SUMMARY:

• Experience as a Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst/Lead Software Engineer in understanding of Business Process Flows, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Proficient in SDLC processes (waterfall, Agile/Scrum model).
• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual QA deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from design specification, write test cases and map test cases to ensure coverage in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool.
• Proficient as Software QA engineer in Manual and Automation Testing in Client/Server, Web - based, ETL/BI Data warehouse, Big Data Hadoop, Product and Project based Application environments.
• Domain experienced in Medical, Retail, Finance, Insurance, Telecom, Government Sector, HRMS domains in a rapid development environment utilizing best QA practices - Identify, analyze, and report defects with full evidence, such as functionality errors, inconsistencies in software program functions, and system usability issues.
• Organize and facilitate release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning, Demos and Agile-Scrum related meetings.
• Expertise in Apache Cloudera/Horton Works and AWS Instances - Map Reduce, HDFS, PIG, HIVE, SQOOP, Zookeeper, Kafka, Flume NOSQL, Casandra and Linux.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels & Onsite/Offshore Model. Learning new things and accomplishing challenging goals in a fast moving, dynamic environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle 11g/10g
• SQL Server 2008 R2
• MYSQL
• Visual Studio 2012/2010
• SSIS
• SSRS
• ETL
• OLAP/OLTP
• SIEBEL
• OBIEE 10.1.6
• Big Data
• Java
• CSS
• JQuery
• JUNIT
• JIRA
• HTML
• JSON
• URI
• Tortoise SVN
• Restful
• WADL
• SOAP
• WSDL
• SoapUI
• Selenium Web Driver 2.0
• IDE
• AOM
• POM (Page Object Model)
• Rally Software
• AGILE/SCRUM
• QTP 11.5
• Quality Center 11.5/ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• TestNG
• ANT
• MYSQL
• Linux and PL/SQL. Experience with VMware ESX/ESXi includes VSphere
• VMotion
• VCenter
• Cloudera CDH VM
• Hadoop Amazon EMR
• PIG
• HIVE
• SQOOP
• Zookeeper
• Kafka
• Flume and Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Working as a POD Lead Engineer/Analyst in Agile environment.
• Actively participating in Project Planning, Daily Stand-Ups (DSU), Pre Grooming Sessions, POD Planning, Reviews/Demo, Retrospectives, Sprint/Release Planning, Carried Over from Prior Sprint to Future Sprints and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Working effectively with Development & Business teams to define user Stories, Estimated Point, Sprint Label in Jira, and revise Acceptance Criteria, Design Documents, and Mockup Screens in Jira.
• Managing requirements, test planning, test resources and track metrics throughout the complete process of developing an application.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression (Sprint wise and Release) testing, Integration testing, Database testing, System testing, UAT, End-to-End Testing.
• Testing WebServices (REST API’s), SOAPUI, Business Cognos Reports to ensure Security access to reports (Hierarchy login access), Reports Navigation, Data Validation, Data Verification, Look & Feel, Report Header verbiage, Report Column labels and Report Alignment as per the business/stake holder specifications.
• Project tracking, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects management and Dashboard view using Quality Center.
• Working closely with QA Automation engineers to identify test cases conducive to automation. Proactively participate in maintaining team standards and best practices.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

Confidential Services is a property preservation firm that services foreclosed home in the mortgage industry. Worked as a QA Analyst/Engineer in requirement gathering, Functional, Technical specifications, Identify, analyze, and report defects with full evidence. Worked in an AGILE environment - Sprint Plans, User Story, Stand up meetings, Acceptance Criteria, Sprint Label in Jira and estimation points for the story. Work closely with QA Automation Engineers to identify test cases conducive to automation. Testing WebServices (REST API’s), SOAPUI, Business Cognos Reports to ensure Security access to reports (Hierarchy login access), Reports Navigation, Data Validation, Data Verification, Look & Feel, Report Header verbiage, Report Column labels and Report Alignment as per the business/stake holder specifications. Testing Big Data Hadoop Eco systems Installed and created Apache Hadoop (Single Node and Multi Node) instances; developed and tested hive and HBase in a Test environment in a proto model. Testing of data flow across disparate sources, legacy systems & HDFS and data propagation between HDFS and HBase. Testing for Data Quality and Data Consistency for Import Text and Binary File Formats in Sqoop. Testing & validating the output of Flume Operations and UDF in Pig and Running Batch commands in Hive. Performed UAT, System Testing, Data validation and Verification testing, Integration testing and End to End testing; Pre-production and post-production activities. Manage Quality Center/ALM Testing tool for all testing activities and Defect Management. Testing of Web Services (Restful API, WADL, JSON, SOAP, WSDL, XML, HTML, Methods, Groovy scripting) via SoapUI Pro, MYSQL, API testing, Selenium Web Driver for a Java and .Net web based system that services thousands of Mortgage banking clients, REO Property Preservation and Field Service industry vendors, and internal customer users.

