PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Software Professional with over 15 years' experience in Design Development with 14 years' experience in Quality Assurance and Testing / Test Lead of Web based, .NET, Java/J2EE, WebLogic / WebSphere application server, Client/Server, Data Warehousing, Mainframes and Oracle Financial Applications 10.7.
• Expert in Analysis, Planning and Executing Development, Functional / Behavior testing, Review Use cases, Black box and White box testing, Risk Analysis, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing, Preparing LOEs, RTM and Release Documents.
• Full software development life cycle SDLC experience: analysis, designing, coding, testing, validating, performance tuning, installing, documenting, maintaining and user training.
• Participated in Requirement analysis meetings with Business analysts, Developers and other stakeholders.
• Developed Pre-Test Requirement Traceability Matrices linked to the Test cases developed and Post-Test Requirements Traceability Matrices linking the various defects and resolutions or enhancements during the course of testing.
• Varied and long experience in testing and validating different Financial Applications like Banking, Insurance, Mortgage and Reverse Mortgage, Hedge Fund Services, Credit Risk Matrix, Trading and Equity markets, Fixed Incomes and Assets with strong Functional and Accounting background and Telecom, Medical and Health care Industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Rational Test Suite, Test Manager, SQA Robot, RUP, WinRunner, QTP, ClearQuest, TestDirector, Mercury Quality Center 10.0 / Mercury Quality Center 11.0 ALM , TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, PVCS Tracker, AutoSys.

RDBMS: Sybase, Oracle 7.x/8.x/9i/11g, Progress, MS SQL Server 2000/ 2005, DB2

Management Tools: Lotus Notes and DOORS 5.0, PVCS Tracker Merant

Action Request System: Remedy User, Informatica, SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI R2/3.0/4.0, SharePoint, Mantis, Rally

ERP APPLICATIONS: Oracle Financials 10.7 GL, AP, AR, OE, Purchasing, Fixed Assets , .Net applications

Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT/XP, UNIX, MS-DOS

Languages: XML, SQL, TSQL and SQL Plus, and PL/SQL, JavaScript, Java, J2EE

Front End: MS Office, Access, .NET, BO/Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. UAT / System Tester

• Developed formal test plan, test data inputs / scenarios, test cases and test scripts for test cases, to cover the requirements and business scenarios.
• Analyzed and validated the test results with back end databases.
• Analyzed the business requirements to identify the gaps.
• Performed End to End testing.
• Wrote test scripts for evaluating data extracts and client incentives by performing UAT testing.
• Worked with business analysts and developers to resolve ambiguity in requirements specifications.
• Validated report output format and actual data presentation.
• Performed extensive PL/SQL code reviews as per the Requirement documents before moving into Production for generating various Client Data Extracts, incentives, custom reports and dashboards.
• Wrote SQL queries in source and target databases to ensure the results match
• Maintained all the test artifacts and tracked defects and reported through SharePoint, Mercury Quality Center 10.0 / Mercury Quality Center 11.0 ALM .
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve the defects and close them.
• Maintained test plans and evidence of testing documents
• Performed root cause analysis of variances found with details facilitating the concerned to replicate to understand and resolve the issues
• Improved QA process in place in an agile environment
• Timely completed QA single-handedly for several scrum teams simultaneously

ENVIRONMENT: Java / J2EE, cSharp, .Net, MS SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Management Studio, WindowsNT, MS Office products, BO/Crystal Reports, SharePoint, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2005, Informatica, SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI R2/3.0/4.0, SharePoint, Mantis, Rally.

