Pravila QA

Pravila

• Five years of total Industry experience as a Quality Assurance.

• Experience in analyzing Quality Standards, Business requirements, writing business process documents and test cases for applications under design and test.

• Team player and Self-starter with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to quickly master new concepts and applications.

• Excellent ability to coordinate with developers and gather requirements to bring quality products.

• Interface with team developing detailed business requirements, preliminary designs and development.

• Excellent expertise in Automation Testing using, Quick Test Pro and Quality center.

• Expertise in preparing Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Documentation, Test Scripts and Test Cases.

• Experienced in Functionality Testing including Integration, Performance and Regression testing.

Technical Knowledge:

Testing tools Quick Test Pro , Win Runner

Bug reporting tools Quality Center 6.0/7.5

Operating Systems Windows 95/98/XP

Programming Languages C++, VB Scripts, Visual Basic 5.0

Web Technology Languages HTML, XML, Front page

Databases Oracle 9i , MS Access, SQL Server 2000

Work Experience:

VANGUARD, VALLEY FORGE, PA Jul’08 - Till Date

QA CONSULTANT

Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment management companies.VPAS (Vanguard Pension Administration System) to service the existing and new Defined Benefit relationships. VPAS will increase the ease of accessing data for both plan sponsors and participants. Over the next three years all existing Vanguard Defined Benefit clients will converted to VPAS and all new Defined Benefit relationships will automatically be converted onto the new platform. VPAS will provide improved quality, service and delivery, and an enhanced online application for plan sponsors and participants.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed Functional Specifications, Business Requirements, and Business Rules to Identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data.

• Involved in Manual Testing of benefits calculations, and to correct inaccurate calculations.

• Developed test scripts for the application using QTP as part of regression testing and functional testing.

• Involved in VPAS Web/ Portal Testing.

• Managed, Documented and Controlled all the test cases, test scripts and test results using Quality Center.

• Set up and staged test data for all testing purposes and validated the results to conform functionality to requirements.

• Used SQL Queries to verify data from the database by querying and updating data for benefit calculations in Scenarios and Backend Testing for benefit calculations validity.

• Experienced with testing Defined benefit calculation systems.

• Actively involved in Reviewing the Test Plan, Test Scenario and Test Cases and worked on Test Scripts and Test Cases.

• Involved in the Regression Testing when the code changes in every build.

• Maintained defect tracking using Rational Clear quest.

• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing.

• Used Rational Test Manager for Test Planning

• Participated in weekly status meeting, Coordinated with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them.

• Actively participated in document reviews and project status meetings.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows NT, UNIX, Oracle9i, SQL2000, Java, HTML, and Java Script, QTP8.0, QC, DB2.

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, NEW YORK, NY March’07- June’08

QA/TEST ANALYST

Fidelity's Defined Benefit application called Fidelity NetBenefits can help any organization complex pension activities into a fully integrated solution. Which depends on reliable data management, accurate benefit processing, Fidelity’s defined benefit solution NetBenefits offers complete and comprehensive defined benefit administrative services, which include termination or retirement processing, final benefit calculations, eligibility tracking and determination, Data management, reporting, benefit estimates and explanations, and beneficiary maintenance

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases based on business requirements using the Standards, Executed Test Scripts and different Test scenarios.

• Developed Test Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance, Usability and Security requirements.

• Tested the application manually and reported and tracked the defects through the Quality Center and created Test cases in QC.

• Performed Manual Testing on the application.

• Set up and staged test data for all testing purposes and validated the results to conform functionality to requirements.

• Performed Positive and Negative Testing to ensure appropriate user authentication

• Developed test cases for online application using QTP as part of functional and regression testing.

• Drafted Test Scripts for Data Driven Testing using QTP to dynamically allow input of different parameters

• Enhanced QTP Scripts by use of Check Points like standard checkpoints, Text Checkpoint and validated output values by using Text Area output value Check point

• Managed, Documented and Controlled all the test cases, test scripts and test results using Quality Center.

• Performed three testing stages such as Functional testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and Regression Testing.

• Involved in Backend Testing to verify data integrity by using SQL

• Generating weekly status reports to the team manager & attend weekly status meeting with Team members, Team managers, Business analysts & Technical team.

ENVIRONMENT: QTP, Quality Center (QC), Java, J2EE, VB, ASP, Java-Scripting, MS Excel, MS Word, Windows NT.

