SUMMARY

• Experienced in Agile, Dev ops and Waterfall methodologies for software development
• Extensive understanding of all phases of the Test cycle
• Expertise in Test Planning, Test Design, Test Development and Test Execution
• Proficient in understanding complex test requirements and architecting QA test environment for manual and automation testing for Web, Client - Server and mobile environments.
• Formulate test planning and design approaches to support requirements and able to perform multiple responsibilities concurrently.
• Functional tests with Positive/Negative testing using both Black box and White box techniques.
• Lead and managed people for more than 5 years now
• Profound knowledge of web services testing using REST client, Jmeter, etc
• Versatile team player with good analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in the following tools: HP QC, Rally, Bugzilla, Advanced REST client, X1 platform manager(XRay), JIRA, IBM Rational Clearquest, Request tracker Zephyr, RADAR, Clearcase, GIT, Subversion, CVS
• Experience in Web services testing, Data migration testing, system testing, turning data into information
• Analyzed business requirements to make sure that each requirement is testable
• Created, Executed and reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Metrics
• Used Mercury Quality Center /ALM to manage test cases and defects
• Produced different types of test deliverables like HLD, test plans, Test summary report, Defect report
• Managed and Interacted various project teams (onsite and offshore) to facilitate testing
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills and can provide multiple references on request

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: MS Access, SQL Sever 2005,2008,MS SQL

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Rally,Test Director / Quality Center, Advanced REST client, Jmeter,Rational Clearquest, Rational Test Manager, QTP, JIRA, Charles proxy, Ethereal, Valgrind, GDB, iPerf, Bugzilla,QXDM,QPST,QCAT

Developmental Tools/IDE: Eclipse,Visual Studio

Source Control: Rational Clearcase,VSS, SVN, CVS

Operating System: Windows, Unix, Linux

Automation tools: A7CV, AutoPilot,Jmeter,SoapUI,TestNG

Network Simulators: CMU 200, HP Agilent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planning meetings with the dev, QA and delivery teams to understand the business requirements and creating a HLD once they were finalized.
• Planning the deliverables and the test estimation for the week and assigning tasks to the team and following up
• Creating, planning and training the team by having regular sync ups to make sure they are comfortable with the deadlines
• Creating and Reviewing test plans in Rally and using Test Releases to track the deadlines.
• Planning daily, weekly sanity,regression, integration and end-end tests. Encouraging to add to continuous integration (CI)
• Conducting meetings with other team members to determine product testing priorities, develop level of effort estimates and track and report progress
• Reviewing defects and assigning them to appropriate dev teams
• Unit testing, integration testing and end-end testing of the product to minimize defects. Also automated the tests and scheduled sanity tests to minimize the execution time.
• Imparting suggestions to the dev team about integration/modification of various features in the app
• Wekkly sync ups with dev team to ensure the lines of communication are open and all the dev, QA and delivery teams are aligned
• Planning KM sessions for new joinees and imparting trainings to offshore about the product, processes and the test environment.
• Managing the end to end deliverables of the project and status reporting to client manager

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planning the deliverables and the test estimation for the week and assigning tasks to the team and following up
• Testing the upload/delete/name videos and images and create/personalize albums for the X1 platform
• Conducting meetings with other team members to determine product testing priorities, develop level of effort estimates and track and report progress
• Reviewing defects and assigning them to appropriate dev teams
• Imparting suggestions to the dev team about integration/modification of various features in the app
• Planning KM sessions for new joinees and imparting trainings to freshers about the product, processes and the test environment.
• Managing the overall deliverables of the project

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planning Unit test cases for Market Validations every week
• Testing the Xfinity app on Android, Apple devices and Web Portals using Russels player for cloud devices
• Collaborate with other team members to determine product testing priorities, develop level of effort estimates and track and report progress
• Write performance test plans, create and automate test cases
• Execute test cases including collecting system and performance data during testing
• Consolidate test results into clear and concise reports
• Create and track detailed JIRA issues for any performance or scalability problems
• Work closely with functional testers to ensure that any functional issues that may be revealed during performance testing are verified and reported
• Work with product managers to assess the impact and severity of performance issues and identify and track issues that must be fixed
• Work closely with developers to identify the root cause of performance problems
• Rapidly iterate through testing of solutions to verify their effectiveness.
• Taking notes about the daily scrums, planning sprints, MOM
• Full cloud testing, OOH testing, IVOD testing, user acceptance testing and unit level component testing
• Analyzing splunk logs for the failure cases and reporting defects to the appropriate team

Confidential

QA lead

Responsibilities

• Planning Unit/Integration testing for subsequent builds every week
• Following up with Sanity testing after every bug is fixed and before it is integrated into the baseline
• Taking notes about the daily scrums, planning sprints, resource estimation
• Helped in creating a regression test bench framework for their CDMA product Q26 Elite and automated the testing process so that after every build is checked into SVN and merged to the trunk, a regression will be performed on this code and a HTML report will be generated which will be mailed to the testing team/tester for further analysis
• Managing the bug fixing on features such as call control, SMS, SIM related features, eCall, Provisioning for Q2686H - GPRS module.
• Estimation, mentoring, code review, status reporting, resource planning and defect analysis
• Onsite co-ordination, test management, defect management, verify IT compliance

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the protocols, functions to be implemented and estimation of the work
• Helping in Developing a test framework for each of the protocols - POC
• Implementing the code, functional testing of the APIs and development of AT commands
• Planning the test strategy, writing test plans and mapping test plans to test cases
• Unit testing, Performance and Integration testing of each feature as per SDLC process
• Performance testing of the network components using iPerf such as speed, performance and bandwidth.
• Capturing defects, defect analysis, and raising defects for the maintenance team to fix
• Documentation of the implemented APIs and commands into a User guide that the customer can use.
• Mentoring, status reporting, code review