SUMMARY:

• A creative and professional team player with 9+ years of experience in Informational Technology with emphasis on Software Testing/Quality Assurance Lead
• Extensive experience in leading the QA teams to setup QA environment and to perform successful testing.
• Experience in testing Migration, Standalone, Client Server, Tools and Web based applications using Automation tools and Manual testing techniques including White Box testing experience.
• Administration and Configuration experience in setting up and configuration of Test Management and Change Request tracking tools like HP Quality Center, HP ALM 11.00, 11.5 and 12.2. and JIRA.
• Extensive experience in implementing QA processes for Retail, Merchandise, Finance, Travel, Healthcare Transformation, Energy, Banking, Telephone & Mobile application, approval systems, Credit Card Application.
• Experience in setting and configuring QA Environments for different business domains such as Healthcare, Finance, Banking, HR, Communications Services (Telephone/Wireless), Retail and Energy.
• Worked across IT Technology Projects to engage the right resources at the right time to ensure quality artifacts are created under the projects.
• Providing input and Subject matter expertise to Technology Projects on Scope management and requirements management best practices and processes.
• Providing input on Requirements management tools used on projects.
• Identify, Recommend, adopt and Implement Requirements Management industry best practices and tools within company.
• Worked with PMO/ PM CoE to oversee and govern the quality of requirements artifacts across all projects.
• Participate in PMO Project review gates as SME for requirements artifacts.
• Follow - up with each Project leadership to ensure that Requirements deliverables remain within TFS quality Standards.
• Work with IT leads to promote Requirements best practices.
• Track Technology Projects Scope volatility, report to and engage cross organization leaders to improve the process.
• Ensure Technology projects have solid requirements/ scope management process, aligned architectural view and E2E traceability.
• Works closely with QA CoE and PM CoE to align strategies.
• Keep the Requirements CoE SharePoint, documentations and processes up to date.
• Create user material on Requirements CoE practices, processes, tools, and techniques. providing classroom and one-on-one to the project teams.
• Responsible for overseeing and managing assigned programs and projects that include.
• Very strong in Project and Test Management activities.
• Extensively involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with experience in managing testing lifecycle (STLC) using Waterfall, Agile, MSF, V-Model, RUP, and RAD Models.
• Experience in creating Test Plans and designing test cases covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancies.
• Experience in interacting with Business Analysts, Developers, Technical Support and help them base line the requirement specifications.
• Worked directly with Business Analysts to gather and understand the requirements and to automate the requirements management process. Automated Requirements Synchronization Process between HP Quality Center to provide the reports to the management.
• Expertise in Migration from ALM/Rally to JIRA. Support, compile and troubleshoot Atlassian tools, Design custom JIRA workflow.
• Integration with JIRA to HP ALM and other tools
• Train, guide, and assist development groups in use of JIRA/Confluence as well as plugins such as AGILE, Subversion, Utilities, and reporting capabilities, etc.
• Experience as a JIRA/Mercury Suite Admin with Installing, Configuring, and customizing the Quality Center application with a strong software testing and development experience and other tools.
• Experience in Migrating and upgrading from any version of Test Director to Test Director or Quality Center.
• Compile and analyze development and operational bug reports.
• Support JIRA Project Administration involving custom, complex projects, workflows, security schemes, custom fields, dashboards, and reports configurations.
• Manage various development tools, testing tools and monitoring tools, Plan, evaluate, deploy, operate, and maintain tools to suit the expanding user-base.
• Provide to technical and non-technical teams to use any tools.
• Compile and analyze development and operational bug reports.
• Designing the infrastructure architecture and migration plan aligned to organization process & guidelines.
• Best Practices and Value adds implementation. Involved in providing on new products and responsible in preparing documents.
• Extensive experience in test estimations, scheduling, strategy, risk analysis and reporting.
• Experience in conducting different types of testing including White Box Testing, Black Box Testing, GUI Testing, Data Driven Testing, Back End Testing, Integration, Regression, Sanity, Functional and System testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing.
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Solid experience in Develop, Review, Execute, and Maintain Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Procedures.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation Testing Client / Server, Mainframe & Web applications.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process, Use Cases, and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in Data Driven testing and parameterize the Performance Session Scripts. Proficient in the use of various testing tools such as Mercury Interactive tools and Rational Suite.
• Experience in tracking test coverage and providing Metrics to the management.
• Perform Smoke, Integration, Functionality, Performance, Load, Regression, and System Tests.
• Experience in document Defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps.
• Extensive experience in setup and maintenance of Test Environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM PC, HP Workstation

