SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in Information Technology with Strong Functional System knowledge and industry leading quality assurance skills in Retail, Telecommunication and Health Domains.
• Diverse testing experience such as Functional, Nonfunctional, Customer acceptance Testing, Complex System Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI & Data Migration testing, Vendor Certification testing, Performance & Load Testing.
• Has extensive work experience in building testing architecture, test strategy and defining the test scope by thorough understanding and analyzing the business requirements, preparing use cases, preparing test plan, test estimations, test cases, execution and documenting test report and defect metrics
• Sound International work experience by working with global Clients like H&M, A.P. Moller - Maersk, Ericsson and British Telecom in the Europe region (Sweden, Denmark and UK) and Du Telecom in Middle-East (Dubai).
• Excellence in cross- functional projects and good leadership skills to deliver products and solutions on-time and has good project management experience in leading testing efforts.
• Working collaboratively with other teams like Business architects, IT architects and IT development teams to ensure projects meet strategic planning and risk mitigations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and stake holder communication with global peers around the world.
• Focused on functional and non-functional software quality assurance and on-time delivery by proactive planning and execution.
• Having good experience in Data driven Testing, Cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG & selenium Grid and ETL Testing in IBM Data Stage.
• Excellent communication, presentation, problem-solving and can quickly adapt to new environments and has managed large testing programs.
• Achieved internal audit awards and have acquired retail and telecom domain certifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver/RC/Grid, HP QTP (UFT), Load Runner

Test Management Tools: JIRA, HP ALM, HP QC/Test Director, TCS Smart Test Manager

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and PPS (Practical Project Steering Model)

Programming Languages/Frameworks: JAVA, TestNG, VB Script & PERL

Databases: Oracle 9i database/11 g, SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL9.5

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000 Server/Professional, Linux, Solaris

CRM Applications: Siebel CRM, PeopleSoft CRM, Intec Single view Billing, Stream serve

ETL Tools: IBM Data Stage

Web Technologies: HTML, XML and VB Script

Web Services Testing: SOAP UI and API Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst/ Lead

Environment: s: IBM Data Stage, Linux, SharePoint, HP ALM, Oracle 11g, Netezza, PL/SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for different Data mapping activities from Source systems to target DataMart.
• Plan Timelines, coordinate staff and allocate resources to ensure efficiency and productivity are maximized.
• Worked as ETL QA Lead responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project.
• Preparation of testing strategy, automated test plan, test summary document for all the releases planned and delivered.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate source data versus data in the data warehouse including identification of duplicate records and data quality assurance such as data integrity and reconciliation.
• Involved with ETL test data creation for all the ETL mapping rules.

QA Analyst/ Lead

Environment: s: Selenium, JAVA, Retail POS Machines (Wincor Nixdorf/Extenda POS), Fujitsu Hardware, Java/Delphi, Printer, Barcode Scanner, POS EFT Terminals (Ingenico, VeriFone), PIN pad, SAP POSDM, JIRA, HP ALM.

Responsibilities:

• As a Testing SME, the primary responsibility is to make sure that the requirements were met as specified in the Use Case document and by validating and verifying the functional business flow ensuring functionalities were tested properly and in delivering a quality product to the customer.
• Lead the UAT testing team and release management and resource management and played a major role in Setting up the H&M Point Of Sale Test Lab at Offshore.
• Plan Timelines, coordinate staff and allocate resources to ensure efficiency and productivity are maximized.
• Preparation of Use cases, testing strategy, automated test plan, test summary document for all the releases planned and delivered.
• Took ownership of automation and led the automation team by automating the e-commerce Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in JAVA.
• Involved in Automation Environment setup using Eclipse, Java, Selenium WebDriver jars and TestNG.
• Create and enhance test scripts using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations.
• Responsible for Developing Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
• Executed automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team
• Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA.
• Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
• Prepare Metrics for stake holders and POS Release Management team and active contributor for ‘Go/No Go’ decision for pilot and release package in production.
• Groomed the test leads and supported the team members with process maps, guidelines & evaluated their performance regularly and mentored them.
• Develop metrics to test and monitor applications, ensuring consistent improvement.

QA Analyst/Lead

Environment: s: HP QC, Tomcat Webserver, Java, SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio .NET, ASP.net, Oracle 10g.

Responsibilities:

• Played the QA lead role and handled multiple projects in parallel and stake holder communication.
• Provided test effort estimations for the CRs/ER's delivered and perform Impact analysis as well.
• Prepare test artifacts and co-ordinate with the development leads in understanding the requirement/business specification and getting a sign off for code freeze.
• Reviewed the automation test scripts and guided the test team for preparing test data.
• Lead and handled Root Causal Analysis for the high critical defects registered and recorded in QC.

Sr. QA Analyst

Environment: s: HP QC/Test Director, Siebel CRM, BSCS, DOC1, PGW, IN serve, SAP BW 3.5

Responsibilities:

• Worked on with Scrum Agile methodology and participated in daily stand-up meetings to update the daily progress to stake holders.
• Involved in analyzing the business requirements and in providing test estimation effort for preparation of test cases/scripts and test data.
• Lead the test execution and defect triage meetings and metric management in QC.
• Established synergies at a process level and championed the process maps thereby minimize their overhead.

Performance Test Engineer

Environment: s: HP Load Runner, QTP, Solaris Server, Oracle 10g, SOAP UI, API testing, XML, JSON, Unix Server, Perl Scripts, MS Excel PL/SQL, JAVA/JSP, Eclipse, star team, cruise control.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and Configure the Test Environment and chose the desired protocol that can be used for testing.
• Plan and Design test strategies. Develop the performance tests in accordance with the test design.
• Do pre-test activities like Identifying key scenarios, defining the test data etc. and run LR scripts
• Setup performance counters in Solaris environment, LR test scripts, setup V-users in the LR Controller.
• Run the automation Perl scripts and validate the test results by measuring the response time.
• Delivered SPT guideline and SPT report document as a part of performance test result.
• Plot chart/pivot graph representation of test results and handled the review meeting
• Monitoring LR graphs, Transaction response time and Windows resources.
• Performed E2E Test Automation using QTP and Cruise Control as well for the project TEMT.

Software QA Engineer

Environment: s: MS Excel, Visual Basic, MS SQL, star team.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functional requirements and business flow of the application.
• Preparation, Review & execution of Test Cases.
• Preparation of Traceability matrices.
• Preparation of Daily/Weekly test status Reports.
• Prepared and maintained the documents and report NCR if not adhered according to the standards and emphasize the importance of the customer satisfaction