SUMMARY:

• Over Twelve years of Experience in Software Testing and Analysis. Strong experience in Software Quality Assurance and Validation Testing of Software both on Client/Server and Web applications.
• Expertise in designing, documenting, and executing Test plans, test scenarios & test cases for manual testing
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, SCRUM agile environment, Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Analyzing the Functional requirements & create Test Approach and Test Strategy
• Using ALM(Quality center) and Testlink
• Identify defects & coordinate defect resolution and retesting
• Specify Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing: System, Integration, functional, User Acceptance Testing,Regression, Hardware operational, System integration,Capacity, Performance, Disaster recovery, Stress, backend, and Volume Testing etc on Financial Applications, data centers and embedded systems
• Bug Expertise in Problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using various Bug tracking Tools like Jira,Team Track,Eventum and Bugzilla
• Extensive experience in Financial & Data Center Infrastructure Management testing
• Experience in testing Database Applications like Mainframe, PostgreSQL, Oracle 8i
• Excellent professional skills and can work proficiently independently or as part of a team using variety of methods of communication
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project
• Leadership skills that includes Excellent Team Spirit, Inter - Personal skills, Empathy,Problem Solving and excellent Communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM(Quality center),UFT,Testlink,QTP, Eventum, Jira,VMware exsi, Rally, pgAdmin, Wikis, Visa test tool, Reflection Micro focus, Teradata, iReasoning MIB browser, Putty, WinSCP,Team Track, Agility,Http Watch

Operating System: Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista,7), SUN Solaris, UNIX, LINUX,MAC OS

Web Servers: Tomcat Server, Java Web Server

Networking: TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP,FTP,SCP,SFTP,LDAP,SSH,Telnet,SNMP,Radius & HTTP

Databases: Mainframe,Oracle 8i, PostgreSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior Software QA Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed system-level test plans and procedures for requirement based Agile Methodology testing activities
• Executed and Developed Test cases in accordance with defined Accepted Criteria and processes using QC and escalated the defects to the concerned developer
• Review, Analyze, Evaluate Epic Features and Create Acceptance Criteria
• Provided System Integration Testing Services across all applications and Involved in Business Functionality testing & User Acceptance Testing
• Perform End to end UAT for any Credit Card initiatives including but not limited to Source Code offer validation, internal reporting
• Responsible for performing rule changes testing using Visa test tool, Reflection Micro focus, Teradata and escalated the results in Daily stand up meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA Manager and team in SCRUM Agile environment using Agility tool
• Performed tests on database by writing SQL queries using Teradata
• Created automation Test Scripts for overall business process and executing them in QA Environment using UFT automation tools
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Jira and also responsible for communicating the status to the Development team
• Performed system test activities on software applications in Linux, Windows, Solaris, MAC OS for Java,Flex, C++, Web-based environments for compatibility in various browsers
• Involved in maintaining requirement traceability matrix using
• Installed new hardware and maintained the test lab environments
• Involved in maintaining requirement traceability matrix using Quality Center and Excel
• Mentoring/assisting team members when ever possible and providing solutions that streamline our daily efforts and improve our process
• Managed on/offshore QA teams for training, knowledge transfer of projects and regression support.
• Provided Production & QA support for dev, test and production environment during elevation of each release.

Environment: ALM(Quality Center), UFT,Visa test tool, Reflection Micro focus, Teradata, MS Excel, Windows 7, Jira, Agility, Microsoft office

Confidential, Malvern,PA

Senior Software QA Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed system-level test plans and procedures for requirement based Agile Methodology testing activities
• Executed and Developed Test cases in accordance with defined Accepted Criteria and processes using QC and escalated the defects to the concerned developer
• Review, Analyze, Evaluate Epic Features and Create Acceptance Criteria
• Provided System Integration Testing Services across all applications and Involved in Business Functionality testing & User Acceptance Testing
• Responsible for performing soak testing & stress testing and escalated the results in Daily stand up meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA Manager and team in SCRUM Agile environment using Agility tool
• Involved in testing client-server application
• Performed tests on database by writing SQL queries
• Created automation Test Scripts for overall business process and executing them in QA Environment using UFT automation tools
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Team Track and also responsible for communicating the status to the Development team
• Performed system test activities on software applications in Linux, Windows, Solaris, MAC OS for Java,Flex, C++, Web-based environments for compatibility in various browsers
• Involved in maintaining requirement traceability matrix using
• Installed new hardware and maintained the test lab environments
• Performed tests on database using Rumba Vast Access
• Involved in maintaining requirement traceability matrix using Quality Center and Excel
• Mentoring/assisting team members when ever possible and providing solutions that streamline our daily efforts and improve our process
• Managed on/offshore QA teams for training, knowledge transfer of projects and regression support.
• Provided Production & QA support for dev, test and production environment during elevation of each release.

