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QA Analyst

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United States
Posted:
March 14, 2014

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Sweta Zaveri

Email: acc4m5@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 732-***-****

Professional Abridgement:

* 7+ plus years of total experience in Manual testing of Client Server

and Web Applications as QA Tester, QA Engineer, QA Analyst and QA Lead

roles.

* Exposure towards using automated Tools like HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)

and Quality Center.

* Proficient at writing Test Planning and Strategies by following

different QA Methodologies.

* Expertise in designing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test

Scenarios, Test Reports for both Manual and Automated Tests

* Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, User

Acceptance, and System Testing.

* Extensive experience in manual testing of various applications on

different environments.

* Extensive experience in tracking bugs using Bug tracking tools such as

Quality Center, Test Director, Silk Central and TFS/MTM.

* Proven ability to work effectively in both independent and team

situations with positive results.

. Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.

. Working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and

Agile Methodology, having thorough understanding of various phases

like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

* Experienced in testing under UNIX and Windows NT/98/2000/Vista/ 7

environments.

* Expert in testing Client/Server and Internet/Intranet based business

applications.

* Hands on experience in requirements gathering, analysis, product

configuration, testing, training and documentation.

* Has good knowledge of Web Servers, Database Servers, and Application

Servers.

* Strong team player, commitment towards learning, posse's excellent

communication, and interpersonal skills.

* Possess problem-solving skills, ability to follow industry standards

and procedures. Quickly master new concepts and applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages VB, C, PL/SQL, SQL.

Testing Tools Quick Test Pro (QTP), Test Director, Quality Center,

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Test Management, TAC

automation tool .

RDBMS Oracle 8i/9i /11g, DB2, SQL Server, MS-Access, SQL, TOAD.

Reporting Tools Test Director, Quality Center, Quick Base, Silk Central,

TFS.

Operating System UNIX, LINUX, MS DOS, Microsoft Windows 2000, NT, XP and

Vista.

Version Control Visual Source Safe, PVCS, Clear Case.

ACCENTURE: (Murray Hill, NJ) Sept '12 -

Till date

ASW P&C Insurance - Claims Components

Role: Lead Sr. Quality Assurance

Description:

Accenture Claims Components is a robust, end to end claim handling

application. We are able to support full range of Property & Casualty Line

of Business and claims type. The claim component consists of 3 modules

which are integrated to satisfy clients need. It is used by more than

65,000 claim professionals worldwide. It manages 40 million claims a year.

Responsibilities:

. Leads a team of 2-4 software testers responsible for designing,

developing, executing and maintaining functional, integration, system,

performance test cases.

. Involved in Sprint planning meetings

. Being the scrum master successfully managed the team and helps resolve

impediments.

. Actively involved in planning phase for creating components suits for

the functional coverage, (UI components - Party Suite, Configuration

suite)

. Created the entire plan and estimates to complete the user stories.

. Prioritizes work assignments for the team and manages their

deliverables.

. Reviews analysts' test cases to ensure appropriate coverage,

identifies and remedies gaps in test coverage.

. Triggered and analyzed the Smoke test results that were executed

through TAC automation

. Created and managed execution plans for all test phases of the

institutional lifecycle.

. Participating in stand-up meetings with the team to facilitate the

understanding, clarification of issues & requirements.

. Knowledge transfer to the team members on the various components

. Liaison between the developers, BA's and the testing team member

resolving their functional queries & providing functional support

ACCENTURE: (Princeton, NJ)

Jun '09 - Aug '12

Client: Educational Testing Services (ETS)

Role: QA Test Engineer/ QA Lead

Description:

ETS is world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment

organization. ETS develops various standardized tests primarily in the

United States for K-12 and higher education, and it also administers

international tests including the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign

Language), TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), GRE

(Graduate Record Examination) General and Subject Tests, and The Praxis

Series assessments - in more than 180 countries, and at over 9,000

locations worldwide. Many of the assessments it develops are associated

with entry to US tertiary (undergraduate) and quaternary education

(graduate) institutions, but it also develops K-12 statewide assessments

used for accountability testing in many states, including California,

Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. In total, ETS annually administers 20

million exams in the U.S. and in 180 other countries.

