SUMMARY:

• Sr.QA analyst   Automation Engineer with 9 years Extensive hands - on experience in diversified fields of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); specializes in Quality Assurance Process and  Methodologies
• Strong experience in analysis, design, development, data integration, testing, Business Analysis, Project Management, documentation and implementation of client/server, Intranet, and Internet applications, good understanding of different kind of application and product testing.
• Strong experience in Developing Business specifications, Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Conditions, Test Cases, Test Scripts, GAP Analysis, Defect Management, Status Reports, User Acceptance Test Coordination, Test Team Management, Impact Analysis & Risk Escalation and User Manuals.
• Solid experience in Black box testing techniques, which includes, Unit, Integration, Functional, System, Regression, Automation and performance. 
• Strong experience in Software Development Life Cycle ( Agile - Scrum & Waterfall Model) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). 
• Professional experience in Integration, Functional, Regression, System Testing, Alpha Testing and Beta Testing. 
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills. 
• Experience in integration of various data sources with Multiple Relational Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access
• Conducting application solution meetings with account managers, and collaborate with developers and customers to resolve problems. 
• Experience in various Industry Sectors Such as Finance, communications, Insurance, Banking. 
• Strong Experience in Automated Testing using Selenium in real time, Soap UI and REST API and Service testing
• Perform software quality assurance, including black box testing, white box testing, user acceptance testing, and maintenance regression testing, Mobile testing.
• Good experience in project co-ordination with Offshore and Onshore model.
• Excellent Analytical, Communication and technical skills. 
• Automate test cases, test suites for Regression Testing via Selenium Web driver
• Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and performance testing.
• Experience maintaining test environments, automated testing tools, and other resources in support of SQA process
• Experience with standard Object Oriented languages like Java,C#
• Experience with Build Systems Maven,Ant,Gradle
• Extensive use of HP ALM (Quality Centre) , Team Foundation Server,Jira,Version control for requirements capturing, test planning, test execution & defect tracking.
• Lead internal product demos, cross departmental meetings and providing training and support to teammates on new features and requirements interpretation.
• Has excellent work experience in
• Writing complex SQL Queries
• Diverse business domains like Investment Management, Commercial Banking, Confidential, Fix Messaging protocol 4.0,4.2,4.4, Telecom, and Retail.
• Take charge attitude, problem solving, leadership and good communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Tools : VSTS 2012/2013, SOAP UI

Test Management and Source control : HP ALM (Quality Centre), Team Foundation Server, Rally, Jira, SharePoint, Perforce, Git

Operating Systems : Windows XP/VISTA/WIN7, MAC 10.7/10.8

Programming languages : C#, Java, PL/SQL,SQL

Database : MS SQL Server; Oracle, DB2

ETL Packages : Sql server Integration Services, Informatica 9.x

Web Technologies : XML,HTML,JSON

Testing Frameworks : Selenium,Cucumber,TestNG,Junit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements by meeting with the project stakeholders and analyse from testing perspective
• Prepare high level and detailed Test Approaches based on the requirements
• Collaborating with teams to identify the scope for automation or building tools.
• Design and implement automation solution/tools.
• Created POM to store the project data and configured their details using Maven to build the project 
• Automation of test cases using Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Page object Model(POM)
• Build Test automation framework for the UI layer using selenium with Java,TestNG framework.
• Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and Used SQL queries for retrieving data from database for executing user specific test case
• Build Test automation framework to test REST API and webservices.
• Work with End Users for validating the Fix Protocol version Upgrade from 4.2,4.4
• Experienced in load and performance testing tool JMeter 
• Used Firebug/Fire Path Add-on tools to identify the Object's id, Name, Xpath, link in the application.
• Perform the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Effectively used Jira for Agile development
• Involved in testing Web services(SOAP) for XML data with tool called 'SOAP UI' for the local WSDL / with URL and created Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.
• Effectively managed/managing team’s activities across multiple locations (Offshore, Irvine, Los Angeles)
• Escalation of issues to Test Managers. Weekly and monthly status reporting to the higher management.
• Defect Reporting and Defect tracking
• Implementation of best practices and inputs for continuous process improvements.
• Generate Project metrics and publish to the team at regular intervals of the project and post release warranty period and call out any risks early.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer,QM Anchor

Responsibilities:

• Developed SQL, Stored Procedure, Views, Trigger for data manipulation and querying data.
• Designed and implemented C# Automation framework for testing database and API testing.
• Working with three Scrum Teams to drive Test Activities for Quality Product Deliveries 
• Conducted unit testing on the system to determine the response times for the various parts of the system and made changes to improve efficiency of the system.
• Created complex SQL queries in SQL Server2012 for extracting Portfolio, Security information from multiple tables in database
• Responsible for implementing the changes as required by the client from time to time
• Create Unit Test Framework
• Involved in testing the developed models and classes.
• Involved in writing Technical Documentation.
• Involved in reviewing test plan, test cases and also unit test cases.
• Involved in development and enhancement of Stored Procedures and Functions.

Confidential

Automation Engineer, Defect Prevention Anchor

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented an end to end test harness while simulating the Payment formats form NACHA, WIRE Protocol, FEDWIRE
• Design and Implement for automation of the WEBUI using Selenium.
• Implement automation validation of the Wire message using VSTS.
• Gather requirements by meeting different stakeholders of the project to understand functional requirements and non- functional requirements.
• Reviewed Test Traceability Matrix, Test plans, Test Environment Setup and Test scripts for manual and automation testing.
• Perform Test Execution for Manual, automation cases and publish results to the team.
• Defect Reporting and Defect tracking through Team Foundation Server.
• Anchored DP meets and created DP reports to help the project in reducing the in-process defects
• Organize defect triages, assign defects and follow-up to the closure.
• Documented the best practices.
• Designed and created Knowledge silo-matrix for the project which helped to new members of team immensely and the same initiative is followed by organization level.

Confidential

Offshore point of contact,Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for functional and performance testing.
• Test data analysis & creation. Test case scripting and execution.
• Defect Reporting and Defect tracking through Team Foundation Server.
• Participated in defect triages.
• Preparing and executing the performance scripts using Microsoft VSTS load test.
• Reviewing the performance test analysis report.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional testing and performance testing.
• Participated in meetings with onsite personnel/ client to understand functional requirements.
• Responsible for test case scripting and execution.
• Involved in the white box testing of the SSIS packages.
• Scripted SQL queries and stored procedures to test the SSIS packages.
• Defect Reporting and Defect tracking through Team Foundation Server.
• Involved in the knowledge management activities.
• Received client appreciations for the identifying some of the critical defects.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Sanity, Functional and Regression testing.
• Test case scripting and execution.
• Involved in test data preparation and its management.
• Incident reporting, defect reporting and defect tracking using quality centre.
• Conducted the knowledge sharing sessions to provide business, domain knowledge to team members.
• Key team member in developing an automation tool (IVVT portal) for the automating the order provisioning process.

Confidential

Developer, Database analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis,
• Detailed level Design preparation,
• Module development.
• Unit testing.