SUMMARY

• Software Quality Analyst with over Eight years of diverse Information technology experience in various domains like BFSI(Banking, Financial Services and Insurance), Telecom and Health Care with emphasis on GUI Testing, SOA Testing, Manual Testing, Black Box Testing, Backend Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Hands - on experience in Data Warehouse Testing includes ETL Testing and Report Testing
• Experience in all phases of Testing Lifecycle with expertise in the Integration and Functional, Input domain, User Interface, Sanity testing, Regression and Re-testing
• Complete software development lifecycle (SDLC) experience from business analysis to development, testing, deployment, documenting, maintaining and user training
• Comprehensive knowledge of service oriented architecture(SOA) system testing practices and methodologies
• Worked closely with business analysts, programmers, and end users in a cross functional team
• Experience in co-ordinating efforts between development teams and offshore enterprise test team
• Expertise in black box, white box, functional, regression, integration, operational, stress testing, Ad-hoc Testing, User Acceptance Testing .
• Expertise in Web Based Testing.
• Experience in Preparation of Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data from requirements and Use Cases.
• Experienced in software analysis, Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management and Change Management.
• Worked with Agile/Waterfall methodology
• Perform responsibilities of developing test scripts by using SOA test tools
• Evaluate the Tool SOAPUI for SOA Testing
• Experienced with Web Services Testing includes SOAP and WSDL
• Good in Testing XML files
• Hands on experience with DW- ETL Testing, BI Reporting tools Business Objectsand Cognos
• Expertise in Testing ETL application using tools Informatica, Data stage and Abinitio
• Expertise in Testing BI Reporting using tools Business Objectsand Cognos
• Database experience includes Oracle & SQL Server.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries
• Experience in Test Management Tools QC, Bugzilla and Jira
• Knowledge in Automation Tools QTP and Selenium.
• Experience in Security Testing
• Good experience UNIX and Windows platform
• Ability to rapidly learn new concepts together with excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Selenium IDE,HP Quality Center(QC), Bugzilla,SOAPUI

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server.

ETL Tools: Informatica, Data stage, AbinitioReporting Tools Cognos, Business Objects, Micro strategy

Languages: Java, J2EE, MS .Net, C, C++

Scripting Languages: Java Script, Shell Script, Perl Script

Web Services: SOAP,WSDL

Internet Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VBScript

Operating System: Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows

Browser: IE, Fire fox, Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Environment: QC 9.2, J2EE, Xml, Web Services, SOAPUI, Informatica 8.0,Business Objects,Oracle10g, Toad, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Functional Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications
• Preparation of Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data
• Provide review comments on Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Requirement Specifications
• Created Test Plan Document based on Test Strategy Document
• Design and Execution of Test Cases and Test Scripts
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Metrics and Deployment manual
• Performed Sanity Testing, Data Driven Testing & Ad-hoc Testing when required.
• Performed system testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing with UAT test scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Responsible for testing service oriented architecture(SOA) components
• Responsible for ETL batch jobs execution using IBM Tivoli application to load data from core database to Staging and Data mart tables.
• Experience with Data profiling, Data Validation and Data Integrity and Data Cleansing and ETL processes using Informatica
• Wrote Complex SQL queries to verify report data with the source and target system (data warehouse) data.
• Functionality, Integration,Interface, and Regression testing
• Find and report defects and subsequently validating the fix, repeating the process until done.
• Managed defects usingQuality Center
• Involved in Build deployment activities
• Evaluated and suggested improvements to the software development process.
• Coordinate efforts between development teams and offshore enterprise test team
• Monitoring Testing Activities within the team and reporting regular progress to the Test Manager
• Implemented required testing approaches to accommodate tight schedules and resource constraints including applying risk-based analysis to determinetest coverage
• Mentor QA engineers in performing testing activities
• Conducted Project Domain and Internal Project Functionality Training Sessions
• Work closely with the software engineers to ensure successful, high quality releases.

Confidential

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, J2EE,Oracle 9i, Toad, Web Logic Server

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Functional Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications
• Provide review comments on Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Requirement Specifications
• Design and Execution of Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
• Responsible for ETL batch jobs execution using IBM Tivoli application to load data from core database (i.e ETM database) to Staging and Data mart tables.
• Wrote Complex SQL queries to verify report data with the source and target system (data warehouse) data.
• Generated reports from Cognos data warehouse system and used HP Quality Center for test cases execution and defect tracking.
• Execution of Generating and validating the Cognos reports based on functionality
• Experience on Data validation, Data merging, Data cleansing and Data aggregation activities.
• Validating the data against staging tables and warehouse
• Performed User Acceptance Testing with UAT test scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Functionality, Interface, and Regression testing
• Evaluated and suggested improvements to the software development process.
• Coordinate efforts between development teams and offshore enterprise test team
• Mentor QA engineers in performing testing activities
• Monitoring Testing Activities within the team and reporting regular progress to the Test Manager
• Trained new and offshore employees on areas of the product andtesting processes and procedures

Confidential

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Environment:, Qtp 9.2, C#.NET,Webservices,WSDL, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Functional Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications
• Functionality, Interface, and Regression testing
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases on Functional Specification Document
• Performed Sanity Testing, Data Driven Testing & Ad-hoc Testing when required.
• Performed system testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing with UAT test scenarios.
• Extensively used SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Find and report defects and subsequently validating the fix, repeating the process until done.
• Work closely with the software engineers to ensure successful, high quality releases.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Environment:, Asp.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server,Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on Functional Specification Document, Use Cases, Low Level Design document
• Performed system testing to ensure the validity of the requirements and mitigation of risks prior to formal acceptance.
• Find and report defects and subsequently validating the fix, repeating the process until done.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Environment: Asp. NET, C#.NET, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Design and Execution of Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document
• Find and report defects and subsequently validating the fix, repeating the process until done.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle 8i, XML

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Functional Specification Document, Use Cases, Low Level Design document
• Performed Sanity, Functional, Regression and Re-Testing Testing.