Results oriented Quality Assurance Analyst with strong accadamic and technical
background

Experience Summary:

• Skilled IT professional with over 8+ years in Quality Assurance and Software Testing experience of both Web-Based and client server Applications
• Through understanding of software quality activities throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Detailed understanding of QA methodology (Agile, Waterfall) to ensure quality control.
• Proficient in different phases of Testing like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Modular Testing, Backend Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Proficient in preparing the test plans, scripts and test cases by analysing Business Requirements and various other ARTIFACTS with a strong ability to Work closely with Development team and Business Analysts to analyse the test scenarios.
• Good exposure to ETL testing with strong SQL skills.
• Experienced in using Load Runner for performance test.
• Good experience with writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in Oracle and other RDBMS.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from initiation and definition to deployment and support.
• Experience in Black box testing with a complete QA cycle from testing, defect logging and verification of fixed bugs.
• Experienced with various domains such as Financial, Health care, Retail and Insurance.
• Ability to Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats with Excellent Analytical skills.

Technical Summary:
Business Domains: Financial, Health Care, Insurance Services and Retail.
Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional(QTP), Rational Clear Quest, Load Runner, Toad, Putty
RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access
Web Technologies: JavaScript, HTML 4.0, and DHTML, Java,
Environment: UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS NT/2000/98/95/XP, AUTOSYS.

Employment History:
Senior QA Analyst
Confidential (02/2012- Present)

Confidential is a government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress to keep money flowing to mortgage lenders, to help strengthen the U.S. housing and mortgage markets, and to support affordable home ownership . Confidential is a national mortgage finance company standing behind mortgage lenders, local and national banks, thrifts, credit unions, and other financial institutions in all 50 states. This Application was developed to identify various loans, interests and their payment schedule in a very customized and user friendly interface.

• analyzed various documents and prepared test cases covering all requirements of the application.
• Converted test cases for various test sets to organize the execution procedure to meet the project time line and timely deliverables.
• Tested functionalities of the application.
• Discussed the test cases for regression testing with the quality engineers for each build and.
• Validated and executed ETL jobs scheduled in Autosys.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate the ETL logic of the application.
• Updated and modified Unix files consumed by various process of the ETL process.
• Interacted with the development team to report bugs and discuss the status of bugs with open status or hold status.
• Involved in various documentation tasks such as daily status reports, weekly progress reports, Requirements traceability Metrics (RTM) and defect logs.
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning and Used Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting.
• Responsible for creating test bed for the application with valid and invalid data covering all positive and negative test scenarios.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings, project review meetings, Weekly status meetings and various other meetings which were focused on making the application more effective.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Windows XP, Unix, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle 10g,Putty,Autosys,TOAD,Office Communicator, SharePoint

Confidential
Senior QA Analyst( 03/2011- 01/2012)

Confidential is the largest Pharmacy care provider in United States. Their Pharmacy Management Application which was developed on Java is an integrated and flexible enterprise system that supports from basic price check to business critical report generating and decision making with complete integration with day to day business operations and full HIPPA compliance . The solution automates the entire operations, virtually eliminating paper work.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed Test Cases manually according to the BRD, Technical Specification, Functional Design and Use Case documents, identifying applications functionality, test requirements and coverage.
• Performed regression testing against the various builds of the application.
• Wrote SQL queries and tested front end developed data in the databases.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP 9.2 to perform through testing
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using Quality Centre.
• Prepared test cases for the ETL application according to technical specification document and Extensively tested data extraction, transformations and loading processes.
• Validated ETL process and reports using SQL queries.
• Performed Configuration and compatibility testing, verified the application on different operating systems.
• Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Prepared RTM Document to ensure that all the requirements had sufficient coverage for through testing.
• analyzed the functional specifications and helped team members to achieve test goal.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using Quality Center.
• Tested the reports developed in the system as per company standards and requirements
• Prepared documentation of the Prescription fulfilment and management module for management review and project presentations.
• Responsible for giving demonstrations and presentation to the management and mentoring other junior team members.
• Involved in auditing documentation for CMMI certification.

