SUMMARY:

• Over Twelve(12) plus years of IT experience in QA with extensive Web based, Client/server, Web Service, Middleware for Airlines, Financial, Insurance, Banking, Telecom domains, Health Care, Retail.
• Experience in Software field utilizing Confidential and Rational testing tools (QTP, Quality Center, Clear Quest) on applications using Java, .Net and data bases (SQL, T - SQL, Oracle, MS Access, DB2).
• Proficient with development of Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases and executing them and have experience with development of Test Cases from Use Cases.
• Extensive working experience in Black-box testing and Gray-Box testing.
• Extensive working experience in Protocol Testing like HTML, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP.
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Extensive working experience in Sanity, Cross Browser, Cross Platform, Security, Black box, White box, Functionality, System, Unit, Integration, Front-End, GUI, Back-End, End-to-End, Parallel Testing, Recovery Testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability Testing, Regression, Performance, Load, Stress, SIT, UAT, Acceptance & Configuration testing under SDLC, STLC.
• Extensive Knowledge of Testing Virtualization.
• Proficiency with Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word.
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Written and maintained Requirement and Test Documentation as per high level testing standards, Attended review meetings and Quality Control board meeting for continuous improvement of Software Quality.
• Proficient in Window based, web based, Client Server applications.
• Experience in testing services in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Identified training requirements and organized internal training sessions by motivating the team.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background, good interpersonal skills and immense experience and Certified Tester, Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/2007/NT, LINUX, UNIX

Database and Tools: Oracle 8.0/9/10, DB2, SQL Server 2000, TOAD, MS Access

ERPS: Siebel 7.0

IBM Tool: Sterling Commerce

Technologies: Java, Java Script, .NET, Visual Basic, VB Script, C, C++

Mainframe: AS/400

Testing Tools: QTP (Quick Tests Professional), Load Runner 9, JMeter, Alineo

Web services: XML, SOAP UI, Confidential Service Test

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, BugZilla, JIRA, VMS (Volume Management System)

Test Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Spira Test, MTM (Microsoft Test manager)

Agile Project management Tools: Rally, ZIRA, TFS 2010 (Team Foundation Server)

Source Control Tools: MS Visual Studio 2010

Protocol Testing Tools: HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Iterative or incremental, Waterfall model

Domain Experience: Financial, Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Airlines, Health Care, Retail

PROJECT EXPERINCE:

Confidential, TN/TX

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• As a Lead QA analyzed and reviewed functional overall design, technical overall designs and technical detailed design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• Gather Requirements and identify test scenarios to test each requirement.
• Prepare test deliverables as part of each SDLC phase and obtain the approvals / Sign-off.
• Create and update Test cases in MTM. Execution of Test cases.
• Involved in planning, setting up test environment for and executing Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, BVT, CIT and SIT of various releases.
• Extensive working experience for Health Care Modules through AS/400 Application.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team.
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation.
• Interact with Off-shore Resource.
• Creation of SQL queries for backend validation.
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners.
• Prepare Status report and send to manager as Daily and Weekly Basis.

Environment: AS/400, Spira Test V4.1.0.5, ZIRA, MTM (Microsoft Test Manager 2013), X-Analysis - Eclipse, DB2, SQL Server, HMS Graphical View, Agile Methodology

Confidential, TX

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• As a Lead QA analyzed and reviewed functional overall design, technical overall designs and technical detailed design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• Gather Requirements and identify test scenarios to test each requirement.
• Prepare test deliverables as part of each SDLC phase and obtain the approvals / Sign-off.
• Create and update Test cases in QC. Execution of Test cases.
• Involved in planning, setting up test environment for and executing Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, BVT, CIT and SIT of various releases.
• Extensive working experience for Health Care Modules through Alineo Application.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team.
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation.
• Creation of SQL queries for backend validation.
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners.
• Prepare Status report and send to Client manager as Daily and Weekly Basis.

