PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Self - directed and self-motivated individual who takes complete ownership of the product and its outcome.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand OS/Application, its configurations, tunable parameters for deployment.
• Domain expertise - Finance, Banking, Education, HealthCare (Specialty Pharmacy).
• Effectively multi-task and manage priorities to address testing requirements for multiple initiatives
• A passion for developing quality oriented frameworks and software, ensuring superb code quality.
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies.
• Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes.
• Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products for application within the environment leading to innovation.
• Experience in using Bug reporting tools --- Mercury Quality Center (MQC), Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Track, Silkcentral Test Manager and Jira.
• Experience in Project management tool --- Resultspace, MS Project, Jira
• Experience on Smoke Test, Regression run, Health Checks, Functional and Integration testing.
• Knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Played a key role in the Automation Framework on SilkTest for JAVA based n-tier trading application (Desktop and web based) and developed Automation Framework for web based educational domain (dynamic) application.
• Working knowledge in different Operating System (Windos, Unix, Linux)
• Conduct test case reviews to ensure scenarios accurately capture business functionality.
• Execute all components of product testing such as functional, regression, end-to-end integration testing.
• Manage entire bug lifecycle from initial bug logging to resolution and verification.
• Extensive experience in QA Methodologies, preparing Test Plans, writing Test Cases and executing them; performed Defect Reporting and Tracking throughout the entire defect life cycle.
• Participate in establishing project plans, estimating work and monitoring progress against milestones.
• Mentoring junior engineers, new team members, and applying technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems relating to quality engineering.
• Extensive experience in using automated testing tool - SilkTest (Record and Play not preferred) and Selenium (includes test environment setup with GRID architecture.
• Experienced in GUI Regression and Data Driven Testing.
• Experienced in Unit, Integration, System, Positive and Negative, Configuration, Volume, Black Box, and Functional testing.
• Actively involved in Usability and User Acceptance testing.
• Effective Time Management Skills and consistent ability to meet client deadline.
• Certified in mobile device testing using Seetest for Android.
• Efficient understanding of AUT objects and ways to handle them in automation for robustness of the regression suit.
• Developed manual and automated test scripts for API testing using 3rd party tools
• Knowledge of networking and system setups.
• Database knowledge of MySQL, ORACLE, MS SQL.
• Good knowledge of OOP’s concepts.
• Provide training of Silktest and Selenium tools and project to Trainees.
• Trained on Endur and OpenLink from September 2007 till November 2007 in Sapient, Gurgaon.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Testing tools: Silktest, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.2/11.5, Quality Center, SOAP UI, Seetest, Silk Mobile, Silk Performer, Selenium, Neoload

Bug Reporting: Quality Center, Jira, Test Track Pro (TTP), Silkcentral Test Manager

Programming Language: PL/SQL, C#, Java, 4Test

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL Server

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, PHP, Angular

Operating System: Windows, Linux (UI) and UNIX

MS Office Tool: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project

Web Browser: IE, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

Supporting Tools: Putty, WinScp, AquaDataStudio, SVN, Accurev, WinMerge, Self developed dashboards

Remote Monitoring: Citrix, VMware, PC Anywhere, VNC, Teamviewer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and automated testing of current drug dispensing application
• Tested bulk data migration from old dispensing application to the current one
• Involved in design, implementation and testing of a new dispensing application
• Involved in the testing of the new Data Warehouse ETLs
• Involved in the testing of different reports generated from the data warehouse for different timeframes
• Involved in design and testing of new functionality to integrate with a new prescription provider.
• Involved in application migration and testing over to Citrix
• Actively supporting users with any citrix related issues

Confidential, Bothell, WA

Senior Test Analyst (Lead)

Environment: Windows XP/7/8, XML, Solaris, Jira, Tortoise SVN, VMware, Citrix, Quality Center, Selenium, Putty, WinSCP, Xenu, IE 8+, Firefox 30+, Chrome 25+, Portable devices

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the application.
• Analysis of the features / business involved in each and every flow in the application.
• Track and report testingprogress and results using standard metrics, and/or reports.
• Prepared the test cases for the new changes/enhancements in the application
• Bug reporting and manage by using QC tool.
• Communicate and coordinate testing with offshore/onshore and local teams.
• Extensive experience working in UNIX and Oracle Environment.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspections.
• Manual validation of new functionality changes.

