SUMMARY

• Having Around 9 Years of experience in software testing as a Test lead. Having experience in Client Vendor Management, Team management and maintain an effective testing and delivery process.
• Working directly with stakeholders. Involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle.
• Have extensive Domain and Testing experience in Retail, Logistics and Transportation Management and ERP applications.
• Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies
• Experience in Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test strategy, Tracking, Scope management, Quality Assurance and Quality control.
• Expertise in Mainframe Testing.
• Responsible for creating Test Data in Legacy System Mainframe.
• Responsible for the Testing Scrum team in developing the agile artifacts like User Stories, Business Process flow, and Acceptance criteria.
• Experienced with various types of testing like UI - UX testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, UAT testing
• Familiar with Waterfall and Agile/Scrum testing methodologies
• Experience in preparation of RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and co-ordinate with Development and Testing team making sure all Business Rules are developed and verified.
• Good Experience in using Tools - BLUE PRINT, Version One, Story Teller SharePoint, Agile Manager (Hp AGM), Soap UI, Wily for Performance, Hp ALM, QC and JIRA
• Developed data sets using MS Excel which were used to validate the output of the system
• Experience in testing payment processing through payment card.
• Experience in Testing of Web Services with SoapUI.
• Shared functional and Business experience in developing & maintaining test scripts with automated tools-selenium and UFT.
• Co-Ordinated with the ESEC (Enterprise security Team), Performance Team and making sure Non-functional requirements have met with application.
• Performed Accessibility Test with AXE tool to verify 508 compliance.
• Hands on with performing Vulnerability test and Penetration Test
• Expertise in Point of Sale (POS) testing.
• Involved Backlog grooming process with Product Owner to review, update, adding and prioritizing the user stories for product backlog in order to prepare for next sprint meetings.
• Worked on Jenkins for Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Performed Regression Testing on UAT and Testing environments
• Expertise in Defect Triaging.
• Deployment of content management systems in Share Point from the required phase to user acceptance testing and Training and Lesson Learnt.
• Co-ordinated User Acceptance Testing by developing the UAT scenarios and Test cases.
• Used HP Quality Center to report software defects, responsible for weekly defect triage meetings, discuss with QA and engineering teams on defect resolution, priority, fix and estimates to re-test and push fixes into Integration.
• Developed training materials, system maintenance and operating manuals for the QA environment and used the same to train the users
• Good experience in Project Management and Agile Methodologies
• Sense of ownership and responsibility for deliverables, works effectively both independently and as a member of cross-functional team.
• Having good Communication skill both written and oral and Proficiency in Microsoft Power Tools
• Committed team player with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Fast learner, highly motivated, organized and result oriented.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mechanicsburg, PA

QA Analyst

Software and Tools used: Vue.js, Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Spring cloud, Microservices, IBM cloud, Fast4j, Mainframe, Oracle, JIRA, Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Blueprint, Postman, MS-Office, SoapUI.

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed specifications on testing approach, testing strategy, testing scope, and deliverables.
• Developed Test scenarios, Test Scripts and Test cases based on use-cases for different modules.
• Discussed decisions tables for eligibility rules and wrote test scripts based on the decision tables.
• Thoroughly tested Reference table’s rules and business logic to check for eligibility results.
• Extensively conducted manual testing for end to end, Functional, System, Regression, System, Integration, Database, Compatibility testing.
• Used SOAPUI to test real-time web services
• Involved with Automation Team by providing Functional Knowledge for the designed scripts during dry run.
• Expertise in handling JIRA, Blueprint and Story Teller tools.
• Used Oracle SQL Developer to do backend testing to perform data validation and to check on data driven results like reports
• Performed Mainframe Testing for several Vehicle and Titling Transaction.
• Ran SQL queries in DB2 to detect accurate data stored or updated as per the test requirements
• Shared functional and Business experience in developing & maintaining test scripts with automated tools-selenium
• Performed testing payment processing through payment card for the Point of Sale (POS), between customer and operator transaction.
• Co-Ordinated with the ESEC (Enterprise security Team), Performance Team and making sure Non-functional requirements have met with application.
• Performed Accessibility Test with AXE tool to verify 508 compliance.
• Hands on with performing Vulnerability test and Penetration Test
• Expertise in Defect Triaging.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different department teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Created Test data in Mainframe (CARATS) application
• Deployment of content management systems in Share Point from the required phase to user acceptance testing and Training and Lesson Learnt.
• Ensuring that the Change Request/Incident/Observation/Defects are communicated to the design/development team.
• Responsibility to managing the product backlog in order to achieve the desired stated project deliverable outcomes/feature.

