PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Senior QA Lead with 12+ years experience in Quality Assurance projects throughout SDLC doing QA Project Management, Production Support, Data Validations, UAT and Testing (Manual and Automation) of various Web Applications, Multi - Tier Distributed Client/Server Architecture applications, Content Management and Collaborative Applications, SOA based e-Commerce applications and Web Services
• 5+ years of solid QA experience in Digital and Print Media industry
• Worked in Industries like Digital and Print Media (Financial, News, Life-Style, Entertainment and Sports), Computer/IT Services (Internet, Intranet, Websites and e-Commerce), Telecom and Security and Surveillance
• Extensive experience working in Agile Scrum environment for several projects worked upon at Confidential . (content management apps and projects), Confidential (eCommerce apps) and Dow Jones & Co. (eCommerce apps & migration projects)
• Proven experience in QA Strategy definition and execution
• Extensive Experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, Cross Browsers Compatibility, System, End-to-End, User Acceptance and Load/Stress Testing
• Experience with Automation Tools like HP's QTP, Load Runner, Borland's Silk Test, SoapUI
• Skills in apps testing on Smartphones and Tablets (IOS and Android)
• Hands-On experienced in preparation of Test Methodology (Agile, SCRUM, Iterative and Waterfall) and Test Strategy, Test plans, Test cases, Black Box/White Box
• Experience in Resource Management, Risk Identification and Mitigation and Test Effort Estimation
• Analyzing test results and communicating via Bug tracking tools Quality Center, BugZilla and JIRA
• Excellent Leadership, Technical, Communication, Analytical and Problem Solving skills
• Managed Projects within budget and on time and with high level of quality

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9.x/NT/2K/ME/XP/Vista/7, Unix, Sun Solaris 6/8/9, MAC OS 9 and 10

Technologies and Platforms: J2EE, MS .Net, Vignette V5 and V6, Web services, XML,IIS, Tomcat, Apache, BEA Web Logic, Servlets, Java Script, JDBC

RDBMS: Oracle 7.x/8i/9i/10g and MS SQL Server

Languages: C, Java, VB Script

Version Control: MS VSS, WinCVS, SVN, Collabnet

QA Tools: Quality Center 8.2/ 9.0/9.2/10.0, QTP 8.0/9.0/9.5/10.0, HP’s Load Runner 7.0/7.5/8.0/9.0/9.1, Win Runner 7.0/7.5/7.6, Silk Test 6.0/7.0/7.1/7.5, SoapUI 3.5/3.6/3.6.1

Web Browsers: IE 5.5/6/7/8/9, Firefox 2/3/3.5,3.6, Safari 2.x/3.x/4.x, Google Chrome

Defect Tracking: Quality Center 8.2/ 9.0/9.2/10.0, Bugzilla, JIRA, Test Track

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, South Brunswick, NJ

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business requirements walkthrough and JAR sessions and based on that derived testing requirements and schedule
• Interacted with Business users, Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts and Business Analysts to understand requirements and defined the scope of the QA cycle
• Participated in Reviews and Walkthroughs for Functional Specs and Design Specs
• Calculated LOE and derived milestones for each Project/Release/Task
• Performed key role in setting up Onshore / Offshore delivery model
• Defined and implemented training plans for QA team members both onsite and offshore
• Defined project testing strategies and implemented them by coordinating with QA Director and QA Manager
• Identified risks and gaps involved in the QA cycle and according to that prepared and implemented their mitigation plans
• Participated heavily in finalizing the QA processes and formats by meeting with QA Director, QA Manager and Business Analyst
• Prepared of QA Project Plans, Test Plans, UAT Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on Functional Specifications, Design Specifications, UI mockups for manual testing and automation
• Test Strategy and Test Plan communication/ coordination with QA team and stakeholder groups
• Conducted QA project planning, resource management, defects tracking and daily work status
• Assessment of resources utilization (both onsite and offshore) and co-ordination with QA Director and QA Manager for timely completion of tasks allocated to the each team members
• Managed work distribution, team selection and reporting model for offshore resources
• Defined QA entry and exit criteria for each project/release and verified the same has been met for successful launch
• Managed testing life cycles for multiple projects/releases at any given point of time
• Performed and managed Manual Testing includes Functional, Integration, Configuration/ Cross-Browsers, Database, Smoke/Sanity, Regression, End-to-End, Performance/Load/Stress and User Acceptance (UAT)
• Analyzed and executed automation for Performance Testing using HP's Load Runner, Functional and Regression Testing using HP's Quick Test Professional (QTP), Test Planning and Defect Management using Quality Center (QC), Functional and Regression Testing using Borland's Silk Test, Functional and Regression Testing for Web Services using SoapUI, Test Plan, Test Cases management HP's Quality Center and Test Director
• Managed major, minor, maintenance, hotfix releases and Production Support during project/release launch
• Lead and co-coordinated onsite team size up to 15 and offshore team size up to 30
• Managed project releases and schedules by interacting with Release Manager
• Helped Business Users preparing UAT test plan and test cases
• Conducted defect tracking and management using industry standard defect tracking tools
• Prepared matrixes for test execution, defect tracking and overall project traceability
• Documented validation/verification results in Test Analysis report

Tools:ATG eCommerce platform, Java/J2EE, Web Services, SoapUI, REST, VB Script, HTML, XML, Oracle 9.x/10g, SQL Developer, Win2K/XP/Vista/Win7, Unix, MAC OS 9/10, MS Excel/Word/Project/Outlook, IE 6/7/8, FireFox 3.x,5.0/7.0, Safari 3.x/4.x/5.x, Google Chrome 3/4/5, HP's QTP 10.0, HP's Load Runner 9.1, HP's Quality Center 9.2/10.0, Jira, Tortoise SVN

