SUMMARY

• QA Lead with 14 years of solid IT experience with experience in defining test strategy, designing Functional and Automation test plans, preparing both Functional test cases and Automation test scripts, designing and modifying the Automaton Frameworks, Integrating the Automation tools with Build tools and Continuous integration tools, documentation, following Standard Operation Procedures and implementing test strategies during Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, Planning, Manual Testing, and Test Automation of test cases and quality assurance of Client/Server and Web applications.
• Expert in Automation test Scripts Designing, Debugging and Execution, Automation Framework designing and modification, integrating the frameworks with build tools and Continuous integration tools
• Designing execution of Test Cases for Functionality, Performance and Load testing against requirement.
• Excellent understanding of QA methodologies (Agile, Waterfall), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Defect Life Cycle (DLC).
• Experience in Test Automation using the tool like QTP (Quick Test Pro) / UFT (Unified Functional Testing), Selenium, Protractor and Coded UI
• Expert in writing VB Script code in UFT/QTP, developing Function Libraries, Object Repositories and Descriptive Programming and Java for Selenium.
• Experience in QTP Frameworks like Keyword, Data Driven and Hybrid frame works.
• Experience in TestNG framework for Selenium.
• Experience in configuring the build tools Like Maven and Continuous Integration Tools like Jenkins.
• Expert in QA Life Cycle, which includes test designing, developing and execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts.
• Expert using ALM/Quality Center for creating and maintain Requirements, Test Plans, Test Cases and Defect.
• Experienced in Defect Tracking and Reporting tools using MTM (Microsoft Test Manager), ALM/Quality Center, Jira.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Methodologies Process like Agile methodologies like Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall and V Model.
• Experienced in Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand Up meeting, Sprit Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting, Requirement Review meeting, Work Item Review Meeting, and Defect Assignment Meeting.
• Extensive experience in Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, User Accepting Testing, Exploratory Testing, Non - Functional Testing, Sanity Testing in different stages of SDLC.
• Extended noledge on various domains like Banking, Retail, Industrial, Life sciences and Insurance on Web Windows applications and Mainframes Applications.
• Experience in version control tools like GIT hub, Visual Studio Services.
• Experience in database testing/backend testing using SQL queries in Oracle, MS SQL Server 2017.
• Ability to work with Business Analysts, Developers and other Team Members in complex testing projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.
• Experience in work item review meeting, identify issue in Dev environment before come to QA environment.
• Ability to interact with client business/management with ease and professionalism.
• Enthusiastic to learn new skills with a shorter learning curve and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A good team player with excellent time management skills having profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work, and meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines
• Excellent Communication skills, good work Ethics, honest, dedication, and a team player.
• Excellent in team management, guiding and training new QA members; teaching business processes and tools.
• Excellent experience with off shore teams out of state and country (Chennai India) through go to meeting/skype.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++,C#, SQL, Visual basic

Databases: Oracle (9i, 10g, 11g, 12g) MS-SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2014), MS-Access, My SQL

Operating System: Windows 10/7/2000/95/98/XP/NTTesting Tools Quick Test Pro (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Selenium, Protractor, Coded U me

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director/ALM Quality Center, Jira, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Office Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, Power Point and MS-Access, MS-Note

