SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of Professional experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Business and Data Analysis and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Involved in Planning, Designing, Creation and maintenance of Hybrid Framework and Keyword Driven Framework to deliver user friendly and robust Test Automation using Java and Selenium Web driver. Involved in performance Testing using VSTS.
• 3+ years of team leadership experience as Test Lead at onsite and offshore level. Adequate exposure in skill up gradation,mentoring of team members to develop and enhance their technical capabilities and productivity.
• Expertise in Automation and Manual Testing on the Web, Client/Server, Mobile Apps, GUI and Database testing for at large level projects.
• Strong Technical Knowledge of multiple Platforms (OS), Languages, Databases, Tools (Testing, Defect Tracking, Debugging, Version Control & Other) and MS Office Utility. Strong skills in Database and ETL testing using Data Modeling, SQL queries on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
• Expertise: Quality Management: Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and QA Assessments. Extensively Involved in Test planning activities, writing Test plan, Business Process understanding and identification of testing requirements, Estimation of Test battery development and Designing of System and Integration Test cases, design high level Test Scenarios, Test Battery and environment Setup, Test Execution planning and Test execution, Business rule and Business Flow Execution. Worked on various complex Business and test stories in detailed manner, identifying testing scenarios/requirements, reviews, discussions meetings with end users and stakeholders.
• Experienced in Waterfall Model and Agile Model Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle (DLC), Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Methodologies.
• Providing application Business Demos presentations to team and client.
• Experience in Functional/Non - Functional testing, Smoke/Sanity, System, Integration, End-to-End, Regression, UI Testing, Prototype, Forms and Reports, GUI and Validation testing approaches. Accessibility Compliance Testing Section - 508 Testing as per W3C Standard guidelines, WCAG 2.0 level AA.
• Experience in complex Data analysis and Data calculations.
• Defect Management for System Testing and Integration testing levels; excellent analytical skills in troubleshooting software defects, provide user context and testable Information/test data to developers for bug fixes. Logging and tracking of defects to the closure. Worked on root cause analysis for critical defects and prevent them for reoccurrence in the project.
• Worked on various Domains - Unemployment Insurance, Mobility Services, Vocational Rehabilitation, Financial Services, Worker’s Compensation, Child Welfare and Inland Revenue, Retail and Publishing, Banking, Marketing and Insurance.
• Exposure to Automation testing using Java and Selenium Web driver for functional testing including various business flows, Test data creation and execution of test cases and to support UAT for bulk Test data creation.
• Exposure to Performance testing using VSTS Visual Studio Team Suite and Web-application testing.
• Involved in Walkthroughs, Review meetings, DPA activities - Casual Analysis and Preventive action (CAPA) organized and experienced in analyzing Business Requirements, Specifications, Functional Requirements Specifications, Program Specifications and Use Cases.
• Experience in Requirement gathering from clients and documentation of the requirement, making BRDs.
• Expert in reporting activities per the requirements of management. Creation of daily/weekly Defect Status Reports, Testing Progress Reports / Dashboard and various other reports per project requirements in different formats using pivot/formulae in excel and publish to the management and stakeholders of the project. Expert in excel.
• Involved in planning and presentations to the team for various Knowledge sharing sessions.
• Experience in offshore/onsite coordination work environment.
• Presentation, Technical, Problem solving skills, Analytical Skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and deliver the Quality work under the strict timelines with minimal supervision.
• Possess Good Oral and Written Communication skills, Interpersonal skills, Leadership qualities, work independently, good estimation skills, Self-motivated, Proactive, Task oriented, Team player with excellent work ethics and quick learner in new technologies. Worked directly at onsite with clients in various projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing Tool: Selenium IDE and Web Driver, HP Quality Center ALM, JIRA, Test Link

Bug Tracking Tool: Bugzilla, JIRA, PM Smart, HP Quality Center ALM

RDBMS: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

Programming Languages: Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, VB Script, PL/SQL, C++

Operating Systems: Windows, LINUX, UNIX, DOS

Performance Testing Tool: Microsoft Team Foundation Server: Visual Studio Team Suite - VSTS

Application Package: MS Office (MS Word / Excel), Power Point, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Version Control Tool: SVN, PVCS, Visual Source Safe, RTC (IBM Rational Team Suite), Share Point, Smart, Git stash, PM Smart, Jama Contour

Web Technologies: ASP, JSP, HTML and XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Trevose, Pennsylvania

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of four members in Testing team - mentoring of team members to develop and enhance their technical capabilities and productivity, assigning them daily CRs to work upon, keeping daily status track from them.
• Responsible test planning assistance and co-ordination of testing cycles for various change requests from the customer.
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of the project.
• Responsible for arranging and management of testing schedule.
• Creation and updation of Test Strategy document and Test Cases for Change Requests.
• Execution of Test Cases, complete ETL testing process. Performing Smoke, Regression and Sanity testing.
• Creation and Execution of complex SQL queries in database to accomplish Change Requests Testing involves Database Testing, Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Integrity and Data Manipulation.
• Update daily tasks in Smart and project specific documents in Visual Source Safe.
• Responsible to complete and discussion the Testable requirements with business and development team.
• Validation of data that it is transformed correctly from source to target according to system requirements and business rules.
• Attend stand-up, retrospective meetings after completion of CRs.
• Defect logging, defect tracking, closure, Story creation and tracking in JIRA tool.
• Responsible for Tracking status of CRs and provide status updates to the higher management.

