OBJECTIVE:

Looking for a technically challenging environment which would demand more than what I can initially offer, would pull me out of my comfort zone, & would let me evolve as a technician, professional & a person. Work - wise, I am looking for a role that allows me to understand very complex business requirements and work towards building a bugless product.

SUMMARY:

• A highly enthusiastic and active senior quality Analyst with 6 years of Experience in IT with very good exposure in manual testing and automated testing.
• Profoundly comfortable in validating various applications that includes manual, database, performance, ETL and report testing that are critical to client
• Profoundly comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with time sensitive deadlines and ever changing priorities
• Highly skilled in most stages of project life cycles and testing methodologies and also acted as Scrum master in the applications which I worked.
• Expertise in designing test strategy, test approach and test cases and performed various types of testing including SIT, Black box testing, smoke testing.
• Experienced in UAT testing for 4+ years.
• Have a vast experience in creating the test scripts based on the business process for UAT and presenting the demo to the business after the validation.
• Experience in capital market and risk management for 4+ years. Worked on Basel 2.5 and Basel 3 rules for the calculation of Market risks in an application.
• Performed automation testing using TOSCA (Certified) also tailored the automation scripts based on their new functionality.
• Actively worked with the project teams to ensure all the process has been followed and worked on the improvements required like creating UTD metrics which can help the development team to identify the areas where they can resolve bugs during the Unit testing.
• Has been leading 3 Applications at the same time without any issues as an onshore test lead and tester replacing 3 different leads in onshore.
• Worked as Onshore test lead leading a team of 10 members.
• Expertise in identifying the test cases which can be automated and actively worked with the automation team to get the things automated..
• Experience in working with defect tracking like version one, JIRA, Rally for 4+ years.
• Experience in working HP ALM for 5+ years
• Experience in preparing the test data and test data conditioning for 4 + years
• Preparing and reviewing the Test plan before the release and sending that to all the stakeholders.

GENERAL QA SKILLS:

Full Life Cycle: STLC, SDLC

QA Models: Agile Methodology, Waterfall, V Model

QA Functions: Creating TC’s, Execution, Regression, Maintenance, TOSCA Automation

Support Skills: Microsoft Office, PL/SQL, Visio

Technical Skills: HP QC/ALM, JIRA, Version One, QTP, Selenium, Java Scripting, Python, TOSCA (Certified), Netezza, Teradata, Oracle, SOAPUI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tools: Java, Teradata, SQL, QC, MS Excel

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering, Test Case Design, Test Case Review and UAT testing
• Preparing test scenarios, test cases and test data based on business requirements
• Executed test cases, captured test results, reported defects and send daily status report to all stakeholders
• Lead defect triage meeting with Dev leads and project managers.
• Giving walkthrough to business users once the UAT testing is done.
• Handled a team of 5 and have leadership experience.

Confidential

Tools: Quartz, Netezza, SQL, Informatica, UNIX, WinSCP, Ms Excel, Selenium, TOSCA

Application Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements from BA during grooming session with the project team.
• Create and estimate tasks for each stories
• Based on given estimation, sprint stories are decided during sprint planning/refinement meeting
• Preparing test scenarios, test cases and test data based on business requirements.
• This is a combination of both UI and ETL validations so the UI is automated using Tosca and an internal automation tool and the ETL validations are automated using Excel Macro's.
• Worked on Pivot Table in Excel and has a good knowledge about the same.
• Scope of testing
• Test Data preparation
• Web UI validation includes workflow testing
• Job execution
• Data check between every job execution
• ETL testing - Validation of data load from different source systems (Teradata, CSV file, etc.,)
• Impact analysis based on given requirement
• Helped in the automation of the testing process using Selenium and TOSCA also tailored the automation scripts based on their new functionality.
• Discuss process improvements during Retrospective meeting and lead defect metrics discussion to improve the quality of deliverables

Confidential

Tools: Oracle, Toad for Oracle, MS-Excel, Actuate

Sr QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Started as a tester and then worked as an Application Test Lead.
• Gathering business requirements from BA during the design phase.
• Preparing test approach test cases and test data based on the requirements.
• Since this is an database application, have automated data transformation check in the form of macro and maintained it whenever there are changes in transformation.
• Scope of testing.
• Data transformation testing.
• Report testing.
• Performing calculation checks after data transformation.
• Web UI checks for the Control panel where job is being executed.
• Lead a team and provided testing resources with and mentoring on the testing processes

Confidential

Tools: Java Script, UNIX, Netezza, QC, MS Excel

Application Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements from Business Analyst.
• Coordinating with all the SABER teams whether they are able to kick off jobs, scheduling jobs for them.
• This will be the main interface through which the business works. So there will be lot of exposure to business people and resolving their issues also acted as the Main POC.
• Preparing test scenarios, test cases and test data based on business requirements
• Execute test cases, capture test results, report defects and send daily status report to all stakeholders
• Lead defect triage meeting with Dev leads and project managers in the form of breakout sessions.
• Handover test results to UAT team and provide test results walkthrough to business users.
• Involved in Executing Test Cases and reporting bugs in Quality center and verification for bug fixes.