SUMMARY

• Eight years of experience in Banking Domain in Software Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Experience working within specified SDLC process and procedures set by the organization.
• Experience working as per organizations compliance standards, internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Has proven performance coordinating with internal and external team members organizing reports of analysis and research using data, measurements, reporting, tracking, indicators, and various software techniques.
• Experience in waterfall, Spiral, Agile/Scrum, RUP software development methodologies.
• Proficiency in requirement analysis, functional specification, gap analysis, UML methodologies, requirement matrix, test strategy, test plan and test case development.
• Expertise in UAT, Unit testing, Performance Testing, GUI Testing, System & Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven & Keyword driven Testing.
• Knowledge of SDLC and various testing strategies.
• Hands on experience with various requirement and defect management tools like RQM, QC, and ALM

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000

Languages: SQL, Java, VBScript, XML, HTML/XHTML, UML.

Databases & Tools: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL.

SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

QA Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project was built to implement cash management functions such as Accounting, Reporting, Collecting Receipts, Web Services, WireTransfer, and (ACH) Automated Clearing House,Balance Reporting Services, and making Disbursements in accordance with regulations.
• Develop and Manage project dashboard, estimation, releases and management reporting.
• Develop Test Strategy and Test Plan. Perform effort analysis to secure resources.
• Review and provide input to SRSs, SDSs and various functional specification documentations.
• Closely work with LOB and Technology to develop and document functional knowledge about new ACH processing solution introduced by vendor
• Understand the daily operations of the Central Operations unit, whichincludes Wire Transfers, ACH Origination and Receiving, Check and ACH Exceptions, Returned Deposited Items, Item Processing and POD Exceptions/ Returns, Subpoena and Branch Research, Legal Notice Processing, and Check Collections,among others.
• Liaison between business users and technical team, in making sure that both the groups are at the same understanding of requirements.
• Worked throughout the SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizingRUP methodology.
• Attend meetings, define user requirements, assist in the design of the financial processing and reporting processes in the back office, provide regular updates on progress to the Operations Group,participated in testing and user acceptanceof new system,coordinated user trainingson the new system, perform post implementation review and generate post implementation reporting.
• Coordinate with multiple channels and stakeholders to bring them onboard and align to project schedule and timelines.
• Coordinate between distributed and host environment teams to secure and resolve environment issues.
• Enable Test Automation for regression testing efforts.
• Support Unit and Production acceptance efforts for critical fixes.
• Develop and Review Test case, Test script as part of test team.
• Plan and coordinate with data development team for data requirement, data mining and data analysis efforts.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project involved integration and enhancement of ACH payments on online banking Information Systems for retail customers.
• Reviewed Business requirement documents and functional specification documents to develop test plans and test scripts.
• Coordinate with business users for demos and covering new requirements and enhancements in the application.
• Worked on .net based ACH manger tool to process ACH files.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for communicating and managing expectations with SME's and to understand thoroughly the business process and the interface requirements which need to be incorporated in the application
• Supported automation team with functional specification and Executed automated test scripts using QTP pro
• Co - ordinate with developers and SMEs, for application upgrades and enhancements
• Developed Test cases and test scripts.
• Log and track defects. Test the bug fixes.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers
• Maintain co-ordination between business line and QA team, between multiple geographical regions
• Facilitate the weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process around application development
• Facilitate QA execution releases for multiple projects/ products
• Plan and Co-ordinate functional testing strategies for success of various product releases with business users and other participating channels
• Undertake Knowledge Transfer sessions on various products between various channels.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project involves conversion and integration of two online banking systems for Retail and small business customers, as Part of Confidential technology Solutions team.
• Interacted with Subject Matter Experts to provide support for conversion and integration requirements between different channels
• Analyze business requirement and functional specifications to create requirement traceability.
• Facilitate meetings, with stakeholders to continuously improve the QA process for the application development
• Developed Test deliverables such as test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Execute Test cases as per the test plan and requirement specification, documented results in detail
• Used QC to maintained defect repository and followed the bug life cycle until the bugs are fixed
• Used XML tools (SOUP UI) to effectively test, services delivered as part of the new web services architecture as part of platform integration
• Coordinated with various business channels towards SIT and EIT efforts
• Participated in end to end system testing, performance testing, regression testing
• Execute SQL queries for data mining and validations
• Test critical fixes and coordinated with the developers on the releases and environment configuration
• Work on data conversion scenarios, test plan and test script execution
• Analyze customer’s migrated data for any inconsistence and issues
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and on boarding session between various channels