Operating System: Windows 2000 Server & Professional, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/ME, Unix, Linux

Database: Oracle 9.2/10.2 0.4. SQL server 2003,2005,2008

Languages: COBOL, SQL, TSL, Visual Basic 4.0//5.0/6.0, Crystal Reports.

Web server: IIS 6.0, JBoss, Java Web Server

Networking/Web: FTP, Telnet, TCP/IP, and VPN

SDLC Tools: Mercury Interactive QuickTestPro 6.5/8.0/9.0, Win Runner Test Director, Quality center 9.0/10, Load Runner, Track Record 6.0/5.0, Mantis BT, PR Tracker, Test Track Pro, TRAC, Fogbugz, TASKTOP. JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interact with counterpart and project stakeholders to gather information on application, requirement, provide estimates/approach, Prepare SoW, CRs.
• Work across IT Technology Projects to engage the right resources at the right time to ensure quality artifacts are created under the projects.
• Participate in forecasting mechanism of QA CoE.
• Participate in governance meeting to update stakeholders on project progress, challenges etc.
• Ensure resource fulfillment & onboarding as per project needs.
• Identify continuous improvement initiatives and areas to perform automation, performance, and business process proof of concepts.
• Look for new opportunities and business to be taken under CoE.
• Define and maintain, review the Test strategy plan of projects under QA CoE.
• Hands on Experience in Test Automation or Performance / ETL testing is preferred.
• Work with onsite and offshore CoE team collaboratively.
• Review project testing artifacts prepared by team members.
• Experience leading and testing Projects using Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodology, Testing various integration methods (Web services, batch).
• Assist in leading an outsourced QA team involved in all aspects of testing.
• Review test approaches / strategies / Plans for projects and oversight of Testing scope & Test design, project testing schedule & quality of deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with manual testing and knowledge of performance testing.
• Identifying and analyzing quality risks, perform thorough Review of supplier deliverables, and providing feedback.
• Assessing Risk to schedule, cost, or quality on project and testing engagement.
• Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans, Defect Management and Analysis when required.
• Ability to react to changing project plans and come up with creative alternatives.
• Organizational, planning, and analytical skills.
• Assessing for setup the JIRA from Scratch administering and maintaining Atlassian JIRA and technical support and, maintained documentation, customized software as workflow setup, setup Sandbox Windows Server.
• Configuring the user mapping/Releases/Standard field, Projects, Custom Workflows, Issues types, Boards, and Screens.
• Assessing Identify source data - fields/data from source system, Custom fields, Extract data from source, transform and prepared and scrips tor target. Load data into target system and validate data migration.
• Migrated RTC/ HP ALM instance to HP ALM and JIRA.
• Created Pre-Requisite document for Migration to use TASKTOP Synch from RTC/HP ALM to JIRA.
• Create issues/queries both in JIRA and ALM, the set of queries are for Epic, Story, and bug issue types.
• Manage various development tools, testing tools and monitoring tools. Coordinated with Confidential QA staff to develop solutions within HP ALM and JIRA.
• Install, configure, maintain, administer, and enhance JIRA and Developed or acquired additional plug-ins, extensions and integration of systems when identified or requested.
• Customized complex projects, workflows, security schemes, custom fields, dashboards, and reports configurations.
• Lead minor and major JIRA upgrades as well as schedule and coordinate maintenance for systems.
• to technical and non-technical teams to use HP ALM/ JIRA and assist development groups in use of JIRA/ HP ALM as well as plugins such as AGILE, Subversion, Utilities, and reporting capabilities, etc.
• Maintaining customizations Custom Issue Type, across versions of JIRA. Excellent understanding of JIRA workflows, field permission schemes, notification schemes, screens schemes, etc.
• Monitoring JIRA instances on a day to day basis including performance tuning/scaling the instances, storage, indexing, etc.
• Determine ways to optimize/improve JIRA and JIRA Agile setup and process workflows, as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests. Expertise to bring in the QA process to the entire project - JIRA, HP ALM, RTC.
• Traceability matrix, reports and walk through with the stake holders. Providing daily and weekly Status Reports to the Client.
• Working closely with APP team and users in requirements gathering, reviewing business rules, and identifying data sources.

