SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated, quick learner with overall 13 year of experience as QA. I have over all 9 year of experience as QA Lead. I have worked on all aspects of the software testing life cycle; requirement analysis, creation of test plan and test cases, execution of test cases, analysis of test results, test status reporting, defect reporting and tracking. I have experience of working on various domains like Telecom, e-learning, ecommerce web based applications.
• Exposure to all stages of Testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle, working experience of SDLC methodologies like Agile & Waterfall Model.
• Involved in requirement analysis, Creation and execution of test plans and test cases, Review of test cases from wireframes, use cases and business requirement documents, Analysis of test results, regression test cases identification for future releases, Defect Review Meetings.
• I have worked on large scale agile projects as Lead. As lead I have worked with multiple parallel teams for defining test strategy, helping team members identifying test areas, identifying risks.
• Functional areas of expertise include Order management, Inventory Management, Telecom Network Inventory Provisioning, and Service Provisioning, cloud based applications testing, Mobility Testing, Network Inventory GUI testing, experience with Data Conversion and migration.
• Ownership of responsibility and independent thinking. Worked with various teams like Environment support team for deployment, environment availability.
• SA team for requirement analysis and transforming requirements into HLS and Test scripts, DBA team for database structure and writing test scripts for DB verification.
• Dev team for Defect analysis and fixes in timely manner.
• I have experience of managing larger team of testing resources. Experience managing testing teams across multiple applications & locations for all types of testing. Experience in handling multiple release schedules.
• Performed Sanity, Functional, GUI, Integration, System, Regression, E2E and compatibility testing with multiple operating systems and browsers.
• Status reporting, progress reporting and review of deliverable.
• Experience of working with automation test teams for defining test strategies.
• Experience of testing websites/Apps on mobile devices.
• Proficiency with uses of databases and writing queries.
• Working experience of Web Services testing using SOA test tool.
• Initiated and conducted Defect triage meetings.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions as Onsite Test lead for Offshore Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP, Linux, MAC

Database: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server, My SQL

Languages: C, C++, Basic Java

Test Tools: Test Manager, Rally, Selenium web driver, TFS (Team Foundation Server), QTP, SOA Test Tool 5.5.3.

Scripting Language: HTML/DHTML, VB Script, Java script/JQuery

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Test Director and Quality Center

Database Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer

MS Office Suite: MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

Others: Edit Plus, UML, ConfirmiQ, JIRA, ITRACK, Zracker, Webtrax, BMC Remedy, SSRS, SharePoint, xml.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

E2E QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with business users to understand and analyse requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing
• Analysing System specifications, design specifications and preparing Test Plans, Test Cases for Manual and Automation testing
• Review of Test Plans, Test Package and Test Steps and get approved by the business to ensure that none of the Business Requirements are missed.
• Organized and managed planning and execution of Test Cases and tracking and fixation of the errors/defects using Quality Centre.
• Contributed to Risk Management Plan, Communication Plan and Test Plan. Delivered Project Matrices like Defect Reports, Test Coverage, Test Execution Reports, Test closer report.
• Interacted with the developers and other team members to ensure high quality software delivered. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product.
• Interacted with Mobility Labs to ensure that calls and usage are done properly for all the projects which involve making calls in the Lab.
• Test execution of applications using iPad (iOS).
• QA Lead Representative for different releases as a part of Waterfall model, Agile Model & combination of both Models in large programs.
• Task Assignment to the team and review of the work done by them, Participate with team for test execution, test data creation.
• Monitor day to day Test execution progress and send the status to Client.
• Initiate & Participates in war rooms for defect calls between interfacing applications
• Knowledge Transfer to the new resources

Confidential, Denver, CO

Tech Lead - QA

Responsibilities:

• Participated in scrum meeting and worked closely with business users to understand and analyse requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing.
• Review of Test Package and Test Steps and get approved by the business to ensure that none of the Business Requirements are missed
• Participated in writing test cases, executing test cases, attending daily scrum meeting, raising defects, retesting defects, creating data for execution of test cases from existing ordering portal.
• Used Rally as Test management and defect management tool.
• Monitor day to day Test execution progress and send the status to Client.
• Initiate & Participates in war rooms for defect calls between interfacing applications

Confidential

System Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business users to understand and analysed requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing
• Analysed System specifications, design specifications and prepared Test Plans, Test Cases for Manual and Automation testing.
• Review of Test Plans, Test Package and Test Steps and get approved by the business to ensure that none of the Business Requirements are missed.
• Organized and managed planning and execution of Test Cases and tracking and fixation of the errors/defects using Quality Centre.
• Contributed to Risk Management Plan, Communication Plan and Test Plan. Delivered Project Matrices like Defect Reports, Test Coverage, Test Execution Reports, Test closer report.
• Interacted with the developers and other team members to ensure high quality software delivered. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product.
• QA Lead Representative for different releases as a part of Waterfall model, Agile Model & combination of both Models in large programs.
• Task Assignment to the team and review of the work done by them, Participate with team for test execution, test data creation.
• Monitor day to day Test execution progress and send the status to Client.
• Initiate & Participates in war rooms for defect calls between interfacing applications.
• Knowledge Transfer to the new resources

Confidential

Sr. Software Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business users to understand and analysed requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing
• Analysed System specifications, design specifications and prepared Test Plans, Test Cases for manual testing.
• Review of Test Plans, Test Package and Test Steps and get approved by the business to ensure that none of the Business Requirements are missed.
• Organized and managed planning and execution of Test Cases and tracking and fixation of the errors/defects using Quality Centre.
• Good in accessibility testing.
• Strong experience in auditing applications for standards.
• Contributed to Risk Management Plan, Communication Plan and Test Plan. Delivered Project Matrices like Defect Reports, Test Coverage, Test Execution Reports, Test closer report.
• Interacted with the developers and other team members to ensure high quality software delivered. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product.
• Web services testing using SOA test tool.
• Good Front End Development Experience with the technologies such as HTML, CSS, JQuery and JavaScript.
• Strong experience in TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Monitor day to day Test execution progress and send the status to Client.
• Initiate & Participates in defect triage calls between interfacing applications
• Knowledge Transfer to the new resources

Software Testing Engineer

Confidential, MN

Platform: ASP.Net 2.0, C#, SQL server 2005, XML, Ajax Tool Kit 2.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business users to understand and analysed requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing.
• Strong experience in auditing applications for standards.
• Analysed System specifications, design specifications and prepared Test Cases for manual testing.
• Executed test cases manually, sent daily status to management.
• Used Bugzilla for Test & Defect management.
• Good Front End Development Experience with the technologies such as HTML, CSS, JQuery and JavaScript.
• Good in accessibility testing.
• Strong experience in TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Worked with Dev team and analysts closely to get defects resolved and deliver high quality product.

Software Testing Engineer

Confidential, CA

Platform: ASP.Net 2.0, C#, MySQL, XML, Ajax Tool Kit 2.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business users to understand and analysed requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing
• Analysed System specifications, design specifications and prepared Test Cases for manual testing.
• Executed test cases manually, sent daily status to management.
• Used Bugzilla for Test & Defect management
• Worked with Dev team and analysts closely to get defects resolved and deliver high quality product.

Software Testing Engineer

Confidential, CA

Platform: ASP.Net 2.0, C#, MS SQL SERVER 2005

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business users to understand and analysed requirements to generate high level test cases and detailed test scripts as per the different phases of testing
• Analysed System specifications, design specifications and prepared Test Cases for manual testing.
• Executed test cases manually, sent daily status to management.
• Used Bugzilla for Test & Defect management
• Worked with Dev team and analysts closely to get defects resolved and deliver high quality product.