SUMMARY:

• 7 Years of Experience in IT industry with strong Quality Assurance skills & Agile methodologies
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Excellent knowledge of Software development life cycle (SDLC) & Software test life cycle (STLC)
• Experienced in Scrum processes & Agile techniques
• Expertise in gathering & analyzing requirements from business & technology owners and creation of Business & Functional requirement documents (BRD & FRD)
• Actively involved in Project estimations, Resource planning, Risk analysis & Execution timelines
• Expertise in leading teams with Onsite - Offshore models
• Expertise in creation of Test Strategy & RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)
• Experience in creating Test Plan, Scenarios, Test Executions, validating UAT Issues & Production Issues
• Testing exposure in Legacy - Mainframe and Web based (Java) application & UNIX based application
• Expertise in Test Management tool using HP Quality Center & TestLink
• Experienced in using tools: JIRA, Confluence, ClearQuest, ACSP & Bugzilla
• Exposure to Selenium Automation Framework & IDE
• Expertise in Airline & Travel Domain (Sabre & Amadeus Reservation systems & tools)
• Worked with one of the world’s biggest Timeshare travel club for 3 years
• Worked with Largest domestic Airline in USA for 3.5 years
• Excellent Analytical & Logical thinking skills helpful in envisioning Business situations
• Quick learner & open to learning new tools & technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Facilitating: Sprint planning, Daily standups, Sprint review & Retrospective.

Test Planning: Test Strategy, RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) & Test Estimations

Manual Testing: Brush Testing, Functional Testing, Customer Experience Testing, UAT, End to End Testing, Integration Testing, Defect management

Tools: HP Quality Center 10, TestLink, ACSP, Bugzilla, ClearQuest, Atlassian - JIRA & Confluence, Cucumber, Selenium Framework & IDE, IBM DB2, Oracle - Siebel (CRM), SharePoint, Soap UI, BMC Remedy, IBM CUTE/CUSS, Interwoven, Firebug & QuickBase

Platforms: Windows XP, Win7, UNIX/Linux

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texa

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Guided the Team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices & values
• Facilitated Scrum activities - Daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review & retrospective meetings
• Mentored the Team towards self-organization & increased productivity
• Conflict management & resolution
• Point of contact for all Issues, Risks & Dependencies
• Supported the Backlog grooming
• Prepared & maintained Scrum artifacts - Working agreements, DOD, User stories, Burn down charts
• Worked with the Product owner to plan & review future sprints
• Coordinated with the QA lead in Onsite Offshore activities (Nightly calls)
• Built a Trusting, Transparent, Safe & Fun work environment

Tools: & Technology: JIRA, SharePoint, BMC Remedy, Confluence, ACSP, Altea - ARD, Customer Management, Windows 7, HP Quality Center 10

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Test Lead & SME

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Strategy & Coverage Matrix
• Requirement Analysis & creation of RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)
• Meeting with Technology & Business BAs to analyses Test coverage
• Estimations - Resource planning, Risk analysis & Execution timelines
• Provide Knowledge transfer on the new Tools & Business procedure to the testing team
• Co-ordinate with Offshore team on daily basis to explain & discuss the requirements, assign task, provide reviews & testing efforts
• Task Allocation at onsite & offshore teams & Tracking work progress
• Manage Test executions & Defects
• Process implementation to achieve high levels of efficiency & effectiveness
• Responsible for preparing status reports for the Leadership team
• Recruitment & Team performance review

Tools: & Technology: Sabre SAAS, Altea - ARD, Customer Management, Inventory & Altea FareXpert, Windows 7, HP Quality Center 10, Soap UI, ACSP, JIRA, SharePoint, BMC Remedy, IBM CUTE/CUSS, ClearQuest, SWIFT, Oracle - Siebel (CRM)

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Test Lead

Responsibility:

• Requirement Analysis & creation of Test Plan
• Estimations - Resource planning, Risk analysis & Execution timelines
• Co-ordinate with Offshore team to explain & discuss the requirements & provide review
• Provide knowledge sharing to the Testing team
• Task allocation & tracking
• Prepare reports for the Leadership team & present during weekly meetings
• Preparation of Functional test scenarios
• Mapping the Test Cases Scenarios with Requirements, Use case in Quality Center
• Manage Test executions in Quality Center & Defects in ClearQuest
• Mentoring new team members

Tools: & Technology: Navitaire SkySpeed & SkyPort, IBM ClearQuest, Siebel, CS2, QIK, Windows XP, HP Quality Center 9, Sabre SAAS, BMC Remedy, Soap UI, JIRA, SharePoint, IBM CUTE/CUSS, Oracle – Siebel (CRM)

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibility:

• Reporting Test run & Daily Status
• Requirement Analysis
• Preparation of Functional & Regression test cases
• Mapping test scenarios with requirements
• Execution of Test Cases, Reporting Bug & Tracking of Bugs in Quality Center
• Verification of functional test results through database queries
• Implementing Selenium Automation Framework to the Enhanced functionalities deployed as part of EW 1.2 project & creating automated test suites
• Mentoring new team members

Tools: & Technology: IBM 3270 WRQ Terminal Emulator, Axios’s Assyst, Windows 2000/XP, HP Quality Center 9.2 & 10, IBM DB2, Interwoven & Selenium Automation Framework and IDE

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Subject Matter Experts in order to analyze requirement & document the testing overview, approach, & scope of testing
• Test environment setup
• Preparation of Test Cases for all the valid CR’s
• Reviewing of all qualitative deliverables such as Test Cases, Test Execution Summary Report, & Defect Report
• Retesting & Regression - Testing of the fixed issues, Impact of Change Requests implemented, performed end to end system testing
• Defect Reporting through QC - Logging & tracking of the & updating the status throughout the Defect life cycle
• Preparation of Test Execution Report Template
• Reporting of Test Execution Status & Defects status on daily basis
• Mentoring new team members

Tools: & Technology: IBM 3270 WRQ Terminal Emulator, HP QC 9.2, SQL Developer, Oracle 9.0, Interwoven & Axios’s Assyst

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibility:

• Primary POC for the all support issues / tasks
• Interaction with Subject Matter Experts in order to analyze the production issues & document the testing overview, approach, & scope of testing
• Issue & Change requirement analysis
• Test environment setup for production issues
• Preparation of Test Cases for all the valid CR’s
• Reviewing of all qualitative deliverables such as Test Cases, Test Execution Summary Report, & Defect Report
• Retesting & Regression - Testing of the fixed issues, Impact of Change Requests implemented, Performing end to end system testing
• Defect Reporting through QC - Logging & tracking of the & updating the status throughout the Defect life cycle
• Preparation of Test Execution Report Template
• Reporting of Test Execution Status & Defects status on daily basis

Tools: & Technology: IBM 3270 WRQ Terminal Emulator, HP QC 9.2, SQL Developer, Oracle 9.0, Interwoven & Axios’s Assyst