SUMMARY:

Over 13+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, and Testing, worked through each and every phase of QA Life cycle, beginning with planning to the release of the product. I have implemented QA methodologies, practices and processes in all kinds of environments including Client/Server, Web, IBM Mainframes, and UNIX. Furthermore, my strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills emphasize my experience and qualification in the pursuit of delivering a quality product on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools:  HP Rational Tools, RQM, RFT, RPT, Clear Quest, Clear Case,Win Runner 7.6, Load Runner 8.0, Quick Test Professional 11, SOAP UI PRO, Selenium

Scripting:  TSL, VBScript, JavaScript, SQA Basic, and Jscript

Bug Reporting:  Test Director 8.0, Quality Center 9.2, JIRA

Programming Languages:  J2EE, JAVA, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL

MAINFRAME:  JCL, CICS, VSAM

Databases: Oracle 9i, DB2, SQL Server 2000,2005,2008 and MS Access

Web Technologies:  J2EE, .NET and MQ Series

Operating Systems:  HP Unix, Windows 2000Professional/NT/XP, and MSDOS

Front Ends:  Visual Basic 6.0 and Developer2000

App Servers:  Web Sphere, Web Logic

Network:  FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Brea, CA 

QA Lead

Environment: .NET, PL/SQL, Oracle, Team foundation Server, RQM, RFT, Cloud Computing, Visual Studio 2013, Sales force, SOAPUI Pro, Quality Center ALM

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
• Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
• Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Tracking Product backlog items, defects
• Functional Testing of Cloud based web applications
• Gather requirements for Test Data Management and Data Archival
• Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using RQM
• Conducted functional test automation tasks using RFT
• Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
• Validating the response against the database and expected result
• Analyzed application data using the SQL to identify the ETL processes
• Modifying and creating SQL Queries and stored procedures for quality assurance and analysis.
• Worked with data analysts to implement Informatica mappings and workflows, shell scripts and stored procedures to meet business requirements.
• Performing backend testing of the DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test the integrity of the application and Oracle databases.
• Wrote and modified SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs. 
• Extensively worked on Mapping Variables, Mapping Parameters, Workflow Variables and Session Parameters to extract only the additional data added during that period.
• Implemented end to end Enterprise Data Management
• Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
• Planning and managing functional and regression testing
• Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.

Confidential, Centennial, CO 

QA Lead

Environment: .NET, SQL Server 2012, TOAD for Oracle, Microsoft Test Manager, Team foundation Server, Cloud Computing, Visual Studio 2013, SOAPUI Pro, Selenium, Octopus

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
• Performed requirements verification testing, functional and user acceptance testing (UAT), Risk Based testing
• Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
• Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Tracking Product backlog items, defects and queuing new build releases and deploying in QA using TFS
• Functional Testing of Cloud based web applications
• Gather requirements for Test Data Management and Data Archival
• Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using Microsoft Test Manager
• Strong experience in Automating Web Application testing using Selenium WebDriver
• Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
• Involving in writing SQL queries and Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews
• Validating the response against the database and expected result
• Used SQL Server Management studio for creating and executing SQL queries for testing the conversions and ETL Process
• Wrote complex queries in SQL assistant to check the data from Source and Target
• Implemented end to end Enterprise Data Management
• Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
• Planning and managing functional and regression testing
• Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.

Confidential, Englewood, CO 

QA Lead

Environment: Java, SQL Server 2008 R2, RQM, RFT, Visual Studio 2013, SOAPUI Pro, STARC, UFT, Selenium and Octopus

Responsibilities:

• Working with Product Team to understand the business requirement and technical specification documents
• Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
• Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Expertise working with Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Web based and Cloud based applications testing in Agile
• Expertise with security testing of PMI application based on roles
• Create and execute automated test scripts using RFT
• Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using RQM
• Developed complex SQL queries for querying data against different data bases for data verification process
• Performed Smoke, System testing, Integration Testing, User acceptance testing, Database testing and Regression testing.
• Performed Testing on web services and updating test data based on the requirements using SOAPUI PRO
• Experienced in running and validating the batch jobs in Dashboard Job Scheduler
• Expertise in testing the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) application
• Reviewing change request documents, defect description and attendant meetings to document the required changes.
• Worked with the development team to create appropriate cloud solutions for client needs
• Updating status report daily basis and weekly basis by conducting meetings with QA team.
• Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.