Environment: Windows 2008 Server, Oracle 11g, CA SiteMinder, Sun IDM, JBoss AS, Active Directory domain services, Java, J2ee Windows XP, JIRA, ALM 11, ALM 11.5, ALM 12.2 SQL Developer, Putty, TASKTOP, MS Office, Orbiter, Nexus, JBOSS, Quick Test Pro, RTC.

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Review and oversight of Testing scope & Test design, project testing schedule & quality of deliverables.
• Assist in leading an outsourced QA team involved in all aspects of testing.
• Expertise to bring in the QA process to the entire project - HP ALM. Performance testing and Metrics - HP Load runner.
• Agile Methodology - Managing the entire team in Unit , Functional, Integration and regression testing process regards to Identity lifecycle.
• Identifying and analyzing quality risks. Perform thorough Review of supplier deliverables and providing feedback.
• Assessing Risk to schedule, cost, or quality on project and testing engagement.
• Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans.
• Defining project baselines, tracking project progress, project status reporting, leading the project team, and taking corrective actions.
• Involved and conducing Web Services Testing Also Integration Testing.
• Traceability matrix, reports and walk through with the stake holders.
• Participating in QA team meeting and bug tracking meetings, also Monitors and tracks metrics around testing code coverage to ensure continuous improvement.
• Performing different types of testing like Functional, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression tests and Database testing.
• Providing daily and weekly Status Reports to the Client.
• Coordinates the dependencies between departments on projects with aggressive timelines.
• Involving in testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with the development team in fixing the issues.
• Oversees and communicates test approach to Portfolio and Line of Business leadership , working with the Execution Lead and Agile Train Engineer to ensure timelines and expectations are met .
• Identifying resource needs and provide formal test estimates and develop test schedules.
• Working closely with business analysts and users in requirements gathering, reviewing business rules, and identifying data sources.
• Conducting smoke testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Regression testing and Data migration testing.
• Approach and method for reporting of testing status, Managing the overall performance and delivery of the cross-functional teams.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Managing the team's progress/successes and motivating scrum teams to make sure they are highly visible to product owner/stakeholders.
• Knowledge in Analysis of Defect Severity, Defect tracking system and Defect Reporting. Responsible for maintaining test environments for multiple releases and regression testing.
• Coordinated and documented movement of code from test servers to production servers.
• Set Up corporate QA policies and procedures, advised senior management on quality practices.

Environment: RHEL 6.3, Windows 2008 Server, Oracle 11g, CA Identity Manager 12.6, CA Directory Server, CA SiteMinder, Sun IDM, JBoss AS, Active Directory domain services, Java, J2ee.

