SUMMARY:

• Having experience in the field of IT with focus on QA and testing Stand - Alone, Client/Server, Multi-Tier and Web Based applications in various companies like Banking, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Financial and Web-Hosting Institutions, worked with tools like Quality Center, Rational Suite (Rational TestManger, RequisitePro, and Clear Quest). Positive forward-looking attitude, self-motivated, positive orientation to expand present knowledge base, Team spirit, Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Information technology consultant with expertise in QA, Development, and Production support roles in implementation of business and technical solutions for Financial and Pharmaceutical industries.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements, developing test plans, writing test cases and involved in all stages of Software Lifecycle in a project
• Strong in requirement management, documentation, report analysis, business analysis, work flow design, coding, testing and defect reporting.
• Extensive work experience with Rational Suite tools and Quality Center.
• Full life cycle experience in Quality Assurance, including Black box, GUI, functional, system, integration, database, regression, smoke testing, user acceptance, and end to end testing of both client-server and web-based applications.
• Expertise in testing web applications by using web services. Expertise in testing request and response XML files.
• Designed test strategies, created test plans, test summary reports, test cases and test scripts for manual testing.
• Involved in the preparation of documents and creation of manual test scripts for new and existing software functionality.
• Working experience in an AGILE and Waterfall environment. Extensive working knowledge on Offshore - Onsite model.
• Having strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills. Ability to identify and resolve problems when necessary.
• Exceptional time management skills, ability to work independently as well as in a team and quick in learning new skills.
• Ability to interact with system end-users to troubleshoot and resolve reported issues.
• Ability to clearly communicate both orally and in writing with technical and non-technical personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: ALM, Mercury Quality Center 10, RTC (Rational Team Concert), RQM (Rational Quality Manager), Rational SiteLoad, TestManager, RequisitePro, Clear quest, JIRA, QTP 10, Silk Central Test Manager, Load Runner, WinRunner, Test Director, SoapUI, TFS

Scripting: Java Script and VB script

Languages: C, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, .NET, HTML, XML, XSL

GUI Tools: Crystal Reports 5.0, SQR 3/4/6, Oracle Developer/2000 Forms 6i & Reports, Graphics and SQL*PLUS, Visual Basic 6.0, JUnit Test Harness

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, IBM DB2, SQL Server Management Studio 2008, MS Access

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center Workflow Monitor 8.6, AbInitio, DTS (Data Transformation Services), SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)

Other Tools: Toad 10.5, Toad for Data Analyst 2.5, Netezza, MS-Office, Windiff, Beyond Compare, XML-Spy, SnagIT, SSH Tectia Client 3.2 (SSH Secure File Transfer), PuTTY, ProClarity Professional 6.3

CRM: Salesforce CRM, Veeva CRM (iRep and VBioPharma)

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Oracle Reports, OBIEE reports,SSRS, Cognos

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2000/NT, UNIX, Linux, Mainframes, iOS 4.3 (iPad2).

Web Development: Adobe Dreamweaver CS, FrontPage, Photoshop CS, CoffeeCup, HTML Editor, CoffeeCup FireStarter

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center 10, Web support OATi tool

Products: Performance + (CEC), Fiserv (EzApp), Life PRO v14, UpsideContract (EMC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Sr. QA Analyst / Sr. Medical Devices tester

Responsibilities:

• Successfully leading a team of 4 team members, working on complex project where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Coordinating Functional testing, Integration testing, UAT and Regression testing.
• Worked on BALTIC SR1 project, testing BlueNile mobile app and medical devices.
• Working on Caspian project, testing Calypso (Aviva Insight / Performa Insight /Insight pump), Spirit Combo, DM Expert, DM Combo, AC360 App, Accu-chek Spirit pump, Aviva Nano medical devices.Researching unexpected results to identify root cause and respond accordingly.
• Communicating all situations to manager regarding testing activities and coordinate training efforts.

Environment: ALM, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Server 2008, .net, MS-Office, SharePoint, VMware, Jira

Sr. QA Analyst / SQL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Working on Indiana Eligibility Modernization Project (IEMP) and using FACTS (Family Assistance and Care through Technology Services), ICES systems (Indiana Client Eligibility System) and Matics report testing.
• Analyzing user requirement documents and developing test plan which includes test objectives, test strategies, test environment, test priorities, test cases etc.
• Generating Requirements Traceability Matrix and Summarizing Test Reports.

Environment: HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), IBM Curam V6, Jira, SQL Server 2008, DB2, Java, XML, SOAP UI, Mainframe, Cognos, Windows7, SharePoint

Sr. QA Analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans utilizing the customer request documents for identifying specific business requirements to be translated into technical solutions.
• Turned these requirements into scripts using the established set of testing tools.
• Hands full of experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Summary Reports
• Rich experience in defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work and product defects and communicating status during the product release cycle.
• Coordinating functional, integration, regression, report testing and UAT.