Confidential, Englewood, CO 

Sr QA Analyst

Environment: Java, TOAD, WebLogic, SOAPUI, JMeter, Quality Center, SSIS, Selenium and OBI

Responsibilities:

• Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
• Reporting Daily progress in Rally and also discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Lead the QA team by providing effective SDLC process and providing status to the management on the daily test coverage
• Gather requirements for Data Archival and Data Life Cycle Management
• Planning and managing functional and regression testing
• Drive quality assurance initiatives and process improvements and testing on premise and cloud applications
• Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
• Used Selenium IDE for Open source web testing
• Preparing the test scenarios as per the BR for all the web services
• Preparing the test cases in the SOAP UI tool for all the identified test scenarios
• Performed comprehensive testing of Prepaid App on Mobile devices in android and iOS platforms
• Profound knowledge of writing security test scenarios and procedures
• Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
• Validating the response against the database and expected result
• Preparation of Test Cases and performing Regression Testing for new builds
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, executed Test Cases, and reported Defects
• Involved in conducting reviews of test documents with SM Teams
• Performed ETL testing using SSIS and ensures that all expected data is loaded
• Validating peaks, valleys of the network traffic and dashboards
• Validating Sessions with AD, clicks and play
• Monitoring the daily ETL process data
• Comparison of ETL loading times with peak production volume and smaller amount of date

Confidential,CO 

Senior QA Analyst and QA Lead 

Environment: .NET, DB2, Mainframe, SQL Server2005, 2008, TOAD for Oracle, Quality Center, QTP, HTML, SOAP UI, TFS, SSIS, Tealeaf

Responsibilities:

• Source Code Maintenance, Requirements Gathering and Bug Management using Quality Center
• Translate requirements into documents and executable test cases with a coverage of testing methodologies
• Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
• Extensively interacted with developers, business& management teams to understand the project business requirements and ETL design document specifications
• Reporting Daily progress in Rally and also discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
• Lead the QA team by providing effective SDLC process and providing status to the management on the daily test coverage
• Planning and managing functional and regression testing
• Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
• Preparing the test scenarios as per the BR for all the web services
• Preparing the test cases in the SOAP UI tool for all the identified test scenarios
• Profound knowledge of writing security test scenarios and procedures
• Performed security testing using Tealeaf tool on web applications
• Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
• Validating the response against the database and expected result
• Performed testing on Progressive native apps using different devices in different platforms (Android and iOS)
• Testing done for the Mobiles in Performance perspective to see how the Applications responds, when any input or Operation given for the Application to open
• Preparation of Test Cases and performing Regression Testing for new builds
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, executed Test Cases, and reported Defects
• Involved in conducting reviews of test documents with SM Teams
• Worked with ETL groups and Acquisition team and business analyst for understating mappings for dimensions and facts
• Comparison of ETL loading times with peak production volume and smaller amount of data
• Analyzing data transformation processing and understanding ETL workflows and monitoring production environment
• Extracted data from various sources like Oracle, flat files and DB2 server
• Worked on issues with migration of Data from development to QA-Test Environment
• Expertise with SQL & DB2 queries for backend testing and validating database, comparing the data
• Extensively used SQL server for writing SQL statements
• Responsible for coordinating with End Users during Acceptance testing
• Defect logging and defect tracking using HP - Quality Center
• Integration of QTP with the test management tools, responsible for maintaining automation infrastructure
• Coordinating sign off efforts and perform production checkout to move projects into production

Confidential, Cleveland, OH 

Sr QA Analyst

Environment: Load Runner 8.1, Quality Center9.2, ASP.net, XML, JavaScript, Windows XP/NT, and MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio.NET

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
• Authored Test Cases to include prerequisites, detailed directions and descriptions
• Performed requirements verification testing, functional and user acceptance testing (UAT), Risk Based testing
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center
• Interacted and worked with the development team to solve the problems encountered in the test scenario run
• Analyzed-Designed-Executed performance tests to meet App requirements in user perspective
• Designed the Load Runner scenarios with various user-mix incrementing in constant ratios
• Provided subset of Functional test cases to UAT test
• Extensively used SQL for data integrity testing at the backend
• Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems
• Participated in weekly status meetings to report any bugs, issues and risks

Confidential, DE 

Sr QA Analyst

Environment: IBM-S/390, Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Professional 9.2, Java, HTML, UNIX, JSP and SQL server

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements
• Involved in writing Test Plan for the testing effort of the module
• Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Scripts using QTP and managed it using Quality Center
• Prepared Test Scenarios using SQL Queries for Backend Testing and
• Manually performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Prepared and planned shell scripts in UNIX using SQL commands for the data validation.
• Schedule reports through schedule Manager
• Conducted Security, Performance, and Regression testing during the various phases of the development
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
• Identifying Test Cases for Regression Testing and conducting Regression testing when new builds were made
• Used Quality Center for Bug Tracking and Reporting

Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, XML Test Tool, Test Director, Java, J2EE, HTML

Confidential

Test Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Requirement specifications, detailed test plans and Status of work
• Responsible for identification of test data requirements
• Identifying, Unloading and Loading Test data from Production to Test regions
• Set up Customers with IEFT, ACH, AT products & verify failed jobs against XML logs
• Executed Test scripts for IEFT, AT (A/C Transfer), ACH (Automated Clearing House)
• Performed User Acceptance Testing
• Preparation of Production verification Test plan
• Assist team in defect resolution process; follow up with App Dev teams for defect closure
• Responsible for preparing weekly status report

Education: Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) - University of Madras-India