PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an excellent IT Consultant having 10 years of experience in the field of Information technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance/Testing.
• Extensive experience in Financial, Banking domains and Web based applications and a strong relationship with the client and Liaison between the Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Expertise includes manual and Database testing, QA methodologies and exposure to all stages of SDLC, STLC.
• Acted as a Liaison between the Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Expertise in all phases of testing of client/server and web applications and Involved in the Production Release.
• Experience in manual and automated testing tools for performance, positive and negative functionality, system, integration and regression tests.
• Effectively managed time, prioritize work, and performed multiple tasks inorder to meet the deadlines/deliver the application on time with the best quality.
• Extensively used Agile - Scrum methodology and participated in all ceremonies, artifacts and involved in all meetings including scrum standup meeting, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, sprint Retrospective.
• Extensive exposure to Release backlog, Product Backlog and sprint Backlog.
• Participated/Conducted in weekly status meetings and conducted walkthrough for team members and documented the proceedings.
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Black Box, GUI, Functionality, Unit, Integration, Regression, Usability, Compatibility, Installation, System, Performance, Database testing and User Acceptance (UAT) of Web and Client/Server Applications.
• Expertise in writing, maintaining, executing Test Plans, reviewed the Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and Bug triage -Interacting with team members in fixing the errors.
• Translating the business requirements into test cases and Created Traceability Matrix(RTM) for the applications
• Trained Jr. Testers for writing detailed test cases and executed test cases in Mercury Quality Center(HP ALM Tool), and strong at multi-tasking and prioritizing testing activities to meet the project deadlines
• Extremely involved in managing defect tracking system like Bugzilla and Quality Center,HP ALM(Management tool.
• Well versed with all the testing concepts and methodologies Agile, Waterfall and Iteration methods
• Lead QA testing efforts for new releases and ongoing application maintenance and Handled testing efforts for the multiple projects/releases concurrently and involved in Test Estimation
• Conducted the meetings with the IT team, vendor, business team and other application teams to accomplish project goals
• Provided demos to the business/Product Owners for completed functionalities/stories.
• Involved in E2E (End to End) testing and Creation of SQL Queries.
• Thorough understanding of Iterative Software Development methodologies and SDLC Model.
• Experience in QTP (UFT) automation tool.
• Good Knowledge in Selenium Web driver automation tool.
• Experienced in web service testing with SOAP-UI testing using Postman, SOAP UI and REST.
• Extensively used Version one for Project management/tracking and SharePoint for Project related information.
• Extensively Used HP-ALM for Test cases preparation, Test cases execution, Defect tracking and Requirement traceability.
• Good analytical, communication skills and ability to work independently and also perform as part of a team
• Committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS: DOS, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/2K/XP

LANGUAGE: VB script,C, Java

MS: SQL Server, SQL, Oracle 8i,Toad

TCM Tools: Mercury Quality Center 10.0, VSS(Visual Source system), test Management, Version One, Clear Quest, Test Director

