Quality Assurance Testing

APARAJITA WARD

Permanent Address: **** North Richmond St, Apt 3a . Chicago, Illinois 60659

. Cell: 352-***-****

E-mail: *********.******@*****.***

Objective: To obtain a Software Quality Assurance Analyst/ QA Tester

position

EDUCATION

Master of Science - Decision & Information Sciences

Graduated in May 2006

University of Florida, Warrington College of Business

Gainesville, Florida Concentration: Information Technology

Relevant Coursework:

Advanced Systems Design and Development

Business Database Systems Statistical Analysis for Managerial

Decisions (Minitab) Advanced Business Programming (Java)

Data Analysis and Decision Support

Intermediate Business Programming (C#)

Financial Accounting

Business Objects

GPA: 3.5

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

June 2004

University of Bradford, United Kingdom

GPA: 3.5 (Graduated with Honors)

EXPERIENCE

Consultant, JP Morgan Chase April 2010 to

Present

Chicago, Illinois

. Develop detailed test conditions, test cases and scripts, and related

data to ensure full coverage of the project's functional business

requirements

. Requirement mapping

. Determine test data and environment requirements

. Assist in test execution

. Document test results, defects, and issues

. Support documentation across extended testing team as directed by a

UAT Lead

. Participate in defect and issue resolution during QA and UAT testing

cycles

. Coordinate and communicate with multiple groups across the bank

Software Test Analyst II, Infinite Energy Inc

March 2009 to February 2010

Gainesville, Florida

. Developed and implemented test script coding standards; participated

in application code reviews and test script code walkthroughs; worked

with the team lead to improve the testing process

. Developed SQL Queries to compare UI results and database data testing

from the business requirements to match the project's initiatives

. Implemented an agile process with heavy customer involvement in short,

rapid development cycles

. Developed (UAT) User Acceptance Test plans to validate new

functionalities against detailed technical specifications

. Successfully tested the overall functionality of Rating, Billing and

Invoice generation

. Resource allocation management, review weekly Testers' status reports

through Agile Process

. Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test

cases to ensure complete test coverage in HP Quality Center (v 10.0)

. Involved in System/Integration Testing, End-to-End Testing and

Regression Testing using QTP

Business Systems Analyst, Infinite Energy Inc.

November 2007 to March 2009

Gainesville, Florida

. Generated reports using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

(SSRS) for various departments like Auditing, Regulatory, Marketing

and Accounting

. Delivered software/reports using practices from Scrum and eXtreme

Programming

. Executed test cases for the application & logged defects in the JIRA

and version control using SubVersion

. Converted reports from Crystal Reports to SSRS

. Conducted Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) and User Acceptance

Testing (UAT) of reports

. Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision,

scope, and use case documents

. Responsible for preparing the Functionality Test Plan to be used by

testing team

. Lead and participated in design and code reviews

Business Systems Analyst, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp

October 2006 to November 2007

Ocala, Florida

. Participated in requirements gathering, project definition, analysis,

and scoping activities associated with new applications projects and

releases and developed data mapping specifications to ensure

consistency and accuracy in data flow and designed extract

specifications from SQL databases

. Developed process flows, use cases, test plans and test cases and

performed unit, system, user acceptance and regression testing

. Generated test cases for manual testing

. Utilized UML for use cases and customized the testing efforts to fit

in to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology

. Provided core financial reports with organization's accounting

principles, Sarbanes Oxley, SEC and GAAP reporting guidelines

. Hands on experience in providing UAT Support during Formal Acceptance

Testing phase

Intern for Implementation of PeopleSoft ERP System, UF Bridges Project

May 2005 to Sept 2005

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

. Tested Accounts Receivable business processes for defects against

required functional specifications

. Prepared legacy data for conversion to a relational database system and

trained end users on PeopleSoft Billing and Accounts Receivables

Accounting Department Assistant, Indo-American Center

Aug 2004 to Nov 2004

Chicago, Illinois

. Processed monetary transactions and customer deposits and

journalized the daily work of the Centre for Annual Banquet using

Excel

. Responsible for balancing incoming and outgoing checks, maintained

incoming cash flow and managed Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable,

Payroll, Inventory, and Taxes

SKILLS

PRIMARY SKILLS: SDLC, MS Visual Studio 2005, Visio, UML, Technical

Analysis, QuickBooks Pro, SQL 2005, C#, Java, HP Quality Center, Quick

Test Professional,JIRA,SVN,Sharepoint

Experience in various software testing; Manual Testing, Database Testing,

Black Box, White Box, Functional, Regression, Smoke, User Acceptance (UAT),

Graphical User Interface (GUI), System Integration (SIT)

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