SUMMARY:

• Result driven and detail oriented certified IT professional with 8+ years of proven experience in Fortune 500 companies. Experienced in SDLC, Waterfall & AGILE (6+ years as IT Quality Analyst, and 2 year as Programmer/Technical Trainer).
• Successfully completed multi - year IT projects with QA responsibilities with specific strength in SQL.
• Executed skills in software quality analysis, quality test planning, scripting, designing & executing test cases, developing test scenarios and SQL writing.
• Solid expertise in manual / automated testing processes and use of testing tools.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing processes.
• Expertise in functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, security and user acceptance testing using AGILE and Waterfall methodologies. Thorough experience with testing for new application development, quarterly maintenance releases, data warehouse reporting, business analysis, design, application functionality enhancement.
• Well versed in documenting, tracking and reporting change requests and defects.
• Adept at analyzing, reviewing functional requirements, processes and assessing quality risk.
• Review use cases, BRD, Technical specifications and design document.
• Aimed at delivering quality products while meeting stringent delivery deadlines.
• Effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast paced environment.
• Diligent, strong work ethic bringing strong analytical, problem solving and technical skills.
• Deep international and cross-cultural experience with coordinating and teaming with virtual teams.
• Time and cost conscious team player exhibiting a flexible attitude.
• Self-motivated and open to learning new concepts / technologies.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Tools:  Selenium, QTP, Quality Center 10.0, Clear Quest, Version One, VB.Net, VB, MS SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Oracle 9.0, PL/SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, SQL, Developer 2000, Test Director 7.0, Data Mart Interfaces and MS Office Suite.

Technology:  ASP.net, XML, Web Services, Client Server, RDBMS, Data Warehouse, ETL and Batch.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr QA Analyst, Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• CARRS tracks a borrower’s commercial account risk and security positions from cradle to grave.
• Dealers taking loans from Confidential are risk rated against their Inventory and Credit scores.
• Data is imported from various underwriting systems into staging areas daily. CARRS is a web application which has several modules which displays various risk scenarios and complex risk calculations.
• I have supported the past 5 half-yearly releases of CARRS.
• My role is to compare all aspects CARRS application including the database tables and ensuring all modules and screens on the application are functioning according to the requirements.

Environment: Selenium, SQL Server, Quality Center 10 (TC Writing and Execution), Version One (Defect and Story tracking).

Confidential

Agile Scrum, Story Tracking, Sprint

Responsibilities:

• Tracking AGILE stories (requirements) and create test strategy and test plan for each story.
• Create End-to-End testing process for various requirements on each module.
• Track requirements and align test cases with requirements.
• Execute test case scenarios and test cases and track results until defects and issues are resolved
• Estimate work effort for each release and co-plan the schedules with development and business analysts teams.

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst, Apple Valley, MN

Environment: SQL Server, PDF Reports, Excel, Qtrack defect tracking

Key Responsibilities:

• Create Testing Strategy and Test Plan for each School district, State and Region
• Create and Lead End-to-End Testing Process for Document Processing, Scoring, Reporting and DataFiles.
• Create data files and temp tables and validate using SQL scripts.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Environment: QTP, Quality Center 10.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Clear Quest, Citrix Program neighborhood, MS Excel, XML, Java and .Net

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively defined detailed strategy/ plan, resource requirements and processes for testing.
• Prepared documents for test scenarios/cases using Quality Center tool while developing & executing a regression test plan. Liaised with Project Manager to resolve defects.
• Established and managed a defect tracking process for test cases & requirements.
• Defined detailed test plan /strategy and processes. Effectively used Quality Center tool to document test scenarios / cases and judiciously handled defect tracking process.

Confidentia

QA Analyst, Minneapolis, MN

Key Responsibilities:

• Developed a process to validate all the systems which ensured elimination of incorrect entries.

Confidential

QA Analyst (Logistics & Transportation), Eden Prairie, MN

Environment (across both projects): MS Excel, Test Director 7.0, Quality Center 9.0, SQL, VB.Net and MS SQL Server

Key Responsibilities (across both projects):

• Performed MFM enhancements testing before & after deployment. Accountable for complete quality assurance of 1st major release for MRM.
• Part of a team involved in overall quality assurance of logistics and transportation applications.
• Efficiently used web services, client-server, mainframe, data warehouses and backend applications for maintaining & tracking the logistics/transportation transactions thus ensuring expense management.
• Prepared test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data and SQL queries. Successfully implemented Functional/Integration/Performance Testing and Defect Management.
• Responsible for closing defects and getting deployment sign-off from users while providing feedback to business analysts and development team on open defects.