PROFILE:

• 11 years’ Software Testing experience: manual as well as automated testing; more than 6 years’ experience in leading teams
• Sound knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life cycle.
• Experience in various stages of software testing such as Requirement analysis, Test estimations, Test planning, Execution, Defect reporting and tracking, reviewing test artifacts, UAT support
• Experience in Automated Testing:
• 7 years’ experience in functional software automation testing tool Quick Test Professional, HP Functional Testing which includes working on various applications like windows, web based, client server and ERP applications SAP and BPCS and 1 year experience in Selenium using C# using Page Object Model
• 3 years’ experience in creating unit tests with C# using Visual Studio using VSTS and nUnit framework for .Net Applications and debugging the applications.
• 3 years’ experience each in software test management tools Microsoft Test Manager, Quality Centre, Test Director.
• 3 years’ experience in defect management tools TFS, Quality Center, DevTrack, Test Track Professional
• Expertise in designing automation frameworks (Hybrid, Keyword or Data driven) for QTP
• Expertise in test script design using Descriptive Programming
• Good knowledge in the language C#
• Expertise in developing and implementing requirements - based and business based test plans, test strategies, test cases, and documentation of QA Procedures, methodologies.
• Expertise in applying Black Box Testing techniques, and also White Box testing all levels of testing: Unit Testing, Component testing, Integration Testing, System Testing different types of testing: Software Installation and Upgrades, Regression, Regional/Localization testing, Smoke and Sanity testing
• Good understanding of Non Functional testing and its concepts, performed Load testing and was also involved in testing Memory Leak of Web application
• Experience in Test environment setup and maintenance including installation of various software products and applications e.g. database software Oracle, SQL Server and other client applications,
• Hands on experience in writing and executing SQL queries to test the results of the application making use of joins, sub queries and other DML and DDL operations.
• Very good understanding and working experience in .Net Applications (Windows, Web), and operational knowledge of other Client Server applications as well as ERP applications: SAP SD, BPCS
• Remarkable ability to design test strategies to conduct back end testing
• Experience in software scripting languages e.g. VBScript, HTML
• Experience in leading automation and manual testing teams across onsite/offshore model.
• Experience in working across multiple domains Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Futures and Derivatives.
• Knowledge of WITSML standards and Real Time applications
• Outstanding communication and self-organizing skills, assertive and committed team player, experience in facing the clients.
• Demonstrated excellent troubleshooting skills with minimum or no help from developers in case of any errors/issues while performing the test execution
• Good at multitasking and able to work well under tight deadlines with high efficiency, fast learner with ability to understand and scale up to the business needs.
• Very good understanding and Efficient in adhering to QA methodologies and Processes including Agile(Scrum) methodologies

SKILL:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 8.2/9.0/9.5, 10, UFT 11.5, Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 8.0, Test Track Professional, Excel Macro programming, Microsoft Test Manager 2010,WinRunner,Visual Studio C#, Selenium Framework

Operating systems: Windows XP/Server 2003/7/Server 2008 R2

Languages: C#

Scripting Languages: VBScript,HTML

Databases: SQL Server 2005,DB2, Oracle 11.2.0.3

Database Query tools: SQL Management Studio, Advanced Query Tool (AQT), Oracle SQL Plus, Oracle SQL Developer

Unit testing tools: NUnit, Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2013

Profiling Tools: Perfmon, ANTS profiler, .NET Memory Profiler

ERP: SAP Sales and Distribution, BPCS (AS400 application)

Others: Excel Macros (VBA)

VMWare Tools: TFS 2010, WITSML, Knowledge of TFS APIs

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Software Requirement analysis for testability, working with project management team, developers and business unit in the requirements gathering process to determine effective test strategies and scenarios to have effective requirement coverage for every Release
• Test Planning and estimation, create and maintain the Test Plan document for every release incorporating Change Requests and Enhancements in the Test Plan and revising the estimates and update the Project Plan accordingly
• Tasks distribution to the team and maintaining Work Breakdown structure using TFS using My Queries and Team Queries
• Test Case design in the identified test management tool (Microsoft Test Manager) and reviewing the Test Cases of the team ensuring proper validation techniques being used e.g. data verification in the databases
• Developing automation scripts for web application using Selenium using Page Object Model for Internet Explorer with C#
• Developed Hybrid framework(mixture of Keyword and Data driven framework) for automation testing using Quick Test Professional(QTP) and planning the automated tests and schedule
• Prepared Coding principles documentation for the automated testing using QTP
• Created and managed Test Library of functions for the automated tests
• Created automated tests using the framework and reviewed the scripts of the team
• Used Descriptive Programming to identify objects in the application for flexibility, scalability, and efficiency.
• Developing and executing Unit test cases in C# using NUnit Framework and Visual Studio
• Collaborating with developers to analyze and track defects and determine root causes
• Test environment and Data setup including Operating System, 3rd party software and internal software and services (SiteCom and Discovery Web suite of) including Software products and applications installation e.g. database software Oracle and SQL Server
• Performing and managing Functional, System and Integration test execution of the Well Advisor (Discovery Web and SiteCom) application ensuring proper process being followed during the test execution
• Performing Smoke Testing for the application builds and proceed with the test execution
• Manage Regression Testing before every Release
• Maintaining Test execution summary reports for each level of testing and hand over the report to the project management team.
• Defect triage with the Development Lead and Project Manager and plan for retesting/regression ensuring proper defects closure in TFS
• Effective management of the test data to be used during the test execution
• Developed utility applications using C#, VBScript batch scripts, Excel Macros to assist in the team’s day to day testing activities especially in generating different sets of test data from a given test data file, verification of charts, comparing the Application’s output with expected output for a large set of data etc. export bug from excel to TFS using TFS API and convert WITSML(XML) standard data to excel
• Debugged application errors and tested server/application installation platforms which includes using Visual studio tools in case of errors
• Usage of WITSML standard tools and real time application framework
• Observed the performance parameters of the application using Perfmon and keeping watch on prospective Memory Leak.
• Provided User Acceptance Testing support for the application being tested at the client side

