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.
• Participated/Conducted in weekly status meetings and conducted walkthrough for team members and documented the proceedings.
• 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( Confidential ) 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.
• Knowledge in QTP (UFT) 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.
• 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.
• 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:

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

LANGUAGE: VB script,C, Java

DBMS: 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, Pittsburgh

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

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

Confidential, Pittsburgh

QA lead

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

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

Confidential, New York

Sr.QA Analyst

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.
• Create Requirement traceability Matrix ( Confidential ).
• 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)

Confidential, Buffalo

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the user requirements by interacting with Business Analyst, developers, business users and executed the test scripts manually.
• Acted as a single contact person for the customer to address the clarifications asked for the bugs posted.
• Served as a Liaison with Product Owners, Business, Sponsors, IT, Engineering and Operations.
• Prepared Test Plans for the project
• Managed and prepared the summary report after completion of testing for a pass release.
• Participated in production rollouts and provided end-to-end support and post-implementation support to the customer community resolving production related issues.
• Participated in defect reviews with the developers, managers and business people and presented the defect reports in the defect review Meetings.
• Managing the status of defects/ enhancements in the change management system and provide updated to the team on a daily basis
• Validated actual results against expected results. Prepared Test status reports and Defect reports for each module logged any unresolved issues into Issues log.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Risk Assessments, Enhancement and Modification Request issues (Change Requests).
• Documented, reviewed and verified Discrepancy Reports and Requests for Change discovered during formal and informal testing phases.
• Created SQL Queries against an Sql /Oracle database
• Performed the Database testing by using the Sql Queries.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, J2EE Technologies, SQL Server 2005, FileNet (CE 3.5.2, AE 3.5.2), Kofax client 7.0