SUMMARY

• Over Eight (8+) years of diversified IT industry Experience in analyzing system functionality, design and implementation of Software Quality Assurance Testing Process for Financial, Banking, Insurance, Web based and Client/Server, Data warehouse applications.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automation testing using various Testing and Database Tools on Windows, UNIX platforms.
• Good understanding of SDLC phases and specifically QA Process and Methodologies.
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing the System Design Specifications (SDS), Business requirements and Functional specification documents.
• Good understanding and strong experience of SDLC models like Waterfall and Agile SCRUM.
• Good Exposure in developing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix, Test Metrics, Test reports, Scorecards, Dashboards, Test closure reports.
• Strong Experience in both Manual and Automated testing using tools like Quality Center (MQC), Test Director, Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Silk Performer.
• Extensive experience in test case execution and defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Experience and Knowledge of data modeling using Erwin and Rational Rose tools, DOORS.
• Strong in writing and executing SQL Queries using SQL Navigator, SQL Developer and TOAD.
• Possess good knowledge on Data modeling and BI Tools like Cognos (Query studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio), Framework manager, OBIEE, Micro Strategy, SSRS and ETL tools like Informatica (Power Center, Workflow Manager), Web sphere Datastage, Ab Initio, SSIS 2005.
• Knowledge and Experience in configuring mappings, sessions and workflows in Informatica Power Center.
• Involved in designing Object Repositories and Automation Scripts, Data driven testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) with VBScript.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing ( UAT), GUI Testing, Performance and Database Testing, Production Validation and Audit.
• Batch testing experience in UNIX Batch jobs and knowledge in Shell Scripting working with Batch processing tools like IBM Tivoli Work Scheduler, Control M, Autosys.
• Experience in testing with MAINFRAMES and TSYS platforms, CICS.
• Knowledge on usage of Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Functional Tester and Bugzilla Tools.
• Exposure of preparing and presenting Test Execution Reports, Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports to the project team.
• Highly motivated and self - directed software professional with excellent organizational skills combined with good oral and written communication skills.
• A quick learner and ability to manage multiple tasks, and work towards a deadline in a fast paced, aggressive schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT & 2000

Languages: C, C++, VC++, C#, VB.NET, JAVA, SQL, PLSQL

Web Related: HTML, XML, CSS, VB Script, Java Script, Shell Script, Python, PERL Script, ASP.NET

Databases: ORACLE 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000, Teradata, MySQL, MS Access, DB2

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Silk Performer, IBM Rational Tools, JIRA, Open STA, Microsoft Test Manager, RALLY, XMLSpy, Rational Clear Quest, IBM ReqPro Requirements management, Clear View

Database Tools: SQL Navigator, SQL Developer, TOAD, SQL Plus

Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, Erwin

Other Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Ultra Edit 16 Text Editor

Interfaces/Tools: TSYS Mainframes, IBM Tivoli Job Scheduler, F-Secure UNIX Terminal (FTP & Client), SOAPUI, Cygwin Bash Shell, WinSCP 4.1.9, PuTTY 0.60, INFORMATICA Power Center, Cognos v8.x, MicroStrategy, OBIEE, Eclipse, Pentaho, Abi Initio, MS Visual Studio 2005/08/10, SSIS 2005, SSRS, SAP Basis, ILOG JRules, Rule Team Server, Webtrends Analytics tool, DOORS, IBM MDM Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston, VA

