SUMMARY:

• Extensive and diverse experience in the field of Information Technology and business with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Testing and Web development.
• Certified Project Manager (PMP)
• Managed multiple projects with in - house and off shore teams
• Experience with CONOPS documentation and SRS documentation
• Proficient in both Manual and Automated testing techniques using Rational Team Suite and Mercury Interactive tools.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and the role of a QA.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to take an assignment to closure.
• Understanding of basic programming concepts in the areas of analysis, design and implementation.
• Performed planning and development of Test plans, Test cases and Test scenario to meet products business requirement.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to acquire understanding and absorb new information rapidly.
• Able to carry out role independently and resolve issues with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills to address complex problems within the technical arena and develop creative and practical solutions.
• Team player with strong people skills, a self-starter capable of multi-tasking.
• Conducted Blackbox, UAT, GUI, Functionality, System, Performance, Stress, Load, Security, Backend, Data driven, automated and Integration testing of application.
• Tested applications using Test Script Language (TSL) and SQA Basic.
• Wrote SQL queries and UNIX shell scripts to perform Backend testing.
• Experience in tracking and reporting bugs/defects using Automated or in house defect reporting tools.
• Proactive planner and able to switch between tasks in a rapidly changing work environment.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools Bug Reporting Tools Reporting Tools Operating Systems Databases & RDBMS Programming Languages Web Programming Web Application Web / Internet Technologies Accounting and tax Tools Applications Quality Process Improvement System Analysis &Design Networking Certifications Education WinRunner, QTP, LoadRunner, Rational Team Test, PVCS Tracker, TFS (VSTS), VersionOne TestDirector, Clear Quest, Excel Spreadsheets, TeamTrack, Jira Crystal Reports Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/7/Server 2000/Server 2003/Server 2008, UNIX Linux (Redhat, Debain, Slackware, Suse, Mandrake) MS SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL VB.Net, SQL, Java, C++, UNIX Shell scripting ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, DHTML JavaScript, Familiarity with PHP, CGI / Perl H-Shere, XML IIS, FTP, Apache, CSS, ColdFusion, DNS, AD Quicken tools, Quick Books MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Macromedia MX Dreamweaver SDLC methodologies, RUP, UML, Six Sigma : TCP/IP, VOIP, OSI Technologies, LAN, WAN, 802.11: Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Green Belt: BBA Management Information Systems, US: MS IT-Software Engineering, US: MBA nowledge of Latest technology and ability to learn new Technologies rapidly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MA

QA Manager / Sr. Software Engineer, QA

Responsibilities:

• Manage off-shore and on-shore Teams
• Lead the Quality Assurance effort
• Lead daily stand up meetings
• Reports Directly to Vice president (QA)
• Developed test strategy for projects
• Developed project plans
• Wrote and maintained automated scripts used for backend testing
• Automation engineer on GNW
• Liaised with cross-functional teams and off shore teams to gather requirements and better understand system complexities
• Wrote and Managed the UNIX test scripts used for backend testing
• Conducted manual, automated testing and mobile testing
• Deployed code to the QA and staging environment and created documentation to assist application support in production deployments
• Solicits and gathers requirements / stories
• Helped in troubleshooting issues reported in the production environment
• Logged defects and updated stakeholders regularly on status of projects and potential risks

Environment: SCRUM, Agile, Kanban, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11G, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Solaris UNIX, Jira, VersionOne, Sharepoint, SAHI, HP Unified Functional Testing, Amazon AWS, Selenium, SOAPUI

