PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of experience in Information Technology, with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, proficient in testing on Web based and Client/Server applications.
• Lead a team of testers spread across 3 scrum teams, provide day to day planning, guidance and coaching.
• Experience in creating Test Plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases, developing and maintaining automation test scripts, analyzing bugs, coordinating with development team and track the bug fixes till closure.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing, Backed end Testing, Black - Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Positive/ Negative Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Boundary Value Testing.
• Experience in working with automation and test management tools. (HP QTP/UFT, Test Director, Quality Center).
• Have worked on Automation frameworks like Hybrid and Data Driven as per the project requirement.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps using Quality Center.
• Hands-on experience and strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in Black box testing with a complete QA cycle- from testing, Defect Logging and verification of fixed bugs.
• Experience in designing, documenting, and executing test plans, test scenarios/scripts & test cases for Manual, Automated & bug tracking tools.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix to make sure all the requirements are mapped to the Test cases.
• Extensively involved in Test Case Preparation, Test data, analyzing bugs, interacting with client and other teams for functionality changes.
• Having hands on domain experience in BFSI (Retail & Commercial Banking) & Telecom.
• Work closely with the project manager and project team to manage internal/external stakeholder expectations through careful and proactive communications.
• Flexible and adaptable to new technologies with quick learning abilities. Solid team player with very good interpersonal skills, Quick learner, well organized, resourceful and committed to Quality.
• Proven ability to interact with customers.
• Having ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure. Highly motivated to learn New Technologies
• Strong analytical skills, ability to understand applications from a technical as well as business perspective.
• Has good project management skills in leading the team and has involved in project quality improve process like Collecting Metrics to improve the project deliverables on continuous basis, DPA (Defect Prevention Analysis) and PQA (Project Quality Analyst) activities.
• Good Confidential requirement Analysis and performing reviews of software documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/7, UNIX

Automation Test Tools: HP QTP, Selenium Web Driver

Test Framework: Hybrid Framework, Data Driven Framework

Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center

Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MS Access.

Languages: C, VB, SQL, Java

Domain Knowledge: Banking & Financial Services, Telecom

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Perform software testing and quality assurance working under Agile (Scrum) software development environment.
• As a member of the Scrum team participate in all the scrum ceremonies - daily standup meetings, sprint planning, demo and retrospective.
• Provide test plans, estimations/ sizing and review test scope, schedule and strategy
• Maintain and execute manual test cases via HP ALM and use HP ALM to report the findings/ defects.
• Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports and other test related documents.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing.
• Worked closely with Development team, BA and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of Management.
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing
• Closely interact with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.
• Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.
• Coordinate and facilitate necessary interactions between the business and the team to obtain answers, provide direction or eliminate impediments.
• Manage the prioritization of tasks and queue workload for team members including identification of resource constraints.
• Meet quality assurance goals by making decisions, determine process improvements, implement change, and manage team's workflow.
• Assign tasks to the team based on the software test plan
• Check the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced by the team members with their tasks
• Review defect reports and assign valid defects to the relevant developer/ development manager
• Ensure the resolved defects are re-tested
• Escalate and obtain resolution of the issues related to the test/Production environment and team.
• Plan, organize and lead team meetings and ensure action is taken based on the team discussions.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment:

Languages: VB script

Database: Oracle 9i/10G Database

Tools: QTP 11.0, QC 10.0

O/s: WINDOWS XP/WINDOWS7

Responsibilities:

• Functional & Automation Testing, QA Documentation, Defect Management and Back End Testing.
• Established entire Quality Assurance Process Documentation based on Agile Methodology.
• Identifying/ defining the scope to write the acceptance criteria for the user stories.
• Identifying the impact of the new stories on the existing system and discuss with Product Owner/ Client.
• Involved in end to end testing activities i.e., effort estimation, requirement gathering, test case design, test data preparation, test case execution & defect logging/tracking.
• Develop detailed Test Strategy and Test Plan Documents.
• Involved in Smoke test ing, Sanity testing, Integration test ing, Positive test ing, Negative test ing, Functional test ing, Regression testing and UAT test ing .
• Map requirements, Test Scenario’s and Test Cases by using Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Highly skilled in writing automation test scripts using QTP
• Proficient in identifying, reporting and troubleshooting software defects.
• Actively involved towards resolution of defects: select and design test cases for proper closure of defect, root cause analysis & triage.
• Create and communicate Defect Reports used in defect status meetings.
• Coordinate and facilitate daily or weekly defect status meetings.
• Establish a weekly report and review meeting with leadership to highlight key focus areas and recommendations to communicate with their teams and/or stakeholders.
• Use HP Quality Center for requirements traceability, maintain & execute test cases and to report test status.
• Participate in various meetings with Project Managers to discuss the status of the testing and/or decide the best suitable test process/procedure to be followed.
• Assigned, Monitored and Tracked tasks of onshore & offshore QA team members.
• Create and report test metrics (test case metrics, defect metrics etc.,) which are used in QA team meetings.
• Led QA testing that improved end-user experience by having identified/ discovered major issues.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: Languages: VB script

