TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2012

Database/Database Tools: DB2, MySQL, Mainframes, Teradata

Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, Advanced Rest client, Postman Rest client, SOAP UI

SDLC Methodologies: Agile, DevOps, Waterfall, ATDD, TDD

Testing Phases: Static Testing, Smoke Testing, Systems Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing, UAT

Type of Testing: Application based ( Java, Mainframe, .Net), Web Based, Cross Browser, Mobile, Database, Webservices, Role Based, Middleware

Lines of Business: Banking, Insurance, Media Services, Retail, Aviation & Aerospace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the analysis meeting for deciding the stories for the current sprints and decide the high - level acceptance criteria.
• Participate in daily scrum and sprint planning sessions.
• Manage testing tools ( JIRA ), prepare test data and perform environment sanity checks.
• Run Smoke tests, post any lower environment deployments.
• Execute Story cards, identify defects and create bug cards when approved by the product owner.
• Been responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables.
• Document all test results and work with business team for test approval.
• Analyze issues reported by business users and replicate them in test environment.

QA Lead and Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead with a team of 10 test analysts in offshore. As per my role and responsibility I majorly took care of the below activities:
• Perform a bottom up estimate to plan the resources and timelines
• Work with the leadership team to draft roadmap for future sprints
• Participate in the analysis meeting for deciding the stories for the future sprints, create story cards for the coming Sprint and decide the high-level acceptance criteria.
• Create Document of Understanding/ Reference documents for the key business processes
• Educate/ share the functional knowledge with the testing team in offshore, to ensure they are aware of all the latest updates and changes in the functionality and can deliver well.
• Perform Hands on Execution & help team with execution to make sure the delivery is made with zero defects.
• Review team’s deliverables and work with Client team for any Adhoc testing requirements
• Raise defects in Quality center and work with development team for fixing the defect.
• Collate End of Day Status Report & share with the project team
• Present Weekly Status Report to TCS Internal Leadership team and keep a track of KPI’s

Program QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Program Quality Assurance Lead with a team of 4 test analysts in Onsite and 7 test analysts in offshore. As per my role and responsibility I majority take care of the below activities:
• Work with the customer to identify the project opportunities & plan the road map accordingly
• Lead the TCS Internal innovation team to identify the business value adds for the customer
• Perform Project estimation and resource planning
• Work with the Legal team on teams’ SOW & billing
• QA lead for all the projects under portfolio - Enterprise Money Movement.
• Work directly with the business teams on the business requirements.
• Work with the application teams to ensure environment health check.
• Participate in the analysis meeting for deciding the stories for the future sprints and decide the high-level acceptance criteria.
• Educate Internal Project Teams & 3rd party vendors on the requirements.
• Draft plan for 3rd party vendors, in order to have continuous support during test execution.
• Review the test cases/conditions for the stories within the team and with the business teams.
• Help the team in execution to make sure the delivery is made with zero defects.
• Provide demo on the completed story for a business sign-off.
• Prepare test plan for regression testing for the release and finalize the test suit.
• Work with the Automation team to finalize the regression suite and decide the priority on the cases to be automated
• Work with the performance testing team to make sure that the application is working within the provided SLA.
• To be the SME and single point of contact multiple the cross-commit teams for ensuring the application integration testing is covered as per designed.
• To help business team in the UAT testing questions as SME for the project and help Dev team in troubleshooting the issue.
• Publish End of day & weekly status reports to Leadership team
• Review Deployment plan and support Go-Live activities
• To be the first point of contact for any incidents coming for initial analysis.
• To track the incidents and post-production defect for weekly discussions with the clients and the product owner.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the user requirements.
• Analyzing the requirements.
• Construction and testing of application.
• Review of team member coding and test results.
• Virtualization, creating and maintaining virtual environments. Updating the virtual environments with the current codes.
• Involved in preparation of test data based on Functional Specification.
• Been responsible for the overall quality and timelines of the deliverables.
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing and provided KT to business users.
• Involved in Test case review
• Track the status of the deliverables for the assigned tasks and sharing the updates to delivery manager.
• Knowledge transfer within the team.
• Preparation of Weekly and Monthly Status Reports
• Provide the estimates of the project.
• Creating and updating environments for system testing.

Senior Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the user requirements.
• Analyzing the requirements.
• Design document preparation.
• Preparing the test plan.
• Involved in preparation of test data based on Functional Specification.
• Involved in preparing the test estimation documents.
• Involved in analyzing the Functional Specification and preparing Test cases.
• Been responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables.
• Involved in capturing the business requirements and being a part in writing the test cases.
• Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, and Compatibility testing of the application in Windows 8
• Co-ordinated with offshore team to explain the requirement and prepare UTS, UTR, Test estimation, System test cases etc.
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in Test case review
• Involved in capturing the defects in QC.
• Involved in defect status meetings with the client.