PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12+ Years of hands - on experience in Software Quality Assurance including testing & management of various applications such as Cloud, Client/Server, Web based, Mobile, SOA/Web service based, BI Reports, Mainframe applications and handling multiple projects and multiple teams simultaneously.
• Conversant with all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Well versed with agile process(Scrum and Kanban Board), participate in grooming and daily scrum meetings, preparing project status report by analyzing Burn Down and Burnup charts, Review/updated the product backlog with PO & Scrum Teams.
• Successfully handled ORACLE largest cloud data conversion HCM fusion project.
• In depth knowledge on ETL process, Data ware housing concepts and excels at transformations.
• Proficient in writing complex SQL for ETL and database testing.
• Experience in testing native apps across multiple mobile platforms including Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
• Experience with SOA architecture testing including XML and SOAP messaging and worked on Web Services andAPI testing using SOAP UI.
• Experience in designing test scripts using automation tool Selenium and UFT.
• Extensive domain knowledge in Retail, Finance, Transportation, HR, Mobile, Publishing and Health Care domains
• Analyzes testing technologies and makes appropriate suggestions to enhance and guide the testing direction
• Effective defect tracking and reporting through different defect tracking tools to improve communications and reduce delay.
• Proficient at business liaison to enable translation of business requirements to user acceptance scenarios.
• Strong understanding of user acceptance testing (UAT) protocols and methodologies.
• Demonstrated success at effectively managing global cross-functional teams leveraging testing skills and process.
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Usability Testing, Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Equipment Testing
• Experience in stakeholders management, Leadership and program management, involved in presales activities, Writing proposals and sales presentations to extend the business.
• Excellence in Risk/Issue management, implementing solutions to enhance testing process and Methodologies, focus on improving quality, productivity, cost effectiveness and reduced time to market.
• Excellence in people management, onboarding and off boarding resources as per project need, mentoring new team members and tracking performance of existing resources.
• Expert in integrating Automation scripts (SeleniumWeb Driver API) on Continuous Integration tool like Jenkins for nightly batch run of the Script.
• Responsible for providing resource estimations, Creating and implementing test strategies, score card preparation, Requirement Analysis, Test cases Preparation/Review, Test Automation, Test Execution, Test Reporting, Defect Tracking and User Acceptance Testing, End to End testing .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Family

Databases: SQL Server 2016, Sybase, DB2 and Oracle.

Technologies: ORACLE Fusion, Java, Mainframes, WCS, JDA TMS, WMS, Genesis and sterling

Testing tools: ORACLE BI Publisher, QTP 11, QC 11(ALM), Selenium and JAZZ, JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr.

Defect Tracking Tool: Issue Manager, Mantisand QC.

Programming languages: C#, Java, VB Script, SQL and COBOL.

Internet Tools: HTML, Java Script and XML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC.

QA Lead

Technical Details: C#. Net, SQL Server, Angular JS, Xamarin, JIRA, Confluence.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Requirements gathering, Story Creation, Backlog Grooming, acceptance creation, providing estimations for QA efforts, sub tasks creation for QA, attending daily/weekly standup, demos, retrospectives.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions with product owners and Collaborate with them to detect requirement ambiguities.
• Create comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, and other needed documentation to ensure high quality QA deliverables and accurate projected timelines
• Responsible for developing Manual and Automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of all user stories / business requirements.
• Perform financial validations in Hub and ORACLE system.
• Verify all invoices paid to Carriers and Customers. Validate payment processing.
• Perform native app testing on latest mobiles across IOS and Android platforms.
• Involved/helped business and actual end users in pilot testing of app.
• Perform block box and Smoke testing on different test environments as part of new initiatives and production fixes.
• Perform exhaustive regression testing before application handover to UAT testing.
• Provide test demos and conduct test result walkthrough for key stakeholders
• Validate & enhance test scenarios & test scripts with additional negative cases, corner cases, scenarios
• Coordinate with DevOps and technical teams for QA environment setup.
• Participate in end-to-end testing activities with numerous interface partners
• Review cross-functional testing coverage to ensure integration coverage
• Schedule & monitor test runs
• Contribute to efficient and effective program and system solutions in solving medium-complex business problems
• Build & execute exploratory tests on use cases/user stories, communicates risk, identify regression scenarios for automation, mentors non-testing project team members on testing
• Identify & execute clear automation strategies with meaningful ROI’s.
• Build, maintain & enhance the automation pipeline.
• Leverage Zephyr & automation tools during development process such as Jira, Confluence, Jenkins and GitHub.
• Work with developers during development life cycle and provide continues feedback
• Develop clear understanding of the lower test environments utilized during testing process and help oversee management of those test environments
• Ensure test coverage & signoff
• Coordinate and helping offshore team on completing deliverable on daily basis.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Lead

Technical Details: ORACLE Fusion, Taleo, BI Publisher, ALM, Selenium, perfaware.

Responsibilities:

