CAREER SUMMARY

More than * + years of broad industry experience specializing as a QA Analyst using Agile Testing methodologies. Strong load testing experience in Healthcare, Payroll and other industries.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Extensive experience in Agile/SCRUM methodologies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, story acceptance testing and automation of story tests

Experienced in Black Box, Integration, UAT, Functional Testing, Regression testing, System testing, and Performance testing

Results-driven QA professional with Bachelors level education, and proven track record in increasing productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction

Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow through abilities

Ability to meet project deliverables under aggressive deadlines

Ability to work independently and as part of a dedicated team

Extensive experience in writing test plans, test cases, creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Experienced in direct customer interaction during the project life cycle

Decisive, energetic, focused team leader/player who leads high-performing teams through implementing change and improvements

Extensive experience in customizing Vuser scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation query, transaction point, and rendezvous point and creating scenarios using Load Runner controller

Extensive experienced in Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, MS SQL Server, Win 95/98/2000, Win NT/XP and using oracle tools Toad, SQL Developer

Expertise in Wily Introscope and NeoLoad

Extertise in testing on handheld/mobile devices

Expertise in Selenium Scripting

Experienced in Web services, REST Services (JSON) and Automation Testing

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Testing Tools

HP Quality Center 11/10/9, Load Runner11/9.52/8, Test Director, Quick Test pro, Performance center9.52/9.5, Selenium

Methodologies

Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, RUP, Path Analysis

Operating Systems

Windows XP/2000/NT/7.0/VISTA, UNIX, Sun Solaris

Languages

SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, C++,C#, JAVA, UML, COBOL, JCL

Software Tools

MS Office Suite, Clearcase, TOAD, Autosys, Erwin, SiteScope

Databases

Oracle 9/10/11i, MS SQL Server 2000/7.0, MS Access, DB2, AS400, TOAD

Web Servers

IIS 4.0/5.0, Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle 10i App Server, Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BSI, GA Nov2013– Till date

QA Analyst

Experience reading technical specifications, Experience with data reconciliation and Proficiency using industry-recognized testing tools

Demonstrated experience in executing test plans and documenting results

Take ownership of requirements for the project, ensure understanding from the team, identify, escalate and resolve issues with respect to requirements

Work with PO and development teams to identify product backlog, participate in backlog grooming, whiteboard sessions, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives

Create and execute story tests, and automate story tests

Test strategy, planning, effort estimation and test schedule

Test data preparation, Script development, scenarios execution, and monitoring and metrics collection

Worked closely with other members of the Development Team and Marketing to review the designs of systems, implement test plans, and test the quality of software products

Understanding Functional requirements and Design documents

Preparation of Test Cases to cover complete scope of functionality based on functional requirements. Involved in test case reviews and approval.

Identification of Test Scenarios flows based on business requirements of application

Involved in Build Verification Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and Boundary Testing.

Assist users and IT development staff in validation efforts

Participate as necessary in Information Technology process improvements

Analysis of results and reporting the identified issues and results summary to the Dev Team for the further analysis

Defect reporting, status tracking and analysis

Wrote test cases to test the backend database by retrieving the data from the tables using SQL Queries

Process SQL statements in LAWSON Database to verify payroll data against Tax reporting output.

Certify internal products which included Eforms, Tax factory and Compliance Factory.

Environment: Salesforce, Apache Tomcat/7.0.25, Oracle 10.2, DB2, Informix, Tomcat 5.5.0, Unix 2.6.0.0, JAVA, MS SQL server, Web services, SOAP UI 4.5, WINCVS 2.0.2.4, Windows 2007, z/OS, Windows Server 2008 R2, VMWare, JMesa Tool, Win SQL Professional 7.0, Selenium, JMeter

CIGNA Corporation, CT Dec 2005 – May 2007

Software Engineer

Take ownership of requirements for the project, ensure understanding from the team, identify, escalate and resolve issues with respect to requirements

Understanding Functional requirements and Design documents

Preparation of Test Cases to cover complete scope of functionality based on functional requirements. Involved in test case reviews and approval.

Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Black Box, White Box and Grey Box Testing.

Identification of Test Scenarios flows based on business requirements of application

Analysis of results and reporting the identified issues and results summary to the Dev Team for the further analysis

Developed Vuser Scripts in Virtual User Generator

Performed Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance and Performance testing using Load Runner

Performance test execution using Load Runner

Performance Monitoring

Collect and collate test results

Analysis of Performance test results and publish reports

Defect reporting, status tracking and analysis

Prepare test results summary report and executive summary report

Environment: Load runner11.0, HP ALM, Unix 2.6.0.0, JAVA, Putty, ASP, Oracle 9.2.0.4, AS400, SiteScope, Mainframes, COBOL, DB2, SQL, Web services, Performance center 11.0,Windows XP, Windows 2003,Windows 2007,Windows 2008

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology, Nagarjuna University, India, April 2001

PERSONAL INFORMATION

US Citizen

References available upon Request

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