SUMMARY

• 6+ Years of experience in Application Analysis and Quality Assurance Testing of application systems coupled with Strong Database Knowledge in Client/Server, Web and database environment.
• Extensive experience in Banking, Financial, Securities and Insurance industries.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating applications and Documentation based onstandards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in all cycles of test life cycle (STLC) from test planning to defect tracking and managing the Defect life cycle.
• Extensively experienced in preparing Level of Effort, Test Environment Requirements, Identify Resource/Skills and Schedule Test.
• Lead testing effort with business analysts, customers, onshore and offshore QA Testers.
• Hands on experience in Quality Center (QC), SOAP - UI, QTP.
• Expertise in Mobile application/Tablets testing on Android, IOS operating systems.
• Possesses knowledge on Six Sigma, CMM and CMMI models.
• Strong leadership skills and has the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Self-driven team player with excellent communication skills, strong analytical and reasoning skills abilities.
• Good knowledge in Waterfall Model, V- Model, Prototype Model, Agile and Iterative Models.
• Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Systems Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Regression Testing of Client/Server, Web based applications and Web Services Testing, Performance testing.
• Possesses knowledge in bug tracking tools like Clear Quest, Bugzilla.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, Linux, iPhone (iOS 4, 5 & 6), iPad (iOS 4, 5 & 6),Android (Gingerbread Honeycomb Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean)

Programming/Scripting Languages: JCL, HTML, JAVA, XML, VB,.NET, C#, SQL, JavaScript, Mainframes, PHP,CSS.

Testing Tools: QualityCenter/ALM- 9.0/9.5/10.0/11.0 , QTP 9.0/9.2/10.0/11.0 SOAP UI pro

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g, Sybase, DB Visualizer

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, Version One(V1)

Test Strategies: Black box/White box/Gray box Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance, Smoke, Functional, Usability testing, Web services testing-SOAPUI tool, Performance testing, Compatibility testing

SD Methodologies: Waterfall Model, V- Model, Prototype Model, Agile and Iterative Models.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Clear Quest, Bugzilla.

Microsoft Office Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

ETL: ODI, INFORMATICA

Trainings: J-Meter, Selenium, SOAP UI Pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business and Functional requirement documents and involved in identification of Test Scenarios based on the business logic, Test Plans, and Test Cases for each module as per functional requirements.
• Participated in Test Case Walkthroughs, Inspection Meetings and created the Traceability Matrix for requirements and Test Cases
• Written and executed Functional, GUI and SIT and Regression Test cases.
• Applied agile testing methodology.
• Validating the trade reports generated for fixed income Bonds and Equities.
• Involved in database testing, validations using MS SQL.
• Involved in setting the framework and writing the test scripts for E- Confidential application using QTP for regression testing.
• Involved in testing the Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Provide UAT and production support.
• Sending the QA consolidatedweekly, monthlyStatus Report.
• Conductweekly status meeting with Business team and clients.
• Prepare MOM and handled internal audits.
• Resolving Production issues clarifications and involved in production testing.
• Document the Test evidences.
• Managing offshore and onsite teams.

Environment: E- Confidential (e-trading application),Mainframes, Java, HTML,CSS,QTP 10.0, Quality center10.0, SOAP UI 4.5.1,XP,MS-SQL, tortoise SVN, MS Excel, INFORMATICA, XML,MS Word, PowerPoint, UNIX, Clear Quest.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business, technical required documents and software required specifications.
• Developing test strategy, test plans and test data sets.
• Applied agile testing methodology.
• Developing and executing test cases manually.
• Prepared Automated Smoke scripts for daily check outs using QTP
• Performing end to end software testing based on the test cases.
• Developing requirement traceability matrix to identify the software updates.
• Validating the trade reports generated for fixed income bonds and Equities.
• Managing and escalating defects in QC.
• Preparing and executing test cycles.
• Developing and executing SQL queries for data validations.
• Managing and coordinating with the team globally and managing internal audits.
• Reviewing and evaluating weekly testing achievements with the team and the project management.

Environment: E- Confidential (e-trading application), Mainframes, Java, INFORMATICA, Quality center 9.5,XP, Oracle10g, MS Excel, MS Word, Clear Quest, TSO.

Confidential, Stamford CT

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and preparedTest Plans forall assigned project releases.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team
• Participated in Test Case Walkthroughs, Inspection Meetings and created the Traceability Matrix for requirements and Test Cases
• Ensure that all the testcases are updated in the Quality Center along with MasterTest plan.
• Actively participated in automation team using QTP, developed test scripts.
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline
• Defects were tracked,reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.
• Verified the logs and flow of the data in UNIX Environment.

Environment: Delphi, Sybase, QTP 9.0/9.2, UNIX, TPOS, Bulk update tool, Quality center9.0, Sybase.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Documentation of user requirements.
• Designing/developing ASP pages and middle tier C# components.
• Designing reports for business user analysis.
• Database designing (OLTP/OLAP) and development.
• Writing ETL packages in SSIS (Integration services) to load data from Excel Invoices generated by Agents.
• Writing database components like stored procedures, views and functions.
• Writing unit test cases and performing integration testing.
• Generating reports using SQL Server reporting services.

Environment: ASP.net, C#, SQL/ T-SQL, SQL Server 2005, OLTP, Microsoft Visual studios 2005, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Microsoft Office.