PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance.
• Experience in testing Web - based, Client/Server applications conducted both Manual and Automated testing.
• Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, developing and maintaining Test Cases based on Software Requirement Specifications.
• Good Exposure in Functional, Usability, Regression Testing, System Testing, UAT testing.
• Has good working knowledge of Automation tools and Expertise in QTP and QC.
• Experienced in performing Data Driven Testing using parameterization in QTP to test the application with different sets of data.
• Working knowledge of Error handling in QTP using Recovery Scenario.
• Working knowledge of using QTP Scripts with Standard, Text, Bitmap, Table Checkpoints and Synchronization Points.
• Basic knowledge in Designing and Executing the automation scripts using Selenium-WebDriver.
• Complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience using Waterfall, Agile and SCRUM processes.
• Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for various web based and Client/Server applications.
• Ability to interact with developers and business analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Capability to conduct manual and automated penetration testing against applications in scope.
• Experienced in Validating and documenting vulnerabilities produced by test execution and analyze the results.
• Identified the application flaws and stacked against the OWASP top ten critical flaws.
• Provided clear technical detail, proof of concept, business impacts, and potential remediation strategies in relation to discovered findings.
• Provided ongoing expertise for application security related analysis, strategic initiatives and security best practice awareness to developers and the business.
• Able to study new technologies and tricky concepts rapidly and execute them.
• Ability to handle project independently, Detail Oriented, a perfect Team member as well and Self-motivated
• Outstanding analytical, decision-making, problem solving and management skills with the ability to organize activities in fast speedy team environment.
• Ability to perform effectively and efficiently in team and individually.

TECHINCAL EXPERTISE:

Applications: Financial, Internet Banking, Healthcare, Ecommerce, Media and Government Securities trading application.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, ATG framework and Shell Script.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX.

Databases: Oracle9i, Oracle10g, Microsoft Access, SQL Server 2005, Basic Crystal Reports, MS Access

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, ASP

Testing Tools: QTP 11, HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11,JIRA, VersionOne, Mingle, IBM Rational AppScan, Aveksa Compliance Manager tool, Endeca Workbench, JAWS, Paros, BurpSuite and Web Scarab.

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, UML and Rational Rose

Tools: & Utilities: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attended design sessions with the team to analyze business requirements and create User Stories.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Development team on understanding system requirements.
• Involved in checking user Credit Card credentials on PCI screens and monitoring secure information on PCI logs using Log Viewer.
• Designed test plans and test cases to cover all requirements on multiple User Stories.
• Prepared test data for functional & Integration testing.
• Prepared and presented the test cases to the project team for their feedback and sign-off.
• Executed test cases and performed Functional, Regression, System, Negative, GUI, and UAT testing on Desktop, Tablets and Mobile.
• Effectively communicated the Defects to the developers and logged defects in Mingle and JIRA.
• Validated bug fixes and thoroughly regressed all functionalities impacted.
• Performed the back-end testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the database.
• Performed compatibility test using different browsers, tablets and mobile.
• Monitoring the job streams in Jenkins and Qubell
• Submitted the daily EOD test status report to the project team to communicate the progress of testing.

Technologies: ATG Applications, QTP 11, Selenium, Endeca Workbench, JAWS, JIRA, QC, Appscan, Mingle,Oracle10g,J2EE,Jenkins, QubellSoap UI and Log Viewer

Confidential, NY

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attended reviews and walkthroughs to better understand the Requirement documents.
• Analyzed FRS and BRDs to get a better understanding of the system on both functional and business perspectives.
• Involved in the creation of the Test plan, Test Strategy and Test Cases as per requirements and also estimated the test execution efforts for the project based on the requirements.
• Designed and developed automation test scripts using QTP and managed testing activities using HP ALM.
• UsedData Driven Testingmethodology to test the application with multiple sets of data.
• Required to use Descriptive Programming at certain situations to complete the scripts.
• Created Recovery Files using Recovery Scenario Manager associated the recovery scenarios to tests to instruct QTP with specified trigger action on unexpected event/popup.
• Modified and Executed automated and manual test scripts for different modules using QTP, analyzed the results and reported bugs in Quality center.
• Used Quality Center to write test cases, map test cases to requirements (Traceability Matrix) and defect tracking.
• Executed all Test cases in all phases of testing like GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing, and also end to end testing.
• Performed the back-end testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the database.
• Involved in testing Compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
• Worked with Development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on testing results.
• Participated in daily calls with business users, developers and weekly status meetings.
• Provided a weekly project report that includes Test Metrics and status reports.
• To interface with development and Operation's team to ensure the quality of software to user expectation.

Technologies: QTP 11, ALM 11,Oracle10g,J2EE,Windows XP, UNIX and MS Visio

Confidential, NY

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5-7 offshore resources, established work plans and resource allocation for the testing effort for every testing stage of the project ensuring delivery of all projects.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in Agile environment.
• Designed and executed manual and automated test cases through QC by integrating QTP.
• Executed the tests to verify the web GUI using QTP.
• Performed data drive testing to validate the same set of operation with different set of data.
• Enhanced QTP script using recovery scenarios for error handling.
• Performed Smoke, Ad-hoc, GUI, functional and regression testing on iterative Agile SDLC.
• Participated in reviews of functional and technical design specifications, prepared by the Project team to understand the requirements and validate the flow of the application.
• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, reviews and developed test scenarios.
• Prepared Test plan, which includes details regarding objectives, strategy/approach, scope, assumption, risks, entry and exit criteria and defect management.
• Provided daily Test Summary reports and conduct meetings with the Business Team to review testing defects.
• Participation in test execution and created test schedule for system testing.
• Working closely with Quality Assurance team, subject matter experts and software development staff for triaging client reported defects as a part of defect management team.
• Provided second line of support to client support team by interacting with client representatives through live meetings to help narrow down issues and reproduce them locally.
• Scheduled Defect Traige call daily and follow up with Dev team and Product Team to get the critical defects fixed and deployed for Testing.
• Performed unit testing and functional testing on high priority, high-risk items to ensure that solution provided by development meets the requirement.

Technologies: Windows XP, ASP.net, .Net Framework, SQL Server, Quality Center, QTP 9.0 /QTP 9.2, Version One, Rational Rose and MS Visio

Confidential, MA

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a testing team of 3-5 members and point of contact between various development teams and the offshore testing team.
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project releases.
• Involved in Requirement Gathering, Test Data Creation, Test Plan Creation, Test Strategy creation, Sanity, Smoke, Regression testing, offshore signoff.
• Involved in writing end-to-end testing scenarios.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing/Browser Compatibility and Security testing against unauthorized users and unauthorized data access through different browsers.
• Conducted meetings to update the current testing status to development teams
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.
• Executed test cases and analyzed the results. Application defects were identified and logged using HP Quality centre test management tool.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed test scripts.
• Expertise in Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents & Business Rules.
• Involved in estimating the test effort and planning activities.

Technologies: Windows XP, ASP.net, .Net Framework, SQL Server, Quality Center, QTP 9.0, Aveksa, MS Visio and Rational Rose

Confidential, MA

Security Analyst/Penetration Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted manual and automated penetration testing against applications in scope.
• Developed test cases for business risks based on technical study. Common technical tests include SQL injection, session manipulation, variable manipulation, cookie manipulation, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), use of cryptography, command injection, error handling problems, directory traversal and authentication flaws.
• Executed test cases and analyzed the results. Application flaws were identified and stacked against the OWASP top ten critical flaws.
• Provided clear technical detail, proof of concept, business impacts, and potential remediation strategies in relation to discovered findings.
• Translate and present findings to non-technical business staff where required.
• Worked with application teams and owners to identify and implement remediation strategies and improve application development processes.
• Consult as required with management, developers, and other relevant personnel to identify and help implement improvements to application development and security.
• Provided technical expertise and support to clients and all IT staff in the creation and implementation of appropriate application security controls.
• Provided ongoing expertise for application security related analysis, strategic initiatives and security best practice awareness to developers and the business.
• Created Test plans and helped executing them for various applications.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Conducted network and thick client application reviews.

Technologies: Windows XP, ASP.net, .Net Framework, BM Rational AppScan, Paros, BurpSuite, Archer and Web Scarab

Confidential, NY

Assistant Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support end-users on MS Office; Win 2K/XP, Outlook, Mac.
• Help in installing new PC and Mac Computers for lab.
• Resolve hardware / software issues on desktop / laptop PC, network printer.
• Administer and maintain server and LAN network equipment to ensure high availability and high performance of the systems.
• Performed backing up, imaging, and reloading of company PC’s.
• Handle IT, provide necessary guidance to end user and manage user request.
• Maintain and update technical support document, IT report, and policy.
• Served as mentor in computer labs, students on individual basis.
• Tutored students in various operating systems and software applications to enhance basic understanding of computer usage.

Confidential

Jr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated Business and Systems Requirement documents.
• Performed test cases throughout the integration and the regression environments. .
• Broadly done manual testing, constraints verification testing, and the functional testing.
• Participated in implementing test-plans and Test cases built on high-leveled and detailed design.
• Involved in the Test Case walkthroughs, assessment meetings. .
• Contributed in regular status meetings to state any bugs, problems, and risks.

Technologies: Windows XP, J2EE, SQL Server and Quality Center