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Burlington, NC

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed system test plans and test scripts based on the user requirements and design documents.
• Created test cases including functional unit test cases and integration test cases.
• Used Microsoft Test Manager for Manual and Automated Testing of Client-Server and Web based Applications.
• Used Microsoft Test Manager to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, logging bugs, and tracking defects.
• Gather specifications and business requirements prior to application testing.
• Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plan & Test Cases and perform manual and automated testing.
• Performed Functional, End to End testing, Backend Testing and Regression testing manually and using automation tool UFT/QTP and Selenium for Web applications
• Performed data-driven and keyword driven (hybrid) testing and Regression testing using QTP/UFT.
• Execute the Selenium Scripts through Spec Flow framework and shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed Selenium scripts for Cross browser and Functionality testing for Web applications.
• Develop UFT Scripts using Descriptive Programming, Custom Function, and Object Repository.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform database backend testing MSQL 2014.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix on a weekly basis for senior management.
• Tested application in DEV, QA, UAT environments and involved in production Hotfix.
• Involved in meetings to identify new structures and modification of existing structures as and when necessary for the application under test.
• Working as the senior QA Lead for QA in the middleware department, leading in both technical and business aspects of the QA projects, working closely with whole IT team, Business Unit(settlements team), and Third party Services Providers, Reporting to the QA Manager.
• Worked very closely with QA Manager and Business Quality control coordinator on new projects and leaded other QA team members.
• Involved in code review meeting and work item review meeting and kick off meeting for new project.
• Ran the automation scripts and shared the results across stake holders
• Trained new QA member on Onboard (main application) and resolve the technical support about Automation scripting
• Participated in daily QA standing up meeting and weekly meetings and defect review calls.
• Involved in user acceptance testing with users along with providing training to end-user/system testers.
• Involved working in Team Foundation Server with Microsoft test Manager
• Working in Agile-scrum environment where always interacting with developer, Business Analyst and product owners, VPs, and other team members.

Environment: UFT/QTP, Selenium, ALM QC, TFS, VB Script, XML, API, ASP.NET, Web Services, JAVA, Win 7, Maven and Jenkins

Confidential, Bloomington Mn

Lead Automation tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification Documents and User Requirement Document.
• Worked closely with software developers and Functional testers and took active role in ensuring dat the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Actively participated in all phase of testing life cycle including documents reviews, maintaining status reports.
• Maintained Test Matrix for the latest test results information.
• Involved in Test Automation Plan and Test automation estimation
• Involved in Hybrid framework modifications as per client requirement for automation tool UFT/QTP
• Involved in Functional testing, System integration testing, Hotfix, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Executing the Test automation scripts and sharing the results to the client
• Trained the Team members and gave expert level support for test automation during the Test automation scripts design
• Designed the scripts for few web browsers using Selenium web driver and Test Ng
• Used the build tool as Maven and Continuous integration tool as Jenkins.
• Integrated with UFT and Quality center for the results automatic uploaded in Quality center.
• Participated in defect triage meeting with developer, PM, QA Manager and teams to provide explanation of problems.
• Working in Agile-scrum environment where always interacting with developer, Business Analyst and product owners.
• Experience working with off shore team.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and coordinated with the Developers and Testers to resolve and close defects.

Environment: QTP, Selenium Web driver, QC, VB Script, XML, Toad, Oracle, ASP.NET, web Services, JAVA, J2EE, EJB, JSP, ASP, VB.NET, Java Script. Maven and Jenkins

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and System Requirements and interacted with users and developers.
• Developed system test plans and test scripts based on the user requirements and design documents.
• Created test cases including functional unit test cases, positive, negative, boundary cases and integration test cases.
• Used Quality Center for Manual and Automated Testing of Web based Applications.
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, logging bugs, and tracking defects.
• Involved Test Procedures, Methodologies and Policies for ensuring a thorough Testing.
• Checked the Scan Device values on the simulator using Test Automation QTP scripts.
• Changed the existing hybrid framework
• Design, Debug and Execute the test scripts
• Ran the Regression functional test scripts and shared the results across the stake holders
• Checked the data flow through the front-end and back-end, and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Guide the team to develop automation scripts and resolve the technical issues to the team during the script development
• Working in Agile-scrum environment where always interacting with developer, Business Analyst and product owners.
• Accurately produced test status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch
• Involved in user acceptance testing with users along with providing training to end-users and system testers.
• Participated in weekly team meetings and defect review calls.