• Provide estimations for testing efforts as per the requirements and define resource plan.
• Facilitate requirement gathering interviews, issue clarification discussions, review documentation done by team, ensure traceability, follow up with different teams for obtaining sign-offs from all stake holders.
• Created test strategy for converting data from Legacy PeopleSoft to ORACLE fusion cloud solution.
• Created test cases for data validation by referring to requirements.
• Good hands on experience in writing queries to validate data at different stages of ETL process.
• Actively involved in data validations by applying transformation logics.
• Worked closely with all business partners (40-Including external + Internal) to validate new system is working as expected.
• Involved in Payroll module testing to validate Gross earnings, gross to net before and after tax, GL files, Garnishments and Benefit deductions.
• Coordinated with banks, Insurance companies and financialinstitutions ( Confidential and ADP) to validate all payroll related data (US and CANADA W2, GL and paychecks.
• Defined UAT strategy, Created UAT test plan, test scenarios and test cases.
• Conducted user acceptance testing(UAT) to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients as specified in the functional requirements.
• Perform smoke testing after every new build before starting full SIT testing.
• Perform regression testing after completing SIT before UAT starts.
• Responsible for End to End functional testing activities.
• Participate in requirement analysis meetings with business teams to understand the requirements.
• Formulating the Test Strategy document.
• Involve in solution analysis meetings with cross functional teams such as Business, Architect, IT Solutions and define testing scope.
• Ownership of Deliverables to Customer.
• Design test approach for data conversion testing.
• Provide inputs to team on test scenarios preparation.
• Involve in test scripting, execution and reporting.
• Ensure optimum test environment is setup, reduced time and cost by bringing technical expertise and quicker issue resolution capabilities.
• Cross team engagement and co-ordination.
• Responsible in automation assessment and involve in automation scripts creation using selenium.
• Conduct defect triage meetings to track the defects closure.
• Interacting with all internal and external vendors as part of vendor testing.
• Publish daily test results and update testing progress to all stake holders.

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Technical Details: JDA Transportation Manager, Mainframes, Java, HP QC, Enterprise Service Bus(ESB), XML, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End to End functional testing activities.
• Participate in requirement analysis meetings with business teams to understand the requirements.
• Provide estimations for testing efforts as per the requirements and define resource plan.
• Formulating the Test Strategy document.
• Involve in solution analysis meetings with cross functional teams such as Business, JDA Architect, IT Solutions and define testing scope.
• Ownership of Deliverables to Customer.
• Involve in test scripting, execution and reporting.
• Ensure optimum test environment is setup, reduced time and cost by bringing technical expertise and quicker issue resolution capabilities.
• Cross team engagement and co-ordination.
• Worked closely with UAT team to make sure requirements are implemented as per business expecations.

Confidential

QA Lead

Technical Details: Mobile, IOS, Android, Windows, Façade, HP QC, JSON Objects and IBM Core Metrics, Device Connect,HP ALM Quality Center 11.00,Sterling Order Management CONSOL, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB),ESB view Log,XML,CP&I,Genesis,Sharepoint, Management Center, Unix,IBM DB2.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a “Project Lead” for both Commerce and Mobile teams.
• Participating in client discussions to gather scope information and perform analysis of scope information to provide inputs for project scoping documents.
• Participate in estimation activities considering LOWES/Infosys QP goals and review estimates to support planning for required budget.
• Facilitate requirement gathering interviews, issue clarification discussions, review documentation done by team, ensure traceability, follow up with different teams for obtaining sign-offs from all stake holders.
• Co-ordinate with solutions architect to decide the platform to test various IOS, Android and Windows devices.
• Assists with overall Test Strategy/Test Plans preparation for all releases.
• Provide inputs to automation team on framework designing, automating regression suite and review automation scripts.
• Perform web services testing using SOAP UI tool
• Conduct defect triage meeting with all stake holders to track all defects to closure.
• Create a risk management plan clearly identifying the risks and plan for mitigation and baseline the same with all stake holders in order to minimize any adverse impact to the project
• Allocate work to project team, track the project scope, schedule, quality, resource requirements, risks and communicate to all stake holders as per the communication plan.
• Reviews and approves deliverables prepared by the team to include test case reviews and standardization
• Identifies process improvement areas to minimize the potential of recurring issues

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Technical Test Lead

Technical Details: Mainframes, COBOL, Java, DB2, Teradata, File Aid,Optium, Zeke, QC 9.2.

• Provided effort estimations for all RFO projects and Involved in SOW creation, staffing and planning.
• Assist business leads review test plans and scripts to ensure requirements are covered; provide signoff
• Develop and communicate master test strategy document and test approach.
• Create and communicate test schedule,test execution plan and defect management process to be utilized in HP ALM
• Facilitate and lead SIT (System Integration Testing) test status meetings, track team progress during test phase.
• Maintained overall application(s) knowledge and provided support to Functional test, automation, test data management, test environments.
• Involved in onsite interaction and provided in helping hand to the onsite Counterparts.
• Monitor and track critical and high testing issues and defects throughout entire testing phase.
• Review test scenarios, test cases and test results. Also involved in reviewing defects with the BA’s and provides inputs to developers.
• Organizing defect triage meetings by involving all stake holders.
• Prepare and share daily status report to key stake holders. Also provide timely updates on the list of activities assigned to team.
• Train team members on project process and provide tips on process tailoring.
• Lead the creation of a repository of team collective knowledge on technology, domain and process, seek information and leverage knowledge from other projects.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Technical Details: Java, Servlet, JSP, XML, SQL Server,C#.Net, ADO.Net,Commerce Server and Oracle.

• Participated and provided input during requirements and specification walkthroughs (reviews).
• Prepared the test plan and defines, develops, and maintains test scripts for different releases
• Wrote test cases for all functionalities based on product functional specification.
• Captured the SQL statements from the application execution and manually checked results.
• Involved in executing test cases and defect reporting using Mantis.
• Developed automation test scripts using QTP to automate the sanity and regression test suites.
• Performing defect prevention activities and root cause analysis.
• Preparation of quality documents as per CMMI standards.
• Preparation of test summary report and sharing rest results with all stake holders.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Technical Details: ASP.Net, C#, ADO.Net, HTML, Java Script, SQL Server, Clarion, Issue Manager, Commerce Server.

• Participated and provided input during requirements and specification walkthroughs (reviews).
• Created regression test cases for the purpose of regression testing.
• Executed tests and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Used the issue manager as a repository for all of the testing efforts.
• Involved in the review of test plan, preparation of traceability matrix and writing scenarios and test cases.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to communicate with the databases while doing data base testing