Environment: ALM(Quality Center), UFT Java,HttpWatch, Web Logic, MS Office, Windows 7, Team track, Agility, Lotus Notes

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

QA (Software System Test) Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed system-level test plans and procedures for requirement based testing activities
• Executed and Developed Test cases in accordance with defined guidelines and processes using QC,Testlink and escalated the defects to the concerned developer
• Provided System Integration Testing Services across all traded product applications and Involved in Business Functionality testing & User Acceptance Testing
• Responsible for performing soak testing & stress testing and escalated the results in Daily stand up meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA Manager and team in SCRUM Agile environment
• Created automation Test Scripts for overall business process and executing them in QA Environment using QTP automation tools
• Involved in testing client-server application
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Eventum and also responsible for communicating the status to the Development team
• Conducted embedded system software compatibility tests with programs, Hardware, Operating Systems and network environments
• Involved in Data Center administration like Disaster Recovery testing of dcTrack . dcTrack (DCIM) solution that provides you with real-time information about your facilities, networks and IT . dcTrack clearly visualizes your infrastructure to help you manage placement of your IT equipment, make informed capacity management decisions and keep accurate track of your data center assets
• Tested the mobile app for Power IQ . Power IQ provides centralized monitoring, email notifications, graceful OS shutdown, outlet control, powerful analytics of your costs, line capacities, carbon footprint and rack temperature. Also tested upgrading device software (new firmware and application downloads) and reviewing requirements in order to test the functionality of the application,directly on iphone,ipad and even using home grown iphone emulator
• Performed system test activities on software products in Linux, Windows, Solaris, MAC OS for Java,Flex, C++, Web-based environments for compatibility in various browsers
• Involved in maintaining requirement traceability matrix using Doors
• Installed new hardware and maintained the test lab environments
• Performed tests on PostgreSQL database by writing SQL queries
• Used VMware ESXi v4 & v5 server and VMware player for virtual appliance testing
• Coordinated with onshore and offshore QA teams
• Ability to effectively interview tech support interpret and absorb new problems faced by customers and translate that information into test procedures for UAT testing
• Mentoring/assisting team members and tech support when ever possible and providing solutions that streamline our daily efforts and improve our process

Environment: Quality center,Testlink, Eventum, QTP, Java, C, C++, Blaze DS, Hibernate, Spring, json, phpldapadmin, SOAP UI, Ruby on Rails, TCP/IP,SNMP, Radius, LDAP,IPV4,IPV6 Web Logic, MS Office, DOS, Windows 2000 & XP &VISTA,7, SUN/Solaris,IOS,UNIX/Linux, MAC OS,Doors, Testlink, Vmware EXSi, Rally, pgAdmin, SQL, Wikis, iReasoning MIB browser, Putty, WinSCP,tomcat, XML, client-server, HTML

Confidential, Redwood shores, CA

QA ENGINEER

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Executed, analyzed Test cases using QC and escalated the defects to the concerned developer
• Maintained Trend analysis Graph for the whole project and submitted to the QA manager
• Created Test Plan and QA release notes
• Did manual testing for GUI testing of some screens
• Involved in Black box testing of Application Functionality as per the Business requirements
• Test Scripts were developed for System testing and carried in QA and production environment, debugged the test scripts, and verified the test results
• Created and Maintained Regression Test Scripts for overall business process and executing them Using QTP
• Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Bugzilla and also responsible for communicating the status to the Development team

Environment: Mercury Tools, QTP, Bugzilla, Java, Oracle 8i, SQL, SQL Server, UNIX, MS Excel