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interact with project stakeholders to gather information on application, requirement, provide estimates/approach, Prepare SoW, CRs.
• Provided KT sessions and s to the users on regular basis and communicated with them to make sure any changes in testing process should be informed and communicated in the team.
• Participate in forecasting mechanism of QA CoE.
• Participate in governance meeting to update stakeholders on project progress, challenges etc.
• Ensure resource fulfillment & onboarding as per project needs.
• Establishing objectives and milestones. Defining and guarding scope, Resource capacity planning and velocity tracking.
• Planning, owning, leading, coordinating, and driving the project.
• Working with vendors and non-local development organizations.
• Coordinating and facilitating communication between departments and project team members.
• Keeping project team aligned, documenting results.
• Working with the project team to identify the level of effort required for development, QA, and other business units.
• Identify continuous improvement initiatives and areas to perform automation, performance, and business process proof of concepts.
• Coordinating, leading, and managing project meetings and collaboration sessions.
• Cataloging and owning project requests.
• Working with cross-functional departments to ensure they are engaged and prepared to implement new project initiatives including associated process changes.
• Maintain project plan, timeline, status deck, sprint plans, backlogs, and SharePoint site.
• Expertise new opportunities and business to be taken under CoE.
• Define and maintain, review the Test strategy plan of projects under QA CoE.
• Hands on Experience in JIRA and Test Automation or Performance / ETL testing is preferred.
• Coordinating with onsite and offshore CoE team collaboratively.
• Review project testing artifacts prepared by team members.
• Monitoring daily basis users issue (TISSC Tickets) resolved during the period 2800 plus tickets issue resolved.
• Implemented Customization of HP ALM Defect Module to map to the JIRA sorties.
• Designed the infrastructure architecture and migration plan aligned to organization process & guidelines.
• Upgrade HP ALM 11.5 to 12.2.
• Reduced Archived 365 projects backup to ALM repository.
• Implemented Defect Workflow standardization customization.
• Assist in leading an Designed and rolled out of standard template across all projects. Developed various customized reporting tools using API to generate complex test execution reports, User permission report etc.
• Worked directly with Development Team to coordinate requirements, Test Plan, and Test Lab.
• Created documents for Requirement module.
• Perform the required testing effort by Regression Team.
• Created and Setup Users, Groups, Filters, and Reports. Worked with build manager to setup QA Environment.
• Participated in Change Control, Change Review, and Change Approval meetings to discuss Enhancements and modifications request issues.
• Participated in the test environment setup and in ensuring that the facilities, test tools and scripts are in place to successfully perform the required testing effort.
• Handled Quality Center Database related issues with DBAs and Network team.
• Communicated and discussed problems about testing environment with testing and development team and successfully implemented HP ALM 11.5 Quality Center Test execution, Requirements mapping and Defect Writing process guidelines to improve testing process in the company.
• Designed various Excel Macros and Reports using VBA, Pivot Charts, and Pivot Tables.
• Created various documents i.e., Test Plan, Defect Management Workflow Design Diagrams, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Assessment Report, User guide and System Documents.

Environment: Windows XP, Oracle 10g, ALM 11, ALM 11.5, ALM 12.2 SQL Developer, Putty, TISSC, MS Office, Orbiter, Nexus, JBOSS, Quick Test Pro, Java, J2EE,

