SUMMARY

• Result oriented professional with 5+ years of experience in testing software applications.
• Experienced in leadership role managing and delivering enterprise scale software on time and quality with their scope intact.
• Experience working on projects using Agile, Scrum and other industry standard models.
• Experience in manual testing and automated testing.
• Participated in audit process of Defect prevention activities.
• Lead and mentored in Onsite - Offshore model with following responsibilities - Requirement walkthroughs, query resolution
• Expert Level understanding of Design & Development of KT Documents, Training Materials & Technical Reference Documents
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and transferable skills.
• Willingness and ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies.
• Test Project Management and delivery Management, test planning, estimation, resource allocation, identification of roles and responsibilities and communicating test program status to management.
• Test Process management entailing process definition, documentation and constantly review and improve process to make it faster, integrated, repeatable and reliable.
• Test Organization management including staffing, training, motivating team building, supervising, assessing teams and individual’s performance.
• Develop and manage test project schedules, risk assessment, manage scope and resource changes and monitor progress against plan.
• Proficient in analyzing existing systems and designing Test Guidelines, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Specification for the proposed business and system requirements.
• Reviewing test documents and bugs prepared by test team.
• Expertise in preparing Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Release Notes.
• Extensive working experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, System Testing and User acceptance testing using Business requirements, System requirements and Use Case documents.
• Expertise in creating Testing Artifacts (RTM, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Reports and Defect logging
• Agile - Sprint Planning, User Stories, Product Backlog, Scrum Meetings
• Performed automated regression testing using HP Mercury tools
• Proficient in defect management using Rally, Quality Center, Bugzilla and HP ALM.
• Experience in back-end testing using SQL queries
• Good working experience on Windows 2003/XP/Vista, UNIX operating systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Platform

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director 8.0, HP ALM, Clear Quest, QTP, Bugzilla

Agile Test Management Tool: Rally 2.0

Database: SQL, MS Access

Automation: AUTOIT 3.0, VB Script

Virtualization: VMware 2.0 server suite

MS Project Plan: MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Visual Source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate user requirements for applications and refine those requirements
• As a tester, I ensured that daily regression testing is running & completing successfully.
• Project planning, schedule, cost and resourcing.
• Performing the gap analysis, cost and time requirements & feasibility study.
• Closely monitored QA progress in line with Project and QA Plans.
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams to resolve outstanding issues.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of the application.
• Managing the Testing related activities closely with Development Team.
• Test Execution, Test Management & Test Closure.
• Common approach for cross platform and cross browser testing.
• Responsible for software, Hardware installation and maintenance.
• Ensure the secure and safe storage of data and hardware and software access
• Prepare reports, flowcharts and manuals based on daily requirements
• Responsible for knowledge transfer and staff training
• Actively handled status reporting and weekly Meetings
• Sign off the QA releases.

Confidential, NC

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analyzing project requirements.
• Managing testing related activities closely with Development Team.
• Closely monitored QA progress in line with Project and QA Plans.
• Used Rally (Agile Project Management tool) for creating user stories, test cases, tracking defects
• Worked closely with the developers within the scrum team
• Actively handled weekly Agile Scrum Meetings and generated Scrum data
• Test Execution, Test Management & Test Closure
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams to resolve outstanding issues.
• Generated Test data and metrics.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of the application.
• Created test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Rally.
• Conducting UAT kick-off meetings to enable acceptance test participants to become familiar with application test techniques and status.
• Prepared daily status reports and published for all the audience involved in the project.
• Sign off the QA releases.

Confidential, NC

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plan, taking into consideration the critical success factors for the data driven project environment
• Developed Test Plans and wrote Test Cases as per the business and technical requirements
• Formulated web Application testing strategy including business rules, data requirements, field values, and user flows
• Responsible for Test effort estimation.
• Participated in Developing and execution Test Cases
• Developed SQL Queries to be used in Database testing.
• Timely escalation of issues to the relevant team for immediate action.
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of the application.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center
• Prepared daily status reports and published for all the audience involved in the project.
• Sign off the QA releases.

Confidential, MD

Sr. QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Managers, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Developers to understand Business requirements.
• Responsible for Test effort estimation and resource planning.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test cases.
• Performing the gap analysis & feasibility study
• Managing the Testing related activities closely with Development Team using quality center
• Participated in Developing and Designing Test Cases.
• Involved in Lab Setup and Server Installations
• Actively handled weekly Agile Scrum Meetings and generated Scrum data
• Performed System testing, Regression compatibility and sanity testing.
• Written Automation Scripts using AutoIt 3.0
• Wrote SQL queries to access modify and create test data in the database for Back-end testing
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams
• Attended weekly project meetings with business team.

Confidential, MD

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Managers, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Developers to understand Business requirements.
• Developed Functional, ETL, Test Cases in Mercury Quality Center
• Created workflow rules and defined related tasks, time triggered tasks, email alerts, filed updates to implement business logic.
• Created email templates and inbound emails using Visual force for the clients and customers.
• Experience in people management, mentorship to Junior team members
• Performing the gap analysis & feasibility study
• Written SQL queries against database to extract information
• Managing the Testing related activities closely with Development Team.
• Participated in Developing and Designing Test Cases.
• Individually worked on creating and implementing the Web-To-Case functionality to solve and track customers Issues.
• Test Execution, Defect Management & Test Closure.
• Configuration Management & Review Process.
• Performing the feasibility study for the Calibration application to be designed
• Created test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application by conducting positive, negative and boundary testing.
• Written SQL queries to access modify and create test data in the database.
• Tracked, Documented bugs and generated bug reports using Quality Center.
• Prepared daily status reports and published for all the audience involved in the project.
• Attended weekly project meetings with business team.
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams

Confidential, MD

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis and Understanding
• Network Lab Setup, Management and Server Installations
• Managing the Testing related activities closely with Development Team.
• Participated in Developing and Designing Test Cases.
• Test Execution, Defect Management & Test Closure.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Used SQL queries to perform Back-end testing.
• Written Automation Scripts using AutoIt
• Identified the tests that are repeatable for each testing cycle and generated Automated Test scripts using VB Script in QTP.
• Defect management and reporting
• Actively Participated in weekly Scrum Meetings

Confidential, MD

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the complex set of requirements
• Involved in Preparation of Test Scenarios and test cases
• Network Lab Setup, Management and Server Installations
• Performed Installation and uninstallation testing.
• Used SQL queries to access the database for Back-end testing
• Test Design: Written use cases and executed
• Error Packet generation using FNET-SIM and analysis.
• Written SQL queries against database to extract information
• Defect management and reporting using Rally
• Identified the tests that are repeatable for each testing cycle and generated Automated Test scripts using VB Script in QTP.
• Timely status reporting to senior management and the client.
• Exposure to Project planning, schedule, cost and resourcing.
• Actively Participated in weekly Agile Scrum Meetings