Qa Lead Resume
Springfield, MA
SUMMARY
- 7 years of IT experience in Software Testing of Web - Based, Client Server Applications.
- Highly motivated professional with excellent experience in manual testing, Automation testing and Quality Assurance.
- Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules/processes and detailed design of the application.
- Experience in coordinating and engaging teams for different phases.
- Expert in conducting various testing types like Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT and End-to-end Testing
- Expertise in Process management using Quality center to Document test cases and conduct triage meetings to resolve issues
- Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Scripts and Status Reports.
- Experience in iterative and incremental agile software cycle methodology SCRUM.
- Experience in major Test Automation and Management tools such asHP's Load Runner, Performance Center, Win Runner, Quick Test Professional and Quality Center.
- Test plans and test cases using Visual Studio and TFS
- Expert in Defect Reporting and Tracking using Test HP Quality Center/ALM.
- Preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Strategies and Test Effort Estimation.
- Strong knowledge in testing practices, testing strategies and Methodologies.
- Strong experience in Agile Methodologies, Scrum Methodologies.
- Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills.
- Strong experience in Web Services
- Strong experience in Sprint development life cycle on every focused development projects.
- Well versed with automation testing project activities including requirements Gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data, executing test scripts using QTP.
- Experience in developing data driven and Hybrid framework using QTP/UFT.
- Experience in version control tools like Team Foundation Server (TFS)and Data Integrity (GIT)
- Proficiency in testing the applications compatibility on Windows NT/2000/XP/2007 platforms.
- Clear understanding of business rules and ability to work individually, as a part of team.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to maintain effective work relationships with all levels of Personnel and Self-motivated, pro-active team player
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Defect Tracking Tools: ALM/HP Quality Center (QC), JIRA and BugZilla
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/Vista/XP/NT, UNIX
Languages: Java, .NET, C#, JDBC, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript and CSS.
IDE/Tools: UFT/QTP, Eclipse, Visual Studio, SOAP UI, Selenium IDE, Rest Easy
Software Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall
Scripting Languages: Java, Python and PHP.
Software Testing Types: Manual, Automated, Functional, Regression, SmokeNegative, Integration, Black-box and UAT, Load Runner.
Databases: Oracle 9i/11g, TOAD, SQL Developer and SQL Server 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Springfield MA
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and gathered software specifications and business requirements prior to testing.
- Designed Test Plan, Test Cases for every possible scenario of user inputs.
- Managing offshore team, assigning work to team members on daily basis and review the test reports.
- Conducting knowledge transfer sessions to the offshore team on Requirement documents for test case creations and execution.
- Performed Black Box, Functional, Regression, and System Level testing using Mercury Tools.
- Attended meetings and walkthrough to provide status update and receive feedback.
- Worked in agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set
- Generated periodic reports for various levels of managements for decisions and control purposes, and closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
- Designed and Developed automation scripts using UFT/QTP
- Automation of regression testing framework for all modules using UFT/QTP.
- Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed automation test scripts.
- Analyzed test cases for automation and used Quick Test Professional (QTP) to automate manual test scripts for regression and functional testing.
- Performed Manual Regression Testing by testing entire functionality of the application and executing manual test cases on different Securities and validated the actual results against the expected results.
- Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, and Detailed Design Documents.
- Responsible for conducting Black Box, and daily Smoke Test Manually on different browsers (eg: Firefox, Safari and IE).
- Executed SQL queries for Data Validation in Oracle Database.
- Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
- Involved in manual testing, Navigation Flow testing, UI testing and reported the bugs using ALM.
- Testing of stories/tasks in Iteration basis in Agile Methodology, designing and executing test cases in ALM
- Reporting Daily Status & Involved in documenting minutes for weekly progress to the stake holders.
Environment: C#.Net (4.0), ASP.NET (4.0), TFS, and Visual Studio .NET 2010, Win Forms, Ajax, XML, XSD, Visio, LINQ, JQuery, Oracle 11g, SharePoint 2013, CAML, JQuery, SVN.