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided KT sessions and s to the users on regular basis and communicated with them to make sure any changes in testing process should be informed and communicated in the team.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Experience in web service testing tools like Soap UI pro or any supporting tool.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Worked directly with Business Analysts to understand the changes and updated requirements and Stories. standardization of role types and workflow, definitions of critical fields, domain categorization.
• Implemented Defect Template Standardization, field mapping Analyzed current usage and Process.
• Developed Standard defect template for future use. Created and Setup Users, Groups, Filters, and Reports.
• Look into solutions of users authenticating on different logins, Coordinating with off shore team daily users access issue.
• Participated in Change Control, Change Review, and Change Approval meetings to discuss Enhancements and modifications request issues.
• Participated in the test environment setup and in ensuring that the facilities, test tools and scripts are in place to successfully perform the required testing effort.
• Handled Quality Center Database related issues with DBAs and Network team.
• Star team to ALM mapping (Micro focus) synchronization.
• Communicated and discussed problems about testing environment with testing and development team and successfully implemented Mercury Quality Center Test execution, Requirements mapping and Defect Writing process guidelines to improve testing process in the company.
• Designed various Excel Macros and Reports using VBA, Pivot Charts, and Pivot Tables.
• Administered and configured HP ALM 11.00 and Implemented HP ALM Synchronizer.
• Worked directly with SMEs, QA, and Development Team to coordinate requirements development and test cycles for HP ALM implementation. Worked with build manager to setup QA Environment.
• Created various documents i.e., Test Plan, Defect Management Workflow Design Diagrams, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Assessment Report, User guide and System Documents.
• Designed Custom Excel Requirements and Test Plan Templates to support HP ALM Testing process.
• Managed Test planning process using Excel Templates, Macros, HP ALM 11.00.
• Worked in Agile and Scrum environment and managed teams to support development and test activities.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle 10g, Mercury Quality Center 10, Soap UI, ALM 11, ALM 11.5 Load Runner, MS Office, Java, J2EE.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide input and Subject matter expertise to Technology Projects on Scope management and requirements management best practices and processes.
• Identify, Recommend, adopt and Implement Requirements Management industry best practices and tools within company.
• Works with PMO/ PM CoE to oversee and govern the quality of requirements artifacts across all projects.
• Participate in PMO Project review gates as SME for requirements artifacts.
• Follow-up with each Project leadership to ensure that Requirements deliverables remain within TFS quality Standards
• Worked with IT leads to promote Requirements best practices.
• Track Technology Projects Scope volatility, report to and engage cross organization leaders to improve the process.
• Ensure Technology projects have solid requirements/ scope management process, aligned architectural view and E2E traceability.
• Working with Quality Center administrator responsible for migration of Quality center from one version to other and responsible for migration of various other defect tracking tools to Quality Center.
• Leading and testing Projects using Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodology. Testing various integration methods (Web services, batch).
• Assist in leading an outsourced QA team involved in all aspects of testing.
• Review test approaches / strategies / Plans for projects and oversight of Testing scope & Test design, project testing schedule & quality of deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with manual testing and knowledge of performance testing, Identifying, and analyzing quality risks.
• Perform thorough Review of supplier deliverables and providing feedback.
• Assessing Risk to schedule, cost, or quality on project and testing engagement.
• Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans. Defect Management and Analysis when required.
• Synchronization of data between HP ALM and Serena SBM.
• Customization of HP ALM Defect Module to map to the existing Serena SBM Defect Module.
• Develop and Create custom reports within HP ALM.
• Implemented Custom Defect Workflow for FEPOC Internal projects and over 80 Plan Projects.
• Designed various Excel Macros and Reports using VBA, Pivot Charts, and Pivot Tables.
• Configured HP ALM 11.00 and Implemented HP ALM Synchronizer.
• Worked directly with SMEs, QA, and Development Team to coordinate requirements development and test cycles for HP ALM implementation.
• Created various documents i.e., Test Plan, Defect Management Workflow Design Diagrams, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Assessment Report, User guide and System Documents.
• Designed Custom Excel Requirements and Test Plan Templates to support HP ALM Testing process.
• Managed Test planning process using Excel Templates, Macros, HP ALM 11.00.
• Worked in Agile and Scrum environment and managed teams to support development and test activities.
• Managed Black box testing, Smoke testing, Screen Validation testing, Positive & Negative testing, System testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, Functional testing, integration testing, System testing and coordinated UAT for HP ALM integration and reports.
• Manage and control Requirements, Test Design, Execution and Defect management and tracking Process.
• Provided KT sessions and s to the users on regular basis and communicated with them to make sure any changes in testing process should be informed and communicated in the team.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Worked directly with Business Analysts to understand the changes and updated requirements and Stories.
• Participated in the test environment setup and in ensuring that the facilities, test tools and scripts are in place to successfully perform the required testing effort by Regression Team.
• Customized Defects Module according to the current workflow in Serena SBM.
• Analyzed and developed technical reports using MS-Word and MS-Excel and generated weekly reports from SQL Server and wrote various customized SQL queries to generate customized reports.
• Implemented HP ALM Synchronizer and Administered HP ALM Projects.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved QC SAAS ALM Migration.
• Very strong in Project and Test Management activities.
• Review project testing artifacts prepared by team members.
• Follow-up with each Project leadership to ensure that Requirements deliverables remain within TFS quality Standards.
• Work with IT leads to promote Requirements best practices.
• Track Technology Projects Scope volatility, report to and engage cross organization leaders to improve the process
• Leading and testing projects using Agile Scrum and Waterfall Methodology.
• Assist in leading on outsourced QA team involved in all aspects of testing.
• Review test approaches, strategies, plans for projects. Review and oversight of testing scope & test design, project testing schedule and quality of deliverables. Perform though review of supplier deliverables and providing feedback.
• Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans. Manage assigned programs and projects.
• Responsible for the overall communication and measurement of projects throughout the project lifecycle to keep the projects on track and ensure alignment across the teams and stakeholders.
• Assessing Risk to schedule, cost, or quality on project and testing engagement.
• Preparing and facilitating the implementation of test plans. Defect Management and Analysis when required.
• Keep the Requirements CoE SharePoint, documentations and processes up to date.
• Create user material on Requirements CoE practices, processes, tools, and techniques. responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project to include planning, organization, and communication, as well as leading and controlling the project.
• The Loyalty project migrating to SAAS and requirement gathering for upload.
• Working very closely with GDBA team in HP during the migration process for any assistance regarding databases.
• Create a QCP file and upload it to HP’s FTP Server setup.
• All the projects used for the dry run using the legacy process of Providing a copy of DB and File repository.
• All the Projects monitoring Dry Run and giving the access to users.
• After acceptance, the Dry Run projects proceed with the Production Migration.
• Distinctly responsible for tools UP and Running the application at all the time. Managing and creating users access, properties, user’s group’s privileges and rights, Project Entities, entity lists.
• Project customization include setting up the rules, adding fields in to the project.
• Worked with business teams and developed a process for standardizing the Quality Center folder creations and test case creations and workflow templates.
• Setting new groups & Customizing them as per the roles and responsible.
• Implement new QC instance and migrate the existing project in to new environment.
• Look into solutions of users authenticating on different logins.
• Validating weather all the users are properly migrated along with the projects.
• Created projects and customized the projects and the fields as per the business needs.
• Responsible for migrating all the projects and its database schemas from legacy servers to the DCC new servers.
• Scheduling weekly status reports and sending reports to business sponsors.

Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, Quality Center 10, ALM 11, Jboss, IIS, Oracle 10g2.

Confidential, San Diego. CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide input and Subject matter expertise to Technology Projects on Scope management and requirements management best practices and processes.
• Provide input on Requirements management tools used on projects.
• Identify, Recommend, adopt and Implement Requirements Management industry best practices and tools within company.
• Works with PMO/ PM CoE to oversee and govern the quality of requirements artifacts across all projects.
• Participate in PMO Project review gates as SME for requirements artifacts.
• Follow-up with each Project leadership to ensure that Requirements deliverables remain within TFS quality Standards
• Work with IT leads to promote Requirements best practices.
• Track Technology Projects Scope volatility, report to and engage cross organization leaders to improve the process.
• Ensure Technology projects have solid requirements/ scope management process, aligned architectural view and E2E traceability.
• Responsible for migration of Quality center from one version to other and responsible for migration of various other defect tracking tools to Quality Center. Responsible for Installing, and Configuring QC 9.2 development environment on clustering and load balancing environment and installing Client components on client machines.
• Upgrade and Migration of QC 9.2 Web logic application server in San Diego Production environment to Jboss in Anaheim production environment.
• Migrate 100+ Gb of repository data from San Diego file system to Anaheim server using Robo copy.
• Migrate all 300+ Quality Center project from SD QC server to NGDC QC servers.
• Convert all the legacy EDS user account to LDAP using SQL SERVER scripting.
• Created SQL Scripts for databases backup’s files to restore in new NGDC servers. Created Scripts to revoke admin permissions on all 300+ project databases and assign grants to all.
• Created SQL Scripts for altering file sizes and changing object owners from TD to DBO.
• Look into solutions of users authenticating on different logins. Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Installing, and Configuring QC 9.2 on clustering and load balancing on servers and installing Client components on client machines. Enabled Site Configuration parameters.
• Developed the macros to migrate the data from legacy tool to the QC 9.2.
• Migrate the users in to QC using bulk add user tool. Installed QC dashboard 9.2 and integrated with QC 9.2.
• Consolidated the projects from other instance of QC9.2 into MYQC server in DCC.
• Created projects and customized the projects and the fields as per the business needs.
• Writing custom macros in Excel to import the Test Plan, Requirements into Test Director.
• Customizing Test Director as per industrial standards. Setup the e-Mail system with SMTP or IIS SMTP protocols.
• Customizing Test Director/QC Defect tracking module using VB Scripting.

