PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in Software Testing (Functional & Automation), this includes Test Lead, Project Quality Lead and Automation Tester roles.
• Certified ISTQB and TMAP.
• Well Experienced in Agile practices, concepts, procedures and Agile Software Development Framework - Scrum.
• Expertise in Various tools - Selenium, JIRA, SOAP UI, SharePoint, AQT, HP Quality Center/ALM, Eclipse IDE, SVN, Jenkins, Maven, Mainframe, Salesforce and Team Forge.
• Writing automation Test scripts using java.
• Thoroughly involved in projects starting from Planning till user acceptance testing.
• Experienced in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with developers in fixing the errors.
• Firm knowledge of different phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology and Waterfall.
• Proficient in all phases of Test Life Cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of SOAP Web Service Testing using SOAP UI. And Creating SOAP requests to test SOAP web service.
• Expertise in running Test Scripts from Quality Center on different hosts.
• Experience in Bug Tracking and Reporting using HP Quality Center.
• Experience in Web based testing including GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing and Unit Testing.
• Good knowledge on Object Oriented Programming concepts and Java Programming.
• Good knowledge on SQL.
• Experience with Test data identification & creation.
• Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional team.
• Proficient in requirement gathering and analysis, developing technical specifications and testing plan.
• Acted as liaison among management, development and testing team for Requirements and QA
• Ability to learn and adapt new tools and technologies very quickly.
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently.
• Good at multi-tasking and working well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Expertise in analyzing User Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Rich experience in Testing effort estimation, Test Planning, Test case preparation, Test execution, Defect reports, Daily status reports. Managed reports, analysis and decision-making for testing a change request.
• Create and manage the test environments
• Write, manage and maintain automation scripts
• Develop functional and regression automated test solutions using Selenium.
• Experience using continuous integration tools (Jenkins)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

• Attending the story refinement and planning sessions.
• Attending technical discussion with Architect, Business Analyst and Dev team.
• Involving in daily stand-up/scrum meetings for updates on testing status of user stories.
• Creating QA sub tasks for user stories.
• Constantly interacting within the team and the Business Analyst and product owner to clarify user stories and changes.
• Conducting test scenario reviews and presenting test cases/test scenarios to the team members for all iterations.
• Conducting demo sessions for Automation script execution.
• Conducting a demo to present the whole feature implementation to the Business.
• Identifying risks and share with team for early solutions.
• Involving in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium.
• Creating/Maintaining the Automation Framework.
• Writing Automation scripts for system and regression Testing.
• Creating and executing scripts using Selenium Web driver methods.
• Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features.
• Going through user stories in Jira and executing test cases in Jira
• Performing Regression Testing and Retesting using Jira
• Updating test case status in Jira.
• Preparing Test Summary Report.
• Conducting Data driven testing, cross browser testing and parallel test execution.
• Enhancing/Developing the Test Scripts on the new build by using Selenium WebDriver, Java.
• Performing Web Service Testing.
• Uploading Test documents in Jira.
• Attending Retro sessions after each sprint.
• Performing route cause analysis (Fishbone analysis) for every sprint.
• Mentoring new joiners and other team mates for successful deliveries.
• Preparing user manual for the application navigation.
• Participate in Production support Rotation.

Confidential

QA Lead

• Leading a team of 3 QA members.
• Creating/Maintaining the Automation Framework.
• Writing Automation scripts for system and regression Testing.
• Attending the business requirement discussion with client, SME and management.
• Attending technical discussion with Architect, Business Analyst and Dev team.
• Involving in daily status meetings for updates on testing and development status of user stories.
• Providing QA Effort estimations
• Creating QA sub task and distributing in the team.
• Interacting with team and SMEs for any doubt and clarification related to BR and CR.
• Preparing Test Plan document.
• Conducting test scenario review sessions with QA and dev team.
• Conducting demo sessions for Automation script execution.
• Identifying risks and share with team for early solutions.
• Developing Automation Infrastructure using Selenium.
• Creating and executing scripts using Selenium Web driver methods.
• Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features.
• Performing Regression Testing and Retesting using Jira
• Updating test case status in Jira.
• Preparing Daily Status report and sharing with management.
• Preparing Defect reports.
• Preparing Test Summary Report.
• Arranging Root Cause Analysis and Brain storming sessions after the release.
• Performing route cause analysis (Fishbone analysis) for every sprint.
• Involving in deployments.

Confidential

Agile Test Consultant

• Working as Technical test lead with an onsite team of 3 team members.
• Providing QA effort estimations for Enhancements and Change Requests.
• Interfacing with SMEs for walkthroughs and Requirement clarifications.
• Designing Test Plan and Test cases in Quality Center.
• Involving in daily stand-up/SCRUM meeting for updates on testing status of user stories.
• Creating testing tasks for user stories.
• Constantly interacting within the team and the product owner to clarify user stories and changes.
• Conducting test case reviews and presenting test cases/test scenarios to the team members for all iterations.
• Identifying risks and share with team for early solutions.
• Involving in Automation Infrastructure Development using Selenium.
• Creating and executing scripts using Selenium Web driver methods.
• Enhanced Test cases using Java programming features.
• Going through user stories in Jira and executing testcases in QC/ ALM.
• Performing backend testing & Grey box testing.
• Performing Regression Testing and Retesting using QC/ ALM.
• Updating test case status in QC/ALM.
• Preparing Test Summary Report.
• Performing a demo to product owner including entire team at the end of every sprint.
• Conducting Data driven testing, cross browser testing and parallel test execution.
• Enhancing/Developing the Test Scripts on the new build by using Selenium WebDriver, Java.
• Performing Web Service Testing.
• Preparing Defect report, Test Summary Report and Daily status report.
• Issuing QA pass for release.
• Uploading test documents in Jira.
• Performing route cause analysis (Fishbone analysis) for every sprint.
• Mentoring new joiners and other team mates for successful deliveries.
• Preparing user manual for the application navigation.
• Handling support tickets.

Confidential

Test Lead

• Providing QA effort estimations for Enhancements and Change Requests
• Interfacing with SMEs for walkthroughs and Requirement clarifications
• Designing Test Plan & Test cases using QC.
• Creation of Test Data for Member data’s according to the scenarios.
• Performing backend testing & Grey box testing
• Importing WSDLs in Soap UI and creating and formatting soap request in Soap UI.
• Performing Web Service Testing using Soap UI.
• Preparing Defect report, Test Summary Report and Daily status report
• Regression Testing and Retesting using QC.
• Issuing QA pass for release
• Mentoring new joiners and other team mates for successful deliveries
• Reported bugs and interacted with developers to resolve the problems.
• Performed in Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Test on the application by interacting with the end-users.
• Provide a weekly project report that includes testing metrics and status reports.
• As a Project Quality Lead, I was responsible for:
• Reporting Monthly Metrics in PMTS (Project Management Tracking Sheet)
• Attending regular organizational PQL Training and Metrics Training
• Validating data on efforts, size, schedule from Organizational Tools
• Validating data on defects from Review Logs and Test Defect logs
• Ensuring MSR (Monthly Status Report) is sent by Project Manager and CSA (Configuration Status Accounting) is done monthly by CM (Configuration Manager).
• Participating in CAR activities: Ensure Causal Analysis is done
• Ensuring that the Code Review Peer Logs, Unit Testing Checklists, Test Case Peer Review Logs and Test Case Peer Review checklists are filled in and available.
• Ensuring that SM Review is conducted every Three months for the project using SM Review Checklist
• Participating in internal and external audits.
• Monitoring quality processes followed by team.

Confidential

Test Lead

• Analyzed the Business Requirements document and have written Test Cases.
• Analyzed the Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements, and necessary resources.
• Ensure traceability of test cases back to the Business requirements.
• Identified, analyzed and reported bugs found during various phases of testing.
• Discussed defect resolutions with developers and business analysts.
• Participated in the weekly team meeting to discuss the upcoming work, schedules and status.
• Analyzed System Requirement Specification (SRS) document and Business Requirement Document.
• Execution of manual test cases and responsible to track and log the defects using Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Writing Functional Requirement Document
• Participating in team meeting for task status and project details
• Writing Test plan & Test cases
• Test case execution
• Preparing Defect report & Summary report
• Taking part in application presentation in front of client.
• Involving in application deployment at client site.

Confidential

Software Consultant

• As a Team Member, I was responsible for:
• Responsible for gathering, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, and Designdocuments.
• Designed and Analyzed Test case design document basing on the Functional RequirementSpecifications to implement through testing process.
• Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases
• Executing the test cases using Quality center.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and UserAcceptance Testing.
• Reporting defects, updating test cases in quality center and performing retesting.
• Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.
• Base-line and Regression tests were scheduled and performed on every Release and build.
• Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.
• Creation of Test Data for Member data’s according to the scenarios.
• Involved in Task Creation, Task Estimation, Task Distribution, Task Prioritization andCommunication among Onsite and Offshore Team Members.
• Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, DeliveredDefect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect FixRate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.
• Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test Plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center
• Prepared and Presented weekly and monthly QA Defect and Status Reports to the different Stake holders of the project using Quality Center.
• Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.