Confidential

Test Lead

Technologies: Mainframe, Java, Angular, HP-ALM, AGM, Team forge, Adobe Pro DC, Sybase and Oracle, SoapUI, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with the client to understand requirements for the new features and getting their approval for common understanding, proposed solutions for freezing the requirements related to Testing scope.
• Involved Mainframe testing in Data porting activities from Mainframe system.
• Involved in testing of Real time update from Main frame system to Sybase and Oracle.
• Involved in testing of replacement of Angular/Java application
• Validated XML web services using SoapUI request and response for the entire application.
• Identify all project risks and issues and ensures adequate mitigation efforts are put in place to ensure overall delivery is not impacted.
• Individual contributor and Test Management Lead for 12 different applications
• Test Strategy preparation and Test Plan preparation for various testing phases (System Test, Integration Test, Regression and End to End test).
• Facilitate the daily stand-up scrum meeting with Client and update the daily status and responsible for the preparation of weekly status report and project metrics to the management
• Defining test automation approach with the functional point of view.
• Test Planning, Test estimation and resource management.
• Test Execution and Test Results Summary preparation and client communication.
• Preparation of Review logs, Defect summary Reports.
• Defining value add to the Testing process.
• Provided inputs for CI, CD for Jenkins.
• Defining and implementing Test Strategy and Test Governance model for FLAGS project.
• Attend regular project review calls/ meetings. Monitor and escalate issues effectively, ensuring clear communication channels and timely voicing of risks on the projects / initiatives managed as agile safe methodology.
• Worked as an Individual contributor as well as leading 15+ member automation and functional team-offshore and Onsite model
• Monitoring of overall quality and timeliness of testing deliverables
• Provide communication to project management on the overall status of testing - Test preparation and execution.

Confidential

Test Lead

Technologies - JAVA, J2EE, HP ALM, AGM and Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the requirements with Business and Prepared High-Level Test scenarios and detailed Test cases.
• Experience in Functional and Regression Testing
• Defect Life cycle management
• Providing key inputs to the team members based on dry run (smoke test) before test execution.
• Responsible for the team, by providing Key Functional Points to the user stories preparation
• Facilitate the daily stand-up scrum meeting, update the daily status and responsible for the preparation of weekly status report and project metrics
• Sprint-wise compilation of the testing team effort for all testing activities
• Provided KT to new members who are inducted to the project
• Review and static testing of business requirement and solution design.
• Raising defects and ensuring that the observation/bugs are communicated to the design/development team.

Confidential

Test Lead

Technologies: Mainframe, JAVA, J2EE, HP ALM 12.1, Quality Center, Jira

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering, analyzing and digesting the requirements and the critical areas of the application to setup and execute baseline tests.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to track requirements.
• Translated business requests into business, financial, and operational requirements related to data integration and data management.
• Work with technical and development team to resolve identified issues in a timely manner.
• Review documented training material for accuracy and assist with end user training and support.
• Took part in development, documentation and implementation of the Test Strategy.
• Testing report build in a specified testing environment, and volume testing in live environments.
• Participate in planning, report on project progress, and identify potential risks and issues.
• Mentoring of the team members to reach their potential and building capabilities
• Owns the delivery parameters of the project activities
• Interacting with client resolving the issues
• Skilled in executing smoke test as part of entrance criteria to verify that build is test environment worthy.
• Attend daily, weekly status meetings and provide detailed status report to the client and management
• Building project management capabilities across the levels of teams
• Designed & created Test Cases depending on the business requirement documents.
• Performed Functionality, Negative, Positive, Boundary, Smoke, Regression and Back-end Testing.
• Performed back end testing by executing SQL Queries.
• Wrote SQL queries to check the integrity of the data.
• Responsible for preparing datasheets using Excel.
• Participated in bug review meetings and defect report meetings.
• Attended daily project status meetings and weekly QA status meetings.
• Supporting the scrum master for day to day delivery in Agile SAFe Framework through JIRA
• SLA based delivery for schedule deviation, functional and test coverage
• Collaborate with support groups to implement best practices and create value adds.
• Provide day to day guidance to assigned team members when appropriate.
• Managing team(s) onsite and offsite workforce while achieving or exceeding productivity and quality.

Confidential

Test Lead

Technologies: JAVA, J2EE, HP ALM 12.1, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Undergone the Domain training on Loyalty Edge
• Analyzed functional specs and developed test scenarios ensuring the proper coverage
• Identified data requirements for the test cases and created data for testing where possible
• Mapped requirements to test cases and executed tests in Quality Centre.
• Raised and tracked defects in Quality Centre
• Used QC for logging defects, tracking, maintaining defects and reporting defects.
• Interacted with developers to explain software bugs when required, and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Participated in meetings to share views/ideas and to maintain and deliver a quality IT solution
• Responsibility for the documentation of test process & procedures
• Liaised with the BAs for unresolved issues/defects as per priority
• Performed a general system Shakedown/Smoke test after each build.
• Performed Systems and System Integration testing and UAT during implementations and deployment of the builds
• Reviewed Design Specification Document, Test Plan for the testing of the project.
• Supporting the UAT status call with onsite Test Manager on daily basis.
• Preparing the Daily Progression report about the UAT status.
• Preparing the defect summary report.
• SLA based delivery for schedule deviation, functional and test coverage
• Collaborate with support groups to implement best practices and create value adds.