SUMMARY

• 5+ years of QA lead experience .Experience coordinating onshore offshore model. Experience of leading offshore team, consisting 15+resources.
• Experience of defining and executing Test plan, Test Outline document, Test Summary reports, Defect status report, SLA, Monthly and Weekly Project health status reports for management.
• Good noledge of ‘Agile methodology and Waterfall methodology’.
• Taken responsibility as Scrum lead for small module as part of internal QA team. Attended and contributed to Scrum ceremonies.
• Hands on experience with Rally and ALM for test management, JIRA and RTC for requirement gathering.
• Managed/Handled Defect triage meetings, Project walkthrough meetings for management and Knowledge transfer meetings for offshore.
• Supported UAT checkouts and production checkouts, created test plan for UAT checkouts.
• Identified and worked with project team to resolve system, subsystem and component dependencies and concerns.
• As QA Lead Provide direct feedback to Confidential on status, team updates and matters that may become an issue, Lead a team of testers to ramp up, support, and guide/mentor for optimal team results.
• Worked with different testing tools like OBIEE and SQL for data Mining, OMNI, Web application and EXPAG for data creation, QTP for creating/executing VBA automation scripts
• Good noledge of Software testing and Software development life cycles.
• 9+ years of strong experience in manual/automation testing and quality assurance with Finance, Pension Industry, Travel and telecommunications domain noledge. Native mobile application testing.
• Worked as Functional tester this included UI and backend/Database testing.
• Hands on experience with Web application testing, Mobile application testing and desktop application testing.
• Extensive use of ALM Test cases creation or upload, test case execution, defect management, Requirement tracking and report creation for management.
• Worked closely with project architectures and halped in creating project model, product releases which includes documentation, quality control and assistance with checkouts.
• Extensive experience in running various kind of test such as functional, Integration, System, Database, Regression testing, User acceptance, Sanity and Smoke testing.
• Ability to test complex multi person projects, good communication skills, Confidential interaction, and can work well individually as well as within teh team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primary Skills: Manual Testing, Test Project Management,Rally, ALM, JIRA, Agile and waterfall methodology, QTP,SQL,RTC, Omni station, OBIEE,QTP

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000,MS - Vista,MS-French OS

Languages: C++,Asp.Net 2003,Visual Studio2005-2008,.Net Framework3.5

Databases: Sql Server 2000-2003,MySQL,MS-Access

Domain Knowledge: Insurance, Travel

Testing Tools/Defect Tracking Tool: ALM 11.5, Bugzilla, Bug Pro

Documentation: Excel 2010, MS Word 2010

Configuration Management: Visual source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended Agile Quarter planning ceremonies to get requirements from business team and halp BA to prepare stories and acceptance criteria.
• Give suggestions or insights to BA team in project so all requirements are covered in test stories.
• Attended test planning meetings with Developer lead to plan test stories for each scrum and distribute teh work with onsite and offshore resources to complete teh work.
• Take responsibilities of test stories which need to be completed from onsite, creating test cases, executing test cases, defect logging and close stories.
• Attend and manage defect triage calls.
• Native application testing for I Phone.
• Mobile or device testing for all teh test stories.
• ATM testing for test stories.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Onsite team Lead/Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• As Team lead reviewed/analyzed teh RTC stories, created Test Plan,Test outline documents, participate and update QA Estimates in Scrum planning meeting, Story tech grooming meetings, Scrum Standup calls. Maintain /Update RTC with QA task and update story points as required.
• Co-ordinate with offshore team to discuss/Resolve deliverable, issues, and concerns and monitor teh status of deliverable. Scheduled, conducted noledge transfer to offshore teams whenever required.
• Created /reviewed test scripts with team members before giving test walkthrough to project management.
• Conducted Test deliverables review with Onshore/offshore team. Conducted walkthrough of deliverables to project management team
• Report/Discuss teh team status to teh Project manager and owners every week and plan future deliverable timelines.
• Conducted defect triage meetings with supporting/depending team, development teams, System /environment management teams.
• Coordination with team management for test sign-off approvals.
• Manage defect reports, review defect added by offshore team, and update required details in Defect Triage calls.
• Extensive use of ALM for Test management, Create test sets, add requirements, and update test coverage.
• Created reports using ALM to showcase Test team efforts, project status to management team.
• Performed Data Mining using OBIEE and SQL or enrolled participant for test execution.
• Created and executed SQL queries for backend testing/Database testing. Worked on XML validation fro request /response testing for web services.

