Work Profile:

• Over 12 years of experience on various platforms that includes WEB Environment and Mainframe Environment.
• Worked as a QA Lead, QA Tester, QA Analyst and Developer.
• Experienced in testing Web, Mainframe and Web Service Applications. Involved in Agile and Water Fall QA Methods.
• 5+ Years of experience in Automation testing by using QTP.
• 4+ Years of experience in testing Web Services using SoapUI.
• 4+ Years of Experience in AGILE software development - SCRUM environment.
• Sound knowledge in Insurance domain and worked around 12 years in various applications like eAUTO, eHOME and BILLING.
• Experienced in Guidewire Application and played key role in implementing the Nevada Home Owner application for Mercury Insurance Group.
• Experienced in Software development life cycle and responsible for Systems Analysis, Design, Development and testing (Unit, Integration, Functional, Regression Testing).
• Sound knowledge in both web and green screen environments in TESTING.
• Extensive Knowledge of JAVA, JSP, J2EE, Java Script, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, DB2, CICS, JCL, CA7, File AID, Insync, Jobtrac, Spufi, QMF, QTP, and Guidewire.
• Good Knowledge about QA Automation/ Manual Business Testing Procedures.
• Knowledge of Relational Databases DB2, Oracle, SQL.
• Extensively used SQLs for data validation and migration from Prod to test regions.
• Involved in Backend Database testing in Oracle using SQL.
• Good working knowledge in QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, Hiperstation, Eazytrieve and CA-7.
• Having very good knowledge QTP Automation and performance engineering life cycle.
• Having good exposure on Automation Frameworks and performance test strategy.
• Have Good experience on Performance Center and Involving complete performance testing lifecycle.
• Having good knowledge in Scripting by using VB Scripts, Web protocol {HTTP/HTML},Web services
• Working knowledge of XML, SOAP UI. Experienced in manipulating XML Data. Also experienced in writing SQL queries for doing data validation.
• Sound knowledge of standard business methodologies SOA, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and Software Quality Assurance (SQA).
• Good Interaction with Directors, Managers, Business Users, Developers, QA and On-site/Off-Shore team members.
• Assisted with overall team management, communications and maintaining positive client/consulting team relationship.
• Participated in business process reviews. Provided solutions and recommendations to process issues.
• Prepared and presented end user training development of training manuals.
• Excellent in developing Test Plans, writing Test Cases.

Education:B.S. in Engineering

Project Experience:

Confidential (Mar’11 Jun’12)
Sr QA Functional/Automation Analyst
Project : Data center Migration & RA11 support
Tools : Q.T.P 10.0, Quality center 10.0,
Description : Farmers Data Center was located in Los Angeles and has been moved to Chicago as part of current program. All distributed servers and mainframe was moved (Logical and Physical). This move is categorized into move groups based on application dependencies and environment. Applications hosting on all these systems was tested for integration, internal connectivity, 3rd party connectivity, Web Services integration and performance.

• Responsibilities:
• Analyzed Requirements, System integration and involved in developing Test Plans and Test Cases for each move group.
• Provided current application status, performance and system integration validation requirements.
• Review the TRD from different teams (SMEs, Developers and other Testing teams) for correctness.
• Execution of test cases and confirmation of system availability during the move events.
• Managed manual efforts for the team, which included planning and implementing the project schedule, assigning work to the team members and preparing the status report.
• Automated regression suite using hybrid framework.
• Involved in testing Functional and Regression Testing
• Maintained QTP Automation Scripts for each release
• Experience in writing generic functions like file handling, IE related functions (deleting cookies, closing/opening IE), kill processes (for example excel.exe, kills a process in task manager)
• constructing and managing shared object repository

