PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ Years of diversified experience in Project Management, IT business Analysis and Quality Assurance (Automation and Manual testing) with expertise in Web based, Mobile, Native and Database Technologies.
• Result oriented QA professional adept in project management and strategic planning while supporting multiple industries overseeing all phases of software development lifecycle(SDLC) from analyzing the requirements to implementation and production - support.
• Played different roles such as Test Lead, Sr. Automation Engineer, Quality Analyst and Account Planning with good Project Management experience.
• Highly proficient in all stages of STLC/SDLC with hands on expertise in Delivery Management, Estimations, Business Analysis and various Testing Techniques for Windows, Mainframe and Web based applications in SIT and UAT phases.
• IT industry domain expertise in the fields of ERP, Media and financial with intensive knowledge on Agile(SCRUM) and Waterfall Development methodologies.
• In depth knowledge in identification and documentation of business process work flows, data collections, detailed problem statements and potential solutions for process improvement with the help of use case diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Excellence in Requirement Analysis, designing effective Test Plans & Test Strategies with apt focus on Business Analysis.
• Highly proficient in Estimations, Test Data Preparation, Test Case Execution, Defect Tracking (HP ALM), Bug Reporting and Status reporting as well as documenting all phases of QA processes.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas of business.
• Expertise in coordinating work plan/project delivery between project stakeholders, onshore-offshore teams and the clients.
• Skilled Confidential contributing towards the Center of Excellence initiatives to build standards and best practices in the Business Analysis and Quality Assurance space.
• Excellence in Preparation of Use Cases and Test Scripts for End-to-End functionality testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, white box testing, GUI testing, system testing and browser compatibility testing.
• Hands on expertise in Mobile testing with strong familiarity over iPhone and android operating systems and applications.
• Extensive experience in using Open Source Tools like Selenium IDE, Firebug, and Eclipse for developing automation test scripts using Java.
• Worked Extensively on TestNG framework for Functional Testing and used Maven and Ant as Project building tools efficiently.
• Very good experience in successfully meeting project milestones and Client and business stake-holder interaction.
• Quick learner, able to grasp new ideas and methods, energetic with good communication and interpersonal skills and committed to high Quality.
• Proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Self-motivated, committed and detail-oriented individual with high level of work ethics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, IDE, TestNG, Fire Bug, QTP with VB Script

Programming Languages: Java with Eclipse IDE

Test Management: HP Quality Center, ALM

Defect Tracking: HP Quality Center/ALM

Databases: SQL, Oracle 10g (user level queries)

Operation Systems: Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT, UNIX

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile

Project Management Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager/Coordinator/Test Lead

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Environment: CreditPathTM, .NET, My SQL, HP ALM, MS SharePoint & MS Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• Build strong and sustainable relationships with business partners and project team members.
• Discussion with Product Owner to plan for the release contents and estimate the QA efforts.
• Prepare and review the test strategy with the product team and take approvals to kick off the project activities.
• Review BRDs and estimate the QA efforts for all application modules.
• Act as a liaison between several levels of the organization with business process evaluations and improvements.
• Relationship management, responsible for management of client, vendor and other stakeholder’s expectations.
• Coordinated meetings to review high-level project requirements, action plans and timelines with senior management.
• Work with PMs and Client to get the final copy of functional requirement document and start getting on to requirement analysis.
• Prepare and review the test plan and test scenarios with Tech Leads and Business Analysts.
• Coordinate with offshore lead to on board the testers to get involve in test design and execution activities.
• Run through the requirement review clarification with Client to get clarity on functional behaviors of the application.
• Track, estimate and plan the change request testing and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Work with Dev. teams to understand the readiness of the first build and quality of the unit testing by reviewing the test results.
• Smoke test, test data preparation, system test and regression test results review during execution period.
• Chair the DRB meetings and track all open defects to closure.
• Track the test execution progress and communicate to project team.
• Prepare the production implementation checklist and review this with the product team.
• Test execution sign off and followed with the rollout of test reports. Review/Approve the results by product team.
• Support UAT team with the UAT test plan, Test Scenarios Reviews, Test Data Preparation and track results/defects.
• Participate Confidential the time of final deployment to production to certify from QA and share the certification results.
• Report status to management and attended daily status meetings.
• Facilitating weekly project status meetings, supporting project managers in preparation and refinement of presentations for management.

Test Lead

Confidential, Austin, TX

Environment: Java, My SQL, IOS, Android, iOS

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the various stakeholders involved in delivering innovative solutions to the customer adhering to the project schedule.
• Constantly communicate and make recommendations to stakeholders Confidential all levels and phases as required.
• Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements. (Participate in business requirements review meetings, design and produce reference documents based on the analysis carried out)
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.
• Provide day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Participate in release level activities (Planning, attend review meetings, attend defect review call, and attend status calls).
• For Requirement Analysis, perform the following:
• Attend requirement reviews and analyze business requirements of upcoming projects.
• Find requirements gaps if any and inform the analyst group.
• Review the revised requirements and provide approvals.
• Develop Test Plan and Test Cases and schedule meetings to get a baseline vote from the Business Team, Developers and Requirement analysts on the Test Plan and Test Scripts.
• Support System Integration testing (SIT) & UAT for the release projects and coordinate with the project team to address and resolve the defects found.
• Initiate Triage meetings with client regularly to discuss about defects and prioritize them.
• Support different applications during various phases of testing like Unit testing and User Acceptance testing with quickest possible turnaround time for identified bugs and data issues.

