SUMMARY:

• Having almost 7 years of experience as QA Test Analyst involved in test design, test development and implementation of test procedures in manual and automation testing.
• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle and expertise in handling Test Life Cycle activities which includes Test Planning, Test Design and Test Execution
• Experience in planning, coordinating and performing Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing and supporting User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall
• Expertise in Manual Testing
• Extensively worked on backend testing and well versed with SQL queries for Data Validation Testing
• Extensively used Test Management tools like HP’s Quality center and Defect tracking tools like Clear Quest, Bugzilla
• Effectively involved in defect tracking, reporting, reviewing and analyzing test results using Quality Center.
• Executed Test Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional
• Interacted with developers on a daily basis to ensure all defects are getting resolved.
• Good judgment skills while reporting and prioritizing software bugs in conjugation with the development and QA managers.
• Exceptional written/verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively document procedures, processes and results.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Education:

Bachelor of Computer Science

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Automation Tools Quick Test Professional Test management 

Tools Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest
Bugzilla (Defect Tracking Tool)

Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP/7, UNIX,Mainframes

Languages JAVA, .NET, XML, HTML, C and C++

Databases Oracle9i/8i,10g, SQL Server 2010, MS ACCESS

Browsers Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox

Other Tools Toad

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

July 2011 – Present
Client: Confidential, Cincinnati, OH
Role : Sr QA Analyst

US Bank is the 5th largest commercial bank in the United States. In myproject FUSION, teller is the branch banking solution to originate checking and savings credit cards, CD/ IRA, safe box accounts as well as consumer and commercial loans. With the three-fold objective of increase in revenue, improve customer experience as well as bring in transactional and operational efficiency, the customer is re-engineering the existing ARGO platform and teller platform to a web based application integrated with sales and CRM functionality. Document validation, Account/Customer level maintenance and esigning verification upgrades.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional specifications.
• Participated in Agile iteration meetings and QA activities for all releases of the Project.
• Involved in Test Planning
• Derived Test Scenarios and developed Test cases.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, and Usability Testing of new migrated application Regression Testing of ARGOS application.
• Mapped all test cases to the business requirements/rules and prepared Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements have been tested.
• Participated in the TestPlan reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review.
• Developed and executed test cases in Quality Center
• Developed and executed SQL queries for back-end testing in DB2 and Oracle.
• Discussed with Project Team, Subject Matter Experts and Business Analysts and resolved the issues as per the mutual consensus and to the satisfaction of the end users.
• Assisted performance testing team to identify and design performance test scenarios.
• Attended project status meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, Java , IBM Rational Clear Quest(DTS), Mainframes , VBScript, HTML & DHTML, Windows, PL/SQL, IE/Mozilla/Chrome.

Client: Confidential, NJ June 2010 – June 2011
Role : Sr QA Analyst

RxSpecialty is web based application which is used in CVS Caremark Specialty Pharmacy. Event Management, ISR Fax, Outbound Fax, New patient Enrollment, Workforce Management, Patient Services, EPH data are the modules of RxSpecialty. This Application allows the specialty pharmacy users to enroll patient to a program/Therapy, review electronic medical documents, manage Patient safety and service events occurred with specialist Pharmacy, perform assessments, manage inbound and outbound fax documents and manage roles and capabilities of the user.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Life Cycle, Test processes
• Followed AGILE Methodology for the project
• Handled Regression testing of RxSpeciality Applications per every release
• Participated in Business Requirement walkthroughs along with Business Analysts and development team
• Involved in handling Manual and Automated testing activities for the project
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases as per functional, Business requirements
• Involved in Test Execution and Defect tracking
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures, Requirements Traceability Matrix and managing the Defects as per the Business requirements.
• Developed both positive and negative Test Cases for different functionalities.
• Conducted Browser compatibility testing using different browsers.
• Involved in executing QTP test scripts for Regression testing of RxSpeciality Applications for various releases
• Participated in Defect Triage meetings with development team to track defects
• Worked closely with Development as well as Requirement teams to ensure testing issues are resolved on timely manner

Environment: HP Quality Center( 9.5), Quick Test Pro, Oracle, Toad, Java, UNIX, Windows XP.

