SUMMARY:

• A graduate with an MBA in MIS and a BS in Computer Science with over 10 years experience in Project Management and Quality Assurance
• Expert in Project Management Activities - Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling to make sure the project is on schedule and deadlines are met.
• Have extensive knowledge on Business Process Re-engineering, Project Cycle Management (PCM), Risk Mitigation, Systems Analysis, and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in implementing Agile Software development, Waterfall, RAD, and V-model methodologies.
• Proficient in Business Writing and includes Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects, and improving overall efficiency and productivity.
• Adept at leading both manual and automated testing, developing and implementing test strategies, operational procedures and quality methodologies to support release of development and business applications.
• Solid experience in using Black Box test methodologies, database and backend Testing, Functional Testing, Testing, Component Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Expertise in testing of design tools, with familiarity in multiple programming languages. Able to train, lead and motivate effective cross functional teams.
• Proven leader and strategic thinker with effective analytical, organizational and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7, Unix, Linux Red Hat, DOS

Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Visual Basic, VBScript, HTML, XML, TSL, SQL, PL/SQL

Methodology: RUP, UML, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Testing Tools: QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, HP Quality Center/ALM, Selenium IDE & RC, SoapUI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Test Foundation Server, IBM Test Manager, ClearQuest

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i, MS Access

Software: Microsoft Office, Visio, Sharepoint, VMWare, SoapUI, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Technical Lead

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Establish an offshore QA team, adding product knowledge redundancy and reducing cost per resource.
• Manage day-to-day activities of 8 offshore and 12 onsite QA teams conducting front end, batch jobs and automation testing of applications.
• Develop a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in HP ALM.
• Categorize the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority.
• Work collaboratively and proactively with QA Team to design and develop effective automation solutions, troubleshoot issues and resolve bugs.
• Help in automating the test cases specified in ALM by creating Test Scripts using the hybrid framework in QTP.
• Help in leading the HL7 Interface test cases automation using SoapUI.
• Used SOAP and XML to access web services to provide exchange of information between applications.
• Responsible for implementing LoadRunner, Performance center, architecting the load testing infrastructure, hardware & software integration with LoadRunner.
• Prepared Test Cases, Vugen scripts, Load Test, Test Data, Execute test, validate results, Manage defects and report results.
• Used Performance Center to define performance requirement like SLA in test.
• Assign task to all testing team members and ensured that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• After running the Test Cases, collected the Test Metrics using ALM.
• Assist in executing the test scripts, analyze the results and document the reports.
• Track the overall progress of test case planning, implementation and execution of the results.
• Report and track the defects using ALM and Visual Studio TFS.
• Integrated ALM with TFS for Defect Flow Cycle
• Attend Weekly Team Meetings.

Environment: UFT 12.01, QTP 11.0, Quality Center/ALM 11.0, LoadRunner 11.52, Performance Center 11.5, SoapUI, Win XP/7, Powerbuilder 11.5.1/12.5.1, SharePoint 2007, Visual Studio 2010 TFS, MS SQL Server 2008/2012.

QA Lead/ Senior QA Architect

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed QA team of 6 QA consultants working with different projects such as New Account Monitor, Service View, Task Tool Management, International Database, Administrative Account Review, Account Master, Trust Insurance Integration, and Transition Tool Management.
• Understood the Business Requirement and developed a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in Quality Center.
• Used SoapUI with extensive support for testing WSDL / SOAP based services.
• Estimated testing effort for each project and prioritized tusks for concurrent projects for QA team members.
• Created System/Integration Test Cases in Quality Center to cover the GUI functionality.
• Performed data driven testing using Data table in QTP and verified that the application was working properly with different country specifications.
• Modified and documented the scripts for regression testing using QTP.
• Helped team in executing the test scripts, analyzed the results and documented reports.
• Tracked the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution of the results.
• Worked extensively with the performance team on LoadRunner for Performance testing, created Vusers and scenarios, set up transactions between steps and actions and created rendezvous points to mimic a real world scenario closely.
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.

Environment: QTP 9.5 and 11.0, Quality Center, LoadRunner 9.1, Performance Center 9.1, Win XP Professional, JAVA and .NET, Share Point Server 2007.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing
• Created Automation Test plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts (QTP) for Functional, Integration, System, and Regression testing phase for overall system.
• Created and manipulated Traceability matrices, Test execution documents for respective modules and overall system for each product release.
• Modified and documented scripts for regression testing using QTP.
• Executed the test scripts, analyzed the results and documented reports.
• Used SQL queries to perform Back end testing of the database.
• Prepared Test sets, all possible combinations of the data (+ve, -ve and boundary limits) required to test each requirement and created Data Driven automated scripts using QTP.
• Performed Performance testing using Load Runner
• Simulated multiple Vusers scenarios using Load Runner.
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
• Defect reporting and tracking was done using Quality Center.

Environment: Weblogic, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, Load Runner 9.1, SQL & Oracle, Win XP Professional, JAVA.

QA Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Business Requirement and developed a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in Quality Center.
• Executed test cases from test case document for System, UAT, Smoke, Functional, and Integration testing.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reporting results and defects in Quality Center.
• Automated the test cases specified in Quality Center by creating Test Scripts in QTP. After running the Test Cases, Test Metrics are also collected.
• Involved in Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end.
• Performed data driven testing using Data table in QTP and verified that the application was working properly with different country specifications.
• Worked extensively on LoadRunner for Performance testing, created virtual users and scenarios, set up transactions between steps and actions and created rendezvous points to mimic a real world scenario closely.
• Documented the errors using Mercury Quality Center and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-coordinating with the development as well as the support group.

Environment: QTP 9.0, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, LoadRunner 9.0, Oracle 9i, and SQL.

QA Engineer

Confidential, Holmdel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and Requirement Specifications. Designing Test Lab and formulation of Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Cases in TestDirector for the Functional, Integration, End-to-End, Usability, Security, Regression and Smoke testing.
• Categorized the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority.
• Participated in internal design review of testing materials and external design reviews with the customer to get his approval for the Test Requirements and scenarios to be tested.
• Created Manual test cases in Mercury Test Director.
• Created Java script and executed those scripts to verify complex system requirements and database testing.
• Scripting and Executing Automated test scripts for the Regression Testing and other mini releases using WinRunner.
• Tracked the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution results.
• Documented the defects using TestDirector and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-coordinating with the development as well as the support group.

Environment: HTML, XML, SQL, UNIX, Win NT, Mercury TestDirector, WinRunner.

QA Tester

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed, Documented and Controlled all the test cases, test scripts and test results using Rational Test Manager
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing.
• Accomplished 60% of automation test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using Rational Robot and maintained function library files using SQA Basic
• Introduced various GUI and Object checkpoints to verify the actual behavior of the application with the expected in Rational Robot.
• Performed Integration Testing, Performance Testing and final System Acceptance Testing
• Collected test metrics weekly from the Clear Quest database that reflected the current status of the test execution and the state of the defects.
• Analysis of the results using report analysis graphs and reports ensured the stability of the application under extreme load conditions.

Environment: ORACLE 6i, SQL Server, Windows NT and 2000, TestManager, Rational Robot, ClearQuest.