SUMMARY

• Proven QA professional around 10 years of experience in a big Multinational business especially on various complex software projects.
• Extensive experience in various domains such as Supply Chain and Health Care
• Good experience on several Client/Server, Web Interfacing, Data Warehousing (ETL) and GUI applications.
• Experienced in working closely with the Developers, project/program manager and other stake holders during program execution.
• Excellent Experience in implementing various forms of Software Development Life Cycle like Analysis, Design, Testing and Product delivery
• Excellent experience in technical, analytical and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to deliver quality work under tight deadlines, Stress tolerant, dedicated and hard working with strong learning curve and maintain high Software Quality Standards.
• Participated and reviewed extensive Software Lifecycle documentation like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS), and Technical Design Specification (TDS).
• Extensive experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with Test planning, Test design, Test execution and Test results validation.
• Ability to deliver quality work under tight deadlines, Stress tolerant, dedicated and hard working with strong learning curve and maintain high Software Quality Standards.
• Excellent technical, analytical, detail oriented, and ability to deliver quality work under tight deadlines; Stress tolerant, dedicated, hardworking and maintained high Software Quality Standards.
• Excellent experience in testing on projects of high complexity within multiple development environments.
• Strong skills in manual and automated testing using QTP, Selenium and Load Runner.
• Enthusiastic about learning new concepts in emerging technologies.
• Excellent communication, Self - motivated, cooperative, self-starter and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in various types of testing such as Black Box Testing, White box testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Database Back End Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing Performance testing, End to End Testing and UAT testing with Business users.
• Expertise in Web services testing by using SOAP UI
• Experience in setup of Test Environments and creating Test data.
• Excellent experience in creating and executing complex test cases, linking Requirements, defect raising, coordinating in Defect Management Life Cycle and generating reports using HP Quality Center and TFS (Team Foundation Server).
• Good Experience of working as Quality Center Admin towards creating and customizing User roles and their access levels.
• Experienced in Leading a Team with both On-site and Off-shore Team.
• Experience knowledge and experience creating SQL Queries for database back end testing and data validation using TOAD, SQL Server and DB visualizer.
• Actively participated in formal and informal test case review meetings.
• Extensive experience in providing the Root cause analysis.
• Strong expertise in creating documents with Microsoft office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
• Experience in providing the Knowledge Sharing sessions to Internal Team and Business Users
• Experience in defining and generating Test Metrics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems/ System Software: Windows XP, Windows 7, IE 7, Unix, Linux

Database Management: Oracle 11g, MS-Access2007, SQL Server 2008, Teradata

Testing tools: Test Director 8.0, Quality center 9.2, QTP 8.2 (Quick Test Professional), Soap UI, Text Pad 5, Note Pad ++ and TFS 2010, DBVizualizer and Load Runner

Languages/ Scripting: C++, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, JAVA, HTML, XML,OOP(Object Oriented Programing) and .Net 3.5

Middleware Tech: Web Services, API and IBM MQ Series

Utilities and Version Control Tools: Toad, MS Office (MS Word, Excel), Informatica ETL, FTP, HTTP/ HTTPS, IP, Visual SourceSafe, VSTS 2010, Remedy, Putty and SharePoint

GUI/Web/Reports/Testing /Methodology: MS Access, Visual Basic, ASP, JSP, JSF, Business Intelligence UI Reports, Agile, Waterfall, V Model

Applications: Web / Client-Server / ETL(Data warehouse)/ Global applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Test Lead / QA Lead

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• As a Test Lead prepared the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted meetings with team, Management and business.
• Prepared the Test Metrics using by QC to analyze the Defects in SIT /UAT/Production
• Used QC to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Worked with ETL groups and business analyst for understating mapping documents
• Developed the test cases based on the ETL mappings and design documents and conducted the Test case review meetings with peers, developers and Business
• Created test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality
• Used the Informatica ETL tool to Load the Data in to Data warehouse from Legacy source systems
• Prepared the SQL Queries for Data Validation from Source to Target data validation.
• Tested the data completeness and Transformation rules based on the ETL Mapping Documents
• Created and executed the FTP Historical/Hourly /Daily/ Weekly jobs in Putty to load the data from Source to Target
• Prepared the Automatic scheduled jobs to populate the data in to Reports
• Created and verified the Static and Dynamic Reports in Business objects UI
• Maintained documentation related to difficulties, complexities and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process.
• Opened production tickets using the Remedy system.
• Developed Dash Board in QC and provided the access to Project teams to give opportunity to monitor the status of testing.
• Involved in the Test Environment Preparation.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Involved & created Test data for UAT Team based on the business request
• Acquired the Test case review and UAT review sign off from business.
• Participated in the UAT testing and defect review Meetings
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, End to End Testing and System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Provided the Knowledge Sharing sessions to Internal team and Business Users
• Provided Daily Status Reports to project management.
• Involved & supported in Onsite Production testing
• Created the Post Install Test cases and preparation of Post Install Test data and involved in Post install testing

