SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of software testing experience using manual and automation test methodologies for Financial and business applications on both Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Very versatile and hands - on using Quality Centre, Load Runner, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP ALM Sprinter, JIRA, and Selenium (RC and WebDriver).
• Experience working in Agile development process.
• Experience working in SOA design methodology.
• Experienced in leading/managing testing efforts for multiple projects in various stages of development in onsite & offshore model.
• Experience in ETL/Data Warehouse Testing using Informatica.
• Experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and test cases.
• Experience in defining Testing Scope, Test Effort Estimation, Risk Management.
• Experience working on Web based applications developed in Java technologies and Microsoft technologies
• Experience in providing end-to-end test management support to enable project delivery.
• Experience in implementing centralized testing model to improve teh testing process/standards.
• Experience in scope definition, estimation and sizing of testing efforts.
• Experience in resource planning, budget planning and adhere to it on approval.
• Experience in managing on-site and remote teams, including hiring, mentoring, scheduling, and performance evaluation of staff
• Experience in working wif contract vendors for resources and managing vendor resources.
• Deriving Test Metrics at each stage of Testing Lifecycle and share teh metrics wif teh management.
• Knowledge in Rational Functional Test Manager tool.
• Strong experience in SQL.
• Experience in preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in performing different types of tests: Load, Stress, Integration, System, Functional, Database and Regression testing.
• Experience in working wif Business users to gather non-functional requirements for Performance Testing.
• Experience in designing a WorkLoad profile for performance testing and SLAs for each of teh business scenario.
• Experience in deriving test scenarios/cases based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Extensive experience in reporting defects and tracking defects till fixes using teh tools like Quality Center, test repository management, configuration management.
• Experience in coordinating teh User Acceptance Testing wif Business team.
• Well acquainted wif Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Framework Automation, ISO and CMMI processes.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining test environment.
• Extensive experience in coordination and communication wif internal and external team(s).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Unix

Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL

Internet: HTML, XML, XSL, VB Script, SOAP, WSDL, Java Script

Databases: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000

Testing Tools: Load Runner 9.5, QTP 10.0, Test Director 8.0, Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), Quality Centre 9.0, Selenium RC, WebDriver, Selenium Grid, TestNG, Rally, JIRA

Version Controller: Visual Source Safe, Clear case

Tools: Office, MS Project, MS Visio, TOAD, Micro Strategy 8.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team located at offshore and onsite, and managing teh day to day activities of teh team
• Estimate testing effort for each stage of test life cycle.
• Meet wif teh Business team to analyze teh requirements and get clarifications and transfer teh knowledge to teh team
• Meet wif development team and BA team to discuss teh technical feasibility of teh requirements to be developed.
• Participate in Iteration planning and estimation meetings to estimate teh user stories for upcoming release and create tasks for each story
• Define teh scope of testing for each release
• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure teh new features meet teh customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards
• Participated in teh meetings, prepared reports and other supportive documentation to contribute to establishment of standards and procedures for software testing
• Developed Manual test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality using Mercury Quality Center, and JIRA Defect Management
• Created and executed manual test cases using Quality Center and reviewed test cases developed by other testers
• Involved in preparing Test Strategy Plans
• Involved in writing System Test Plan and Test cases for teh application.
• Verify dat data is transformed correctly according to various business requirements and rules.
• Make sure dat all projected data is loaded into teh data warehouse wifout any data loss and truncation.
• Make sure dat ETL application appropriately rejects, replaces wif default values and reports invalid data.
• Make sure dat data is loaded in data warehouse wifin prescribed and expected time frames to confirm improved performance and scalability.
• In teh regression phase, teh project was automated using Selenium RC. me was responsible for developing a dynamic framework which could automate all teh test cases.
• Hybrid framework wif Selenium was developed and generic keywords were implemented.
• Used Maven to build and run teh Selenium automation framework. Teh framework used to send teh automation reports to teh team over email
• Experience in testing Restful web services which are design based on SOA methodology.
• Testing teh SOAP web Services using SOAP UI and cUrl tools.
• Involved in teh migration process of automation scripts from Selenium RC to WebDriver
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for all teh assigned issues for existing functionality such as (Corrupted Data, Code Error)
• Gather non-functional requirements required for Performance testing.
• Prepare Work Load Profile and SLAs for each of teh identified business scenario.
• Work wif development team, business team, enterprise architect team to design Performance Test Plan and set goals to meet teh benchmark.
• Involved in Load and Performance testing by creating scripts using VUGen and analyzing teh reports using Load Runner.
• Checked teh performance of teh product, like how much memory, CPU time, etc using Load Runner
• Checked teh process of execution from various ways (graphs, data, etc) using Controller
• Analyzed and identified teh performance bottlenecks of teh application using Load Runner
• Analyzing complex performance problems and suggesting TEMPeffective solutions.
• Ran regression tests using Selenium to check for teh newer versions
• Review of Test Cases developed by teh team members.
• Derive Test metrics at each stage of testing and share teh metrics wif teh management
• Design and execute SQL queries for backend/database testing
• Worked on Application Lifecycle Management (formerly known as Quality Center) to prepare Test Plan, Prepare Test Cases and defect reporting
• Generate Test summary reports.
• Interaction wif Onsite and Offshore teams for getting clarifications

