Project Manager Quality Assurance

Objective:

To secure a responsible career opportunity as a Quality Assurance Analyst

with proven 5.5 years of broad experience where I can fully utilize my

talents and experiences in Quality Assurance, while making a significant

contribution to the success of my employer.

Summary:

. Quality Assurance Analyst experienced in strong analytical skills,

evaluation and high degree of initiative, manage, direct and

coordinate of all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

involving in Planning, designing and developing Test Plans and Test

Cases and have excellent documentation skills.

. Extensive experience in all testing methods in Manual testing using

tools like Quality Center, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Mainframes

tools like Startool, File-Aid etc.

. Expertise in reviewing of Business Requirement Analysis, System

Specification and developing and implementing QA methodologies,

setting test strategies creating Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test

Reports and Traceability Matrix.

. Expertise and experience in performing different types of testing

including Smoke testing, Black box testing, Functionality testing, GUI

testing, System Integration testing, Backend database testing,

Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) having executed

on both Web based and Client/Server applications.

. Experienced in HP Quality Center - Design Test Steps, Requirement

Mapping to Tests, Executing Tests Manually, Defect Logging and Defect

Reporting.

. Expert in problem solving and Bug tracking Reports using Bug tracking

Tools like Quality Center, ClearQuest and IPM+.

. Proficiency in Front-End and Back-End testing specifically in

Mainframes and UNIX environment as well as familiarity with

hierarchical and relational databases (RDBMS).

. Experienced in Database testing in DB2, IDMS and Oracle.

. Expertise in Database querying and data manipulation using Query

Management Facility in Mainframes, SQL and PL/SQL and involved in back-

end testing as well as front-end testing.

. Experience in Manual testing (GUI Testing, Field Validation Testing,

and Functionality Testing) of UI and Web Applications.

. Good interpersonal skills and ability to work and interface well with

the clients and colleagues and handling challenging circumstances.

. Performed troubleshooting of the problems originating in the

production environment and resolved the production problems. Exposure

to all aspects of Software development, Troubleshooting, Testing,

Maintenance and Production Support.

. Versatile team player with good communication and problem solving

skills with all management levels.

. Good organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize

numerous simultaneous tasks.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Quality Centre, Startool, File-Aid, Ultra

Edit, Hummingbird, Clear Case

Defect Tracking Tools: Clear Quest, Quality Center, IPM+

Scripting & Markups: UNIX shell script and VB Script

Operating Systems: MVS, UNIX, OS/390, Windows 2000 & Windows XP

Languages: COBOL, C, C++, Visual Basic (VB)

Version Control Tools: Visual SourceSafe, Rational Clear case

Databases: DB2, IDMS, Oracle

Work Experience:

EDI Gateway, Aetna, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Blue bell, PA QA

Analyst October 2009 - Present

Duties:

. Analyzed the Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Functional

specs, Design Specs and User Requirements Specification (URS).

. Attended application walkthrough and reviewed Requirements to

understand the scope of the project and Attended project meetings as

needed and coordinated with the Developers to resolve the

issues/defects.

. Involved in mapping business and functional requirements to technical

aspects.

. Gathered all the requirements and analyzed business functional

requirements.

. Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from

business, technical and functional requirement documents.

. Involved in all Testing phases and System, Functional, Database,

Regression, User Acceptance Testing, End-to-End Testing.

. Involved in running shell scripts using Hummingbird client and testing

the output files.

. Involved in running load and extract jobs and checking the DB2 tables

and output files.

. Performed database testing in DB2 to verify data integrity.

. Executed queries on DB2 tables to validate the source data and

compared the data displayed on the dashboard application.

. Executed System Testing, Compatibility Testing, Regression testing,

Integration Testing extensively

. Utilized Mercury Quality Center to formulate test plans and test cases

and bug reports. Developed Manual test cases in HP Quality Center.

. Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test

cases to ensure complete test coverage in the HP Quality Center.

. Reported the Identified defect to Defect Tracking Team as a Defect

management member using HP Quality Center.

. Checked database to determine successful transaction of test data from

the application by establishing connectivity using SQL commands.

. Deployed code into production for successive releases.

. Coordinated with development and release management teams.

. Coordinated with offshore to ensure successful implementation of

complex projects.

. Verified and Reported about Covered Requirements to Project Manager

weekly.

