OBJECTIVE

• 8+ years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance. Proficient in manual testing with Exposure to all phases of software development life cycle.
• Possess strong analytical, verbal and inter - personal skills that help in communicating with Stakeholders, team members, writing reports and test documentation.

SUMMARY

• 8 + years’ experience in manual testing in Banking, Telecom and Mobile application, Web based testing developed in SharePoint 2010.
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Onsite coordinator, Test Lead, Test Analyst and Test Engineer
• Extensive expertise in System analysis, Test Planning, Test Execution and Result Analysis in System testing, System Integration testing and UAT phases of Software testing life cycle & SDLC.
• Extensive experience withSoftwareQuality AssuranceTesting onClient-Server&Web Based applications, Web Services at backend usingManual testingprocedures.
• Expertise in designing Automation frameworks using QTP.
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong experience in RDBMS technologies like SQL, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors and Functions.
• Good hands on experience with the programming languages Java, C, and C++.
• Good working knowledge inShellScripting,UNIX, LINUXandWindowsplatforms.
• Involved in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementing Agile, Waterfall and V-Model methodologies.
• Experienced in Black Box, White Box, Smoke Testing, Sanity, Shakeout, Integration, Regression, Functional, Front End and Back End Testing.
• Experience in designingTest Cases/Test Scripts/Test Conditions from the requirements for verifying and validating Web basedapplications, like Boundary Value Analysis.
• Strong experience with PLM tools HP ALM for tracking the requirement coverage, release management and executing Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts and Defect life cycle management.
• Excellent Banking domain knowledge Home loans, Credit Cards, Global Markets, FX & Swift messages. Good work experience Insurance & Telecom domains.
• Excellent team member strong analytical, problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities, Quick Learner, highly motivated, result oriented and an enthusiastic team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP)Jmeter, SoapUI Pro 4.x

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008, Windows XP, Linux, Unix.

Languages: C, C#, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, UML.

Database: SQL Server 2008, DB2, MS Access (MS Office 2007), Oracle 9i.

Web Technologies: JSP, CSS, HTML, XML, JSON, VBScript, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, Junit.

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center 10.0/9.x, JIRA, IBM Clear Quest.

Management Tools: TestNG, JMeter, Visual Studio, Oracle SQL Developer 2.1.

Other Tools: MS-Office 2010, 2007.

BI Tools: IBM Cognos, SSRS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Provo, Utah

Sr. Test Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project
• Ensure proper work planning and effort distribution amongst all team members
• Handle all testing units through IBM Cognos framework according to the need of the project
• Engaged in test planning, controlling, and strategies
• Develop testing data and procedures before load processing.
• Preparing in detail status reports of execution
• Sharing understandings with Onshore Team and/or Client and developers as and when required
• Designing Test Scenario, Test Case and Test Scripts as well as Test Data Preparation
• Ensure proper review is done of all the existing testing artifacts.
• Execution of Test Cases
• Analyzing the Test Results
• Executing Batch test cases
• Responsible for Data Extract, Transform and Load and load the source data to target.
• Writing the queries to validate the results.
• Responsible to validate production data.
• Preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy for all the releases.
• Preparing Test Closure Document upon completion of testing.
• Defect Tracking using HP ALM
• Created Testing Execution Reports, Test metrics and share with project team.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones
• Implemented test automation, using tools from HP (QTP /Quality Center). Developed and debugged scripts and libraries of the reusable components using VB Script.

Confidential

Sr. Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Requirement Specification documents.
• Involved in functional requirements and design discussions of the project.
• Involved in Functional and Regression testing.
• Involved in Integration testing.
• Create test cases based on requirement specification documents.
• Report the bugs in Problem Tracking Report.
• Carry out Regression testing after the bug fix
• Responsible for the entire test execution for the assigned module
• Including the tracking of reported bugs.
• Participate in Client meetings.
• Knowledge transfer to new team members
• Documenting the results from the test conducted & tracking the defects found during testing.
• Responsible for Verification of Bug fixes and subsequent Closure or Re-opening of the bug.
• Project specific training to newly joined Test Engineer

Confidential

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing key testing work products like Master Test Plan, System Test Plan, Test Report and Detailed Test Plan based on risks and acceptance criteria agreed with the Client.
• Participate in the requirements gathering sessions along with Business Analysts with the Business stakeholders, to make sure that the requirements are testable in terms of Quality Assurance stand point.
• Provide Test Estimation based on the complexity of the requirements and schedule/project plan of the Client.
• Reviewing and analyzing requirements for testability and usability by consulting App Dev staff with regards to system functionality and BA staff with regard to business procedure.·
• Resolving the issues, concerns with in the team by listening to the team.
• Analyzing and verifying test results, providing status and progress reports using Quality Center 10.0.
• Ensure the project issues and risks are resolved on time
• Updating and Tracking defects in Quality Centre. Working through defect life cycle and work with defect management in support of defect tracking, prioritizing and impact analysis.
• Track the testing and reporting activities like test summary report, test case coverage, required resources, defects summary.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Test Plan, Test Reports, Review progress.
• Create metrics and use them to ensure delivery of test deliverables which is high-quality and on-time.
• Establish and maintain policy for requirements documentation that enables QA team to write test cases in parallel with the implementation process.
• Manage and respond to Software Quality Assurance issues with related groups such as Development, End Users, User Support and Operational Support.
• Involve in Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing and System testing
• Delegate Test Cases and testing of bugs to team members and followed the same in Quality Center for future reference.
• Developing Auto mated test cases in QTP. Enhancing the existing test cases & Maintenance.
• Creating Automation framework for generating unique Test data for the various functional & Regression scenarios using.
• Provides technical input and identifies areas to promote efficiency and accuracy in the testing process.
• Effectively communicated the Defects to the developers and helped them in fixing the issues.
• Submitted the weekly status report to the project team to communicate the progress of testing.

Confidential

Jr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and preparing Test scripts.
• Preparing the traceability matrix and tracking the functional coverage.
• Coordinating with the customer for daily status updates, Results sharing, answering all queries until sign-off
• Responsible for testing various Android based mobile applications like media gallery, social networking, Music, contacts, email, account setup and home screen on devices and Tablets.
• Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing and Non-functional Testing of mobile application.
• Preparing Test completion report at the end of test phase and sign off
• Coordinating the installation activities with the client and the external teams
• Attending weekly team meetings to track the work progress and sharing Business updates among the team
• Creating framework for testing the various scenarios using QTP.
• Documenting all deliverables adhering to client requirements & standards