SUMMARY:

• Fourteen years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing of web - based & client server applications.
• Actively participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Involved in preparing RFP (Request for Proposal) for bidding a project as a vendor.
• Prepared SOW (Statement of work) to defines the work activities,deliverables, and timeline to execute in performance of specified work for a client
• Managed onsite and offshore teams for numerous successful deliveries on projects.
• Profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work, and meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines. Also, worked on multiple test projects at the same time.
• Experienced in Creating & reviewing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Summary Reports for Manual and Automated testing based on the User Requirement Document and System Requirement documents for the Functional, Regression and GUI testing.
• Proficient in all form of testing including Functional, Regression and actively participated and coordinated User Acceptance Testing and comfortable in manual as well as automated testing.
• Experienced using Test Management tools like HP-ALM, Test manager, TestDirector, Quality Center, Quality Manager to manage the test plans, test cases and run both manual and automated tests.
• Setting up the test environment by installing and configuring the automation and test management tools.
• Experienced in Automating Test Cases using the scripting languages such as Selenese, TSL and VBScript and Javascripts using the automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional Tester, Mercury WinRunner, Mercury QuickTest Professional, Selenium and Segue Silk test.
• Used defect-tracking tools such as HP-ALM, Trac, Clear Quest, Test Director, Quality Center, Bugzilla and Lotus notes for collecting test metrics, reporting the modification requests and tracking them to completion. Knowledge on SilkRadar, TFS, Jira.
• Proficient with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office and various browsers.
• Supported and leaded on Production, conducted as a host for a Go-No Go release meetings and also Root cause analysis meetings.
• Played a typical Business Analyst role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing Tools: Selenium

HP: Application Lifecycle Management, QuickTest, Quality Center.

IBM Rational: Functional Tester, Requisite Pro., Manual testerQuality Manager, Doors

Mercury: WinRunner, TestDirector

Segue: SilkTest.

HP: ALM, Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Jira, Lotus Notes, NetFor, IRT, TFS and TRAC.

Scripting Languages: TSL, VBScript, JavaScript

Operating Systems: Windows 7 / Vista / XP and Mac OS

Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle, DB2, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Onsite - Offshore management
• Formulation and implementation of Software Testing strategies
• Testing schedule maintenance
• Requirements analysis and validation
• Co-operation with Client/users
• Resource management (allocation, monitoring, motivating etc)
• Coordination of all testing activities during the project
• Identify and suggest improvements to the process
• Milestones as Deliverables
• Preparation/review of test plans
• Preparation/review of test reports
• Plans, arranges and controls meetings, workshops
• Defect Management
• Reporting and Metrics
• Scheduled Variance
• User Acceptance testing coordination
• Responsible for production and approval of all testing deliverables
• User Manual & Guide documentation and Mentoring

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Harmon.ie, Domino Doc V6.0, T-360, HP ALM 11.0, IBM Doors, Java, SeleniumDB2 (Rapid SQL).

Confidential, CA

Sr. Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Quality Planning
• Test Planning - Rational Quality Manager
• Defect Management - Rational Clear Quest
• Document Management - Rational Requisite PRO
• Reporting and Metrics
• Risk management
• Testing schedule maintenance - MPP
• Test cases management
• Requirements validation matrix
• Other information required for the QA team to test at offshore.
• Quality Assurance
• Reviewing
• Monitoring
• Risk escalation
• Scheduled Variance
• Quality Control
• Deliverables
• Inspection
• Accuracy and Completeness
• Approval and
• Other Responsibilities
• Resource management
• Team management
• Off shore management
• Scheduled maintenance
• Release control
• User Acceptance testing
• Production Support

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Windows XP / 7, Rational - Quality Manager, Clear Quest 7.1, Requisite Pro, MPP, CMDB, McAfee-DLP

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Plan
• Testing schedule
• Test cases management
• Requirements validation matrix
• Reviewing
• Risk escalation
• Scheduled Variance
• Deliverables
• Accuracy and Completeness
• Approval and
• Team management
• Scheduled maintenance
• Release control
• Production Support

Environment: Flex, Imaging, PDF, Oracle, Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, IRT and TRAC.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Quality Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Test Lead formulated Test plan, Procedures and Process.
• Supported Production Issues for the Incidents raised on Netfor. Netfor is a defect tracking tool used only for Production issues accessible only by the Production team and the direct users.
• Supported the Production issues on call and resolved the issues with proper solutions and workarounds.
• Raised Change request for the Production issues to fulfill the gap analysis on the application with respect to the Business Requirement documents.
• Played the role of Business Analyst by preparing the documentation for the issues with to the Business requirement document.
• Prepared Matrix, Charts and Graphs on a periodic time for Production issues, fixes and controls for weekly, monthly and release based.
• Involved in regular meeting with the State employees and other group worker to find out the difficulties they face on the application and environment and try to resolve their problems.
• Netfor tickets are posted as Ration Clear Quest defects for the Project team to resolve the issue, if required discussed with the development team members.
• Participated on Design, Planning and Release meetings.
• As a parallel activity managed Automation team using IBM’s Rational Functional tester as our automation testing tool.
• Followed Hybrid Framework for our automation and drafted some documents on Automation test plans and procedures.
• Reviewed, Prepared and executed test scripts on Rational Functional Tester derived from the manual testcases filtered out from Rational Manual Tester.
• Extensively used Rational Functional tester on coding Java Scripts, writing functions, capturing objects, creating Verification points and a vast usage of Datapool.
• Created a separate suit of scripts for Regression and End to end testing which will run on each and every release.
• Analyzed the web base application of the Confidential project, also tested the CURAM application which was interfaced with IBM’s Java code and the CAPITIVA interactions.
• Completely verified the functionalities on Curam application and its interactions.
• Interactions with BA’s, Project Managers, Team Leads and team members helped me on understanding the application well and to delivering the software on time.
• Rational Portfolio Manager and Rational Requisite Pro were used as a storage and document management tool.

Environment: IBM Rational Functional Tester 7.0, Rational ClearQuest 7.0, Rational ClearCase 7.0, Rational Portfolio manager 7.0, Rational Requisite Pro.7.0, Rational Manual tester 7.0, Java, DB2, Windows XP.

Confidential

Lead QE

Environment: QTP 8.1, Quality Center 8, Java, DB2, Windows NT