PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have around 10 years of professional experience in IT with an extensive background in Quality Assurance and Testing of Software systems for various commercial/enterprise applications
• Having strong Microsoft background with excellent hold on software development life cycle and processes
• Exposure to Agile, Waterfall and V - Model of Software Development methodology
• Experience with different phases and stages of software testing (Functional, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Performance/Load and Data Verification and Validation)
• Proficiency testing Siebel Analytics, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, SharePoint, Database (SQL Server and Oracle) with understanding of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing/ETL, Big Data (Hadoop) concepts
• Expertise in Web Testing, API validation, Web-Application testing and Client- Server based N-tier Applications
• Domain expertise: Enterprise Content & Media Management, CRM, Sales & Finance
• Expertise in Product testing across platforms like Solaris, Windows, Mac OS
• Manage end-to-end Quality Management tasks for assigned projects that support both new development projects and product maintenance releases
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules/processes and detailed design of the application
• Experience in Technical writing Skills with hands on experience in creating Businesses Requirements, Functional Specifications, Mapping Documents (Traceability Matrix etc), Test Plan, Test Scripts and Status Reports
• Expertise in working with globally diverse and distributed teams
• Facilitate and guide the QA team to follow best practices and test horizontal guidelines in all deliverables including self-reviews, peer reviews, check lists, query log, review logs to meet high quality standards
• Experience in leading and managing large teams and contributing as an individual team member as well
• Undergone training in Salesforce Admin and Testing, Hadoop Big Data (MapReduce, HDFS, Compression, Serialization, Avro, PIG Latin, HIVE, HBase)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick leaner, team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server & Client, UNIX/Linux, Solaris, Mac OS

Test management tools: ALM/Quality Centre, Product Studio, Source Depot, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server(VSTF), Jira, Silk Central, Perforce, Test Director

Automation testing Tools: VSTF, QTP, Load Runner, Asset Tester and nUnit

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, PL/SQL

DBMS Packages: Microsoft SQL, Oracle

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome

Other Technologies: SharePoint, WebMethods, Hadoop (Big Data), Siebel Analytics, Salesforce, SSIS, SSAS SSRS, Apache Tomcat, JBoss

Other Tools: SharePoint Designer 2010 & 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

QA Lead/QC

Environment: Technology: SharePoint 2010

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test cases in conjunction with providing test estimates
• Testing Ribbon items, list /libraries creation, documents (check-in/check-out), user authentication and authorization, Branding and GUI, etc.
• Testing InfoPath forms and Workflows (both OOB SharePoint Designer and custom ones using Visual Studio)
• Integration testing with Web Methods, Salesforce, Workday, BAInsight (SAP), AD/SAM, Lenel and other tools
• Office Web Apps testing and Browser Compatibility test (IE8/9/11, Chrome, Firefox, Mac Safari)
• Building the test team, providing Knowledge transfer sessions etc.
• Test case management, Defect tracking and monitoring using ALM
• Conduct Triage meetings with Business Lead/Tech Lead/Team members and participate in analyzing root cause of defects and corresponding fix
• Interacting with stakeholders from HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Corporate Communications, Shared Services and other verticals dependent on the SharePoint platform to understand their issues and request for future enhancements

Confidential, MD

QA Lead

Environment: Platform: Solaris, UNIX, Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Quality of the deliverables.
• Prepare Test Plan and Strategy
• Analyze the Project schedule along with the team and provide the appropriate test estimates for finalizing the Test schedule
• Allocate and prepare and test cases based on Functional Specifications, work with Product Manager and developers to get test cases review/approval.
• Preparing daily status reports pertaining to the test activity and updating in Scrum meetings.
• Responsible for setting up Test environment (VHDs/VMs) and Test data by working with Operations team to load production data in Test Database.
• Migration testing of assets in batches, backend validations and HTML5 User Interface, SharePoint application testing.
• Debugged SharePoint application errors and tested server installation platforms.
• Web Application testing from Mobile browser for Functionality, usability and performance.
• OTMM Native app testing for iOS and Android: authentication, authorization, functionality, usability, performance.
• Performed Integration testing with the third party tools Rhozet, Flip Factory, Creative desktop, Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop plugins.
• Test case maintenance and test result analysis using Silk Central
• ETL Testing using SQL queries
• Regression testing using QTP automation tool
• Finding defects and reporting same in JIRA (Defect tracking tool)
• Perform Root cause analysis of defects, problem solving, guiding and mentoring the team members

Confidential, WA

Test Lead

Environment: Front End: MS Office 14 applications and Server Applications like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) and MS Office Online Help

Responsibilities:

• Effective communication with Microsoft stakeholders and also with other Localization Service Providers around the globe
• Work with the Client (MS Ireland / Redmond) to get the knowhow on the product and processes.
• Analyze the Project schedule along with the team and provide the appropriate test estimates for finalizing the Test schedule
• Prepare Test Plan and Strategy
• Close co-ordination between the Client and the team to ensure smooth delivery
• Coordinate end-to-end testing efforts with internal and external LOBS, scheduling meetings and conference calls as needed
• Responsible for overall Quality of the deliverables
• Leading a Team of 25 members including 3 Modules leads.
• Training, guiding and supervising the team members.
• Quality Control using the KPIs for compliance with CMMI level 5 and ISO-9001 standards.
• Setting up Test environment (VHDs/Virtual Machines), responsible for testing server installation platforms and troubleshooting SharePoint application issues
• Functional Testing, Regression testing, Issues tracking and Problem solving.

Confidential, WA

Test Lead/Business Analyst

Environment: Front End: Web Application: .Net, C#

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and Preparing the Functional Specification
• As QA lead, I participated in Planning & Estimation Meetings with the Business and provided Test Estimates for each Sprint
• Prepare Test Plan for the test activities undertaken for each Sprint
• Preparing the Test Plan, Traceability Matrix after the FS sign-off from client.
• Preparing test cases and allocating the same among the testers.
• Preparing Daily/Weekly Status Reports pertaining to Test activity.
• Project monitoring and client liaising.
• Coordinating with the Program Manager regarding Schedules and Releases dates.
• Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting using Product Studio.
• Regression testing for new builds/drops
• Performance/Load Testing using VSTF Load test wizard.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Create Automation Scripts for Data Validation Testing using SQL.
• Capturing and analyzing XML queries for defect tracking
• Writing Stored Procedures for Data Validation testing
• Performing Backend (SQL Server 2005) and UI (SSRS) Testing
• Perform DW/ETL testing on SSIS using SQL queries and running the packages. Also on MS DTS services
• Performing backend data, OLAP cubes and SSRS reports validation
• Performance/Load Testing during UAT using SQL Profiler
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2000/2005) and UI (Siebel Analytics) Testing.
• Created Automation tool for Cross Report Validation (SQL vs MDX)
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2000) and UI (Siebel Analytics) Testing
• Writing Test Specs for UI-Backend validation, SharePoint application testing
• Migration testing to validate the transit of the existing records management system to the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 lists