SUMMARY:

• Overall 7 years of experience in Software QA/Quality Testing/Mobile Testing/ Web service Testing.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in SDLC methodologies and Software Testing Life Cycle process.
• A Mobile Test Lead with extensive knowledge in mobile application testing.
• Good experience and knowledge in Computer System Validation and Good Documentation Practices. (GDPs)
• Have good experience as a Validation Lead (VA).
• Was involved in Validation Protocol pre approvals and Post approvals as a Val lead.
• Well aware of the change control process.
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web Driver.
• Used TestNG and Junit Frameworks for creating Selenium scripts
• An active Agile scrum team member. Have close interaction with the Agile Team.
• Was involved in Sprint Planning, Story Grooming, Retrospective meetings.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience of working in Agile Scrum Development Methodologies and Waterfall.
• Experience in different types of testing like Mobile Testing, System Integration testing, Database testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, Browser compatibility testing.
• Great experience of over 2.5 years in Mobile testing including testing of various Android, IOS devices, Tablets, iPads and working on simulators and emulators.
• Have good experience in IQ (Installation Qualification), OQ (Operational Qualification) and PQ (performance Qualification).
• Experience in working on Estimations and Proposals (RFPs) for Huge Projects coordinating with Business Analysts.
• Created Test Plan, Test strategy documents.
• Extensive knowledge on 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 4, GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 820: Quality System Regulations, General Principles of Software Validation - FDA Guidance and HIPAA compliance systems.
• Great experience in designing Test scripts, Validation test protocols, Test scenarios, and Test data preparation
• Experience in performing Validation and system Test execution in Test Management tools like HP ALM (Quality Center.)
• Have good experience working with Agile tools like Rally (CA Agile Central) and JIRA.
• Have good experience using Perfecto tool for mobile app automation.
• Was involved in Requirement gathering from the clients.
• Have extensive knowledge in Requirements finalizations with the client and communicating the same to development and testing teams.
• Was involved in drafting a FRS (Functional requirement specification document).
• Extensive knowledge of Defect life cycle.
• Experience using TFS for version controlling.
• Have Good experience using IBM Clear Quest
• Used JMeter for Performance Testing.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium WebDriver .
• Wrote Cucumber - Gherkin feature files and implemented the test definitions in Selenium.
• Experiencing in using defect tracking tools like Bugzilla and Quality center
• Have experience in creating IRs (Incident reports) and DIET cases
• Knowledge on automation tools like Selenium and QTP
• Experience in working in Database Testing Projects based on SQL using tools like Oracle Toad, SQL developer, SQL server.
• Experience in writing SQL scripts for Backend Testing
• Experience in front end, Backend, black box testing.
• Experience in testing vast projects and performed Web application testing for complex applications
• Experience in testing COTS(Commercial off-the-shelf) Products like IMPACT, COGNOS reports, JDA
• Good Experience in Web Service testing using SOAP UI.
• Have used assertions and property transfer in SOAP UI.
• Have good experience in XML.
• Experience in managing and coordinating with large offshore/onsite test team
• Experience as a Test lead in managing the Projects holding about 13 people.
• Have excellent communication skills.
• Expertise in diverse domain technologies like Life sciences, Healthcare, Banking
• Was involved in conducting trainings. Trained new comers into the project. Conducted training on testing and domain.
• Ability to achieve targets and deliver quality deliverables in stringent timelines.
• A team player with strong analytical, problem solving capability. Innovative with quick learn ability combined with excellent technical, communication, presentation, and customer service skills.
• Dynamic in working with all teams involving Developers, Business Analysts, Product team and Client Support teams for deliveries on time and budget with highest quality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC, Waterfall

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, Rally, BugZilla, JIRA

Automation Tools:: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, QTP, SOAP UI, Eclipse, Maven, Jmeter, TestNG, Test Complete, IBM Clear Quest

Versioning Tools:: TFS, MS Visual Source, GIT.

Databases: MY SQL, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server 2008

Workflow tools:: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint

OS: Windows, MAC, UNIX, LINUX.