Confidential, MA

Sr. QA Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager and Team Lead
• T rained and mentored other team members.
• Created and Maintained Project Plan and release schedule.
• Developed detailed and quality test plans/strategy.
• Performed time estimation, scheduling, scoping and resource allocation.
• Deployed and released development code to QA environment; maintained QA environments.
• Presided and attended team meetings, reporting status to manager, as a liaison between the quality assurance, off-site research and development teams and product teams regarding requirements, implementation, timing and other application effects.
• Performed risk assessment and notified business and stakeholders for possible mitigations.
• Built and maintained automated scripts.
• Performed research on emerging technologies and advised team during design phase.
• Worked with the product backend QA teams, verifying complex algorithm, data processing and results using Microsoft sQl 2008 and Oracle 10G.
• Compared research and production team model outputs; verified findings against model specification and development technical specifications.
• Verified backend processing calculation results using the ThomsonOne Investor Relations application.
• Logged, tracked and closed defects and bugs using TeamTrack and Jira
• Reviewed functional and calculation model specifications, business requirements and technical specification documents.
• Deployed and released development code to QA environment, maintained QA environment and SQL server.
• Performed demo and training for other QA teams on Smart Target processing.

Environment: MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10G, Windows 2003/2008 Server, MYSQL, Red Hat Linux, Jira, TeamTrack, VersionOne, Sharepoint, SOAPUI

Confidential, American Tower, MA

Lead QA - BigEd (Big Equipment Database)

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users to understand and create scenarios that satisfy business requirements
• Setup and Managed the Issues list
• Quality Center Admin
• Coordinated QA release deployment(s) and verification
• Supported Production deployments
• Assigned Tasks to BA’s and other QA resource
• Performed GUI testing, Functionality Testing, System Test and End-to-End test as required
• Verified bug fixes
• Performed Smoke Test as necessary and verified new builds to environment(s)
• Created Automated bug reports
• Organized defect triage meetings
• Maintained RTM
• Reported bugs and performed regression testing as necessary
• Participated in team review of requirements/design documentation for purposes of test planning and to validate requirement testability
• Participated in the Project Meetings and Walkthroughs in pursuit of Information Sharing as well as resolving the intermittent issues of concern

Environment: MS SQL Server 2005, MOSS 2007, Windows 2003 Server, InfoPath, Infragistics, .NET, BizTalk, Oracle, TOAD

Confidential

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plan and Test cases for the Testing Effort
• Interacted with Business Users to understand and create scenarios that satisfy business requirements
• Conducted user acceptance testing with business users
• Assisted in the setup of the environment
• Supported Production deployments
• Executed Test cases
• Performed GUI testing, Functionality Testing and Process Testing on Winforms
• Verified accuracy, formatting and contents of about 100 types of documents to be generated
• Designed and maintained the project SharePoint help site
• Prepared all the Training and help materials/documents
• Trained the business users on the new system
• Organized defect triage meetings
• Maintained the RTM document
• Reported bugs and performed regression testing as necessary
• Participated in team review of requirements/design documentation for purposes of test planning and to validate requirement testability

Environment: .NET WinForms, VS 2005 TFS, MS SQL Server 2005, BizTalk 2006, SharePoint, Windows 2003 Server, XML, Microsoft Virtual Server.

Confidential, RI

Senior Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plan and Test cases for the Testing Effort
• Interacted with Business Users to understand and create scenarios that satisfy test exit criteria to UAT
• Interacted with Third party software vendor and internal development team to understand issues associated with shared software components
• Involved with user acceptance with the business
• Performed GUI Testing, Functionality Testing and Security Testing on Winforms
• Organized Triage defect meetings
• Wrote and Executed SQL scripts and UNIX scripts
• Maintained the RTM
• Used Various tools including defect tracking, test case definition tracking and test case execution tracking
• Reported bugs and performed regression testing as necessary
• Participated in team review of requirements/design documentation for purposes of test planning and validated requirement testability
• Created and validated XML tags and XML schema to meets Surescript standard and Specifications
• Performed Back End testing
• Organized and conducted external/internal test with Surescript developers and architects
• Tested the Web based Surescript admin console (GUI, Functional & Security)
• Conducted certification testing for the release of Surescript
• Assisted in the setup/networking of the RxAim Environment and also assisted with technical issues in the lab

Environment: Testdirector, Winrunner, Toad, Oracle, IIS, UNIX, BEALOGIC, JAVA, XML, Mainframe, IBM 4690 POS, Message Hubs, PVCS Tracker, J2EE