SUMMARY

• Have around 14 years of experience in Quality Assurance with extensive working knowledge of manual and automation testing on various Windows, Client - Server and Web applications.
• Experienced in serving as Test Lead, Onsite QA-Coordinator, Senior Test analyst & Test Consultant, experienced in all phases of Testing Life Cycle Analysis, Planning, Execution, and evaluating the Results and reporting the defects. Strategy, preparation, execution, reporting, defect management
• 4+ years of on hands experience in Automation Frameworks design, development and E2E Execution of automation projects using QTP, Test Complete and Selenium.
• 4+ years of experience in automated testing with Test Complete 12.1
• 1+ years of experience in Performance testing with HP Load Runner8.2
• 1+ years of experience in configuration management using SVN
• 2+ years of on hands experience Test data analysis and Test data Design and Test Data Manipulation
• On hands experience in Test data masking and Test data mining from various sources like dblinks, Flat files and Databases
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Black Box, GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing of Web based and Client/server applications
• Perform a thorough analysis of business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements to develop robust test conditions, cases and scenarios employing techniques of black box and exploratory testing
• Analyzed the Test Results to make sure that the requirements have been met and existing system requirements have not been broken
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment with resource constraints
• Strong Knowledge in software development life cycle and testing life cycle
• Expertise in Functional Testing, Database Testing, Retesting & Regression Testing
• Expertise in Bug Tracking Tools like ALM, Jira and Onyx

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Alm11.0, Bugzilla and Onyx

Functional Testing Tools: QTP11.0, Test Complete 12,Selenium

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner 8.2

Database Technologies: SQL and DB2

Programming Languages: VB &VU Scripting, C and Core Java

Operating Systems: Windows-2000, Mainframes.

Other Tools: TOAD, SQL Advantage, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in conjunction with the business partners(TA’s and Traders), analysts and development teams on test strategies and ensuring that applications meet requirements and are of high quality
• Understanding the domain specification, business requirements and complete functionality of the Project
• Participated in cross-functional discussions to review the impact of application changes from both internal and external interfaces on the quality of their applications
• Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed
• Coordinated with business analysts and development team members to understand business requirements and develop Test Cases
• Served as an escalation point for QA testers to help ensure project impediments are resolved as quickly as possible
• Responsible for end to end test planning, test case preparation, test exit reports preparation, defects tracking and running defects triage call with stakeholders
• Executed test scripts and documented both passed and failed tests. Thoroughly performed root cause analysis and documented defects where the actual results do not successfully meet the expected results.
• Write and review detailed defect reports to assist development teams with the investigation and resolution of defects.
• Managed SDLC checkpoints to ensure the technical team has all the necessary documentation and information to move to the next phase of the project
• Involved in automation framework design and reviewed test automation scripts to support smoke, regression and end to end functional testing
• Leveraged knowledge of multiple complex applications and provided subject matter expertise to set direction and create test strategies and test plans for multiple releases.
• Developed automation scripts for functional, Regression and smoke scenarios
• Executed Regression scripts for bi-weekly and weekly sprint’s
• Performed regression and smoke scripts Maintenance

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Domain Specification, Business Requirements and complete Functionality of the Project
• Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development Team Members to understand Business Requirements and develop Test Cases
• Validated Source to Target Mappings and Prepared scenarios to test DW Architecture
• Involved Preparation of Traceability Matrix and mapping the Test Cases with the requirements
• Defining Automation Scope, Preparing estimations and coordinating for the project, manage and utilize resources as per project need
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports for offshore management and the client
• Review of test plan, test cases, test exit report and defects
• Tracking resource utilization and efforts booking

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defining Scope, estimation and coordination for automation pipeline projects, Manage and utilize resources as per project need
• Understanding the application which is being automated
• Designed Automation Framework using hybrid framework approach
• Identified automation regression test cases from Manual Regression suite
• Executed automation scripts for Monthly and Quarterly releases
• Identified the areas in Test scripts which need’s modification
• Review ROI details, requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed
• Training, motivating and mentoring the new joiners
• Streamline the reporting process between the offshore and onsite team and client
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports for offshore management and clients
• Review of test automation plan, automation test cases, test exit reports
• Tracking resource utilization and efforts booking in SDPPM, JIRA and other tools.

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Core data loading from multiple systems (e.g. CDR load from DRAS )
• Proposition management (e.g. Bolt On, Favorite Place etc.)
• Reporting (e.g. Finance reports, In telecom reports, MVNO Wholesale Billing reports, etc.)
• Understanding the application which is being automated
• Designed Automation Framework using hybrid framework approach
• Identified automation regression test cases from Manual Regression suit
• Provided Technical Leader ship to Automation Team
• Trained new recruits in automation concepts and testing tools
• Created user manuals for automation framework maintenance, Test scripts preparation and test scripts execution
• Responsible for work allocation and completion
• Responsible for proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used
• Provided accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and anticipated dependencies to project manager
• Provided Assistance to the project Manager in preparing Automation RFPS, test plans, budgets, and schedules
• Responsible for configuration management and automation scripts release to Manual Testing team
• Responsible for doing POC’s and RFP’s for new projects
• Performed Test data analysis, indentified areas for test data creation and manipulation.
• Responsible for Test Data Mining and Test Data Masking
• Worked Closely with Project manager from the project planning stage to analyze and define Test Data Strategy and Test Data Requirements of the project
• Worked Closely with DBA’s & Data Owners to setup test data for E2E test Scenario’s
• During Execution phase supported E2E test team by addressing test data related defects and provided new test data required as a result of changes and performed data maintenance activities as project moves through various levels of testing
• At the end of test execution, created dynamic reusable PLSQL’s test data assets, for upcoming projects