PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Goal - oriented Senior Software Test engineer with over 10 years of experience with a Fortune 500 company - performing Manual, Functional, Automated, Interface, and Performance testing in web based client server applications.
• Possess good knowledge of Testing Methodologies, Strategies, Planning and Implementation.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Methodologies/Techniques (Agile, Waterfall).
• Practical experience with applications developed in ASP.Net, Visual Basic, Java Script, HTML, XML, Mainframe and Oracle.
• Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing using Manual and Automation Testing Tools such as (ALM/Quality Center, 9.0. /10.1, 11.0)Unified Functional Testing (QuickTest Professional), Rational Clearquest and Toad 9.0.1 JIRA defect tracking tool.
• Extensive experience working with Business and Functional Requirements in analyzing and creating test plans for ePharma, Financial, Healthcare and Brokerage application.
• Extensive experience in identifying Test Conditions, Developing Test Cases, Test Scripts using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities and Scheduling.
• Worked as an individual contributor in the testing of various Web, E-Commerce, and Client/server environment for Functional, Integration, Interface, Performance Validation, User Acceptance, black box, Smoke and Regression Testing.
• Hands on experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Test NG to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Wrote Test cases in ALM and Defect report generation using ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
• Extensive knowledge of the HIPAA implementation guidelines, ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.
• Experienced in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and verifying forward and backward traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Excellent knowledge in ETL validation, Data Model Validations.
• Extensive experience in testing and implementing Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data from multiple sources into Data warehouse using Informatica.
• Extensive work experience with different Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, IMS, TOAD, PL/SQL and VSAM.
• Experienced in Integration, System, Functional, Interface, GUI, Black Box, White Box, Regression,Embedded,Smoke, User-Acceptance (UAT) and Performance Testing.
• Used ALM/ QualityCenter, Clearquest/UFTand JIRA to report defects and generate reports and graphs.
• Proficient in back-end testing using SQL queries, Database Validation, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules.
• An energetic individual with good work ethics, excellent inter-personal skills, writing, communication skills ability to handle assignments independently, detail oriented, ability to quickly learn new software application and an effective team player.
• Strengths include solid communication and problem-solving skills and adapting to change.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (ALM) 8.0, 8.2, 9.0, 11.0, LoadRunner 7.8, Quickest Professional 9.1, 11.0, UFT 11.51

Bug Tracking Tools: ALM HP Sprinter, JIRA Tracking Tool, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, Excel 2.1.0.63.

Query Tools: TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0.

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008, Mainframe, Oracle, UNIX/LINUX.

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7 Professional/Enterprise. Linux 4.2, UNIX 7

Servers: IIS, Apache Application Server, Server 6.1, WebSphere Application Server.

Utilities: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Iterative, Waterfall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Information testing III / Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in design specifications, & testing strategy, perform ambiguity analysis, perform risk analysis, establish testing priorities and scope, develop testing strategy/review testing strategy, validate requirements and specifications, involved in creating a test plans, review test plan, develop test scenarios, develop e2e test scenario’s (Includes Inmate Intake to Inmate parole process), select test design techniques and develop testing metrics.
• Documented all the test cases, scenarios and procedures involved in the testing strategy appropriately and address the creation or modification of test cases depending on the comments recorded in ALM during the testing cycle.
• Extensively used QTP automated test scripts and executing the generated scripts as a part of regression testing at the start of every test cycle.
• Prepared the test data for the automation scripts.
• For Production defects, conducted the pre-testing and post testing and capture all the results to make sure defect is fixed properly before going into production.
• Extensively used SQL queries statement to verify data integrity and validation between the front end values with the backend database values of the application.
• Performed quality of work, accomplished in an accurate, complete neat and correct manner and meets the established standards. Well organized, punctual and responsible.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Interface Mainframe Test Analyst/ Sr Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test scenarios and test cases for screens like ILAH, ILRH, ILSU, ILAV and also validated error messages for all the screens.
• Documented and maintained traceability for all the TCs and scenarios (in HP Quality Center) throughout the system test lifecycle. Traceability / Mapping of the test requirements to Test cases.
• Involved in preparation of test data using Excel Sheet to create Scenario based testing in Main-Frame environment, and validating the interfaces.
• Coordinated the effort to prepare the test environment before each level of testing.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed BAM Thick Client Business Requirements,High Level Design Documents (HLD), RSD’s, Change Controls and addendums and developed complex test scenarios and test cases for end-to-end testing.
• Used QTP to generate automated test scripts and executing the generated scripts as part of smoke testing at the start of every test cycle.
• Daily test execution metrics and execution logare tracked and maintained.
• Validate all the data returned on the mainframe inquiry by using the BAM thick client.
• Manually tested modules like Vehicle, Driver License, Reports, and Interfaces.
• Involved in preparation of test data using Excel Sheet for End-to-End Scenario based testing in. NetEnvironment, and in validating the interfaces.
• Logged and tracked the defects using JIRA defect tracking system.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Validation/ QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing UAT Test Scripts and execution using Quality Center.
• Manually tested screenslike Accounts, Activities,Administration, Contact, Samplings.
• Prepared test summary reports every week to report the status of testing.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test cases (RTM) and generate reports and graphs.

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Validation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and Technical requirements by interacting with business users and developed Test plan and Test strategy for Functional testing of each phase of the application.
• Developed Functional, Integration, System, Validation & UAT Test Cases to determine Systems satisfactory results to an end user & compliance with FDA regulation
• Executed Test cases by conducting various testing such as Validation, Functional, Integration, Regression and GUI Testing.
• Added Requirements to Quality Center and generated Traceability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Extensively involved in writing SQL Statement for complex queries.
• Extensively used (MQC) for creating & executing Test cases and logging defects.
• Involved in writing Tester user guide for approving, updating and signing test protocols (non- critical and critical) for validation.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Design Document Specifications (DDS), Business Acceptance Criteria (BAC) for possible gaps and participated in the approval process of these documents.
• Prepared Risk analysis matrix to prioritize the test cases and functionalities.
• Involved in preparation of test data using Excel Sheet for End-to-End Scenario based testing in Web/Main-Frame environment, and in validating the interfaces from Sales system to EO, Supreme/Customer view, and Credit Bureau systems.
• Participated in Integration testing and also in User Acceptance testing along with business users including Sales, Stores, Legal, Compliance, and mentored them about the Clear Quest tool.
• Logged defects using Quality Center, Clearquest and defect IDs are recorded in QA Comments column in Quality Center.