SUMMARY

• More than 17 years of experience in Information Technology Quality Assurance testing and in depth knowledge in complete project life cycle
• Diverse experience in different types of testing like Integration, Functional, Middle ware service, Performance, Regression, System Testing, Back End Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and end - to-end testing
• Possess strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple assignments concurrently with multiple QA projects at on site and off shore
• Rich experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like Water Fall and Agile /Scrum Development process
• Expertise in OS-Browser, Mainframes, Web services, ATM and Mobile Application testing process
• Expertise in Water fall, Agile /Scrum/TrainX and Speed to Market development and testing models
• Good understanding of Business Analysis & Design Methods and having expertise in project estimations
• Expertise in Analysis of Defect root cause, Problem Severity, Defect tracking, Defects reporting and verifying the changes and closing the bugs
• Played an important role in managing the testing process using Test Management Tools, Functional / Regression Testing using Automation Tools, Requirements Analysis, Developing Standards and Guidelines for various QA Processes
• Well acquainted with Defect Tracking Systems, Source Code Control Systems, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, and Office Communication Tools. Familiar with Testing of Web Servers, Application Servers, and Databases
• Good experience in, QA Lab setup, End-to-End Testing, Multi-tasking, and Quality operations planning. Worked on Windows and UNIX, Platforms
• Experience in Test Scenario Matrix Planning, Project Planning, Statistical Analysis and applying Statistical Quality Control Techniques
• Having knowledge in Automated Testing Tools like Win Runner, Test Director, QTP, Rational Integration Tester (RIT), RTVS, Soap UI, Salenium,UFT and Silk Test

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, SoapUI, RIT, RTVS,UFT, SilkTest

Test Management Tools: Test Director, QC/ALM, WinCVS, SVN (subversion)

Bug Tracking tool: ALM, Bugzilla, PVCS, Jira

Languages: C & C++

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, MS-DOS and Windows

Databases / Data Access Technologies: MS-Access, Oracle & SQL Developer

Web Technologies: Html and JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead and onsite coordinator

Confidential, Charlotte

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Project Quality Testing process
• Participate in Requirements/Change requests analysis and identifying business gaps for waterfall projects
• Participate in Sprint User story grooming, planning, estimation, Demo and Retrospective
• Involved in Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Conditions Preparation for various Functional and Regression tests
• Assign the tasks to resources, Monitor the project status, report the status to project take holders
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Involved in compatibility, functional and user interface testing in Different Devices and OS-Browser combinations
• Conduct Defect triage meetings with Business team, Product team and Development team
• Co-ordinate with different upstream and downstream in the end to end testing
• Involved in extensive backend service calls validation and back-end testing
• Preparation of defect report and test execution summary report on daily/Weekly basis
• Supported the product team in User Acceptance testing
• Involved in Onsite-Offshore team Co-ordination

Environment: Java, HP ALM 12, Jira, Clear Quest, Selenium, Attachmate Extreme, MSP, SoapUI & Agile development methodology

Service Virtualization Architect

Confidential, Boston

Responsibilities:

• Review Service virtualization requests from different application teams
• Involved in Environment and Server setup for RIT and RTVS.
• Involved in SharePoint site design.
• Create Virtualization strategy documents for selected applications.
• Create virtual service/Stub/ DB for the selected service/application
• Deploy the virtual service/Stub/ DB into the Server.
• Run the virtual service/Stub/ DB.
• Train the application teams to run and modify the virtual service/Stub/ DB.
• Send the sign off document.
• Collect metrics for the completed projects.
• Calculate Benefits and ROI after service virtualization.
• Send daily/Weekly status reports to management.

