Qa Lead Resume
Hartford, CT
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- 6+ years of experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of Client/Server and Web - Based applications.
- An energetic, team-oriented, and process-focused professional with excellent communication skills in Software Quality Assurance field
- Proficient in Automation Testing with HPQuick Test Professional
- Experienced in using SQL for querying Databases by writing Joins and Aggregate Functions.
- Expertise in Testing levels like Sanity, System, Inter-System and Regression Testing.
- Experienced in preparingTest strategy, Test Plan, Test Design, Traceability, Test Summary and Status Reports.
- Currently a part of an Agile Scrum team.
- Extensive knowledge about Software Testing life cycle (STLC).
- Good understanding of Web service components like WSDL, XML and TIBCO Rendezvous Bus.
- Experienced in automation of Web service basedapplications using SOA test tool
- Regular Interaction with Business users, System Analysts, Development team for delivering quality software.
- Experienced in working in important phases of Testing Life Cycle like GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing/Black box Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Performance and Load/Stress Testing.
- Experienced in structuring test requirements, test methodologies, test planning, test case design, test procedures, testscenarios, and test scripts in black box testing.
- Experienced in developing test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure proper business compliance using HP Quality Center.
- Extensively experienced in using HP Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting the modification requests
- Experienced in working closely with users and business analysts, project managers, developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attending walkthroughs.
- Experienced in defect tracking and test management tools like HP Quality Center &, Clear Quest
- Experience in developing and executing queries for SQL server and Oracle databases for back end testing.
- Experienced in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
- Extensive knowledge in gathering and understanding BRDs (Business Requirements Document), FRDs (Functional Requirements Document), SRS (System Requirement Specifications) and Used cases
- Excellent Analytical andCommunication skills.
- Remarkable ability to quickly learnto use new software and get accustomed to a team.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating System: Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Unix
Languages: SQL
RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10
Software Expertise: Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM, Netcool, Toad, Putty, SOA Test,Bus Tester
Test Management Tools: HP Quality center or ALM
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Hartford, CT
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Involved in requirement analysis meetings with business users and system analysts
- Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports
- Review functional specification and design documents to ensure that requirements are testable and to create test plans
- Validation of data on web portal and through SQLs
- Preparation and Execution of testcases in HP Application Life cycle management
- Ensure that defect/bug reports are recorded and reported in a timely manner, including giving input on priority and severity and closing resolved issues.
- Identify and communicate business risks relative to testing and implementation for evaluation by project teams
- Provide estimates and feedback to the Project Manager for project scheduling purposes
- Ensure that defects uncovered in the test are recorded, summarized and utilized in post project reviews in an effort to improve the development and test processes.
- Continuously look for ways to improve the internal Quality Assurance process
Tools: and Software: HP ALM,Microsoft SQL server 2008
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Worked with the team to bring ourselves up to speed with Agile Software Development and Scrum Methodology.
- Participated in Backlog grooming to improve the details of the user stories.
- Interacted with Scrum masters, Product owners, Developers and Architects to identify new user stories and to implement the identified stories.
- Constant communication and Knowledge transfer to all team mates about the overall project objectives and scope of releases.
- Automation of validating the data using Quick test Professional
- Creation of Views and tables to validate data through SQL queries
- Performed extensive manual testing on critical functionalities of the application.
- Created and tested scenarios using positive and negative test data.
- Utilized HP Quality Center for test management and defect tracking purposes.
- Identified gaps in the end to end feature functionality and discussed the same with Project managers and scrum masters to add them to the back log.
- Involved in conducting the System testing, Integration testing of the application.
- Prioritized and reported defects, presented documents and reports in daily scrum meetings.
- Identified testing tool needs and conducted sessions on them to the team about using them efficiently.
- Hosted Test case review meetings to walk through the functional test cases with business and developers.
- Identifying environment and test data to be tested in each run cycle
- Estimating the required work for the Project
- Hosted several meetings with business and development team to discuss requirements and change requests.
- Reviewed test cases written by the team
- Coordinating and updating the clients and offshore team
- Preparation of test summary and status reports.
- Responsible for hosting weekly defect review calls with program managers and developers to discuss the new and open defects, ETAs and root causes for the same.
- Responsible for hosting meetings with business users to discuss gating issues before deployment.
- Interaction with the business users during UAT and providing support for the same.
- Involved in sanity testing in Production during deployment
Tools: and Software: HP ALM, QTP, Notepad ++, Toad
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
QA lead
Responsibilities:
- Analysis of Business and IT Requirements through Requirements management Tool, Caliber
- Preparation of LOE and resource planning
- Preparation of test plan, schedule, test cases and traceability
- Hosted meetings for test plan review, test case review
- Attend weekly status calls with clients
- Coordinated Testing Tasks with Off-Shore team
- Preparation of status reports using Roll up Metrics GUI and SQA portal GUI
- Reporting test execution status by creating dashboards in quality center, Roll up Metrics, SQA portal
- Interaction and co-ordination with development team for new functionalities and bug fixes
- Interacted with business users and proactively provided support for UAT
- Preparation of test summary and review records.
- Develop and execute functional/system test cases to ensure product meets functional and design specifications.
- Tested the Tibco bus services using Bus tester.
- Worked with SQL queries to test database functionality.
- Automation of regression suite
- Provided support for Intersystem testing with upstream and downstream applications
Tools: and Software: HP ALM, HP Quick Test Professional, Caliber RM, Oracle, Toad, Netcool, Bus tester, Chronique, PuTTY,SOA test tool
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
QA lead
Responsibilities:
- Study of functional requirements in caliber and creating stories in Requisite pro for projects.
- Test Plan Preparation for system Test and Inter system test and uploading in Quality Centre
- Test case reviews and Walk through
- Involved in setting up testing Environment using putty prior to each release.
- Designing and documentation of the test cases in QC
- Creation of functional test cases and regression suite.
- Execution of test cases for system testing and Regression testing in Quality Center
- GUI testing on Integrator application and validation of orders by executing SQL queries
- Co ordination with the Configuration team to setup the Build and Batches on time.
- Involved in Intersystem activities for test case and test data identification
- Reporting Defects in QC and reworking on them
- Have Documented the Testing procedures
- Have Documented the Environment details
- Refining regression testing process using Automation Tool - Winrunner
- Tested the Tibco bus services using Bus tester.
- Verifying the execution of SQL scripts.
- Have contributed ideas to automate Integrator application
- Have documented a number of test cases to make testing process people-independent and to supplement regression testing
- Have ensured bug-free delivery to the customer
- Have received appreciation from client for Test case reviews and testing
- Have mentored six new joiners about application, testing methodologies, processes and functionality and have shared the responsibilities.
- Calculation of test effectiveness after each release
- Performing root cause analysis on Sev 1 and Sev 2 defects
- Executing automation test cases using Winrunner
- Co-ordinating and updating the clients and onshore team.
- Prepared weekly and monthly status reports to clients for Metrics.
- Delivered presentations on the application to the directors.
- Data support and knowledge transfer on the application to members of the interacting applications.
- Peer review of Test cases and test results
- Provided support for Inter-System Testing and UAT and interacting applications as and when required
- Interacting with the client on weekly basis to provide them the current status of Project.
- Automatedthe Integrator GUI using Test Mentor tool and execution of Winrunner scripts
Software and Tools:HP Quality Center, Winrunner, Bus Tester,TOAD, Caliber, Requisite Pro, SOA test tool, PuTTY,WinSCP, Qwest developed tools - Test Mentor and XPlanner.