SUMMARY

• 4+ years of experience in testing with expertise in Manual Testing, Test case design, Identifying Test Scenarios.
• Expert in PDS and TMDS of PTC project (Dispatch systems).
• Good working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Defect Life Cycle.
• Expertise in various testing methodologies such as Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, White box, Field validation, and User Acceptance testing.
• Solid understanding of Test planning, Test design, Test execution and Defect reporting & tracking.
• Expert in testing of safety critical application, which require knowledge of DO 1788 safety standards.
• Well versed with testing using HP’s ALM - App Lifecycle Management Application and defect tracking using ALM and JIRA.
• Experienced in using a Web-debugging tool like Fire path and Firebug for finding elements locator in Firefox and developer tools in IE and Chrome browsers.
• Profoundly proficient in complex SQL Queries.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Project Management Fundamentals, Business Intelligence Tools, Salesforce BA (currently pursuing certification).
• Well exposed and accommodative to traditional, extreme, waterfall, and agile methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Programming Skills: C, MATLAB, R (Learning), SQL, VB.net

Database: Microsoft SQL Server, MYSQL, DB2.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, OSX, IOS.

Reporting: MS Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau.

Certifications: SAP Lumira, Business Intelligence, Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt Certified.

Tools: Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Tableau, HP-ALM, XCode - IOS Application Developer, Putty, Data Mapping on Informatica, Cucumber, Jenkins, Selenium Web Driver, SOAP UI, WINSCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on a Positive Train Control (PTC) project. A government project with Canadian Railways.
• Coordinating with client to create Requirement Specification to develop Use Case Diagrams and integrated Inventory management with Point of Production of sub divisions.
• Prepared and designed the Test Strategy and Test Plan for modules like Onboard, Back Office Server and Computer Aided Dispatcher.
• Raising defects on HPALM, keep a track of Defect Life Cycle.
• Author test cases and import them to ALM.
• Executed performance testing on item creation to manage inventory and orders making system more robust.
• Be involved in test execution, results analysis and defect reporting HP ALM on numerous sub divisions on a daily basis.
• Collaborated with Product development team for story pointing bugs in JIRA to streamline process improving resolution time.
• Ran deployment jobs using Jenkins, created maven build files to run Selenium tests to display reports in HTML format.
• Interaction (SCRUM meetings) and coordination with the offshore team on a daily basis for deployment and/or other issue resolution.
• Development of necessary tools and simulators to assist during lab certification including LINN(Lab Integration Nearest Neighbor), LIWW(Lab Integration End to End) test.
• Shadowing on Field Integration Testing with Train Engineers and Dispatchers.
• Performing end to end testing, integration testing, regression testing, segment testing on the PTC functional requirements.
• Tracking logs of Back office Server on MobaXterm, handling the corporate provided tools like, WabTrax Track Editor, WINSCP, PUTTY, UNIX.
• Attend sprint meetings and give an update on the weekly analysis.
• Verification of the test runs, defect validations, sanity testing.
• Working on Brown out scenarios and SMC Test scenarios for numerous sub divisions.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed manual validation test scripts for a medical application to maintain the anonymity of the patients following HIPAA standards.
• Created test plans and detailed test cases for functional and integration testing. Set up test data for manual testing and documented the test results.
• Defining goals for each iteration and detailed Work break down structure (WBS), define test strategies and develop system test plans in accordance with system specifications.
• Involvement in Test Execution, Results Analyzing and Defect Reporting.
• Reported software defects and logged them into Yodiz defect tracking tool.
• Interacted with the developers to keep up to date with the defect cycle.
• If the defect still persisted, reopened the cycle on Yodiz till it is resolved.
• Knowledge gathering on any new functionality implementation.
• Attended review meetings on a weekly basis. Then went on to automate the whole process using Selenium.
• Used web-debugging tools like Fire-Path and Firebug to inspect elements and generate X-path.

Confidential

Systems Engineer Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for authoring test cases for an Employee Management Application.
• Created regression test suites for a major part of the application in the project.
• Collaborated with the development team to identify testing requirements.
• Expertise in manual testing and defect management using HP ALM.
• Performed functional, regression, end to end and integration testing for the application with a continuous integration environment.
• Worked with the White box testing approach to test the functionality of the application features.
• Expertise in Defect Analysis-tracking.
• Test scripts were developed in Excel and later uploaded in ALM manually and also to indicate the expected outcome.
• Analyze formal test results to discover and report any bugs and errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaw.
• Prioritize requests from various business units of the project and managed them together using PMBok methodologies.
• Provided Knowledge Transfer sessions on the domain knowledge.
• Administrated, design, develop, test, and implement SharePoint solutions.

Confidential, MI

Office/HR Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Sending Actions to the clients and the building coordinators with detailed information about the Event. Assigning tasks to the Event coordinators when additional specifications for the events are required.
• Communicating/Collaborating with the client, the building coordinator, and other departments on a daily basis. Learned and improved profoundly compassionate customer connections and communication skills.