Confidential(Nov’2009 Dec’2010)
Sr QA Analyst
Skills : JAVA, JSP, J2EE, Java Script, IBM Web Sphere server 6.1, SOAP UI, Service Test, Liquid XML Studio 2009,DBvisualizer,IBM Rational Clear Case, Oracle
Tools : Quality Center 10.0, Quick Test Professional 10.0, Guidewire, Load Runner 9.0
Description : Guidewire is a multi-generational program intended to transform the platforms and processes upon which future initiatives are delivered. In addition to enabling enhanced capabilities to provide a more engaging customer experience, it will create a common unified environment (frameworks, services, and infrastructure) to replace the current disparate and incompatible application silos. The manner in which initiatives are delivered will become more agile through enhancements to both the development lifecycle methodology and dynamic, management of application run time content and behavior

• Responsibilities:
• Experienced in leading all stages of SDLC including requirement definition, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation
• Experienced in Agile development process and involved in configuration, Integration, functional end to end testing
• Integrated HP Quality Center 10.0 with HP QTP 10.0 to run the automation scripts directly
• Created automation tests using HP QTP 10.0 to validate the fields in Guidewire for SOX Audit Compliance.
• Performed integration testing by validating XML’s using Service Test and SOAP UI.
• Involved in testing Guidewire integration with third party services like Choice point, risk meter, MSB using SOAP UI and Service Test.
• Involved in Policy Center, Billing Center and Claims Center testing Component level testing and End-to-End testing.
• All kinds Static and Dynamic forms Validation.

Confidential (Aug’00 Sep’09)
Sr QA Functional/Automation Engineer
Skills : JAVA, JSP, J2EE, Java Script, COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, DB2, CICS, JCL, CLEAR QUEST,IBM Web Sphere server 6.1
Tools : Mercury Q.T.P 9.0, Quality center 9.0
Description : There are 6 LOB (Line of Business) under Farmers insurance group. The maintenance includes enhancement of existing functionality to the client. Any enhancement/change modifications have had to follow the standards outlined as per FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP. The testing for these applications occurs on the Web and on Mainframes. The maintenance includes enhancement of existing functionality to the client. Any enhancement/change modifications have had to follow the standards outlined as per FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP.

Confidential (July’08 to Sep’09)
Worked for CSC for multicar project and involved in Application Integration Testing (AIT). Analyzed Business Requirements and System Requirements and involved in developing Test Plans and Test Cases. Reviewed the TRD (Technical Review Document) from developer and prepare the TDR (Technical Data Review) document with detail objectives (test cases). Involved in executing the critical test cases being at ONSITE and helped offshore team for any testing issues. Involved more in WEB testing for integrating eAgent system with Express system. Express is an enhanced Farmers AUTO web application which has been newly built in 2009.

Got expertise in special processes like Auto Mileage survey and REBILL process and prepared the test objectives for the CARFAX and REBILL process changes for multicar purpose. Modified the REBILL jobs for multicar changes and executed the various REBILL tools successfully.

Confidential (June’03 to June’08)

• Worked for LSIT team for around 5 years and played a vital role in Automating the testing Environment for creating and running automated tests QTP.
• Proficient in creating and running test cases and scripts; analyzing the results and reporting defects and also have experience of assistance in Test Plan creation.
• Has good experience on Functional, Usability, and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Environment support for LSIT and played a vital role in setting up the new batch jobs and executing the same for AUTO, HOME and EASYPAY applications.
• Reviewed the TRD (Technical Review Document) and prepared the TDR (Technical Data Review) document with detail objectives (test cases).
• Involved in writing DB2 queries per the test requirements and for the fatal errors. Using QA Hiperstation writing testing scripts to support Functional and Regression Testing.

PRE-SAP IMPLEMENTATION: (July’02 to May’03)

• Worked in PRE-SAP implementation module in FIRE and involved in resolving out of-balance issues.
• Involved in preparing the CLEANUP jobs and Eazytrieve programs for generating the reports

Confidential, CA
Mainframe Developer (Aug’00 to June’02)

• Worked for Payroll System to support ongoing regular release changes.
• Worked on AMRIS (Active Members Retirement Information Systems) release changes.
• Involved in preparation of Solution Functional Documents.
• Involved in Unit Testing and User training & Support.