Environment: Informatica, Teradata, Oracle, UNIX, Business Objects, Quality Center, Putty, Remedy

Test Lead / QA Lead

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• As a Test Lead prepared the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted meetings with team, Management and business.
• Prepared the Test Metrics using by TFS to analyze the Defects in SIT /UAT/Production
• Used TFS to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Worked with ETL groups and business analyst for understating mapping documents
• Developed the test cases based on the ETL mappings and design documents and conducted the Test case review meetings with peers, developers and Business
• Created test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality
• Used the Informatica ETL tool to Load the Data in to Data warehouse from Legacy source systems
• Prepared the SQL Queries for Data Validation from Source to Target data validation.
• Tested the data completeness and Transformation rules based on the ETL Mapping Documents
• Created and executed the FTP Historical/Hourly /Daily/ Weekly jobs in Putty to load the data from Source to Target
• Prepared the Automatic scheduled jobs to populate the data in to Reports
• Created and verified the Static and Dynamic Reports in Business objects UI
• Maintained documentation related to difficulties, complexities and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process.
• Opened production tickets using the Remedy system.
• Developed Dash Board in TFS and provided the access to Project teams to give opportunity to monitor the status of testing.
• Involved in the Test Environment Preparation.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Involved & created Test data for UAT Team based on the business request
• Acquired the Test case review and UAT review sign off from business.
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, End to End Testing and System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Provided the Knowledge Sharing sessions to Internal team and Business Users
• Provided Daily Status Reports to project management.
• Involved & supported in Onsite Production testing
• Created the Post Install Test cases and preparation of Post Install Test data and involved in Post install testing

Environment: Informatica, Teradata, Oracle, UNIX, TFS 2010, Putty, Remedy

Test Lead / QA Lead

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• As a Test Lead prepared the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted meetings with team, Management and business.
• Prepared the Test Metrics using by TFS to analyze the Defects in SIT /UAT/Production
• Used TFS to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Worked with ETL groups and business analyst for understating mapping documents
• Developed the test cases based on the ETL mappings and design documents and conducted the Test case review meetings with peers, developers and Business
• Created test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality
• Used the Informatica ETL tool to Load the Data in to Data warehouse from Legacy source systems
• Prepared the SQL Queries for Data Validation from Source to Target data validation.
• Tested the data completeness and Transformation rules based on the ETL Mapping Documents
• Created and executed the FTP Historical/Hourly /Daily/ Weekly jobs in Putty to load the data from Source to Target
• Prepared the Automatic scheduled jobs to populate the data in to Reports
• Created and verified the Static and Dynamic Reports in Business objects UI
• Maintained documentation related to difficulties, complexities and anomalies that may arise during the ETL process.
• Opened production tickets using the Remedy system.
• Developed Dash Board in TFS and provided the access to Project teams to give opportunity to monitor the status of testing.
• Involved in the Test Environment Preparation.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Involved & created Test data for UAT Team based on the business request
• Acquired the Test case review and UAT review sign off from business.
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, End to End Testing and System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Provided the Knowledge Sharing sessions to Internal team and Business Users
• Provided Daily Status Reports to project management.
• Involved & supported in Onsite Production testing
• Created the Post Install Test cases and preparation of Post Install Test data and involved in Post install testing

Environment: Informatica, Teradata, Oracle, UNIX, TFS 2010, Putty, Remedy

Sr.Test Engineer / Sr. QA Test Analyst

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• Created the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted review meeting with Management team and business
• Implementing an Agile methodology
• Used Mercury Quality Center to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Created the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Positive and Negative test cases based on scenarios.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Created Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Created the Test data for UAT Team based on the their request
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and E2E Testing
• Used the SOAP UI to test the Web services
• Sending Daily Status Reports
• Involved & supported in UAT testing and Onsite Production testing
• Created the Post Install Test cases
• Preparation of Post Install Test data and involved in Post install testing

Environment: Oracle Health Insurance (Claims Adjudication System), HPHC Connect, Intel Pentium, HP UNIX, Oracle 11g, Lotus Notes 7.0.2, Java and groovy script, QC, QTP, SOAP UI, Remedy

