Self-motivated, experienced Quality Assurance Analyst with the ability to work as a team member or independently. Have a thorough knowledge and effective execution of analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation and documentation.
Over five years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Mainframe testing and Web based applications.

Expertise broad in scope and includes following areas:

• Software Development Life Cycle Functional, System, Integration,
• Software Testing Life Cycle Regression, Black Box, White Box ,
• Performance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Test Development and Execution Documentation
• Manual Testing & Automated Testing Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Defect Tracking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools

Mercury interactive Win Runner 8.2,
Load Runner 9.1,Quick Test Pro 10

Defect Tracking Tools

Quality Center 9, Remedy, Bug tracker

Microsoft Tools

MS Office Suite 2010

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/XP, UNIX, MVS,
Mainframe (TN3270)

Computer Languages

COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS,EZTRIEVE, SQL, HTML

Databases

DB2, SQL Server

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Safari

Other Tools / Utilities

SPUFI, FILE-AID, SYNCSORT, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer : Confidential, GA.
Client: Confidential,GA (Contract position)
Period:Aug’ 10 - Dec ‘11

Test Advocate
Quality Assurance testing of mainframe and web applications on two projects:

• Start up of a new region Bloomingdales.com.
• Owned and Ticketed By Location enhancement.

Roles and Resposibilities

• Delivered Full System Development Life Cycle.
• Reviewed requirement documents.
• Developed test plans - test approach, schedule and environment.
• Constructed repeatable and traceable test scripts through analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Executed test scripts - documented process and results.
• Performed Manual, System, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Performed front end and back end testing.
• Performed defect resolution including identification, documentation, reporting, re-testing and tracking defects using Bugtracker.
• Communicated testing updates/ status appropriately to QA Manager.
• Assited other testers.
• Worked closely with project managers, product managers and development team. Attended several walkthroughs, test plan and test cases review meetings.

Environment: COBOL II, JCL, CICS, Bugtracker, Teradata SQL, MS Office 2010,
Windows XP, Internet Explorer, XML, VB6.0.

Employer : Confidential,NJ.
Client: Confidential,GA (Contract position)
Period: Feb’ 09 -June’ 10.

Test Analyst

Performed all aspects of Quality Assurance testing of web applications. Projects included

• Enhancement to T-mobile.com website (customer account information)
• Online electronic bill payment and processing.

Roles and Resposibilities

• Delivered Full System Development Life Cycle.
• Reviewed requirement documents.
• Prepared test plans.
• Constructed test scripts through analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Performed functional and regression testing and verified the actual results with the expected results of the Functional Requirement Specifications.
  Performed compatibility testing with different browsers.
• Created SQL scripts for executing the database queries and extensively used SQL commands for data check in the database.
• Executed test scripts - documented results.
• Performed defect resolution including identification, reporting, re-testing and tracking defects through resolution using Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 9, Quality center 8.2, SQL, Oracle, MS Office and Windows 2000, EJB, Java (JSP, Servlets, JDBC), HTML, DHTML, Internet Explorer 6, Fire Fox.

Employer : Inine Technologies, NJ.
Client: Confidential, GA (Contract position)
Period: Jun ‘06– Dec’ 08.

Test Analyst
Quality Assurance Testing of web application on following projects:

• Comparative study of different health plans in time of their offering.
• Physician coverage area and formulation offered through different plans.
• Flexible payment options for yearly policy, online plan renewal and application process, check benefits and coverage online.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Delivered Full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Prepared Test plan and templates to create test cases, test scripts.
• Constructed repeatable and traceable test scripts through analysis of technical and functional requirements.
• Executed test scripts - documented process and results.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing and verified the actual results with the expected results of the Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Recorded and ran test scripts using QTP.
• Performed defect resolution including identification, documentation, reporting, re-testing and tracking defects using Quality Center.
• Satisfied customer’s requirements. Linked test cases back to each requirement.
• Worked closely with project managers, development team and architects to resolve issues.

Environment: Quality center 9, Quick Test Pro 8.2, SQL, Oracle, MS Office,
Windows 2000, Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, XML, Java Script, JSP.

Employer: Confidential, Ga.
Period: Aug’ 05 - Jun ‘06.

Programmer Analyst.

TS2 is the application software used by the Total System to do credit, debit and gift Processing. Everyday credit, debit cards transactions directly comes to Total System, all account information is transmitted to the clients to maintain their own databases.

This project is all about converting the client Information to TS2 systems and generating reports. The Client checks the converted data and reports if any changes or updates to be further made. Worked for three different clients Target Corporation, Juniper Farm Bureau Bank and Toronto Dominion Canada trust. Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyzed, designed, coded, tested, implemented and documented the application.
• Designed, constructed, tested, and documented DB2 tables.
• Written batch programs using Cobol II, JCL and DB2.And generated reports using Eztrieve.

Environment: COBOL II, JCL, DB2 and EZTREIVE.

Employer:Confidential, Chennai India.

Period: June’00 – Sep’ 01
Programmer Analyst
PMS keeps track of the spare parts inventory and the assembling unit. Written on-line transaction for new functionality, batch programs for daily production information files and generating the reports.

• Analyzed, designed, coded, tested, implemented and documented the application.
• The system is responsible for analyzing the new business requirements and presenting the technical alternatives, implementing the selected alternative, testing and debugging the problems, migrating the elements, scheduling the jobs and production support.
• Written batch programs using Cobol II, JCL & VSAM.And Online programs using CICS.

Environment: COBOL II, JCL, VSAM and CICS.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science