SUMMARY:

• Over 9 Years of IT industry experience in the Quality Assurance, Project Management, Software Analysis, and Testing of Client - Server (Standard Windows Desktop applications), Website & Mobile applications.
• Domain Knowledge includes: Media, Publishing, and Utility industry.
• Extensive experience in testing Content Management Systems for managing customer facing website content/data with Drupal, WordPress, Vignette (Now OpenText), Fatwire & in-house CMS
• Managed global testing teams spanning across multiple projects engaged in application development and production support activities.
• Extensive experience in capturing business requirements, creating test strategy, test plans (which includes defining the test environments, resources, budget, cost, schedules and risk assessment), test cases, test execution, test matrix for senior management, test environment setup, bug reports, & traceability matrix for customer facing websites as well as Mobile applications.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Negative, Regression, Adhoc, System integration (SIT) and User Acceptance (UAT), & Production support.
• Strong understanding of defect categorization, hands-on testing experience testing & QA sign offs, reporting test coverage, regression testing and defect tracking to closure.
• Extensively worked on Project management & defect tracking system - Rally, Collabnet, Bugzilla, Quality Center, JIRA and Test Director
• Worked with automation tools selenium IDE & QTP for record & playback of the application.
• Experience with web technologies such as HTML5, XML, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Working knowledge of the communication between the Web Application and external Interfaces API’s (Soap UI).
• Working knowledge in SQL and database technologies.
• Extensively worked on managing the QA Role in the Software Cycle using Agile/Scrum methodology. Knowledge of continuous integration tool Jenkins.
• Responsible for project release signoff, production release signoff, and quality review.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick learner, team player.
• Can work under heavy work pressure/under tight deadlines.
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes for best practices, procedures and tools for Quality Assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management & Bug Tracking Tools: Rally, Collabnet, Bugzilla, Test Director, Quality center & JIRA

Cross Browser: Internet Explorer 7 & above, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IOS & Android platforms

Operating Systems: Windows 7 & 8, Vista, XP, MAC, IOS & Android platforms Mobile.

Website Testing Tools: Firezilla, Firebug, Selenium, Photoshop, Web developer tool, FireShot, Fiddler, Annotate, Httpfox.

Content Management System: Vignette 6.0, Workbench, Fatwire, drupal & in-house content management systems

Project Management: Rally, Greenhopper JIRA, Collabnet, & Quality Center, MS Office visio 2007, MS Office 2010, 2007 & 2003 (Word, excel, power point and Access)

SDLC Model: Agile methodology, waterfall and Iterative methods

RDBMS: DB2, MS SQL Server 2005, 2000, MS Access 2007, stored procedures & Triggers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managing an offshore team of 8-10 QA consultants for regular HBOGo/MaxGo and Confidential Now app & services testing
• Hands on Testing experience with the following media devices & applications for HBOGo & MaxGo app: Apple TV, Fire TV& Firestick, Roku, Playstation 3/4, Xbox 360/One, iOS, Android, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV, Macbook Pro/Air, iMac, Kindle Fire, HDTV, Tyson, Nexus TV, Web browsers, Chromecast.
• Experience downloading builds from Jenkins continuous integration tool to Android & IOS Devices.
• Experience in downloading builds from Android SDK using ADb commands for FireTV, Firestick, & Nexus Players.
• Hands-on Group Lead with responsibilities to design, create and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and other QA documentation on Testrail.
• Responsible for solving the immediate technical needs of the Digital Products department
• Develop/audit standard processes for testing of all releases
• Conduct release testing, reporting individual and summarized results to Product Development team & business stakeholders.
• Prioritize resources and coordinate with project managers to plan testing.
• Experience generating QA logs using Fiddler, Charles proxy & Fillezilla.
• Performed Video Quality Testing (Screen, Display, and Picture), Resolution, FPS, CODEC, Audio/Video/Subtitles synchronization, Video Quality (HD, SD), Sound distortion, etc.

