SUMMARY:

• 10 years of experience in the IT industry in quality assurance using web based, client/server and product testing with strong business understanding and 5 years of experience as a Team Lead .
• Expertise in QA processes and different levels of testing like Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, end to end testing, performance, security, load testing and support with business scenarios.
• Proven leadership experience with strong Analytical, Presentation and Communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge in all phases of software test life cycle - Requirement gathering and Analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Data Creation, Test Scheduling, Test Script Execution, Defect Management and Test report generation.
• Proficient in the areas of GUI, Functionality, and Regression Testing.
• Team leading, escalation and resolution of issues.
• Effective Defect Tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Web Services testing, and Test environment management.
• Excellent inter-personal, leadership skills, proactive problem predicting & resolving skills with quality conscience.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to new project environments easily.
• Experience in creating estimates, updating daily status reports and post release reports to clients.
• Knowledge in functional testing AUT using Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver using Junit/TestNG testing framework
• Working knowledge in HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Working knowledge in HP UFT.
• Experience in scripting using BPT Components.
• Experienced in testing Web and Mobile applications in Agile environment
• Effectively work independently and in team with users, project managers, business analysts and developers.
• Experience in requirement to test case mapping using HP ALM and generating traceability Matrices.
• Capability to apply wide technical and practical skills to manage and execute black-box tests and to evaluate needs for software designing, development, and validations.
• Experience working in offshore-on site model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: SQL Server, Oracle8i, Sybase

Automation: HP UFT(QTP), Win Runner, BPT, Selenium

Operating System: Windows XP/NT/2000/7, UNIX

Defect Management: Test Director, HP Quality Center (ALM), Defect Tracker, Bugzilla,JIRA

Test Management: Perforce, On Time

Version Control Systems: SVN

Methodologies/SDLC: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, V-Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, MD

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in the creation, distribution, and walk-through of software test cases, scripts and other documents surrounding testing activities and ensure that all testing activities and deliverable are in compliance with company standards.
• Effectively lead the team to ensure productivity.
• Prioritizing of task, effort estimation, resource allocation.
• Reviewed the test cases written by the team members and suggested any updates if necessary.
• Provide man-hour and work-effort estimations for the product testing.
• Interacting with development team on quality issues, escalation & resolution of issues
• Test Environment set up, Execution and maintaining test cases.
• Regression Test suite preparation.
• Test Status preparation.
• Implementation and maintenance of testing activities.
• Involve in Test Case Design, Test Execution, Review and Test Reporting of EMR testing for all new requirements and enhancements.
• Defect Reporting, Tracking and resolve in conjunction with the Development team.
• Defect Management, Reviews involved in the testing process.
• Documentation related to the product.
• Requirement Clarification with BA Team.
• QA Planning. This includes, Writing Test Plan, Execution and review planning
• Installation of the product on various operating systems.
• UI Test Execution on various browsers on different platform.
• Coordinating with multiple teams across locations
• Involved in Test Planning, tracking and review of test design, test execution to ensure system is in accordance with acceptance criteria.
• Created test data to execute all the test cases and scripts in testing environment.
• Involved in Defect management.
• Worked with users to develop user acceptance plan and test cases.
• Tracked bugs using Defect Tracker and performed regression testing of the entire application once the bugs are fixed.
• Attended various meetings with the developers, clients, and the management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications.
• Developed detailed test conditions and documented test scripts and test procedures.
• Inserted verification checkpoints, synchronization points, and parameterized data for all aspects of the application.
• Developed Test Automation Methodology by creating re-usable modules for automated testing of the entire application and also involved in building a structure for automating the scripts for Regression.
• Developed new and updated existing Automation test cases using selenium WebDriver.
• Used Selenium Grid to test the compatibility of the tests across multiple servers to save time.
• Experience in web service testing using REST.
• Experience in playing BSA role by building, modifying and updating the requirements as per the clients need
• Planning and estimating for the testing efforts, keeping the plan up to date.
• Coordinating with business team at on-site.
• Coordinating with testing team at offshore.
• Reporting to release managers the testing status, highlights and issues