Testing Tools: UFT 14.01

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, Web Logic, SOAP UI, Web Sphere Application Server, Tomcat Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Understanding, implementing, and updating the Agile Test Strategy.
• Involved in the process of defining user stories, adding them to the backlog.
• Leading the team, define the criteria that must be met for each story to be considered "done."
• Work with Product Owners to define Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done.
• Involved in defining estimate, the scope and size of the testing effort for each user story
• Involved in the design of the software testing by working closely with developers to assess and advise on testability aspects.
• Design and execute test cases for each user story.
• Responsible for delivering the team's user stories at the end of the sprint.
• Responsible for Agile Release Train, ensuring series of fixed-length Iterations within a Program Increment (PI) time box.
• Collaborating more closely with developers for user stories completion, defects resolution.
• Responsible for Defect Management - Defect identification, Defect Logging, Defect tracking, Defect verification and Closure.
• Responsible for Test Management - Defining Requirements, mapping requirements to Test cases, Test Lab, Test Deliverables.
• Responsible for UAT Management - Preparing UAT Test plans/scripts, User manuals, test data and Defects support.
• Responsible for Project management - maintain and administering test management activities/artifacts.
• Evaluate accurately and report test results, test progress, and product quality.
• Work effectively to define testable user stories, especially acceptance criteria, with customer representatives and stakeholders.
• Actively collaborating with developers and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness.
• Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members.
• Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases
• Coaching other team members in relevant aspects of testing.
• Ensuring the appropriate testing tasks are scheduled during release and iteration planning.
• Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives,
• Suggesting and implementing improvements
• Design test cases for carrying out tests of the project at various stages.
• Perform smoke, sanity and adhoc, functional, system, Regression and integration testing.
• Executing test cases of several modules and logging defects into HP ALM and Version one
• Maintaining Defect tracking, Bug reports, and Release summary QA documents.
• Verification of data between Excel template and TOAD data base.
• Verification of data flow among integration of different applications.
• Verification of stage moves, user activation/deactivation, status findings, parameter validation, retrieving stored values from DB through SOAP UI - POSTMAN in the form of Request and Response.
• Verification of test scenarios and their output with expected result in POSTMAN.
• Verification data between response and DB values using POSTMAN.
• Validate the response, response time, error code using POSTMAN.
• Load and Security testing on web services
• Able to validate the xml and Json body by using Json parsers
• Used Web methods of POSTMAN such as GET,POST,DELETE
• Responsible for Test Management activities such as performing System testing, Integration testing, and End to End Testing.
• Responsible for Defect Management using HP ALM in the form of Identification of Defect, Logging and Tracking the defects till closure and conducting Defect triage calls based on Defects in ALM.
• Responsible for maintaining and administering HP ALM for all testing activities such as Release, Requirements,Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects.
• Responsible for SignOFF-QA to UAT and Performing UAT support in the form of UAT Test plans,UAT Test scripts,UAT Defects handling and support to production sanity testing
• Responsible for maintaining and administering project management, Test Management and configuration management tool with respect to QA activities/artifacts.

Environment: VB Excel, TOAD, HP-ALM, Version One

Confidential

Senior QA analyst, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Daily Scrum meetings, Retrospective, Sprint planning meetings for each sprint
• Understanding User Stories and creating an estimation plan for each sprint
• Walkthrough manual test cases, refinements of the test cases
• Preparing Test Data, Test Plan and Test estimation.
• Handling resources and allocating the tasks
• Test case Creation and Execution
• Involved in setting up defect tracking/status meetings and resolving the issues, assigned the defects to respective developers.
• Preparing Daily Status, Weekly Status and Metrics
• Design test cases for carrying out tests of the project at various stages
• Perform smoke, sanity and adhoc, functional, system, Regression and integration testing
• Executing test cases of several modules and logging defects into HP QC and Version one
• Performed BPM workflow.
• Tested SLA,Case management, Notification management
• Performed Performance testing using PEGA Performance tool(PAL)
• Performed Event handlers testing using PEGA Developer studio.
• Flow based Testing - Concentrates on Business flows (E2E), involving multiple roles and multiple users, multiple process.
• Role based Testing - Testing based on workgroups - Skills, UI etc
• Rule based Testing
• Business Rules - Formulae, delegated rules.
• Technical Rules - integration rules.
• Maintaining Defect tracking, Bug reports
• Estimate, plan, develop and maintain manual and automated test cases web based applications
• Verification of data between Excel template and TOAD data base.
• Verification of data flow among integration of different applications.
• Leading team to coordinate, cooperate to ensure QA deliverables in proper way.
• Verification of compatibility testing between Web based and mobile device(iphone,ipad) through mobile testing.
• Involved in the UAT test cases and clarified the doubts
• Involved in setting up defect tracking/status meetings
• Involved in Metrics collection, Preparing MOM’s.
• Participated in defect triage meetings and assigned the defects to respective developer.
• Created SQL Queries against an Sql/Oracle database
• Involved in the Scrum Call/Meetings
• Provided demos to the business/Product Owners for completed functionalities
• Developed formal test results documentation.
• Develop, Execute and Maintain QTP/UFT scripts.

