PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance/Software Testing and Programming, writing System Test Plans, Test Cases and creating documentation(status report, defect reports and timelines), 4 years of experience in leading all phases of IT Project methodologies - SDLC (Waterfall/Agile/SAFe Agile software development)
• Experience in managing agile software development techniques - Test/Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and extreme programming (XP).
• Extremely analytical and extraordinary communicator with multitasking abilities, capable of working efficiently under stress and tight deadlines
• Test Technical Lead managing both onshore and offshore resources in a cross vendor environment
• Used ALM/Quality Center/Test Director and VSO/Azure DevOps as a Test Management/Defect Management tool for Client/server, Web based and Cloud based applications
• Experience running Smoke, Functional and Regression Test Suite’s using Selenium
• Used Jenkins to execute the test scripts periodically on Selenium Web Driver for different platforms.
• Experienced with REST API’s and WSDL’s testing in a financial environment
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Project Life Cycle including: Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Configuration management and Change management
• Proficient in Software testing quality standards and procedures
• Extensive experience with Reporting Tools such as Business Objects and BI
• In-depth experience with ETL tools such as Informatica and Data Stage
• Experience in Backend testing of SQL Queries using Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2
• UAT coordinator responsible for multi-lines of business users; developing end-to-end test scripts scenarios, providing customer support and generating metrical reports.
• Well organized, creative and a Team Player with proven ability to complete given tasks on time with limited supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Defect Tracking Tools: Mercury Test Director/ HP Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest, Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, HP ALM

Automation Tools: QTP, LoadRunner, Selenium, SOAP UI, Blaze Meter, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter

Reporting/ETL Tools: Business Objects Reporting Suite, Cognos Reporting Suite, OBIEE, Informatica

Programming Languages: PL/SQL, SQL, C, Java, .Net

Databases: Oracle,DB2 and MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008

Operating Systems: Windows, MAC OSX, UNIX.

Others: Jenkins, Mule Soft, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle Agile PLM, Splunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Test Lead/API Tester/ BI Tester/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint planning meetings, Daily Scrum, Sprint review, product backlog refinement meetings and sprint retrospective meetings
• Collaborating with Product Owners, cross-functional development teams, and Project Managers to support development and software delivery cycle.
• Assisting Product Owner in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming.
• Assisting Scrum Team in estimating the effort required to complete the tasks agreed to for the Sprint. Ensuring development team is working efficiently towards Sprint goals
• Develop and present full project test plan, automation approach, test effort estimation based on the user stories to the management.
• Analyze the requirements/user stories and create Test plan’s, test cases, Click Level test scripts for End Users and develop Automation test scripts for both regression and load/performance testing.
• Perform QA Lead activities such as Requirement Reviews, Estimations, Resource Management, Metrics, Status tracking, UAT analysis
• Deploy builds to DEV, QA and UAT environments.
• Analyze Business Intelligence Reports and Develop complex SQL, PL/SQL Scripts based on Reports Specification Document.
• Work with the development team to create a suite of test data (both input files and expected results) that fully exercises data validation (detecting and rejecting bad data).
• Execute SQL, PL/SQL Scripts to generate data files to compare with the Reports.
• Responsibilities also include documenting the report results for audit purpose.
• Analyze the report differences and guide the developer with the reason for differences.
• Validating fields present in the reports are as agreed in the specifications.
• Responsible for the validation of any additions/modifications to the BI reports before release to production.
• Create both functional automation and load/performance scripts for Webservices/API testing.
• Agile development to support the new technology and functionality changes using web, mobile and API automation tools
• Performed Back end Testing-using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate the inserted and updated data.
• Perform Security testing by coordinating with different roles of users.
• Generate Traceability matrix
• Manage the testing process, schedule batch tests, log and track defects
• Participate in review meetings to resolve bug related issues with developers
• Directed the load and verification process for new client’s initial data before release to production, working with other QA analysts to ensure that any client-specific business rules are applied correctly.
• Demonstrated all the changes to Product Owners before code deployment to Production.
• Extensive support to End Users in Hypercare

Environment: Oracle Agile PLM, PeopleSoft, MuleSoft, ServiceNow, Jenkins, OBIEE, MS-Office, Windows 10, MAC OS, Microsoft Visual studio 11.0, Azure DevOps, JMeter, Blaze Meter, Postman, Selenium, REST-Assured, Splunk.

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Analyst/Reports Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, and Reviews.
• Working with Product Owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint burn down, Release Burn down
• Reviewed and analyzed both Business and Technical Specifications document.
• Prepared test plan and developed test cases based on the functional specs for SIMS.
• Wrote manual test cases in the Test Plan of Quality Center and linked it to the requirements for traceability.
• Responsible for smoke testing the application when there is a build release.
• Executed test cases on the SIMS whenever there is a QA release
• Defects were created in Quality Center.
• Acted as a liaison between Development, QA and Business users.
• Leaded the Defect Triage meetings.
• Generated Quality Center Defects Reports/Metrics and distributed to the whole team every day.
• Performed customization of defect reports by writing custom sql in QC and pulling the reports.
• Developed test cases for the Business Objects Reports based on the Reports Specification Doc.
• Developed SQL Scripts based on the Reports Specification document.
• Executed the QA developed SQL scripts and results are compared against the actual report.
• Extensively tested the reports with multiple parameters and data range.
• Responsibilities also include documenting the report results for audit purpose.
• Analyzed the report differences and guided the developer with the reason for differences.
• Validated the data in the tables by using SQL queries to generate reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules.

Environment: Oracle, Java, Windows 2007, Putty, TOAD and Quality Center 10.0, QTP, REST Client, Hermes, Winscp, Business Objects 4.0.