PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Offering 9 plus years of rich experience in software testing and working as Test Lead.
• A qualified B.E, M.B.A & accented with the latest trends and techniques of the field, determined to carve a successful and satisfying career in the IT industry.
• Good experience in Retail, Banking, Mortgage, Auto, Insurance and Reinsurance Domain.
• Strong problem solving & analytical skills with the flexibility to work cohesively as part of a multidisciplinary team, complimenting the skills of others.
• Rich onsite work experience with different reputed clients in the countries like UK & USA.
• Excellent client handling experience from various Geographics like USA, UK & France.
• Experience in handling multiple tasks easily and capable of meeting deadlines. In - depth knowledge of Risk Estimation, Test Plan Preparation, different Test Matrices preparation, Test Case Review / Preparation, Test Requirement Review & Coverage Analysis.
• Superb work experience in Manual Testing for both Web based and Client server application.
• Excellent work experience in Bug Tracking and Test Report generation.
• Successfully introduced and implemented Quality Center in various projects including SAP.
• Profound understanding of Organizational process and implementation at project level.
• Deep understanding of all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Testing Life Cycle.
• Very good working experience in version management tools like V.S.s and Share point
• Proficient working knowledge in functional tools QTP and Test Complete.
• Good experience in Handling Exceptions, Recovery Operations and Trouble Shooting Technical Issues.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP

Test Management Tools: Quality Center 10.0, Test Director 8.0, ALM 11.5

Version Control Tools: Team Forge, VSS

Functional Testing Tools: QTP, Test Complete 7.2

Programming/Scripting Language: VB script

Database: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, DB2

Domain / Functional: Reinsurance, Insurance, Banking, Retail, Mortgage and Auto

Software Development Platform: .Net,, JAVA, J2EE, Confidential, SAP, Data Warehousing

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Test planning.
• Perform functional end to end testing.
• Work allocation.
• Change Request Management.
• Risk Management
• Status Reporting to Client & Senior Management.
• Quality Processes & Practices
• Monitor & Deliver testing activities of the project as per scheduled milestones.
• Serve as a single point of contact for client’s requirements.
• Conducting Best Practices session for the team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership for analyzing and resolving service requests viz. UAT & Production support & managing manual testing for end-to-end system and data validation.
• Accountable for providing quality standards for operational areas & ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Independently responsible for leading a team of 6 members without compromising regular testing activities & providing training sessions on the application.
• Leding efforts in developing & executing best practices & standard operating procedures targeting at organisational excellence.
• Actively participating in meeting for discussing the status and issues regarding the project deliverables.
• Developed and implemented test plan, test scenarios & test cases as per the requirements.
• Meticulously involved in business requirements, prepared extensive test data for testing positive and negative scenarios, rapid test execution on priority Defects, Short Sanity and Extensive Regression, Database Testing (Back End Testing) of the Application.
• Hold credentials for creating and maintaining different matrices describing roles & activities and tasks for testing tree. Extensively implement different testing review and execution checklist to improve the quality of deliverables.
• Efficiently handled critical CR's which involved client interaction on a regular basis.
• Prepared Test Plan which includes Test strategy and risk analysis for different phases of testing life cycle.
• Played significant role in coordinating with Business Users and Development Team Members to understand Business Requirements and to develop Test Scenarios.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functional specification document.
• Communicate with business analyst to gather or clarify requirement.
• Prepare Test plan.
• Create business scenarios.
• Write test cases and make them reviewed by business analyst.
• Actively participate in pear review process.
• Perform smoke testing
• Execute test cases in different phases.
• Log defects and retest after fix.
• Work distribution to offshore team and help them to achieve the target.
• Provide daily and weekly QA status to Client.
• Appraisal handling of QA team members.
• Setting short term and long term goals of the team members.
• Managing and allocation of tasks to the QA team.
• Resolving issues with Client and R&D.

