SUMMARY:

• Over 16 Years of Experience in Quality Assurance, Expertise includes expediting Manual and Automation testing using ALM and QTP,
• Extensive experience in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case design and execution, Defect management and creating test metrics.
• Proficient in Requirements gathering and review, Requirements management and creating business and Functional requirements
• Expertise in Manual and Automation Testing across Windows and Web, and SAP platforms
• Domain Knowledge in Credit Risk, Financial Commercial, Small Business Banking, Utilities, Insurance, transport and HealthCare/Pharmacy.
• Developed and implemented test plans for complex projects
• Complete understanding of Testing Methodology, Strategy and Testing Process
• Hands on experience in Functional Testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System Testing, end - to-end Testing, and User Acceptance testing
• In-Depth knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle
• Experience in working for RFPs
• Educating testing team members on testing industry best practices
• Implemented process related activities (SQA) in the projects
• Experience in Effort estimations using different techniques
• Experience in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI, XML Based Web Applications.
• Experience in Load and Performance Testing.
• Experience in Application testing, and Web Testing
• Having experience in Unix commands and Scripts
• Experience working with SDLC, Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies
• Hands on experience in Agile projects.
• Having experience in Quick Test Professional (QTP) with Business Process Testing (BPT).
• Good experience in Functional, System, Integration and UAT Testing
• Expertise in Defect Management tools - ALM, HP Quality Center, JIRA
• Proficient in using SQL Queries and Oracle Database for back-end testing and data validation
• Good experience in project scheduling and resource management.
• Proficient in developing Use Case, performing change request and change management.
• Extensive experience in conducting project meetings including Test and Defect review meetings.
• Proficient in working with Onsite-Offshore Delivery model with direct client interaction.
• Efficient in interacting with project stakeholders, business, development and management teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly adapt across various domains and diversified work culture.
• Extensive experience in Black Box, White/Grey Box Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center (QC) 10, QTP/UFT, Rational XDE Tester, Win Runner, Load Runner, JUnit

Bug Tracking Tools: PVCS Tracker 6.0, BugZilla, TestLog, Mantis

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Mac OS.

Languages: Java 2, COBOL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, VB Scripting

Database: Oracle10, MySQL, MS Access

IDE: Forte for Java, Jbuilder 5, Eclipse

Application Server: BEA Web Logic 5.1.0, Java Web server 2.0, JBoss 3.2

Version Control: WIN CVS, VSSCollaboration Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, SDLC, Waterfall

Other Tools: Model N, Sevice-Now, ProVision, TOAD, BV Command Center, Cute FTP, ANT, SOAP UI, MPP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

BA/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing, managing business and functional requirements
• Support the Product Owner to define/refine requirements with the Business Unit(s)
• Liaison between technical team and other AA business and QA teams
• Performing impact analysis and continuously familiarize with business rules to communicate to the technical team. Clarify requirements with QA
• Creating Taxonomy and business process flows (BPM Models) using ProVision
• Update requirements and conduct requirements reviews for each iteration.
• Submit RU (Requirements Update) as needed and help the QA team to update the test cases
• Upload and maintain the requirements in HP ALM for traceability
• Participate in Domain, Business and review meetings.

Environment: Java, ProVsion, HP ALM, MS Office, Share Point, Rally

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Onsite Test Manager/Co-coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Test Manger/ Coordinator - Worked at onsite as part of Amgen IS, Managed and coordinate the testing activities, responsible for test deliverables on scheduled time and quality to various Amgen business clients
• Actively work on test case reviews with Business users who are future UAT users so that we can correct all the errors in the initial stage.
• Planning and assigning the tasks to the test team and follow-up till closure and reporting to the Management at executive level
• Providing support and guidance to the Business Users for their BPT testing
• UsedQuality Centerto organize and manage all phases of testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Used SharePoint for team collaboration and document management
• Participated as the Onsite Coordinator for the offshore resources team in India. This role involved extensive daily assignment and management of testing tasks.
• Trained Offshore team on the Model N Application
• Prepared IQs and OQs for the test plans developed
• Prepared Pre IQ, OQ and Post IQ and OQ reports
• Defect tracking till closure, conducted defect triage meeting and metrics generation.
• Conducted and attended the Review Meetings, Project Meetings & UAT kick-Off meetings

Environment: HP ALM, Model-N, SAP R/3, Windows XP / Vista, ID 7 / 6, Oracle 10, Weblogic, Cognos and BI, Service-now, SOAP UI, EDMQ.

