SUMMARY:

• Expertise in Software Quality Assurance and Test Management in Investment Banking and other domains
• Extensive Hands on Experience in Selenium WebDriver, Java
• HP Certified professional on UFT (formerly HP QTP) & ALM (formerly HP QC)
• Expert level knowledge in designing Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks.
• Experience Managing onshore & offshore QA team
• Single point of contact between business, development and QA teams for all offshore/on - shore issues.
• Providing estimates, design framework, code quality check & track progress
• Involved in Code Reviews, Script development, Test script execution, Documentation and Result Analysis.
• 3 years of experience in Investment Banking domain. Worked on FX and Securities trading applications and messaging protocols like SWIFT
• Extensive experience in Test Management Tools like TestDirector, Quality Center (ALM), RQM,
• Used Quality Centre, Rally, Team Track, Jira for defect management and change tracking.
• Expertise in writing complex SQL Queries for extracting and validating data from the database (Oracle and SQL Server).
• Expertise on tools - ALM/Quality center (QC), SQL Querying (working with Ms SQL Server 2008), Rational Quality Manager, Clear Quest, Bugzilla.
• Defining and implementing Automation processes & designing standard templates
• Extensive hands on experience in Manual Testing and Test Automation (Selenium,UFT/QTP).
• Developed Automation Framework from scratch.
• Worked briefly on other Test Automation Tools like RFT, TestComplete
• Extensive experience in reviewing and understanding of Business & Testing requirements and writing detailed Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Extensive working Experience in using testing methods like Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Security, Initialization, Usability, Database, Smoke/Sanity, End to End and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developing Test plan, Defect Management, Defect Triage, Traceability Matrix
• Estimations, Work allocation & progress monitoring and reporting.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle & methodologies Agile (Scrum) & V-Model.
• Project closure and providing QA sign off for project deliverables.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identifying/defining scope for Automation testing for new features/modules.
• Framework Design creation (Keyword Driven Framework) & Developing Test Scripts
• Design and implement Keyword Driven framework using Selenium WebDriver & Java
• Creating Scripts in Selenium WebDriver & Java using Keyword Driven framework
• Configuring and maintaining Maven for library management
• Defining and implementing configurations for Keyword Driven framework using Properties files
• Used Firebug/Fire Path Add-on tools to identify the Object's id, Name, Xpath, link in the application
• Used selenium Grid performed parallel execution on different node machines.
• Provide Weekend Production Support
• Raise Defects in Rally and follow up on it until closure
• Maintaining developed scripts.
• Scheduling nightly runs of the scripts.

Environment: /Tools: Rally, Selenium Web Driver 2.53, Java

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Test Planning, Test Execution, Automation & Defects Management.
• Managing offshore QA team (2-3 members).
• Conduct and participate in reviews (Functional specifications, Design Specifications, Test Plans, Test Estimations, High Level Test Scenarios, Detailed Test Cases, Test Scripts and Status Reports.
• Acting as a single point of contact between business, development and QA teams for all offshore/on-shore issues.
• Managing QA efforts for multiple ongoing projects.
• Defining test criteria, project schedules and base line the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Developing Master Test Plan & defining the QA tasks for all the projects. Customizing the scope of various QA activities based on nature of projects.
• Analyzing the business and functional requirements of the application and developing detailed Test plan and Test Strategy.
• Representing QA in the defect triage meetings.
• Project Health Check: Senior Management Review Reports
• Quality Process Index QPI Audits.
• Created Use cases, activity report, logical components and deployment views to extract business process flows and workflows involved in the project.
• Carried out defect tracking using Team Track.
• Worked with SQL queries.
• Defect Management, Root Cause Analysis & Causal Analysis and Resolution
• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like V-Model and the waterfall.
• Extensively involved in Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, UAT testing, Installation testing.
• Worked on different database like Oracle & SQL Server.
• Framework Maintenance (BPT Framework)
• Test Script Development, Develop New Business Components, Fix Existing Component Issues
• Created New BPTs to test User Stories/Test Cases
• Tracking the automation progress & coverage.

