SUMMARY:

• Has around 11 years of Strong QA experience in Design, plan and Execution of Manual & Automated testing for TCP/IP Networking, Performance testing of web based and stand - alone applications in various domains wif global clients such as Confidential, McAfee Solutions and Alcatel Lucent.
• Has extensive expertise in leading QA teams, estimate generation, planning test cycles, handling QA projects, application analysis, gap analysis, test strategy development, guiding and mentoring people, handling bugs triages, Generating quality metrics, generating automation roadmaps.
• Seasoned professional, wif outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills wif ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
• Excel at communicating wif stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding teh ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Superior coordination of testing teh final deliverables through iterative evolutions.
• Solid experience of working in a global organization, and ensured Quality Assurance plans and methods are implemented for all initiatives.
• To work as a team wif teh Project Managers & Program Managers, and to assess risks & impacts of teh project deliverables.
• Played teh role of onsite coordinator & offshore coordinator.
• Experienced in building teh team, hiring testers, appraising teh team members, and mentoring.
• Experienced in handling multiple resource vendors for short term & long term requirements.
• Identifying requirement and organize / conduct internal s on various products to team members.
• Planning, deploying and managing teh testing effort for any given project / release, and managing testing time and coverage to meet teh needs for teh given project, ensuring testing is performed thoroughly.
• Track and prepare teh report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Accountable for status reporting like DSR & Weekly, tracking and following up wif escalations & issues if any. Ownership of releases and patch history for all teh products, and making sure that defects are regressed and closed in respective patch releases.
• Participating in reviews and defect triage meetings.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by teh organization.
• Actively participated in Hiring and evaluating test team members.
• Has good noledge and involved in all aspects of software life cycle (SDLC) wif RUP, Sprint, Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Has good experience in implementing software QA methodologies and processes, QA product deliverables, product templates and escalation processes.
• Clear understanding and experience wif all software testing phases (STLC) and worked on all types of testing including System, Integration, Regression, Functional, Performance, Manual & Automated and UAT under Windows and UNIX Environments.
• Created an Automation framework for Strategic Data Interface testing due to which teh execution effort came down drastically & coverage increased from 5% to 95%.
• Has attained Cisco Security Green belt . Used tools Retina, ZAP and Appscan to find vulnerabilities in windows and linux based application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scripting Languages: Shell, Tcl/tk, Expect

Operating System: Linux 10 and 11, Solaris, Unix Windows XP, Vista and Windows7

Virtualization: VMware (ESX 3.5,4.0/5.0)

Server: Win2k3, Win2k8

Database: Oracle 9i

Test Automation Tools: QTP, Winrunner, Loadrunner, ABACUS

Test Mgmt Tools: TFS (Team Foundation Server), Perfmon, Dmalloc

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Sunnyvale, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Took part in defect re-testing, verification and regression testing to ensure functionality. Did performance testing using NAGIOS.
• Performed Security testing using Retina and ZAP tool.
• Involved in teh project from teh beginning me.e. Business requirement to release of teh Application. Responsibilities included testing Internet/GUI interfaces, generate and executing test cases, documenting defects.
• Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Conducted Manual, GUI, and Functionality, regression, system, UAT and end-to-end testing.
• Contributed in wiki page to track team’s activities, Interacted wif Developers on Defects/Issues.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.
• Did Negative testing to find how teh functions performs when it encounters invalid unexpected values
• Test plan Development, test bed setup, integration of various components equipment wif existing infrastructure.
• Maintained requirements traceability matrix. Facilitated in problem or issue resolution during QA/Stage/UAT/ and ensured on-time closure of defects that are raised in Bugzilla / Clear Quest.

Technology: Windows 7, UNIX, NAGIOS, ZAP, ALM.

Confidential - San Jose, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automation
• Part of teh early adoption team for making automation framework in QTP and TestLink test case management tools
• Planning, Tracking and execution of teh automation project for legacy features to get 100% of Acceptance tests automated
• Also took on Selenium and ALM.
• Did regression testing in every iteration.
• New releases
• Agile project management and Scrum tracking.
• Done detailed analysis / technical investigation for testing needs and got requirements gathered from core team, business team and customer.
• Resource planning - Assigning QA team members to specific feature teams based on capacity, experience and fitness for a particular team
• Feature commit and test estimation - worked wif teh dev team to identify teh "In" feature list for teh release. Prepared test estimates based on planned scope.
• Test planning and execution tracking
• Setting and tracking quality metrics using reports on "Business Objects"
• Risk Management - Critical path planning and feature rotation
• Actively participated and won s in Group Tests and Bug Fests
• Sustenance Engineering
• QA representative in teh Change Control (CCC) meetings for planning service pack content.
• Setting up and tracking QA milestones w.r.t release schedule for major releases.
• SPOC for all releases, which includes planning content, tracking execution and coordinating delivery of content to customers.
• Acting as teh escalation channel for on-site consultants implementing teh product and for technical support team members.
• Tracking defect backlog and maintaining it.
• People management
• Defining team MBOs and managing appraisals.
• Mentoring and coaching team members.
• Defining hike percentages and bonus amounts for team members.
• Other activities
• Conducted product s for new joiners on "Nextgen - features and functions".
• Created and delivered s on application security for teh QA team.
• Working closely wif teh architects to develop a tool for identifying major issues by scanning teh application source code

