SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master with 9 yrs of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in performing Manual, Automated Testing
• Expertise in developing and maintaining overall testing methodology and strategy, documenting Test plans, creating Test cases and executing Test Scripts based on baseline requirements.
• Innovative and articulate in different types of softwareTesting Methodologies, procedures and techniques such asBlack Box, System, Functional, Unit, Integration, Performance, Regression and bug tracking system on Windows.
• Strong experience in designing application independent Test Automation Framework using Data Driven and Keyword Driven approach for reusable test scripts, using IBM Rational Functional Tester
• Experienced in HP Quality Center/Test Director, HP Quick Test Professional, Test Complete, Bugzilla, Visual Studio Team Test and Team Foundation Server.
• Experience working with testing methodologies for software applications and software testing tools
• Extensive administration and support experience with the HP Quality Center
• Good knowledge on various Testing Methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, Prototype and Spiral.
• Worked in AJAX and CSS extensively for exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page without reloading the whole page.
• Has the commitment to the project and the goals of the current sprint as the team members do
• Excellent communication skills and attention to details required for successful projects.
• Knowledge in testing the functionalities of the Specification central and Library Central
• Extensive experience in conducting Integration, Functional, System, Performance, Database and User Acceptance Testing for Web and Client/Server Applications.
• Strong experience using Descriptive Programming techniques in QTP.
• Conversant with all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Req. gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing,
• Skilled in creating test strategy, test plan, test design, test cases, test procedures, test log, automated test scripts, defect reporting, defect triage.
• Expertise in writing SQL queries, Joins, Functions in Oracle and MS SQL Server
• Good Knowledge in testing and setting up Content Management System.
• Proven success in multi tasking, handling multiple projects, responsibilities, involved in hiring, conducting technical interviews and in conducting s

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS - DOS, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003,Unix,Linux

Languages: Hadoop,Pig,Hive,ZooKeeper,Mapreduce, C,C++,Java,J2EE,ASP,XML

RDBMS: MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g,Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2007,Informix

Project Management Tools: JIRA GREENHOPPER, Rally and SCRUM PRO

Domains: Banking, Oil and Petroleum, Aviation, Land, Property / Hospitality Management

Protocols: FTP,SMTP

IDE / Other Tools: Eclipse, IBM Rational Rose, MS Office, TOAD

Scripting Language: VB Script, Java Script

Testing Tools: Selenium, Quick Test Professional, Win runner, HP Quality Center, Visual Studio team Test

Servers: IIS, Apache Tomcat Version 6.0.29,Weblogic10.0

Version Control Tools: VSS,CVS,SVN

Bug Tracking Tools: Jira greenhopper, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center, Rally

Utility Tool: Toad, SQL Developer, Squrriel, EMatrix, Open Market4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Quality Analyst, Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to engineers on testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and processes

  • Works with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automated testing

  • Responsible for managing the definition, implementation, and integration of quality principles into the design and development of software and IT processes

  • Involved in the review of requirements specifications for weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing, and provides recommendations

  • Plans and defines testing approach, providing advice on prioritization of testing activity in support of identified risks in project schedules or test scenarios

  • Develops test plans, testing resource requirements, and overall scheduling of testing activity

  • Responsible for developing manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements

  • Used SOAPUI to perform a data driven testing, where we store the test data in some external storage like database and use the data in our tests when running them.

• Created data source to read the test data into properties from external source, prepared test steps for testing the tests service functionality using 6the Data Source properties.
• Monitors and tracks resolution of defects, coordinating with engineers in order to prevent, report, and resolve

  • Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status

  • Ensured that the allocated work is completed on time by the team members.

• Conducted s to clients and team members
• As a regression expert, shared knowledge on regression analysis, batch execution and reporting
• Define and set up the work space structure
• Place requests for CVS ids. Configure project in Selenium by importing it from SVN
• Rally was used for Requirements management, Releases, Test Case management as an regression tool
• Update the test results in Rally, Burn the tasks and send the regression results to the whole team.
• Helped the Clients in understanding the features of Rates Management
• Expertise in testing the product and tracking the bugs using RALLY

Environment: Rally Software,Java,J2EE, HTTP, Informix, Squrriel, PL/SQL, JDK 1.15.6, WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, 11g,SVN, AJAX and Spread Sheets, MS Office Suite, SOAPUI

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Quality Analyst, Involved in taking the ownership for Insite Trip Planning upgrade project release
• Responsible for conducting daily status meetings to know any hindrances for the team in completing their tasks, if anything, helped in achieving their goals by taking appropriate actions.
• Ensured that the allocated work is completed on time by the team members.
• Conducted s to clients and team members
• Created a new report structure for tracking regression testing - regression tests exceed 10000 and managing the regression test execution is challenging
• As a regression expert, shared knowledge on regression analysis, batch execution and reporting
• Define and set up the work space structure
• Place requests for CVS ids. Configure project in Selenium by importing it from CVS
• Used Mozart as a custom application for versioning and code movement between different environments.
• Used AJAX as on complete HTML pages for each user action of the page to be reloaded from the server
• Involved in UAT in the client locations and done both Alpha and Beta Testing
• Used HP Quality Center for Requirements management, Releases, Test Case management as an regression tool
• Running the tests as usual in Java used a utility to update test results in Quality Center.
• Created the manual test cases in HP Quality Center and created Automation test cases using Selenium / JUnit, Created Mapping between Quality Center test cases and Automation Test cases
• Expertise in testing the product and tracking the bugs using JIRA GREENHOPPER

Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control,Java,J2EE, HTTP, ADF, SOA, Oracle, PL/SQL, JDK 1.15.6, Weblogic,Apache,Tomcat,Oracle 11g, JIRA GREENHOPPER,CVS, AJAX and Spread Sheets, MS Office Suite, HP Quality center11

Confidential, CA

Sr.QA Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, I was responsible for conducting Sprint plan meeting, Preparing Product backlog, and Preparing Sprint burn down chart and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Prepared the Velocity for the development and QA teams to ensure that the product backlog is met for that particular Sprint by issuing the score cards to the teams
• Responsible for running the Daily Scrum meetings and Shields the team from external interferences.
• Ensure that the team is fully functional, productive, there is close cooperation across all roles and functions and the information about the team's progress up to date and visible to all parties.
• Responsible for preparing minutes of meeting, follow up the Action items(if any) and ensured that the Action items are completed on time and if not completed, took the responsibility of meeting the concerned resource to know about the hindrance and helped in overcoming that.
• Totally, ensured that the Product Management, Development, Product building, QA teams are adhering to the Agile methodology and follow the process.
• As a Business Analyst, Performed tasks of gathering requirements and collaborating efforts from multiple teams for Document Management System Product
• Worked closely with the business partners and multiple technical teams to make sure that all the Business needs are addressed and aligned upon.
• Worked across functional business units, Product Management, Development and QA teams to provide solutions for various business requirements.
• Facilitated discussions for test planning and the Implementation planning between multiple teams
• As a Quality Analyst, Involved in taking the ownership for DMS6.0SP2 upgrade project release
• Responsible for conducting daily status meetings to know any hindrances for the team in completing their tasks, if anything, helped in achieving their goals by taking appropriate actions.
• Ensured that the allocated work is completed on time by the team members.
• Conducted s to multiple teams, clients and team members
• Helped the technical writers in providing the inputs about the BCL Software third party tool and about the new features of the product.
• Created a new report structure for tracking regression testing - regression tests exceed 10000 and
• Prepared IQ Documents for the Client on the DMS6.0Upgrade of the Product, BCL Installation
• Used HP Quality Center for Requirements management, Releases, Test Case management
• Helped the Clients in understanding the BCL troubleshooting document.
• Expertise in testing the product with BCL Tool and tracking the bugs related to BCL with the BCL team.
• Helped in coding, if required for the BCL properties file
• Has the commitment to the project and the goals of the current sprint as the team members do

Environment: Quick Test Professional,Java,J2EE, HTTP, Linux, ECP 6.0 SP4, JDK 1.15.6, GRC Foundation, DMS 5.5,SP6,SP7,SP8, Windows /2000/2008,DMS6.0,Weblogic,Apache,Tomcat,Oracle 11g, Spread Sheets, SVN, Web Logic, BCL,AJAX, JAVA ECLIPSE

Confidential

Sr. Consultant / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Undertaking the requirements from Business requirements document (BRD).
• Analyzed business requirement specifications and developed test strategy, test plan, test scenarios and test scripts
• Deployment of QA weekly build and quarterly release.
• Creation and execution of functional and regression test cases for Plan Design, Claim Intake and Quality Audit modules.
• Validation of Processing activities for Health, Vision, Beauty and Pharmacy Products
• Performed Calculation of benefits for various Products and Maintenance activities Execution of functional and system test cases manually and reporting defects to Jira
• Assign task to the Off-shore team and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the bug life cycle using Jira
• Identified test scenarios to be automated and created test script using Quick Test Professional 8.0
• Created and executed test script using Keyword Driven automation frame work.
• Used Jira as repository for requirement analysis, design test cases, Execute test cases, Bug tracking and reporting.
• Regression testing is done for the interfaces to make sure that existing functionalities are not impacted by the changes made in the application using QTP.
• Performed Navigational, Functional, Ad-hoc, Sanity and Regression tests
• Tool for Oracle Application Development (Toad) was used to verify the tables in the database.
• Interacted with the both the Business and Development team to understand the requirements and design of the application.
• Coordinated the testing efforts with UAT (User Acceptance Testing) team and resolved their findings on the application

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.0,Jira5.0, Visual Basic 6.0, VB Script, Oracle 9i, Sql Server 2000, Toad, Visual Source Safe, Windows XP, OS/390, UML,XML,HTTP, MS Office suite, Crystal Reports, FTP, SVN, SQL Developer.

