SUMMARY

• A graduate with an MBA in MIS and a BS in Computer Science with over 10 years experience in Project Management and Quality Assurance
• Expert in Project Management Activities - Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling to make sure the project is on schedule and deadlines are met.
• Have extensive knowledge on Business Process Re-engineering, Project Cycle Management (PCM), Risk Mitigation, Systems Analysis, and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in implementing Agile Software development, Waterfall, RAD, and V-model methodologies.
• Proficient in Business Writing and includes Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects, and improving overall efficiency and productivity.
• Adept at leading both manual and automated testing, developing and implementing test strategies, operational procedures and quality methodologies to support release of development and business applications.
• Practical hands on experience in different types of frameworks like Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid, and Page Object Model (POM).
• Solid experience in using Black Box test methodologies, database and backend Testing, Functional Testing, Testing, Component Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked on Continuous Integration Process using Jenkins, SVN, Test NG and Maven.
• Expertise in testing of design tools, with familiarity in multiple programming languages.
• Proven leader and strategic thinker with effective analytical, organizational and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, Linux Red Hat, DOS

Languages: C, C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Visual Basic, VBScript, C# .Net, TSL, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, X Path, Css SelectorMethodology RUP, UML, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 , Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i, MS Access

Integration Tools: Maven, ANT, Jenkins, SVN

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE/WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, UFT/QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Restful, SoapUI, Visual Studio, TFS, Test Manager, Rally, Quality Center/ALM, ClearQuest

Software: Microsoft Office, Visio, SharePoint, VMWare, SOAP UI, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day activities of 10 offshore and 5 onsite QA teams conducting front end, batch jobs and automation testing of applications.
• Assessed & analyzed user stories and Conducted Sprint planning, Scrum Meetings.
• Worked in Agile methodology usingRallyand provided effort estimation for test scripts development and test execution.
• Develop a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in Quality Center/ALM.
• Categorize the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority.
• Work collaboratively and proactively with QA Team to design and develop effective automation solutions, troubleshoot issues and resolve bugs.
• Help in automating the test cases specified in ALM by creating Test Scripts using the hybrid framework in QTP.
• Involved in Preparation of POC (ProofofConcept) of Test Automation with Selenium.
• UsedSeleniumWebDriver API with TestNG to automate tests on cross browser and cross platform environment.
• Involved in Page Object Model Framework development for automating the application using Selenium.
• Export Test case Scripts (Java-Selenium WebDriver) in Eclipse IDE and modify and execute the selenium scripts.
• Used Maven for building the WebDriver project added dependencies and plugins required in maven.
• Used Cucumber by creating the Features and Step Definition files to execute test scripts.
• Created regression test suite for running test cases against test and production environments.
• Help in automating the HL7 Interface test cases using SoapUI.
• Assign task to all testing team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• After running the Test Cases, Test Metrics are also collected using Quality Center.
• Assist in executing the test scripts, analyzed the results and documented the reports.
• Track the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution of the results.
• Report and track the defects using ALM and TFS.
• Attend Weekly Team Meetings.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Selenium Grid, Maven, Cucumber, Eclipse IDE, SoapUI, UFT 12.01, QTP 11.00, Rally, HP Quality Center/ALM 11.0, Win XP/7, Powerbuilder 11.5.1/12.5.1 , SharePoint 2007, Team Foundation Server, MS SQL Server 2008/2012.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Lead/ Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed QA team of 6 QA consultants working with different projects such as New Account Monitor, Service View, Task Tool Management, International Database, Administrative Account Review, Account Master, Trust Insurance Integration, and Transition Tool Management.
• Understood the Business Requirement and developed a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in Quality Center.
• Estimated testing effort for each project and prioritized tusks for concurrent projects for QA team members.
• Created System/Integration Test Cases in Quality Center to cover the GUI functionality.
• Performed data driven testing using Data table in QTP and verified that the application was working properly with different country specifications.
• Modified and documented the scripts for regression testing using QTP.
• Helped team in executing the test scripts, analyzed the results and documented reports.
• Tracked the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution of the results.
• Worked extensively with the performance team on LoadRunner for Performance testing, created virtual users and scenarios, set up transactions between steps and actions and created rendezvous points to mimic a real world scenario closely.
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.

Environment: QTP 9.50 and 11.00, HP Quality Center, Load Runner 9.10, Performance Center 9.10, Win XP Professional, JAVA and .NET, Share Point Server 2007.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing
• Created Automation Test plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts (QTP) for Functional, Integration, System, and Regression testing phase for overall system.
• Created and manipulated Traceability matrices, Test execution documents for respective modules and overall system for each product release.
• Modified and documented scripts for regression testing using QTP.
• Executed the test scripts, analyzed the results and documented reports.
• Used SQL queries to perform Back end testing of the database.
• Prepared Test sets, all possible combinations of the data (+ve, -ve and boundary limits) required to test each requirement and created Data Driven automated scripts using QTP.
• Performed Performance testing using Load Runner
• Simulated multiple Vusers scenarios using Load Runner.
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
• Defect reporting and tracking was done using Quality Center.

Environment: WebLogic, Quick Test Pro 9.2, HP Quality Center, Load Runner 9.10, SQL & Oracle, Win XP Professional, JAVA.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Business Requirement and developed a concise Test Plan defining the Goals and Strategy of testing in Quality Center.
• Executed test cases from test case document for System, UAT, Smoke, Functional, and Integration testing.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reporting results and defects in Quality Center.
• Automated the test cases specified in Quality Center by creating Test Scripts in QTP. After running the Test Cases, Test Metrics are also collected.
• Involved in Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end.
• Performed data driven testing using Data table in QTP and verified that the application was working properly with different country specifications.
• Worked extensively on LoadRunner for Performance testing, created virtual users and scenarios, set up transactions between steps and actions and created rendezvous points to mimic a real world scenario closely.
• Documented the errors using Mercury Quality Center and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-coordinating with the development as well as the support group.

Environment: QTP 9.0, Mercury Quality Center, LoadRunner, Oracle 9i, and SQL.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and Requirement Specifications. Designing Test Lab and formulation of Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Cases in TestDirector for the Functional, Integration, End-to-End, Usability, Security, Regression and Smoke testing.
• Categorized the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority.
• Participated in internal design review of testing materials and external design reviews with the customer to get his approval for the Test Requirements and scenarios to be tested.
• Created Manual test cases in Mercury Test Director.
• Created Java script and executed those scripts to verify complex system requirements and database testing.
• Scripting and Executing Automated test scripts for the Regression Testing and other mini releases using WinRunner.
• Tracked the progress of test case planning, implementation and execution results.
• Documented the defects using TestDirector and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-coordinating with the development as well as the support group.

Environment: HTML, XML, SQL, UNIX, Win NT, Mercury TestDirector, WinRunner.