Technology: Windows XP, UNIX, SQL, CVS, QTP, TCL.

Confidential

Sr.QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in design analysis and reviews, validation and production readiness reviews and other process related meetings as necessary
• Develop, administer, and manage QA project plans, traceability matrices ensuring quality practices through all project phases of SDLC
• Handled production release processes and monitored all pre and post release testing, verification, and defect filing.
• Wrote multiple scripts in QTP for testing mobile applications.
• Was involved in both manual and automated testing for mobile applications.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings and Use-Case Analysis and developing teh templates for User/Customer and documentation.
• Liaison wif program and technical managers, as well as business users to assure understanding of plan scheduling, resource allocation, and level-of-effort expectations for all phases of teh testing process
• Worked wif development team in translating business requirements/use case into test scripts, Liaised wif testing teams to ensure that test plans are executed.
• Prepared test plans, test cases and test scripts based on software requirements and functional specification documents. Responsible for developing deliverables and test strategies.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining all testing and defect management documentation, reporting expectations, process continuation, and other testing related activities using Team Systems.
• Involved in testing McAfee master installer which checks teh system’s pre and post install conditions.
• Tested Runtime MUI which changes teh product’s interface according to teh language pack which user changes on OS.
• Completed teh of Black box testing.
• Did regression testing after every major and minor release.

Technology: Windows XP, Lotus Notes, UNIX, LoadRunner, SQL server 2008, CVS, QTP.

Confidential

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handling CLI which does all teh network checking and teh settings of domain and network.
• Involved in developing test plan and automating test cases using TCL and expect.
• Doing end-to-end testing as well as load testing, solving client issues
• Worked on TIMS, Cdets, Modena and Winrunner.
• Written and executed SQL’s, PL/SQL’s and verified in teh database.
• Involved in making test benches wif Call Managers, phones, gateways and switches.
• Tested BAT (Bulk administration tool) and did performance testing. Wrote scripts using TSL.
• Filed all teh bugs, monitored them, tracked them and closed them. Used bugzilla for dis.
• Worked on various VOIP protocols and checked teh message flow.
• Deployed and tested teh self-test module. Involved in Data Planning.
• Coordinated teh test effort, defect tracking, retesting, and initiating change request.
• Extensive Interaction wif Customers on issues pertaining to Software Quality Assurance.
• Used several tools for memory leak detection and for checking teh code coverage and code efficiency.
• Tested teh message flow from one module to another.
• Coordinated meetings and walkthroughs wif teh management team to ensure steady progress.

Technology: UNIX, Windows, Tcl, Expect, Modena (Cisco Automation tool for call processing system), TSL (Test scripting Language), Oracle.

Confidential

QA ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif teh developers to resolve defects and provided daily status reports to teh management
• Developed and executed various test plans. Also done live testing on Lannion Switch (Alcatel Switch). Executed bulk call testing using Abacus tool.
• Worked on PON (Passive Optical Network), BPON (Broadband PON), and GPON (Gigabit PON).
• Experience on CPEs (Customer Premise Equipment) and Network Termination Units.
• Role also includes setting up teh configuration at server and boards for testing so that higher level switches (based on gateways wif higher frequency) work on it. Also tested teh voice and message flow from one end to another.
• Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results wif expected results.
• Involved in ensuring and data validations before they are delivered to teh customers. Performed Unit, Integration, System, and Functional testing as per requirements.
• Interacted wif business managers, ETL Developers, and Technical development teams to analyze and document user requirements.
• Analysis is done using Performance Monitor and various factors like Processor time, Memory Usage are monitored and analyzed.
• Solved various high severity issues and also had direct interaction wif teh client for teh same.
• Worked on Clear case and CVS for file check-ins, check-outs and mergers. Roles also include creating various configuration files for testing.

Technology: IP Net Fusion tool, ABACUS, Oracle, UNIX, Winrunner, Ethereal, CVS.