SUMMARY:

• Senior Software QA Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Information Technology, with specialization in Software Quality Assurance testing, Proficient in Manual and Automation testing of web based and Mobile based applications.
• Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Bug Life Cycle and Methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.
• Extensive experience in implementing QA methodologies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Deliverables for various applications.
• Experience in different testing scenarios such as Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing, White box testing, Gray Box testing, Back End testing, Unit testing, Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing, Ad hoc testing, Negative Testing, System testing, Application Protocol Interface (API) testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Browser Compatibility testing and Smoke testing. Creating a Traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Experience in Non - Functional Performance testing and Security testing.
• Expert in creating test scripts in Java, Selenium Web Driver, Rational Functional (RFT) Tester and Quick Test Professional tools (QTP).
• Developed Keyword driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and databases.
• Worked on Defect tracking tools like Jira, HP Quality Center and Test Track Pro.
• Generated daily reports and shared with stakeholders.
• Worked in AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings.
• Identified weaknesses in QA process and Web testing. Suggested and implemented improvements.
• Participated in most of the meetings and discussed enhancements, modification requests, issues and Risks.
• Communicated with Application Development team, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Scrum master and other team members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis and whenever necessary.
• Involved in Development, Integration, Deployment, Testing and Maintenance of Web-based Client-Server applications.
• Excellent knowledge of Java, Java Script, HTML, CSS, Skilled in creating Charts and Graphs, SOAP UI.
• Expert in Mobile Testing.
• Experience in version control using SVN, Git and VSS.
• Hands On experience in SQL Server, MySQL and DB2 databases.
• Worked on Banking and Telecommunication domains.
• Having strong analytical, problem solving, client facing and interpersonal skills.
• Manage and monitor geographically distributed teams to ensure high quality and timely completion of projects.
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Test Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional and Regression testing of EPR tool to enable entitlements provisioning.
• Involved in Agile methodology, daily scrum meetings to share the info to team members during a sprint.
• Prepared project plan.
• Designed and developed Test Cases for Automation testing using Java, Selenium Web Driver, TestNG and Eclipse IDE.
• Provided management with detailed resource planning, work effort estimation, reported on task progress and delivered work on schedule for my testing team.
• Performed regression testing on browser after every build release.
• Interacted with clients, analyst and onshore/offshore development, support team and other cross functional teams to ensure successful entitlements provisioning.
• Performed functional testing of SOAP and Restful API’s using SOAP UI.
• Created and Executed testcases for all the new projects in HP Quality Center, logged defects and created defect report.
• Used JIRA to track system process during testing.
• Administer project issues, identify all risks and provide mitigation plans as required.
• Prepared documents for maintaining project standards and shared on SharePoint wiki sites.
• Responsible to perform user acceptance testing and end to end testing in order to provide reliable products to client.
• Trained Junior Software Engineers on product features.
• Used GIT for Version Control
• Involved in test data preparation in LDAP system.

Environment: Selenium, Eclipse IDE, GIT, TestNG, Jira, Quality Center, SQL Server, Service now, Share points.

Test Lead

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business requirements for Mobile Banking application
• Prepared test cases in Quality Center.
• Test cases executed manually against all banks (U.S. Bank, Suntrust, Regions, Wells Fargo, Arvest, SDCCU, UFCU, Cu Answers and PSECU), diferent browsers(Firefox 4, Safari4.0, Chrome and IE collections), supporting devices (Black Berry, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and android) and in all environments(Prod, Stage, Test01, QA02 and CI) on different types of builds(adhoc and new-adhoc builds).
• Defects logged into test track pro(TTP)
• Co-ordinated with offshore team
• SQL is used as the database server.
• Consolidated Daily Status Reports of all team members and updated the clients through scrum call of agile methodology, triage meetings and emails.
• Performed acceptance testing for the production, stage and daily deployments.
• Effort and tasks are tracked using the version one tool

Environment: Test Track Pro, Version One, Soap UI, SQL Developer, Device Anywhere, Quality Center

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business requirements for PRPPP.
• Prepared the project plan with accurate estimates of milestones and deliverables.
• Prepared test scenarios and test cases.
• Test cases executed manually and results consolidated in test case summary report.
• Defects logged into remedy.
• Regression testing of product using QTP.
• Prepared Daily Status Report.

