Rahul Aniruddha Bhave

Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst Cell Number: 973-***-****

Software Analyst (Product Management) E-mail: acsi86@r.postjobfree.com

Business Analyst Address: 1415 Duckens St, Apt 218, Odenton, MD 21113

Summary

Over 5 years of experience in software testing process which includes Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test Log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Metrics.

Over 3 years of experience as a Software/Business Analyst, in Business Analysis, System Analysis, Design, Development, Business Re-engineering, Requirement Gathering/Analysis and implementation of Business Applications, Project Team Management using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles of Rational Unified Process (RUP).

Experience in testing on Enterprise wide applications with multiple databases like ORACLE, SQL SERVER, DB2, SYBASE and MS ACCESS.

Involved in creation and implementation of Test Procedures, Test Plans and Test Scripts. Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.

Maintaining the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status Report related to project.

Highly proficient in working with users to gather requirements, analyze them and subsequently use the Microsoft Visio and design tools to model the requirements.

Performed feasibility, adaptability study and GAP analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective and supported multi-tier applications.

Excellent skills in gathering requirements and creating Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD), facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions, developing Use Cases, Test Approach, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Expert knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.

Experience as a Scrum Master in writing User Stories, coming up with the Product Backlog and determining Sprint Cycles.

Experience in test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center (QC), Test Director, ClearQuest, etc.

Ability to test backend applications by writing SQL and PL/SQL statements.

Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking & Reporting.

Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Technical Skills

Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Selenium, Quality Center (QC), Clear Quest, Test Director, Bugzilla, Quick Test Pro (QTP), MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, Attask, Salesforce, etc.

Languages: C, C++, Java, .NET, HTML, EDI, XML, VB Script, Java Script, SQL, etc.

Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows.

Databases: Oracle, SQl Server, Sybase, MS Access, etc.

Documentation: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, etc.

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, etc.

Educational Summary

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ

Masters in Computer Science, Dec 2007

RAIT, University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bachelors in Computer Engineering, May 2006

Professional Experience

Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC Jul 2015 – Present

BA/QA Analyst

Key achievements:

Researched and Analyzed business requirements and workflows supported by AAMC’s applications: CIM and SMDEP

Identified gaps and worked with SMEs to address them

Supported Quality Assurance of front end user experience against the backend functionality developed by software engineers

Worked with the QA team to refne test coverage for functional, regression, integration and UAT testing

Identified feasibility of design improvements within time and cost restraints

Suggested software modifications to educational assessments published by AAMC

Monitored and tested software rollouts using SQL in a .Net environment

Effectively communicated results to users verbally and via Excel

Ran reports and published them with all the stakeholders

Trained business users on tailored software and kept 2 way communications open with software developers and testers

Jos A. Bank, Hampstead, MD Jun 2014 – July 2015

BA/QA Analyst

Key achievements:

Managing testing efforts for Jos A. Bank applications: JAB, FS, B&T and Tuxedo

Managing an off-shore QA team of 5 testers in India

Created and Maintained test cases using Quality Center for all the above applications

Automated the above test cases using Selenium IDE module

Used JIRA to keep track of defects

Actively involved in various phases of the testing cycle such as System, Functional, Regression, Integration, and End-To-End Testing

Back end testing of the application using SQL queries

Dealt with technical issues and worked closely with business and agency resources to determine the necessary corrections and also to determine the root cause of the issues to drive software updates to correct the problems

Identified Performance Testing scenarios using JMeter and conducted daily meetings on the testing progress

Managed Smoke, Functional, Regression and Backend testing

Created a matrix for test cases based on pass/fail executed during the testing phase

Communicated testing status reports to the directors (Development, Operations and Sales) on a weekly basis

Currently working on Integration Project

Internet Testing Systems, Baltimore, MD Jun 2012 – June 2014

Software Analyst (Product Management)

Key achievements:

Product planning and execution throughout the software lifecycle

Gathering and prioritizing customer requirements

Managing the product roadmap, defining the product vision, and working closely with client services, software development, quality assurance, and customer support to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction goals

Balance the needs of one client against the needs of all the other clients

Acted as a liaison between program managers and developers

Translated business objectives and requirements into product vision and specification

Created detailed mockups and prototypes

Gathered, Analyzed, Developed, and Drove business cases and product feature requirements that originated from clients, operations, engineering, competitors, marketing and executive teams

Constantly monitored the competitive landscape and market conditions to identify opportunities, issues, and risks in order to recommend tactical strategy to management

Developed business cases, use cases, user interaction flowcharts, requirements documents, functional specifications, and project schedules

Demonstrated leadership in User Acceptance testing and worked closely with Quality Assurance to set a high bar for quality and market adoption

Drove revenue planning for products and ensured that those plans were achieved as we built, launched, sold and maintained products over time

Worked with the marketing team to develop the go-to-market strategy, helping all understand product positioning, key benefits, and target customer needs

Served as the internal and external evangelist for all solutions, working with the sales team, support team, and key customers as necessary

Conducted customer analysis and synthesized market requirements into technical features

KPMG LLP, Montvale, NJ May 2011 – June 2012

Senior QA Analyst (Employee of Millennium Consultants Inc., Iselin, NJ)

Key achievements:

Managed Desktop Server Integration testing for tax, audit and financial applications

Involved in Functional, GUI, Smoke and Sanity testing

Reviewed, gathered and analyzed business user requirements

Created use cases and test cases from requirements modeler

Involved in creating and publishing weekly status reports

Prepared system test plan, system test cases and the executed those test cases.

