SUMMARY

• A systematic, organized and hardworking individual with nearly 5 years of experience as a Quality Analyst in the field of information systems in the Financial, Retail and Healthcare domains.
• Experience in MANUAL and AUTOMATION testing, using automated Testing Tools such as QTP for Regression Testing.
• Proficient in Database Validation and Database testing skills using Oracle and SQL Server databases, proficient in creating and executing SQL queries and validating data accuracy for Database testing using SQL.
• Knowledgeable in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with strong understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experienced in conducting Requirement Analysis, Use Case Design, Test Plan Design and developed database schemas based on the logical models.
• Understanding of Object Oriented Design and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and expert - level knowledge of HTML, CSS, ASP and Oracle, SQL Server, Access.
• Proficiency in creating/transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models, facilitating JAD sessions and project coordination.
• Good understanding of Agile Scrum, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies, and with V-shaped model, Spiral model.
• Proven ability to prioritize, coordinate and consolidate tasks, ability to work in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Quality Analyst
• Manual Testing
• Business Requirement Documents
• Functional Requirement Documents
• Project Planning and Budgeting
• Content Management Business
• Process Analysis
• Business Process Re - engineering
• GAP analysis
• Use Case Modeling
• Market Research Analysis
• Financial Viability Modeling
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Cost Control
• Risk Management
• HTML
• CSS
• ASP
• MySQL
• SQL
• Quality Center
• Test Director
• QTP
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• Access
• MS Office Suite
• Rational Suite
• Windows
• Mac OS
• UNIX
• Linux
• ISO
• Six Sigma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Client requirements and functional documents to developed Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Cases both Manual & Automation Testing.
• Created Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
• Conducted Peer reviews with QA Team Lead and members of Product team in order to receive approval on Test Plan/Test Cases coverage of requirements.
• Prepared project/system documentation for Signoff.
• Created Incentives Codes using Web services and performed various Data Validations through Web services to analysis XML error response.
• Verified that the data created through Web services was stored in the Database using SQL scripts and ensuring that business logics are operating correctly.
• Written SQL statements to retrieve the data from one or multiple tables.
• Involved in GUI/Front End testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, End- To End testing, Joint Testing and UAT Testing.

Environment: Test Director, Quality Center, TOAD for Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2005,Windows 2000/ NT/98, MS Office 2000

Confidential - Washington, DC

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to identify testing strategy and testing concept. Actively initiated, pursued and participated in New Account Opening (NAO) Project from Testing Prospective.
• Developed Test Concepts, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Plan and Test Scenarios to ensure that end to end testing was conducted appropriately for the New Account Opening Project
• Analyzed system requirements, Business Requirements and generated Traceability Matrices from requirements to test cases.
• Conducted Extensive backend testing Using SQL queries extensively for testing the ETL logic to load the staging tables from the source databases (UDB).
• Participated in formulation of a workflow for data quality validation of targets after incremental ETL using SQL and UNIX shell scripts.
• Responsible for recording the scenario for regression testing using QTP (Quick Test Professional)
• Analyzed the test results and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Generated reports from the defect tracking tool to gain a snapshot of the application in its ‘current’ state and documented the defects. Analyzed the results (reports) with the project manager
• Configured test environment and create strategy for product development and certification, prepared test data, documented test plan.
• Participated in weekly assessment meetings with BAs, developers and coordinated between business analysts, development team, and testing team.

Environment: JAVA Application, JIRA, QTP 9.0, Quality Center 10, Test Director, SQL Server 2007, DbVisualizer, Oracle 10g, Toad, Drools, UNIX, XML, Windows 2000/ NT/98, MS Office 2000

Confidential - Reston VA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile Methodology to get daily updates from all team members.
• Analyzed system requirements, Business Requirements and generated Traceability Matrices, test plans and test scripts accordingly.
• Managing test cases and creating test suites using Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in System testing & Regression testing.
• Analyzed the test results and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Extensive use of TOAD to Verify the Database Table updates.
• Testing of reports data by writing SQL Queries to databases
• Written SQL Scripts to Query Databases tables to check data and testing database to meet Specific test scenarios
• Wrote SQL commands and procedures, to check for newly provisioned subscriber data for consistency and update invalid fields with proper value.
• Executed the UNIX Shell Scripts to Know the Backend Batch Jobs Status.
• Conducted Walkthrough meeting with developers, testers and data sourcing teams to review Client requirements documents (CRD)

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project, Windows XP