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the regression test team - task assignments, monitoring work, tracking status.
• Responsible for providing Resource plan, Test plan and estimation of effort from onshore and offshore
• Assign tasks to the regression test team
• Participate in the Functional Spec document review meetings for all the release line items
• Made a good profit for the company by setting up the QA Process from the scratch.
• Performed Regression Testing for subsequent versions of the application using Quick Test Professional
• Co-ordinate with the offshore test team members in identifying product issues and tracking them.
• Work with the infrastructure team to resolve issues related to test environments
• Conduct daily status calls with the offshore test team to address their issues and monitor their status
• Create and maintain Regression reporting both in HP Quality Center and MS Excel
• Send the status report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the client.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for testing the functionality and Performance requirements of the application.
• Used Rational Unified Process model for project implementation involving the Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Testing phases of project.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix as per the test cases and functional specifications.
• Generated Reports using Quality Center at the time of execution and releases
• Perform analysis on regression failures, and appropriately log defects in HP Quality Center
• Updated test cases in QC with change request
• Update FitNesse test scripts based on regression analysis
• Execute any updated FitNesse scripts on local QA machines before checking them into SVN.
• Performed SQL queries and ran stored procedures as per requirements
• Attend Defect triage meetings for the release and track the regression defects to closure
• Provide effort estimation on any new requirement changes - CRs and any Production defects being planned to be absorbed in the release from a regression standpoint

Environment: QTP,Java,J2EE, HTTP, XML, WSDL, Oracle 9i Linux, Windows XP/2000/2008,FitNesse, WSDL, MS Office suite, Java, Eclipse, HP Quality Center 9.2, Windows Batch programming

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing Back end and Front end of the application manually
• Performed System Integration testing to ensure the integrity with database.
• Involved in writing Test Cases (MS Excel)
• Involved in writing extended rules to populate the temporary storage records.
• Extensively involved in Regression testing, Positive and Negative Testing.
• Various testing types like Business Function Test, Load Test and Installation Test was performed.
• Involved in the execution of Test Cases for System testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing manually (Alpha).
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on the function specifications.
• Involved in the review of requirements with business analysts and technical specialists.
• Analyzed the application and performed Black Box and end-to-end manual testing.
• Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure the project completion on time with the developer’s team.
• Performed manual testing and defect tracking of Web applications
• Coordinating in the preparation of Test Plan/Test Strategy for the application after careful analysis of requirements and specifications
• Wrote many SQL/PLSQL scripts to verify data in the DB and verify consistency with application UI
• OrganizedWalkthroughsandInspectionswith my team members and reviewed the status of the application.
• Act as single point of contact between development team and testing team
• Preparation of Functional Requirement Traceability Matrix documents required for Quality Audit.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the Defect.
• Reported and tracked defects using Test Director.
• Regression Testing and Stress Testing were done at various phases in the application.
• Worked with developers, BA’s and Release mangers to discussed ways to fix the defects

Environment: MS-Word, MS-Excel, Windows XP, Oracle9i, PLSQL, Sql Developer, ODBC, Windows XP, SQL Server 2005, XML,MS Excel and Flat Files, MS project.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included writing the test plan and executing the test cases manually
• Documenting Test Cases and Scripts for integration and functional testing.
• Executing test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Providing and support to the production support group.
• Used Test Director for managing test plans, test cases, and automated tests and reporting.
• Use Test Director to store, schedule, execute and track test cases.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on the function specifications.
• Involved in the review of requirements with business analysts and technical specialists.
• Analyzed the application and performed Black Box and end-to-end manual testing.
• Performed End-to-end Testing on the release version of the software application and detected GUI bugs
• Tracking the bugs, making pass-fail report, comparison chart and Defect report
• Create Impact analysis documents for identifying the regression impacts
• Checked for the Database Integrity using the SQL Queries.
• Involved in daily calls and reviews with professional services
• Test case review with the partner labs
• Attend Defect triage meetings for the release and track the regression defects to closure
• Provide effort estimation on any new requirement changes - CRs and any Production defects being planned to be absorbed in the release from a regression standpoint

Environment: Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, Java, CSS, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, Visual Source, Crystal Reports 8.5, windows 2000

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of sub Modules namely Template details, Key Performance Attributes and Members details
• Involved in bi-weekly cross-site calls with participants from multiple geographies
• Add/update tasks done by the app objects
• Develop Create test case scripts
• Follow the integration strategy to integrate a test case into the test suite.
• Develop data pools to store the test data
• Responsibilities included writing the test plan and executing the test cases manually
• Documenting Test Cases and Scripts for integration and functional testing.
• Executing test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Providing and support to the production support group.
• Use Test Director to store, schedule, execute and track test cases.
• Tracking the bugs, making pass-fail report, comparison chart and Defect report
• Attended performance meetings with developers and business analysts to review the testing process.

Environment: Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, Java, JSP, CSS, HTML, DHTML, Visual Source, Crystal Reports 8.5, Bugzilla, Web logic BEA, windows 2000, Log and Trace Analyzer