SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of IT experience in the role of Test Lead/ Sr QA Analyst, supporting areas of Client Server Technologies, Web applications in diverse business and technical environments, with demonstrated leadership activities and setting up environments.
• Business Analyst role in some projects, working with Business in understanding initiatives, translating to requirements and user stories, and working with scrum master in prioritizing for development
• Analyzed support tickets from current customers, created stories and coordinated the development, testing and release of fixes to the customer
• Self - motivated and result-oriented with a strong will to learn and mentor team members
• 7+ years’ experience with Agile development methodologies and 4+ years using SAFe Agile framework.
• Team Management: defect triage meetings, Clarity monitoring and reporting and near shore co-ordination
• Ability to think outside the box and visualize the product from the customer’s perspective
• Experience in writing test scripts and test cases for conducting System, Regression and Performance testing of applications.
• Worked within development teams with BDD approach to develop web UI tests using Gherkin and Selenium WebDriver
• Knowledge in testing both Client-Server and Web based applications using automated testing tools like QTP, Selenium (Web Driver) and manual testing procedures.
• Experience in validating Web Services SOAP request and response XML using SoapUI tool
• Experience working independently as well as a part of a team.
• Ability to multitask in high paced, pressured environment
• Self-motivated, excellent analytical skills, good work ethics, good team player and ability to master new technologies quickly.
• Extreme focus on delivering quality software
• Excellent interpersonal Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, MTM, RALLY, Jira

Testing Tools: QTP, Selenium (Web Driver), SOAP UI, POSTMAN, API, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Maven

Framework: TestNG, TDD, BDD

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, Java, C#, Visual Studio

Database: SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows and Unix

Internet Technologies: HTML, XML

Others: TOAD, Jenkins, Business Objects Reports, HL7, HL7 FHIR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked in an Agile environment as a member of a Scrum team, participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.
• Reviewed and analyzed the business requirements, functional specs to define the Test Plan and document the Test Cases in Test Director and Quality Center.
• Developed regression testing automation scripts using C# and Selenium WebDriver
• Developed Test plans and test cases.
• Test Case Writing and execution in HP ALM and MTM; capturing screenshots using the HP-Sprinter & WebEx recordings for Auditing purposes
• Actively interacted with Business Analysts and Developers to co-ordinate the testing.
• Performed various kinds of testing like functional, system, regression, integration, smoke, ad-hoc and end-to-end.
• Performed both backend and front-end testing.
• Tested the application for validity of results, accuracy, reliability and conformance to establishment standards.
• Tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared bugs using the defect tracking tool - Quality Center, ALM, TFS and MTM
• Responsible for developing and executing of manual test plans and test cases for Web Services using SOAP UI and Rest Client.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing, Complete Functional Testing, Regression Testing and End to End Testing on different versions.
• Worked with Business for new initiatives and enhancements, created requirements and prioritized for implementation
• Created user stories and prioritized for iterative delivery
• Facilitated working groups for showcasing delivered functionality and coordinated business readiness activities
• Implemented, ran and reported test plans and results.
• Extensively executed SQL Queries on Oracle tables to verify the data for Back-end.
• Reported defects in the application to the developers using the Quality Center / TFS
• Coordinated and monitored the process of testing of defects, bugs and releases and monitored the smooth transition of the application.
• Coordinated with Nearshore/offshore Teams.
• Performed demos to the product owner once testing is complete on user stories for acceptance
• Reported QA team status to executives.
• Multi-tasked several testing activities simultaneously
• Worked with Business for new initiatives and enhancements, created requirements and prioritized for implementation
• Created user stories and prioritized for iterative delivery
• Working closely with Product Management/Product Owners for managing feature work and helping with pre -planning and grooming.
• Facilitated working groups for showcasing delivered functionality and coordinated business readiness activities
• Level 3 support for deployed customers - analyzed support tickets and created / prioritized stories for development, coordinated testing and sign-off prior to releasing fix to the customers

Environment: HP-ALM 12.20, HP-Sprinter, Rally, MS-SQL Server 2012, SharePoint, TFS, Horizon Applications, Paragon Applications.