PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have around10 years of professional experiencein IT with an extensive background in Quality Assurance and Testing of Software systems for various commercial/enterprise applications
• Having strong Microsoft backgroundwith excellent hold on software development life cycle and processes
• Exposure toAgile, Waterfall andV - ModelofSoftware Development methodology
• Experience with different phases and stages of software testing (Functional, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Performance/Load and Data Verification and Validation)
• Proficiency testingSiebel Analytics, SSRS, SharePointandDatabase(SQL Server and Oracle) with understanding ofBusiness Intelligence,Data Warehousing/ETL,Big Data (Hadoop)concepts
• Expertise inWeb Testing,Web-Applicationtesting and Client- Server basedN-tierApplications
• Excellent skills in Database Testing. Experience in Testing Incoming Data values and outgoing data value with queries, stored procedures, functions and joins
• Domain expertise:Enterprise Content & Media Management,Sales, FinanceHealthcare.
• Expertise in Product testing across platforms like Solaris, Windows, Mac OS
• Hands on experience in User Acceptance Testing and of end users
• Manageend-to-endQuality 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
• Working knowledge of software testing disciplines and methodology. Ability to design, develop and execute test cases and test scripts, track and report defects
• Expert in Defect Reporting and Tracking using Product Studio, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Test Director/HP Quality Center, JIRA
• Expertise in test planning, preparing test strategies, estimating test efforts, resource planning, designing of test cases, test execution, coordinating UAT, preparation of test metrics, analysis of test results and preparation of reports
• Expertise in working with globally diverse and distributed teams
• Experience in leading and managing large teams and contributing as an individual team member as well
• Facilitate and guide the QA team to follow best practices and test horizontal guidelines in all deliverables includingself-reviews,peer reviews, check lists, query log, review logs to meet high quality standards
• Excellent communication and presentation skills,self-starter,team player.
• Proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner

RELEVANT SKILLS:

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

Tools: SharePoint Designer 2010 & 2013

Bug tracking & versioning tools: Product Studio, Source Depot, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server(VSTF), Jira, Silk Central, Perforce

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Centre, Test Director and Asset Tester

Programming Languages: C, C++ and Java

DBMS Packages: Microsoft SQL, Oracle

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

Other Technologies: SharePoint, Hadoop (Big Data), Siebel Analytics, SSIS, SSRS, Apache Tomcat, JBossGlobal Exposure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Technologies Used:

Platform: Solaris, Windows, Mac OS

Web/App Servers: JBoss, Tomcat

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Tools: Perforce, SVN, JIRA, Silk Central

Product Options: Rhozet, Flip Factory, Creative desktop, Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop plugins

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
• Prepare test cases based on Functional Specifications, work with Product Manager and developers to get test cases review/approval.
• Test case maintenance and test result analysis using Silk Central
• Finding defects and reporting same in JIRA (Defect tracking tool)
• Preparing daily status reports pertaining to the test activity and updating in Scrum meetings.
• Functional Testing and Problem solving.

Confidential

QA Analyst / Lead

Technologies Used: Java, Rational Software Architect, Rapid SQL, Putty, Informatica 8.1Quality Center (ALM)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and study the business requirements by closely working with the customer and understanding the domain details.
• Interact with business analyst to understand the business flow, functional aspects.
• Work with Project manager for finalizing QA resources, test schedules.
• Prepare Test Plan and Strategy.
• Worked closely with Business analyst and developers to get the test cases review/approvals
• Assign the Test cases for execution and arranged review meetings to track the status.
• Generate bug reports and tracking defects using QC.
• Coordinateend - to-endtesting efforts, scheduling meetings and conference calls on need basis, guiding and supervising the team members.
• Functional Testing, Issues tracking and Problem solving.

Confidential

QA Lead

Technologies Used:

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

OS: Windows XP and Vista, Win 7, Windows server 2003/2008

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
• Closeco - ordinationbetween the Client and the team to ensure smooth delivery
• Coordinateend-to-endtesting 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.
• , guiding and supervising the team members.
• Setting up Test environment (VHDs/Virtual Machines), Functional Testing, Issues tracking and Problem solving.

Confidential

QA Lead

Technologies Used:

Solution Environment: Facets 5.01 Application

Software: Facets, Oracle

Tools: Jira, QC (ALM)

Responsibilities:

• Co - coordinatingwith different business teams to understand the scope and requirement of the project.
• Defining the test scope, test estimation, test planning, testco-ordination,test case reviews, test status reporting.
• Preparing impact analysis of the project on the other projects and programs and defining the mitigation plan by working with the various teams.
• Test data preparation and execution
• Tracking and reporting of the project status daily/weekly for Test plan/Test case preparation.

Confidential

Test Lead/Business Analyst

Technologies Used:

Front End: Web Application .Net, C#

Database: SQL Server 2005

OS: Windows XP and Vista

Performance Testing Tool: VSTS

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement and Preparing the Functional Specification
• Preparing the Test Plan, Traceability Matrix after the FSsign - offfrom 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 Testingusing VSTS

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Technologies Used:

Front End: SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS)

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005

OS: Windows XP and VistaTesting Tools nUnit

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
• WritingAutomation Scriptsfor Data Validation Testing using nUnit
• Capturingand analyzingXMLqueries for defect tracking
• Writing Stored Procedures for Data Validation testing
• Performing Back end (SQL Server 2005) and UI (SSRS) Testing
• Regression testing for new builds/drops
• Performance/Load Testing during UAT