Testing Test Cases

I.Professional Summary

An accomplished professional with around 9 years of rich and varied experience in Information Technology as a Sr. QA Analyst, and Expertise in Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Test Cases execution, Defect Management, Test Results Report, Test Automation (functional & performance testing), and Team Management. Have Five plus years of domain expertise in Banking & Finance Sectors.

Currently working as a Sr. QA Analyst with Santander Bank for various Migration projects, Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Testing effort Estimation, Test Planning & Strategizing, Test Management, Team Management, Project Tracking, Reporting, and provide end to end testing solutions for various types of testing (System Integration, User Acceptance, Automated Regression, End to End and Pre-Production & Post Implementation Shakeout Testing).

Expertise in developing and maintaining overall Test Methodology and Strategy, Documenting Test plans, Test Cases, executing Test Cases and Test Scripts based on baseline requirements

Experience in working on Agile Testing

Expertise in translating Business requirements to understandable IT systems requirements and Implementing Testing Methods & Procedures across the organization

Efficient in Back End Testing of the applications by writing and executing complex SQL queries on multiple Databases

Expertise in coordinating and providing support to User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Coordinating Production issues, tracking and testing in pre-prod

Experience in Working on Different Applications simultaneously and guiding the team members to meet deadlines

Experience in writing automation test scripts and running keyword based test cases

Hands-on experience in Configuration Management (Clear case and CVS), Test Management and Defect tracking systems (HP ALM, Microsoft TFS, JIRA, Remedy, SharePoint, Rational Tools and Open Source tools like BugZilla)

Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Interface Testing, compatibility Testing, Mobility Testing, Back-end Testing, ETL testing,Regression Testing and End to End Testing

Strong experience in software testing process including executing tests, record result, and test reports and tracking defects

Good interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Expertise in understanding Cursors, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers

Good experience in SLA management, metrics driven test management, metrics analysis and implementation of appropriate corrective and preventive actions

Responsible and involved in design, development and validation, lead and coordinating of various System Software, Banking & Finance, Healthcare and e-Publication\Media applications

Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements Analysis, Design, Development and Testing

Ability to work under pressure and delivery under tight deadlines

Ability to work with off shore team

Actively participated in Auditing other QA projects and implemented QMS process to improve the Quality

Excellent understanding of the different development methodologies and associated SQA processes

II.Core Technical Competences Include

Testing Methods

Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing

GUI Testing, Usability Testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Backend Testing & web testing. Mobility Testing, ETL testing,Compatibility Testing

Operating Systems

Windows 7, Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Windows vista, Android, IOS, Macintosh, Unix and Linux

Languages

C, C++, Java,Visual Basic,.Net

Web Technologies

HTML,XML

Scripting Languages

VB script and UNIX shell scripting

Databases

Oracle11, Ms-Access, SQL server2008,DB2,SQL,T-SQL,Toad,SQL Developer

ETL tool

Informatica

Defect tracking tools & Test Management Tools

JIRA, Bugzilla, HP ALM, Microsoft TFS and Remedy

Automated Tools

HP QTP

Browsers

Internet explorer family, FireFox family, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Netscape

III.Project Summary

Sr. QA Analyst

Santander Bank (Aug’11 – Till date)

Environment:Java,WindowsXP,MSOffice,Oracle,NotePad++,IVR,QuickTestPro(QTP),ALM 11.0,Portals,XML,XML Notepad++,Nebula, Text Pad, Mobile Apps(Apple and Android Operating Systems),DB2.JDAI,Frimware,SOAPUI, Informatica (ETL),SQL Server,C#,.Net

Various types of Testing’s Involved/Responsible:

System Integration Testing (ST/SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression Testing and End to End Testing (E2E), Mobility Testing, Compatibility Testing, Interface Testing and Back End Testing

Analyze the Business requirement Documents and Review them with Business & Development teams for understanding and to prepare Testing Strategy/ Testing Effort Estimation

Prepared test cases as per specifications and reviewed with business team

Create Requirements Traceability Matrix

Set-up Requirements,Test Plan and Test Lab module for execution in ALM

Preparing the test cycles for execution in ALM

Preparing Reusable Regression

Creating automation Test suits by keyword/Data Driven frame work

Executing the automation test suits using the QTP and validating the test results

Task assign, tracking and Monitoring

Performed Sanity, Adhoc, Functional, Regression and User Acceptance testing

Knowledge transferred to team members and Delegating the work and monitoring of Deliverables

Working closely with Offshore team to get the Project deliverables

Create\Gather test data for Testing activities

Validated all ETL rules using Informatica’s proprietary tool

Validated workflow using incremental and full load testing procedures

Performed Database testing by running the jobs manually and in automated as applicable

Performed database testing using SQL Queries, ensuring data was extracted properly, compared values from front end application with appropriate tables within the database.