Environment: Quality Center 10, Web support OATi defect tracking tool, SQL Server 2008, Toad for Oracle, SOAP UI, Java, .Net, Windows7, SharePoint, MS-Office

Sr. QA Analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans utilizing the customer request documents for identifying specific business requirements to be translated into technical solutions.
• Developed and executed Test Scripts in Mercury Quality Center based on the Business Requirements.
• Coordinating functional, integration, regression and report testing.
• Prepared the Test Planning Matrix, Test cases and executing them with the help of the used case documents.

Writing and executing SQL queries to verify that data has been moved from

Environment: Quality Center 10, Salesforce CRM, Veeva CRM (iRep and VBioPharma), Informatica Power Center, Aginity Workbench 3.0 for IBM Netezza, ASP.NET, Java, SQL Server 2008, iPad2 (iOS 4.3), Windows7, SharePoint, MS-Office

Sr. QA Analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand assignments, management of testing risks, track and communicate progress regularly to QA manager. Accountable for Test script approvals and reviews in Quality Center.
• Provided strategic guidance and direction on the testing deliverables and ensure project adheres to testing processes, standards, and guidelines.
• Coordinate the creation of the test environment/data, plan, coordinate, and manage the testing strategy and activities for a team. Leading and working along with offshore testing team. Planed work tasks and activities, coordinating functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Researching unexpected results to identify root cause and respond accordingly.
• Conducted daily and weekly testing status review meetings and updated status to QA manager.
• Communicating all situations to manager regarding test results and coordinate training efforts.

Environment:: LifePRO v14, Quality Center 10, Mainframe, XML, Windows 7, ASP.NET, Java, SQL Server 2008, MS-office.

Company: JCG Technologies Inc.

QA Lead / Testing Coordinator / ETL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the business and development teams to develop test strategies, test plans, test cases and test the business functionality.
• Hands full of experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Summary Reports.
• Rich experience in defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work and product defects and communicating status during the product release cycle.
• Successfully mentoring/leading a team for more than three projects at same time.
• Performing daily and weekly testing status review meetings.
• Researching unexpected results to identify root cause and respond accordingly.
• Communicating all situations to manager regarding testing activities and coordinate training efforts.

Environment:: Mercury Quality Center 9.2, QTP, Salesforce CRM, ASP.NET, Java, T-SQL, SQL Server 2005, Teradata, UpsideContract Application(EMC), Toad 10.5, Toad for Data Analyst 2.5, Oracle 10g, Informatica Power Center Workflow Monitor 8.6, Netezza, SSH Tectia Client 3.2 (SSH Secure File Transfer), Linux, Windows XP, SnagIT 9, SharePoint, MS-Office, SharePoint.

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating test plans utilizing the customer request documents for identifying specific business requirements to be translated into technical solutions turning these requirements into scripts using the established set of testing tools.
• Rich experience in defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work and product defects and communicating status during the product release cycle.
• Successfully mentoring/leading a team of five testers. Managed Offshore Testing Team.
• Coordinating functional, integration, and Regression testing.
• Attending the Business Requirements Meetings and performing the Impact Analysis.

Environment:: Performance Plus (P+), Fiserv, LifePRO, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Windows XP, Mainframe, Java, J2EE, SQL Server 2005, SnagIT

QA Analyst / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the Test Planning Matrix, Test cases and executing them with the help of the used case Documents.
• Developed Manual Test Cases in Rational Test Manager.
• Created test plan & test cases based on the requirements & functional specification document.
• Performed Integration, System, and Regression Testing.
• Involved in tracing Test cases to Requisite Pro.

Environment: Rational Suite 2003(Rational Test Manager, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro), JAVA2.0, ASP.NET, Oracle 9i, SQL, Mainframes, Windows XP, XML, XML-Spy, Windiff, Beyond Compare, JUnit Test Harness Tool.

QA Analyst / ETL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with data investigation, discovery and mapping tools to scan every single data record from many sources.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate wide ETL Solution using Informatica.
• Written complex SQL queries for validating the data against different kinds of reports generated using crystal reports.
• Worked in importing and cleansing of data from various sources like DB2, Oracle, flat files onto SQL Server 2005 with high volume data.
• Written SQL scripts to test the mappings and developed traceability matrix of business requirements mapped to test scripts to ensure any change control in requirements leads to test case update.

Environment: Rational Suite 2003 (Rational Test Manager, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, Toad for Data Analyst, Oracle, Informatica, SQL, ORACLE 9i, DB2, SQL Server 2005, SSIS, .NET, Crystal Reports, Oracle reports, Excel.