Tools: used: Microsoft Test Manager, TFS, Visual Studio, WITSML, Excel Macro, Perfmon, ANTS

Confidential, Houston, TX

Testing Lead, QA Services

Responsibilities:

• Test strategizing, planning, scheduling, estimations including creating and maintaining Test Plans for manual as well as automated testing for LOWIS and PVTFlex
• Tasks assignment to the team and maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Developed Hybrid framework(mixture of Keyword and Data driven framework) for automation testing using Quick Test Professional(QTP) and planning the automated tests and schedule
• Prepared Coding principles documentation for the automated testing using QTP
• Created and managed Test Library of functions for the automated tests
• Created automated tests using the framework and reviewed the scripts of the team
• Used Descriptive Programming to identify objects in the application for flexibility, scalability, and efficiency.
• Enhance Testing quality through inserted Standard Checkpoints, Bitmap checkpoints Database checkpoints and Text checkpoints using QTP.
• Maintained traceability of the manual test cases to the automated test scripts
• Reviewing manual test cases and managing the test execution during the Functional and System testing ensuring proper techniques were being followed
• Maintaining Test execution summary reports for each level of testing and hand over the report to the project management team
• Manage Regression Testing for every release
• Defect triage with the Development Lead and Project Manager and plan for retesting/regression ensuring proper defects closure in DevTrack
• Collected and maintained various test metrics at different stages of testing
• Created Unit Test cases using VSTS 2008 on C# and executed on NUnit for Well Performance Server
• Test Artifacts and deliverables review of the team
• Defects reporting and tracking, Test Results Report design and Metrics collection and maintenance
• Test environment maintenance by setting up the Test servers and ensuring the proper installation of prerequisite software
• Weekly Status Reporting to the client and the higher management
• Tools used: Quick Test Professional, NUnit, VSTS 2008, Excel Macros
• Developed excel macro tools to record daily and/or weekly test execution summary.

Confidential

Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating the testing activities of the offshore testing team of 5.
• Consolidating the status of the testing deliverables on a daily basis and sharing it with the Project Management.
• Sending Weekly Status Report to the client.
• Review the System Test Cases before sharing with the client for approval.
• Preparation of System Test Plan.
• Reviewing and revising the schedules in case it is required due to change requests in coordination with the Project Manager.
• Reviewing the Test Results and Test Report before sending them to the customer’s approval and sending the report to the Project Manager.

Confidential

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite coordinator for 5 projects.
• Involved in the project deliverable activities from Onsite.
• Interacting with the Clients for different projects on a daily basis.
• Leading the team from Onsite and taking care of the daily activities of the project.
• Preparation and review of Test Plans
• Review of Test Cases prepared by offshore team before delivering to client
• Weekly Status Reporting
• Responsible for all the deliverables to the client.
• Opening and closing of the projects from the vendor side.

Tools: used: Quality Center

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project deliverable activities from Onsite.
• Interacting and getting regular updates from the Client on a daily basis.
• Leading the offshore team of 4 from Onsite and taking care of the daily activities of the project.
• Development of automated Regression Test Suite for the Client to test the settings after each major release of application.
• Creation of Automated Test Scripts from the manual test cases using Quick Test Professional
• Uploading of the Test Scripts in to Test Director
• Running and Executing the Test Scripts in Test Director
• Test Results report to client, Weekly Status Reporting

Tools: used: Quick Test Professional, AS 400, Test Director

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project deliverable activities
• Leading the testers for the module from Offshore.
• Coordinating the activities with the Onsite Lead and the Client
• Development of Regression Test Suite for the Client to test the settings after each major release of application.
• Creation of Automated Test Scripts from the manual test cases
• Uploading of the Test Scripts in to Test Director
• Running and Executing the Test Scripts

Tools: used: Quick Test Professional, Test Director, SAP Client