SUMMARY:

• Ten years of extensive experience as software quality assurance engineer in Information Technology services to various industries, with specialization in telecom domain.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile QA methodologies and experience in developing and executing comprehensive test suites for Integrated system - software components. Extensive experience in managing teams in onsite and offshore model.
• Efficiency in analyzing Business requirements, specifications and development of Test Scripts, Test Cases and executing them.
• Extensive experience with different types of testing - system integration, functional regression, user acceptance (UAT/UI), Accessibility and data validation.
• Created Test Plan, Test Strategy & Test Summary, executed Test Plan in day to day and preparing daily status report.
• API Testing using SOAP UI tool, Oracle Database & Cloud DB validation
• Strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills and quick learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software testing methodologies: Functional, Regression, E2E, UAT, Smoke Test, Sanity Test, Accessibility Testing

SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Testing process Tools: HP Quality Center, TDP, WinRunner, SOAP UI 5.0.0, Ginger

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center /Test Director, Jira, Rational Clear Quest, Rally, Confluence, TDP

Database Systems: Cassandra, SQL Server 2005, MS (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) Oracle 9i/10g, SQL

Web Technologies: Angular JS, HTML, XML, DHTML

Operating Systems: Windows 7/10/XP/2000, Vista, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Advanced Agile Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended Requirements review session with System Engineer and development team.
• Prepared Test plan, Test Strategy and designed Test cases also arranged review sessions with stakeholders and secured their approvals.
• Prepare data for progression and Regression, coordinate with lab owners to get updated information.
• Performed functional and connectivity testing between all the impacted applications.
• Identified and troubleshoot issues with development.
• Attended Defect status meetings, prioritize defect fixes.
• Used Unix box/MobaXterm/Splunk to check the logs for request and responses.
• Run SQL queries in My SQL data base to validate actions are performed successfully.
• Involved with offshore team on regular basis for creating and executing test cases.
• Used curl in UNIX to perform Rest API testing.
• Used Ginger for running automation scripts.
• Mentor and trained the new joiners in the process with productive training plans.
• Send daily status report to Test manager.
• Performed production testing after deployment.

Environment: HP Quality Center11.0, TDP, JIRA, Confluence , My SQL, UNIX, Postman, UNIX, MobaXterm, Splunk, Postman, SOAP UI, Ginger

Confidential

Test Team Lead/Agile Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as test lead as well as individual contributor on agile projects as part of Delivery Team.
• Studied and analyzed functional requirements to fully understand the functionality.
• Participated in daily standup calls, Sprint planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meetings etc…
• Provided LOEs on user stories in Sprint planning meetings.
• Worked with development team to re-image data if test data or BE are not ready to test in same Sprint.
• Installed, configured SOAP UI to test web services using WSDL file given by Development team to test API calls before frontend is ready to make sure backend systems are working as expected.
• Coordinated and performed User Interface testing for UAT group to validate system is functioning per the guidance outlined in functional requirements.
• Demonstrated functionality to end client Confidential end of each Sprint.
• Performed manual testing on Confidential & Confidential compatible wireless devices and used media device lab cart to for device testing. Develop test cases and test scripts based on business/functional specifications in HP Test Director, performed End to End testing on Desktop and Mobile.
• Identified bugs analyzed the severity and documented defects in JIRA/QC defect tracking tool.
• Followed up defects and closely interacted with development team to resolve bug fixes, and retested bugs with new builds.
• Coordinated teams on offshore and onsite model.
• Attended daily status meetings and provided test status to project manager and raised any issues pertaining to testing.

Environment: HP Quality Center11.0, Rally, JIRA, Confluence , SQL, MS Excel, Windows 7, HTTP Analyzer, WinSCP, NVDA2012, SOAP UI 5.0.0, FireEyes, DataStax, Voiceover, Talkback, UNIX, Postman

Confidential

Quality Assurance Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and publish software test deliverables identified during each control point of SDLC, including Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Case/Script, and test results analysis for executives review.
• Coordinate system and integration test activities and necessities with business, development, deployment and production groups.
• Conducted user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of Business clients as specified in the functional requirements.
• Designed developed and implemented user acceptance testing protocols as the final phase of applications development.
• Accomplished on time, within budget delivery of all projects worked so far, while complying with all adopted IT standards.
• Worked closely with the Project Managers in planning, execution and closure of the projects.
• Comply with QA Processes designed by organization for defect tracking, test case management, testing strategies, Project Planning, Test Planning etc.) For test team.
• Responsibility to train new team members, include accommodating them, help obtaining NT and other work related logins/passwords, trained them with all required applications. Explaining process and procedures of testing adopted by Cingular Wireless.
• Write SQL Queries to extract data from SQL SERVER to validate backend data.
• Verified test data in billing system (Telegence) before testing.
• Attended daily status meetings and provided test status to management and raised any issues pertaining to testing.
• Developed defect reports, hosted defect triage meetings to address and prioritized defect fixes.
• Communicated and discussed upcoming projects with team and guided team to fill the gap in test cases.
• Tracking and reporting of project's progress on day to day basis

Environment: HP Quality Center 11.0, Oracle 10, MS-Office, HTML, DHTML, Windows XP, Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Clear quest, Java, SQL, Remedy User Tool 7.0, CMS Tool (Interwoven), zTracker, ATG Control Center, Telegence

Confidential

Test Designer/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis and review of business requirements, functional requirement and design documents.
• Creation of rules in BCC to display promotions on MyATT Test environment.
• Encouraged offshore team to think Out of the box and suggest innovative ideas to the customers and the suggestions were implemented Confidential the client location
• Creation and execution of the test scenarios, test scripts.
• Responsible for preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix and Checklists
• Involved in Review of ABR, FRS, HLD docs
• Perform Integration, Functional, Data Validation and Regression testing of the application.
• Develop detailed test cases/scripts based on business/functional specifications in Quality Center.
• Followed up defects and closely interacted with development team to resolve bug fixes, and retested bugs with new builds.
• Performed end to end testing to check for unintended errors after the enhancement
• Manually executed assigned test cases analyzed results, updated results in Test Director.
• Tested Web Reporting logs in Report logs of application

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, MS-Office, HTML, DHTML, Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Clear quest, Java, SQL, Remedy User Tool 7.0

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration, System, Functional and Regression Test through the entire software development life cycle
• Application servers were tested for the integrated functionality with the devices used by Confidential & Confidential mobility customers.
• Studied existing test sets to understand functionality to be tested. Closely interacted with rest of the team to understand functional requirements for hand sets assigned to them for testing. This helped reducing duplicate efforts to explore same functionality.
• Followed up on defects and retested as and when they got assigned back to test team after fix.
• Updated on test execution status to test lead and test manager and communicated issues that negatively impacted test execution.