SUMMARY

• Over 14+ years of extensive and progressive experience as a Test Lead. Working on various platforms, domains and projects for numerous large - sized corporations
• Extensive experience in Black Box testing with excellent professional skills in preparation of test plans, test cases, and executing test cases.
• Experience in Functional testing, integration testing, smoke testing, end to end testing, Negative testing, black box testing, ad-hoc testing, system testing, Positive testing, Load testing, Performance Testing, Regression testing and user acceptance testing.
• Expertise in review and documentation of system test plans and creating test cases on the basis of products release’s features, client's requirements and related technical document.
• Efficient in creating and developing strategies, test plan, test cases, test scripts and test reports.
• Experience in tracking defects and making reports using proprietary tools.
• Excellent Analytical, Business, Problem solving and Communication skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• High proficiency in requirements management process. Successfully gather business requirements from key stakeholders and translate them into functional requirements.
• Extensively involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): feasibility studies, business modeling, process modeling, business requirements gathering and analysis.
• Received appreciation for the high quality artifacts provided to the development teams. Artifacts include Software Requirements Specifications, Functional Requirements Specifications, Business Requirements Documents, and Use Cases.
• Expertise includes analysing and designing solutions, collaborating with the engineering teams, facilitating review sessions, proposing recommendations, coordinating with testing and other internal and external project teams.
• Extensive experience in authoring Business Requirement Documents by gathering Business and System Requirements, defining business processes, GAP Analysis, SWOT analysis, identifying risk, use case preparation, test case preparation, system and user acceptance testing.
• Strong knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Involved in requirements analysis, system analysis, design and testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and also in iterative, agile and structured methodologies.
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into User requirement specification, functional requirement specifications (FRS) and Business requirement document (BRD)
• Keen problem solving skills allowing rapid assimilation and resolution of complex problems. Self-motivated with excellent organization, leadership and communication skills.
• Experience working teams across geographical locations, and onsite-offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools/Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML.

Auto-pilot,FoneMonkey and Squish for automation of test scripts: XCode, JBoss 4.2.2.GA, JDK 1.5, SOLR, SQL Developer, citools for Streaming, Python, Selenium, JAVA

Proprietary Tools: Radar, Espresso, JIRA.

Workflow Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Tools

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle10

Platforms: Mac OS X 10.5.2, Windows (NT, 2000, XP), Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively worked with Confidential and Infogain Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports
• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organizing weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.
• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.
• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls
• Worked closely with the business to collect documents and prioritise business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions
• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.
• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.
• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.
• Co-ordinated with the testing team to understand the existing and to be features and help them perform different kinds of testing.
• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.
• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.
• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc
• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads
• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases
• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities
• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members
• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.
• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed training manuals.
• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.

Environment: Used Microsoft Visio, Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bamming and Espresso, JIRA for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.

Confidential iPhone Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively worked with Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports
• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organising weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.
• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.
• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls
• Actively worked with SME’s for different applications.
• Worked closely with the business to collect documents and prioritise business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions
• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.
• Responsible for writing scripts for testing the performance and load of the applications.
• Responsible for testing a feature by reviewing the code changes, executing test scenarios and match with the requirements.
• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.
• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.
• Responsible for identifying infrastructure related issues and propose solutions for the same.
• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.
• Responsible for interacting with automation engineers to fix issues on test framework and enhancing the framework to support requested features.
• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.
• Responsible for settling best practices on test operations.
• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc
• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads
• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases
• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities
• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members
• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.
• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed training manuals.
• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.
• Responsible for diagnosing complex production issues, which cannot be repro-ed by the Functional QA Engineers.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, XCode Ver. 7.1, MS-Access and Sqlserver2000 &Easy Pay. Fonemonkey,Squish and IntelliJ for automated testing, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.

Confidential iPhone Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the client for requirement understanding and analysis.
• Did impact analysis of the change request with respect to existing functional content.
• Analyse testing scope of the projects.
• Co-ordinating with remote teams for corrective action and verification activities.
• Conducting trainings and knowledge sharing sessions
• Prepared test cases and execution strategy.
• Responsible for identifying infrastructure related issues and propose solutions for the same.
• Manual execution of prepared test cases.
• Developing test scripts for automation testing.
• Run the automated test scripts and analysed the results and impact of application.
• Responsible for identifying infrastructure related issues and propose solutions for the same.
• Analysing results of automation execution and fixing defects.
• Analysing and fixing of issues faced during testing.
• Environment setup of testing application.
• Bug reporting in radar.
• Knowledge transfer, mentoring new team members and assisting them with testing activities.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, XCode Ver. 7.1, MS-Access and Sqlserver2000 &Easy Pay. Fonemonkey,Squish and IntelliJ for automated testing, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.

Confidential iPhone Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Project Charter, Risk Based Testing and Test Reports.
• Preparation of Method/1 Requirements Report Document
• Creation of Test Scripts and Test Cases in Radar
• Managing and execution of Test Cases in Radar
• Published Defect Tracking and Test execution status reports during the Integration Testing and UAT phase.
• Give support to QA team for testing the application.
• Involved effectively in onsite offshore co-ordination.
• Documented the Minutes of Meeting notes for all meetings.
• Incorporating changes to the Process Flow document.
• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.
• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.
• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.
• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.
• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, XCode Ver. 3.2, MS-Access and Sqlserver2000 & 2005Easy Pay and CPOS Applications. Fonemonkey and Squish for automated testing, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively worked with Confidential and Confidential Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports
• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organizing weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.
• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.
• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls
• Worked closely with the business to collect documents and prioritize business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions
• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.
• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.
• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.
• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.
• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.
• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc
• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads
• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases
• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities
• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members
• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.
• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed training manuals.
• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Confidential TVs (1st Gen, 2nd Gen, 3rd Gen), DB2, IOS Versions, JIRA for logging the bugs, Radar for Confidential bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports, citools for checking streaming, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.

Confidential

Business System Analyst and iPhone Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing the team for assigning and monitoring tasks
• Reporting to client manager.
• Developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test data creation, Test results analysis and reporting, Conduct System Testing, Integration, Regression, Load and Performance Testing.
• Proactive Issue Log analysis and fixing the same with the help of the development team.
• Give support to IT and UAT team for testing the application.
• Conduct meetings with AT&T, Albert and Zinger Team.
• Attending triage meetings.
• Involved in onsite co-ordination
• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team
• Involved in logging bugs into the Defect Management System
• Involved in tracking the Test Problem Report and closing them using Radar and Espresso Tools.
• Sanity, Regression Ad-hoc testing for each module.
• Soap UI testing; Load Testing and Performance Testing of the iPhone flow.
• Testing on the bug fixed software.
• Actively worked with Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports
• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organizing weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.
• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.
• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls
• Actively worked with SME’s for different applications.
• Worked closely with the business to collect, document and prioritize business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions
• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.
• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc
• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads
• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases
• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities
• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members
• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.
• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed training manuals.
• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Easy Pay and CPOS Applications, DB2, Bamming and Espresso, Radar for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Client side COCOA testing, Python, Selenium, Java, SQL.