SUMMARY

• Senior Software Quality Analyst with 12+ years of experience in software industry out of which nearly 5 year were in leading Onshore and offshore testing teams.
• Good exposure of SDLC & STLC. Extensive experience of all aspects of software quality assurance and testing including Black Box testing, Agile testing, Test automation, Web Services Testing, Database Testing and End to End Testing.
• Worked with Financial, Airlines, banking, Insurance, and Health Care domains. Have worked in multicultural and diverse environment.
• Long term goal of providing testing and QA consultancy, implementing industry best practices and highly analytical, technical and with proven project management skills.
• Motivated individual with ability to prioritize and time manage things.
• Good team building and possess a knack to leverage the collective best from a group of individual.
• Around 11+ years of diversified experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance with various client/server, web based applications and Mobile Applications.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
• Involved in all phases of STLC which included gathering test requirements, setup test environment, write and execute test cases, report and follow - up defects.
• Experience in working with onshore and off shore teams.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing
• Good exposure in testing Ecommerce Applications, Have done testing Memphismantra.com website.
• Worked in Agile Scrum Environment.
• Worked in Water Fall model Environment.
• Good exposure using Rally tool.
• Excellent analytical and trouble shooting skills.
• Involved in Requirement gathering and Analysis.
• Proficient in creating Test Plan, Test Case and Change requesting documentation.
• Proficient in using TFS(MTM), VSTS, HP ALM, Bugzilla, RALLY, ZIRA tools.
• Proficient in Mobile testing in different devices Iphone 6 Plus, Iphone 6S Plus, Iphone 7 Plus, and Android
• Extensive Experience in coordinating testing efforts, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management and issue escalations.
• Experience working directly with users/ Customers and business analysts to identify and analyze defects and develop workable solutions.
• Experienced in writing SQL Queries Database Testing.
• Experienced in writing Teradata Database Testing
• Experienced in executing Automation test cases in Selenium using HP ALM 12.1
• Experienced in Mainframes testing
• Proficient in working on operating systems Windows XP,Vista,7,UNIX,MAC
• Experienced in testing .net, Java, XMl applications.
• Expertise in testing cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience in Trouble shooting the issue, Performed defect root cause analysis
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI & REST services.
• Having experience in Mobile App testing on various devices like IOS and Android.
• Having good experience testing application using multiple browsers like Chrome, IE, Firefox.
• Expertise in Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Adhoc, System, and Compatibility Testing.
• Excellent skills in identifying test data including the input data, pre-conditions and expected results for Functional Testing.
• Possess excellent verbal and written skills along with leader ship qualities, interpersonal, presentation, and self-organizing skills to remain highly focused in fast paced and highly stressful environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C,C++,JAVA,.NET,VB.NET

Languages: C,C++,JAVA,J2EE, VB, ASP.net,SQL,VB.net

Testing Tools: (HP) ALM 10.0,MTM, JIRA, Bugzilla,Rally.

Web Technologies: HTML, HTML, XHTML, XML, EJB, Java Script, .NET, JSP, Servlets, Applets, ASP.net

Front End Tools: Visual Studio 2003, Dream Weaver, MS Project, MS Visio.

Databases: DB visualizer, MS SQL Server, MS Access and MySQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

QA Lead

Environment: Tibco, .Net, VSTS, DB SQL Server, Internet Explorer, Teradata Firefox, Google chrome

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to provide inputs to develop Test Cases.
• Designing test scenarios and test cases for System testing, smoke testing, database testing, Web services testing and placed the test cases in VSO once it is approved by BA signoff.
• Prepared Test Plan and estimate documents and reviewed with the team
• Authorized and reviewed the test cases for the newly identified test scenarios by offshore.
• Performed database testing using SQL Server to validate the complete flow from upstreams to downstreams.
• Performed mobile test execution in different devices Iphone 6 Plus, Iphone 6S Plus, Iphone 7 Plus and Android
• Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development team.
• Writing test cases, executing and logging defects in VSTS as Defect Tracking Tool.
• Conducting defect triage meeting and explaining the severity and priority of the defects identified and also updating the defect status to the development and testing team.
• Coordinating and working with team and getting status reports on time.
• Identifying the risk in current project/module and reporting it to business.
• Prepared test Exit Reports for every release and uploading in shared location.
• Conducting defect triage meetings twice in a week based on no. of the defects.
• Ensuring the defect delivered, per schedule given by the development team.
• Identifying test cases for System and end to end regression test suite and ensuring the testing is performed against test suite for each version/off version.
• Involved in daily stand up meeting to provide status the status to project team and internal management.