Environment: PL/SQL Developer, Oracle, HP Quality Center ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA, Smart, ETL, Allink Transact.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead three team members at offshore - Mentoring them in their day-to-day activities, assign and describe stories to them in HP ALM, take daily status update calls, keeping track of their work, help them in understanding of stories or any hurdles comes in their tasks.
• Creation and updating of Test Plan and Test Strategy document.
• Worked on Agile Methodology - Attend daily Stand-up meetings and giving updates for my daily tasks.
• Add/update daily QA Tasks, Test cases in Quality Center ALM.
• ETL Testing - Including Test case creation, Updation and Execution of Test Cases thoroughly.
• Creation and Execution of Complex SQL queries in database.
• Handled defect triage meetings with clients and team in meetings.
• Update daily tasks in IBM RTC and add/update project specific documents in Share point.
• Discussion of Testable requirements with business and dev team.
• Communicate test status updates to management team in daily stand-up meetings.

Environment: ETL Tools - Datastage, Informatica, Hadoop, Unix and control-M, DRM, Hyperion Planning, SQL Server, Oracle, HP Quality Center - ALM, SAS Web Report Studio, DVO, ODI, IBM Rational Team Concert.

Confidential, Cary, NC

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead three team members for daily tasks in testing of Benefits module - Mentoring and managing them technically and solving their queries for testing deliverables and their daily tasks. Assigning them daily tasks, keeping status track from them.
• Responsible for estimation and assignation of Extensions/requirements for Test case writing to the team.
• Created automation test scripts using Selenium Web driver and executed for Business rules, functional testing and User Test data creation.
• Preparation and updation of Test Plan document for various Extensions and Creation of Test Schedule plan in MPP for various modules.
• Responsible for creation and Updation of Test Strategy, Extensions Test Scenarios, Smoke and Functional Test cases.
• Taking understanding and discussions with BA team for the Extensions requirements in detailed manner for all the iterations of Benefit module.
• Writing Test cases for Extensions and Review the Test cases, providing review comments, rework and close them in PM Smart by making review plans.
• Execution of Product Test scenarios and Query Handling
• Product Testing for various modules - Benefits, IWF (Images and Workflow), Appeals and Fraud module.
• Large number of defect logging and tracking to closure in Bugzilla and PM Smart.
• Created and Updated Modules in Requirement Traceability Matrix. Update RTM on weekly basis.

Environment: JAVA/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate,Webservices, HTML, Unix, javaScript, jQuery, PM Smart, Bugzilla, Testlink, Jama Contour, Oracle PL/SQL,FileNet, Mule, jTest, ActiveMQ, Selenium Web driver.

Confidential, Cary, NC

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Planning, Designing, Creation and maintenance of Hybrid Framework and Keyword Driven Framework to deliver user friendly and robust Test Automation using Java and Selenium Web driver.
• Created automation scripts using Selenium and executed for functional testing and UAT Test data creation and execution.
• Test Battery Creation, Test Battery Setup, Test Execution planning, Defect Management for System and Integration Testing levels for Functional Testing; Database Testing; GUI Testing.
• Performance Testing; UI Testing; User Experience Testing; SaaS enablement, Operations testing; for enterprise web applications and mobility applications
• Section-508 Compliance Accessibility Testing per W3C Standard guidelines, WCAG 2.0 level AA.
• Understanding of Business Requirements and identification of testing requirements.
• Extensively involved in Test Planning activities.
• Database Testing - Creation and execution of SQL queries and running them in PL/SQL.
• Creation and Execution of Reports Test cases in detail manner.
• Functional Testing, Web UI, Integration, Regression Testing
• Batch Jobs Testing - Scheduled and Non-scheduled batches and reports.
• Query Optimization, Performance Testing using VSTS.
• Support Business Functional Team for various demos to the client.

Environment: ASP.NET #.5, Microsoft Team Foundation Server Visual Studio 2008, Unix, Eclipse3.1, jdk6.0, JDE5.0, BB8900 Simulator, Selenium Web driver, VSTS 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, JAWS, WCF, and WINDOWS SERVICE, BIRT Report viewer.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test Battery Creation, Test Battery Setup, Test Execution planning, Defect Management for at System and Integration Testing levels for Functional Testing; Database Testing; Query Optimization;
• Performance Testing; UI Testing; User Experience Testing; SaaS enablement, Operations testing; for enterprise web applications and mobility applications
• Testing of web services (REST API’s) SOAP UI, SOA testing.
• Understanding of Business Requirements and identification of testing requirements.
• Test Planning activities.

Environment: ASP.NET #.5, Microsoft Team Foundation Server Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse3.1, jdk6.0, JDE5.0, BB8900 Simulator, Microsoft

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing of High Level Scenarios.
• Designing of System and Integration Test cases.
• Logging and tracking of defects.
• Test Planning activities.
• Understanding of Business Requirements and identification of testing requirements.
• Test Battery Creation
• Test Battery Setup
• Test Execution planning
• Integration Testing
• Database Testing
• Query Optimization
• Performance Testing
• UI Testing

Environment: Oracle 10g, Crystal Report 11, Business Object, Eclipse, Jboss, CVS, TOAD, VSS, VSTS 2008, TN SACWIS.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering from onsite team.
• Plan and given KT sessions to testing team.
• Designing of High Level Scenarios.
• Designing of System and Integration Test cases.
• Logging and tracking of defects.
• Integration Testing
• Performance Testing

Environment: VB, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, VSTS 2008, Windows 2000, Windows Service, EDF framework, Filenet.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Testing of the project.
• Execution of Test cases.
• Execution of Business Rules,
• Filing and Tracking defects in PM Smart.
• Creation of Daily Defect Status Reports / Dashboard

Environment: Java, J2EE, AIX, Novell I-Chain, Adobe Form Server, FileNet PE and FileNet CE.