Responsibilities:

. As QA Lead, I attended initial planning phase of management and

test planning' including strategy, estimation, planning, budgeting,

and execution oversight for the testing life cycle.

. As Test engineer I was involved in various phases of testing like

System and Integration testing and User Accepting Testing (UAT).

. Plan and execute systems testing and interface impact testing.

. Define and document test cases to exercise the product to reveal

potential defects

. Use quantitative estimating techniques based on industry practices

and personal experience.

. Involved in Scheduling and hosting Status Calls with the Developers

and the Testers to complete the detailed tasks and processes

. Analyzing business and functional requirement to design UAT Test

Cases. Also, Coordinated the Testing efforts during Integration,

System and User Acceptance Testing phases.

. Prepared Manual Test Strategy for entire iBT application.

. Attended the triage meetings with the developers to solve the

development issues.

. Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to map test cases.

. Created test Matrix to execute the Test cases and Test Log Results.

. Prepared baseline data to map month-to-month progress of the

resources.

. Prepared SLA (Service Level Agreement) document to check the status

of the project.

. Implemented Silk Central to map requirements with test cases and

for execution purpose.

. Tested XML files based on the requirements.

. Created reusable scripts based on Accenture format for execution

purposes.

. Used SQL developer to check the status of the test performed in the

respective database.

. Verified that the batch job has run successfully, so the candidates

can make their registrations.

. Performed backend testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the

data from the database.

. Created LOE (Level of Effort) and ORR slide for go-no go of the

project.

. Updated daily status along with the related issues to all the

stakeholders of the project.

. Conducted Meetings to Team Review status Reports submitted in time.

Environment: Windows NT/XP, 2000, 7, .Net, SQL developer, Silk Central, MS

Visio, XML, Dimensions (issue logs), MS Office Tools, J2EE.

SBLI USA Life Insurance Co, Inc. (Newark, NJ)

Feb '08 - Feb '09

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Description:

SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc. is a leading financial

services company that is committed to value-conscious consumers nationwide.

The applications are developed in Java with open architecture in mind and

can integrate with CRM and sales lead generation systems, as well as

quotation and proposal and product illustration system provide a complete

quote for a life Insurance. The quote engines are Web based as well as

stand alone applications. Applications like Sales Management System (SMS),

Agent Center & WebPG are web based and Desktop Illustration a stand alone

application. These engines help consumer to get a quote as easy as 1-2-3.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in various phases of testing like development testing,

System and Integration testing and User Accepting Testing.

. Prepared Manual Test Strategy for entire application.

. Attended the triage meetings with the developers to solve the

development issues.

. Created test Matrix to execute the Test cases and Test Log Results.

. Worked on AS400 to generate the policy number to set up the

environment for Automation scripts.

. Used LSP to generate policies to check if the quote engine works as

it is supposed to against the quote results.

. Set up Automation test environment with Mercury Tools like Quick

Test Pro.

. Based on the new Custom FBR executed the Test Cases to validate the

Product Availability and also to validate the correct Premium.

. Involved in Progression Testing, Regression Testing, Integration

Testing, System Testing and E2E Testing Phases.

. Initiated OCR Strategy to compare the Legal template with the

Policy pages.

. Extensively used Quick Base to log defects and create a report.

. Gathering stake holders and triaging the possible defects and using

appropriate documentation such as screen shots and steps to

replicate defects. Set up web meetings as and when required to

identify the defects.

. Set the QA Environment for Manual Testing as well as for

Automation.

. Created Project, Requirements, Test Plans and Tests in Quality

Center.

. Any gaps with the compliance have been documented and the Risk has

been assessed and the Risk Analysis document has been prepared

. Write test cases based on the Requirement to test the application

manually.

. Used Parameterization for Data Driven Testing using Quick Test Pro.