Environment: Oracle, SQL, Unix, XML, Quality Centre 10, ALM 11

Confidential, Plano, TX

QC Admin

Responsibilities:

• Define Master Test Plan, Test Approach, test Scope and Identify Risks.
• Designed test design methodology and define naming standards.
• Create requirements and function coverage metrics.
• Co-ordinate on-site and off-shore QA Teams, to make sure that QA deliverable are of high standards.
• Analyze test report, produce test designs and Test Data strategy.
• Designed various Excel Macros and Reports using VBA, Pivot Charts, and Pivot Tables.
• Validated financial and Stores volume data in Excel using Macros, Excel advanced functions, external Data source and Pivot tables.
• As a Technical Lead responsible for handling team and assigning tasks to individuals.
• Scheduling weekly status reports and sending reports to business sponsors.
• Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Responsible for creating documents in all the phases of the project life cycle and materials.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring QC 10/ ALM 11 on clustering and load balancing on servers and installing Client components on client machines.
• Responsible for migrating all the projects and its database schemas from legacy servers to the DCC new servers.
• HP users LDAP authentication as a login process for QC. Strong experience in setting up LDAP Servers.
• Developed the tools to upload attachments, Linked defects in to QC 10 and list manager tool to import the list values in to the QC.
• Developed the macros to migrate the data from legacy tool to the QC 10.
• Consolidated the projects from other instance of QC10 into QC 10 Prod server in DCC.
• Working very closely with GDBA team in HP during the migration process for any assistance regarding databases.
• As a QC admin created projects and customized the projects and the fields as per the business needs.
• Experience in implementing LOG files to debug Test Director and SQL trace for DB checkpoints.
• Experienced in setting parameters for Site Configuration.
• Writing custom macros in Excel to import the Test Plan, Requirements into Test Director.
• Setup the e-Mail system with SMTP or IIS SMTP protocols.
• Customizing Test Director/QC Defect tracking module using VB Scripting.
• Experience in installation of all types Automation tool, Add-Ins, and 3rd party connectivity tools.

Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, Quality Center 10, ALM 11, Jboss, IIS, Oracle 10g2.

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

QC Admin

Responsibilities:

• As a Technical Lead responsible for handling team and assigning tasks to individuals. Scheduling weekly status reports and sending reports to business sponsors.
• Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Designed various Excel Macros and Reports using VBA, Pivot Charts, and Pivot Tables.
• Designed Workflow scripts in Quality Center using VB Scripts to manage and control Requirements, Test Design, Execution and Defect management and tracking process.
• Involve in preparing Test Plan, Analysis Documents and Involving in identifying gaps.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring TD, QC, and Client machines. Migrating Team Track Issues in to Quality Center.
• Configure and implemented LDAP authentication to enable QC to log in using group email address for secure authentication.
• Experienced in setting parameters for Site Config, experienced in developing and using API(s).
• Extracting the data from different databases (SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle) using complex queries.
• Writing Stored Procedures and functions to retrieve the data according to the client requirements.
• Customizing Quality Center as per industrial standards.
• Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test Cases for manual testing and Automated testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Debug the Test Scripts, created Batch tests, verifying the test results, and reporting the defects to Test Director.
• Wrote SQL, PL/SQL queries/procedures to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results, also been used for Automation Regression Testing.
• Documented bugs, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, outputs, and content.
• Develop Dynamic Reports using Macros developed in VB.
• Track test results for management, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defect database using Test Director.

