PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and talented Senior Test Engineer with more than 8+ years of experience in all aspects of Systems Development Life Cycle in Credit, Retail /Internet, Financial, Insurance, e - commerce and Telecom. Highly adopt at designing and applying test methodologies to ensure products meet required specifications and Performance expectations
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies including Developing, executing and maintaining Test plans, Test suites, Test deliverables, Agile Scrum, SDLC methodologies and bug reports.
• Expertise in testing Client/Server Applications, e-Business Applications, UNIX & Web Technologies on multiple platforms.
• QA Expertise in functional/GUI/Regression, automation testing.
• Performed Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Database testing, User Acceptance testing and End-End Testing
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated Testing using Selenium and Quality Center, ALM
• Strong experience in Database/Backend Testing.
• Extensive experience in Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing and Cross Browser Testing.
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business processes and ability to work as part of team or individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Language: Java, .net, C#, VB.net, C, SQL, VB

Internet Skills: JSP, ASP, HTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript

Database: SQL Server 2012,Ms Access, Oracle 9.i/10gOS: Windows NT/95/98/2000, UNIX (Solaris, Linux, AIX), MS-DOS

Testing Tools: Selenium, TestNG, Jira, HP Quick Test Professional 9.2/Winrunner, Quality Center 9.2

Management Tool: Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Test Engineer

Confidential, Madison, WI

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore and onshore QA resources
• Participated in creating test data and testing Commercial Lines Quotes, Applications and Endorsements for CA, CPP, BOP, CU using Guide wire Commercial Lines Policy Center
• Participated in creating test data and testing Personal Lines Auto Quotes, Applications, Declarations and Endorsements, Interactive Letters using Guide wire Personal Lines Policy Center (Family Car Policy, Cycle Policy, Miscellaneous Vehicle Policy, Watercraft Policy)
• Participated in creating test data and testing Personal Lines Property Quotes, Applications, Declarations and Endorsements, Interactive Letters using Guide wire Personal Lines Policy Center (Homeowners Policy, Manufactured Homeowners Policy, Condominium Unit owners Policy, Renters Policy)
• Participated in verifying Print files generated by everyday batch run related to different Jobs
• Lead testing efforts for an Agile project team during 4 week iterations
• Lead the testing team in user story development and sizing
• Acts as the single point of contact for testing related activities in a process area or work stream. Ensures adequate test resource coverage and facilities
• Leads the design and creation of the overall Test Strategy, Test Plans Test Cases and Test Scripts for testing the project
• Actively Participated in review meetings to follow through Business Requirements (Use Cases) and Design Specifications and provided key technical and usability feedback.
• Took complete ownership of the project from test strategy, estimation of testing efforts to production certification.
• Developed test plan, test cases and test scenarios to address testing requirement.
• Review test plan and test cases with business Stake holders
• Create weekly metrics/reports to capture test progress for projects and releases
• Testing new functionality related to insurance Products like Auto, Property and Umbrella policies.
• Testing whether the Claim information is deployed in the application correctly for auto, property and umbrella policies
• Trained and leveraged offshore and onshore resources for Functional and optimized the existing process for Functional/System testing.
• Communicated QA status metrics, quality standards, best practices, methodologies, issues, resolution, strategies, time lines, concerned to senior leadership.
• Involved in Manual, Web Application, UI, Integration, Functional, regression, End-to End and automation testing
• Involved in verifying the Agent/Customer documents stored in EDMS/P8
• Actively Participated in review meetings to follow through Business Requirements (Use Cases) and Design Specifications and provided key technical and usability feedback and Participated in Web and Web services XML testing
• Participated in Web services XML, testing using SoapUI
• Created various Defects on missing requirements and on application in Jira, Follow-up with developers on defects and arrange defect review meetings.
• Escalate quality risks, issue and decisions as appropriate
• Facilitates building and executing the Systems Integration Testing (SIT); User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Actively works with teams to complete root cause analysis (RCA) in order to proactively improve processes, reduce risk, eliminate defects and show stoppers
• Trains, supports, and mentors individual QC team members on ES tools, techniques, policies, procedures, standards and methodologies.
• Escalate concerns such as: testing issues; defect show-stoppers; impact of defects on customers; risk of specific software changes; and, release readiness.
• Prepares software quality metrics and periodic reports of team activities and results.
• Perform Smoke, Integration, System and Black Box Functional testing
• Performed Database Testing using SQL, executed various DDL and DML Statements.
• Created various documents on process improvement using MS Office.
• Day to day experience working in and Agile environment on an Agile team
• Interaction with Business Analysts for Requirements Review and Clarifications
• Send weekly and daily status report on test execution, issues, concerned to Manager

Environment: Agile SCRUM, Jira, JAVA/J2EE, SQL, IBM File net XP, MS Office, XML, SOAP, WSDL, SOA, Web Services, IBM HTTP Server, Web Sphere, UNIX/AIX

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in Preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Data
• Converted the complex business logic which includes many rules and sub rules into meaningful test cases which covers all the requirements.
• Participated in UI and Web services XML testing.
• Conducted security, user interface, regression testing, identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
• Analyze the output log for the cause of errors and Troubleshoot LoadRunner issue
• Involved Black Box Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, End to End, and Integration Testing
• Created test plan and test cases for regression testing.
• Performed backend testing on Oracle, executed various DDL and DML Statements.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing
• Performed cross browser testing for multiple browsers.
• Actively Participated in review meetings to follow through Business Requirements (Use Cases) and Design Specifications and provided key technical and usability feedback.
• Involved in Manual and Automation testing.
• Created complex SQL statements to validate the data in the database
• Written Test plans, Test cases and generated various Defect reports using Quality Center/Test Director.
• Participated in Web services XML testing using Soap Scope and SoapUI tools.
• Defects were identified and reported to the development team using Quality Center.
• Tested functionality, alignments, navigation, content, broken links using various instances.

Environment: HP Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, VBScript, J2EE, XML, Web Sphere, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UNIX, C#, ASP.net, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, TFS SQL, Crystal Report

QA Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involved closely with business analysts to understand the business requirements.
• Worked closely with the technical team to understand the technical requirements.
• Developed test cases, test plans and test scripts to test the web application.
• Involved in testing, implementation, operations and maintenance phases of the SDLC.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases as per the business requirements in Test Director
• Closely worked with developers and system engineers to nail down the technical problems
• Involved in the batch process and schedule the transaction using cron tab
• Tested the application compatibility in all versions of Internet Explorer Browsers
• Performed basic queries necessary to edit and update data within the database.
• Involved in Negative Tests like Invalid Data Tests, Bad Credential Test and Connectivity Test are conducted.
• Conducted defect review meetings with the team members
• Used Test Director for requirements management and Test Director for defect tracking
• Involved in Checking text, Bitmaps, xml, and also in Parameterize test, dividing test into multiple Actions with Quick Test Pro for the web application.
• Execute test cases for Functionality and Security using Mercury Test Director.
• Involved in functional, Integration, UI, Navigational and acceptance testing
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification

Environment: Test Director 7.5, Quick Test Pro 7.8, LoadRunner 8.0, Win-NT, .Net, ASP.net, C#, VB.net, SQL Server