. Coordinated with developers, discussed issues to take timely action

. Updated the team with current status and submitted Status Reports

in timely manner.

Environment: Windows NT/XP, .Net, Web Logic 6.1, SQL Server, Quick Test Pro

8.2/9.0, Quality Center 8.2/9.0, Visio, VB.Net, ASP.Net, XML, UNIX, Quick

Base, AS 400 Mainframe and MS office.

Group RCI, NJ: (Parsippany, NJ) April '07 - Jan' 08

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Description:

As a QA Analyst, worked on applications like Time Share Ware, Central

Reservation and Prod Validation. The main functionality of TSW application

is to check how much shares a particular customer holds and what kind of

RCI group do they belong to. CRS application is used to upgrade the

customer information and view them automatically upgrade in the TSW

application. In Prod Validation used automation scripting to check XML

Stream functionality.

Responsibility:

. Involved in Design and Development of Test plans based on high-

level and detailed designs. Analyzed the User/Business requirements

and functional specs documents.

. Analyzed and helped in modifying the use cases using MS Office and

created the Test cases based on them.

. Implemented Mercury testing tools at client place and configured

the tools for the testing environment.

. Installed Quick Test Pro and configured Shared Object repository.

. Worked on conversion of Manual integration tests into Automated

tests using Quick Test Pro

. Executed tests and participated actively in System Testing and

Regression Testing.

. Maintained Manual Test Cases to support Regression Testing.

. Configured Quick Test Pro with Quality Center.

. Worked closely with the development team in making the detailed

Test Plan, Test Cases regarding the scope and focus of the

testing.

. Worked with the SQL statements to extract data from DB2 Tables and

verify the output data of the reports on the browser page

. Successfully Integrated Quality Center with other Mercury tools

like Quick Test Pro.

. Used Quality Center for the defect reporting and tracking

. Helped the Team in getting the License key based on Host ID and

installing the Quick Test Pro Version 9.0

. Helped the Team to use the Quick Test professional and Quality

Center (Test Director 9.0)

. Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks.

. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status

meetings.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.2/9.0, Quality Center 9.0, Citrix

4.0, XML, MS Office Tools, Mainframes, Oracle 9.0.

United Parcel Services, NJ

May '06 - March '07

Role: QA Analyst

Description:

As a QA Engineer working on various applications like Quantum view Manager,

Quantum View Data and QVD Tables QVD Files. Tested web applications as well

as KCPS transactions (Mainframes).The main functionality of the application

is viewing and comparing the data which customer uploaded and application

displays. Extensively involved in Database Testing. Worked on various

request types using Java / J2EE as front end and DB2 as Back End.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzing and reviewing the User/Business requirements and functional

specs documents.

. Involved in System Testing for Manual Testing.

. Developed end to end Manual test cases for playback module.

. Automated the application by using Quick Test Pro.

. Perform Black box, Functional testing, GUI Testing.

. Performed end-to-end system Testing.

. Coordinated the Testing efforts during Integration, System and User

Acceptance Testing phases.

. Monitored Quality Center to close the bugs/cases as and when

developers fix the bugs.

. Worked closely with the Developers, Analysts, Architects and DBA team

for knowledge sharing and to resolve issues.

. Involved in creating a comprehensive test plan based on the analysis

of requirements and design documents

. Set the QA Environment for Manual Testing as well as for Automation.

. Created Project, Requirements, Test Plans and Tests in Quality Center.

. Wrote test cases to test the application Manually in Quality Center

and Automate using Quick Test Pro.

. Developed Automated test scripts from Manual test cases for Regression

testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test

Professional.

. Used Quality Center for defect reporting and tracking.

. Created reusable actions by using Quick Test Pro.

. Responsible for documenting test results and defects during

Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing(UAT)

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.2/9.0, Test Director 8.0/QaulityCenter 8.2,

PL/SQL, IBM Mainframes, Terminal Emulators, DB2, PVCS, C# Java, J2EE,

VBScript, Web Logic, Server 8.1

Education: Bachelor's Degree.



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