Confidential

Offshore QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• As an Offshore Test Lead, responsible for planning and co-ordination of the testing activities. Providing regular update to the next level managers, Co-ordinate with onsite team, defect tracking and sending reports on daily basis
• Developed automation frame work using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), creation of test scripts and test data for test execution.
• Maintenance of Object repository and liaising with development team to get the object properties to make QTP recognise the object.
• Automated new and existing manual scripts to cover the functional areas satisfying business requirements during system test and regression test cycles. Reviewing the Test scripts and Execution. Generation of test results and preparation of test condition matrix for keeping track of Progress.

Environment: HP-UX B.11.23, MQ-Series 6, Oracle 10G, BEA Weblogic Server 9.2, Java SDK 1.6.0, QTP 9.5, Mantis.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead & SPOC for the Testing Side for Block 2.
• Assigning the functional test case design and execution work to the team and monitoring.
• Effort and Schedule tracking on daily basis
• Daily Test Report preparation, attending customer meetings, Coordination with customer, development team and test team on the test activities and issues. Defect Analysis, Reporting and tracking. Issues tracking & escalation management.
• Address the customer needs, concerns and issues on priority.
• Identify the risk in the project and track it to closure.
• Provide, technical support and monitor the progress.
• Conducted and participated in the review meetings and set up the test bed for UAT

Environment: C, .Net 3.0, SOAP, Mantis, VSS

Confidential

Test Lead and Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate for testing the CLEC Gateway from Onsite at client’s location
• Meetings with the SHAW QA manager to materialize things on the test schedules, environment issues, resource issues etc.
• Preparation and maintenance of system Test plans, Test strategy.
• Prepared Test Conditions, Test Procedures and Test Cases Using Mercury Quality Centre (MQC).
• Point of contact with the other teams to resolve issues at the time of test execution.

Environment: Unix, MQC, Java, J2EE, SOAP, .Net, Oracle 9i, TOAD, SMP, IE, Mozilla Fire Fox, Netscape, MS Excel, Shell Script, Core FTP, CBS, COMX, Putty.

Confidential

Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Co-ordination and implementing the Testing process at client’s location.
• Involved in writing test cases, reviewing, Integration testing, System testing in Test Log
• Preparing metrics and reports for each testing phases.
• Attending the status meetings and reporting to the PM.
• Defect Logging and tracking till closure in Bugzilla
• Designed a complete test bed for UAT testing.

Environment: Windows, Bugzilla, Test Log, C++, Java, Oracle 9i, Weblogic,7.1, Apache 2.5.0IE, MS Excel, Linux, Shell Script, CRT

Confidential

QA Lead and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Lead, responsible for initiating the entire testing process from the scratch till closure by setting up the testing methodology for the project.
• Planning and Co-ordination with the onsite team for the Testing process.
• Preparation of test documentation like Test plan, Test strategy, Test case Generation, Implementation and Test execution followed by logging defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Preparation of reports for each testing phases.
• Attending the status meetings and reporting to the PM. the new team members on the application and process.
• Using customized UI passing the comments to the SOFA environment and run the batches and confirm the results for the Integration testing on the SOA.

