PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Graduate with more than 6+ Years of IT experience in Testing Software applications.
• Experience in writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix and Test documentation.
• Expertise in Testing Client Server and Web applications developed in Java, JSP, J2EE, C#, and XML.
• Prepared Status reports, Test Summary reports, defect prevention and Test Progress report with various test metrics.
• Used Quality Center (Test Director) to maintain Test Cases, Test Requirements, and Test Plan & Defects.
• Participated in the System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Integration Testing and actively coordinated with developers, Business Analyst and Business Users.
• Major Involvement in Integration, Functional, System and Regression Testing's.
• Experience in Database testing of Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and SQL Server.
• Worked as onsite and offshore coordinator and maintained offshore team.
• Participated in the entire Product life cycle including product specification review, design reviews and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Black Box, White box, String Testing and Grey box testing methods on different modules of the application. As part of Black box testing used Equivalence partitioning and Boundary value analysis for effective Test Cases and Test Data.
• Knowledge of moving application from Development to QA and Production.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test professional, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality Center, Test Manager and Rational Quality Manager.

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Excel, Clear Quest and Ettrick.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and DB2

DB & Other Tools: SQL* plus, SQL Developer, TSO, JCL, SQL* Loader, Toad, Data Studio, PVCS Case, Mainframe COLA & CICS

ETL: AB INITIO, Informatics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Requirements, Use Cases, Supplements, and Test Cases. Also, participated on meeting with BA's.
• Involved in writing, updating test cases, and test scripts for different release.
• Highly involved in writing test scripts for System, End to End, Medicare, and Regression Testing.
• Highly involved in System, Production, Medicare, End - to-End, Regression, and Migration Testing.
• Used Rational Quality Manger (RQM) for creating Master Test/Child Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Execution Record (TER) etc. for different release.
• Used Requisite Pro and Share Point Tracker for viewing Requirements, Use Cases, Supplements, Test Cases, and Rules etc. for better understating of the application.
• Followed Defect Life Cycle and Used Clear Quest to log and track defects.
• Involved in assisting new team members for testing new application and writing scripts.
• Used SQL Developer for validating new enrollments and members information (Customer Bill Account, Calendar, Rates, Payment Terms, and Pending Activities etc.).
• Performed Bill calculation Obtaining accounts receivable activity (payments, adjustments and balance forward) from PeopleSoft Accounts Receivable (PSAR).
• Highly involved in assisting/mentoring for new resources and mentored them about the project, testing process and the tools used for Test management and Defect Management.
• Participated in different meetings (Daily Stand Up, Team, Peer, Leads, Use Case, Status Call, Walkthrough, IT, Defect, Internal, High Level Design Review from Developers and New Release meeting etc.).

Environment: RQM (Rational Quality Manager), Clear Quest, Repro (Requisite Pro), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Communicator), PSAR (People Soft Account Receivable), PDF, XML, ICIS, SQL, Developer, Snagit 10, ECS (Enrollment Communications System, HIBS (Highmark Individual Billing System), and CATS.

Confidential, Sharon, PA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing test plan, test cases and test scripts based on Functional and Technical specifications of the application.
• Performed Functional Testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, White box testing, Block box testing, Regression testing, Front-end /back-end and Performance testing of various consumer Web Portals
• Organized and attend SCRUM meetings.
• Analyzed user requirements, Quality Metrics, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Executed the performance testing for heavy traffic modules using Load Runner to analyze the behavior of the application under different load conditions.
• Designed and implemented process for a Quality Assurance Virtual Test Environment comprised of host machines with Virtual PCs - reducing the amount of hours spent on test preparation and total investment cost on hardware.
• Maintaining the test documents, bug tracking, reported the bugs, Email Notifications to the developers Using Quality Center.
• Involved in Browser Compatibility Testing (Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Safari, Google Chrome and Fire fox) for checking the compatibility of AUT.
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL queries on the SQL Server 2005/2008.
• Ensured Test Signoff from core team members and customers.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts and developers regarding issues with requirements, functional/user acceptance testing.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements, requirement gathering, analysis and documentation with domain experience in banking, mutual fund and insurance industry.
• Experience in understanding and analysis of use case diagrams, analysis and design models using use case activity diagrams and Rational unified process.
• Experience in preparing and executing test cases using various test conditions available.
• Reviewed the Functional specifications, requirements document (Retail and equities) to determine the functionality of the application.
• Created Test Plan and reviewed Test Cases.
• Coordinated with offshore, onsite, Business, UAT and production support teams to oversee Test Execution.
• Used Traceability matrix to trace Test Cases with requirements.
• Used status reports, Test Summary reports and Test Progress report with various test metrics.
• Used Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application.
• Used Black Box, White box and Grey box testing methods on different modules of the application. As part of Black box testing used Equivalence and Boundary value analysis.
• As part of White box Testing examined the internal structure of the program that includes Statement coverage, structured basis path, Decision coverage, condition coverage and multiple conditions coverage.

Environment: Java 5, Eclipse, IBM Clear case, Web Sphere, Visual studio, Mainframes, CSS, JCL, Clear CaseQTP, XML, Oracle 10g, UNIX, J-unit Test case, Top Link 9 g/11 g, Crystal Report, Quality Center, SQL and Toad.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements, requirement gathering, analysis and documentation with domain experience in banking, mutual fund and insurance industry.
• Experience in understanding and analysis of use case diagrams, analysis and design models using use case activity diagrams and Rational unified process.
• Experience in preparing and executing test cases using various test conditions available.
• Reviewed the Functional specifications, requirements document (Retail and equities) to determine the functionality of the application.
• Created Test Plan and reviewed Test Cases.
• Coordinated with offshore, onsite, Business, UAT and production support teams to oversee Test Execution.
• Used Traceability matrix to trace Test Cases with requirements.
• Used status reports, Test Summary reports and Test Progress report with various test metrics.
• Used Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application.
• Used Black Box, White box and Grey box testing methods on different modules of the application. As part of Black box testing used Equivalence and Boundary value analysis.
• Used Load Runner for performance testing.
• As part of White box Testing examined the internal structure of the program that includes Statement coverage, structured basis path, Decision coverage, condition coverage and multiple conditions coverage.

Environment: Java 5, Eclipse, IBM Clear case, Web Sphere, Mainframes, CSS, JCL, Visual Studio, Clear CaseQTP, XML, Oracle 10g, UNIX, J-unit Test case, Top Link 9 g/11 g, Crystal Report, Quality Center, SQL and Toad.