SUMMARY

• 12 years of experience in the IT field in different phases of software development life cycle including requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, customization, maintenance and Testing of Various Business Applications. Out of which 3 years as Test Manager and 4 years as a QA Lead/ QA Manager and offshore co - ordination and 5 +years as a Quality Assurance Analyst of manual and automated testing.
• Documented and managed the requirements in Requirements Matrix and updated as per the approved scope change requests.
• Have extensive experience in Quality Assurance testing like (Functional testing, Integration testing, GUI testing, Backend testing, Data Driven Testing, User acceptance testing, Validation testing Regression testing), Load/ Performance testing in different stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensive experience in Visual Studio 2012 along with TFS and MTM.
• Extensive experience managing SAP Projects testing.
• Have experience in both manual and automated testing tools like Win Runner, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Selenium,PVCS, Bug Zilla, Test Director and Quality Center
• Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver), JUnit,Eclipse and preparation of automation test framework.
• Worked on gap analysis, feasibility study and work estimation.
• Tested the project deliverables against the business requirements by creating test plans, test scenarios, test case scripts, and reporting the defects to the developers/programmers using QA tools
• Have extensive experience working on all SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile/Scrum,DevOps and Rational Unified Process.
• Worked as a Subject Matter Expert(SME).Worked closely with the Business Analyst group for Analyzing the complex requirements.
• Have Experience in ETL Testing. Experienced in Database, SQL testing with Oracle 7.x/8.x, SQL Server 7/2000 and MS-Access and UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Easily adaptable to any new Technologies and Business Environment.
• Experience in implementation Testing Methodologies and Automation Tools in Project.
• Software Testing and Documentation, Analysis of the Business Requirements and the Software Requirements
• Experience in Data Migration/Data Conversion
• Good exposure in preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Good exposure on Cloud Configuration management tool ‘ Puppet’
• Involved in Aligne upgrade meetings.
• Good Exposure on SunGard Aligne
• Extensive experience in GUI, Usability, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, UAT, Load and Stress Testing.
• Extensive testing experience in Oil and gas upstream applications.
• Good Exposure in ETRM Testing.
• Good Knowledge in Cognos, abnitio
• Expertise in Analysis of Problem Severity, Defect tracking system and Defects reporting system.
• Involved in the entire software development Process - monitoring and improving the QA process, and making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
• Strong & Proven Communication, analytical, Logical, Problem Solving and troubleshooting skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Testing Tools: Win Runner & Quick Test Pro, Quality Centre, Selenium, Cucumber, PVCS Tracker, Test Director,TFS, ALM, Caliber, MTMRDBMS: Oracle 9i/8i/7.x, DB2, MS-SQL Server, TOAD, MS-Access, Snag IT

Operating Systems: MS-Dos, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows95/98 and UNIX

Languages: Java 1.5, 1.6, EJB, ASP, C, C#, UNIX, SAP,SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, VB.Net, VB Script, SAP R3, SAP BW

Web Technologies: HTML, Shell Scripting and Java Scripts.

GUI Tools: Visual Basic, Oracle Forms and Reports.

ETL Tools: Informatica, Cognos, Abinitio, EDW

Technology: Enterprise Service Bus, Web Services, Object Oriented framework

Tools: SQLPlus, PL/SQL, Sungard Aligne SQL Loader, Toad, Rally,JIRA,SQL Navigator, MS word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access and MS Project,Perforce, Jenkin, Puppet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Led Testing Center of Excellence establishment effort including roadmap development, tools/environment selection, methodology/process/template development, training development, rolling out the TCOE(Testing center of excellence)
• Member of Test Automation COE including the following: Plan, Design, Build, Maintain and execute complex Test Automation Frameworks(Data-driven, Keyword, Hybrid, Descriptive programming) using Confidential Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Member of Performance testing COE using Confidential Performance Center/ LoadRunner including the following activities: directing/identifying volume/stress/performance testing solutions, scheduling, tracking, measuring of Performance testing and test results
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium Web Driver
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web driver using java
• Hired and mentored staff, assigned projects, evaluated performance
• Worked in multiple agile projects for testing, being a point of contact from TTCOE group and participated in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Worked in multiple Projects which follows Devops software methodology, being a point of contact from TTCOE group participated in Devops Cycle meetings, daily status and planned tasks for testing team.
• Responsible for align testing efforts in the Devops cycle and ensure that all the test cases are automated and achieve near 100% code coverage
• Responsible for the test environments are standardized and deployment in the QA boxes are automated
• Make sure Pre-testing tasks, Cleanups, Post-testing tasks are automated and aligned with the Continuous integration cycle.
• Extensively Used JIRA for Sprint planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Worked as a Point of contact for both customers and TCOE team.
• Worked in Data Center of Excellence and Data migration projects as a Data base and ETL testing point of contact.
• Worked as a Subject Matter Expert for complex modules
• Advised and managed client staff over test strategy, tests planning, test design, test case development, test data strategy, test execution, defect management, metrics/reporting and installation.
• Developed and execute test plans/strategies for complex integrated systems
• Developed and execute test cases/scripts and defect communication and triage.