Environment: SQL, HP Quality Center, , Windows XP, Quick Test Professional , JSP, Java, MS Excel, MS word, VM ware, Oracle 10g,TOAD,Putty

Confidential, (01/2010- 03/2011)
QA Analyst

Confidential is the largest membership ware house in United States and a worldwide company. Their Businesses Management Application which was developed on SAP is an integrated and flexible enterprise system that supports from basic sales inquiry to business critical report generating and decision making with complete integration with day to day business operations. The solution automates the entire operations, virtually eliminating paper work.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed Test Cases for Sales and Distribution module according to the BRD, Technical Specification, Functional Design and Use Case documents, identifying applications functionality, test requirements and coverage.
• Manually Tested the application executing test cases in the Quality center.
• Prepared RTM Document to ensure that all the requirements had sufficient coverage for through testing and identified the requirements and testcases to be automated.
• Created new scripts using QTP to perform through testing.
• Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Analyzed the functional specifications and helped team members to achieve test goal.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using Quality Centre.
• Involved in the automation of the application using QTP.
• Performed Back-End testing using SQL queries extensively within the QTP Script to compare and retrieve data by using Data Base Check points.
• Wrote SQL queries and used them to perform Back End Testing .
• Prepared documentation of the SD module for management review and project presentations.
• Wrote test summery reports and test evaluation reports.
• Involved in auditing documentation for CMM level 3 to level 4 certification.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center, WinXP, Mercury, MS Excel, Oracle 10g.

QA Analyst
Confidential, (03/2009 -12/2009)

The purpose of this project was to test the software which provided solutions to customers to manage their finances conveniently and easily, anytime. The main modules of this application were customer info, accounts summary, insurance, pay bills, fund transfer, stop payment on checks, receive balance alert, view checks online, debit card/credit card transactions, loan information and profit and loss analysis reports for the fiscal year and various other reports.

Responsibilities:

• analyzed System Development Specification (SDS) and Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS).
• Prepared and executed manual test scenarios and test cases based on business and functional
• requirements and Automated identified test cases using QuickTest Professional.
• Created manual test cases from Use cases, Functional specs and other requirement documents.
• Tested formulas for various loan, interest calculations, and currency conversions required for reporting purposes.
• Tested functionality of interest data issued and gained from different customers by the bank from the database for calculating net profit.
• Developed use cases of the application.
• Prepared and executed various test scripts in QTP .
• Set-up the functional and load test environment using QTP and Load Runner.
• Used Quality Center for test script and test result management and bug tracking.
• Wrote test summery reports and test evaluation reports.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs.

Environment: SQL, PL/SQL, HP Quality Center , Load Runner, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle 10G, Putty, Toad

QA Analyst
Confidential (06/2008- 02/2009)
Confidential is one of the nation's largest consumer health organizations, offering individuals, employers and Medicare beneficiaries a variety of consumer-driven health care and insurance products. Specialty operations include behavioural health, dental and vision, life insurance, and complete pharmacy and medical management through its wholly owned subsidiary, Prescription Solutions. Common Portal is a web application; it provides members & providers information, eligibility, benefits, claims, health programs, doctor Information, prescription Information on line.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed various test cases.
• Involved in various Automated and Load testing Scripts for the Application using QTP and LoadRunner for Functional and Performance testing.
• Tested application manually and executed automated scripts.
• Extensively worked on Virtual User Generator.
• Used Quality center for test management and report generation.
• Generated Test Scripts using LoadRunner and QTP for Stress testing and Regression testing.
• Regression Testing is performed and the additional scripts are generated for each version.
• Worked on Web Interfaces functionality and Load testing them.
• Also analyzed the LoadRunner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions Per Second (TPS).

Environment: Quick test pro, Quality Center, Load Runner, VB Script, Java, J2EE, Web Logic Server, JSP, EJB, VB, .Net, XML, Oracle, SQL, Ms Office, Unix and Windows NT/2000/XP.

Confidential
QA Tester; (04/2004-05/2008)
Confidential is the leading insurance company in Sri Lanka, with the largest network of branches and agents in the insurance industry Specializing General and Life insurance. Confidential is also the leading provider of protection and financial security in Sri Lanka and in select international markets.

• Developed and executed test cases for application testing.
• Manually tested the application
• Automated scripts using Win Runner.
• Involved in Preparing metrics and sending reports to manager
• Performed black box, module, integration and system testing
• Generated defects and tracked errors using Test Director
• Performed Back end Testing and data Loading into Oracle tables using SQL Loader

Environment: Oracle 9i, UNIX, SQL Loader, VB 6.0, Windows NT / 2000/XP WinRunner6.02, and Test Director

Education:
Juries Doctor (JD)
National Diploma in Education