Quality Assurance / UAT Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business and functional requirements and developed Test Plans, high level Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Estimates to facilitate the process of testing.
• Essentially worked on Loan Delivery Legacy Business Rules and Central Business Rules Analysis and preparing XML files for all the MISMO Data points as part of ULDD1.0 FHFA Mandate Release.
• Coordinating the QA activities between the Business Analysis, Development and QA teams.
• Actively worked on Preparing XML data for Mortgage Business Rules Testing. Inserting Deal sets, Deals, Collateral Attributes, elements in XML’s for both Mandate and Pre-mandate loans.
• Extensively participated in ULDD Defect Triage process.
• Responsible for estimation Effort for test execution and preparing reports and Metrics and data to upper level management folks.
• Tested the Busisness Rules with different Lenders or Lender Role types such as Lender (External User), Admin (Internal User), Third Party Originator and few more for various US Financial firms that deliver loans to Confidential
• Played a key role in Testing XML Test Tool by importing manually prepared XML files for rules.
• Extensively worked on data setup and mocking XML files for various business rules in Mortgage acquisition process, Loan Delivery process for both Whole Loans and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS Pools).
• Initiated QA Process improvements and actively worked with Business and Development teams to adhere to the process initiatives.
• Responsible for reporting the QA Accomplishments and Metrics on a weekly basis to Stakeholders.
• Designing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scripts and execution, Defect triage as required.
• Carry out any tasks the needs to be completed in EST hours, same day, including limited ad hoc testing.
• Work with development teams on resource planning and prioritization.
• Trained by Confidential Loan Delivery SME team to understand system testing scope and responsible for QA deliverables relative to Loan Delivery ULDD Enterprise release.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0 (MQC), ILOG Rule Server, Telelogic DOORS 8.1, IBM Clear Quest, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Clear View, SharePoint, Excel/Word Add-ins, Microstrategy, ORACLE SQL, PLSQL, Informatica ETL, OBIEE, SQL Developer, Autosys, QTP, XMLSpy, Remedy 7.1, XML, Windows XP and MSoffice2007, MS Visio, Ultra Edit 16,, Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0, Shell scripts, C++, Weblogic, UNIX, PUTTY Server, Web Services.

Confidential, CT

QA Onsite Coordinator / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business and functional requirements and developed Test Plans, high level Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Estimates to facilitate the process of testing.
• Coordinating the QA activities between the Business Analysis, Development and QA teams
• Issue resolution and offshore support for Back Office and Core applications and Automation as applicable.
• Responsible for Administering the Releases and projects in Quality Center in terms of Assigning new users, creating new releases and Projects, Assigning the users to roles and projects etc.
• Initiated QA Process improvements and actively worked with Business and Development teams to adhere to the process initiatives.
• Participated in Implementing the Agile process for Air Trans project and has worked on User Story development, Prioritizing and defining User story complexity and designing the Sprints.
• Responsible for coordination between Offshore and Onsite teams and track daily status of QA activities, knowledge transfer with cross teams.
• Responsible for reporting the QA Accomplishments and Metrics on a weekly basis to Confidential IT director.
• Worked on XML files for testing the nodes and attributes while working on Web Services. Good Knowledge of XML Schema validations, XSD, performed XML File Validations.
• Designing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scripts and execution, Defect triage as required.
• Responsible for laying out the testing process for Agile Project initiatives.
• Carry out any tasks the needs to be completed in EST hours, same day, including limited ad hoc testing.
• Work with development teams on resource planning and prioritization.
• Trained by IVR Development team to understand Intervoice (IVR) system testing scope and responsible for QA deliverables relative to IVR QA phase, PLSQL testing of IVR Datamarts.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2 (MQC), QC Admin, RALLY, Websphere Transformation Xtender (WTX) ETL tool, Excel/Word Add-ins, Business Objects Reporting, OBIEE, SQL, PLSQL, QTP, SQL Developer, SQL Café, PVCS Version control, Dimensions version control, XML Spy, TOAD, Citrix, Control-M Enterprise manager, F-Secure SSH FTP/ UNIX Client, IBM Tivoli Job Scheduler, Java, ORACLE,, HP Service Test tool, Windows 98/NT, Win2K, Windows XP and MSoffice2007, MS Visio, Ultra Edit 16,, Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0, Shell scripts, C++, Perl scripts, Weblogic, IVR systems, Visual Basic 6.0, Web Services .

