SUMMARY

• 7.10 years of work experience in IT in the roles of QA Lead/QA Analyst supporting areas of Web Applications, Mainframe Applications, and Unix Applications wif demonstrated leadership abilities and good communication skills.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting
• Skilled at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems, integration, User acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, stress, and regression testing Strong analytical, time management and problem - solving skills
• Experience in testing the applications in distributed and mainframe platforms
• Expertise in designing and developing test strategy, test plan, test cases and generating test reports, defect reports and product quality assurance documentation.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Reports using Defect Tracking Tools like Test Director, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Issue tracker and Rational Clear Quest.
• Formulated comprehensive regression test suite.
• Assured compliance wif test case standards.
• Managed regression suite and reported results.
• Assisted test lead and conducted root cause analysis.
• Experience wif resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, reporting metrics template, defect reports, change management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Mainframes (JCL, CICS, TSO, DB2), Unix/Linux Scripting

Test Management Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, JIRA, Test Directory

Database Tools: Oracle, DB2, MS Access, TOAD

Operating Systems: Mainframe (CICS and TSO) Windows XP-2000-NT, UNIX (Linux, SunOS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead QA team of 30 persons including mentoring, managing workload priorities, measuring staff performance
• Developed and implemented Test Plans adjusting test strategy to the requirements of the particular product release. Maintained Traceability matrix and manual tests in Test Director/QC. Interacted wif BA for gathering requirements
• Contributed QA part of the consolidated project plans. Conducted daily meetings wif QA members to track QA task progress, mitigated risks, took corrective actions, resolved issues wif parties involved and escalated as needed. Provided the project status report to management on regular basis.
• Developed, collected and analyzed quality metrics about products and projects. Ensured dat teams followed processes through SDLC and provided reports to managers. Provided input for the process improvements.
• Expertise working wif the development team to create a suite of test data (both input files and expected results) dat fully exercises data validation (detecting and rejecting bad data) and actual ETL functionality (properly processing good data me.e., transformations, calculations, and derivations).
• Expertise wif testing various services to validate data for Smoke testing, QA testing an UAT testing.
• Experience testing the application to validate the functional flow of the business logic on Open systems and Main frames.
• Preparation of Test Strategy, Test plan & Requirement Traceability Matrix and reviews wif Business and Development teams
• Preparation of sizing.
• Define & review Test Scenarios for Functional, Regression, Integration, Backward Compatibility & Backout testing
• Schedule & lead the test scenarios and test cases in the review meetings
• Test execution and validation in the Web and windows application.
• Defect reporting in Clear Quest.
• Test co-ordination & test results/test summary preparation.
• Test execution and validation in the Web and windows application.

Tools/Technology: Windows XP, Linux, UNIX, Mainframe (JCL, DB2, TSO, ISPF, SDSF & CICS), MS Access, SQL Developer, Quality Center, Clear Quest, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Power Points, MS Access, MS Word, WinSCP

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases
• Creating and validating matches & Mismatches reports.
• Manual validation of the Reports (Prod) vs Reports (Dev)
• Various Screen validation for demographical information.
• Review and tracking of the defect in JIRA.
• Daily Status updates to the clients & on-site co-coordinators
• Spool Capture & Delivery of the results
• Base & Test Screen Capture Process
• Online Nexus Screen Compare Process

Tools/Technology: Windows XP, Mainframes TSO, CICS, MS Access

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the requirements gathering from the customers
• Responsible for task planning, task allocation of the testing and packaging requests
• Responsible for weekly status reports wif the clients & product owners.
• Responsible for coordinating wif the customers regarding the issues and trouble shooting the issues.
• Responsible for allocating task to the team members, effort estimation.
• Involved in the Test Case reviews
• Involved in New Package Process and New Test Process
• Creating and Managing all Requirements, Test Specification, Test Results and Defects Details in
• Quality Center for all products.
• Testing the Application/Product on PET Local Environment and Development environment.
• Pushing the Package Product/Application to the Development and Production environment
• Creating and Managing all the deliverable Documents Build Specification, Test Specification, Installation Guide and Release Notes in the Documentum tool.
• Involved in re-views and meetings wif TPO (Client) on weekly basis.

Tools/Technology: UNIX, Solaris & Windows, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Subversion, Tibco RV, Websphere, Documentum

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in AIT (Application Integration Testing).
• Involved in AFT (Application Function Testing.)
• Involved in Application Regression testing.
• Involved in Production test and UAT (User Acceptance testing)
• Involved in writing the TDR (Test Description and Results).
• Tracking the Defects, raising and closing them using Test Directory.
• Participated in the test plan reviews, defect reviews
• Participated in the customer review of test reports.

Tools/Technology: Mainframes CICS, DB2

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in build validation
• Testing & automation using shell for all the above mentioned platforms,
• Writing test cases, tracking defects, raising, and closing them using Bugzilla
• Participating in reviews & test plans.

Tools/Technology: eDirectory 88SP2 Windows, UNIX, Solaris