SANIKA NIMBALKAR

Phone 770-***-**** ● Email: acyu77@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Software QA professional with around 4 years of extensive experience in software QA & Testing roles. Experience of working in versatile domains like Finance, Telecom, Healthcare, HR and Admin.

Well-versed with all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) which includes design, development and implementation of entire QA processes and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, preparing & developing Test Plans and Test Strategies.

Testing experience of Desktop, Client/Server and Web based applications.

Proficiency in functional testing and knowledge of automation testing.

Experience in test planning, test cases writing, debugging software, execution, reporting and defects management and preparation of Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Working Experience in using testing methods like Functional, Regression, Integration, System (End to End), Security, Initialization, Usability, Database, Smoke/Sanity and User Acceptance Testing.

Experience in Test Management Tools like HP ALM and knowledge of test automation tools QTP, Selenium IDE and WebDriver.

Working experience in Waterfall & Agile Methodologies.

Working experience with both onsite as well as off shore team members.

Good knowledge of Data warehousing ETL testing with Informatica tool.

Ability to adapt to the new environments and quite flexible.

Strengths include good written/verbal communication skills, strong organization skills, inter-personnel skills, quick learner and great team player.

Always keeping updated with new QA trends, practices and technologies through online learnings.

Worked as Volunteer faculty for QA testing online trainings and QA projects. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems Windows NT/XP, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8, UNIX

Programming Language Java scripting, VB.Net, ASP.NET, COBOL, JCL, CICS

Database DB2, VSAM file management, MS-Access, MS-SQL, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i/10g/11g

Testing Tool HP ALM 12, 11, HP QC 8.2 & 9.0,9.2, Mercury Test Director 7.2 & 8.0, Win Runner 7.2

Testing Models Agile Methodology and Waterfall Model

Design Software Graphic Designing (DTP), FLASHMX, HTML.

Other browsers IE 4.0 onwards, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Safari

Application Packages MS- Office 2000/03/07/10, Lotus notes

ETL Tools Informatica Power Center 8/7.1.2/5.1.1/5.0 CERTIFICATIONS

Certified ISEB ISTQB Dual Foundation Level Tester from ISEB BCS, UK.

Manual & Automation Testing Certification from ATS InfoTech. India. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

CAPGEMINI Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India Jul 2010 - May 2011 Client HSBC Bank

Project OHCB (One HSBC Core Banking)

Role Associate Consultant

The One HSBC Program is a collection of various projects and initiatives that together are designed to transform the way information technology supports and delivers value to our Business and customers. OHCB Core Banking basically constitutes 10 modules: 1. Fees and Interest. 2. Account Maintenance. 3. Account Value. 4. Products and Parameters. 5. Taxation. 6. Operational Accounting. 7.Cheque and Encoded Paper Management. 8. Exception Handling. 9. Statements and Advice. 10. Automated Transfer and Bulk Input. Each module is inter-related with each other and together forms One HSBC Core Banking. I have worked on Fees and Interest module. Fees and interest are related with FI calculation and application depending on Batch. It consists of charge code, fee plan, rate plan, interest Plan that we can set in mainframes and using these plans ids we have to test for different accounts. Responsibilities:

Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings with Business Analysts, and System Analyst to Analyse business and technical requirements to create detailed test cases/scripts.

Involved in writing test scenarios, test cases and test case execution, defect reporting and resolution.

Test the batch/on-line application module(s) to verify whether the changes meet the new business requirements.

Performing Functional Testing and Usability Testing of Application.

Participated in the weekly team meeting, weekly defect meeting, weekly change Management, Project Status Meeting, etc. Responsible for reporting weekly status to the QA manager

Attending defect/status calls and query sessions.

Involved in preparation of test summary report and system testing of all screens and batch programs.

Interfaced with offshore test resources aligned to the project.

Used HP ALM test management tool for managing the business requirements, test plans, test labs, test Defects and Prepared the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). Environment:

Mainframe (CICS and DB2), IBM PComm, Quick 3287 Secure v3.86, HSBC (UI panel), Citrix XenApp, Lotus notes, HP ALM, QC 9.2

LIGHT BULB Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India Jan 2007 - Apr 2007 Client Lightbulb Technology Services Pvt. Ltd.

Project Recruitment System Product (HR GUI toolkit) Role Test Engineer

The system enables users to record details of a candidate who has applied for specific position in an organization. During the processing of applications, the system manages details of reference, written tests, test results, interviews, and feedbacks from interviewers make offer, acceptance of offer, rejection of offer and at last the successful candidates are seamlessly added as employee records. Thus, the system provides user the control of recruitment from start to finish.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Design documents to understand the testing requirements and identify the required tests needed.

Attended requirement walkthroughs with QA Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Business Line.

Provided input to the Test Plan document developed by the QA Manager.

Identified Test Scenarios to validate system functionality, data integrity, and cross system integration.

Created the test cases and scripts in MS Excel and after approval from BA uploaded the scripts into HPQC.

Linked test cases in HPQC to functional requirements for traceability.

Executed test cases, captured testing results, and reported defects in HPQC.

Attended weekly defect meetings with the QA Manager, PM, BA, and development teams.

Produced a daily test status report communicating no of test planned, tests executed, passed, failed, in progress, blocked, and/or not applicable.