Environment: JavaScript, Jquery, WCF, TFS 2010, IIS 7.0, XML, Json, Razor, Confidential Quality Center v10.0, Alineo application, Eloquence application, Agile Methodology

Confidential, NC

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• As a Lead QA analyzed and reviewed functional overall design, technical overall designs and technical detailed design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• Gather Requirements and identify test scenarios to test each requirement.
• Interact with various Teams in WAR (Weekly Activity Room).
• Prepare test deliverables as part of each SDLC phase and obtain the approvals / Sign-off.
• Create and update Test cases in QC. Execution of Test cases.
• Involved in planning, setting up test environment for and executing Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, BVT, CIT and SIT various releases of ecommerce.
• Working with Sterling team and was the solo Point of contact for Sterling help for the Team.
• Extensive working experience for In-store order placing through Sterling.
• Is to monitor the orders reaching Sterling and order status updates and verified Defect Logs in Sterling.
• Monitoring DOM orders goes to downstream (Genesis) systems for fulfillment.
• Interact with Off-shore Resource.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team.
• Actively participated in defect triage meeting for defect remediation.
• Creation of SQL queries for backend validation.
• Was validated information in XML accessing ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) logs.
• Responsible for KT (Knowledge Transfer) to the Team and New Joiners.
• Prepare Status report and send to Client manager as Daily and Weekly Basis.

Environment: .Net, Ecommerce Application, IBM IHS Web server, Web Sphere Commerce V6 .0, AIX, Web sphere Application Server 6.1, Sterling Commerce, QTP, Quality Center, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Agile Methodology

Confidential, St.Petersburg, FL

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• I able to perform general project admin duties including: scheduling meetings, publishing meeting agendas and notes, keeping team distribution lists and distributing materials to team. Participate in review meetings, suggest testing process, and establish guidelines.
• Interact with users and document any changes in business requirements.
• Co-ordinate with SMEs, BPs to identify risks, dependencies, defines entry and exit criteria.
• Co-ordinate between On-shore and Off-shore resources.
• Analyzed Client request and requested the developers for the design change by considering both positive and negative scenarios of business logics and developed test case accordingly.
• Performed manual testing as well as Automation Testing.
• Used QC to write, and execute the test cases. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Responsible for identifying testing scope, approach & right tools based on technology.
• Involved in testing the layout of various Extension screens as per design specifications
• Executed the test cases for both functional and GUI testing in the Regression suite.
• Documented the errors and tracked them to completion.
• Create final Test Summary reports; update Test Logs/ Issues log for reporting purpose.
• Co-ordinate with various teams to set up environments for each level of testing includes System, Integration/Regression and Acceptance.
• Responsible for identifying test data and environment needs for each level of testing.
• Responsible to perform Smoke Test and Clarity Test for each test effort and document results.
• Co-ordinate with Development teams and Software management teams for Code deployment
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rally during SIT/UAT.

Environment: MVC3, C#, LINQ,HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, WCF, TFS 2010, IIS 7.0, XML, MS visual studio 2010, Json, Razor, QTP, Quality Center, PL SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, EPayment, Agile Methodology

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create Print Solution test Plan for XMPP Server.
• Knowledge transfer Solution architecture overview.
• As a Senior QA analyzed and reviewed overall XMPP server docs and test cases design, technical overall designs and technical detailed design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Co-ordinate between On-shore and off-shore resources.
• Responsible for install Exstream POC sample and XMPP Server.
• Create test components and Utility to dynamically create senders/receivers.
• Run JMeter performance test and execute test plan against Coversant, Isode and Oracle UCS Server and Prepare the Report results.
• Tune test parameters and re-run in the Jmeter.
• Prepare and review Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Sprint Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations hours for testing effort.
• Co-ordinate with SMEs, Off-shore folks to identify risks, dependencies and Issue.
• Performed Database testing, Server Performance Testing as well as Automation Testing.
• Performed Load testing/Stress testing, assigning load.
• Documented the errors and tracked them to completion.
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rally during SIT/UAT.
• Create final Test Summary reports; update Test Logs/ Issues log for reporting purpose.
• Responsible for maintain the Regression Repository

Environment: VMware, Git, Maven 3.x, JDeveloper & ADF, Linux Basic Shell and Editor, Eclipse, JBoss, JUint, QTP, Rally, JMeter, WinScp, XMPP Server, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, Windows VM, Oracle 10g, Agile Methodology