Environment: Manual Testing, SDLC, SQL, HTML,SAP, Selenium Webdriver, JIRA, Windows NT,UNIX, SAP,Java, Caliber, Quick Test Pro 9.0, ALM 11.0,Selenium IDE, SQL, PL/SQL, Puppet,Toad, Share Point, MS Project, MTM, TFS

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate a widely disperse and diverse team including onsite and offshore teams
• Involved and responsible in all kind of testing activities starting form Test scoping, Test planning, Execution, Defect reporting, testing signoff
• Represent Quality Assurance requirements in all phases of the project/release lifecycle
• Formalize and document the Integration test plan, including testing strategy, schedule, data requirements, resource requirements, functional testing scope, regression testing requirements, quality metrics and risk/mitigation plans
• Coordinate testing execution including test and issue tracking, daily meetings, test summaries and driving the test case movement
• Work with Release Managers in synchronizing and managing testing activities as part of the overall release project
• Communicate project testing issues in a timely manner to the development and project management teams, through standard project testing communication tools
• Follow the Software Lifecycle Methodology and Testing Process Standards
• Contribute to the testing process/tools standardization efforts.
• Used Selenium IDE for Open source web testing.
• Exported Test case Scripts (Java-Selenium RC) in Eclipse IDE and modified the selenium scripts and executed. Prepared automation test framework.
• Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the selenium server and to execute the tests in browser.
• Run tests by using Selenium remote control in different browsers.
• Worked as a ‘Business Analyst’ for complex business requirements
• Participate in knowledge sharing within and across business and IT organizations

Environment: Manual Testing, SDLC, SQL, HTML,SAP, Selenium RC, Windows NT,UNIX, SAP,Java, Caliber, Quick Test Pro 9.0, ALM 11.0,Selenium IDE, SQL, PL/SQL, Toad, Share Point, MS Project, MTM, TFS

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked and Managed a team of 7 members in the offshore with one team lead onsite in fulfilling the QA activities and supporting business goals
• Worked collaboratively with Business Analysts, SME’s and Management team in understanding the testing scope for the release
• Coordinated and facilitated meetings between BA’s and the Business Users for inputs with regards to scope and UAT testing
• Worked and Coordinated with Architects and Business Analysts in understanding the design issues and in understanding the functional requirements
• Coordinated with project managers, development team, release management team, BA’s and content management teams to provide testing estimates and QA deliverables on time
• Coordinated and scheduled review sessions between BA’s and offshore team and coordinated Joint effort across cross functional teams and the testing team
• Monitored complete QA life cycle involving various testing like System, GUI, backend, integration, boundary, performance, volume testing, stress testing, Integration/ Continuity testing and Configuration testing
• Managed the testing scope by coming up with test strategy and processes, schedules and the testing resources by
• Formulated Test Plan, Test strategy, Test Approach and provided day-to-day guidance to the test team and UAT analysts with Test Scenarios and Test Data
• Worked with the release management team to make sure the build was deployed on time and also ensured that Entry Criteria, Exit Criteria and/or Cycle 1 Exit/Cycle 2 Entry Criteria are met
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases in Quality Center to ensure accurate and complete test execution as planned
• Worked on generating Automation scripts for regression testing using Quick test Professional and also coordinated with performance testing team
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking, monitoring the testing process and bug reporting also followed up with development team to review and verify bug fixes, and update bug status after each cycle
• Maintained log of issues, risks, and mitigation items and implemented them for successful release of the project
• Sent out weekly status reports to Management team, Business Users and the entire project team
• Conducted meetings with Business, SME’s to discuss UAT and SIT status results
• Provided application training to users and participated in client presentations

Environment: Manual Testing, SDLC, SQL, HTML,SAP, Windows NT,UNIX, SAP,Java, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Quick Test Pro 9.0, Quality Center 9.0, SQL, PL/SQL, Toad, Share Point, MS Project.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead a team of 6 members in testing department for supporting business goals
• Conducted and participated in walkthroughs to discuss and review the business requirements, the functional requirements, and design walkthroughs
• Was involved in complete QA life cycle involving various testing like System or functional testing, GUI, Regression, Backend, Integration, Boundary, Performance, Stress testing, Configuration testing and User acceptance testing.
• Have excellent experience in authoring Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and Test Cases of both Positive and Negative Test Cases in accordance with the User requirements document
• Conducted and participated in weekly team meetings and adhoc meetings to discuss and understand functional requirements with design team, development team and QA team
• Have Experience working on this project that was developed with agile methodology practice.
• Attended weekly team meetings with both technical teams and the leadership teams and provided input from QA perspective such as providing impact analysis on approved change requests
• Responsible for various aspects of QA activities such as data analysis, QA execution by ensuring that all entrance and exit criteria for each cycle are met, implementing priorities for projects major deliverable milestones, allocating QA resources to various modules and provided estimates to the management.
• Worked on and guided the team in documenting activities like gap analysis, defect logging, defect tracking, and reporting them to the respective teams
• Was involved with the Oracle Business Intelligence team for generating reports through Web Catalog, Dashboard and Answers
• Extensive experience in Extracting Date from SQL Server and Oracle and Load the data into Oracle.
• Worked with the team on generating various Custom Reports/Ad-hoc queries using Analytics Answers and assigned them to application specific Dashboards
• Used Quality Center for bug reporting, monitoring and defect tracking
• Developing build stage Data stage Parallel Jobs using Data Stage Designer to develop processes for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating, and loading data into data warehouse.
• Developed UNIX scripts to automate the Data Load processes to the target Data warehouse using Scheduler.
• Responsible for source system analysis, data transformation, data loading and data validation from source systems to Transactional Data system and Warehouse System.
• Extensively used ETL to load data from Oracle to SQL Server and Flat files to Oracle.
• Extensive Experience in manual testing with the focus on Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Load Testing, System Testing and Unit Testing.
• Executed various SQL Quiries to perform the backend testing
• Provide application training and necessary functional support to the user support personnel.
• Authored progress and completion status reports, which were then submitted to PM on a weekly basis.
• Conducted meetings with Business, SME’s to discuss UAT and SIT status results
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources for the project.

Environment: Informatica (ETL), Oracle - SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2005, Cognos Reporting tool, Control-M, Unix, SDLC, Agile Methodology, Windows XP.,Bug Zilla, Quality Center 9.0, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Toad, crystal reports and BI Reports 10.1.3.x,Manual Testing, Share Point, Clearcase.

Confidential

Functional Test Analyst/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Operations and Subject Matter Experts (SME), Business Analysts and Users in analyzing, understanding and designing the Business Reports Requirements.
• Facilitated JAD sessions, introduced use cases into application development methodology and created client approval process for project methodology.
• Worked with the Business leads and provided status report for both new and existing reports enhancements.
• Going through the requirements with various teams, understanding the environments necessary for project execution and conducting meetings with the entire cross functional teams involved in a particular release
• Coordinating with the Database administrators and System administrators to provide the database refreshes required for the teams.
• Interacting with IT developers and Business peers for Business Intelligence tool reports.
• Providing day to day IT solutions.
• Interaction with other Project managers to get in touch with their alignments with the quarterly releases
• Was responsible for solving users issues in Production environment from IT
• Was responsible for setting up Load and Training environments and also was the point of contact for Production support
• Coordinated with both onsite and offshore teams in assisting with the functionality and QA deliverables.
• Responsible for assisting in testing and supporting the QA team with the functionality, defects and the release of the project.
• Extensively Worked on Quality Center for Defect Reporting.
• Have excellent experience in authoring Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios and Test Cases of both Positive and Negative Test Cases in accordance with the User requirements document
• Worked on generating automation scripts for regression testing using Win Runner.
• Have experience working on a project that was developed with Waterfall methodology practice.
• Responsible and was the point of contact for providing the Users with test data during UAT
• Experience working with both waterfall methodology in this project

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, Ordering Tool, Toad for Oracle 9i/10g, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL plus, Windows XP, Vision +,Win Runner 8.0, Quality Center 9.2.