Environment: Java, Oracle, SQL Developer, HP ALM 11/12, Jira, RIT, RTVS, FIX/MQ/TCP IP protocols, SWIFT messages, Agile development methodology

Test Lead and onsite coordinator

Confidential, Charlotte

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirements/Change requests analysis and identifying business gaps
• Involved in Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Conditions Preparation for various Functional and Regression tests
• Worked on web services testing using RIT and SoapUI
• Understanding of WSDL,WADL, XSD, XML documents for web services testing
• Designing/creating RIT XML request messages/ REST requests with or without WSDL files for different functional, boundary conditions, positive and negative scenarios.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Involved in compatibility, functional and user interface testing in Different OS-Browser combinations
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting using ALM
• Wrote SQL queries to test the application for data integrity and verified the contents of the data table.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database table
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Experienced in data analysis using SQL, PL/SQL and many other queries based applications.
• Participated in Defect triage meetings with Development, product and different test teams.
• Preparation of defect report and test execution summary report on daily/Weekly basis
• Supported the product team in User Acceptance testing
• Involved in Onsite-Offshore team Co-ordination

Environment: Java, Oracle, SQL Developer, HP ALM 11/12, Jira, UFT, RIT, Attachmate Extreme, MSP, SoapUI & Agile development methodology

Sr.Test Lead onsite Coordinator

Confidential, Charlotte

Responsibilities:

• Involved in in-depth analysis on Agile iteration/Backlog Stories and identifying business gaps
• Involved in the story point estimation for stories and Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Conditions Preparation for various Functional and OS-Browser testing
• Functional and OS-Browser Test Execution and reporting
• Involved in the Agile/Scrum development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set
• As a member of the Agile/Scrum team participated in Project backlog grooming meetings, iteration planning meetings, daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews
• Worked on web services testing using Soap UI 4.0/5.0.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Involved in compatibility, functional and user interface testing in Different OS-Browser combinations
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting using ALM
• Wrote SQL queries to test the application for data integrity and verified the contents of the data table.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database table
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Experienced in data analysis using SQL, PL/SQL and many other queries based applications.
• Participated in Defect triage meetings with Development, product and different test teams.
• Preparation of defect report and test execution summary report on daily/Weekly basis
• Supported the product team in User Acceptance testing
• Involved in Onsite-Offshore team Co-ordination

Environment: J2EE, Web services, Oracle 9i, ALM, Jira, SharePoint, TOAD and SoapUI

Test Lead

Confidential, Charlotte

Responsibilities:

• Involved in in-depth analysis on Agile iteration/Backlog Stories and identifying business gaps
• Involved in the story point estimation for stories and Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Conditions Preparation for various Functional and OS-Browser testing
• Functional and OS-Browser Test Execution and reporting
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Involved in compatibility, functional and user interface testing in different Mobile handsets
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting using QC
• Create and execute SoapUI requests to validate the API Calls and response
• Participated in Defect triage meetings with Development, product and different test teams.
• Preparation of defect report and test execution summary report on daily/Weekly basis
• Involved in Onsite offshore co-ordination.
• Supported the product team in User Acceptance testing

Environment: J2EE, Web services, QC 9.2, Device Anywhere, Sauce labs, Emulators, SoapUI

Test Manager

Confidential, Charlotte

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall quality of the application
• Managed the team of 15 QA resources
• Participated in Sprint team grooming and planning sessions and involved in estimating user stories
• Responsible for effort estimation of test case development and test execution
• Responsible for delegation of work, progress tracking and deliverables of offshore QA team
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and business owners for test files and test data
• Involved in the Agile/Scrum development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set
• As a member of the Agile/Scrum team participated in Project backlog grooming meetings, iteration planning meetings, daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews
• Worked on web services testing using Soap UI 4.0/5.0
• Involved in compatibility, functional and user interface testing in Different OS-Browser combinations
• Create SQL Queries to verify the report results and compare with back end data
• Participated in Defect triage meetings with Development, product and different test teams
• Preparation of defect report and test execution summary report on daily/Weekly basis
• Supported the product team in User Acceptance testing

Environment: J2EE, Web services, Oracle 9i, ALM, Jira, SharePoint, TOAD and SoapUI