Environment: Java, Oracle

Test Tool: Quality Center 10.0

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Core responsible from Offshore to deliver the testing job
• Handled a team of 10 people
• Understanding the functional specification document.
• Prepared Query log based on Functional specification understanding.
• Interacted with client on daily basis
• Trained and groomed the team member
• Prepared Test plan
• Involved in the designing and review of test cases.
• Uploaded and updated test cases into QC.
• Prepared traceability metrics
• Analyzed the logged defects for defect prevention activity
• Executed SQL queries on database
• Updated the status report and MOM’s to client on daily basis
• Performed appraisal for team members
• Timesheet approval and leave approval for team members
• Prepared development plan for fresher team members

Environment: .net, SQL server

Test Tool: Quality Center 10.0

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead 15 number of team
• Interacted with French client on regular basis to implement testing service in project
• Prepared Test Plan and risk analysis documents.
• Introduced& Implemented HPQC in to project
• Prepared HPQC implementation plan
• Prepared HPQC training document and naming convention docs
• Mentored and trained team member including French team to use HPQC in project
• Actively participated entire HPQC administrator activity
• Report extraction and monitor team to complete HPQC work
• Weekly progress report for senior management
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix for coverage of the application

Environment: SAP

Test Tool: Quality Center 10.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Handled a team of 4 people in client side UK.
• Involved in the meetings at client side to gather and analyze system requirements.
• Responsible to prepare Test Plan and enhance Test case documents.
• Knowledge Transfer to client side people on QC
• Report extraction and team monitoring to complete testing activities.
• Created weekly progress report for senior management and client

Environment: JADE3

Test Tool: Quality Center 10.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with client to get automation requirements
• Test tool evaluation( QTP 9.2 vs. Test Complete 7.2)
• Performed manual & automation testing by using Test Complete
• Identified and designed automation test scenarios
• Writing automation test script
• Automated the Test Cases using Test Complete.
• Developed Utility Functions at generic level.
• Involved in the execution of the scripts and Result Analysis.
• Executed automation test scripts and logged defects in Q.C.
• Estimation & work distribution to team
• Responsible to update the status report to client on daily basis.

Environment: .Net (WPF, WCF), MS-SQL Server 2008

Test Tool: Test Complete 7.2, Quality Center 10.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Handled a team of 6 people
• Understanding the functional specification document.
• Prepared Query log based on Functional specification understanding.
• Involved in the designing and review of test cases.
• Uploading and updating test cases into QC.
• Reviewed Integration test cases.
• New Change Request analysis and system test case preparation for it.
• Analyzed the logged defects for defect prevention activity.
• Executing SQL queries on database.
• Updating the status report and MOM’s to client on daily basis.

Environment: RedPrairie

Test Tool: Quality Center 10.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Test plan preparation and test estimation.
• System test case preparation based on FS and Use case.
• Change Request analysis and Query log preparation based on it.
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix for coverage of the application
• Prepared Horizontal traceability matrix for Referential Integrity and impact analysis
• Prepared end-to-end system level scenarios which covers positive and negative flow of the system.
• Prepared Functional specification for Change requests to be shared with Client.
• Planned and tracked the Work allocation and WBS.
• Prepared test case review checklist for Unit and Integration test case.
• Analyzed UAT and QA Defects and tracked these defect statuses in QC.
• Prepared Test execution report for defect tracking on daily basis.
• Prepared impact analysis matrix for the UAT defect fixes to be shared with Client.

Environment: ASP, .NET, Oracle 10g

Test Tool: Quality Center 8.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Query log based on Functional specification understanding.
• Perform manual testing
• Prepare High level Test Plan
• Write test cases in Test Director (8.0)
• Review test cases.
• Preparation Test Set using Test Director (8.0)
• Execute Test Set in TD and log defect
• Sending Daily Status Report to the Business Project Managers and Project Teams

Environment: Oracle, SIEBEL Analytics 7.8, SIEBEL Web services

Test Tool: Quality Center 8.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Perform manual and automation Testing-using Q.T.P (8.2).
• Prepare High level Test Plan
• Write test cases in Test Director (8.0)
• Preparation Test Set using Test Director (8.0)
• Generating Object description &Test Scripts for Q.T.P
• Upload script to TD
• Execute Test Set in TD and log defect
• Sending Daily Status Report to the Business Project Managers and Project Teams

Environment: AS400, DB2, .Net

Test Tool: Q.T.P 8.2, Test director 8.0