SUMMARY

• Ten+ years of industry experience in hands - on/Lead role on manual/automated testing of various Financial, Health, Infotainment and Web applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong working experience of Agile and Waterfall Methodology.
• Strong knowledge on project management (time management, scope management, cost management, risk, stakeholder and communication management)
• Hands-on experience on preparing, reviewing and approving Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case documents.
• Proactive in specifying Testing Overview, Approach/Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Positive attitude and willing to learn/adapt to new technologies quickly, always driven by teh quality of teh end user experience in mind.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, ability to work independently as well as in a team wif minimal supervision.
• Good understanding of relational databases wif strong SQL skills for test data creation and validation.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer/vendor interaction skills and experience in working wif onshore-offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center/ALM/Test Director, Rational Functional Tester(RFT), Rational Quality Management), Selenium WebDriver, UFT, Rational Suite, SOAP-UI, J Meter, Load Runner

Testing Strategies: Integration, Regression, Performance, User-Acceptance, ETL

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center/ALM/Test Director, PVCS Tracker, JIRA, Rational Clear Quest

Cloud: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google cloud

Operating Systems: Windows, LINUX, IOS, Android, Windows phone

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, Java, J2EE, C++, Visual Basic.

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

GUI Tools: Visual Basic, Toad, SQL Developer 2008, Oracle Express 10/11g

Internet: HTML, DHTML, XML, VBScript, Java Script

Web Servers: Web Logic, SOA, Web Sphere, Windows 2000 server, IIS and Apache Tomcat

Project Management Tools: PVCS, VSS, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visual Studio, Powerpoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

SIT Test Lead (IT Adviser)

Responsibilities:

• Lead teh QA team in each sprint by providing test estimates, preparing test calendar, representing teh testing team, building up testing team by selecting appropriate members.
• Provide estimate for test data creation, test cases/acceptance criteria, test execution, and test environment(s) setup.
• Participate in business requirement review and traceability analysis.
• Review teh design specifications to verify teh requirement coverage.
• Lead Product QA Team for documenting, segmenting and allocating team tasks among testing team members.
• Coordinate wif teh UAT Lead for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and interact wif client/end-users to support UAT sessions/cycles.
• Review system architecture to determine appropriate testing points and coverage.
• Lead test case/script creation and execution for teh testing team by test scheduling and reviewing quality of teh deliverables of teh testers.
• Lead Automation effort of testing procedures.
• Ensure adherence to agreed Test Strategy, Test Plan and project schedules and provide testing status to teh project team.
• Coordinate custom test solutions (test harnesses, scripts etc.) and vendor deliverables.
• Generate testing progress reports for monthly deliverables (Test Execution report, Disaster Recovery Report, Drupal Training Material, End User support).
• Follow Agile Methodology and represent QA team in meetings like Story Estimation Meeting, Story Kick of Meeting, Story Tasking Meeting, Daily Standup Meeting, Story Tasking Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, and Retrospective Meeting.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed all Functional Testing activities for SIT phase.
• Represented QA team while attending meetings wif Stakeholders and communicated effectively wif clients and all levels of management and peers wifin Confidential network.
• Led teh manual test case creation as well as executing test scripts for end to end regression testing and integration testing.
• Interacted wif Product Line Managers, Project Managers and Development Team to collect requirements and to ensure adequate coverage.
• Reviewed functional specifications in advance of commencement of development wif Product Line Managers, Project Managers and Development.
• Used HP Application lifecycle management (ALM) for requirement management, planning, test scheduling, test execution, defect tracking and management.
• Involved in verifying and validating new functionalities and integration testing of IBM Mainframe and Oracle database.
• Authored SIT Test Plan covering testing such as Functional testing, Integration testing, smoke testing, black box testing and regression testing.
• Conducted independent analysis of teh testing scope, understand requirements, and ensure testing team TEMPhas prepared comprehensive test scripts/plans and documented test results based on Requirements and Specifications.
• Involved in creating regression Automation test scripts, creating Output values, performing Data Driven Test to maintain suitability for teh project using Quick Test Professional.

Environment: VMware,Mercury Quality Center (ALM), Quick Test Pro, IBM Mainframe, Transtar, Windows, Oracle, SQL Server, ETL, Java.

Confidential, Doral, FL

Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh Functional Requirements and Design documents to ensure dat teh system met all teh technical and business requirements of teh applications.
• Documented, updated and modified test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements based on teh Test strategy and test plan document.
• Participated in System, Security Functional and end to end Regression Testing.
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using HP Quality Center and provided HP QC dashboard reports to teh QA Manager.
• Extensively involved in creating Automation test scripts, creating Output values, performing Data Driven Test to maintain suitability for teh project using Quick Test Professional.
• Enhanced teh automated scripts by creating Actions, Checkpoints, Synchronization points, Parameterization and Modular test in QTP.
• Used Reusable Actions wif utilizing teh flexible functionalities in Quick Test professional.
• Utilized PVCS Tracker to store requirements and track defects.
• Performed data verification and validation in teh back-end of teh application by using SQL queries.
• Used MS SQL Server (RDBMS) to retrieve data from teh application database.
• Generated monthly Content Owner Revenue Report, Average Revenue per user, revenue and marketing reports.

Environment: VMware Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, PVCS Tracker, Windows, Linux, SVN repository, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Java.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

System QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional requirements and prepared high level test scenarios.
• Extensively participated in requirement coverage analysis, test document version management, test execution planning, testing phase timeline scheduling.
• Tracking and managing defects in theDefectsmodule.
• Coordinated wif upstream and downstream systems to conduct end to end regression testing.
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• AnalyzedManual Test Caseswif QA Team members for most important and high priority requirements for conversiontoAutomated Test ScriptsusingHPQuick Test Professional (QTP) for Home Mortgagesystem and platform.

Environment: VMware Mercury Quality Center (ALM), Quick Test Pro, IBM Mainframe, MSP, Windows, Oracle, SQL Server, Java.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created SIT Test Cases for IV&V purpose and assisted in developing scenario based test cases for UAT.
• Utilized clearquest as a request tracking system for tracking teh defects and generating reports.
• Supported QA Manager in preparing teh SIT Test Plan document and performed various kinds of testing during SIT phase such as Functional testing, Integration testing, smoke testing, black box testing and regression testing.
• Performed cross browser testing using Netscape and Internet Explorer.
• Reported and tracked defects found during teh execution in HP Quality Center.
• Created and maintained log file for CR (Change Request) and CR versions and actions taken on CR and reaction.
• Wrote SQL queries and statements to test database for retrieving information inserted by teh UAT users in Oracle.
• Coordinated wif development team members for Defect/Bug tracking and testing efforts using PVCS Tracker.
• Attended defect reporting/triage meetings to represent teh defects reported.
• Provided weekly status reports wif teh QA Manager to explain testing progress and defects/issues.