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: .Net, TFS, DB SQL Server, Internet Explorer, Teradata Firefox, Google chrome.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to provide inputs to develop Test Cases.
• Designing test scenarios and test cases for End to End testing, smoke testing, database testing and placed the test cases in TFS once it is approved by BA signoff.
• Prepared test strategy and estimate documents and reviewed with the team
• Authorized and reviewed the test cases for the newly identified test scenarios by offshore.
• Performed database testing using SQL Server and Teradate to validate the complete flow from upstreams to downstreams.
• Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development team.
• Writing test cases, executing and logging defects in TFS as Defect Tracking Tool.
• Conducting defect triage meeting and explaining the severity and priority of the defects identified and also updating the defect status to the development and testing team.
• Coordinating and working with team and getting status reports on time.
• Identifying the risk in current project/module and reporting it to business.
• Prepared test evaluation summary reports for every release and uploading in shared location.
• Conducting defect triage meetings twice in a week based on no of the defects.
• Ensuring the defect delivered, per schedule given by the development team.
• Identifying test cases for end to end regression test suite and ensuring the testing is performed against test suite for each version/off version.
• Involved in daily stand up meeting to provide status the status to project team and internal management.

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: .Net, TFS, DB SQL Server, Internet Explorer,Teradata Firefox, Google chrome.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to provide inputs to develop Test Cases.
• Designing test scenarios and test cases for End to End testing, smoke testing, database testing and placed the test cases in TFS once it is approved by BA signoff.
• Prepared test strategy and estimate documents and reviewed with the team
• Authorized and reviewed the test cases for the newly identified test scenarios by offshore.
• Performed database testing using SQL Server and Teradate to validate the complete flow from upstreams to downstreams.
• Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development team.
• Writing test cases, executing and logging defects in TFS as Defect Tracking Tool.
• Conducting defect triage meeting and explaining the severity and priority of the defects identified and also updating the defect status to the development and testing team.
• Coordinating and working with team and getting status reports on time.
• Identifying the risk in current project/module and reporting it to business.
• Prepared test evaluation summary reports for every release and uploading in shared location.
• Conducting defect triage meetings twice in a week based on no of the defects.
• Ensuring the defect delivered, per schedule given by the development team.
• Identifying test cases for end to end regression test suite and ensuring the testing is performed against test suite for each version/off version.
• Involved in daily stand up meeting to provide status the status to project team and internal management.

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: JAVA, HP ALM, DB Visualizer, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google chrome, SOAP UI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to provide inputs to develop Test Cases.
• Designing test scenarios and test cases for functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, system integration testing, database testing and uploading the test cases in ALM 12.0 (HP Quality Centre) once it is approved by BA signoff.
• Prepared test strategy and estimate documents and reviewed with the team
• Designing test case template in excel to upload the test cases in ALM & prepared test cases directly in ALM for change requests.
• Authorized and reviewed the test cases for the newly identified test scenarios by offshore.
• Implemented Shift left testing in our project for the first time by adding different new levers to the project
• Worked on web services testing using SOAP UI and REST services.
• Performed database testing using DB visualizer for comparing the front end and backend results.
• Responsible for performing cross browser testing.
• Responsible for performing IOS testing on Ipad and IPhones.
• Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development team.
• Writing test cases, executing and logging defects HP ALM & RTC as Defect Tracking Tool.
• Conducting defect triage meeting and explaining the severity and priority of the defects identified and also updating the defect status to the development and testing team.
• Coordinating and working with offshore and getting status reports on time.
• Identifying the risk in current project/module and reporting it to business.
• Prepared test evaluation summary reports for every release and uploading in shared location.
• Prepared weekly QA Dashboard reports and shared with the team.
• Conducting defect triage meetings twice in a week based on no of the defects.
• Ensuring the defect delivered, per schedule given by the development team.
• Identifying test cases for end to end regression test suite and ensuring the testing is performed against test suite for each version/off version.
• Done different migration testing like Akamai, SVN with in Liberty and out of Liberty network.
• Prepared daily status reports and updated the status to project team and internal management.
• Actively involved in retrospective meetings for C1,C2 and Final one & providing feedback.