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review of business capabilities and based on that derived testing requirements
• Preparation of QA Project Plans, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts
• Defined release testing strategies and their implementation
• Calculated LOE and derived Milestones for each Release
• Independently managed testing life cycles for more TEMPthan one Smart phone devices at any given point of time
• Manual Execution of Functional, Configuration, Integration, Validation, Verification, User Acceptance, Regression and Sanity tests for various Nokia Smart phone devices against QA & PROD environments
• Defect Tracking and Management using HP's Quality Center 10.0, JIRA & Bugzilla and Documented validation/verification results in Test Analysis Report
• For each project/release, verified that the all the project/release criteria has been met for successful launch

Tools:Window, Linux, Symbian, MAC OS 9/10, BedRock browser, HTML, Java Script, Perl, Selenium, Nokia Smart phones devices, MS Excel/Word/Project/Outlook, IE 6/7/8, FireFox 3.x, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome 3/4/5, Quality Center 10.0, JIRA, Bugzilla

Confidential - NYC, NY

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review of business capabilities and based on that derived testing requirements
• Preparation of QA Project Plans, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts
• Defined release testing strategies and their implementation
• Calculated LOE and derived Milestones for each Release
• Independently handled testing life cycles for more TEMPthan one eCommerce releases at any given point of time
• Manual Execution of Functional, Configuration, Integration, Validation, Verification, Database (backend testing by mean of SQL Queries like Inner/Outer joins) User Acceptance, Regression and Sanity tests for eCommerce System and Websites against Stage & PROD environments
• Defect Tracking and Management using HP's Quality Center 9.2/10.0 & Documented validation/verification results in Test Analysis Report.
• For each project/release, verified that the all the project/release criteria has been met for successful launch.
• Prepared and Executed automated Smoke Tests using HP's QTP 10.0
• Prepared and Executed Load/Performance Tests using HP's Load Runner 9.1

Tools:ATG eCommerce System, Java/J2EE, Web Services, VB Script, HTML, XML, Oracle 9.x, SQL Server, Toad, Win2K/XP/Vista/Win7, Unix, Sun Solaris, MAC OS 9/10, MS Excel/Word/Project/Outlook, IE 6/7/8, FireFox 3.x, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome 3/4/5, HP's QTP 10.0, HP's Load Runner 9.1, HP's Quality Center 9.2/10.0, Jira, Tortoise SVN

Confidential, NY

Senior QA Team Lead/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review of business capabilities and based on that derived testing requirements
• Preparation of QA Project Plans, Test Plans, UAT Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on Functional Specifications, Design Specifications and UI mockups for both manual and automated testing
• Test Plan communication and coordination with team members and make sure that quality testing is achieved
• As a QA Lead Participated and/or Conducted Review/Walkthrough meeting for Functional Specs, Design Specs, QA Project Planning, Resource (H/W, S/W & People) management, Defects Tracking and Daily Work Done
• Defined project testing strategies and implemented them by coordinating with QA Director and QA Manager
• Calculated LOE and derived Milestones for each Project/Release/Task
• Identified Risks involved in the project life cycle and according to that prepared and implemented their mitigation plans
• Assessment of Human Resources utilization (both Onsite and Offshore) and co-ordination with QA Director and QA Manager for timely completion of tasks allocated to the team members
• Lead and co-coordinated with the Onsite (18 people) and Offshore team (around 30 people) for all the projects/releases
• Defined and implemented Training Plans for QA Team members both Onsite and Offshore
• Independently handled testing life cycles for more TEMPthan one Title at any given point of time
• Participated heavily in finalizing the QA Processes and Formats by meeting with Business Analyst
• Handled project releases and their schedules by interacting frequently with Release Manager
• Extensive experience working in Agile Environment
• Manual Execution of Functional, Configuration, Integration, Validation, Verification, Database (backend testing by mean of complex SQL Queries includes Inner/Outer joins), User Acceptance, Regression and Sanity tests for hundreds of releases for Titles (People.com and Golf.com)
• Used Vignette Tools like Content Tool for Create, Update and Publish content to Web and verify Publish Requests
• For each project/release, verified that the all the project/release criteria has been met for successful launch
• Defect Tracking and Management. Documented validation/verification results in Test Analysis Report
• Prepared and Executed Functional, Regression and Smoke Tests automated Test Scripts using HP's QTP 9.0/9.5
• Using HP's Load Runner 9.0, performed performance activities like gatheird Requirements Analysis for Performance Test Strategies, Prepared Test Cases, Prepared and Executed Scripts using VUGen, Created and Ran Manual/Goal-Oriented Scenarios in Controller, Monitored Web/App/DB servers, Analysis of Results, Prepared Results Reports, Identified Bottlenecks of Performance and recommended solutions

Tools:Vignette V5/V6 platforms, Vignette Tools, Web Services, VB Script, Verify & Endeca Search Engines, HTML, XML, Java/J2EE, Oracle 9.x, Win98/2K/ME/XP/Vista, Unix, MAC OS 9/10, Mobile/Hand-Held devices, MS Excel/Word/Project/Outlook, IE 6/7/8, FireFox 3.x, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome 3/4/5, HP's QTP 9.0/9.5, HP's Load Runner 8.5/9.0, HP's Quality Center, Collabnet, BugZilla