SUMMARY

• Software professional with 6 years of manual testing experience in Retail, Banking domain in Confidential & Confidential solutions.
• Excellent IT Industry experience in manual testing of which 3 years as a Test lead.
• Strong Knowledge in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle including analysis, Master test plan designing, testing scenario & test case creation, test execution, defect logging & analysis and maintenance.
• Professional competencies in requirements gathering and functional analysis, Requirements Traceability Matrix, creating Test Plans, high level test scenarios, Detail level test cases and Test Execution throughout Functional, System, Regression and UAT.
• Well - versed with all stages of software development life cycle (SDLC),Agile and software testing life cycle (STLC). Comprehensive understanding of all Testing Methodologies, Testing levels, Test analysis & design techniques.
• Expertise in creating Test Plans and RTMs (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to track requirements during the Testing Phase. Proven expertise in defect reporting and tracking using defect tool - Quality Center (HP ALM), JIRA.
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Smoke testing, Functional Testing, UAT testing, Production Validation Testing, UI testing and Regression Testing.
• Expertise in preparing test strategy, test planning and estimation and risk mitigation.
• Have a strong ability to lead, coordinate a team and drive them towards achieving the goal.
• Coordinated with different teams and conducted daily and weekly status calls and meetings.
• Trained all new members on best practices and new features of the tool.
• Good analytical, problem solving, communication skills and have the ability to work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of a team.
• Proven ability to bridge business goals and technology to provide productive solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++

Internet Program: HTML

Operating Systems: DOS,WINDOWS,LINUX, Solaris

Testing domain: Retail & Banking

Testing: Manual Testing

Tool: Quality center (HP ALM), JIRA, SoapUI

Version Control tools: IBM Rational Clearcase, Clearquest, Tivoli

Database: Oracle, SQL Developer

Testing application: Point of sale, Front end and Back end web testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and maintaining Requirements Trace matrix and Preparation of Test scenario /Test Cases /Test Data.
• Reviewing & understanding HLD (high Level Design document).
• Involved in creating SystemTest plan, reviewed with Business Users,Project Management, Release management, Developers and test environments & data teams and got approvals.
• Involving in Daily Stand up meetings - Agile
• Prepared SystemTest Scenarios, mapped withBusiness Scenarios, requirements, design doc and use cases to build Traceability.
• Execution of Test Cases with given time frame, Defect Tracking and Reporting in HP Quality Center.
• Conducting the risk analysis, defect analysis and reporting defects with the help of Defect Tracking System (Quality Center).Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.
• Handling the environmental issues faced in the execution and resolved it by coordination with other support team.
• Test Lead for Defect Management and Migration in Test Management office using Quality Center.
• Total Test management for the project and tracking activities to completion and managing issues and risks that occur during the Pre and Post Upgrade testing.
• Performed Regression Testing, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Usability testing and complete end to end testing.
• Performed GUI functional and sanity testing manually for each new build of the application

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked for FinCEN (Financial Crime Enforcement Network) project as a test lead.
• Responsible for the below activities
• Test Plan preparation for the project
• Preparing the estimates and timelines for the deliverables
• Test scenario creation in Quality center and getting it approved from the onsite Business analyst and Project Managers
• Has been directly coordinating with the onsite team, and conducted daily and weekly status calls.
• Coordinating with business analyst to get the test plan approved
• Reviewing the test cases created by my team in Quality center and approving the same
• Monitoring the test execution throughout the testing cycle
• Sent daily and weekly status reports to the Clients
• Responsible for analyzing the defects logged in QC by my team and tracking them till closure
• Performed project closure activities
• Have been a part of the team for the complete phase of COUPON PRICE OVERRIDE project
• Lead a team of 3- 7 members for COUPON PRICE OVERRIDE project for a continuous 3 phases.
• Responsible for the below activities
• Conducted status calls on a daily basis with Onsite Project Coordinator and allocated work to the team
• Sent daily & weekly status reports of the entire team to Onsite Project Coordinator
• Have estimated the efforts needed for completing the test cycle and sent the efforts report of my team to the onsite coordinator
• Created Test scenarios, Test cases in Quality center and have actively participated in complete test execution
• Logged the defects in Quality Centre, tracked them till closure and have sent the defect analysis report to project team
• Have given technical presentation to the client team
• Have worked with the REGRESSION TEAMs
• Responsible for creating the test cases and executing them as a part of integration testing.
• Co-coordinating with the different project teams and gathering the requirements knowledge for carrying out the integration tests
• Have received appreciations and Feather In my Cap awards from both Clients and Company level for my involvement in work and completing the deliverables in time without any slippages in any phase of the test cycle
• Prepared multiple documents which include KT documents and other project related documents

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handled US and EMEA store applications like US and EMEA Confidential Store,US Colehaan, US,Swoosh, US and EMEA Confidential iD, US and EMEA Confidential Brand sites and worked on Enhancements testing of all the above mentioned application
• Have worked on front end functionalities of retail store like product page functionalities to integrate new business logic
• Have worked on full Checkout process with different payment scenarios and tested checkout process with different payment options like Credit card, Debit card, Gift card etc.
• Worked on backend process like US and EMEA CSR backend application.
• Worked very closely with business users and have attended status calls with onsite team every day and have carried out the work with active involvement from project inception to deployment
• Have documented all the work performed in the project.
• Had always worked with full involvement and had given my full contribution to my team at times of critical releases.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have worked on front end and back end functionalities
• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Participated in identifying the required Test scenarios and Test Cases.
• Involved in reviewing the test scripts as per the requirement specifications.
• Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements.
• Involved in daily & weekly status report meeting with the respective Citi client and update the percentage of completion of task day to day.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality center
• Worked very closely with business users and have attended status calls with onsite team every day and have carried out the work with active involvement from project inception to deployment
• Have documented all the work performed in the project.
• Had always worked with full involvement and had given my full contribution to my team at times of critical releases.