Testing: Mobile Testing, Automation testing, Validation Testing, Manual Testing, Web Testing, Database Testing, Web Services testing, Browser compatibility testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Being part of the Agile scrum team and attending the daily stand up calls. Providing project updates and impediments in the Standup call.
• Participating in Sprint Planning to finalize the user stories to be taken into the sprint based on the Capacity.
• Attending Story Grooming sessions to groom the story and assign story points for each.
• Involved in the retrospective meetings to identify the concerns and to identify the solutions/ improvements for the upcoming sprint.
• Requirements discussion and finalization with the Client.
• Was involved in creating test scripts in Agile Tool Rally (CA Agile Central).
• Creation of Test scenarios for every user story including both positive and negative scenarios.
• Was involved in Test execution of the test scripts in Rally tool.
• Logging all the identified defects in Rally tool.
• Conducting daily defect calls with the dev team to discuss defects and track their closure.
• Re-testing of the fixed defects and changing them to the appropriate status.
• Assigning tasks to the Offshore by sending out a task email. And connecting on a daily basis with Offshore to get the updates.
• Leading a 6 member team of testers (including Offshore).
• Identification of Mobile devices to be included in Testing - Android and IOS devices.
• Testing included Android, IOS mobiles, iPads, Samsung Tablet
• Used Selenium WebDriver for one of the project to create Test Scripts. Wrote Test Scenarios in Gherkins language and implemented the test steps using Java, Cucumber.
• Used Perfecto for testing automation scripts in mobile.
• Integrated the automation scripts into the Jenkins tool for continuous script execution after build
• Preparation of requirement traceability matrix to ensure requirement coverage.
• Involved in sending out daily and weekly status reports.
• Giving demo to the client after each sprint on the developed app.
• Involved in giving Knowledge transition and training to new members entering the project
• Preparing lessons learnt document for the completed release and implementing the changes for the next release.

Tools: Used: Rally (CA Agile Central), Perfecto, Selenium Webdriver, IntelliJ, GIT, Cucumber.

Confidential, Illinois

Test Lead & SME

Responsibilities:

• Discussion with Business Analysts and clients in finalizing the FRS for each release.
• Requirements discussion and finalization with the Clients.
• Review of the draft version of the FRS and to provide comments for the same.
• Was involved in adding user stories and updating them whenever required using JIRA
• Clarification tracking and closure.
• Leading a 13 member team of testers
• Used JMeter for Performance Testing.
• Identification of Mobile devices to be included in Testing - Android and IOS devices.
• Testing included Android, IOS mobiles, iPads, Samsung Tablet, Simulators and emulators.
• Have tested Web services using Soap UI.
• Creation of Sprint plan and Sprint time testing time lines for the agile project
• Conducting daily stand up meetings, scrum calls, sprint meetings, defect triage calls with the developers, retrospective discussions (at the end of each sprint).
• Creation of Test plan and Test strategy document.
• Preparing of Validation test protocols in HP Quality center (ALM) - Application lifecycle Management.
• Review and approval of Validation test protocols/ scripts.
• Executing and guiding the Testing team in executing Validation test protocols in Quality Center (ALM).
• Defect tracking and closure
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web Driver Used TestNG Framework for creating Selenium scripts
• Integrated the automation scripts into the Jenkins tool for continuous script execution after build
• Performing pre-approval and post-approval review of the test cases and the executed test logs in Quality center as a VA - Validation lead.
• Approval of the Validation Test logs after execution.
• Ensuring to adhere to the Validation principles and SOPs in all phases of testing life cycle.
• Preparation of requirement traceability matrix to ensure requirement coverage.
• Preparation of Closure documents - System cert and Test Summary report.
• Creation of IR (Incident report) in case of any incident reported during formal execution.
• Creation and execution of DIET cases whenever required.
• Attending daily status calls with the client and BA.
• Involved in sending out daily and weekly status reports.
• Conducting defect triage calls with the developers.
• Giving weekly demo to the client on the developed app.
• Involved in giving Knowledge transition and training to new members entering the project
• Preparing lessons learnt document for the completed release and implementing the changes for the next release.