Confidential, SFO, CA

Responsibilities:

Worked as a UAT QA Lead/Analyst - Performed Integration testing, End to End testing, Validation & Verification testing as per the End Client functional requirements. Worked in an Agile/Scrum Environment and Jira. Analyze and prioritize defects and recommend solutions and document and escalate any unresolved problems or issues with full evidence, such as functionality errors, inconsistencies in software program functions, file outputs, user interface forms, content, and system usability issues

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

Tested Online Applications, Interface & Batch Processing, BI Analytics, Email Campaign Templates, Loan Processing, user eligible discounts, Claim processing and many more applications in a very fast faced Agile environment. Performed ETL Testing and writing test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts. Tested BI reports. Ensure day-to-day deadlines and long-term milestones are met. Worked in a Onsite-Offshore model.

Confidential, New Albany, OH

Responsibilities:

Confidential & Confidential (ANF) is implementing a new RMS (Retail Merchandise System). Interacted Project teams to identify test requirements. Project size estimates for various projects developed and coordinate testing activities including Test Plan, Test Case, Test Execution, Defect Management, Test analysis, and coordination of test resources. Coordinated testing tasks and activities with project teams and IT staff. Setup test cases (including automated scripts), run tests, and document testing results, including defects and quality metrics. Tested ETL maps and validated target data in Data Marts for conversion and integration process.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

As a QA Lead prioritize multiple projects adhering to aggressive release schedules; worked with business and technical teams to manage defects. Lead offshore-onsite teams. Tested Citi Maestro application system (Internal Loan Application for the existing and new customers), Lender Gateway Interface, Password protection for direct link, Archive Payment Histories etc application which were developed in Java, PHP, PERL, REXX, Mainframe, MYSQL, DB2, connectivity (ODBC.INI, JDBC), web sphere application server 6.0, Browsers (IE, NETSCAPE, Fire fox).

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities:

\As a QA Lead prioritize multiple projects like Confidential AdWords and Gmail/ Confidential Mail applications adhering to aggressive release schedules. Lead offshore/onsite testing team. Conducted team meetings to coordinate and resolve issues provided in overall direction. Performed Webservices testing. Interaction with product, development teams to understand the functional specifications. Designed test cases for Confidential AdWords application includes proxy setting and i18N and Gmail features for different Browsers on Mac, Linux and Windows.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

As a Technical QA Lead of 15 QA Engineers (on-shore and off-site) on large projects. Involved in requirements development, software code reviews, configuration and change control, and Go/No-Go decisions. Identified Gap Analysis with Business, IT PM’s and SME’s review Test Cycle Builds. Performed Progression testing, Regression Testing, Boundary Testing, End to End Testing and Cross Functional Testing. Work with the QA and Project Managers to set and evaluate milestone criteria to ensure released products are on schedule with high quality. Record, report, and Quality center, track defects to accurately depict the status of the system.

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

Confidential ; a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm delivering a complete range of integrated services to help companies manage their total HR and employee costs, enhance HR services, CRM, B2B and improve their workforces. Worked as QA closely with Research Analyst for client, System Analyst and desired outcomes throughout the report development and delivery process. Assign tasks to QA Lead Analysts (offshore & onshore), review all defect items entered for projects, Perform early morning or late night validation when new releases are being deployed into production. Performed backend data validation in source, target and warehouse tables includes dictionary columns mapping, count & effective issues and source-target mappings. Validate source and target data, and tested warehouse tables. Executed SQL Queries to validate the data integration between the various Database tables.