SUMMARY

• 13 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals
• Extensive experience with Test Management, Test Planning, Test Execution, Manual Testing, Requirement analysis, Test Plan creation, testing tools like HP QC, HP QTP, SOAP UI, Oracle SQL Developer.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business/functional requirements to test requirements and architecture.
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Test Project Manager, Defect Lead, Automation Tester, Manual Tester and Metrics Coordinator
• Executed testing projects for telecom and banking industry
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Client Communication - Requirement discussion, Test Planning, Defect Reporting and Testing Progress, Task Status reporting etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, Oracle 11g

Languages: C, XML, Python, Core Java

O/S: Unix, Windows

Tools: HP Quick Test Professional, HP QC 10.0, HP ALM, Rational Clear QuestRational Test Manager, TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, XML MarkerSOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Consultant/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project planning and requirement review sessions for Gas SCADA Replacement Project.
• Test Planning: Came up with the test strategy for Gas SCADA and created Test Strategy and Test Plans.
• Estimation: Worked on Resource and Test Case estimation
• Participated in Vendor Demos for vendor selection
• Participated in functional and non-functional requirement gathering and review sessions
• Worked along with the Analyst to come up with Test Use Cases based on the role based day-to-day work of people involved in Gas SCADA work.
• Participated in the solution design sessions with the vendor and project team.
• Discussed Test Strategy and Test Plans with the vendor to take their inputs on FAT, System Test, Functional Test, Stability Test, Security/Vulnerability Test, Performance Test, Disaster Recovery Test and Commissioning Test to finalize their involvement and assistance during these test phases.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tracking and managing investments and financials for the account.
• Managed project financials, issues and tracked opportunities to ensure numbers are met
• Worked as Transition Manager for Glacier project
• Reporting and Tracking of Investment Budget for migration projects
• Established an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer
• Provided daily/weekly direction to the project team and regular project status to the management
• Worked with the Delivery Integration Team to ensure that all relevant Teams within Confidential and alliance teams were engaged to during migration
• Worked on professional handoff, AID and ASCP documents.
• Ensured all issues are resolved and dates are met
• Coordinated and facilitated meetings for the project and tracked issues and action items
• Application id tracking and management

Confidential

Senior Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Functional/Regression Test cases based on SRS/FS (Functional Specification about particular feature)/Change request Specification
• Reviewed test cases with ITPM, Business Stakeholders, Business Analysts and Developers and took sign-off before execution phase started.
• Executed functional (end-to-end) test cases to ensure the project meets requirements before changes are placed in production.
• Reported defect and tracked their status with the dev teams on daily basis.
• Worked with business analysts, developers, and business representatives in the resolution of testing incidents.
• Maintained documentation of test results to assist in debugging and reporting.
• Analyzed test results to ensure functionality meets requirements and recommended corrective action resolution of problems/issues.
• Coordinated with other testing teams (across sites) to execute end-end testing
• Adhered to the Project Schedule, Quality & Standards.
• Validated test results during close out activities after end of every release.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed the business requirements and derived test requirements and test cases from that and ADDs.
• Involved in test data preparation.
• Involved in preparing and execution of Functional/Regression Test cases.
• Raised defects in Rational Clear Quest, if encountered any defects during execution.
• Sanity check daily.
• Responsible for Status updates in the Rational Test Manager according to the execution.
• Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and clients
• Provided technical and investigative support for functional users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues, testing requirements

Associate System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Confidential Internal applications like Lotus Notes, Sametime, WWER, Lotus Mobile Connect etc.
• Assigned as SME for Confidential Internal applications.
• Training new resources on the above listed applications.
• Application administration for Lotus Notes including recertifying the id files, renewing the certificates etc.
• Integration testing of Sametime with Lotus Notes.
• Recertifying and unlocking the user ids.
• Pulling the customer out of Deny Access Group

Solution Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with customer and partners to define and resolve product issues
• File and track detailed bug reports
• Respond in a timely manner to software defect reports and product customization requests.
• Evaluate and troubleshoot customer issues while tracking specific details in the incident management ticketing system.
• Collaborate with development team during design and implementation phases of projects.
• Share best practices with team members to enhance the quality and efficiency of customer support and contribute to the knowledge base.
• Analysis, design, implementation, and testing of Sharepoint Portals
• Design and implementation of interfaces between the above mentioned Sharepoint Portals and other Corporate tools