Confidential

Onsite Scrum Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum team lead conducted standup meetings with team members, Conducted meetings with offshore/onshore team to discuss/Resolve deliverable, issues, and concerns and monitor teh status of deliverable. Scheduled, conducted and Knowledge Transfer to offshore teams whenever required.
• As scrum lead updated Scrum master with Team status, participate and update QA estimates in Scrum planning meeting, Story tech grooming meetings, Scrum Standup calls.
• Worked with Project supporting teams to gather data or share data for testing requirements.
• Worked with system teams for environment setups, Batch run updates/requests.
• Created Test Plan, Test outline documents, Reviewed/created Test scripts, Test walkthroughs/reviews with project management.
• Maintain/Update ALM structure, Create test sets, add requirements, and update test coverage.
• Manage defect reports, review defect added by offshore team, and update required details in Defect Triage calls.
• Performed Data Mining with OBIEE or enrolled participant for test execution.
• As team member Execute Test Cases based on RTC stories for different releases and report defects

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As Team lead reviewed teh assignment sheet provided by Business Analyst, read different CRFs/FDD/TDD, created test plan and assigned work according to teh team members.
• Conducted meetings with Onshore/offshore team to discuss deliverable, issues, and concerns and monitored teh status of deliverable.
• Resolved access issues to different application.
• Scheduled, conducted and attended Knowledge Transfer session between member of teh team and Business analyst for teh different application
• Provided estimates for teh different project that BAT Supports.
• Report teh team status to teh Confidential manager every week.
• Created teh BAT team SLA, WSR, MSR, PRAM, MPR etc.
• Coordinated with Automation team to get data entry completed for different application automated.
• As team member Prepared Test Cases based on project FDD for different releases. Test Cases included Regression and New Functionalities.
• Performed Data Mining or enrolled participant for test cases and compiled test case matrix.
• Validated teh result after Batch execution.
• Updated teh test case matrix with results and sent to Onsite team for review Contribution
• As a Team Lead Stabilized team and reduces resource iteration from 50 % to greater extent
• Created a Domain Knowledge repository and conducted sessions for resources.
• Successfully delivered all project release from minimum to nil defect seepage
• Multiple project releases were completed before time and all were completed on time With quality.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specification.
• Preparation and maintenance of documents like Bug reports, Test cases, Traceability matrix, Test Plan. Check list for all teh modules.
• Worked closely with project architectures and halped in creating project model, product releases which includes documentation, quality control and assistance with checkouts.
• Worked/guided team member to prepare Test Cases based on project FDD for different releases. Test Cases included Regression and New Functionalities.
• Created Test Plan, Test outline documents, Reviewed/created Test scripts, Test walkthroughs/reviews with project management.
• Scheduled defect triage meetings with teat management and development team.
• Attended project management meetings and updated status.
• Executed test cases, logged bugged as when required.
• Worked as Test Team lead and delivered 1st release successfully before time.
• Worked with Project Architecture team and contributed teh ideas to be implemented.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted application understanding meeting with test management, development team, integration team and collected test requirements.
• Created and updated test management with QA estimates, test delivery milestones.
• Scheduled test team meeting for noledge transfer and test planning
• Preparation and maintenance of documents like Bug reports, Test cases, Traceability matrix, Test Plan. Check list for all teh modules.
• Reviewed test scripts created by team members and guided for changes /updates required.
• Conducted sign-off meetings and gave test deliverable walkthroughs.
• Worked with Project Developers to eliminate any bugs at Unit testing Phase.
• Worked to meet teh tight deadlines for every release and received outstanding performance award

Confidential

SSE

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specification.
• Preparing teh design documents like Test scripts and test outline documents.
• Conducted walkthrough of test scripts created to project management.
• Updating bugzilla with bugs found, coordinating with developers on fixes and retesting application.
• Worked on regression suite.
• Worked on functional end to end testing of all modules of project.
• Delivering status reports like testing status, bug fixing status & weekly status reports to Development Lead
• Worked to meet teh tight deadlines for every release and received outstanding performance award

Confidential

SSE

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specification.
• Preparing teh design documents like Test scripts and test outline documents.
• Conducted walkthrough of test scripts created to project management.
• Updating bugzilla with bugs found, coordinating with developers on fixes and retesting application.
• Worked on regression suite.
• Worked on functional end to end testing of all modules of project.
• Delivering status reports like testing status, bug fixing status & weekly status reports to Development Lead

Confidential

SE

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specification.
• Preparing teh design documents like Test scripts and test outline documents.
• Conducted walkthrough of test scripts created to project management.
• Updating bugzilla with bugs found, coordinating with developers on fixes and retesting application.
• Worked on regression suite.
• Worked on functional end to end testing of all modules of project.
• Delivering status reports like testing status, bug fixing status & weekly status reports to Development Lead
• Worked Single Test Resource on this project Worked to meet teh tight deadlines for every release and was appreciated for teh efforts.