Tools: Used: Quality Center, Oracle SQL Server, Soap UI, TFS, Selenium Webdriver, IntelliJ, GIT.

Confidential, Ohio

QA/ Validation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Simulation of business scenarios from User Stories provided for each Sprint.
• Requirement gathering and data analysis.
• Requirement finalization and assisting in drafting of the FRS.
• Provided walkthrough to project team for test deliverables like test plan and test scripts
• Test Plan/ Test Strategy Preparation.
• Test case preparation/review.
• Used Microsoft TFS as Centralized version controlling system.
• Was involved in review of PQ. (Performance qualification documents).
• Prepared the Requirement Traceability matrix
• Have used IBM Clear Quest for defect tracking
• Modification and execution of Test Case Scripts (Java-Selenium WebDriver) in Eclipse IDE
• Used Java language and TestNG framework for scripting. Used Ant for building the WebDriver project. Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium WebDriver .
• Using the Business Cases wrote different feature files in Cucumber - Gherkin and implemented the Test definitions in Selenium.
• Performed Test Execution using HP Quality Center and Test Log preparation.
• Performed browser compatibility testing in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE browsers.
• Performed testing in iPad, iPhones for the application functionality and UI.
• Have done Wen service testing
• Wrote complex SQL queries for test data set up & database testing using Sql server studio.
• Conducted daily defect status call and Scrum meetings.
• Defect tracking and Closure.
• Have used IBM Clear Quest for defect tracking
• Test Summary document Preparation
• Was responsible to co-ordinate the requirement changes to the team and updating of the FRS accordingly.
• Was the sole representative of the team and was involved in communicating the issues with the clients and resolving the same.

Confidential, Illinois

Database Tester

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in drafting of the FRS (Functional requirement specification) document and its review
• Was involved in complete back end testing ( Database testing) using Oracle Toad tool
• Also used the tools like SQL developer for fetching data from the database
• Experience in complex database testing using complex SQL Queries
• Was involved in drafting test cases in Quality center
• Wrote complex SQL Queries for the data verification between the application and the database
• As part of this project involved in data verification in COGNOS Reports, COGNOS
• Prepared the Requirement Traceability matrix
• Have used IBM Clear Quest for defect tracking
• Designed a tool to extract the Requirement traceability matrix using excel macros which will automatically fetch the RTM from Quality center
• Performed Test Execution using HP Quality Center and Test Log preparation.
• Performed execution of the test cases by running batch jobs
• Performed Defect tracking using Quality Center
• Performed Load Testing for the web application
• Used Test Complete for automation.
• Performed Performance testing for the performance of the web application
• Given a demo on the application usage and performance to the clients and Project team
• Prepared the Test Summary report and System cert documents
• Attended regular audits during the Process of testing at all phases in the testing life cycle

Confidential, Illinois

SME, Validation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Project Requirements
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Strategy.
• Experience in complete Validation testing
• Knowledge on 21 CFR Part 11, 21 CFR Part 820: Quality System Regulations, Medical Device Fundamentals Regulations, General Principles of Software Validation-FDA Guidance and HIPAA compliance systems
• Subject Matter Expert (SME ) for IMPACT system, which is a COTS Product
• Performed browser compatibility test, stress test, scalability test for Web Applications
• Experience in using the IBM tool LOTUS NOTES
• Experience in drafting CR’s (change requests)
• Performed testing of VCR’s and DIET cases
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Preparation and review of Test Closure documents - System Cert , Test Summary report

Confidential, Illinois

SME, Validation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the complex requirements.
• Experience in complete Validation testing
• Experience in reporting tools IBM Cognos 8.0, Cognos 10.0
• Experience in testing more than 100 different types of Cognos reports both Validated and non- Validated Reports
• Subject Matter Expert (SME ) for Cognos Reports, which is a COTS Product
• Performed browser compatibility testing
• Created a tool by self for the comparison of the data generated in Cognos reports with the data in the application , the tool extracts data from PDF and compares against the data setup in
• Experience in drafting CR’s (change requests)
• Performed testing of VCR’s and DIET cases
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Preparation and review of Test Closure documents - System Cert , Test Summary report