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. QA / UAT Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business and functional requirements and developed Test Plans, high level Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Estimates to facilitate the process of testing.
• Involved in weekly meetings with developers and business analysts to understand the Application logic and business process.
• Performed Testing in QA /UAT/Production regions for scheduled releases.
• Conducted and participated in internal QA meetings, Status Calls, Release meetings with onsite and offshore teams regularly and interacted effectively with cross blocks.
• Effectively managed and coordinated with the offshore teams throughout various phases of a Release.
• Involved in designing and review of Test Scripts in build phase of a release.
• Responsible for preparing Test Data and Data Conditioning for various Test Scenarios through analysis and discussions with Business and Development folks.
• Extensively worked on TSYS green screens/Core (C3) for product testing and test data conditioning.
• Managed Test Execution and Defect tracking using Mercury Quality Center (MQC).
• Effectively managed Automated Regression testing using QTP in system testing Phase.
• Responsible for Conditioning Test Accounts on TSYS Green Screens for IST/UAT Testing..
• Responsible for validating the Business Rules with the application and Database Analysis.
• Worked on XML files for testing the nodes and attributes while working on Web Services. Good Knowledge of XML Schema validations, XSD, performed XML File Validations. Actively designed various test cases for validating different XML File validation scenarios such as Schema validation for XSD, XML data Validations.
• Responsible for verifying the logs and scripts in written in Perl or C++ for analysis purpose.
• Performed testing of the Promotional Rewards Engine, Third Party Engine in the system test and IST environment.
• Responsible for batch test execution using UNIX platform, scheduling TIVOLI Jobs, running jobs in F-Secure, PuTTY, WinSCP, Cygwin Bash Shell.
• Worked with different stages of Data Migration like Source, Pre Ab Initio, Post Ab Initio, Data load to ODS and Data warehouse.
• Interacted with Business Team for setting up data for Integration testing.
• Extensively worked with Testing ETL transformations, mappings, workflows to load data from source system to target data warehouse system using Informatica.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Performed Regression testing to ensure that the modified application/functionality works as expected.
• Performed backend testing by writing and executing SQL Queries using SQL Developer.
• Worked on Flat files using Text Editor tools like Ultra Edit for Mocking and Loading data in to DB.
• Involved in preparing weekly status Reports and Defect reports.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2 (MQC) Excel/Word Add-ins, QTP, TOAD, SQL Developer, TSYS Mainframes, F-Secure SSH FTP/Client, PuTTY 0.60, WinSCP 4.1.9, IBM Tivoli Job Scheduler, XML Spy, Java, ORACLE,, Ab Initio, Informatica 8.6, Soap UI, Webtrends Analytics tool, Micro Strategy, Windows 98/NT, Win2K, Windows XP and MSoffice2007, MS Visio, Ultra Edit 16, Apple Safari Browser, Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0, Mozilla Firefox Browser, Shell scripts, C++, Perl scripts.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. QA /UAT Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business and functional requirements and developed Test Plans, high level Test Scenarios to facilitate the process of testing.
• Involved in weekly meetings with developers and business analysts to understand the Application logic and business process.
• Conducted and participated in internal QA meetings within the team.
• Designed Test cases using Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning & Error guessing design techniques.
• Managed Test Execution and Defect tracking using Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for validating the Business Rules and Rate Calculation with the application.
• Performed testing of the Rater application with all design groupings coded for and the FJA calculation engine in the system test environment.
• Tested for all scenarios to test the various conditional rules for all storyboard groupings.
• Performed Functionality testing which validates the calculations, return values, processing messages returned from the FJA Calculation Engine.
• Interacted with Business Team for setting up data for Integration testing.
• Performed Accuracy Testing for calculations and worked with FJA Calculation engine team.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Performed QC Admin responsibilities such as add/remove users from system/projects, add/remove project entities, add projects upon request, and remove completed projects.
• Performed Regression testing to ensure that the modified application/functionality works as expected.
• Performed backend testing by writing and executing SQL Queries using SQL Navigator.
• Involved in preparing weekly status Reports and Defect reports.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0 (MQC), SQL Navigator 4.5, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Windows 98/NT, Win2K, Windows XP and MSoffice2000.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. QA/UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans, High level test scenarios, test cases which describes the features and functions to be tested in QA and UAT environments.
• Designed Test Scenarios for testing the ACAPS platform.
• Responsible for manually testing all modules of the application on Mainframes and on TSYS platforms.
• Performed testing of new processes and batch programs on UNIX Platform.
• Developed and executed test cases manually and verified the actual results.
• Involved in developing Automation Framework for Functional testing using QTP.
• Developed and Executed Automated Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional Tool.
• Used Quality Center for Test Execution, logging and tracking of defects.
• Used TOAD explicitly to validate the database.
• Performed testing for positive and negative scenarios.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Designed Object Repositories using Quick Test Professional for Automating ACAPS application.
• Created Checkpoints and developed Data driven scripts to verify the GUI and functionality of the application using QTP (vb script).
• Performed Smoke testing, screen navigational testing, Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Responsible for testing ETL process and workflows, mappings between source and target systems using Informatica tool.
• Performed backend testing by writing and executing SQL Queries using SQL Navigator.
• Responsible for testing various BI reports in cognos and executing the tests as per the business specifications.
• Execution of the test scenarios and scripts and review of product functionality
• Effectively coordinated with in the team and with development team.