Environment: Oracle, SQL, Unix, XML, Quality Centre 10, ALM 11

Confidential

QC Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and upgrade eLab - Development environment (AET P&D base+ new) with Jboss/IIS web server for Tulsa and Doxford.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring QC 9.2 on clustering and load balancing on servers and installing Client components on client machines.
• Testing the functionality in Integration, UAT and Production environment upon the upgrade done by Production support team.
• Upgrade and Migration of QC 9.2 WebLogic application server in Tulsa Production environment to Jboss/IIS server in NGDC, Atlanta production environment.
• Upgrade of QC 9.2 WebLogic application server to Jboss/IIS in Doxford environment.
• Implementation Plan, Functional Test Plan, and Communication Plan.
• Operational procedures document, sessions power point.
• Installed and configured Quality Center on Test, Dev, and Production NGDC Atlanta server.
• Prepared document checklist for loading server.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring QC 10 on clustering and load balancing on servers on Next Generation Datacenter. Configure QC 10 with LDAP authentication.
• Migrate 200+ Gb of repository data from Tulsa file system to Atlanta server using robo copy utility.
• Migrate all 300+ Quality Center project from Tulsa QC server to NGDC QC servers.
• Convert all the legacy EDS user account to LDAP using SQL SERVER scripting.
• Created SQL Scripts for databases backups files to restore in new NGDC servers.
• Created Scripts to revoke admin permissions on all 300+ project databases and assign grants to all NGDC Admins.
• Created Stored Procedures and functions for LDAP conversions.
• Look into solutions of users authenticating on different logins.

Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, Quality Center 10/ 9.2, Quality Center Dashboard, Jboss, IIS, SQL Server 2005SQL Server 2008.

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases after analyzing the specifications Document.
• Developed test scripts for Performance and data driven tests using Win runner.
• Developed Load Runner Scripts for Stress testing. Performed performance test and Load test, using Load runner.
• Writing test cases to test the Performance of the application manually and using win runner.
• Used Mercury Software’s Load runner to develop automated regression test scripts of changes to securities software.
• Conducted Functionality Integration and Regression testing during the various phases of the application using Win runner. Test Director is used for reporting the bugs and writing the test plans.
• Different TSL Scripts are generated for Functional Testing of the application.
• Executed the test scripts using Win runner and analyzed the results.
• Generated Test plans, Test Cases, and Test steps for manual testing through Test Director.
• Created the VUser scripts for Load Testing.
• Recorded the basic VUser scripts, which included the standard parameterization and correlation.
• Enhanced/Edited the VUser scripts according to the needs of the situation.
• Configured the Runtime settings so that the script should run with multiple iterations with certain Think Times between transactions. Incorporating the VUser scripts into Load Runner scenarios.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed, and compared using Test Director.
• Creating Analysis sessions and Collated Execution results. Participated along with the end users in UAT.
• Worked on performance enhancements to SQL queries to improve the response times.
• Experienced in setting the Initialization parameters for optimum performance.
• Extensively used hints to improve SQL performance. Utilized Bulk loading features for better performance.
• Reviewed and rewrote PL/SQL code blocks with performance issues for better performance.
• Used explain plan, trace, and SQL tuning concepts to improve system performance.
• Used Test director as Online Bug tracking tool. Cross browser testing has been done on Netscape 4.75 and I.E 5.01.
• Involved in the Block Box testing for testing the web Pages.
• Generated MR’s for failed test cases and assigned them to responsible developers.
• Participated in Client/server & Web testing using Win runner.

Environment: Win Runner 7.5, Java Script, Load Runner 7.5/7.5.1/7.6, Test Director 7.6, Web Logic Sever Java, XML, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000 Server, 2.0, J2EE, Web Logic, JDBC.