QA Test Lead

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, ADW, EDW, ETL, Quality Center, Control M, CA7, IBM DB2 Command Editor, Teradata SQL Assistant.

• Get the Test Strategy and Detailed Test Plan documents reviewed with Business team.
• Prepare the Test Strategy and Detailed Test Plan based on the impacted Systems due to new requirement changes.
• Requirements gathering from Business team and perform the System impact analysis
• The Target Corporation is the second largest discount retailer in US. I am responsible for leading a QA team to ensure the quality of 3rd Party data feeds provided to the Target Vendors - enhance existing data feeds to share Target data with strategic business partners that will utilize their tools to provide valuable shopper, pricing and assortment insights to make strategic decisions at Target.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and tasks of Testing team this includes Project scheduling, Resource planning and Reporting
• Developed traceability analysis matrix to cross reference Requirement and Functional Design Specification.
• Review the Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Get the approval for Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Business Team.
• Ensure the Test Data and Test Environment is ready to start test execution.
• Performed volume testing to ensure the job failures in production
• Review the test results.
• Tracking the defects and test execution status in QC
• Conducting defect triage meeting with project team, and update the status of the defects and test execution.
• Communicate and coordinate with the project team on testing status and issues reported.
• Document all the testing deliverable adhere to client requirements and standards.
• Perform Test Completion Report walkthrough and get approval from various Stakeholders to close the testing phase.
• Worked under strict time constraints and meeting deadlines efficiently.
• Support User Acceptance team during UAT phase.

QA Test Lead

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, Quality Center, SOAP UI, Online Screens

• Target introduced Social Savings coupons, which need to be executed via Target existing PEZ application which caters to all Target coupons and is integrated with Stores POS in order to be redeemed by the Target guest at POS.
• The Target Corporation is the second largest discount retailer in US. This application creates an opportunity for Target to leverage social media for offers to Target guests via Facebook.
• Prepare the Test Plan based on the impacted Systems due to new requirement changes.
• Functional Testing Lead for a team of 5 manual testers.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements. Conducted System, Regression testing, Integration testing
• Developed traceability analysis matrix to cross reference Requirement and Functional Design Specification.
• Review the Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Ensure the Test Data and Test Environment is ready to start test execution.
• Performed Performance testing to ensure the application stability if more offers created.
• Performed E2E testing to ensure the offers flows from FB Guest User Interface to all the target applications PEZ, Finance, Stores, etc.
• Performed Web based Online screen testing and back end validation
• Review the test results.
• Tracking the defects and test execution status in QC
• Conducting defect triage meeting with project team, and update the status of the defects and test execution.
• Document all the testing deliverable adhere to client requirements and standards.
• Prepare Test Completion Report to close the testing phase.
• Worked under strict time constraints and meeting deadlines efficiently.
• Support User Acceptance team during UAT phase.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, Quality Center, Online Screens

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the process and write Test Plan and Test Cases..
• Target Corporation Target , a leader in general merchandise retailing, provides exceptional value to its consumers through multiple retail formats ranging from upscale discount and moderate-priced, to full-scale department stores. Target has 1681 stores and 34 distribution centers. Target is the second largest retailer in the United States. Item Management IMN houses all of Target Corporation merchandising information. It maintains location level, vendor level and vendor offering level information for an item. Item characteristics may be stored at one or more of the following levels: Item, Item/Vendor, Item/Store, and Item/DC
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements. Conducted System, Regression testing, Integration testing
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data Text files, XML files before loading into target database.
• Performed Positive Negative Testing.
• Provided inputs from QA standpoint to the Design/Development teams and Stakeholder.
• Prepared Test plan, Test cases for the Module, Integration and System testing phases.
• Executed 2000 mainframe batch jobs through CTM scheduler.
• Include testing and analyzing the system testing, functionality testing, Integration testing.
• Front office orders were built as web services and were tested using SOAP UI
• Manually written the SQL queries to test the back end database.
• Created manual and automated tests for several different modules.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Performed cross browser testing for compatibility checks on IE, Firefox and Safari.
• Performed Web based Online screen testing and back end validation
• Tracking the defects and test execution status in QC
• Document all the testing deliverable adhere to client requirements and standards
• Support User Acceptance team during UAT phase.

QA Test Analyst

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, Quality Center, SOAP UI

• Enable the subscriber to onward connect the Call Originator for any voice messages.
• To support Multi Account Billing
• To conform the regulatory standards
• Review the test scenarios and test cases.
• Provide knowledge transition to the team on the functionality of the project.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and tasks of Testing team this includes Project scheduling, Resource planning and Reporting
• Provide testing effort estimates for testing phases like System Test, System Integration Test.
• Understand the requirements and provide the detailed Test Plan.
• Switched Service Billing System SSBS has been enhanced,
• Cable Wireless Worldwide C WW procured a low-power 'Guard band' GSM license from Ofcom and brought to market a mobile service, Fixed Mobile Convergence FMC . This service uses GSM connectivity in customer's premises to provide in-building coverage, routing all these calls over the customer's existing fixed data network, IP-VPN.
• Validate the test results and share them with business team to review and approve.
• Document all deliverables adhering to client requirements and C WW standards.
• Participated actively in all the team meetings.
• Perform Test Completion Report walkthrough and get approval from various Stakeholders to close the testing phase.

QA Tester

Confidential

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, Quality Center

• It involved proposal of a new streams similar to the SSBS that would accept, format, validate, rate and generate invoice for the FMC customers in Batch and enhancement of online screens to support FMC services. In addition to supporting voice services, the FMC system had to be enhanced to support Interconnect, SMS and data services like Blackberry and GPRS.
• When out of the building, C WW mobiles will seamlessly roam onto a roaming partner's national network for complete coverage. The service is provided, billed and branded C WW. End users will not have any visibility of calls being routed through roaming partners.
• Cable Wireless Worldwide C WW procured a low-power 'Guard band' GSM license from Ofcom and brought to market a mobile service, Fixed Mobile Convergence FMC . This service uses GSM connectivity in customer's premises to provide in-building coverage, routing all these calls over the customer's existing fixed data network, IP-VPN.
• Interacting with the Onshore counter-part to explore Business Requirement
• Analyzing the Technical Specification Report and preparing the test cases.
• Preparing test data for proving the requirements.
• Performed Regression and Functional.
• Performing System Testing and System Integration Testing phases.
• Log the defects and close them once the delivered fix is verified in HP Quality Center.
• Executing test cases in HP Quality Center once all the test cases have been proved.
• Document all deliverables adhering to client requirements and C WW standards.
• Prepare Test Completion Report at the end of test phase.
• Worked with UAT team for customer supporting issues technically.