SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing in Banking, Financial Services.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing using Mercury Interactive Tools, and QTP.
• Excellent Analytical and Problem solving skills with a thorough understanding of SDLC and STLC
• Good working experience in Agile Model testing.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum environment in 4 week and 2 week sprint cycles.
• Skilled in bug reporting and tracking using Quality Center and Rally.
• Extensive skills in Manual Testing along with skills in Automated Testing using QTP, Quality Center, and Rally.
• Good working experience in Risk based testing, Regression Testing, system Integration testing, Functional testing, Black box testing and White Box testing.
• Strong knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models such as, Agile, waterfall.
• Expertise of preparation of Test Plans, Test cases, Test summary report, Defect tracking ( Rally, Quality center 10.0, 11.5 HP ALM) and Documentation of the various phases in a project life cycle.
• Expertise in creating and maintaining the Requirements Traceability matrix(RTM)
• Prepared and maintained the Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills.
• Actively involved in Usability and User Acceptance testing
• Prepare and present complete test results report for approval and sign - off.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, QTP

Mainframes: TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP.

Bug Tracking Tool: Rally and Quality Center (HP ALM)

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, Core java.

Web Technologies: HTML, Java Script.

Packages: MS Office

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Release planning session as its agile methodology for testing.
• Participate in Sprint planning, Scrum Meetings
• Using Agile Methodology (SCRUM) throughout SDLC, and wrote test cases against user stories.
• Conduct the Release Test
• Using Business Requirements to create SIT based test cases.
• Involved in System Integration Test (SIT), Sanity Testing and Regression Testing phases.
• Working with UAT team and responsible to create Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan, Metrics, and status reports for daily, weekly reports.
• Write and document Test cases in Rally.
• Preparation of Requirement traceability metrics.
• Used Rally tool for Requirement and Bug reporting.
• Generate reports for various projects using Rally and Quality Center.

Environment: Agile, Rally, MS-Office, MS Visio, SharePoint and Manual Testing.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Execute data setup tasks need for System Integration Testing
• Used Rally for Issue reporting and Test cases documentations.
• Prepared SIT test cases and testing estimates.
• Worked on Share point for Documentation.
• Interacted with the developers to help resolve critical issues
• Coordinating with the other interface systems during the UAT phase of projects.
• Tracking Defects and generating software defect reports for the developers by using Rally
• Extensively used Microsoft SharePoint to upload all the requirement documents, test scripts, test cases and varied test scripts for everyone's review.
• Conducted Manual Functionality and Regression testing for each build and version

Environment: Agile, Rally, MS-Office, MS Visio, SharePoint, DB2, TSO/ISPF and Manual Testing.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing business requirements and writing Master Test Plans for projects.
• Lead and coordinated full QA process lifecycle for QA Integration
• Analyzed the specifications in the User Requirements Document, Functional Requirement and Technical Requirement Documents for the purpose of preparation of Test deliverables
• Coordinated with Business and User Acceptance Team during execution for UAT
• Developed Test plans and Test Scenario for the UAT phase and supporting them
• Using Agile Methodology (SCRUM) throughout SDLC, and wrote test cases against user stories
• Used HP Quality Center 10 to manage the entire testing process and track defects
• Used TN3270 Plus Mainframe for transactions validation.

Environment: Waterfall, HP ALM, MS-Office, MS Visio, SharePoint, TSO/ISPF and Manual Testing.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with Project Manager and members of Product team in order to receive approval on Test case coverage of requirements
• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.
• Involved in System Integration Test (SIT), Sanity Testing and Regression Testing phases.
• Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Defect tracking and bug reporting using Quality Center 9.0
• Created UAT Test Plan and organize with the UAT team until test completion
• Tracked and documented all approvals for UAT sign-off from QA Manager

Environment:, QC 10.0, MS-Office, MS Visio, SharePoint, DB2, TSO/ISPF and Manual Testing.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing the new pages which added as part of enhancements
• Responsible for preparing Test plans, Test strategies and Test Timelines.
• Undertaking regression testing of various Confidential screens.
• Performing System Integration testing
• Interacted with Business users and supporting the Implementation and Post Implementation activities of projects.
• Coordinating with the other interface systems during the UAT phase of projects.
• Coordinated with the other teams during Defect Management activities
• Used HP Quality Center 10 to manage the entire testing process and track defects

Environment: QTP, QC 10.0, MS-Office, MS Visio, SharePoint and Manual Testing.