## BIO
ProfessionalSummary:
* **Test lead/QA Analyst with 4 years** **of professional experience.**
* **Experience with the testing methodologies, documentation and c**omplete understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
* Extensive knowledge in Manual and Automated Testing
* Expertise in writing Business Scenarios.
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* Quick learner with ability to rapidly achieve organizational integration, assimilate job requirements, employ new ideas, concepts, methods
* Expertise in preparation of Integration test plans, checklists, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and best practices procedures.
* Experience in delivering the components aligned with the Quality assurance process and logging the defects.
<u>· Strong background in performing functional testing and preparing test strategies.</u>
* Have good experience in conducting stress and regression testing.
* Expertise in setting up the environment for testing.
* Good experience in writing optimized SQL queries.
· Ability to work under tight schedules and achieved great results with commitment and quality.
<u>· Excellent leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and communication skills</u>
· Expertise in managing team and resolving conflicts.
· Familiarity with problem tracking /reporting systems.
* Have worked with clients AON Canada, Reynolds and Reynolds, Target, and Walgreens.
<u>· Strong customer focus with ability to nurture customer relationship at all levels</u><u>· Good problem solving skills, ability to learn quickly and adapt easily to new systems</u>
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**Academic Education:**
* Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai – India.
**Work Experience:**
Test Lead Infosys Technologies, Chennai, India, from Sep 03 to Feb 07
QA Analyst for the clients in US from Apr 07 to Oct 07
**Projects Handled:**
**<u>Project # 1</u>**<u>: People Plus Hiring application (Apr 07 to Oct 07)</u>
**Client:**Walgreens, USA.
**Project:**
The People plus hiring (PPH) is the application which handles the recruiting process of walgreens. It has several modules for recruiting resources under different streams like hourly positions, pharmacy, management and positions in distribution centers. The application takes care of all the recruiting steps till the applicant becomes the employee of walgreens. The application is integrated with the external applications such as Payroll, Rate and status, I9, WOTC, and CAMPN.
**Role:**QA Analyst/Test Engineer
**Responsibilities:**
* Understanding the business and test cases requirement.
* Prepare and execute Manual test cases for Functional Testing
* Preparation of test cases and test plans.
* Maintain Requirement Traceability Matrices
* Preparation of test design, execution and reporting.
* Performing Load testing and performance monitoring.
* Defect Reporting, tracking and Verification.
* Ensure the QA processes is followed by the team
* Providing support for user-acceptance testing and conducting parallel run for automated testing.
* Prepare and execute Automated test cases for Regression and Sanity Testing
**Environment:** J2EE, Oracle 9.0.
**<u>Project # 2</u>**<u>: Item Management System (Dec 05 to Oct 06)</u>
**Client:**Target Corporation, USA.
**Project:**
This project is to convert the current GMS Item system to an Application called IMN – Item Management system, which will be able to handle the Target’s rapid growth and will be flexible enough to accommodate future changes. Current GMS Item system is based on the Mainframe client server architecture (Cool-Gen) and will be replaced by the J2EE based web application.
**Role:**QA Analyst/Test Lead
**Responsibilities:**
* Understanding the business and test cases requirement.
* Prepare Business Scenarios
* Preparation of test plans and test estimation.
* Executing test cases and preparing test results document.
* Maintaining version control and configuration management.
* Performing Load, regression testing and performance monitoring.
* Defect Reporting and Verification.
* Guide Tech Writing team to prepare manuals and related documentation
* Logging defects and maintaining it in test director.
**Environment:** J2EE, Oracle 9.0.
**<u>Project # 3</u>**<u>: AON Xpress - PMS (</u><u>Jan 05 to Nov 05</u><u>)</u>
**Client:**AON Xpress, Canada.
**Project:**
PMS stands for Policy management system. The objective of setting up the PMS is to convert the quote into policy when the clients accept the quote. It has three basic functions Submission, Quote and Policy. The insurer submits the quote to AON and the AON Xpress application processes it and gives the best available quote to the client. When the client accepts the proposal it becomes a policy. When the policy is created an invoice is generated against that policy.
**Role:**Test lead
**Responsibilities:**
* Understanding the business and test cases requirement.
* Execute test cases-Black Box, White Box, Regression testing
* Preparation of test plans and test estimation.
* Preparation of test design, execution and reporting.
* Executing test cases and preparing test results document.
* Maintaining version control and configuration management.
* Performing Load, regression testing and performance monitoring.
* Defect Reporting and Verification.
* Logging defects and maintaining it in test director.
* Onsite Coordination and issue resolution.
**Environment:** Toad, VB.net, SQL, Windows XP, Oracle8.0, VSS.
**<u>Project # 4</u>**<u>: AON Xpress</u>
## Area of Expertise
**Domain Skills:**
Insurance, Retail, Automotive and Aerospace.
**Technical Skills:**
Testing Tools : Load Runner 9.0., QTP 9.2.
<u>Monitoring Tools : Omega Mon.</u><u>Languages : Core Java, C, C++, Universe basic.</u><u>Database : Oracle 8.0, DB2 8.1</u>
Configuration Tools : VSS, Rational Clear Case, Dimensions 7.1.
<u>Operating Systems : HP-UNIX, Windows 2000/NT/XP</u><u>Scripting Languages : HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL</u><u>Other Tools : SQL Plus editor, TOAD, Editplus.</u>
Defect Tracking Tools : Defect Tracker, Clear Quest
