SUMMARY:

• Having 13 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry as a QA Test Engineer.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation.
• Excellent experience in Banking and Storage domains.
• Expertise in designing and developing Test Strategy, Test plans, Test Cases, and Test Reports for manual test.
• Preparing test cases for the system covering SRS document, design document, reviewing them with the developers and finalizing the test cases.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing.
• Extensively involved in Black box testing of Web based applications.
• Extensive work experience in Storage Virtualization Testing, Infrastructure Testing.
• Testing all new features with virtualization technologies.
• Testing new functionality and solutions being introduced into Confidential midrange storage array portfolio.
• Having good experience on Cloud Infrastructure Testing.
• Extensive work experience in UNIX Testing.
• Extensive work experience in Database Testing.
• Extensive work experience in Test Environment Management Support.
• Having good knowledge on Automation Tools like Selenium, QTP, QC and Load Runner.
• Having good knowledge on SQL & UNIX.
• Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Ad-Hoc testing.
• Experience in using HP ALM for writing the test cases, executing the test cases and defect reporting.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using the Waterfall Model, V-Model and exposure on Agile Methodology.
• Proficient in SDLC including test strategy preparation, test plan development, test case creation, test execution and bug tracking.
• Used Remedy User, Clear Quest and Quality Center to manage, coordinate and report defects.
• Interacted actively with the team in identifying bugs.
• Received client's outstanding performance from Confidential .
• I am a Quick learner, excellent team player, have ability to meet deadlines and Work under pressure
• Good communication skills and analytical aptitude with excellent ability for team work.
• Possess strong ability to quickly adapt to new applications and platforms.
• Excellent in handling responsibilities with good presentation and coordination skills.
• Had 2 years and 2 months of Onsite experience at client place Confidential, Hopkinton, US.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: win 7/XP/ 2000/2003/2008 , SUSE Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX, AIX

Languages: C, C++, Java

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

Virtualization: ESX 3.0/3.5/4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Testing Tools: Selenium (IDE, RC, Grid, Webdriver), Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, QC

Monitoring Tools: Control-M

IT Management Tools: IT ServiecNow

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, Remedy User, Rational Clear Quest

Configuration Tools: VSS 6.0

Web Technologies: ASP.NET

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Working as an environment strategist for SQM portfolio.
• Coordinate with different dev teams, infra teams and vendors to ensure availability of non-prod environments
• Manage or monitor Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Planning and analysis of test environments.
• Test environment Booking and scheduling through spreadsheet.
• Effective Communication between the test team and other stakeholders.
• Address technical bottlenecks in software delivery so that every sprint is complete on time.
• Monitoring the Jobs using Control-M
• Incident Management and single point of contact for all the requests raised by different DEV/QA/UAT/Business teams
• Responsible for Change Management communication.
• Single point of contact for Environment Delivery for SQM
• Works with the various IT groups to stand up and configure test environments
• Ensure environments are provisioned with necessary code, data and connectivity for testing team.
• Organize Weekly meeting to update the environment usage to the necessary stakeholders.
• Provide environment Support and co-ordination until resolution during test execution
• Environment outage notification and scheduled down time notifications
• Accountable for all deliverables pertaining to test environments
• Develop KPIs to track efficacy of test environment delivery efforts
• Log, coordinate and resolve defects related to environments to provide the stable test environments.
• Preparing & Sharing DSR,WSR and MSR with stakeholders

Environment: J2EE, Win 7, Oracle, Infrastructure Testing/Functional Testing, HP ALM, IT ServiceNow, Control-M

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Attend and conduct Walkthroughs with the Business Analyst and Developers for better understanding of the application.
• Providing the estimations and assigning the tasks to the team.
• Designed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on the Requirements Specification and send it for Onsite review & signoff.
• Performed Infrastructure testing includes Storage, VMware, WAS, DB and Network components.
• Performed Cloud Infrastructure Testing, Cloud Acceptance Testing, Cloud Server build validation, Disaster Recovery Testing and Cloud Operational Readiness Testing (ORT).
• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, and System Testing, adhoc Testing, Security Testing.
• Performed regression testing against the various builds of the application.
• Played an active role in testing the application on various testing environments like NFT,PPTE etc.,
• Prepared the various metrics reports like Test Execution summary report, Test Results, and Defect summary reports.
• Logging and reporting defects and re-validate them once get fixed.
• Preparing & Sharing the DSR with stakeholders.

Environment: J2EE, Win 7, Oracle, Cloud Infrastructure Testing/Functional Testing, HP ALM

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Attend and conduct Walkthroughs with the Business Analyst and Developers for better understanding of the application.
• Providing the estimations and assigning the tasks to the team.
• Designed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on the Requirements Specification and send it for Onsite review & signoff.
• Reviewing the Test Cases Prepared by the Team Members.
• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, adhoc Testing, Security Testing and UAT Testing.
• Performed regression testing against the various builds of the application.
• Performed Database Testing.
• Played an active role in testing the application on various region testing environments like APAC, NAM and EMEA.
• Prepared the various metrics reports like Test Execution summary report, Test Results, and Defect summary reports.
• Logging and reporting defects and re-validate them once get fixed.
• Participated in defect call across all regions.
• Preparing & Sharing the DSR with stakeholders.
• Used SQL queries to perform database testing, hence validated tests by cross checking data.

Environment: J2EE, XML, XSLT, Win 7, Oracle SQL developer, Functional Testing, HP ALM

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Designed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on the Requirements Specification and send it for Onsite review & signoff.
• Review the test cases written by team members.
• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, adhoc Testing and Security Testing.
• Conducting Regression Testing based on the bugs submitted in the earlier build.
• Played an active role in testing the application on various browsers & operating systems.
• Preparing Test Results.
• Reporting Bugs and Follow-up with the Development Team for Bug Resolution.
• Using Remedy User for Bug Reporting.
• Onsite travel to Confidential, Hopkinton, MA, USA.

Environment: J2EE, XML, XSLT, Win 7/XP/2k3/2k8, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Functional Testing, QC, Remedy

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Designed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on the Requirements Specification and send it for Onsite review & signoff.
• Review the test cases written by team members.
• Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Conducting Regression Testing based on the bugs submitted in the earlier build.
• Played an active role in testing the application on various browsers & operating systems.
• Preparing Test Results.
• Reporting Bugs and Follow-up with the Development Team for Bug Resolution.
• Using Remedy User for Bug Reporting.
• Onsite travel to Confidential, Hopkinton, MA, USA.

Environment: J2EE, XML, XSLT, Win XP/2k3/2k8, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Functional Testing, Remedy 7.1

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications.
• Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios based on the Requirements Specification.
• Review test cases written by team members.
• Performed Smoke Testing,GUI Testing, Functionality testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, System Testing Ad hoc Testing, Security Testing.
• Conducting Regression Testing based on the bugs submitted in the earlier build.
• Preparing Test Results.
• Reporting Bugs and Follow-up with the Development Team for Bug Resolution.
• Using Remedy User 7.1for Bug Reporting.
• Onsite travel to Confidential, Hopkinton, MA, USA.

Environment: J2EE, XML, XSLT, Win XP/2k3/2k8, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Functional Testing, Remedy 7.1

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Automated the tests using RegressionX.
• Involved in OPT Fix testing
• Involved in E-pack testing for Customer issues.
• Preparing Test Results and creating the bug report.
• Defect tracking and review process.

Environment: C, C++, J2EE, XML, Win XP, Functional Testing and Automation Testing