Database: Oracle 9i/10G Database

Tools: Manual Testing, QC 9.5

O/s: WINDOWS XP

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
• Designed efficient test cases based on analysis of Business Requirement documents, Functional Specs, Technical design documents, Use Cases and other supporting documents.
• Preparing and reviewing test conditions based on BR and FD documents.
• Provided accurate and timely estimates for QA timelines and effort.
• Design and document detailed test cases to cover all levels of testing and requirements, including functional, integration, regression, and system.
• Suggested improvements in test process by gathering and analyzing data.
• Defining the scope for testing by performing impact analysis.
• For requirements traceability, maintenance & execution of test cases, defect tracking - HP Quality Center was used.
• Worked under Waterfall Methodology and Risk Based Testing (RBT) approach was used.
• Execute test cases within negotiated deadlines.
• Work closely with the development team to discover, report and validate fixes for issues.
• Writing regression scenarios and integration testing scripts.
• Assist software developers and others to understand and reproduce customer reported issues.
• Supporting testers and UAT team for executing test scripts.
• Status reporting and team monitoring.
• Extensively involved in bug analysis and defect reporting.
• Worked closely with the functional and development team to resolve the defects and testing issues throughout Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducted KT sessions for test engineers on change requests.
• Used SQL to validate backend database changes, deletes and update.
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Quality Center.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Attended several walk through meeting with the Business Analysis, project manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Proposed the need for adding or modifying a requirement, to the business analyst and project manager, to enhance the product functionality
• Participated in QA Team meetings and weekly QA testing reviews.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Environment:

Languages: VB

Database: SQL server

Tools: Manual Testing

O/s: WINDOWS 2000

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
• Designed efficient test cases based on analysis of Business Requirement documents, Functional Specs, Technical design documents, Use Cases and other supporting documents.
• Preparing and reviewing test conditions based on BR and FD documents.
• Provided accurate and timely estimates for QA timelines and effort.
• Design and document detailed test cases to cover all levels of testing and requirements, including functional, integration, regression, and system.
• Suggested improvements in test process by gathering and analyzing data.
• Defining the scope for testing by performing impact analysis.
• Worked under Waterfall Methodology and Risk Based Testing (RBT) approach was used.
• Execute test cases within negotiated deadlines.
• Work closely with the development team to discover, report and validate fixes for issues.
• Writing regression scenarios and integration testing scripts.
• Assist software developers and others to understand and reproduce customer reported issues.
• Supporting testers and UAT team for executing test scripts.
• Status reporting and team monitoring.
• Extensively involved in bug analysis and defect reporting.
• Worked closely with the functional and development team to resolve the defects and testing issues throughout Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducted KT sessions for test engineers on change requests.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Attended several walk through meeting with the Business Analysis, project manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Proposed the need for adding or modifying a requirement, to the business analyst and project manager, to enhance the product functionality
• Participated in QA Team meetings and weekly QA testing reviews.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Environment

Languages: Java, Apache

Database: SQL server

Tools: Manual Testing

O/s: WINDOWS 2000

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements and developed test cases to test the complete functionality of the application.
• Involved in review of Test cases with Functional Requirements.
• Execution of test cases for various test data
• Performed Smoke test ing, Integration test ing, Positive test ing, Negative test ing, Functional test ing and UAT test ing.
• Code Walkthrough with the Developer
• Regularly met with team leads, other team members to evaluate the project progress.
• Perform root cause analysis and triage of post-implementation issues.
• Reporting and tracking defects
• Coordinated the walkthrough and kickoff meetings with developers and project managers.
• Attended, discussed and submitting work progress report of the week to QA Manager.