SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance with strong business understanding knowledge in Communication, Media and Entertainment, Banking and Financial Services, Retail.
• Expertise in testing Web - based, Desktop and Client-Server Applications.
• Experience in testing Mobile applications on android and IOS platform.
• Wide experience in testing the Set top boxes and its functionalities.
• In-depth knowledge and diverse experience in all QA Phases that include Manual, Functional, System, UI, Integration, Database, Regression, End-to-End and User acceptance testing.
• Excellent Knowledge in Quality Center tool.
• Detailed understanding of QA methodology (Waterfall, V, Agile) to ensure quality control.
• Experienced in test planning, developing test scenarios, test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, defect tracking and reporting
• Experience in navigating through the test lab, fully involved in the process of Defect identification and resolution using Quality Center.
• Experience in communication industry for Cablevision, Verizon and Confidential in all phases of STLC.
• Experience in Retail Industry for Confidential .
• Experience in Banking &Finance industry for DTCC in all phases of STLC.
• Involved in Developing and Executing Test Plan, and Test cases based on the business requirementdocuments, Functional Requirements and Use Cases.
• Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects throughout the Defect Management life cycle.
• Involved in getting root cause analysis and defect tracking till the closures.
• Closely worked with development team and BA to develop requirement traceability and maximize code coverage.
• Experience in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure complete functional coverage of the requirements.
• Extensive knowledge in creating simple and complex SQL scripts for data verifications and validation.
• Exposure of configuration management and knowledge management tools.
• Experience to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Wide experience in testing web-based application in Agile test environment.
• Worked on Onsite - Offshore Model projects and lead the team from offshore.
• Good team player and also have the ability to work independently in a time-sensitive environment.
• Self-starter and ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
• Excellent Testing, Communication and Documentation Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Approaches: V Model, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Bug Life Cycle.

Scripts/Languages: Java, HTML, Adobe Flex, JavaScript,. XML, CSS, VBscript

Operating Systems: Windows 7/8/10, iOS

Defect Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, Bug zilla

MS Office Tools: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access.

Database: MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle, TOAD

Domain: Communication, Media and Entertainment, Banking & Financial Services, Retail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirements and Functional Specifications and develop Test Plan, detailed test scenarios and test cases.
• Create and execute unit/functional test plans for Optimum application.
• Analyzing and designing high level test scenarios.
• Involved in Functional and Regression Testing of the application.
• Involved in Functional, regression testing of video products in different set top boxes(HD&SD).
• Performed functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing and end-end testing.
• Responsible for testing the Optimum application on android and IOS devices.
• Review the Test Plans, Test Cases and Test scenarios to ensure consistency with strategic direction, goals and objectives of QA resources using Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Involved in estimation and planning of deliverables.
• Setup Test Data based on Functional Specifications.
• Performed cross browser testing on IE, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari.
• Produce defect statistics for the project.
• Participated in agile scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings and demo meetings.
• Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary and provide test coverage analysis based on test results. This will include maintaining complete defect life cycle and tracking the defect till its closure.
• Proactively worked with Developers to ensure timely Bug Resolution.
• Responsible for Overall Quality and Timeliness of Deliverables from the Team
• Co-ordinate work with Onsite / Offshore Team.
• Acting as a single point of contact between business, development and QA teams for all offshore issues.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and analysis to design high level test scenarios.
• Involved in developing test plans and test strategy documents.
• Developed various test matrices to ensure end to end test coverage.
• Involved in designing high level test strategy documents, test execution, defect reporting and tracking till its closure, designing root cause analysis documents and metrics.
• Performed cross browser testing on IE, Mozilla, Chrome and Safari.
• Responsible for developing and executing test cases for mobile application in android and IOS.
• Developed database query using TOAD for backend testing.
• Involved in end to end testing of set top boxes in both SD and HD versions.
• Direct interaction with business users for requirement gathering and analysis.
• Setting test management environment in QC/ALM for the project to create and access requirements, defects, test cases and reports for the status.
• Conducted test case reviews and presented the test cases/test scenarios to the team members for all iterations.
• Participated in daily meetings and gave the daily status of testing.
• Experienced in performing Back end testing by executing complex SQL queries for validating the data in the backend database tables.
• Experienced in test coordination between Onsite and Offshore team.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• High level and low level test designing.
• Analysis and provide clarification for development observations.
• Regression testing on various Drops.
• Verification check using SQL queries on database as part of testing.
• Test Cases preparation in HP Quality Centre and maintain Traceability matrices.
• Bug reporting and verification.
• Reviewing the Test Reports and Preparing Test Summary Report.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and adhoc testing of java based applications.
• Worked closely and coordinate with Development team, BA and QA team.
• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing.
• Tested applications compatibility on different browsers and browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome).