SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing of Client/Server, Web - Based and Distributed applications in Healthcare, Insurance and Banking industries
• 3+ years of experience as a QA Team Lead, has developed test plans/strategies, test cases, estimated testing efforts, resource allocation, escalated testing issues, generated test metrics and reports, attended project meetings, coordinated testing environments, conducted UAT, mentored QA team, participated in test execution, logged defects, and document required processes
• Demonstrate excellent communications skills, both oral and written, and serve as leadconduit between developers, architects and designers, and with external and internalcustomers.
• Experience with QA, system development, and test project life cycle methodologies
• Ability to work TEMPeffectively with product development and systems management
• Strong QA Team Lead experience in taking projects from requirements through test case execution and implementation
• Experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and possess strong knowledge of Quality Assurance Methodologies and standards
• Hands on experience in Agile Life Cycle model and testing approaches.
• Experience in mapping business priorities and requirements into test plans and strategies, tracking the development of project artifacts necessary for QA throughout projects
• Achieved CSTE Certification in Dec’2009 (Certification #21249)
• Experience in managing the daily responsibilities of testing team and working very closely with business partners/users/analysts, project managers, and dev teams.
• Excellent skills in manual testing and hands on experience in automation testing using QuickTestPro (QTP), HP ALM.
• Proficient in different phases of testing i.e. Integration, Functional, Regression, System, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), E2E, White Box and Black Box testing.
• Expertise in preparing test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, QA defect logs, review logs, and test metric reports for manual and automated testing.
• Performed backend testing by executing SQL queries on database DB2, Oracle and MS SQL Server. Hands on experience in using Quest Central, Query Analyzer and Toad.
• Managed QA delivery reviews to ensure deliverables met best practice standards
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Versatile team player with ability to perform under stress. Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual level.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP, UNIX and Linux.

Functional Testing Tool: QTP 10.0, Selenium

Performance Testing Tool: Load Runner

Test Management Tool: Quality Center, Bugzilla

Languages: C, VB and SQL.

Database: Oracle 8i and SQL Server.

Scripting Language: VB Script

Configuration management tool: Visual Source Safe (VSS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, use cases, TDD documents, and translated them into test plans, and test cases.
• Developed and Executed test scripts using Quality Center.
• Created the test plan document that defines the test environment, entrance and exit criteria. Planned resources required for a specific release.
• Designed and developed system test cases for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality and prepared Traceability Matrix.
• Regularly participated in business, use case, and TDD review meetings of different application activities in a business flow.
• Involved in leading the test management activities, initiated technical discussions with developers, organized script review meetings, defect review meetings and followed up with development to get the defects resolved. Participated in the Go-No-Go decision meetings.
• Responsible for Training and leading the QA Team.
• Responsible for managing the offshore testing team and co-ordinate with the Client business and development team.
• Performed gap analysis, created functional test cases, test conditions, test data and performed integration, system, regression, positive, negative, E2E, and UAT testing.
• Reported and tracked all defects using HP ALM, Escalated testing issues, interacted with business users/analysts, developers, external teams to resolve the defects/issues.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Training and leading the QA Team. Responsible for coordinating the Functional and Automation Teams.
• Coordinating with the UAT and Pilot testing teams as a QA lead
• Performing regression testing using automation tool QTP
• Completed AMFIC certification in Mutual funds.
• Developed and Executed test scripts using Quality Center.
• Worked on Various enhancements and production issues.
• Performed Functional and Regression using Quality Center.
• Reporting bugs using Quality center.
• Interaction with development, onshore team members and business analysts.
• Preparation of project related documents like Project plan, Weekly Status Report and Effort estimation Report

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, use cases, TDD documents, and translated them into test plans, and test cases.
• Certified in Claims user, Claims configuration and Membership configuration subsystems by DST Health Solution, USA.
• Developed and Executed test scripts using Quality Center.
• Worked on Various enhancements like Care Analyzer, Market prominence etc.
• Created the test plan document that defines the test environment, entrance and exit criteria. Planned resources required for a specific release.
• Validate the EDI transactions. Involved in developing testing scenarios for Benefit enrollment and maintenance (834)
• Designed and developed system test cases for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality and prepared Traceability Matrix.
• Regularly participated in business, use case, and TDD review meetings of different application activities in a business flow.
• Involved in leading the test management activities, initiated technical discussions with developers, organized script review meetings, defect review meetings and followed up with development to get the defects resolved. Participated in the Go-No-Go decision meetings.
• Responsible for Training and leading the QA Team. Responsible for coordinating the Functional and Automation Teams.
• Responsible for managing the offshore testing team and co-ordinate with the Client business and development team.
• Performed gap analysis, created functional test cases, test conditions, test data and performed integration, system, regression, positive, negative, E2E, and UAT testing.
• Reported and tracked all defects using HP ALM, Escalated testing issues, interacted with business users/analysts, developers, external teams to resolve the defects/issues.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Going through the business/functional requirements and technical specifications of the application.
• Authoring of Test Cases for Integration, System and GUI Testing as per the specifications.
• Performing regression testing and authoring new regression test cases using QTP.
• Developed and Executed test scripts.
• Involved in test case peer reviews and updating test cases
• Performing smoke, Functional and User Interface Testing.
• Involving in regression testing using Manual Procedure.
• Bug tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Status reports preparation for day-to-day activities.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and Executed test scripts.
• Generated and Enhanced Scripts using QTP (Quick Test Professional).
• Involved in test case peer reviews and updating test cases
• Performing smoke, Functional and User Interface Testing.
• Involving in regression testing using Manual Procedure.
• Bug tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Status reports preparation for day-to-day activities.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the flow of business requirements.
• Interacted with Developers and analyzed the system for functional aspects..
• Preparation of Test Case Index document.
• Authoring and reviewing the test cases.
• Manually Testing the Flow of Business.
• Performing the smoke and Functional testing.
• Involved in Integration and Regression Testing.
• Reporting the bugs using Excel.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business flow of the application based on SRS.
• Participated in developing the Data flow Diagrams for business flow.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing.
• Performed Data Validation testing for the application.
• Reporting the bugs using Excel.