SUMMARY:

• Requirements Management | Test Planning | Test Execution | Defect Management
• Professional with 13+ years of experience as Senior Test Lead, Senior Test Analysts and QA Analyst with a diverse industry background in managing complex projects/programs in Banking, Finance, Retail, SCM, Clinical and Health Care.
• Strength in Quality Assurance, Engineering, and business development function as well as expertise in Total Quality Management and use these functions effectively to achieve the overall objectives of the organization.
• Knowledgeable in Functional (FT), System (ST), System Integration Testing (SIT), Enterprise Integration Testing (EIT), Regression, Smoke/Sanity, User Acceptance/ Business Acceptance (UAT) and production support.
• Over 13+ years of IT experience with expertise in Analysis and testing of wide variety of stand - alone, Client/server, Mainframe and Web-based applications.
• Sound knowledge & proficiency in Testing Life Cycle (TLC) including Test Planning and Analysis, Planning Process, Test Strategy, executing tests, Defect Tracking and Test Reporting.
• In Depth experience in the field of DWBI Testing, ETL , Database , and BI Reports & Manual Testing in multiple domains like Banking & Finance , Retail and Healthcare management.
• In depth experience in implementing various QA methodologies involving preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Procedures and performed defect reporting and tracking throughout SDLC.
• Automated banking applications using Selenium WebDriver.
• Implemented TestNG - TDD and Cucumber-BDD automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver , JAVA, Junit.
• Requirement Analysis , Creation & Modification of Test Plans , Create Effort Estimation , Test Case Design, Test Case Execution, Defect Reporting & tracking using HP Quality Center 11.0 and ALM .
• Excellent skills in Manual Testing. Performed back-end testing by extensively using SQL commands to verify the database integrity. Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for verifying DDL , DML and DCL for Trigger and Stored Procedures.
• Involved in developing and maintaining Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix and Gap Analysis
• Strong Cross Browser Testing Skills to ensure compatibility with browsers (IE, Chrome, Mozilla etc.)
• Excellent Organizational, Communication and Interpersonal skills with Ability to lead, work in a team or work independently and Hardworking with an enthusiasm to learn new technologies
• Capacity to identify problems, analyze test results , and investigating their cause and suggesting remedies to enhance software product quality.
• Worked in collaboration with testers, developers, business, Infrastructure, DBA and other team members in complex projects on varied platforms .
• Good understanding of Web Services and expert in writing test cases and executing Web Services using SOAP and REST calls on SOAPUI.
• Working knowledge KTA (Kofax total agility) Robotic Automation.
• Coordinated in creation and execution of QA and testing processes, effort estimation, test strategies and plans, bug tracking and regression.
• Proven experience in client facing, leading team in an onshore-offshore delivery model .
• Good problem-solving skills, willing to learn new technologies and increase productivity
• Participated in “Go No-Go” discussion at the end of Test Closure.
• Handle multiple projects and tasks independently and collaboratively with team members and taking ownership of product delivery and continuously improving QA processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Junit, Cucumber, SOAP UI, REST API, HP ALM, Quality Center, TFS, MTM, Rally

Testing Concepts: Functional, System Test, Regression, UAT, end-to-end, Sanity Testing, Unit, QAFrame Work, OOPs, modular two/three-tier, functional, Black Box testing, White Box Testing and Total test coordination.

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, VS TFS, IBM Clearcase, VSS

Content Management: Share Point, JIRA

Test Tracking Tools: ALM, Quality Center, Rational TestManager, ClearQuest

Languages: Java, C, C++, SQL, Unix

Operating Systems: Mainframe, UNIX, Windows 95 and above, Sun Solaris 7/8, Red Hat Linux

Databases: DB2, MS SQL Server, TOAD, Oracle 7.x /8.x /8i/11i/10G, Access

RPA Tools: Kofax Total Agility (KTA)

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attending business meetings to understand the requirement
• Responsible for preparing Test deliverables including Test Plan, Test cases, TSR
• Bringing Risks/Challenges upfront to avoid surprises later
• Expertise in Testing with Misys Loan IQ APIs
• Worked on Misys Loan IQ tool for Creating the Deal information for reporting purposes.
• Uploading and maintaining Test Cases in ALM for releases.
• Worked on FHA loan and Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP), LTV and SBA loans.
• Experience of working with data feeds and interfaces from Loan IQ to Mortgage modules.
• Creating and timely tracking/updating task in JIRA.
• Worked on many hot-fix issues and patches and support UAT team with the results.
• Extensively performed Database ETL testing using Informatica and verify the OLAP for BI reports.
• Logging and tracking defects in ALM.
• Tested AGORA - Capital Market Application for buying and selling the products/Instruments in the secondary sales.
• Worked on Compass - AFS application for shadow booking of loans in Loan IQ.
• Responsible for driving defect triage call with the developers, BA's and product owners
• Daily meeting with client including Business analysts, scrum master and other team members for following up on the requirement readiness for the application to be tested

Environment: SIT

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attended grooming sessions to understand the requirements, mentored and managed test team of six resources
• Prepared Test deliverables including Test Plan
• Brought Risks/Challenges upfront to avoid surprises later
• Assigned tasks to team members
• Created test cases in MTM, executed test cases, and updated the results in MTM
• Logged and tracked defects in TFS
• Drove defect triage call with the Developers, BAs and product owners
• Daily meeting with client including Business Analysts, Scrum Master and other team members for following up on the requirement readiness for the application to be tested
• Prepared and sent consolidated Test Report to Managers and Team during Test execution

Environment: SIT, UAT

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attended grooming calls to understand the requirements
• Created test cases in Rally, executed test cases and updated the results in Rally
• Singlehandedly delivered Test Deliverables using Agile methodology

Environment: SIT, UAT, Mozilla Firefox, IE, Chrome, Rally, Clarity, SQL Developer, Java, Selenium WebDriver

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assigned tasks to the team members, prepared all reports for the project required by the client
• Responsible for preparing RTM, TRR and TER
• Wrote Test Cases to validate the data and format of the outbound file

Environment: Functional, SIT, UAT

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assigned task to the team members, prepared all reports for the project required by the client
• Wrote SQL queries and Test Cases for the extraction and transformation rules
• Execution of SQL scripts and data validation
• Daily interaction with Client

Environment: Functional, Database Testing

Confidential, MN

Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases to test the web-services call
• Executed web services call using SOAP UI
• Responsible for Test Case execution, Bug Reporting and Tracking using CQTM and HP-ALM

Environment: Functional, Database Testing

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases for the changed/new added functionality
• Performed Functional, System and Regression Testing for both Web and Window application
• Manual and Automation test case executions
• Automation result analysis for executions
• Converted manual test cases into automation test cases using QTP
• Worked on different environments including cert, staging and production
• Bug Reporting and Tracking
• Prepared Test Metrics and Test Exit Summary Report

Environment: Functional, Web, Windows Testing

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for manual - functional, System and regression testing
• Worked as a part of the Release Testing Team of the application
• Wrote Test Cases and maintained Test Suite using HP-ALM
• Performed Regression Testing and Functional Testing
• Worked on seven Application Releases
• Responsible for manual and automation test case executions
• Automation result analysis for executions
• Converted manual test cases into automation test cases using QTP
• Worked on different environments including cert, staging, and production
• Bug Reporting and Tracking

Environment: Functional Testing, Mainframe Testing, SIT

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Functional requirement document
• Wrote and executed Test Cases
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing for both Web and Window application
• Automation result analysis for executions
• Bug Reporting and tracking using HP-ALM
• Worked on different environments including cert, staging and production
• Bug Reporting and Tracking

Environment: Functional Testing