Environment: Srum,Silverlight, SQL, On Time,, SVN,Selenium,Bugzilla,JIRA,HP ALM

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Effectively lead the team to ensure productivity.
• Prioritizing of task, effort estimation, resource allocation.
• Interacting with development team on quality issues, escalation & resolution of issues
• Test Environment set up, Execution and maintaining test cases.
• Regression Test suite preparation.
• Test Status preparation, updating the status to the client on a daily basis.
• Implementation and maintenance of testing activities for FPAC.
• Involve in Test Case Design, Test Execution and Test Reporting of FPAC testing for all new requirements and enhancements.
• Defect Reporting, Tracking and resolve in conjunction with the Development team.
• Scripting, Executing and modifying the UFT(QTP) Test Scripts.
• Used Unix environment for batch Testing.
• Test Automation Scripting using BPT Components.
• Responsible to say ‘no’ to other leads / managers when quality is insufficient or QA processes are not being adhered.
• Delivering the quality release using HP Application Life Cycle management for test planning, executing and reporting.
• Training and assisting team member to solve complex test scenario.
• Analyzing with test manager/director and stake holder to pick up area of improvement in the product and process.
• Conducting weekly walk-through on testing progress and providing daily status update to the management.
• Skilled leader with expertise in Quality and Technology life-cycle management, standard procedures and policies, and process improvement. Drive in efficiencies from business processes to participate in cost reduction efforts. Coordinate project development efforts in relation to continuous improvement.
• Define and promote processes that govern how an organization performs requirements definition, design, implementation, test and support activities. Design system enhancements that boost productivity and close operational gaps.
• Developed training program for new employees. Reduced learning curve and improved employee productivity by 85%.
• Identification of opportunities for process improvement and assist engineering teams in the implementation of appropriate improvement measure
• Resource Planning and task distribution.

Environment: Window XP, J2EE, Sybase, UNIX,HP Quality Center(ALM), BPT Components, UFT(QTP)

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the whole requirement specification.
• Writing the test plan and test cases according the requirement and business logic.
• Preparation of TSL script using Winrunner as automation tool.
• Generated the test defect reports and reported it to the senior person for bug fixing.
• Writing SQL queries for checking the data fields.
• Created test data to validate business logic/requirements.
• Involved in the entire project life cycle from analysis, installation, development, testing, production and end user support.
• Develop Test plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases & decided on automation when required.
• Created Test Cases in Quality Center and mapped Test Cases through developed Tractability Matrix and Test Coverage reports.
• Managed and conducted System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, and UAT and Regression testing.
• Execute batch processing and verify the jobs status and data in database tables.
• Tracked the defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Interacted with developers, business & management teams and end users.

Environment: Window XP, .NET, SQL 2005, WINRUNNER 8.2,JIRA

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Checking for the functionality using Black box Testing.
• Writing Test cases.
• Creating Test data based on the Test cases and executing the test cases.
• GUI Testing.
• Analyze & Implement Test Plans, Test Strategies, Managing periodic test cycles and Test Defect reporting.
• Design, Script and Configure Tests & Test Scenarios.
• Train QA Engineers for implementing better Quality Assurance practices in Test Documentation & Reporting.
• Work closely with the client in analyzing and implementing Standards for better quality assurance methodology for the product under test.
• Introduced & Implemented inter-team Leadership Development Initiatives by way of peer-to-peer review processes, technical group discussions, proactive team building techniques, cohesive team meetings.
• Analyzed, Developed & Implemented Functional & Regression Test Scripts that consisted of the complete business logic for Feature Based Testing.
• Executed tests under multiple Functional & Regression test.

Environment: JSP, Servlets, Swing, EJB, Oracle 8.0, Windows2K.

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with the client for better understanding of the requirements.
• Deriving high-level Functionality Test Cases using the SRS & SDS.
• Involved in Execution of Test Scripts and Defect Reporting.
• Was a part of DRB board, thereby involved in Validation of Defects
• Involve functional testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing.
• Active participation in implementation of various processes in project.
• Create and maintain test plans that define test objectives, methods and tools to be employed for the assigned project
• Contribute to the definition of detailed project schedules, conveying clearly defined milestones for test preparation, execution, and compliance reporting activities and deliverable s. Execute tasks with the test schedule
• Test Cases/Conditions development and review.
• Execution of Test-Cases tracking defects till closure.
• Regression testing.
• User Acceptance testing.

Environment: Java, Power Builder, Oracle, .Net, Windows

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the document completely for better understanding of the project
• Writing and executing Test Cases for functional testing.
• Reporting defects

Environment: VB 6.0, Oracle 8.0, Windows2K