SUMMARY:

• A competent, dedicated, hardworking individual with 11 years’ experience in IT industry, with Expertise on Manual Testing and zeal learning new technologies and Domain. Skilled in Team leading, debugging, problem solving, judgment and decision - making.
• Experienced in all the stages of SDLC and STLC. Possesses an ability to see the big picture whilst at the same time focusing on the tasks at hand and managing multiple projects.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution to problems.
• Looking for a suitable position with a company that offers opportunities for future career advancement
• Over 11 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance & Automation Testing, analyzing and testing in web, GUI and Client/Server Applications and hands on experience as project management and QA test management as QA lead.
• Scrum Master L1 certified
• Expert in software life cycle STLC and SDLC like Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience working with business on Requirements gathering, Impact analysis and facilitating the scrum activities
• Expertise in Project Management by handling the meetings and managing the team
• Expertise in development and implementation of test strategy, plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Hand on experience creating and executing Selenium regression scripts on daily basis
• Good Exposure in Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing & API Testing on various desktop browsers as well as Mobile devices (Web & Native apps) with different OS platforms (android, iPhones & iPAD).
• Experienced in calculating the Effort estimation and Test Case estimation as per the Requirements and Testing Effectiveness for the project.
• Test Data Creating tool using FakerAPI.
• Experience validating Rest APIs and Web Services
• Experience In working Onshore-Offshore model and managed a team of 16 people
• Experience in backend testing of databases - Oracle, MySQL
• Experienced in testing effort estimation, Mentoring QA team, Prioritizing efforts, Reporting, conducting project calls, Risk Analysis, scheduling test scenarios review and demos
• Experience with ALM Quality Center and Custom Bug Tracking Tools.
• Experience guiding people and Implemented Automation Test Strategy and Frameworks, Test projects
• Excellent communication skills including listening and observation, interviewing/questioning, meeting facilitation and writing skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, planning and organizational skills and Multi-Tasking

SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Requirements Analysis
• Test Plan & Strategy Design
• Risks Identification Mitigation
• Test Efforts Estimation
• Resource Management
• Tasks allocation & tracking
• Test Scenarios Identification
• Test Cases Design & Reviews
• Traceability Matrix
• Implemented Automation
• Test Strategy
• Test Data Setup
• Data Generation Tool - FAKER API
• Smoke, UI, Compatibility Testing
• Integration & Regression Testing
• Defect/Bug Tracking
• Defect Management
• QA & QC Standards
• Training Team Members
• API request and response analysis
• Automation Framework training to Test teams
• Defect Triage Meetings
• Logs Analysis
• Automation Issues
• Analysis
• Managing Onsite & Offshore
• Test Metrics & Reports
• Conferences, Demos
• User Guides & Videos
• QA Closure Memo Signoff

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA

Methodologies: Agile Model, Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac

Programming Language: SQL, JAVA

Data Bases, SSH Client: Oracle, SQL, MY SQL, DB2, SYBASE

Test Automation: Postman, SOAP UI PRO

Software Testing: Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, API Testing

Other Skills: MS Office Suite, Advance reporting with Macros

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLeansville, NC

Quality Analyst (Test Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Attending the sprint planning analyzing the story points and writing the Test Scenarios/Test Cases.
• Peer reviewing the Test Scenarios/Test Cases.
• Attending daily scrum calls, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective meeting, providing Demos in the Sprint Demo meetings, tracking and managing all the bugs and stories by using JIRA and Confluence.
• Having client interaction to report the daily status and any required data probed by clients.
• Prepared Test Metrics with the details like Overall test status, Planned TCs, Completed TCs, Pending TCs, List of Defects logged and published to the team.
• Mentored QA team to adhere in defects logging standards to update with all relevant details like detailed description, Steps to reproduce, Snapshots, Priority, Severity, Environment.
• Designing Automation framework for Webservices using SOAPUI PRO
• Identified scenarios for Test Automation team to create test scripts using Selenium IDE through user agents in Web browsers.
• Localization testing
• Managed QA team on onsite & Offshore model, Documented all QA Activities
• Defect management and escalated issues, followed up with till defect closer

Confidential, Burlington, NC

Quality Analyst (Test Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the test requirements planning the Test Strategy.
• Reviewing the Test Plan and traceability matrix.
• Need to make sure the test environment setup preparing the defect reporting formats and manage the team.
• Having client interaction to report the daily status and any required data probed by clients.
• Worked on Report comparison using AppliEyes for PDF comparison using Java and Selenium Scripts

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Functional Team in writing the Functional Specifications from Requirements.
• Involved in performing System Functional Tests and Regression Testing.
• Marinating traceability between Test Cases and requirements.
• Templates created to map the Business process with requirements and assign the test in HP QC Keeping track of all the bugs filed by team and analyzing them.
• Knowledge transfer to rookies and new team members as and when needed.
• Designed the skeleton of hybrid automation framework which works with Appium and Selenium
• Worked on Webservices using SoapUI

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating Domain Controllers, setting up the Exchange server, and creating the SQL servers for Test Environment.
• Created Test cases on different modules in CRM, Tested the CRM application on different languages, logging bugs, and regress them.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing O14 server Applications i.e. WAC server, MOSS and other client Applications in different localized languages.
• Responsible for performing the quality checks on the applications apart from the normal test executions.
• Responsible for testing the Office applications on different builds by executing the test cases.
• I have done the testing of Final build that going to be released and performed testing on those applications and responsible for the signoff of the final builds i.e. RC builds of O14 localized languages.
• Updating test cases and adding new test cases wherever required.
• Reporting Defects and getting them resolved.
• Responsible for communicating with the Customer updating and following up about the Defects.
• Keeping track of all the bugs filed by team and analyzing them. Knowledge transfer to rookies and new team members as and when needed

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing TDS from Specs those are written by client, Writing Test Cases from TDS and ensuring the functionality coverage in Test Cases, Execution of Test Cases and Bug management, Had One to one Client Interaction in LIP project.
• In Confidential projects I worked for many sub projects like BCM (Business Contact Manager), LIP (Language Interface Pack), LTT (Language Testing Tools), Office SE and worked on few patches that Confidential release

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual testing on application compatibility on new operating systems, creation and execution of Test Cases, Debugging, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Component Testing, defect tracking and reporting using Bug tracking tool.
• Involved in work allocation to the team hardware tracking.
• Providing Support and Maintenance to the Issues reported.
• Updating TCs, Writing TCs for new applications.
• Reporting Defects and getting them resolved.
• Responsible for communicating with the Customer updating and following up about the Defects.
• Responsible for Tracking the Defects and looking after the Defects Reported by the Team and leaded the Bug-Triaging Team.
• Participated in Conference Calls with client on a regular basis.
• Used Confidential Product Studio ( Confidential Internal) to log Bugs and Issues Defect Tracking System and used Double Diamond ( Confidential Internal) as Test Management System to log Test Results, Track Test Results (Previous and Current) and Report Test Execution.
• Involved in Special Testing of Office 12 and Visual Studio 2005 Beta Builds Worked on a Wide Range of Applications from Programming Languages, Productivity and utility Applications to System Administration Tools.