PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ years of experience in Quality Assurance testing of Web based and client/server Applications.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based e - Commerce applications and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies such as V-model and Agile (Scrum).
• Strong experience in analyzing and testing Retail and BFSI applications.
• Hands on experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Regression, Black Box Testing
• Well knowledge in implementing testing methods to be implemented to figure out defects in early part of STLC.
• Hands on experience in authoring test scenarios and review the test cases written by the team members, verify the traceability metrics for test cases covered against the requirements.
• Possess good knowledge on Web services with SOAP UI and REST Client
• Worked as Sr. QA Analyst and Onsite QA Coordinator by interacting with Managers, Business Analysts team and Development team to resolve the issues
• Support Business Users in User Acceptance testing phase and updated the status of project t the stakeholders at every phase of testing.
• Worked on Confidential ACE / Confidential SCO Testing was involved in setting of QA Test environment with simulated Confidential test environment.
• Hands on experience in building SQL queries for testing data base systems
• Acquired experience with the full life cycle of Software Development (Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Support)
• Have hands full of experience in Agile, V-Model methodologies.
• Proficient in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Involved in preparing the Test Strategy report with QA Lead and Managers.
• Experience in using Test Management tools like ALM, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA and Bugzilla tools.
• Strong technical background and has excellent knowledge of relational databases with excellent analytical skills.
• Profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work, and meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines.
• Adept in handling large amounts of responsibility in both as a team and as individual.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Testing Tools: Quality Center ALM, Clear Quest .

Operating System: Windows 95 / NT/2000, UNIX, MS-DOS

Languages: C, C++ and Java.

Web servers: JavaWebServer, Microsoft IIS, Apache

Application servers: BEA Web logic 5.1, IBMWebSphere, Sun Application Server

RDBMS: Oracle9i, MS Access, SQL Server 2000, My SQL, TOAD

Browsers: IE4.x, 5.x.6.0, Netscape 4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, California

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• To gather the requirements from the Business Analyst of the respective projects.
• Prepare Testing estimates and the resources allocation if project demands additional resources for testing.
• Perform sanity testing after each build.
• Perform System, End-to-End, Regression testing.
• Author the test cases for the new enhancements in the project and verifying the requirement coverage of the test cases.
• Involved in System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing phase.
• Testing Confidential Cash Register and Back end functionality.
• Testing Confidential functionality in the Self Check out machines.
• Test other application related to Confidential like Starbucks lanes, Jamba Juice lanes.
• Involved in the defect triage meeting and update the status of the projection based upon the defects count and severity.
• Perform root -cause analysis for the defects identified during System Testing.
• Co-ordinate with the Business User at UAT phase and support them while testing.
• Deliver daily status reports, Weekly status reports, Test Plan, Estimation reports, Project Closure reports to the client on needy bases.

Environment: NCR SCO, Toshiba OS 4690, HP ALM, Confidential cash register, Copient, Corema, Base 24 application.

Confidential, Nebraska

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Content selection meeting and give input to the PMO whether we can complete the Testing in given time schedule.
• To gather the requirements from the Business Analyst of the respective projects.
• Requirement walkthrough with the BA’s and understand the functionality.
• Prepare Testing estimates and the resources allocation if project demands additional resources for testing.
• Perform sanity testing after each build.
• Perform System, End-to-End, Regression testing.
• Author the test cases and Reviews the Test Cases authored by the peers and provide the feedback for the updates/modification.
• Involved in System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing phase.
• Testing Confidential Cash Register and Back Office functionality.
• Test other application that are related with Confidential like E4473, Signia, RF guns, Tag printer, Retail Portal and RPI.
• Involved in the defect triage meeting and update the status of the projection based upon the defects count and severity.
• Perform root -cause analysis for the defects identified during System Testing.
• Co-ordinate with the Business User at UAT phase and support them while testing.
• Involved in testing post production phase after code is moved to production.
• Deliver daily status reports, Weekly status reports, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Estimation reports, Project closure report to the client on needy bases.

Environment: Java, ATG, SQL Server 2008/2010, HP ALM, Confidential cash register, Back office, E4473, Signia, RF guns, Tag printer, Retail Portal and RPI.

Operating System: Windows 7

Confidential, Sidney, NE

Onsite POC

Responsibilities:

• Well aware of the different components in the system architecture
• To gather the Business requirements from Business Analyst of different projects, discuss about the project scope and functionality with the relevant project stakeholders.
• Perform detail analyze of the Business requirements and find out the gaps.
• Derive the Requirement Ambiguity index of the Business requirements and Share Requirement Ambiguity index (RAI) details with the Business Analyst. (eg., if RAI score greater than 3 to 5 then Business requirement need to revisit and need a major modification, RAI score is in between 2 to 3 then Business Analyst need to revisit once again the Business requirements, RAI score is less 2 Business requirements are ready for the development and testing phase).
• Depending upon the RAI score and the modification I need to revisit the Business requirements once again.
• Revalidate the requirements and verify whether requirements cover the overall scope and out of scope of the project (from point 2 to 5, cycle continuous till the business requirements are freeze), now this Business requirements are ready for Design, testing and Maintenance.
• Communicate and co-ordinate with team members on regular basis to provide the deliverables on time.
• Business Requirements are based on the following applications:
• PeopleSoft
• Web based
• JDA Win/DSS ( Confidential )
• KIOSK
• EDW (Data Warehousing)
• AS-400
• Data Base
• BPM

Environment: JDA Win/DSS, AS/400, SQL Server 2008/2010, HP ALM, Retail Portal.

Operating System: Windows XP

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business and development teams
• Building client relation and trust by proactively managing the expectations and delivering the services.
• Management reporting of the testing activity and helping the Project Sponsor to decide about the release of builds to certification and UAT environments.
• Assigning and tracking the tasks to the team
• Bug review and impact analysis
• Preparation of daily/weekly status reports and Test summary and Bug summary reports
• Project management activates-Metrics collection and analysis, Risk Management
• Sharing the knowledge between the team members
• Interacting with the Client, Keeping track of the Status and Progress of the Project and resources

Environment: IE 07, XML

Operating System: Windows 2008

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business and development teams.
• Gathering the requirement documents from the client and rising any defects if found any gaps in the requirement.
• Developing Test Plans based on client requirements.
• Assigning and tracking the tasks to the team
• Analyzing the test requirements and setting the test environment for the build test cycles
• Test scenarios authoring, review and execution
• Bug review and impact analysis
• Preparation of daily/weekly status reports and Test summary and Bug summary reports
• Project management activates-Metrics collection and analysis, Risk Management
• Sharing the knowledge between the team members
• Tracking the deliverables on timelines

Environment: Java, SQL Server, SOAP GUI, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Pivotal, IE 07

Operating System: Windows XP SP3