Test Lead/Onsite Test Coordinator and Automation Engineer

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Environment: Java, Oracle 10g, Siebel framework, Selenium, TestNG framework, HP ALM, MS SharePoint & MS Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• As a Test Lead, primary responsibilities are to interact with customers and US counterparts, assigning projects to the team members, peer reviewing of the first draft of test plan and test case documents prepared by the team members, mentoring team members and review the work and deliverables of my team members Confidential different levels of system testing.
• Client Handling (Giving demonstration to client and supporting for UAT).
• Coordinating Onsite and offshore in delivering solution to our customer.
• Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements. (Participate in business requirements review meetings, design and produce reference documents based on the analysis carried out).
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer.
• Provide day-to-day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Participate in release level activities (Planning, attend review meetings, attend defect review call, and attend status calls).
• Attend requirement reviews and analyze business requirements of upcoming projects. Find requirements gaps if any and inform the analyst groups. Review the revised requirements and provide approvals. Develop Test Plan and Test Scripts in HP Mercury Quality Center Tool. Schedule Meetings to get a baseline vote from the Business Teams, Developers and Requirement analysts on the Test Plan and Test Scripts.
• Perform System Integration testing (SIT) for the release projects and log defects in HP Mercury Quality Center defect tool if any and inform the developer on the defects found.
• Support different applications during various phases of testing like Unit testing and User Acceptance testing with quickest possible turnaround time for identified bugs and data issues.
• Manage the testing efforts of the team members by equal assignment of the work load. Active participation in project scheduling.
• Support technical outages on application to resume normal business operations in the least possible time as the application is critical for Confidential associates.
• Supports periodical Audits/Test Assessments.
• Participate in gathering business requirements and feasibility analysis to prepare the test plan and test strategies for performing automation testing during SIT and UAT phases.
• Development of Automation Scripts, Execution and Analysis of Test Results using Hybrid, Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework.
• Schedule and participate in deliverable review meetings with customer.
• Develop Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
• Participate in and provides inputs on the test data preparation requirements as required.
• Extensively used Selenium Web driver API and TestNG API to automate the test scenarios.
• Participates in exporting TestNG scripts from Selenium IDE to Eclipse TestNG Test Suites, creating new TestNG test cases, modifying the selenium scripts and writing test suites using TestNG.
• Validate the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.
• Responsible for providing weekly status reports, showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Collects metrics and performs Defect causal analysis.
• Act as a SPOC for Customer and bridge the communication gaps.

Test Lead

Confidential

Environment: VB.Net, Oracle 10g, HP Quality Center, MS SharePoint & MS Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business Requirements from Customers and provide the knowledge transfer to offshore team
• Prepare test plan and test strategies based on the requirements and share with Customers
• Present the test scenarios/Test cases with the client team
• Provides inputs on the test data preparation phase
• Provides test execution guidelines to team members
• Holds defect review meetings with the concerned development and support teams
• Communicate timelines, progress, delays with the Customers periodically. Act as a SPOC for Customer and bridge the communication gaps.
• Participates in troubleshooting meetings with cross-functional teams to support triaging of defects/issues.
• Participates in the test execution as and when required.
• Involved in mobile testing of Field Service Tech Passport application.
• Perform the smoke and sanity test on any deployed build and gives a go ahead for the team to continue testing.
• Collects metrics and performs Defect causal analysis.
• Supports User Acceptance Testing.

Test Engineer

Confidential

Environment: Confidential AS/400, Windows/Unix, Confidential WebSphere & Configurable Network Computing architecture(CNC), MS Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• Effort and Schedule Estimations
• Review of Test Plan and Test Cases
• Development, Testing and Maintenance of Test Scripts using QTP
• Perform Regression Testing, raise bugs/defects on applications when identified
• SAR(defects) Retesting
• Fixing the defects raised on the Scripts during Regression Cycles
• Provide support to the Regression Teams during Script Execution
• Maintain Metrics and Status Reports
• Involved in Recruitment and Knowledge Transfer of new team members
• Prepare, review and execute the functional design document and communicate the inconsistencies with the stakeholders.
• Perform action Planning for the design.
• Create the actions using QTP by recording the application use cases identified.
• Customize the application functionalities and insert Checkpoints.
• Execute the QTP scripts and analyze the results.
• Involved in review of test scripts developed by other team members
• Enhance and maintain test script for the various functional changes in the system.