Approval from the client/business prior to testing of any release
• Created test cases and test procedures based on Functional Requirements
• Performed System, Integration, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression, Graphical User-Interface (GUI), End-to-End testing and Production Validation Testing
• ALM is extensively used to document and execute test cases, requirements mapping, logging and tracking the defects and generating test completion reports
• Performed Compatibility Testing on different web browsers and different platforms

Environment:- QC 11.0, ALM, database Netezza, JIRA

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in analyzing the business requirements within Change Requests, creating Test Suites, Test Plans and Test Cases with ( parameters for multiple iterations) using Test Manager.
• Execute the test cases in Test Manager and create issue reports on TFS, for a follow-up with development team to get them fixed and re-validated.
• Was involved in executing the regression testing on new Builds
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification request issues
• Interacted with (Offshore)Team providing valid test cases through business requirements
• Worked with Test Analyst to ensure the defects are tracked and documented and results communicated to developers and stakeholders
• Interacted with users for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and explained about each link, tab and search functionalities to the users
• Performed Security testing, Functional testing
• Actively using TFS to keep track of all the various stages of the issues like active, deployed and validated among different environments.
• Actively involved in using the various features of the Test Manager like creating shared steps executed while running the test cases.
• Actively participating in the status review meetings and test case walkthroughs.
• Review Business requirements for testability and usability
• Formulating test strategy for the requirements
• Involved in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and System Testing
• Performed monthly Post Patch Testing for Monthly Migration in Production environment
• Created Proof of Concept to determine if the application is a good candidate for automation
• Provide walk through to the business and seek approvals before the code is deployed to the production
• Lead and facilitate meetings, present business requirements to developers, present design and technical artifacts to business users and create presentations for management
• Involved in effort estimation and work allocation
• Environment:- C#, .Net, SQL Server 2008, MS Test Manager 2010, MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, REST API, SQL Server Management Studio.

Sr.UAT/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Excellent working experience with different phases of SDLC lifecycle including Agile methodology requirements gathering, planning, analyzing, designing, documenting and testing
• Successfully managed timelines, deliverables, resources as well as different sized QA teams including onsite-offshore team structures.
• Maintained central repository of Point of Contacts for testing and Solution Delivery Teams.
• Engage as a team player within the User Acceptance Testing work stream.
• Attended Daily defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Tested critical bug fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timelines.
• Was in charge of testing the Change Controls.
• Created UAT Test Data and assisted in writing Test Plan and uploading UAT Test Cases in QC..
• Involved in writing and executing test cases, defects tracking, review, analysis and comparing results using Quality Center.Communicated with Business Analyst and Project Manager to gather requirements for UAT and prepared UAT test cases.
• Involved in preparing test plans and participated in peer review meetings.
• Designed & created test cases based on the Business Requirement Document and HLD.Developed business use cases and also extensively worked on UAT & final project derivable.
• Provide support in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and providing a fix if any issues.
• Actively participated in End to End and smoke testing of UAT environments.
• Identified and logged defects using Quality Center.
• Kept track of test results for review, approval, and formal sign off by the Business Leads.
• Reported testing progress and completion to Team Lead and UAT Manager.
• Responsible for daily updates and weekly status meetings showing progress to the Test Manager
• Actively participated in End to End and smoke testing of UAT environments. Active Participation with Defect Management Team to analyze and triage the BLOCKERS for the environment and closing the defects.
• Sending Daily Status and Weekly Status Report about the current status of the defects and progress of all the Applications
• Developed and executed regression, production migration, and critical issues and successfully lead a team through multiple test cycles across multiple projects using AGILE methodology
• Gathering Non-Functional Requirements for the QA testing.
• Creating Workload model, Test Plan documents
• Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Environment and Test Data for both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Managing the onshore and offshore resources and providing/guiding them on the tasks to be completed
• Responsible for preparing data estimates that will be required for endurance testing and the consequent evaluation of the data.
• Responsible to execute scenario’s with multiple monitors and generated analysis reports to identify performance bottlenecks.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server, Web Sphere, Web Services, Ms Office, XML, Windows, UNIX, Oracle

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Company is one of the leading insurance companies providing auto and home insurance. me worked as a QA Tester on a web based application, which was developed to meet the on-line insurance requirements for automobile owners. My job duties include testing of the above windows application which was implemented in .net using SQL server as backend.
• Worked within a QA team to develop requirements to design test plans and define test cases module and ensure that all requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.
• Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect, developers and business users.
• Developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios using the Test Director and prepared test data.
• Prepared Test Cases based on user requirement me continuous system integration test based on sprint planning.
• Test the modules manually and make sure that software works accordingly to the requirements.
• Used Test Director for defect reporting and tracking.

Environment: Test Director, SQL Server, .NET, Windows