Confidential

Consultant Test Architect/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• DJX Website and Mobile Application Testing ( Confidential online digital channels)
• Extensively tested the website and the mobile application for different content types such as News, Top News, Market Talk, Calendar, Quotes, and Watch list widgets. The real- Confidential news feeds were aggregated and pushed by a third party trading platform known as bluegrass onto third party Widgets, Confidential Dashboards and Company web pages for Customized News.
• Performed end to end testing of the Quotes modules which covered verifying market data updates for stocks, ETF’s, Mutual funds, indexes, bonds, currencies & Futures for pre-market, post-market and normal market hours.
• Performed complete functional testing on the Quotes components - Charts & Graphs, Ticker symbols, Performance history, comparing different quote performances, creating customized watch-list with customer preferences, and Popup window frames.
• Created test scripts to validate data migration from MongoDB to PamDB.
• Performed cross browser and cross platform testing for Web applications, Mobile web applications and Hybrid applications.
• Carried out functional, usability, and regression testing on Newswires, which is a collection of applications that generates, parses, stores and disseminates real- Confidential news headlines to the users.
• Tested Real- Confidential server-side applications such as RTNS, Admin clients and Pubs that updates real- Confidential News and data.
• NS3G and Econapp Desktop Applications (Standard Windows Application):
• Created Test Plans and Test cases for client-side apps such as NS3G, Econapp, which are standalone applications with user interface used for Editorial purposes, Editorial tools - NS3G applications.
• Verified and validated all up-to-date Bellwether companies/stocks & bonds data are displayed on the client apps.
• Worked collaboratively with Editorial teams, Project Managers, Developers, and Architects for the enhancement of the Editorial team.
• Adhered to a fast pace agile methodology, attending scrum planning meetings & review meeting with Business stack holders, Product team & development teams.
• Developed Test plans and detailed test cases for mission critical Confidential web and mobile platform called DJX.
• Extensively used Firebug to verify the CSS changes and verify the connections between the third party applications and DJX applications.
• Responsible for all onsite/offshore communication and co-ordination
• Responsible for meeting client expectation and enforcing organizational best practices/quality metrics in all assignments
• Understand intricacies and verify the financial data feed from various sources.

Environment: IE 7 & above, Firefox, Safari & Chrome, JIRA, Firebug, Quality center, Mobile Platforms - IOS and Android, Desktop, Web and Mobile applications.

Confidential, NYC

Consultant QA Lead/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a focal point and leader to all quality related programs - Directed the effectiveness of QA activities to ensure maximum quality while delivering a new website called corporate counsel.
• Instituted quality control policies and procedures and formed a QA team. Established quality assurance methodologies/standards in order to mentor the understanding of quality objectives in the organization for the corporate counsel website in Confidential .
• Developed user stories, test plans, functional test cases for all the 18 commercial websites.
• Utilized http fox, fiddler & web developer tools for verifying HTML, CSS, Caching, Cookies, Forms, Images, Source codes, & Ruler.
• Worked with Adestra, a third party Newsletter provider for Confidential .com for generating new templates and customizing existing templates for newsletters.
• Utilized tools such as FireShot, Annotate and snagit for screen capture.
• Performed complete mobile optimization testing of all the 18 commercial websites on IOS and Android platforms.
• Performed Black box, User Interface (UI), functional, Usability testing of web application and validated business rules.
• Directed the ad operation employees to ensure highest standard of quality so that the organization meets both internal and external requirements on ad tags on Dart environment.
• Worked extensively with integration of social media networks via Gigya plugin like Facebook, Twitter, GooglePlus, LinkedIn and others on the Confidential .com pages.
• Log defects in Rally Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.

Environment: IE 8.0, 9.0, Firefox, Safari & Chrome, Rally, XML, HTML, Firebug, Charles, Quality center & JIRA, Fireshot, Annotate, Mobile IOS & Android platforms & UI testing, Drupal & Fatwire CMS, Website applications.

Confidential, Englewood Cliff, NJ

Consultant QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple high profile projects with proper Confidential management, providing effort estimates, preparing test plan, preparing test matrix for the top management, Risk assessment.
• Overall ownership of Test Planning and Execution.
• Involved in environment setup, test case creation, verifying test cases, and test execution, logging bugs, allocating work to offshore team & preparing business requirement documents for the offshore team.
• Worked with design team to come up with user-friendly designs for newly created pages on Confidential .com site.
• Worked with Spark list, the third party Newsletter provider for Confidential .com
• Performed end-to-end testing on the in-house content management system for different modules like videos, article pages & photo pages.
• Extensively worked on the ad-tag specification for targeting the ads on Confidential .com site using firebug & Fiddler.
• Extensively worked on Rich media ads like OPA’s, welcome ads, sidekick, and leader boards on Confidential .com before targeting to make sure that they comply with Confidential standards.
• Worked on integrating Master Page Service (MPS) the third party integration tool for ad specifications with the in-house custom build content management system.
• Worked on Freewheel third party vendor integration for video & ad tags on the Confidential site.
• Tested newly created widgets for the partners with news, videos & real Confidential Market data. Verified real Confidential Market data with the widget feeds. Tested the Video asset for the partner.
• Worked extensively with integration of social media networks via Gigya plugin like Facebook, twitter, google+1, linked in and others on the Confidential .com pages.
• Monitored Adobe Omniture tracking for customer click through on Confidential .com site.
• Created User stories, Test plan, Test cases & generated testing metrics to the senior management using Rally project management tool.
• Extensively used http fox, fiddler & Web developer tools for verifying HTML, CSS, Caching, Cookies, Forms, Images, Source Codes, & Ruler.