Confidential - New York, NY

Automation Test Analyst (Lead)

Environment: Windows XP/7, XML, ImsAnt, Solaris, Sybase, .Net, Silktest, Hudson, Jira, Tortoise SVN, VMware, Citrix, Test Track Pro

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the application.
• Analysis of the features / business involved in each and every flow in the application.
• Track and report testingprogress and results using standard metrics, and/or reports.
• Prepared the test cases for the new changes in the application
• Automate the testcases in ImsAnt.
• Prepare data for the automation scripts in XML and flat files.
• Bug reporting and manage by using tool (Test Track & Jira).
• Responsible for maintenance of various test environment and build deployment.
• Communicate and coordinate testing with offshore/onshore and local teams.
• Experienced in Backend Testing using SQL Queries.
• Extensive experience working in UNIX and Oracle Environment.
• Scripts are run on UNIX and windows.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspections.
• Run regression for 2000+ scripts which interact with web services of 2-3 applications.
• Manual validation of new functionality changes and automating it in parallel.
• Also playing the role of Silktest expert and helping others in issues related to silktest automation.

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Automation Test Analyst (Lead)

Environment: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac Leopard/Tiger/Lion, IE6/7/8/9, Firefox 5-13, Safari 4.x/5.x, Chrome, REST API, Silktest, Test Track Pro, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Citrix, VMware, MS-SQL, Excel 2003/2007, Java Applet, .Net, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the application.
• Analysis of the features related to each and every module in the application.
• Development of the automation framework for the application, keeping in mind the various dynamic values which kept changing with every build.
• Prepared the test cases for the Build Verification Testing (BVT) and Smoke Test.
• Automate the scripts of the application by using tool (SilkTest2010R2WS2).
• Bug reporting and manage by using tool (TFS).
• Responsible for tracking the daily effort in the Traceability matrix.
• Interacted with team and client on daily basis.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspections.
• Scripts run on both IE and Firefox. (Same code on multiple browsers)

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Automation Test Analyst (Lead)

Environment: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac Leopard/Tiger/Lion, IE6/7/8/9, Firefox 5-13, Safari 4.x/5.x, Chrome, REST API, Silktest, Test Track Pro, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Citrix, VMware, MS-SQL, Excel 2003/2007, Java Applet, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the application.
• Analysis of the features related to each and every module in the application.
• Development of the automation framework for the application, keeping in mind the various dynamic values which kept changing with every build.
• Prepared the test cases for the Front End Application and also for the database.
• Involved and maintained the Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Deploy and configure test environments (Custom setting)
• Design and generate large test data sets for manual team.
• Automate the scripts of the application by using tool (SilkTest2008 -> SilkTest2009R2 ‘OA’ -> SilkTest 2010 ‘OA’ -> Silktest2010R2 ‘OA’).
• Bug reporting and manage by using tool (TTP).
• Interacted with on-site team and client on daily basis.
• Train team on the application changes and automation best practices and approach.
• Built a utility app for API testing for manual team and also did automation for the API testing.
• Responsible for tracking the daily effort in the Traceability matrix.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspections.
• Communicate and coordinate testing with offshore/onshore and local teams.
• X Browser upgrade: Modifying the scripts in such a way that they run on both IE and Firefox. (Same code on multiple browsers)

Confidential - Boston, MA

Automation Test Analyst

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, Java, HTML, Silktest, QTP, Oracle, PC Anywhere, Quality Centre, Citrix

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the application.
• Analysis of the features related to each and every module in the application.
• Prepared the test cases for the Front End Application and also for the database.
• Automate the scripts of the application by using tool (SilkTest).
• Automation script migration from silktest to QTP.
• Assist other engineers in script development efforts by performing code reviews and assisting in debugging efforts.
• Execution of tests for unit, integration, smoke, end-2-end and production validation.
• Monitoring of Production systems through health check scripts in London and US trading hours started.
• Responsible for tracking the daily effort in the Traceability matrix.
• Performed GAP Analysis using Quality Center.
• Bug reporting and manage by using tool (MQC).
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Inspections.
• Communicate and coordinate testing with offshore/onshore and local teams.
• Provide automation expertise to other teams.

Confidential - Boston, MA

Tester

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, HTML, .Net, Oracle, Quality Centre, Excel 2003, Toad

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functionalities of the different modules and sub modules.
• Analysis of the features related to each and every module.
• Prepared the test cases for the features and sub features for different modules.
• Manually test and automate the scripts of the application by using tool (QTP).
• Bug reporting and manage by using tool.
• Interacted with on-site team and client on weekly and daily basis.