OBJECTIVE:

To pursue a highly rewarding career, seeking for a job in challenging and healthy work environment where I can utilize my skills and knowledge efficiently for organizational growth.

SUMMARY:

• 9 Years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Among which I have performed various roles like Technology Analyst, Technology Test Lead, Business Analyst.
• Working experience in various Geographical locations.
• 7 Years of experience of Testing experience in various web applications testing, Accessibility Testing, and automation testing using Selenium, Groovy Scripting, Mainframe Testing, Azure hosted application testing, test case execution through MTM, SOAPUI.
• Hands on experience in defect management tools like Clear Quest, MTM, JIRA
• Domain expertise in Banking & Finance, Manufacturing.
• Hands - on experience in various technologies like SQL Server, Object Oriented Programming, Windows installer XML, Octopus deployment tool, PowerShell scripting, windows azure platform, SQL databases(azure), Azure Active Directory, cloud services, storage service.
• 2 Years of experience in Windows Installer technology, Application Packaging, Application Compatibility Testing and Application Virtualization
• Experience ranging across different kind of projects like Application Packaging, Application Compatibility Testing, Build Engineering, Application Virtualization, windows azure testing, mainframes testing, PowerShell scripting.
• Extensively worked on Application Packaging using tools like Windows Installer XML.
• Extensive work on Quality check of the packaged applications
• Successfully handled the critical application packaging within a short span of time
• Onsite working experience on Application Packaging and Application Compatibility Testing, Mainframe testing projects.
• Worked on windows azure platform, SQL azure, service bus, SSIS packages, SQL scripting, stored procedures.
• Have strong Knowledge in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), STLC (System Test life cycle) and SCRUM Methodologies
• Successfully coordinated with onsite/offshore counter parts and helped them in solving the issues involved in the projects
• Involved in Design and Execution of Integration, Functional, Performance, Regression, Backend and System Testing for different web and Windows Applications
• Worked for automation of web application using WIX and deployment of the developed MSIs on web and SQL clusters

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Technical Test Lead

Confidential

Tools: Used: SOAPUI, Groovy, Clear Quest (Defect management tool), JIRA ( Defect Management)

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Test Strategy and preparation of Test Plan
• Creation of Test Scenarios, Test cases for Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Joint Integration Testing
• Performing System Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Joint Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Testing of web services through SOAPUI
• Creating automation scripts for generation of Request XML to execute through SOAPUI
• Automating Regression test case execution through Groovy scripting.
• Supporting Production deployment activities
• Coordination with multiple teams and tracking of the testing progress and reporting status to the Management.
• Logging defects through JIRA defect management tool and triaging the defects to closure.

Confidential

Test Lead

Tools: Used: SOAPUI, Groovy, Clear Quest (Defect management tool), Mainframe, JIRA ( Defect Management)

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Team from Onsite
• Creation of test execution plan
• Performing System Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Joint Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Automation of Test cases through Selenium
• Supporting Production deployment activities
• Interaction with multiple external teams
• Timely communication with client on the project status.
• Execution of Mainframe Jobs, debugging of Mainframe code in case of job failure
• Test Case execution
• Coordination with offshore team and track the status of the project
• Bugs creation using Clear Quest tool, triaging the Bugs and Tracking them to closure.

Confidential

Test Lead

Tools: Used: Mainframe, Clear Quest (Defect management tool)

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Plan
• Creation of Test Scenarios and Test cases for System Integration Testing, Joint Integration Testing
• Performing System Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Joint Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Executing Mainframe Jobs
• Test case execution and validation
• Supporting Production deployment activities
• Coordination with multiple teams and tracking of the testing progress and reporting status to the Management.
• Defect logging through Clear Quest defect management tool and triaging the defects to closure.

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Tools: Used: Visual Studio 2013 ultimate, SQL Server 2012, MTM, Windows Azure, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Team for Test execution, Defect tracking and Validate requirements coverage. Optimizing and managing the test resources with constructive assessment of their performance
• Involved in all the phases of STLC lifecycle- Test Case Design based on the Functional Specs, Test Data Preparation, Test Case execution, Bugs creation, Triaging the Bugs and Tracking them.
• Backend testing using SQL, Preparing queries for the Database validation scripts, Work on database queries, jobs, SSIS packages, stored procedures.
• Analyzing the bugs to the root level using static debugging of the code
• Review of defects rose with Development / Requirements / Legacy systems
• Reporting of execution progress and bug status to various stakeholders and senior management.
• Other activities involved Client interaction, participation in stakeholders meetings, and review of Business Requirement and Functional Specification documents.
• Responsibilities as a Tester included developing of test cases and also take part in its next releases and daily interaction with the client to facilitate smooth implementation.
• Managing the Test Suite in MTM
• Work on Performance tests on the application, creation of Databases, Web Site deployment on Windows Azure platform.
• Reviewing of Functional and business specification documents.
• Accessibility Testing of the Windows 8 Application.
• Defect logging through MTM.

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Clusters, Web Clusters, Windows Installer XML (WIX in Visual Studio 2010), Team Foundation Server, Octopus

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a technical lead
• Involved in client interaction for understanding the requirements for automation and deployment
• Analyzing the task data as per the requirements and provide timelines for automation
• Ensuring quality of MSIs developed
• Deployment of the developed MSIs on different environments as and when required
• Timely & qualitative resolution of tasks to meet SLA requirements
• Highlighting team & project issues during team meetings and participate in taking remedial actions
• Carrying out Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) to eliminate/ reduce root cause of a bug
• Reduced manual effort by reducing the deployment of application time from 20hours to 1-2 hours
• Involving the team by letting them to follow the quality process
• Coordinating team meetings for team members
• Involved in the on boarding process for the new Resources in the Project
• Involving in team events coordination
• Received appreciation from client for quality of work deliverables and minimal bugs in automation
• Documentation of process and technical details in the project to facilitate easy ramp up of
• New resources on boarded in the project.

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Tools: used: QTP 9.5, QC 9.5, Selenium

Responsibilities:

• POC analysis on various Automation testing tools by exploring their features and documenting them. The tools included QTP, QC, Selenium and IBM Rational tools
• Exploring how the automation testing tools can be integrated within themselves and with other SDLC tools and documenting them
• Giving Demos in the user forums
• Coordinating in resolving the issues faced by the production using QTP and selenium
• Coordinating the teams with Tools support forums on issues that need direct support from them