TOOLS: SQL Developer, SQL Server Management Studio, Mercury Quality Center 10.0 / Mercury Quality Center 11.0 ALM , Crystal Reports, Universes, Webi Reports, Exploration Views, MS Office products

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst / UAT Tester

• Performed website cross browser testing for different browsers Firefox, IE 7 and IE 8.
• Developed test design strategies, provided Testing LOEs to ensure that all deadlines are met by performing UAT testing.
• Generated reviewed test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data, test scripts, and RTMs for web based applications, for client server applications and for various reports developed in Crystal Reports.
• Used TOAD and SQL extensively for back-end testing and validating the Reports.
• Executed AutoSys jobs in UNIX, Monitored MQSeries, Web Servers, and WebSphere while collecting the test metrics.
• Linked requirement ids in DOORS to test scenarios in Quality Center to generate the requirement traceability matrix.
• Followed and implemented latest Fannie Mae SDLC procedures in preparing the test artifacts in Mercury Quality Center 10.0 and used Rational ClearQuest for Defect management.

APPLICATIONS: eBoutique, SCRAMS, Consolidator, WRAP, Infinity, WLR, MBS Reporting, eTransfer

ENVIRONMENT: Java / J2EE, Oracle, TOAD, Mainframes, WebSphere WAS , WebLogic, WebSphere ILOG JRule, WindowsNT, UNIX, Hummingbird, AutoSys batch jobs, BO/Crystal Reports, Mercury Quality Center 10.0, Rational ClearQuest.

Senior QA Analyst / UAT tester

Confidential

• Developed formal test plan, test data inputs / scenarios, test cases and test scripts for test cases, to cover the requirements and business scenarios.
• Analyzed and validated the test results with back end databases.
• Performed end to end testing with user perspective.
• Maintained all the test artifacts in Mercury Quality Center.
• Used back-end database SQL queries to perform data integrity testing using TOAD.
• Tracked defects and reported through ClearQuest.
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve the defects and close them.

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle and SQL Server as Back-end, Oracle SQL Developer, Mercury Quality Center for test artifacts and Rational ClearQuest for Defect management

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst / UAT Test Analyst

• Developed test plans, test approach document, test methodology and phase document.
• Developed scenarios, test cases and test scripts based on the requirements and use cases.
• Developed Pre-Test Requirement Traceability Matrices linked to the Test cases developed and Post-Test Requirements Traceability Matrices linking the various defects and resolutions or enhancements during the course of testing.
• Involved in System, regression, performance, and User acceptance testing.
• Analyzed the business requirements to identify the gaps
• Analyzed and validated the test results both in front end and back end through the reports.
• Monitored MQSeries, Web Servers and WebSphere while collecting the test metrics.
• Wrote SQL queries for retrieving required test data and validating the test results.
• Tracked defects and reported through PVCS Tracker Merant .
• Used back-end database SQL queries to perform data integrity testing.
• Coordinated with the developers and SMEs to resolve the defects and close them

APPLICATIONS: SASP, PostalOne PostalWizarrd, Mai.Dat, PBV, CRID, MID, FAST, IM-VIS, MDR

ENVIRONMENT: Java / J2EE, .Net, Oracle, Mainframes, WebSphere WAS MQ cluster, xml WindowsNT, AutoSys batch jobs, MicroStrategy Reports and Merant PVCS Tracker, MS Access.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst / UAT Test Lead Agile

• Developed test plans, test approach document, test methodology and phase document.
• Developed scenarios, test cases and test scripts based in the requirements and use cases.
• Involved in system, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing.
• Analyzed and validated the test results both in front end and back end through the reports.
• Wrote SQL queries for retrieving required test data and validating the test results.
• Used Mercury Quality Center 9.2 for managing the Requirements, Test Planning, Design and Execution.
• Tracked defects and reported through Mercury Quality Center.
• Used back-end database PL/SQL / SQL queries to perform data integrity testing.
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve the defects and close them.

APPLICATIONS: Geneva Advent , TCM, GSM, CRS, Risk Feed Metrics, Crystal Web Viewer

ENVIRONMENT: Java / J2EE, SQL Server2005, .Net, Mainframes, SQL/PLSQL, WebLogic application server, WebSphere ILOG JRule, UNIX, Solaris WindowsNT, AutoSys for batch jobs, Crystal/BO Reports and Mercury Quality Center 9.2