Environment: Quality Center, Remedy, Quick Test Professional(QTP)

Project Leader

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Was Quality Coordinator for the Ops Portal team.
• Understand Business requirements for security vulnerabilities.
• Prepared project plan with accurate estimates of milestones and deliverables.
• Involved in the preparation of HLD and LLD as a part of documentation.
• Remediated all the security vulnerabilities in the developed Ops Portal modules.
• Prepared unit test cases for the changes incorporated using JUnit.
• Functionality testing done for the newly added/modified functions.
• Test cases executed manually and the results are consolidated in the test case summary report.
• Defects logged in Jira and fixed in the next release.
• Components were tested for different sets of input data to confirm the stability after incorporating security remediation.
• Prepared Check list for better performance.
• Documented lessons learnt to minimize known defects.
• Delivered codes were scanned to confirm that they are completely secured.
• Prepared Weekly Status Report.
• Prepared MOM and Agenda.
• Trained all new joined of the team in adapting to the project.
• Reviewed the codes of other team members and tracked defects in a review tracker.
• Prepared the phase and task for the team members along with the release of items in IPMS.Involved in the tracking of the IQA and EQA activities of all team members.

Environment: JAVA, JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, Apache Tomcat, CVS, Jira, WS FTP Pro, JUnit, Quality Center

Quality Analyst

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Individual member of the IDS Automation project.
• Gathered Requirement and Prepared the project plan for IDS Automation project.
• Recorded, edited and executed the trade workflow on rational functional tester (IBM-RFT) using Java codes.
• In IDS Regression, I have automated to validate the progression of trades between the various users and its confirmation in Documentum webtop GUI through the lifecycle of a trade.
• In IDS Aurora, Integrated the Scripts to Web Cortex framework and created jobs.I have pushed XML data to IDS-tradefeed and generated the DDF’s. I have tested the status of the trade by comparing the records in database tables against the status column.
• In IDS DTCC, I have compared the source and destination DDF’s to confirm that the life cycle of trade is as expected.
• Tested the application using the automated codes from Rational Functional Tester, Web Cortex and Test Case Management tools.TCM used as interface for test case management and reporting tools. Test cases could be run in parallel from cortex on multiple boxes. Reusable test steps common across different workflows Program inputs are accepted as parameters aliases in Web Cortex.
• Captured the test results with the help of Staf/Stax monitor.
• Html reports generated with video playback for analysis.
• Maintained developed scripts using CVS version controller.
• Maintained Defect Tracker sheet listing the defects and their respective status of the logged defects in Jira.

Environment: Rational Functional Tester, Web Cortex, Test Case Management (TCM), CVS, JAVA, Jira, Staf / Stax monitor, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, Documentum Webtop GUI.

Java J2EE Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Struts framework with MVC pattern.
• Designed & Developed user interface and validation using JSTL tags, XML, Java scripts and JSP pages.
• Implemented service methods, Value Objects and PD classes with xdoclet comments.
• Hibernate used for persistence of data to DB2 database and SQL query statements for data accessing.
• Deployed JSP files in the Apache tomcat webserver.
• Involved in debugging and incorporating the change requirements.
• Unit test cases prepared for the loan component modules and tested using JUnit.
• Tested functionality and incorporated the defects before delivering to client.
• System testing done once the code is merged with other modules.

Environment: HTML, XML, STRUTS, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript, JSP, JSTL, JAVA, DB2, JUnit

Quality Analyst

Confidential, Petersburg

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan based on business requirements.
• Involved in Test Scenario preparation.
• Prepared and executed functional test cases.
• Prepared automation scripts using visual basic for testing of various modes (BOTH, US and Canada) of HRMS 8.1 product.
• Prepared test data and data files (Masterfiles and Data Control Files).
• Executed Test Scripts in various environments(SQL & VFP).
• Performed integration, Adhoc and blackbox testing.
• Performed Regression Testing using QTP-Quick Test Professional.
• Performed analysis and verification of test results and provided consolidated status reports of all team members.Recorded and documented test results,Produced problem reports and suggestions.
• Logged bugs/defects, closed Change Control Requests and Tracked Bugs using PVCS.
• Version control and configuration management using Visual SourceSafe

Environment: HP Quick Test Professional, Visual Basic scripts, PVCS, Visual Source Safe, SQL Server 2000, Visual FoxPro(VFP)