. Conducted the Defect Tracking Team meeting to identify the Defect

Source and allocated to concern person.

. Validated results, reported discrepancies, and followed through to

ensure that all issues are resolved.

. Responsible for updating project status to project manager and team.

Environment: Mainframes and UNIX

Tools: Ultra edit, Hummingbird, Mercury Quality center 10.0, Clear Quest,

Clear case

Data Conversion & Compatibility Testing, Citizens Bank, Infosys

Technologies Ltd, Rhode Island, US QA Analyst Mar 2009 - Sep 2009

Duties:

. Analyzed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification

to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and

business perspectives.

. Created Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Case Checklists.

. Performed compatibility testing with different browser-OS

combinations.

. Performed data conversion testing using SQL queries in Oracle and DB2.

. Conducted Backend testing by extensively using commands to verify the

database integrity.

. Supervised the testing process from post development through build,

system and integration testing.

. Worked according to the activities laid down in each phase of Software

development life cycle and Coordinated the environment setup for

Testing.

. Gathered and created test data like pre-test, input, regression,

actual and expected data.

. Wrote Test Cases for Functional, Integration, Regression testing for

different positive, negative and boundary scenarios.

. Extensively created Data Driven Test scripts to read data from text

files for testing, checked for data boundaries/limits, incorrect input

of data.

. Followed up on the bugs logged with developer and retest the test

cases.

. Performed Functional, User Acceptance and Regression testing.

. Led the communication between the Project Managers, Developers and

Quality Assurance team to deliver high quality software projects under

strict timelines.

Environment: Intel Pentium IV PC, IBM ES-9000, Mercury Quality Center 9.2,

Screen reader.

E-PL/I Complier, Northwestern Mutual Technical lead August

2008 - Feb 2009

Duties:

. Analyzed and defined the scope of the project gathering business

requirements and document them textually and within models.

. Defined input requirements to document the Business Requirements

Specifications and developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix.

. Worked on the improvement of QA Process by reviewing and evaluating

existing practices with standard testing guidelines.

. Deployed E-PL/I code for identified application areas.

. Performed E-PL/I testing certification and code correction for

identified application areas.

. Performed Back end testing by writing SQL statements using SQL Plus

and TOAD.

. Used SQL queries and sub queries using SQL*PLUS for testing data

integration and reference data.

. Tested programs in Enterprise PL/I environment.

. Corrected code for run-time issues.

. Ensured code quality after testing and phased deployment.

. Created Exception handlers and user-defined functions Involved in

Regression testing, Unit testing, System testing and User Acceptance

Testing.

. Ran various reports on bugs and defects generated during test

execution daily.

. Used Quality center suite for complete test case planning, test

execution and defect tracking.

. Analyzed System Requirements and developed Test Plan, Test Procedures

and Test Cases using Quality Center.

. Worked as Defect Tracking Team Head (Quality Center Site Administrator

and Project Administrator).

. Created the strategy document that defines the test environment,

phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance

and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources

required to conduct the effort.

. Executed the scenarios, analyzed the Graphs and coordinating with the

DBA's and Network Admin to ensure optimum performance.

. Conducted weekly meetings with Project Head, Business and development

teams.

. Prepared status reports and statistics of the test status and

communicated with the management.

Environment: IBM Mainframes using VMware connectivity, DB2, PLI/I

Pre-component Integration testing, Bank of America QA Tester

January 2006 - July 2008

Duties:

. Worked with Development team members to understand the system

functionality in order to improve testing quality.

. Did user-group requirement identification.

. Conducted walkthroughs of the test plan with the development and

design team as well as team members.

. Wrote and executed manual and automated test cases and assisted in

development-test cycles.

. Recommended for different modules of QC.

. Created template domain and project and its configuration.

. Verified Data with the TOAD Interface tool running SQL queries in the

Oracle Database.

. Performed GUI, functional and regression testing of different

properties to ensure product quality against

specifications/requirements

. Did domain and project setup.

. User Groups and Access Control

. Site Administration

. Customization in following modules:

o Release

o Requirement

o Test Plan

o Test Lab

o Defects

o Reports

Environment: QTP, Toad, Web-based application

EDUCATION: National Institute of technology, Rourkela,

batch of 2005

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