Attended project related meetings including PM Weekly Status meetings and QA Team meetings. Environment:

Windows XP, My SQL, Apache, PHP, HTML, Java script, HP Quality Center, Office 2000 LIGHT BULB Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India Nov 2006 - Dec 2006 Client Aptela Inc. Herndon, VA

Project Aptela VOIP Customer Software

Role Test Engineer

Aptela uses the power of the Internet to enhance or replace your phone system, giving your business greater productivity, increased sales and continued customer satisfaction. The Aptela system is a pure web architecture application that works regardless of how calls are routed, so you can use Voice Over Internet (VoIP), plain old telephone service (POTS), and/or wireless/cellular. The system scales simply by adding new users, saving thousands of dollars in capital expense and removing the need for capacity planning – you simply add more users as you grow. Responsibilities:

Reviewed project documentation including Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.

Analyzing system requirements and developing test plan, test cases for end-to-end testing.

Developed functional Test Cases, Test Plans according to business Requirements and reviewed with team.

Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.

Involved in developing defect tracking report and coordinating with development team to fix the defects.

Setup Test lab to execute Test Cases and reporting defects to the developers using Quality Center.

Generation of defect report. Interacting with developers for assisting them in the identification, simulation, resolving and tracking of defects.

Involved in writing test cases, execution of test case by using functional specifications, detecting bugs & classifying them based on the severity. Performed GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing.

Reported defects using Quality Center.

Preparation of Daily, weekly status report as well as involved in project meetings and reviews. Environment:

Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or higher, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.1.4 or newer, HP Quality Center VANQUISH Infonet, Pune, India Feb 2006 - Oct 2006

Client Ross Medicaid Group, Denver, CO

Project Medical Service System

Role Test Engineer

Medical Services System is in house system for Ross Medicaid Group, Denver. This system is made for only the employees of the various departments of the hospital as per the department need like receptions, billing dept., OPD, Canteen, Lab, etc. This system provides time/day schedule for Doctors, details of patient and his/her registration with Hospital, patient problems/symptoms characteristics, past history, family history, drug allergies, billing information etc.

Responsibilities:

Analyzing system requirements and Involved in writing test cases/scripts, execution of test case by using functional specifications, detecting bugs & classifying them based on the severity.

Generation of defect report. Interacting with developers for assisting them in the identification, simulation, resolving and tracking of defects using test director.

Created SQL queries to validate back end functionality.

Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.

Involved in developing defect tracking report and coordinating with development team to fix the defects.

Preparation of Daily, weekly status report as well as involved in project meetings and reviews.

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix document(RTM). Environment:

VB.Net, SQL Server, Crystal Report, Mercury test director, Win Runner VANQUISH Infonet, Pune, India Apr 2005 - Jan 2006

Client Atra Pharmaceuticals

Project Multi-user Sales and Distribution System

Role Test Engineer

This portal was developed for Atra Pharmaceutical company the client of Vanquish Infonet, whose distributors are spread across all over the India. The system is basically divided into two major parts one is back end application, which is developed for the internal usage of the company, and another was client side application, which can be used by all the distributors who are client to the company. The system involved complete analysis of all the functional divisions of the company including its warehouses across different cities in India. It gave the production team the analysis of what product they are under/over producing. It gave marketing team the analysis of what product is not doing well' & needs to be well marketed. It gave financial team the analysis of what is the total expenditure as compared to the company income or turnover. It also helped the corporate team to analyze the overall standing of the company in the market.

Responsibilities:

Prepared Test Cases, Review Test Cases, and Executing Test Cases in test management tool Test Director.

Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.

Reported Bugs into Defect management tool Test Director and resolved them when they got fixed.

Involved in Functional Testing, System Testing. Integration testing, regression testing, sanity testing.

Involved in developing defect tracking report and coordinating with development team to fix the defects.

Preparation of Daily, weekly status report as well as involved in project meetings and reviews. Environment:

Java 2, J2EE, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, Oracle 8i, Mercury test director VANQUISH Infonet, Pune, India Jul 2004 - Mar 2005

Client TATA International Ltd.

Project Office Automation System under TVS Logistic Unit (SAP Ref.) Role Test Engineer

This system is developed by the reference of SAP system which company is generally using for all the offices. In this software, we generated specific case numbers in the form of 3 digits & 4 digit according to the delivery no for bounded

(KP01), non-bounded (KPO2) Material resp. & assign these case numbers to the company at the time of dispatch. This system avoids the duplication of the case numbers, which is provided to the company, and the system can easily identify the bounded & no bounded material

Responsibilities:

Analyzing system requirements using SRS document, preparation of Test Cases, Reviewing Test Cases, Executing Test Cases

Preparation of Daily, weekly status report. Involved in project meetings and reviews.

Involved in Functional, Adhoc Testing, Reporting Bugs, analyzing results, interactive testing & documentation.

Involved in Creating Test Plans, Project meetings & reviews.

Created Bug Register (Bug Report), Test Summary documentation. Reported Bugs into Defect management tool Test Director and resolved them when they got fixed. Environment:

Visual Basic.6.0, MS Access, SAP, Office 2000, MS Excel, Mercury test director EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (MBA IT), Symbiosis, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 2011

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), S.N.D.T. University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 2004. Visa Status: US Resident (Green Card holder)

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