SUMMARY

• Senior QA/Test Lead with 11 years of experience in testing software applications in Manual and Automation and SOA Testing.
• Experienced in leading testing effort with Product team, Development team, onshore and offshore QA team.
• Managing design, development, and execution of the entire test process, track and report progress of test execution; document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing.
• Manage the effective implementation of Agile Methodology in the project, Participate and Update Daily Scrum meeting status and communicate to team.
• Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle
• Expertise in Test Effort Estimations, Test Plan and Strategy preparation, Test Script creation and execution, Status reporting and preparing various metrics like effort metrics, defect metrics, defect density, etc.
• Experience in SOA (Web Services) testing.
• Good knowledge of Data, Keyword and Hybrid automation frameworks
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts in QTP and Sahi Pro
• Experience in various types of testing like Black Box, Functional, Agile, System, Regression, and Integration.
• Extensive experience in Defect reporting and Defect tracking process using Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla and Jira
• Worked on Agile - Scrum Methodology project, VV model and Waterfall methodologies
• Proficient in preparing test metrics and test management dashboards.
• Experience in handling the complete project life cycle from Requirement to production release.
• Managed offshore and onsite engagements.
• Self-directed and can handle the testing from start to finish.
• Goal oriented team player, proactive and proficient in handling multiple projects simultaneously

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS/Platforms: Windows, Mac, UNIX/LINUX, SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 and O365

QA/Testing Tools: SOAP UI, UFT, Rest Client, Test Director, QTP, QC, Sahi Pro, RTC (Rational Team Concert)

QA/Testing: Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Data driven testing, Black Box testing, smoke testing, Script automation

Defect Management: Bugzilla, QC 11, Jira

Languages: C, C++, .NET, Java

Web Scripts: XML, HTML, SQL

Database: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Investments Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Playing role of a Team Lead QA and responsible for different Testing projects executing for the account being major focus on SharePoint and Documentum applications.
• Managing design, development, and execution of the entire test process, track and report progress of test execution; document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing.
• Manage the effective implementation of Agile Methodology in the project, Participate and Update Daily Scrum meeting status and communicate to team.
• Managing the Daily tasks by delegating Jira Stories to the team and tracking the same.
• Prepared Confidential Test Strategy and reviewing with PM and Product Owner
• Part of Product Backlog Refinement Meeting
• Part of Story creation, Technical Analysis and Estimations
• Make sure all the stories has Use case link or any and QA estimations before the Sprint Kickoff
• Takes care of Test Case Management in QC
• Conduct the QA Defect Triage meeting while regression testing
• Reviewing and retesting all the open defects to close or put them into Backlog
• Run regression automation scripts; quarterly basis on multiple environments
• Responsible for sending Daily Execution Status report while regression testing
• PROD Testing and Support on Go Live day
• Responsible for sending QA Release status to a Management and a whole team while release testing
• Performing a Test Case refinement of whole test suite to keep them current
• Review the Backlog Epics and Stories (requirements) to understand the Project as a Whole (Doc Central (SharePoint) Domain Expert)
• Learning and adapting Java, JavaScript and Sahi Pro Automation tool to support the Project
• Part of assessing a new SharePoint product (MS O365) which will be for new Release
• Implemented the Test case and Defect Process Standards
• Documentation on Product Overview for the team and new joiners

Environment: Soap UI, Sahi Pro, Java Script, ALM, Rest Client, Jira, RTC, Java, Oracle, SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 and O365

Confidential

Senior QA/Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Onsite Coordinator at Confidential and coordinated with 2 members Testing team in offshore (Bangalore).
• Participate daily Scrum meetings (Agile Methodology project) and update testing status
• Involving in writing Test Cases understanding BRD and Use-cases and validate test scenarios with Business Analyst.
• Report bugs in JIRA tool and participate in ‘Defect Triage’ meeting with Technical lead and BA
• Involve in Smoke, Functional, System testing in each Sprint, re-testing of bugs and regression testing
• Coordinate with Build Release master to get release notes and build deployment information.
• Coordinate with other business owners of SKOPE, FOG Mainframe systems to make sure Orders successfully go from OMS to SKOPE and FOG.
• Participate in the Weekly status calls with the Clients and Onsite coordinators; prepare weekly project status reports, Metrics.
• Involved in Testing of new features, improvements and bugs for new releases of all 3 projects in Test, Staging and Production environments
• Involved in Functional testing, bug re-testing and regression testing
• Write Test Cases for new features, improvements and reviews with team members
• Reporting of bugs in JIRA tool.
• Review the test results run by the test execution team at offshore.
• Provide inputs and track defects raised by the offshore testing team.
• Update the regression test suite for every release.
• Recommend and implement process improvements identified through software quality management activities.
• Identify trends through the use of metrics to forecast quality and release readiness.
• Analyze results for test execution and deliverable reviews to evaluate vendor performance

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirement document and involved in developing test plans and requirements traceability matrices.
• Involved in Smoke, Functionality, Regression, Ad-hoc and exploratory testing
• Design and Execution of Test Cases.
• Preparation of Test data/inputs.
• Preparation of Defect summary report.
• Involved in Like to Like, Performance, Compatibility Testing.
• Involved in Ad-hoc and Beta Testing.
• Involved in workshops.
• Involved in reviews of deliverables before being handed over to the Customer.
• Interacted with developers for root cause analysis of the issues and discussed technical problems to resolve them.
• Involved in knowledge transfer sessions.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Oracle, Call Center for defect tracking Windows XP, QTP, VB Script

Confidential

Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Procedures and Manual Test cases for the application.
• Involved in following testing methods: Functional, Regression, Integration, Manual testing for the web application
• Performed the Cross browser testing of the application.
• Managed the testing process and reported the bugs, issues using QC.
• Used Quality center to develop Test Cases, Execute Test Cases and to Capture and document Test Results.
• Localization Testing and Memory Leak Testing

Environment: QC, UNIX Commands, Windows XPEducation: M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kuvempu University, India in 2005