Washington Mutual Jan’06- Feb’07

Seattle WA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Worked with WaMu a Data and Business Analyst. WaMu provides a broad range of investment banking, securities products and services to meet the needs of institutional clients, companies and government bodies. Provides expert advice on comprehensive range of investment products and services tailored to the complex needs of high-net-worth individuals globally as well as private and business clients in US. Serves clients by offering products across the full range of investment classes, from equities, fixed income and multiple-asset class products to alternative investments.

• Involved in gathering business requirements and created Business process documents

• Worked on various investment and mortgage processes

• Wrote and validated derivatives for various investment schemes and loan distribution

• Attended change control meetings and documented application and business process changes

• Acted as a liaison between business area and development team for business process, functionality and data collection.

• Interface with team developing detailed business requirements and preliminary designs.

• Presided over weekly meetings and walkthrough’s for project updates

• Wrote and Updated compliance procedure documents involving Business and Functional process of the application

• Interface with team developing detailed business requirements and preliminary designs

• Wrote and Analyzed system specifications and business requirements

• Developed Test procedures, Test plans and Test Cases according to business requirements.

• Performed Data Driven test of the application using Automation.

• Monitored Regression testing and functional testing for subsequent versions of the application tested using QTP.

• Involved in documentation on how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements of the business process

• Exposure to SDLC process

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle, UNIX, HTML, XML, Quality Center, Java, Win NT and MS Office.

Software Experts Group Inc (S-E-G-I) Nov’04 – Dec’05

S-E-G-I. is a New Jersey based company in the business of Computer Software development who serve business, professional and other clients. The company takes up projects to design, develop and maintain computer systems and software to the requirements of its clients and later provide technical support on completion of the projects. Currently, working on in-house projects writing Functional Test Plans and Test demand and supply chain software.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on the functional specifications and execution of the test cases.

• Write SQL queries to validate data integrity

• Communicate effectively by initiating conference calls with remote clients and via emails.

• Participate in various meetings and discuss Application Enhancement and business process Request For Change (RFC)

• Remotely interact with business staff and developers

• Conducted testing of the User Interface manually and then later automated the testing with Quick Test Pro (QTP) by using the TSL scripting language on client GUI portion.

• Closely interacted with the developers in fixing the bugs

• Analyzed the test result and tracked bugs using Quality center

• Gave biweekly reports to the project manager on the progress of the testing procedure

• Performed positive and negative testing.

• Design and execute technical and functional tests using QTP

• Created project test documentation including but not limited to Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Results Reports

• Performed Data Validation for flow of data from Front end to back end.

• Wrote and Executed SQL queries during Backend testing

• Validated and transferred data files on Unix box

• Actively participate in weekly meeting and walkthrough focused on resolving technical anomalies in the testing process

Hewitt Associates Jan’04 – Oct’04

QA Analyst

Description: HRMS & HRO applications were extensively used by clients like Pepsi, Rockwell, Omnicom, Cintas and Mervyns. The HRMS & HRO applications were customized for each client and had its own product delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generated Test Cases and Test steps in Quality Center.

• Identified software defects using Quality Center and communicated to the developers

• Involved in regression testing, Integration, GUI, and Usability Testing for each client modules

• Performed manual, functional and data driven testing

• Interacted with Business teams and Developers for bug tracking.

• Taken part in Requirements and Non Functional Analysis discussions

• Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinated with clients for better quality, developed user acceptance test plans and test cases, coordinated user acceptance testing and issue resolution

• Wrote usability test scenarios and created usability test reports

• Troubleshooted website front ends for bugs and issues

• Managed the evaluation, recommendation and selection of tools and techniques to improve software quality and efficiency of test processes

• Transferred the existing test cases/scripts from MS EXCEL to Quality Center

• Tested the application by inserting checkpoints and synchronization points in test scripts using Quick Test Professional

• Coordinated between various cross functional teams to ensure consistency and accuracy across test plans, user manuals and participated in status meetings to resolve issues

• Coordination of work between offshore and onsite for functional test scripts

• Baseline and Alternate solution testing to align the new solution with the existing solution

• Defect Reporting and Tracking

• Backend testing was done using PL/SQL

• Performed Database testing, wrote SQL Queries for Data validation

• Effectively used Mercury Quality Center for defect management

• Attended performance meetings and weekly reviews by submitting weekly reports

ENVIRONMENT: Quality Center, QTP, Web sphere App Server, Unix, Oracle.

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