SUMMARY:

• Eight years of work experience in IT in the roles of Senior QA supporting areas of Client - Server Technology, Web applications, E-commerce and Data warehousing/Business Intelligence, in diverse business technical environments, wif demonstrated leadership abilities and setting up Test environments
• Responsible for defining test plans, creating, documenting, verifying and executing test cases, test scripts, traceability matrix
• Expertise working wif Off-shore team acting as a single point of contact - assigning testing responsibilities, tracking the project to completion and reporting the status
• Experienced in project management from resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, risk management, communication plan, reporting metrics template, defect reports, change management. Experienced in managing people building teams wif rich cohesiveness.
• Experience in leading large, cross-enterprise testing initiatives during Agile SCRUM development methodology.
• Expertise in designing and developing test strategy, test plan, automated test cases and generating test reports, defect reports and product quality assurance documentation.
• Solid experience in working on various phases of the SDLC from conceptual stage to product delivery.
• TEMPHas working noledge on SQL server, writing queries to validate data, writing stored procedures to generate test data
• Experience working on various operating systems like Windows and UNIX

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: Quality Center/ALM, Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Jira, Test DirectorLanguages C#, C/C++, TSQL, TSL (Win Runner Test Script Language), HTML, XML, Selenium

Operating systems: Windows, UNIX

Other tools: Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, Visual Studio Debugger, Rational Clear Quest, Visio, XML Spy, VSS, VB Script, TFS, SQL Profiler

Database: MS SQL, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. QA/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created detailedTest Plans, Test Scriptsandconducted test script walkthroughsto ensure that testing coverage is adequate and test scenarios specify the correct expected results
• Own and deliver test automation using Selenium web driver
• PreparedTraceability Matrixto make sure all the functional and Design requirements are covered under test scenarios
• Manage the QA team building and providing a healthy environment, managing and delivering product wif high quality in a timely manner.
• Manage and track multiple releases, coordinate wif engineering and project management teams, managing risk and delivering releases and produce business results
• Define releases schedules, assess risk and plan for release quality, execute and successfully release the product
• Review functional or business requirement documents and use cases. Translation of requirements into test plan and test cases
• Regularly assess testing progress and prepare test status report for management
• Perform comprehensive analysis of any error using logs
• Provide test schedule and mentor members of the project team
• Release validation, including certification, documentation and signoffs
• Work concurrently on several projects, each wif specific instructions that may differ from project to project
• Verify the contents of the database for integrity by performing various operations and running relevant SQL queries

Confidential

QA Manager (Hands on)

Responsibilities:

• Performed High level specification reviews and internal reviews for the test cases
• Executed the test cases, raised the defects and tracked them until they are resolved
• Involved in production support during product launch for 3 major releases
• Verify the contents of the database for integrity by performing various operations and running relevant SQL queries
• Create test scripts using QTP

Confidential

Senior Test Lead/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage the QA team and projects, working wif clients and management team contributing to successful releases of products wif high quality in time
• Coordinate multiple projects wif tight deadlines, acting as a single point of contact in the offshore team, managing projects in terms of schedule, risk, resources and quality.
• Lead the team providing technical leadership and mentor them building a strong QA team
• Came up wif the test strategy, test plan, test cases, defined work break down for the team, owned IC work as well and tested the functionality of GECARS application
• Performed regression Testing using manual and automated testing methods
• Script new automated test cases and maintain existing test scripts
• Verify the contents of the database for integrity by performing various operations and running relevant SQL queries
• Developed test scripts using VB Script and QTP

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Own testing of the entire product area end to end and deliver quality results on time
• Define the test strategy, conduct test spec reviews, come up wif test cases and execute on the same
• Test the functionality of the document management web services
• Participation in feature reviews wif the Dev and feature management teams

Confidential

Software Test Engineer/Software

Responsibilities:

• Performed integration, system, functional, regression and load testing throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Prepared, reviewed, and executed test cases based on requirements
• Created user manual for API test tool, use cases and maintained Test Matrix
• Performed manual and automated testing using Web Runner and VSTS on MS Windows Platform
• Performed web based and windows based Testing
• Application Installation and troubleshooting software on different combination of operating system, Browser and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007
• Performed bug tracking and reporting using Product Studio
• Used Team Software Process (TSP) for timeline planning, quality, and process improvement
• Assisted in enhancement of API Testing Tool(test web service) using C# and building SQL Queries
• Performed back-end testing wif the halp of SQL queries and stored procedures
• Performed API/Web Service methods testing using the API Tool
• Performed Load testing

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed majority of the test cases for new interfaces based upon use cases (for 9 releases of the product)
• Performed High level specification reviews and internal reviews for the test cases
• Executed the test cases, raised the defects and tracked them until they are resolved
• Involved in production support during product launch for 3 major releases
• Provided the support to major clients like Apple and Microsoft
• Actively involved in providing the test data to client, resolving the client issues and assist them in testing Confidential their end
• On boarded new team members by providing them wif a formal end to end training about the complete product from testing perspective
• Primary owner responsible for maintaining critical living documents and files (e.g.: maintained active SIM and test subscription data etc)
• Verify the contents of the database for integrity by performing various operations and running relevant SQL queries
• Extensively tested the functionality of CSI using web services
• Used XML Spy to validate SOAP messages
• Used SQL tools like Aqua and Squirrel to query the data base
• Checked the UNIX boxes for error logs

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Write test cases for manual and automated testing
• Defect logging, tracking and participation in meetings wif development team
• Perform regression testing using Win Runner
• Documenting testing guidelines and best practices for manual and automated testing
• Played an active role in QA Automation group, Confidential
• Introduced automation framework facilitating continuous integration of test cases

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end,functional,UI testing of the product for various releases
• Wrote test cases for manual and automated testing
• Validated data by running SQL queries against the database
• Automated all test cases and integrated them to the existing tests on a regular basis

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in UI Testing, Performance Testing and Integration Testing
• Involved in Preparation of Test Plan, Test cases for Testing
• Created Control Scenarios using Load Runner
• Conduct manual and automated testing to ensure deliverables as per specifications
• Performed internal Q/A and Testing functions