SUMMARY

• 5 plus years of professional experience in Quality Assurance of Web based applications such as Guidewire Claimcenter.
• Extensive experience in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile and RAD) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Worked in Agile Environment actively participated in scrum meetings, Sprint planning meeting, Retrospective meeting, reviews and developed test scenarios.
• Good at informal and formal, manual and automated, data and functionality testing, analyzing and reporting issues, discrepancies and results.
• Experience in create Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on User Requirements and System Requirements Documents for Functional, Security Configuration, Regression, Integration and Usability Testing.
• Proficient in analyzing the SRD (Software Requirement Document), Functional Design Documents to formulate Test Strategies, Test Scope, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Traceability Matrix for Manual as well as Automated Testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Extensive experience in conducting different kinds of tests such as Integration, Regression, Functional, System Testing, Black Box, White Box, UAT, Sanity Testing, GUI, End - to-End, security, browser compatibility testing of the application through test automation and manual testing processes.
• Proficient in overall Test Management, Defect Management including Test Designing, Requirement Mapping, Reports, Test Execution and Defect Tracking, analyzing/verifying bugs and coordinating with development team members in fixing the defects, re-testing the fixes and closing them.
• Vast experience in developing and maintaining library of test scripts for re-use across projects and as regression test beds
• Proficient in Test & Defect management tools such as HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Good experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedules with overall project schedules.
• Proven management and leadership skills through coordination and collaboration with different stakeholders.
• Proactive and quick learner with excellent technical, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable working as a team member as well as Independently, Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Coordinated with Multiple Teams on End to End Test Case Design, Test Execution and Test Data needs.
• Well versed with QA concepts, methodologiesand proficient in performing Black box testing,functional testing, and integration testing, Regression testing and End to End testingof applications.
• Involved in both Manual & Automation Testing and prepared Test Suite for all the Test Cases
• Expert in writing, executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Scenarios and Test Reports.
• Comprehensive exposure and hands-on experience in agilemethodology.
• Strong hands on experience inmanual & automation testing and test management tool concepts
• Interacted diplomatically with developers and other team members to ensure high quality software. Played a key role in on time delivery of the product
• An excellent team player with solid technical skillsand has excelled in large scale projects and in individual roles in various environments
• Highly motivated, organized and independent self-starter committed to the highest levels of professional and personal excellence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: QTP, Quality Center, Soap UI

Programming Languages: C,SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/2003/2007/ XP, UNIX

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 11.0,Rally,Mantis

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the business requirements, business process and functional requirements for writing test plan.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Creating SQL queries for generating complex reports.
• Involved in setting up ETL process for generating reports.
• Manually tested the whole application before going for the automated testing.
• Involved in testing the conversion of the application into web application using XML web services.
• Developed and verified the request codes, response codes, and reason codes using Distributed Applications Technology using JAVA, JDBC and XML.
• Analyze code changes of existing programs and updating test cases accordingly.
• UAT testing performed along with call center managers to make sure that application meets their requirements.
• Performed Functional, Integration and End to End testing.
• Performed data accuracy, data validation and data integrity testing by querying the database using Toad to execute SQL queries on Oracle databases.

Environment: Quality Center, Mainframes, Windows XP, XML, MS Excel, SQL

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and understand the User Stories/business requirement documents of various functionalities.
• Design and execute the Test Plans and Test cases using User Stories/Business requirements. Performed Sprint level testing, Functional, Systems Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Identified & organized the overall plan for test data, strategy and also identify the Scope of testing within the context of each Sprint.
• Good Experience in Agile methodology with SCRUM Process for the product development.
• Performed testing on multiple Sprints. Participate in Daily standup SCRUM meetings, Sprint Planning Sessions, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Sessions.
• Created Test Cases and developed Tractability Matrix and Test Coverage reports.
• Prepared and provided status summary reports to the management on system status, system changes, problems and potential impacts
• Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users
• Worked on various lines of business of Property and Auto products using Guidewire Application.
• Experience in creating claims through FNOL (First Notice of Loss) process as well as unverified policies.
• Experience in creating exposures,Incidents,setting up reserves and making payments using various modes such as Checks,Cash & Demand Draft.
• Worked with developers by updating the defects and resolving them and tracking the status.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking and Report generation throughout the test life cycle using Mantis,Defect Management Tool.
• Worked on Syndicate Claims Messaging(SCM) & Electronic Claims File (ECF2) Messaging for automatic creation of claims using XML files from Xchanging.
• Extraction of ECF2, SCM, LIRIS and Phoenix Lines AS & L-IRIS XML files and running both manual & auto batch for auto creation of claims as per the business requirement.
• Performed UAT data preparation & downstream testing.
• Performed both SIT & User Acceptance testing.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.
• Validated WSDL and SOAP request/response using SOPAUI
• Experience Working in Agile Environment and SCRUM teams.
• Coordinated and follow up with Business users and Developers for closure of defects.
• Prepare high level Test Plan and design Test cases for the Sprint Tasks.
• Used MS Excel to write the test cases and also used modular test cases for reusability
• Reported and tracked the defects from the time it is identified to closure using Rally.

Environment: GuidewireClaimcenter6.0, SOAP UI, Windows XP, IE7,Mantis, Rally, MS Office Suite.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in GUI testing, System testing
• Developed Test Cases, Test scripts
• Wrote the Test scenarios as per Test Cases for each and every window
• Manually tested Flow of Business processes
• Interacted with Developers (Walk Through) and analyzed the system for functional aspects.
• Involved in Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Version controlled by using Visual Source Safe

Environment: Servlets, JDBC, XML, Swings, Win2k, JBoss, and MySQL