Environment :Java,Pega framework,Version one,Oracle,HP -ALM

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst, New York

Responsibilities:

• Create a SOAP Project using WSDL and associated request in SOAP UI.
• Validate hierarchy in Response against Database.
• Validate starting point object and its dependents.
• Validate object properties on mouse hover.
• Validate hierarchy links between objects
• Validate Ratings, Rating type code, Outlook, Credit watch for each object in the hierarchy.
• Validate SMART KEY text for objects
• Validate dependent and independent objects in the SOAP response.
• Data checks from APR DB against MRC DB
• Creating ESID names (PEG Names) for Maturities available in CORE DB
• Data Mapping between CORE DB and APR DB
• Perform DML Operations in DB and validate Response accordingly at Service Level
• Perform DML operations to validate Prod Notification Error
• Test case Creation and Execution
• Preparing Daily Status, Weekly Status and Metrics
• Updating status to higher management and conducting meetings whenever required

Environment: QC 10.0, Version One, LISA, PRPC(PEGA Rules Process Commander)

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Software QA Test Plan
• Check / Review QA artifacts
• System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers. Get involved in analyzing requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
• Keep track of the new requirements from the Project.
• Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Develop and implement test strategies.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / QA Manager
• Assign task to other QA Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the project leadership team.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Review various reports prepared by QA Engineers.
• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
• Check for timely delivery of different milestones.
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager/ QA Lead
• Create Requirement traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Getting involved in all phases of Defect life cycle.
• Ensured proper sign-off at all stages of the QALC (QA, UAT and Prod)
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and Production Sanity Testing
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for all the defects raised for the ease of Dev team to fix the issues to respective developer.
• Conducted weekly project status meetings to drive the software quality issues to closure and updated the management with biweekly reports.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducted walkthroughs for team members, and documented the proceedings.
• Managing the status of defects/ enhancements in the change management system and provide updated to the team on a daily basis
• Involved in Metrics collection at the end of each release and presented them to the customer.
• Conducted the meetings with the IT team, vendor, business team and other application teams to accomplish project goals
• Provided demos to the business/Product Owners for completed functionalities
• Created SQL Queries against an Sql/Oracle database
• Designed and develops application performance tests based on application requirements
• Monitors test results and reports using analysis tools
• Assists systems, database and network teams to quantify their capacity needs proactively based on analysis
• Acted as a performance consultant to the technology, Architecture and development teams
• Suggested recommendations on application design
• Documents test procedures, analysis and results
• Proposes and implements process improvement
• Meeting the SLA's as per the client requirement
• To identify the bottlenecks used the Analysis tool of the Load Runner
• Developed formal test results documentation.

Environment: PEGA, Oracle, HP-ALM Quality Center, Version One, Windows XP

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering
• Reviewed the Functional Design document and developed Test Plan and Test strategy for the manual testing effort.
• Involved in leading a team, reviewed and monitored the QA process followed
• Verified traceability of Test Conditions to Test Cases and the requirement documents.
• Provided the Test Estimation
• Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Data Testing, Performance Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing
• B reaking down of user stories.
• Provided estimations for the testing activities performed the Test case reviews
• Participated in all the bug meetings and QA organization and meetings
• Prepared Query log and shared with customer
• Performed the Traceability preparation
• Test deliverable preparation
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers

Environment: Java,C#, .Net, Oracle, Quality Center, Version One, RFT 8.1

Confidential, Buffalo

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering
• Reviewed the Functional Design document and developed Test Plan and Test
• Involved in leading a team, reviewed and monitored the QA process followed
• Verified traceability of Test Conditions to Test Cases and the requirement documents.
• Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Data Testing, Performance Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed E2E testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing
• Test case reviews, Executed the test cases and Posted bugs
• Participated in all the bug meetings and QA organization and meetings
• Prepared Query log and shared with customer
• Traceability preparation, Test deliverable preparation
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Java, Flex, Version One, Toad(SQL)