SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in software testing predominantly in the Telecom Domain
• Test Analyst having 8 Years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets and roles with proven experience in multi - cultural and global environments.
• Having 4 years of Onsite Experience in ATT, Middletown, New Jersey, USA for UAT / ETE Telecom Testing delivering the complex projects
• Handled multiple roles like- Technical Lead, Lead test Analyst, Team Lead, Domain SME, Data lead.
• Experience in Client facing roles with Direct Interactions with Client on Day to Day Basis and coordinating with Offshore teams including analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and UAT/ETE Testing Functional, Database, Performance and Regression Testing, Designing Master Test plans/ Test Cases, traceability matrix, Test Effort Estimation, Test execution and Metrics, Project Scrum Daily Meeting and Reporting.
• Good Experience in Managing Overall Project Scope, Schedule, Cost, Risks, staffing Plan and Multi-Vendor Management using agile and waterfall project management methodologies to meet high-quality deliverables with in the committed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Good knowledge in automating web application using selenium webdriver.
• Experience in Preparing Estimations, requirement discussions and requirement baselining.
• Involved in preparation of testing effort using function point estimation technique.
• Worked directly with clients on negotiating the estimations for each project.
• Co-ordinated with the team members for test planning and scheduling and looked after job allocation to team members while setting interim deadlines for completion.
• Excellent Relationship Management skills, with the ability to conceive profitable and efficient solutions while working effectively with all levels of management and the people therein.
• Handled more than 20 projects for each major release.
• Managed customer centric operations, escalating issues related to functionality to the client and getting clarifications & ensuring client satisfaction by achieving delivery & service while maintaining adherence to quality standards and catering to client’s specific technical needs.
• Responsible for acting as main point of contact for project technical details to Delivery Project Executive and responsible for representing Technical Team in daily status meetings, requirements meetings and design review meetings with Business Managers and Client.
• Working as onsite coordinator to assign work to off shore team, taking handoff, follow pending items and present status to clients and management.
• Hands on experience in HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP-ALM/ QC) for uploading, running Test Cases, defect Management and Report generations.
• Demonstrated managerial acumen and technical expertise in Quality Assurance, Project Execution and Software Development/ Testing Confidential all stages of life cycle including project management and test management.
• Strong and focused Domain Knowledge on the Flow through business model, Product Analysis, Requirements analysis and evaluation of the requirements with respect to the business expectations of the customers and the Business Process Engineers.
• Experienced in Test Plan preparation, Test Case preparation, Test Strategy preparation and in System Engineering and Architecture to perfect the software to support business needs.
• Performed responsibilities on the Business analyst front where was incharge of controlling the in-flow of projects for any given release and also performing risk analysis and mitigation. I am also in charge of controlling the regression testing for the entire program and am the SME for the business flow for the program.
• Implemented projects in Agile Methodology and Waterfall model. Member of Agile Community.
• Extensive experience in various Agile Ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective).
• Working experience in SQL Query

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain Expertise : Telecommunication

Operating systems : Windows 7/10

Methodologies : Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), SAFe Agile

Languages : Java, SQL

IDE / Editors : Eclipse, Edit Plus, NotePad++

Database : Oracle 10G, DB2

Bug Tracking Tools: HP-ALM, Rational Clear Quest (CQ), TDP, Rally

Agile Tools: Rally, TDP, Agilecraft

Test Planning Tools: CTD (Combinatorial Test Design)

Testing Tools: Selenium, TestNG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Learning and understanding the Business and System Requirements.
• Preparing Master Test Plan & Test Strategy.
• Provide estimates for upcoming projects based on project details.
• Involve in business scenarios review with the Business Process Engineers.
• Understanding business requirements and functional requirements very well before starting the plan and execution.
• Involved in requirement review meetings and gap analysis with client.
• Prioritize test cases for each iteration based on the delivery plan.
• Risk and mitigation planning for critical projects and maintain in test plan.
• Performed requirements coverage and created Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Peer review the test case document according to the project requirements and review with stakeholders and get approvals.
• Conducting daily meetings with on shore and off shore and make sure the test execution is on track.
• Responsible for the on-time delivery and overall quality of technical deliverables being produced by the team.
• As a technical Telecom Domain expert with the knowledge of the Confidential &T architecture and in-house applications responsible for translating the business requirements into design integrating data and Test Cases across various applications and systems.
• Ensure the utilization and updating the tools (Clear Quest, Test Management Tool, Mercury Quality Center)
• Responsible for proactively liaising with other project team, US Team to understand technical dependencies and technical changes being made to systems
• Coordinated with the team members for test planning and scheduling and looked after job allocation to team members while setting interim deadlines for completion.
• Testing Consultant for the Project management team.
• Providing Shadowing for the End User team for trouble shooting during ORT phase.
• Managing End-to-End Program and Release testing and regression activities
• Extensively performed team lead activities by reporting status of weekly and daily of all the projects that are running in the current release.
• Mentored the newly joined people in the team about the client, IBM best practices, testing process and methodologies.

Technical Lead and UAT / ETE Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand and clarify the client requirements
• Created contracts in sales application, orders in service delivery application and verifying the billing related activities in billing application as part of testing activities.
• Preparing high level test case document and review them with the peers/lead
• Develop the test case design document and to satisfy the needs of the client
• Prepare component test cases for the implemented design
• Identify the dependencies between the cross systems and works proactively in align with the dependencies
• Coordinating with Development Engineers for bug fixing
• Perform Regression Testing on the implemented software product and to prepare Test results document to be reviewed by the BPE (Business Process Engineer)
• Prepare BPE Handover Package for the respective projects
• Support the testing teams like ORT (Operations Readiness Test) on the respective projects and help to resolve key issues
• Coordinating all applications involved in the project flow during execution of test cases
• Report the defect and perform root cause analysis on the defects, Review of requirements and clarifying the same with SE&A (Tier 1 and Tier2) Team if any discrepancies found.
• Tracking the program review call with Project management team and help them resolve testing issues and provide them technical information