Client: Confidential, LA June 2008 – May 2009 
Role: Sr QA Analyst

It is a web application, which provides customers with online information, resources, and tools to
help customers maintain their health. This includes Registration, Health risk assessment,
Personal health profile creation, Fixing of appointment and Reminders, Reviewing medical records, Running reports, Facility to find out what plans are the best fit for their lifestyle. It also performs real time credit card validation for Buy online and Buy on paper health insurance customers.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the technical specifications and business requirements and formulated the test specifications including test plan and test scenario based on requirements.
• Actively participated in the Detailed Design Reviews, Boundary Value analysis, Error guessing, Race conditions and visible state transitions.
• Worked closely with Developers and Functional Architects by following the Agile (Scrum) Methodology.
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix.
• Involved in Manual Testing.
• Performed black-box testing including Smoke tests, Regression and Functional testing using Quick test professional.
• Queried through SQL to check the data base records
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure that the links are established as per the requirements.
• Used Quality Center for Test Management.
• Coordinated with QA team members in resolving critical issues with the development team.
• Coordination all the testing related issues with the end users and the testing team.
• Reviewed project deliverables for completeness and quality in compliance with project standards and specifications.
• Presented daily and weekly status report updates to Team Lead, Test Group and Managers.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Oracle, UNIX, SQL, PLSQL, Internet Explorer and Windows XP Professional

Confidential Jan 2007 – May2008 
QA Analyst

All State Insurance is one of the leading insurance companies. The general insurance segments of All State Mutual subsidiaries basically write all kinds of Property and Casualty insurance. Performed QA testing for a Property & Casualty Application developed for general Insurance segment. This application for P & C Insurance was built for variety of coverage’s which includes Homeowners, Automobile, Personal injury liability, Workers compensation and Miscellaneous property.

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Developers and Functional Architects by following the Agile (Scrum) Methodology.
• Assisted test lead in preparing master test plan after analyzing system requirements specification document.
• Actively participated in the Detailed Design Reviews and Test Plan Reviews and come up with very critical Test Scenarios and Test Data needs.
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix.
• Involved in GUI, Regression Testing
• Developed test scripts for regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Executed Test Scripts for Regression Testing using QTP
• Extensively worked on handling the application for Positive and Negative scenarios and test cases
• Used Quality Center for Test Management.
• Coordinated with QA team members in resolving critical issues with the development team.
• Coordination all the testing related issues with the end users and the testing team.
• Reviewed project deliverables for completeness and quality in compliance with project standards and specifications.
• Presented daily and weekly status report updates to Team Lead, Test Group and Managers.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Oracle, UNIX, SQL, PLSQL, Internet Explorer and Windows XP Professional.

Confidential TX April 2005 – Dec 2006 
QA Analyst

Employee Reimbursement is a web application used by Triton employees for claims and expense reimbursements. This application captures the expenses of the employee over business travel, client entertainment or an office expense. All the business travel expenses incurred by employees will later be reimbursed using this Employee reimbursement application.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements walk through with development teams and various business stake holders to understand the role, scope of testing and testing requirements for this engagement.
• Adhered to Triton quality processes and standards.
• Followed Regression testing strategy to handle release testing activities
• V model is being followed for this project
• Identified test scenarios and prepared Test cases as per business requirements.
• Derived test scenarios from business scenarios
• Developed Test Cases for both positive and negative scenarios for all diversified functionalities.
• Executed test cases and reported test results
• Logged defects and participated in Defect meeting with developers
• Performed Sanity Testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing of web application in different platforms manually.
• Involved in Peer Reviews, formal walkthroughs and GO/NO Go meetings
• Test Management tool-quality center is used to track end –end test life cycle activities
• Effective Team playerand ability to work in a rapid and changing environment

Environment: .NET, Test Director(7.0) SQL Server, Windows