SUMMARY

• ISTQB Certified Test Professional and Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• 12+ years of experience in IT with diversified experience in all phases of Manual Testing, Automation Testing, SOA, Agile Scrum and Lean methodologies and Custom Client - Server applications.
• Expertise in industry best practices for Quality Assurance and Control
• Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out various testing types that includes Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Database Testing, Automated Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Production Acceptance Testing
• Extensive experience in Waterfall, V, Agile SDLC models and respective STLC phases and processes
• Strong Experience in Test Scope, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Resource Planning, Test Preparation / Review / Execution, Test Reporting, Defect Triage and Test Closure
• Expertise in Testing of Mainframe, Credit Card, Bank Cards, Insurance - Claim Processing, Client Server, Web based and Desktop applications
• Strong experience in review and preparation of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts, Test metrics and Test Closure Report.
• Experience in Root-cause analysis, SWOT analysis, Feasibility studies, Impact analysis and Risk analysis.
• Extensively used Test Management Tools like HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Defect reporting, Defect tracking, managing metrics, and change requests submission.
• Experience in Automated Testing of Web and Client/Server applications developed on Windows/Citrix environment using QA Run/Director, Quick Test Pro (QTP).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Compuware suite of Products (QADirector & QARun), QTP, HP Quality Center (QC), Jira and Bugzilla

Operating Systems: Mainframe ESA/390,Z/OS; Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server; RedHat Linux; Unix

Mainframe Tools: CICS, File-Aid, Star tool, TSO, ISPF

RDBMS: IBM IMS DB2, Oracle 8, SQL Server 2000

Programming Languages: JCL, Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++

Documentation Tools: MS-Word, FrameMaker 7.0

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project Professional (MPP), SharePoint, Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), Rational ClearQuest (RCQ) & Rational Team Concert (RTC)

Graphic tools: SnagIT and MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements and Define the Scope of the engagement
• Establish Effort Estimation, Project Milestones and Success Criteria
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy and Risk Assessment Plan
• Review of Test Case Design and Test Summary Report.
• Coordinate with the RM (Relationship Manager) to set up the Test Environment and Test Data.
• To ensure all pre-requisites are available to perform Test Execution.
• Involved in Regression testing of huge volume of simulated real-time financial transactions initiated from different applications.
• Review of Defects logged in QC and assign to responsible Development Team.
• Conduct Defect calls to track the defects to closure.
• Preparation and Review of Test Exit Report.
• Involved in Root cause Analysis (RCA) of Defects.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs
• Plan and design mapping verification scenarios
• Weekly/Daily Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
• Responsible for other Test Management Activities.
• Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
• Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
• Perform verification and validation of output files
• Defect reporting, tracking and monitoring.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of Functional Requirements to arrive at Testing Scope.
• Preparation and Review of Test Scope.
• Test Effort Estimation using the WBS methodology. An In-House tool is used for Test Effort Estimation.
• Preparation and Review of Test Plan.
• Project allocation to team members based on skill matrix and effort matrix.
• Review of Test Case Design in QC.
• To ensure Traceability Matrix (Requirement to Test Case Mapping) is completed in Quality Center.
• Coordinate with the RM (Relationship Manager) to set up the Test Environment and Test Data.
• To ensure all pre-requisites are available to perform SIT Execution.
• Review of Defects logged in QC and assign to responsible Development Team.
• Conduct Defect calls to track the defects to closure.
• Preparation and Review of Test Exit Report.
• Involved in Root cause Analysis (RCA) of Defects.
• Actively involved in hiring Lateral test professionals and College Recruitment Hires.

Confidential

Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing & Understanding business requirements.
• Assignment and Tracking of Tasks assigned to Team. Leading the Team.
• Involved in Task Estimation & updating of Status on Daily basis.
• Involved in Daily interaction with Client to understand the requirements and update the Task Status.
• Develop Test Cases & bidirectional Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in System Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Involved in Mainframe Server & Database Testing.
• Documentation of Test Results and Execution in Quality Center (QC).
• Reporting Defects on a timely basis and verifying the resolved defects for various builds.
• Involved in Configuration Management (CM) Audit.
• Involved in Process Enhancement Initiative like Root Causal Analysis (RCA) and Test Summary Reporting.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create Master Test Plan.
• Develop Test Cases according to the Functional Specifications.
• Involved in Functional & System Testing to check the stability of System.
• Execute Test Cases to validate the Functionality and Transactions.
• Log Defects & Track to closure.
• Participate in defect review meeting.
• Prioritizing the fixed defects for revalidation.
• Regression testing of System.
• Create Test Closure / Exit Report.
• Participate in Test Sign Off Meeting.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Active Resource of Scrum Team for Manual Functional Testing of Delphi Client Application.
• Attended Sprint Planning Meetings and provided estimates for tasks.
• Preparing Master Test Plan
• Involved in Server Testing.
• Involved in Writing and Review of Test Cases
• Involved in Test data setup to execute test cases.
• Involved in Functionality testing & System Testing.
• Involved in Regression Testing using QA Director & QA Run for Sprint Release.
• Involved in Defect Reporting using Jira.
• Involved in Documenting Test Results.
• Attended Daily Scrum Meetings for Status Updates.
• Attended Sprint Review Meetings and presented Demo on completed tasks during Sprint.
• Attended Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Conducted knowledge sharing session on Project topic with teammates.
• Involved in Mentoring new hires.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing Test Cases according to the Functional Specifications.
• Understanding Test Plan.
• Involved in Functional & System Testing to check the stability of the Application.
• Executing Test Cases to validate the Functionality and Transactions.
• Reviewing Debug Report.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing Test Cases according to Functional Specifications.
• Involved in Functional & System Testing to check stability of system.
• Executing Test Cases to validate Functionality and Transactions.
• Reviewing Debug Report
• Prioritizing reported bugs.
• Regression testing of system.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test Environment setup for testing with different configurations for various Compliance and Mandates project.
• Involved in Test Cases creation, execution and bug reporting.
• Primary support for various correlated projects including USPS and SOCGEN.
• Primary tester for DN SOCGEN (Society General) Customization. Responsibilities include complete maintenance of Test Server, Create and Update test cases to encircle new requirements/customization. Key resource for Test case execution and key trainer for the team members for training on various modules of SOCGEN customization.
• Preparation of Test scripts through QA Run based on the Compliance Requirements.
• Run Regression testing for every MU (Monthly Update) using Compuware - QA run and QA Director.
• Deputed to Onsite locality - Austin, US for Training and Testing of DN Mandates implementation.