Sr.Test Engineer / Sr. QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• Created the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted review meeting with Management team and business
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Developed the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Dash Board in TFS and provided the access to Project teams to give opportunity to monitor the status of testing.
• Involved in the Test Environment Preparation
• Created Positive and Negative test cases based on scenarios.
• Identifying automation components for Regression testing.
• Identified automated Test cases and prepared the Test Data for Automation phase.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Prepared Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Created the Test data for UAT Team based on the their request
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and E2E Testing
• Involved & supported in UAT testing & Onsite Production
• Created the Post Install Test cases
• Involved in Preparation of Post Install Test data and in Post install testing
• Created the Test Metrics by analyzing the Defects in SIT /UAT/Production

Environment: ASP.Net, Java, OOP (Object Oriented Programing), Microsoft Dynamics AX, .Net, Web Service, Oracle, SQL, MQ Series, XML, TFS 2010, QTP 9.2,Load Runner, Remedy 7.5, VSTS2010, SOAP UI

Sr.Test Engineer / Sr. QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Technical Design Specification (TDS) and Mapping Document review Meetings.
• Prepared the Test Estimations and Test Plan and conducted review meeting with Management team and business
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Created the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Dash Board in TFS and provided the access to Project teams to give opportunity to monitor the status of testing.
• Involved in the Test Environment Preparation
• Worked with ETL groups and business analyst for understating mapping documents
• Created test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the Reports functionality
• Used the Informatica ETL tool to Load the Data in to Data warehouse from Legacy source systems
• Prepared the SQL Queries for Data Validation from Source to Target data validation.
• Tested the data completeness and Transformation rules based on the ETL Mapping Documents
• Created and executed the FTP Historical/Hourly /Daily/ Weekly jobs in Putty to load the data from Source to Target
• Created and verified the Static and Dynamic Reports in Business objects UI
• Identifying automation components for Regression testing.
• Identified automated Test cases and prepared the Test Data
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Prepared Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Created the Test data for UAT Team based on the their request
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and E2E Testing
• Sending Daily Status Reports
• Involved & supported in UAT testing
• Prepared Post Install Test cases and Post Install Test data
• Created the Test Metrics by analyzing the Defects in SIT /UAT/Production

Environment: .Net, Web Services, SQL 2005, TFS 2010, QTP 9.2, Load Runner, Remedy 7.5, Informatica, Unix and Teradata

Sr.Test Engineer / Sr. QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Technical Design Specification (TDS) review Meetings.
• Used TFS (Team Foundation Server) to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Created the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Positive and Negative test cases based on scenarios.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Prepared Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Provided the Test data for UAT Team based on the their request
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and E2E Testing
• Involved & supported in UAT testing
• Created the Post Install Test cases
• Involved in Preparation of Post Install Test data and Post install testing
• Provided Test status every day to test lead.

Environment: Perl Scripting, UNIX, Linux, Web Service, Oracle, Toad, Quality Center 9.2, SOAP UI, Remedy

Test Engineer / QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Technical Design Specification (TDS) review Meetings.
• Used Test Director (Mercury Quality Center) to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Created the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Positive and Negative test cases based on scenarios.
• Created the SQL Queries to verify the data in the back end
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Prepared Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Provided the Test data for UAT Team based on the their request
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Database testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Created the Post Install Test cases
• Involved in Preparation of Post Install Test data and Post install testing
• Provided Test status every day to test lead.

Environment: Perl Scripting, UNIX, Linux, Web Service, Oracle, Quality Center 9.2, SOAP UI, Remedy

Test Engineer / QA Test Analyst

Confidential, Austin/TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Technical Design Specification (TDS) review Meetings.
• Used Test Director (Mercury Quality Center) to create Test Plan, Test cases, execute test cases, linking the requirements, opening defects and creating reports.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scenarios based upon the Business requirements.
• Created the Test Cases based on Test Scenarios and conducted the Test Case Review meetings with peers, developers and business.
• Created Positive and Negative test cases based on scenarios.
• Prepared Traceability matrix and GAP Analysis documents to identify GAP between Test cases and Requirements.
• Created Test data in QA environment based on test scenarios.
• Provided Test Data for UAT Team based on their request.
• Actively participated in defect analysis and co-ordinated with developers and retested after fix and created defect reports and maintained the test logs.
• Participated in smoke testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing.
• Provided Test status every day to test lead.

Environment: Perl Scripting, UNIX, Linux, Web Service, Oracle, Quality Center 9.2