SUMMARY

QA Analyst/Tester with over 8 years of diversified experience in software systems testing, web and windows applications testing. Experience in working for CMM Level 2 Projects, Financial/Banking Systems, Health Care and E-Commerce.

• 8 years of experience as QA in Requirement Analysis, Manual, Automation Testing, Project Coordination and Client Interaction.
• Experience in software testing of Client Server/Web Based Applications
• Complete understanding of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Software Test Life Cycle STLC .
• Highly proficient in working with users to gather requirements and analyze them.
• Experience in software testing process including Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Metrics.
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective.
• Experience and very good understanding of Agile Scrum Methodology, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process RUP , etc
• Experience in test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA
• Experience with Test Execution of GUI , Functionality , System, integration, Database Integrity, Regression, Compatibility, Security , Usability ,User Acceptance Testing, Ad-Hoc and End to End testing.
• Experience in working with QTP functional automation tool.
• Experience in Testing Web Services in a SOAP environment
• Expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, writing queries, joins, update statements, etc.. Able to understand database architecture, and can incorporate data validation into test activities and exploratory testing activities.
• Maintaining the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status reports
• Actively Involved with Reviews and walkthrough during each phase of SDLC of projects
• Self-Starter, Self Motivated, Quick Learner and good team player with good communication skills.
• Experience of working in pressured environment to strict deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to organize work efficiently across multiple projects and responsibilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows 2012 R2 / 2003 / XP / NT, UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris Unix VB Script, COBOL, Java, JavaScript, VB 6.0, SQL, PL /SQL, T-SQL, C/C
• SQL Server 2012/2010/2008, Oracle 11g/10g, MS Access XP/2000
• HTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Soap UI 5.1.2
• HP Quality Center 11/10, Test Director, JIRA, Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Quick Test Professional QTP , Nunit, JUnit, Rational Integration Tester
• .NET Frame Work 4.0/3.5, SQR, VBA, HP ALM, Shell Scripting, Log4Net, MS Office, TFS, SourceSafe, Subversion, TOAD, VISIO, PVCS, Agile/SCRUM

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst/Tester, Managed Care Plan System

Involved in testing of Managed Care and traditional Indemnity plans for individuals and employers project for Blue Cross Blue Shield. This web based application offer quality health care products and services designed specifically to meet the changing health care needs of customers by Blue Cross Blue Shield. This project is tested for functional, System Integration and E2E testing of applications used by Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Responsibilities / Achievements

• Responsible for developing and executing test plan based on requirements and acceptance criteria in Agile development methodology environment.
• Developed and executed test cases that appropriately provide test coverage for the item under test within the defined sprint scope and timeline.
• Collaborated with Product Management, QA team and Development to produce proper design, acceptance criteria and test cases for each user story.
• Performed manual and automation testing and maintained documentation on different types of Testing viz. Positive, Negative, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Compatibility testing for browsers ,DB Testing ,User-acceptance, Black Box.
• Executed test cases in the Test Lab and verified the expected results.
• Responsible for defect tracking and reporting of defects found in testing, and owned defect resolution within the defined sprint.
• Performed Database testing, wrote SQL queries and executed stored procedures for validating data.
• Involved in writing Sql queries, and test results can be validated in both front end validation as well as back end validation.
• Involved in Web services testing using Soap UI that calls services to write data into Mainframe DB2 database
• Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project.
• Participated in UAT and user training.

Environment: HP Quality Center 11 HP Application Lifecycle Management , QTP 10.0, Soap UI 5.1, SQL, Oracle, DB2 and Windows 2008

Confidential

QA Analyst/Tester, Risk Management System

This is a work flow project for handling rules and standards in risk technology developed in Agile/ SCRUM environment. It helps to create federal and state rules, change requests and line of business. This application is a work flow project that automatically alerts the next user for taking action. This is user interactive application developed for Managers and Risk analysts to interact for enforcing rules and standards.

Responsibilities / Achievements

• Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules in SAP
• Conducted Automation/manual testing using the Standards, guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.
• End to end execution of test cases, automated scripts, and Test Result analysis.
• Responsible for entering bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
• Responsible for Backend testing by executing SQL statements.
• Followed Agile Testing Methodology for every release of project.
• Participated in user training and submitted status reports weekly.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, Quick Test Pro 10.0, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows 2008

Confidential

QA Tester, Equity Portfolio Management System

This project helps portfolio officers for equity valuation on stocks and options for investments in companies. This application imports stocks data for processing from Bloomberg using web services. This is a migration project from legacy VB6 application into object oriented .NET project using Agile Development methodology. This is a good tool for valuating and comparing stocks and for options analysis and portfolio officers to take decision on investments.

Responsibilities / Achievements

• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Followed Agile Testing Methodology for every release of project
• Developed Test Cases from defined use cases with 95 functional converge
• Actively participated in review and walk thru of Use Case Requirement Doc, Use Case Design Doc and Provided valuable suggestions and comments
• Used Quality Center to store all test cases, results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, Defect Tracking Reporting.
• Conducted the Functional Testing ,System Testing, Integration, Regression, Compatibility and Security Testing for DWP project
• Collected Test Metrics to control defects and update project status to Project Manager
• Managed defects in Quality Center followed them till defect closure.
• Participated in UAT before product release.
• Worked collaboratively with the Developers and Analysts.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, Excel, Manual Testing, Windows 2003

Confidential

QA Tester, Smart Partner web application

Involved in the testing of 4 layer web application that include data access, domain, business services and web user interface layers. This application will let the user to enter and edit data and the manager to approve and communicate back with the user. This application is a conversion project from legacy ASP to .NET. The system contains client, investigator and investigation manager web pages. This application contains web services to communicate and exchange the data with customer business servers.

Responsibilities / Achievements

• Analysed Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Designed, developed and executed test plans, test cases and test procedures based on the functional Specifications.
• Involved in the integration, system, and functional testing of the application.
• Members of the team to discuss and resolve defects, bugs and their priorities.
• Used Test Director to execute the test cases, track execution against the plan during testing and manage defects from inception to resolution
• Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, System, User-acceptance, Black Box testing.
• Created test scripts and identified test scenarios and test harnesses.

Environment: Test Director, Excel, Manual Testing and Windows XP

Confidential

Test Engineer, Web Payment System

Confidential payment data, updated balance for postpaid accounts, prepaid replenishments, recurring draft data and fraud restrictions data. ePay also has a user interface that is used only by employees and business process outsourcers. The project involved testing of ePay conversion and extraction projects of data to different Service Providers.

Responsibilities / Achievements

• Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents
• Involved in the Preparation of Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Test planning, test scheduling, test case development and execution.
• Participated in daily status meetings to report any bugs, issues and risks
• Created test scripts and identified test scenarios and test harnesses.
• Involved in the system, integration and functional testing of the application.
• Interacted with members of the team to discuss and resolve defects, bugs and priorities.
• Logged the errors in excel sheet and shared with team.

Environment: Manual Testing, Excel and Windows XP