Created and executed test plans, developed, modified, and executed test scripts to ensure the efficiency and reliability of new and enhanced software

Produced daily testing reports and weekly tracking summaries including statistical data relating to performance of application release and testing results using Test Director

Conducted and Coordinated status meetings with the QA team, operations and development teams

Executed test scripts to verify that the software is operational and meets requirements and design specifications

Actively involved with developers, business analysts and business users to determine test requirements and translate these requirements into test plans

Created a matrix for test cases based on pass/fail executed during the testing phase

Documented positive and negative test cases.

Wrote SQL queries to verify data with the Front-end and Back-end database

Involved in Functional, Unit and System testing to ensure all aspects of the system are functionally correct. Analyzed the test results and generated reports on status of defects repair progress

Performed Functional and Regression testing on different platforms with different operating systems and Browser versions

Performed manual checks for links, scripts, images and proper layout

Inttra Inc., Parsippany, NJ Oct 2009 – May 2011

BA/QA Analyst

Key achievements:

Participated in custom EDI development projects, promoting and upholding quality standards throughout SDLC

Analyzed consumer information and determined appropriate corrections using the tools, systems and processes already in place

Involved in Automation, Functional, GUI, Smoke and Sanity testing

Dealt with technical issues and worked closely with business and agency resources to determine the necessary corrections and also to determine the root cause of the issues to drive software updates to correct the problems

Participated in writing Test Designs, Test Plan and Test Cases, software documentation from business, technical and functional requirement

Worked closely with relational database (DB/2) and used many different applications & tools across multiple hardware platforms (Mainframe to Desktop) to research and resolve issues with the consumer data

Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the test case scenarios

Coordinated the gathering of business requirements with Global Ops, Inside Sales, and Integration Project Managers

Reviewed Test Designs with QA team members and technical analysts

Prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD) for OS.com website (Ocean Schedules and White Labels)

Developed Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results

Analyzed Business Requirements and created Workflow diagrams for INTTRA’s I-ACT, I-Desktop and I-Link products

Performed Integration, System and Functional testing as per requirements

Worked on consumer data errors and interacted with Inttra staff, agents and agent staff to reconcile information to resolve the consumer information errors

Back end testing of the application using SQL queries

Developed and implemented business test scenarios and test data

Designed the Test Architecture and the scenarios for the Automation

Exercised judgment, guided and advised less experienced team members as appropriate within their assigned applications

Utilized process based test management system Test Director for organizing test requirements documents and test plans

KPMG LLP, Montvale, NJ Jun 2008 – Oct 2009

QA Analyst (Employee of Millennium Consultants Inc., Iselin, NJ)

Key achievements in AACT/KAT project:

Tested and managed tax, audit and financial applications like AACT/KAT, which were being used to customize eAudit application.

Used ClearQuest to keep track of defects.

Prepared system test plan, system test cases and executed those test cases.

Executed test scripts to verify that the software is operational and meets requirements and design specifications.

Actively involved with developers, business analysts and business users to determine test requirements and translate these requirements into test plans.

Created a matrix for test cases based on pass/fail executed during the testing phase

Documented positive and negative test cases.

Wrote SQL queries to verify data with the Front-end and Back-end database.

Involved in Functional, Unit and System testing to ensure all aspects of the system are functionally correct. Analyzed the test results and generated reports on status of defects repair progress.

Key achievements in eAudit project:

Developed test procedures, test plans and test cases according to business requirements.

Did manual testing, regression testing, GUI, and functional testing of some screens.

Actively involved in various phases of the testing cycle such as System, Functional, Regression, Integration, and End-To-End Testing.

Actively participated in weekly meeting focused on resolving technical anomalies in the testing process.

Did Backend testing of application to check whether data was going on proper and designated database tables.

Performed functional, system and integration testing.

Involved in the preparation of test matrix.

Prepared Test Summary Report.

Provenir Inc, Parsippany, NJ Jan 2008 – Jun 2008

Platform Analyst (OPT period)

Responsibility:

Customized Provenir platform to create customer lifecycle and loan originating system for JMMB (Jamaica Money Market Bank).

Created database for auto and mortgage looan originating system of JMMB.

Citigroup. Inc., Jersey City, NJ Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

CAPP Summer Intern (CPT period)

Key achievements:

Gathered requirements from end users of all the regional offices and business units and prepared Business Requirements Documents (BRD).

Analyzed Business Requirements and create Workflow diagrams.

Developed use cases and activity diagrams to model processes

Tested the application thoroughly. Manual Tests involved Functional testing and Integration Testing.

Participated in Project Management duties such as prepared weekly status reports for senior management on the progress of the project, delivery schedules and commitments from different sub-groups such as QA, Development, Design and Requirements team.

Used MS Project to assist Project Manager in creating Project Plans.

Analyzed test results and created reports based on software testing.

Tracked and reported system defects and recommended enhancements that needed to be made to new and existing functionality

References

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