Performed Data Validation, Data Integrity, Process Integrity and Performance testing for all the data moved from staging to target databases

Performed negative testing by giving invalid parameters and checked the output of the reports generated.

Verified data integrity through Backend testing of the application using SQL queries

Worked on reporting Services for Validations of the fields and for Report Generation.

Created SQL scripts used for testing scenarios and distributed to them to team members for execution.

Prepared UAT test cases and SQL scripts for conducting UAT

Review Project Health periodically and update various Business partners

Prepare testing schedule and act as a single point of contact for all testing needs

Participate in enterprise project meetings and communicate testing risks/issues/concerns

Interact with business partners, systems analyst, testing resource and ensure all testing deliverables are created on time and appropriate signoffs are obtained as per the organization policy

Conduct triage meetings and ensure effective testing and timely resolution of defects

Worked closely with Business, Development, Vendor and DQSS Teams for SIT, End to End, Regression UAT testing

Validating the Credit Card Risk Decision Call results using the SOAP UI

Defect Review/Testing Progress meeting with Business stakeholders for a Go/No Go decision to release the software to upper environments (like CERT, Pre-Prod and Production)

Prepare daily/weekly metric reports and share it with the senior management team

Support Users for UAT testing

Revalidating the production issues/defects in Pre-Prod environment and coordinating for Production deployment and post implementation activities

Managing the RFC to move the software from CERT,PRE and PROD environments

Worked on Mobile and Tablet Apps (App store & Google Plus)

Worked on IVR and Contact Center project related to call center activities

Module Lead

CFNA-Symphony, Citi Group (Nov’ 09- Jul’11)

Responsibilities:

Understanding Use Cases [UC] and User Stories [US] to create High Level Test Plan

Preparing the test scripts and uploading them into Quality Center

Prepared the Traceability Matrix based on the requirement documents

Reviewing the test Plan and test cases for the modules Interact with Development Team and users and conduct Meetings with Development team related to issues raised in TFS

Test Data Creation for QA testing

Performed database testing using SQL Queries, ensuring data was extracted properly, compared values from front end application with appropriate tables within the database

Verified data integrity through Backend testing of the application using SQL queries

Delivered the deliverables in Agile Methodologies

Developing the defect reports and Test Summary reports

Preparing the bug reports and organizing the defect triage meetings

Coordinating the team, Preparing the weekly assignments and follow up on the tasks

Involved in the QA effort estimation

Daily status report to the team

Reviewing the changes and prepared the impacted effort report

Version Control of project documents and working on metrics

Conducting the Daily team Scrum meetings

Environment: Java, Oracle 10, windows XP, IE6, Share point, Quality Center9.2, Manual Testing, QTP 9.2,Mainframe,DB2, Team Foundation Server(TFS), Oracle SQL Developer

QA Analyst

Thomson Reuters (Feb’ 05- Oct’ 09)

Responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional and Non-Functional requirements of the WOK application.

Test Data preparation.

Test Cases Preparation, Test Execution and Evaluation of Test Cases for different module (WOS, BCI,CSCD etc) in WOK application

Bug reporting and tracking them till closer

Participated in Project Review, Requirement Review and Bug Review Meetings

Interacting with the client through weekly status calls

Preparing and Maintaining Weekly and Daily status reports

Test data preparation for automation

Analyzing the automation scripts.

Ensure test systems outages/problems are reported immediately and followed up

Ensure entry criteria & exit criteria are met for each test cycles in each release

Ensure all the test artifacts related to their module are version controlled in configuration management tool

Comparing the data on web pages with XML files

Environment: Java, CGI-Perl, XML, XLST, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, IE8, FireFox4.0, Safari3.0.,Quality Center9.2, Manual Testing, JIRA,

Education Qualification:

Master of Computer Applications, Nagarjuna University India-2004

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