Environment: Windows XP, XML, SQL, JAVA,JSP, ASP, VB.NET, Java Script, Web Sphere, VB Script, MS SQL Server 2000, QTP, QCPR

Confidential

Lead Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation Test Plan and Test automation estimation by using functional regression suite
• Actively participated in all phase of testing life cycle including documents reviews, maintaining status reports.
• Designed Test Automation scripts and modified the framework as per client requirements
• Execute and Debugging the Test automation scripts
• Shared the Html, Excel and Tool based results to the client
• Worked with Automation tester to developed QTP scripts for Object repository creation and maintenance, regular expression, re-usable libraries
• Accurately produced regular test status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project Launch.
• Maintained bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancement requests.
• Involved in all kinds of formal as well as non-formal meetings with developers, business analysts, and release managers for defect/bug fixing.
• Participated in bug triage meeting to provide explanation of problems.

Environment: QTP, QC, Clear Quest, C, C++, Java, Web logic, Windows NT, Tuxedo,DB2, TSL, Java Script, HTML, XML

Confidential

Lead Automation test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Fully involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and Functional Regression test cases and writing Automation Test Plan.
• Developed Automation Test Scripts to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Involved in Functional, System, and Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Access Online applications.
• Changed the hybrid framework as per client requirements
• Designing, Debugging and executing the test automation scripts.
• Shared the HTML, Excel and QTP results to the stake holders.
• Created Basic Selenium scripts
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations.
• Working in Agile-scrum environment where always interacting with developer, Business Analyst and product owners.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, Java Script, VB, XML, HTML, DHTML, Quality Center, QTP, Selenium, Web SpherePVCS, SQL, Oracle 9i/8i, Win NT.

Confidential

Test Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation test plan and involved in Test automation estimations.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed Functional automation, System Integration and Regression Testing, created Test Scenarios from use cases and requirements to perform Verification and Validation Testing using QTP and Test Director.
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.
• Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Prepared Time Estimates for new projects to identify project budget.
• Identified modules dat were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.
• Coordinated with development engineers to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Visual Basic, VBScript, VBA, J2EE, HTML, IIS, XML, COM/DCOM, C/C++, JAVA, Oracle11.0

Confidential, Bloomington

Test Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation test plan and involved in Test automation estimations.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed Functional automation, System Integration and Regression Testing, created Test Scenarios from use cases and requirements to perform Verification and Validation Testing using QTP and Test Director.
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.
• Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Prepared Time Estimates for new projects to identify project budget.
• Identified modules dat were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.
• Coordinated with development engineers to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Visual Basic, VBScript, VBA, SilverLight3.0, Asp.Net and SQL Server

Confidential

Test Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation test plan and involved in Test automation estimations.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.
• Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Prepared Time Estimates for new projects to identify project budget.
• Identified modules dat were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Visual Basic, VBScript, VBA, SilverLight3.0, Java and SQL Server 2005

Confidential

Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation test plan and involved in Test automation estimations.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Developed the scripts based on Unit Operations
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.
• Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Prepared Time Estimates for new projects to identify project budget.
• Identified modules dat were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Created progress reports to ensure appropriate test coverage and results.

Environment: VC++, QTP, Visual Basic, VBScript, VBA, Windows XP

Confidential

Test Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Automation test plan and involved in Test automation estimations.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.

Environment: QTP, J2EE, SQL Server, Web Sphere MQ

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual test cases based on the requirements.
• Executed the Manual Test cases on Test Director.
• Design the automation test scripts based on Functional regression Manual test cases.
• Developed Reusable functions and modified the existing framework as per client requirements.
• Shared the results across the stake holders
• Performed regression testing using QTP automated test tool throughout all the phases of testing.

Environment: QTP, J2EE, SQL Server, Web Sphere MQ, Test Director

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in preparation of “Test Plan”
• Creation of the Test Scenario scripts.
• Involved in writing test cases from Use case documents and executed test cases.
• Performed Functionality testing and Regression, Retesting testing using QTP
• With the help of Traceability Matrix to identify the uncoverd Functionality in the Test Cases.
• Involved in defect analysis and reporting the Bugs
• Participated in review meetings and walkthroughs

Environment: QTP, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Ms Visual studio, Team plain web access