SUMMARY

• 13+ years of experience in software industry.
• Experience in a wide range of roles - Development, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis and Release & Environment Management
• 7 years of experience in Functional Testing, End-to-End System Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing.
• Extensive experience in analyzing Business Requirements, creating and executing Test Plans / Test cases, creating and executing Test Scripts, performing Defect Management, Reporting Test Statuses and Metrics and providing Release Support.
• 3 years of experience testing with XMLs.
• Experienced in Database testing and writing SQL and PL/SQL code.
• 5+ years of testing data bases with strong proficiency in writing SQL queries.
• Able to write code in PL/SQL.
• Automation Testing Experience
• Automation using Confidential WebDriver
• Automation using SoapUI
• 2+ years of experience as Onsite Coordinator
• Experienced in coordinating with offshore teams
• Experience in a variety of domains - telecom, banking, retail and manufacturing.
• Experience with working on Agile projects
• Experience in gathering and documenting User Requirements as a Business Analyst
• 4+ years of experience in Release and Environment Management
• 2+ years of development experience in Unix, C, C++, PL/SQL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windiws7, UNIX

Software Products: Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, C, C++, Pro C, UNIX,VB Script, Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Tools: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Sax Parser, XML SPY, Visual Studio, TOAD, Clearcase, Visual Source Safe, SharePoint, RMET (Release Management Event Tool), QTP, Confidential Wedriver

Current Visa Status: Green Card EAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Validation Rules through meetings with BA and the Rule Specification Document
• Estimate effort for test case creation and execution for each IVR.
• Create test cases in ALM
• Conduct test Case Review with BA, Dev Team and Architect.
• Execute test cases.
• Automate Test Cases using SoapUI.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Evaluation Summary
• Report status and work with team members in scrum meetings to complete testing tasks

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create Test Plan for the PI.
• Plan for test case creation and test execution for the sprints based on user stories on the agile board
• Read requirements and acceptance criteria in user stories in Jira get answers to any questions from BA
• Create test cases
• Conduct test Case Review with BA, Dev Lead and Project Manager
• Execute test cases
• Conduct defect Triage Meetings, expedite defect fixes and retest defects
• Prepare Test Evaluation Summary
• Report status and work with team members in scrum meetings to complete testing tasks

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating Process Documents and templates for Aeroinfo testers according to SAFe process
• Review of monthly metrics provided by different Aeroinfo Projects
• Update Quarterly metrics dashboard
• Create SQA assessment questions (checklist) prior to assessment from the assessment scope
• Create SQA Assessment report post assessment from the answers recorded in the checklist

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan for test case creation and test execution for the sprints based on user stories on the agile board
• Readrequirements and acceptance criteria in user stories in Jira and in P490 documents and get answers to any questions from BA
• Create test cases
• Conduct test Case Review with BA, DevLead and Project Manager
• Execute test cases
• Conduct defect Triage Meetings, expedite defect fixes and retest defects
• Report status and work with team members in scrum meetings to complete testing tasks

Confidential

Release Management Engineer/Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating code delivery to Confidential for Confidential (Interface of internal Project Team with Confidential )
• Coordinating any adhoc activities with Confidential Operations Team to support testing by Aeroinfo Test team on the higher test environments
• Keeping internal Aeroinfo servers up-to-date with server configurations and softwares similar to the higher test environments and prod environment at Confidential, coordinating with Aeroinfo IT team for these activities
• Acting as interface between Project Team and IT Team for environmental issues
• Keeping track of code versions in various environments for Confidential
• As Test Analyst, my responsibility included
• Execute test cases to help test team meet the deadlines for System Integration Test completion.

Confidential

Release Management Engineer/Test Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reading through the P490s and getting answers to questions from BA
• Creating test cases for the interactive visualization screens as well as backend services used by Confidential .
• Creating complex queries to verify the data displayed on the visualizations against the database
• Executing test cases
• Understanding the current deployment processes followed for AFP, and presenting suggestions from a Release management perspective, that could help the project team.
• Collecting the requirements for the Interactive Visualization Model screens from the Aeroinfo Advanced Analytics group and created Systems Requirements documents

Confidential

Release Planner / Environment Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planning the weekly / monthly deployments (sequence of activities involving idling production jobs, deploying the various code components and bringing up production jobs).
• Created deployment plan by getting inputs from developers, functional Analysts and other team members involved. Used RMET tool to create deployment plans.
• Lead the team of resources working on the deployment and coordinate the activities according to the deployment plan.
• Responsible for informing Confidential management if there are issues with the deployment, and work with them on resolving issues.
• Ensure code is deployed in the correct order in the 3 test and production environments
• Keeping track of code deployed in various test environments and assisted PMs with the code level information whenever needed.
• Planned events for technology insertions, sending customer communication for impacts of the events.
• Onsitefocal for TCS team members at offshore
• Created a tool using Excel Macros to retrieve application jobs that would be affected by a planned server outage during a particular time, using the last 15-day job-runtime report.
• Received a number of client appreciations and also received Pride@ Confidential Award twice for my contributions. The client appreciated my attention to detail while preparing deployment plans.