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Lead analyzed and reviewed functional overall design, technical overall designs and technical detailed design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• I able to perform general project admin duties including: scheduling meetings, publishing meeting agendas and notes, keeping team distribution lists and distributing materials to team. Participate in review meetings, suggest testing process, and establish guidelines.
• Interact with users and document any changes in business requirements.
• Co-ordinate with SMEs, BPs to identify risks, dependencies, defines entry and exit criteria.
• Co-ordinate between On-shore and Off-shore resources.
• Analyzed Client request and requested the developers for the design change by considering both positive and negative scenarios of business logics and developed test case accordingly.
• Performed manual testing as well as Automation Testing.
• Used Rally to write, and execute the test cases. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Responsible for identifying testing scope, approach & right tools based on technology.
• Involved in testing the layout of various Extension screens as per design specifications
• Executed the test cases for both functional and GUI testing in the Regression suite.
• Documented the errors and tracked them to completion.
• Create final Test Summary reports; update Test Logs/ Issues log for reporting purpose.
• Co-ordinate with various teams to set up environments for each level of testing includes System, Integration/Regression and Acceptance.
• Responsible for identifying test data and environment needs for each level of testing.
• Responsible to perform Smoke Test and Clarity Test for each test effort and document results.
• Co-ordinate with Development teams and Software management teams for Code deployment
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rally during SIT/UAT.
• Co-ordinate with Business Partners for user signoff before handing over to production teams

Environment: VMware, Git, Maven 3.x, JDeveloper & ADF, Linux Basic Shell and Editor, Eclipse, JBoss, JUnit, Sonar, Mockito, Quality Center, Service Test, Rally, SOAP UI, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, Oracle 10g, Agile Methodology

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior QA I analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases/scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements.
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive, negative and regression results based on the design requirements.
• Responsible for identifying dependencies, interfaces between applications. Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Used Quality Center to write, and execute the test cases. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Prepared test scripts in QC for use by the user and QA for automated, performance and load testing.
• Used Quality Center to report application defects and enhancements request and discussed with client to resolve technical issues.
• Participate in review meetings, suggest testing process, and establish guidelines.
• Interact with users and document any changes in business requirements.
• Create final Test Summary reports; update Test Logs for reporting purpose.
• Responsible to perform Smoke Test for each test effort and document results.
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rally during SIT/UAT.
• Co-ordinated with Development teams and Software management teams for Code deployment.
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rational Clear Quest during SIT/UAT.
• Coordinate with Business Partners for user signoff before handing over to production teams.

Environment: .Net, SQL Server, T-SQL, QTP, VB Script, Quality Centre, Rally, Rational Clear Quest, Agile Methodology

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Senior Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Functional and Technical Managers & QA team for understanding the requirements.
• Executed all phases of Testing.
• Analyzed user business Requirements, system requirement specifications.
• Written test cases manually, for functional testing and Performance Testing purposes.
• Evaluated QTP for automation & created various GUI checkpoints using QTP.
• Created shared object repository for Quick Test Pro scripts.
• Designed automation test scripts with multiple actions in Quick Test Pro.
• Used Re-usable actions and external actions in Quick Test Pro to avoid the repeatability.
• Prepared test scripts in Quality Center for use by the user and QA for automated, performance and load testing.
• Assisted QA Manager in Writing the Test Plans.
• Designed the test cases and written test cases in Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in manual testing of application.
• Analyzed the application and divided the application into Scenario's to write the Detail test cases for automation purpose.
• Quality Centre is used for Manual testing Defect tracking as well as for Automation Testing and reported to developers.
• Responsible for tracking and closing defects using Rally during SIT/UAT.
• Worked with Rational Clear Quest for Management and administrative Purpose.
• Attended business Meetings and co-ordinated with developers.

Environment: Java, DB2, T-SQL, VB Script, XML, Quick Tests Professional (QTP), Quality Centre, Rally, Rational Clear Quest, Agile Methodology

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Attended meetings with the Business Team, and Build Teams to gather the information about the project and the design methodology and the testing requirements.
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Design Components, Test Cases and Defects.
• Performed Sanity testing, Security testing, black box testing, and web testing and GUI testing.
• Was involved in executing the Regression testing on new Builds.
• Used Quality Center for organizing, managing, and tracking the change requirements of system using defects section as Bug Tracking tool.
• Created, updated and ran the QTP scripts. Managed test environments and schedules.
• Tracked bugs using VMS and generated the defect reports for review by the client and the management teams.
• Generated testing reports and metrics, trend graphs according to the test plan.
• Used Quality Center to write, and execute the test cases.

Environment: Siebel, XML, Oracle 8, QTP, VB Script, Volume Management System, Quality Center, Agile Methodology