SUMMARY

• Over 18 years of diverse experience and 10 years of experience as a Software QA Analyst/Lead in Information Technology. Writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured/non structured environments and performing all types of testing and managing large groups of testers through Quality Center. Implemented QA metrics, unique ability to be conversant with wide range of people of technical abilities and seniority, root cause analysis.
• Diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Automated Testing using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Selenium Web Driver2.0 using both data driven and keyword driven frameworks using TestNG and POM.
• Experience in software analysis, Quality Assurance (QA) testing of Web, Client/Server, Mainframe, Manual and Automated Testing
• Involved in entire Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) from Inception, Transformation to Execution, which includes Design, Development, and Implementation.
• Good Understanding in Waterfall, V and RUP methodologies
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury Interactive tools
• Proficient in analyzing Business/ System Requirements documents and Use Cases, preparing Test Logs and Summary Reports
• Excellent Knowledge in Black Box and White Box testing
• Proficient in manual and automated testing for client - server as well as mainframe applications
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plans, Test Cases, Defect Tracking.
• Experience in performing Integration, System, Stress, Regression, Comparison, Recovery, Performance, Security, Smoke, Failure Point and User Acceptance tests.
• Expertise in integrating continues tests with Continuous Delivery with automating gating
• Proficient in API testing using Restful services
• Expertise in GAP analysis and developing Traceability Matrices, and implementation of best of breed QA practices
• Extensively performed Backend Testing to validate the database for the integrity of data, Entity and Referential Integrities by checking the data model for the relationship mapping to make sure that data is stored in the right place i.e. Data type and Data size testing
• Utilized root cause analysis to easily, quickly and efficiently rearrange business ideas and processes into logical groupings
• Highly driven and motivated, Results oriented Sets high, but attainable standards to achieve for self and business, works and manages well, extremely dynamic and engaging personality, ability to work with wide variety of business and technical staff- including offshore development teams and vendors of various abilities and skills.
• Strong ability to understand and document critical data through effective data collection, data analysis and data interpretation
• Good knowledge in SOX compliances

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation tools: Quick Test Pro10.0, Selenium WebDriver2.0, TestNG

Test Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest,Test Manager

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT, UNIX, Linux, z/OS

Programming Languages: CICD

Build Automation Tool: Java, J2EE, JSP, SQL

Jenkins: Maven

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script

Front End Tools: DHTML,XML, AJAX, ASP, Java, JSP, Servlets

Testing Methodologies: Database:

RUP, Waterfall, Agile, V-Model: DB2, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

Application Servers: Weblogic9.x, Websphere6.x

Defect Management Tool: TestDirector 8.0, Quality Center10.0, Clear Quest7.0.

Project Management Tool: Microsoft Project, Clarity, VISIO

Web Services: SoapUI 5.3

Configuration Management Tool: Clear Case, PVCS, CVS, Visual Source Safe, StarTeam10.1

Miscellaneous Tools: Toad, Rational Requisite Pro, Telnet, FTP, SSH,TCP/IP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Onshore/ Offshore team with respect to QA activities
• Reviewing the Test Cases and providing first-level approval
• Involved in the Defect assessment meetings with the developers regarding the bugs found by the QA team during System/Integration Testing.
• Participated in all meetings planned for particular release and obtain necessary technical automation requirement. Such meetings includes, design review, test execution timeline etc.
• Attend regular stake holders meetings to discuss the progress of QA Activities.
• Act as a single point of contact between Development and QA for resolution and deployment activities
• Validating the interfaces using SOAP UI for end to end flow and to validate the response to verify its functionality.

Confidential, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Onshore/ Offshore team with respect to QA activities
• Planning and managing the release cycles with rest of the team members
• Worked with the offshore team with the analysis of the business requirement document (BRD) of changes implemented and providing solution to test the same by liaising with the team members.
• Involved in creation of Test plan, Estimation, UAT plan and Test Metrics
• Reviewing the Test Cases and providing first-level approval
• Involved in the Defect assessment meetings with the developers regarding the bugs found by the QA team during System/Integration Testing.
• Participated in all meetings planned for particular release and obtain necessary technical automation requirement. Such meetings includes, design review, test execution timeline etc.
• Used HP ALM to manage all the testing tasks and activities
• Validated the End to End scenarios for downstream users of the load extracts using Teradata.

Confidential, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with offshore/onshore team to get the overall status of QA Activities for every sprint releases
• Check and Review Test Cases documents to provide first level approval
• Analyze requirements during the Task planning sessions of the project and gave the estimates for the QA cycle.
• Developed Test Plans to obtain the necessary approvals /signoffs before each release
• Agile(Scrum) Methodology is been implemented using Version1 for all the releases/iterations.
• Prepare Agenda for the meeting and involved in scheduling by dividing the modules to establish start and completion dates.
• Attend regular stake holders meetings to discuss the progress of QA Activities.
• Act as a single point of contact between Development and QA for resolution and deployment activities.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document and enforce all processes/procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Organize/Conduct internal training required on various features to the team.
• Initiated the defect resolution meeting to go over the defects on the severity basis for triaging defects for each release

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Onshore/ Offshore team with respect to QA activities
• Planning and managing the release cycles with rest of the team members
• Worked with the offshore team with the analysis of the business requirement document (BRD) of changes implemented and providing solution to test the same by liaising with the team members.
• Involved in creation of Test plan, Estimation, UAT plan and Test Metrics
• Reviewing the Test Cases and providing first-level approval
• Trained team members, analyzed current test processes, proposed and implemented a list of improvements to follow the norms of QA process.
• Managing the testing team by delegate tasks to the team and tracking the same
• Preparing status report and reporting the execution status and escalation of any critical/show stopper to weekly status meetings.
• Closely interacted with product management, business and development teams to assure most effective project execution
• Involved in Preparing High Level Test Scenarios for UAT and coordinated with the Line of Business for obtaining the signoff/approvals of the UAT Test Plan
• Lead System Integration Test activities including creating System Integration Test Plans, UAT Scenarios and project test executions for approvals/signoffs
• Used SoapUI Pro for Web service testing for the Agency interface which involves sending the request and obtaining the appropriate response.
• Continuously reviewing the quality processes followed in the project and identifying the areas of improvement, providing recommendations and step by step procedure towards streamlining the processes.
• Deploying the build in prod environment by liaising with the development team, performed test readiness review of environment, conducted automated test execution of regression test cases in batch, analyzed root cause of failed cases and published analyzed results on SharePoint for ease of access to different teams.
• Involved in coordinating the meeting to review all the outstanding MR’s to triage it based on its severity