Environment: Unix, Java, XML, Seam, Oracle, Selenium RC, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Load Runner and Application Lifecycle Management

Confidential, FL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Meet wif teh Business team to understand teh requirements and get clarifications and transfer teh knowledge to teh team
• Worked as functionally Analyst and gathered teh requirements, clarifying teh requirements from teh business team and create Requirement documents
• Leading a offshore team and manage teh team’s day to day activities
• Work wif development team, business team, enterprise architect team to design Performance Test Plan and set goals to meet teh benchmark.
• Involved in Load and Performance testing by creating scripts using VUGen and analyzing teh reports using Load Runner.
• Checked teh performance of teh product, like how much memory, CPU time, etc using Load Runner
• Checked teh process of execution from various ways (graphs, data, etc) using Controller
• Analyzed and identified teh performance bottlenecks of teh application using Load Runner
• Analyzing complex performance problems and suggesting TEMPeffective solutions.
• Estimate testing effort for each stage of test life cycle.
• Define teh scope of testing for each release
• Involved in preparing Test Strategy Plans
• Involved in writing System Test Plan and Test cases for teh application.
• Designed and developed test scripts using QTP
• Ran regression tests using QTP to check for teh newer versions
• Design and execute SQL queries for backend/database testing
• Preparing test scripts by referring ETL and Reporting functional specifications.
• Executing ETL test cases (which involves executing Informatica mappings and checking teh output in teh database tables)
• Involved in Load and Performance testing by creating scripts using VUGen and analyzing teh reports using Load Runner
• Review of Test Cases developed by teh team members.
• Derive Test metrics at each stage of testing and share teh metrics wif teh management
• Worked on Mercury Quality Centre to prepare Test Plan, Prepare Test Cases and defect reporting
• Generate Test summary reports.
• Interaction wif Onsite and Offshore teams for getting clarifications

Environment: Windows 2000, Windows NT, VB.Net, ASP.NET, C#, XML, Oracle 9i, UNIX, Load Runner 8.1, VUGen, Quality Centre 9.0, QTP 9.2, Micro strategy 8.1

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Setting up Test Environment for POL.
• Created an environment using VMware for OS and Browser compatibility testing.
• Developed System Test Plan and Test cases for teh application
• Developed, Reviewed and Executed test cases using Quality Center
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries for checking teh transaction data and data integrity in Oracle database
• Designed and developed test scripts using QTP
• Ran regression tests using QTP to check for teh newer versions
• Generate Test summary reports and Traceability Matrix Reports
• Ensured entry criteria and exit criteria are met
• Designed and Developed Automation framework dat suites Business Process Testing and IT based End to End testing wif a set of Application areas, library functions and recovery scenarios using Mercury Quality Center, QTP and VB Scripting
• Created business functions, utility functions, excel functions, and database functions to reduce teh redundant code and enhance teh maintainability of scripts
• Developed teh regression test automation scripts using QTP and fine tuned teh scripts for meeting teh user requirements
• Executed regression test suite in teh subsequent builds, analyzed teh test results and published results
• Involved in Load and Performance testing by creating scripts using VUGen and analyzing teh reports using Load Runner
• Created Load Runner scripts and scenarios for Performance Testing
• Checked teh performance of teh product, like how much memory, CPU time, etc using Load Runner
• Checked teh process of execution from various ways (graphs, data, etc) using Controller
• Analyzed and identified teh performance bottlenecks of teh application using Load Runner

Environment: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Java, JSP, XML, Oracle 9i, Clear Quest, Test Director 8.0, Load Runner 8.0, VUGen, QTP 8.0

Confidential 

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared teh regression test suite for teh application which includes end-to-end scenarios
• Executed regression test suite in teh subsequent builds, analyzed teh test results and published results
• Involved in Load and Performance testing by creating scripts using VUGen and analyzing teh reports using Load Runner
• Created Load Runner scripts and scenarios for Performance Testing
• Checked teh performance of teh product, like how much memory, CPU time, etc using Load Runner
• Checked teh process of execution from various ways (graphs, data, etc) using Controller
• Analyzed and identified teh performance bottlenecks of teh application using Load Runner

Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, VB 6.0, ASP, Java Script, SQL 2000, XML, C++