Test Cases Quality

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Show paramount efforts with 5 years of experience in IT industry with an emphasis on Software Quality Assurance, GUI, System and Integration Testing, Functional/Regression Testing, Data Migration, Data Integrity/End to End testing of Web and Client/Server based applications.

Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing Tools such as QTP, Soap UI, Quality Center, Win Runner and Selenium.

Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix (TTM) and performed Gap Analysis.

Participated in design review meetings with production team of Business Analysts, SMEs, PMs and developers in order to understand the critical business functions of the project applications

Experienced in testing database applications and running SQL queries of RDBMS in MS SQL Server and Oracle Databases.

Extensive knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodologies.

Experience in working with agile methodologies and active participant of SCRUM meetings.

Exemplify energy and confidence to succeed and deliver quality work within strict specifications, timelines, and budgets.

Thrive in a challenging and fast-paced environment of constant challenge and diversity.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, presentation, and interpersonal skills and innate ability to provide motivation with exposure of onshore/offshore coordinator.

Multilingual in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.

CORE STRENGTHS

Software Test Life Cycle

Requirements Engineering

Continuous Process and Performance Improvement

Problem Resolution and Decision Making

Organized with Strong Analytical Abilities

Outstanding Clients Relations

EDUCATION

Master in Business Administration - Finance (2008)

Bachelor of Business Administration (2006)

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

Finance and Accounting

Retail and Pharma

Insurance (Auto/Life/Healthcare)

Banking and Investment Management

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Operating System:

Software Engineering:

Windows XP/7/2003/2008

Agile Methodology, SCRUM, Waterfall, RUP

Programming Languages:

Windows/web technology:

SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript

WCF Services, SOA, XML/JSON, JavaScript, RESTful API, ASP.NET

Front & backend s/w tools:

TOAD, MS SQL Server Mgmt Studio, Sql Developer.

Testing Tools:

Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT, Selenium, Win Runner, SOAPUI

RDBMs:

Defect Tracking Tools:

SQL Server, Oracle

Quality Center, Serena Team Track, Clear Quest, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 16 – Till Date Epsilon – Alliance Data Systems

Quality Assurance Analyst

Products – Fusion CRM Tool

Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems provides a strategic and target based Digital marketing services. Their unique blend of expert consulting, marketing data, technology and agency services works together to create authentic customer experiences to build stronger connections with their clients.

Key Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirement Document and Technical Specifications Document to identify Application critical issues.

Experience in managing multiple release of Software application including testing, defect management and prepared release documents

Perform XML/JSON Web Service testing using SOAPUI.

Involve in creating Test Data preparation with the Business Analyst and IT Development team.

Involved in requirements gathering sessions from end users using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis and created Functional Design documents.

Prepared various test reports from Quality Center such as Test Execution Status, Test Execution Summary, Defect Summary/Details report.

Involved in Project & Resource management, efforts estimation.

Accountable to performed manual and functional testing on various parts of the application and used Quality Center for defect tracking.

Performed rigorous manual testing such Functional Testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing and System Testing

Environment: XML/JSON Web Services, Windows, Oracle, Quality Center, SQL Developer, TOAD.

Sep 13 – Sep 15 John Hancock Financials (Formerly: NYL Investment Management, Westwood, MA)

SQA Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Worked with different modules of Quality Center such as Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects and Dashboard module.

Experience in managing multiple release of Software application including testing, defect management and prepared release documents.

Gathered and refined the requirements from end users using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis and created Functional Design documents.

Maintained requirement traceability and keep project team informed on any changes in the requirements through defined Change Management Process

Conducted Business Process analysis sessions and created Business Process Flow Diagrams.

Worked in SCRUM Environment and involved in Sprint Planning, effort estimation and daily standups.

Performed manual and functional testing on various parts of the application and used Quality Center for defect tracking. Defects are logged using Quality Center and follow up with Tech team to fix issues.

Defects are logged using Quality Center and Rally and follow up with Tech team to fix critical issues.

Perform SOA XML/JSON Web Service testing using SOAPUI.

Involve in creating Test Data preparation with the Business Analyst and IT Development team.

Actively involved in Test Strategy and planning.

Prepared various test reports from Quality Center such as Test Execution Status, Test Execution Summary, Defect Summary/Details report.

Used SQL queries to validate the data between the backend and the front end.

Created test cases for various modules in MS Excel and exported them to Quality Center for Test Case Management.

Experience in performing end-to-end Testing between Legacy Applications & Migrated applications.

Set-up, co-ordinate & conduct system testing with Business Analysts and end-field users after the applications were all set.

Environment: WCF, RESTful API, Soap/XML, Visual FoxPro, Windows, SQL Server, Quality Center.

May 12 – Jun 13 GEICO Insurance, NJ

QA Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Team Foundation Server.

Ability to work using cross functional using agile Methodology.

Generated various reports and graphs from Quality Center and analyzed the testing process overview.

Involved in producing various reports by extracting basic data from Oracle tables using Toad and sorting and summing the data in different ways.

Converted Business Requirements and Design Documentation into Test Cases and Test Scripts.

Working with the development team to create a suite of test data to exercises data validation and actual ETL functionality

Performed Web testing to check for broken links in a page.

Creating SQL Queries to validate data between source and target systems

Performed Regression Testing, Functional, UAT and Ad-hoc testing.

Performed Black box testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.

Design, analyze and performed Integration and wrote System requirements on different leading modules.

Performed Acceptance and Regression Testing during different stages of the applications development.

Used Team Foundation Server to store Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and for bug tracking.

Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them

Environment: Quality Center, SQL, Java, TOAD, SQL Server, MS Office Suite, Oracle.

Jun 11 – Apr 12 InKey Solutions, Ahmedabad India

QA Tester

Key Responsibilities:

Participate in requirement gathering meetings with the users to prepare Business and Functional Requirement Specifications.

Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures for test changes.

Interact with users to come up with meaningful test scripts to simulate real-time business scenarios.

Prepare Test Plan, develop Test Scripts based on business and functional requirements and execute them.

Created and Maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Use of SQL queries for backend database testing.

Conducted GUI/Usability Testing and Black Box Testing according to specifications.

Generated and submitted various issue related reports on daily and weekly basis during Test Execution phase using Quality Center.

Imported test cases from MS Excel, MS Word to Quality Center.

Used various SQL features such as Group By, Joins to retrieve the expected results from different tables and compare the same against front end results

Environment: Quality Center, SQL, Java, TOAD, SQL Server, MS Office.

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