Environment: Quality Center 8.2 (MQC), QTP with TE add-in, Oracle, TOAD, Informatica 7.x(Power Center, Workflow manager), Cognos BI (Report studio, Analysis Studio)MS Office Tools, MS Visio, TSYS Platform, UNIX, Windows NT/XP/2000.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirements for various applications and test data preparation.
• Performed testing in Agile Environment.
• Communicated with development teams regarding requirement clarifications and issues for every cycle.
• Derived Test plans from technical specifications and business requirements for covering functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing
• Developed test cases from different Use cases, flow charts and executed them.
• Developed test scripts on AIS using Quick Test Professional to perform functional and regression testing
• Enhanced the Quick Test scripts to perform data driven testing, inserting checkpoints and validated the test results.
• Performed load and performance simulation using Silk Performer.
• Participated in daily meetings with developers and business people in understanding the applications.
• Tested for all the password policies according to the guidelines provided by the Confidential GWAN Compliance and compared all the expected results with the actual results.
• Responsible for testing User Login, Account Information.
• Experience in Black box testing with a complete QA cycle - from testing, defect logging and verification of fixed bugs.
• Monitored and communicated status of showstopper and high severity defects and retested those defects.
• Ensured the completion of assigned tasks and prepared Test Metrics for analysis.
• Additional Responsibilities including Coordinating meeting, preparing meeting minutes and follow-up on open issues.

Environment: Quality Center 8.2, Quick Test Professional 8.2, Silk Performer, MS office 2000, Java, Java Script, Web Logic 7.0, Windows98/NT, Win2K, Windows XP.

Confidential, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Studied high level design documents and flow charts and interacted with business analysts and functional managers to clarify issues upon business requirements.
• Performed test management and bug reporting using Test Director.
• Created the strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Created Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the application.
• Executed test cases and participated actively in system testing and regression testing
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings
• Responsible for interacting and validating database entities by connecting to DB2 Server.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs.
• Documented the Daily Defect Status meeting minutes.

Environment: Test Director 7.6, ASP.NET, JavaScript, SQL Server, DB2, Unix and Windows NT.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Existing Applications, Preparing Test cases for the assigned modules.
• Prepared the Test Data to test various Scenarios in the application.
• Used Test Director for test management and defect tracking.
• Executing the system/Functional Test cases manually. Conducted Database testing using SQL queries.
• Test Case Execution in Test Director and validating the Test Results.
• Performed all the Fund evaluation Calculations, parameter calculations and validation of results manually.
• Updating project Status, Verification & Validation with client requirements.
• Reported the defects and validated defects.

Environment: Test Director 7.6, Java, Oracle 8i, Windows NT

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Existing Applications, Functional Specification Documents and Use Cases.
• Design Test cases after Verification & Validation with client requirements.
• Performed the functional, GUI testing, Smoke Testing, Regression testing
• Designing SQL queries while performing database testing.
• Prepare the Automation test script for regression testing using QTP 6.0 for end-to-end business flows.
• Execution of QTP script for performing regression testing.
• Conducting the System test Execution in Test Director.
• Involved in Version control for project documents.
• Analyzing Existing Applications, Preparing Test cases for the assigned modules.
• Updating project Status, Verification & Validation with client requirements.
• Prepare & Review the Test Case in the Test Director 6.0 for each builds. Executing the system/Functional Test cases manually.

Environment: Test Director 7.0, Quick Test Professional 6.5, ASP.NET, MS Excel, SQL Server, Windows 98/NT, DB2, Shell, Perl