SUMMARY

• IT Professional wif 11 years of diversified experience in manual and automation Quality Assurance wif expertise knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, V - Model, Agile
• Extensive experience in interacting wif clients and working wif teams distributed across various geographical locations
• Excellent skills and hands on experience in preparing and reviewing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Execution of Test Cases and Defect Management
• Strong working domain knowledge in Banking, Finance, Health Care and Business Intelligence domains
• Extensive experience in functional (including SQL/ETL), regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Strong experience in automation testing. Experience in Selenium framework design and implementation
• Experience in Mobile testing (Native and Hybrid) in Android, I Phone, Blackberry devices
• Strong agile experience in agile environment and as Scrum Master
• Proven a successful trainer in several trainings to teams on agile and best practices in agile
• Led a team of 2-10 for more TEMPthan 5 years and proven track record as Individual contributor as well
• Strong experience in Project planning, Statement of Work (SOW) and Charter preparations, project cost estimations
• Quick learner wif short learning curve when faced wif challenges and new environments and a good team player wif excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools/Frameworks: Selenium IDE, Web Driver, Eclipse, TestNG, Junit, Maven, Appium

Requirements Management tools: Rational Requirements Composer, MS Visio, Kanban

Defect tracking tools: Bugzilla, Rational Team Concert, Jira, Clear Quest, Quality Centre

Test Management tools: Rational Quality Manager

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

MS Office Suite: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Finance and Health Care, Business Intelligence

Database: SQL Server 2008/12

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Owned and managed all testing deliverables to ensure high quality delivery
• Involved in the core team for analyzing various BI tools like Qlikview, Power BI, Tableau, in the market to select best business suitable BI tool
• Extensively worked as Quality Analyst on this project and led team of 3 junior QAs in this project
• Involved in requirements discussions wif business and provided feedback which halped to get clear and testable requirements
• Prepared test strategy in line wif business objectives, detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plan, test cases, and test effort estimation
• Owned setting up required test management and testing tools for this project from scratch and trained team on the same
• Analyzed automation scope for regression, created a selenium framework and implemented which in turn reduced lot of manual testing time for regression
• Implemented pair programming concept. As a result, we achieved 0 UAT and post production defects for multiple releases
• Performed functional, database (SQL/ETL), non-functional, regression testing and provided daily test and defect reports
• Collaborated wif vendor Qlik on product enhancements/features and customizations
• Assisted business team to perform User Acceptance Testing
• Closely worked wif project architect, Engagement Leaders, Technical Delivery Managers, Agile team to understand feasibility of requirements to deliver quality product
• Assisted Technical Delivery Manager in project charter, statement of work, release plan, quarterly summary, cost estimation preparation
• Recognized by leadership as key contributor to successful roll out of 2000+ legacy reports wif Qlikview tool
• Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective meetings for all releases
• TEMPEffectively translated retrospective feedback into actionable items and tracked them till successful closure
• TEMPEffectively managed User Stories, tasks, efforts, burn down charts
• Utilized Rational Team Concert tool to create, track tasks for agile team and developed leadership dashboards to reflect project’s live status
• Conducted several trainings to teams on agile and best practices in agile
• Introduced pair programming concept which halped to deliver many releases wif 0 UAT and post production issues

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end to end testing of ETL transformations starting from multiple sources
• Prepared detailed, comprehensive and well-structured Test Plan and reviewed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Execution Results
• Extensively involved in multiple rounds of functional and regression testing
• Performed defect and test reporting and ensured defects were tracked to closure
• Co-ordinated testing activities and represented QA team in status meetings wif leadership
• Involved in selenium web driver framework creation for regression testing and executed, analyzed automation test results
• Recorded defects thoroughly in Rational Team Concert tool and created auto reports
• Participated in troubleshooting and triaging of issues wif different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Supported production deployment of applications and performing validation testing during the off-hours maintenance windows

Confidential

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked as QA on this project in all modules of Software Test Life Cycle
• Involved in requirements discussion wif business, client, development team and document requirements
• Prepared test strategy in line wif business objectives, detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plan, test cases, and test effort estimation
• Interacted wif different project teams to ensure high quality product requirements, design, construction and release
• Involved in functional and database testing and report validations. Best used my SQL query skills here
• Own and manage all test life cycle deliverables to ensure high quality delivery
• Tracked defects in defect management tool Quality Center and ensured all defects are tracked to closure and led daily Defect Review Board meetings
• Reported project status tracking and status updating to stakeholders and represent QA team in daily and weekly team meetings
• Took responsibility of release notes and UAT Sign-offs from Clients
• Prepared test plan, scenarios, test cases, traceability matrix to test the objectives and execute the test cases and log and track issues
• Performed functional and regression testing of the application

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussed requirements wif product owner and documented system and functional requirements
• Prepared test plan, scenarios, test cases, traceability matrix to test the objectives
• Executed the test cases and log and track issues and performed functional and regression testing of the application
• Represented QA team in daily and weekly team meetings
• Handled Change Requests and provide estimation

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plan, scenarios, test cases, traceability matrix to test the objectives
• Executed the test cases and log and track issues in Confidential ’s internal tool products web
• Performed functional and regression testing of the application and tracked defects till closure
• Represented QA team in daily and weekly team meetings
• Participated in troubleshooting and triaging of issues wif different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Supported production deployment of applications and performing validation testing during the off-hours maintenance windows

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of SDLC including Requirements Collection, Design & Analysis of the Customer Specifications, Development, Testing and Customization of the application
• Transferred knowledge on health care and project to new joiners and as well as developers when they need more clarification on requirement
• Prepared comprehensive and well-structured test plan, test cases, and test effort estimation
• Prepared test environment, execute the test cases and log and track issues
• Performed functional and multiple rounds of regression testing of the application
• Documented the functionalities and user guide
• Provided daily and weekly test updates to leadership
• Participated in troubleshooting and triaging of issues wif different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Supported production deployment of applications and performing validation testing during the off-hours maintenance windows

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement discussions wif hospital management and provided suggestions
• Participated in understanding the requirements and document test cases to test the objectives
• Prepared test environment, execute the test cases and log and track issues in Quality Center
• Performed multiple rounds of functional and regression testing of the application
• Participated in weekly review meetings and contribute to testing TEMPeffectiveness
• Worked along wif developers and deployment team so the project is successful
• Tested application post deployment during weekends and maintenance windows