SUMMARY

• More than 7.5 years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing on various applications with last 4 years being on the Retail Energy business and ERCOT Process(EDI Transactions, Billing, Enrollments, Collections, Customer Care, Incentives).
• Well versed with Agile methodology and led Scrum meetings
• Set up QA practice for couple of projects, which includes building environment, work - flow, and setting up the tool for bug tracking.
• Well versed with functional retail energy business area.
• 3 years as a Team Lead.
• Well versed with offshore and onsite development model, project planning and cost estimation.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies such as spiral methodology and V-Model methodology.
• Involved in Black Box (Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Performance and UAT) testing.
• Experience in writing Test plans, defining Test cases for various module screens of the application, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing results and reporting Defects.
• Experience in automation testing by using Silk Test.
• Experience in Performance testing by using Silk Performer.
• Developing and Maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Proficient in generating SQL queries
• Sound Knowledge and understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and documentation levels.
• Excellent problem solving skills and team player with strong communication skills and versatility to adapt to and work in any environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: Silk Test, Silk Performer.

Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla

Programming languages: C, C++, Core-JAVA, VB.NET, HTML, XML, SQL

RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 7

Other Tools: MS Team foundation Server, PL/SQL developer, Microsoft Test Manager, Microsoft Project, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Senior Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression testing, co-coordinated with UAT.
• Lead all functional testing activities from conception to delivery.
• Involved in Production Testing Support to identify defects.
• Meet with Business team for all the new functionality approvals
• Worked with business users to gather requirements, documentation, and technical specifications to solve the business problems.
• Responsible for developing Project Reports and Scrum Meeting Reports.
• Responsible for sending the daily and weekly status reports.
• Evaluated, documented, and wrote Test Scripts based on user requirements.
• Led the effort to escalate testing efforts as the point of contact for the Development and Business team.
• Responsible for resource and budget estimation.
• Responsible for delegating the tasks to my team members to meet the deadlines.

Confidential

Senior Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the defect review meeting and weekly status meeting
• Estimate, Plan and Delegating the tasks
• Was responsible for Project reports, Scrum meeting reports
• Authored Test scenarios, Test cases and interface with Business Analysts for approvals
• Lead the effort to escalate and being a point of contact for the Development and Business team
• Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, co-coordinating with UAT for testing.

Tools: HP Quality Center, SQL, MS project

Confidential

Senior Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the defect review meeting and weekly status meeting
• Estimate, Plan and Delegating the tasks
• Was responsible for Project reports, Scrum meeting reports
• Authored Test scenarios, Test cases and interface with Business Analysts for approvals
• Lead the effort to escalate and being a point of contact for the Development and business team.
• Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, co-coordinating with UAT for testing.

Tools: HP Quality Center, SQL, MS project

Confidential

Sr. Quality assurance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data Integration testing between People soft, Chancery and Confidential
• Performance testing the critical scenarios using Silk Performer.
• Estimate, Plan and performing the tasks.
• Was responsible for QA Scrum meeting reports.
• Authored Test scenarios, Test cases and interface with Business Analysts for approvals.
• Lead the effort to escalate and being a point of contact for the Development and Business team

Tools: TFS, MS Test Manager, Silk Performer11, SQL Server

Confidential, TX

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and trained the offshore and onsite team on the processes and Business functionality.
• Lead the defect review meeting and weekly status meeting.
• Estimate, Plan and Delegating the tasks.
• Was responsible for Project reports, Scrum meeting reports.
• Authored Test scenarios and was in charge of verifying the Test cases developed by the team and interface with Business Analysts for approvals.
• Lead the effort to escalate and being a point of contact for the Development and Business team

Tools: Quality Center, SQL, XML, MS project

Confidential, Confidential, TX

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Mentored and trained the team on the processes and Business functionality.
• Estimate, Plan and Delegating the tasks.
• Was responsible for Project reports, SCRUM meeting reports.
• Authored Test scenarios and was in charge of verifying the Test cases developed by the team and interface with Business Analysts for approvals.
• Lead the effort to escalate and being a point of contact for the Development and Business team

Tools: Quality Center, SQL, XML, MS Project, Excel

Confidential

QA Tester & Release

Responsibilities:

• Test Plans and procedures development: Integration, Usability, Functional, System Testing and Regression Testing, Load Testing and Installation Testing.
• Involved in analyzing the Business requirements and system specifications to understand the Application.
• Prepared release notes and installation guide for Major and Minor release of the product.
• To interact with customers to reproduce issues in their environment and documented them for further analysis and testing. Used QTP in Late fees/Interest and Account maintenance screens
• Packaging the objects in Zip and MSI styles.
• Creating and maintaining test cases and documenting bugs. Used LoadRunner in Account Summary, Account Transaction screens
• Analyzed system documentation like Requirements document, User Interface Specifications to develop and Execute Test scripts.
• Checking the data flow and extensively using SQL Queries to extract the data from the Database.
• Investigating and documenting the errors using TEAM
• Coordinating with the development team for bug resolution.

Environment: .NET, SQL Server 2000, QTP 8.2, TEAM, LoadRunner 8.0, Windows 2000