Environment: Windows, Junit, MQC, Bugzilla, Eclipse, Ant, Java, J2EE, SOAP, .Net, Oracle 9i, TOAD, SPS, IE, Mozilla Fire Fox, Netscape, MS Excel, HP-UX, Shell Script, Cute FTP.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing and release the PMO (Project Management Office) projects. PMO follows the development life cycle. The activity comprises of major enhancements, Change requests, and new features.
• Involved in three major PMO projects Digital Entertainment, MTFS (Multiple Targeted Free Shipping) and Dynamic Merchandising.
• Planning and Co-ordination for the Testing process managing a team of 10 members.
• Co-ordination with the onsite team and QA Lead as offshore point of contact.
• Involved in writing test cases, reviewing, Integration testing, System testing.
• Developed and executed automated test scripts using Winrunner.
• Preparation of test documentation like Test plan, Test strategy, Test case Generation using Mercury’s test management tool Test Director.
• Quality initiative of the hpshopping.com project by collecting the metrics and estimation.
• Attending the status meetings and reporting to the PM.
• Involved in warranty and production testing. the new team members on the application and process.

Environment: Windows 2000, Winrunner, Testdirector, TOAD, PVCS Tracker, Java, J2EE, Broad Vision, Weblogic, Seebeyond, SAP and MS Office tools, MS Excel.

Confidential

QA/Test Head.

Responsibilities:

• Frequent planning for the QA and QC Activities.
• Creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Co-Ordinate for the Unit Testing of the modules.
• Prepared the project rules document and frequent reviews for the violation of the rules.
• Involved in set up of the ITE (Integrated Test Environment), Build creation, Version Control activities and maintenance.
• Conducting walkthroughs and Inspection along with the development team and gathering requirements. Interaction with the Client and onsite team in Germany.
• Involved in testing the HBCI client using the Rational XDE Tester automation tool for its functionality.
• An active member of the SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group) on quality process.

Environment: Rational XDE Tester, JUnit 3.8,Win CVS, Ant 1.5,, Putty,Log4J, Java, J2EE, EJB, Oracle 9iR2, Postgres SQL, JBoss 3.2.2, Eclipse 3.0,Suse Linux 8.3

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Conducting meetings with the Development team and gathering the Requirements.
• Planning for test cycle, Keeping track of resources and maintaining the efficient Test Plan.
• Allocation of tasks to the testing team and follow them.
• Design and creating automation script using Rational XDE Tester for the functional and regression testing.
• Conduct various other test procedures like Smoke test, Stress, Load and performance testing for the AUT.
• Review the test cases and the bugs posted in the tracking system for their validity.
• Creation of Installer for the products after the testing is over.
• Preparation of the Test Report, Bug analysis report and send them to the top management.

Environment: Rational XDE Tester, Install Anywhere5.0, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition V 2002, BugZilla, PVCS tracker, Java 2, J2EE, EJB, Jbuilder 6, eclipse 2.1, Together 6.0, HTML, DHTML, Adobe PhotoShop 7, XML, Apache Tomcat 4.0,JDBC, Oracle 8.1.6, Point Base 4.2.

Confidential

Sr Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating test cases for manual testing.
• Writing test script using Win Runner tool for functionality and regressing testing.
• Involved in performance testing and stress testing.

Environment: WinRunner 5.5, Load Runner, EJB, SOAP, JDK1.3, XML, JBuilder 5, Oracle, Weblogic App Server

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing of all the modules.
• Created Manual Test Cases to validate the functionality.
• Involved in functional testing of the application.

Environment: Servlets, JSP, Java Mail API, EJB 1.1, JDBC 2.0, Weblogic 5.1.0, Oracle 8, MS Excel

ABS, India

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Regression and Load testing of the application.
• Involved in generating the Test Plan and Test Specifications.

Environment: Servlets, Oracle, JavaScript, HTML, Apache Web Server, JRun, MS Excel

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual testing, Black box testing and regression testing.
• Creation of the manual test cases to validate the functionality.
• Test scenarios were created and executed to test Business Rules.

Environment: JAVA 1.2, RMI/SWING, JDBC, MS ACCESS, MS Excel

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Black box testing.
• Testing of all the modules for functionality of the application.

Environment: Java, JDBC, SERVLETS, HTML, JavaScript, MS-SQL Server 6.5, MS Excel

Confidential

Developer/Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing the code.
• Debugging the code.
• System Design, Table design, Development, Testing and Implementation.

Environment: JAVA 1.2, RMI/SWING, JDBC, MS-Access, ORACLE 8, D2K, FORMS 4.5.