SUMMARY

• 8+ years of diversified professional experience, specializing in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experienced in QA Analysis of Banking, financial and Healthcare business processes.
• Expertise in Manual Testing and experience in Automated Testing of GUI and functional aspects of the applications on multiple levels of SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in Developing, Reviewing, Executing and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in Smoke Testing, Functionality, Integration, Regression, System Testing, UAT, Database, Business Intelligence and Full life cycle testing.
• Experience in using Mercury, HP Automated Testing Tools like QTP.
• Experience in Problem solving and Defect Tracking Tools like Quality Center.
• Experience in Backend Testing using SQL.
• Expertise in Defect Severity Analysis, Defect Tracking Systems and Defect Reporting.
• Highly skilled in analyzing Requirement documents, Functional, and Technical Design documents.
• Exposure to multiple Methodologies such as Waterfall Methodology and Agile Modeling.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Defect Tracking Tools like Quality Center.
• Experience in Understanding Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Ability to achieve targets and deliver results in a high - pressure environment.
• Proactive and analytical problem solver with strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills; also has good client interaction and team skills.
• Strong Conceptual, Business, Analytical skills & highly motivated team player.
• Excellent verbal, written, communication and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9.x / 2000/ XP/ NT, and UNIX.

Protocols: FTP and TCP/IP

Languages: SQL

Databases: Oracle7.x/8i/ 9i/10g/11g, MS Access, MS SQL Server

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.2/10, QuickTest Pro 10.0

Software: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and Power Point), Dreamweaver, MS Project, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional specification Documents.
• Developed test scripts for function, system, regression, end-to-end integration Testing and UAT testing.
• Tested various components of SDLC.
• Implemented efficient and effective testing strategy, test conditions and test scripts for approved projects.
• Created test SQL scripts for random sampling of data transformation for large datasets.
• Produced daily progress report to Project Managers.
• Generated daily, weekly and monthly reports.
• Executed test cases and documented test results using Quality Center.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancement and modification requests
• Created SQL queries and Database checkpoints to verify data quality.
• Generated different types of reports using Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center, MS Visio, MS office, MS Project, SQL, J2EE, Websphere Application Server 7.0, SharePoint 2007, Java, Oracle 11i, MS Excel 2010, Fire Fox & Google Chrome.

Confidential, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and technical requirements, developing strategic Test Plans
• Test Cases responsible for monitoring proper execution of all the Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Experienced with Iterative and Agile methodologies.
• Participated in daily project scrums
• Planning for Test execution activities to accomplish tasks on daily/weekly basis
• Co-ordination of Test Design/ Test Execution efforts across teams and with business.
• Developed Test scripts based on test cases.
• Experience in Credit Card Processing
• Performed Functional and Regression testing of application using QTP.
• Wrote complex SQL Joins, Unions and Nested Queries on various data tables for Data validation.
• Used Quality Center for Defect tracking and reporting.
• Created scripts in VB for automation testing inQTP
• In-depth knowledge of General Ledger concepts and/or banking experience
• In-depth knowledge of AP and credit card processing
• Ability to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and resolving complex test problems
• Documented the bug report and categorized them based on severity
• Validating all the Batch jobs that are scheduled and executed on a day such as EOD and EOM (End of day, End of month).
• Participated in test case review, defects review meetings and requirements walkthroughs.
• Interacted with developers, Business analyst to resolve technical issues.

Environment: SQL, Oracle, HTML, Java Script, HP Quality Center 10.0, Quick Test Professional 10.0, TOAD, Oracle Applications, Windows 2000 Server

Confidential, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in walkthroughs to ensure business rules, deliverables, and processes are addressed
• Responsible for writing the QTP scripts for daily, weekly smoke tests, and regression tests.
• Created scripts using HP/Mercury Quick Test Professional for the purpose of loading data through a user interface.
• Performed Manual Testing in accordance with the test plans and test cases.
• Log defects in Quality Center the issues identified during the functional testing of the application.
• Create SQL queries to validate the database and test its integration with the front end.
• Involved in functional, regression testing and responsible for tracking, reporting and closing the defects.
• Wrote different SQL queries to access data from different database tables, and used for data verification.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Web Services, XML, HTML, Java Script, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, MS-Office and Windows.

Confidential

Lead QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Test plans, managing team members, assigning tasks and conducting meetings.
• Involved in all Stages of Testing life Cycle like requirement gathering from business users and project analysts.
• In-depth knowledge of General Ledger concepts and/or banking experience
• In-depth knowledge of AP and credit card processing
• Created and maintained test plan, and test cases.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression and performance Testing.
• Identified test cases after going through the documents provided and developed systematic procedure for each test case and reviewed the test cases.
• Bug tracking and preparation of Test summary report and product defect metrics.
• Worked closely with developers to help them in Unit Testing.
• Organized and participated in triage for defect resolution and conflicts during system test

Environment: Windows NT/XP, SQL, Oracle 9i, DB2, Main Frames, TS2, Web sphere, Quality Center,, Oracle, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Confidential, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix to map Test cases with the requirements from the Design Requirement Document.
• Analyzed the Testing Specifications and allocating the modules for testing to the peer testers.
• Involved in writing and executing test cases and QA procedures, Tracking and reporting the defects using CMIS on a daily basis.
• Performed system testing and end to end testing.
• Reported the test execution status in the Bug Review Meetings on a weekly basis with the project group.
• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Cases, creating Test scripts, Team co-ordination, Training and Documentation.
• Generated detailed documentation of data mappings, enabling designers and data integration specialists to share and confirm the accuracy of their mappings using MapForce
• Create mappings using MapForce based on XML Schema and DTD content models.
• Responsible for collecting and generating the End of Day Executive status from different Projects.

Environment: .NET, Oracle, Quality Center, XML, IIS, Windows XP, WIN NT.

Confidential, TX

Web Design

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and development of web pages on client sites.
• Completed all assigned projects to specifications and on time within allotted budget.
• Involved in the development of a Web based project management tool.
• Implemented the HTML and Scripting language coding standards.
• Created pages using JavaScript.

Environment: HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows XP, WIN NT.