Environment: /Tools: QTP/UFT, VB Script, QC/ALM, Sybase, TOAD, Putty, WinSCP

Confidential, Murray Hill, NJ

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with Business & Technology team during requirement gathering phase. Interacted with Technical Lead to understand the design and technical specifications.
• Coordinating with Third Party vendors viz BlackRock Aladdin, JPMC.
• Master Test Plan creation.
• Testing the data from the sources Confidential different points like the Data Feed Validation, Enrichment and Testing the data through the UI when transformed and via DBO into UI.
• Creating Test Cases for Functional Testing & Integration Testing of ODS Confidential system.
• Participation in Integration Testing (integrating the data feed from sources) and System Testing (Testing the Transformed/Enriched data/Cancellation & Amendment of existing transactions).
• Database Testing, worked with MS SQL for querying data using SQL queries.
• Creating test data for Testing Data Validation and Data Enrichment.
• Defect Management and Reporting.
• Test Data Management
• Risk/Issues/Dependencies Reporting
• Involved in Automation tool selection
• Framework development using VB Scripting and UFT/QTP
• Test Script Development
• Tracking the automation progress & coverage.
• Analyzing the results and Report Failures
• Feasibility Analysis and Code Management

Environment: /Tools: QTP/UFT, VB Script, Jira, SQL Server, TOAD, Putty

Confidential, Montvale, New Jersey

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing offshore QA team (6 members).
• BRD/FSD walkthroughs & Mentoring team members.
• Interacting with Business/Product teams, Development teams to understand the requirements/schedule.
• Responsible for providing L0 & L1 estimates.
• Resource Utilization, Work Allocation, prioritizing tasks
• Responsible for the creation of Master Test Plan.
• Tracking progress and Status Reporting.
• Involved in creation of Test scenario, Test Cases and Traceability Matrix.
• Responsible for conducting Test Scenario and Test Case Reviews and Tracking the review comments to closure.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, System Testing.
• Represented QA in the Defect Triage meeting and tracking defects to closure.
• Represented QA team in Core Team meetings to provide QA status and highlight critical issues Impeding Testing.
• Involved in Requirement gathering for Automation
• Involved in Automation tool selection
• Participated in Framework development
• Tracking the Automation progress & coverage.
• Primarily responsible for Test script Development & Code Reviews (VB scripting)
• Primarily responsible for Analyzing the results and Report Failures
• Feasibility Analysis/Code Management

Environment: /Tools: QTP/UFT, VB Script, QC/ALM, RFT, Test Complete, JAVA Script

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a single point of contact and SME Confidential offshore
• Responsible for Identifying Test Cases for regression, prioritizing them and guiding the team in Testing the same
• Worked closely with the Business Analyst to clarify requirements. Interacted with Technical Lead to understand the design and technical specifications
• Providing inputs for creation of Master Test Plan
• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Maintaining Traceability Matrix
• Monitoring, Controlling and Reporting Project Progress
• Test Case Execution
• Reporting Defects
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing

Environment: /Tools: Rational Quality Manager, Clear Quest, MS office, PL/SQL Dev, Oracle9i

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Maintaining Traceability Matrix
• Responsible for Reviewing Test scenarios & Test Cases
• Participated in the Kick- off meetings in getting clarifications from the client to make the team understand business requirements
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing,, Database Testing, Adhoc Testing
• SWIFT messages
• Responsible for Test Case Execution
• Reporting Defects in BUGZILLA and Quality Center and verifications of resolved Bugs.
• Involved in Test Plan Creation
• Test Data Creation & Test Data Management
• Daily Status Reporting
• Selecting Test Cases for automation (Feasibility Analysis)
• Development & Execution of automated scripts
• Writing Programmatic Descriptions for Objects

Environment: QTP/UFT, QC/ALM, BugZilla, MS Office, MS office, PL/SQL Dev, Oracle9i

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing specifications for the Testing of the application
• Developing Test Cases after analyzing the specification documents
• Identifying Test Cases for Smoke Test/Regression Test and Execution
• Developing base line scripts for Testing the future releases of the Application
• Tracking new bugs in Rational Clear Quest and verifications of resolved bugs
• Conducting Impact analysis and Test Cases Reviews for most of the Testing tasks
• Systematic Approach to Testing, Tracking, Validating and Reporting Defects
• Performed System Testing
• Prepare Test Data

Environment: /Tools: Rational Clear Quest, MS Office