Environment: IE 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Firefox, Safari & Chrome, ASP.NET 3.5, Rally & Quality Center, XML, HTML, Firebug, Fiddler, Fireshot, Annotate, snag it, Mobile applications IOS & Android platform & UI testing, Drupal CMS & WordPress, Roku & gaming platform.

Confidential, NYC

Consultant QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan, test matrix & test cases for testing the content management tool and the front end.
• Tested content Management tool developed by Confidential Inc called TIPS for different fields and labels.
• Perform manual testing of news site (www. Confidential .com)
• Performed extensive testing on major front pages of the Confidential .com website such as Confidential home page, Sponsored archive pages, photos, Master pages (headers footers), omniture, Feed, SEO path, Podcasts, Special packages, Blogs
• Verify functionality of site on multiple operating systems and browsers (Mac, Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Internet explorer (6.0, 7.0 and 8.0), Firefox (3.2, 3.6), Safari)
• Verify and create data content in Content Management system (Vignette 5.0, In house CMS)
• Verify Advertising tags, placement of ads, and webtrend tags on individual Confidential .com pages
• Verify RSS feeds and trace back to Confidential .com site and Mobile apps (blackberry, Iphone 3GS & 4)
• Verify functionality and display for Confidential .com on the iPad
• Verify functionality of Social media integration (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Gigya)
• Maintain and monitor production environment of Confidential IBC by testing it daily for broken images and pages
• In-depth knowledge of the working of Content Management tool HTML and XML tags.
• Assisted the migration team developers during Mass publish and Mass preview activity
• Validated the migrated data from Vignette to TIPS and verified data on backend database using SQL
• Worked closely with template developers, TIPS developers and architects
• Log defects in Bugzilla & escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Participated in all team meetings with Business and UAT teams
• Continuously worked with the Business to create change requests on Collabnet
• Perform audit of test execution, bug reporting for the team.
• Report testing metrics to management
• Reporting to the Director of Confidential Inc for updating the day to day status

Environment: IE 7.0 & 8.0 Firefox, Safari, ASP.NET 3.5, SQL Server 2005, HTML, XML, Collabnet, Quality center & Mobile applications on IOS platform, Vignette & in house CMS.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Software Requirements Specification document
• Utilized a agile/iterative approach with unit tests and iterative releases
• Prepared Test Case specifications documents for individual modules and end-to-end test cases.
• Performed Functional Testing, GUI testing, Database Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed testing between web based application to external devices like gateways, thermostats and Device Controllers
• Performed Compatibility testing of the web application on multiple browsers (I.E.6.0, 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox).
• Debugged and tuned HTML and Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS) on the fly with firebug to ensure it is in compliance with the wireframe requirements.
• Performed OS Compatibility Testing with window XP & Vista, MAC and browsers Firefox, Safari, IE 6.0 & 7.0
• Prepared test status reports
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Bugzilla.
• Interacted with developers & various team members to discuss/ resolve defects with their priorities.
• Participated in weekly Status Meetings with Development teams, Business Analyst and QA teams to report any bugs, issues and risks discovered during testing.
• Weekly meeting with the client ( Confidential ) to provide updates on the progress made on the testing front and get feedback on the deliverables and the application.
• Completed heavy workloads under strict tight deadlines
• Tested all the external interfaces especially the communication between the device controllers and the system with Telecom services using CDMA & GSM connections.
• Performed database testing using SQL queries and stored procedures to validate that the actual test results match with expected results
• Coordinated with the business analysts in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements
• Attended business seminars with Consert and Utility companies to understand business requirements.
• Analyzed system log files using Filezilla tool.

Environment: IE 7.0 & 8.0, Fire fox, Safari, Chrome, ASP.NET 3.5, SQL Server 2005, C#, WPF, XAML, Bugzilla, HTML, XML, CDMA, GSM & Device testing.

Confidential, York, PA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Requirement Specification.
• Prepared Test Case document.
• Performed Functional Testing, GUI testing, Database Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed OS Compatibility Testing with Windows XP and Windows Vista
• Prepared test status reports
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Bugzilla.
• Performed Manual Testing of this desktop application

Environment: IE 6.0 Mozilla Firefox, .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, C#, WPF, XAML, Quality center, Firebug, Windows & Mac Desktop applications.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Requirement Specification.
• Utilized a agile/iterative approach with unit tests and iterative releases
• Coordinated offshore team during construction and transition phase
• Prepared Test Case document.
• Performed Functional Testing, GUI testing, Database Testing, Integration Testing,
• System Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed OS Compatibility using Windows XP & Mac testing of the windows Desktop application on multiple browsers (Internet Explorer, Safari and FF).
• Performed OS Compatibility Testing
• Prepared test status reports
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Quality center.
• Performed Manual Testing of this Web application

Environment: IE 6.0 Mozilla Firefox, .NET 2.0, Sql Server 2000, C#, Winforms, Windows Server 2003, Quality center/Test Director, HTML, & XML, Device testing