SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in Software Testing, Project Management and Client Relationship Management.
• Over 3 years of proven experience in leading the team and lead activities on onsite - offshore model and projects in geographically distributed environment.
• Over 3 years of experience in Automation Testing using Quick Test Pro, QTP/BPT and exposure to Selenium.
• Over 4 years of experience in database testing using tools like Toad, Rapid SQL and MS SQL.
• Extensive experience in Test Management tool Confidential Quality Center (QC) - Designing Test Cases, Mapping Requirements to test cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• Experience in JIRA - Tracking estimated efforts, creating and tracking issues, overall management.
• Experience in installing application and build verification for handheld devices.
• Experience on Confidential Servers - Assemble various server parts, connect cables, flash the servers to install server software using console, putty and autosys jobs.
• Extensive experience in E2E testing, defining scenarios, real time test data preparation, executing test cases.
• Extensive experience in Testing Handheld device Pocket computers - Motorola, Intermec devices with GPRS, Infrared and Bluetooth.
• Experience in writing test scenarios, writing test cases based upon new specifications, modifying existing test cases based upon functional changes.
• Experience in reviews - Peer reviews of test cases, reviewing documents like DTPS.
• Extensive experience in UAT Testing - creating scenarios, writing and executing test case, defects analysis, missing test cases, missing requirements, unable to reproduce, out of scope etc.
• Conducting and monitoring the defect triage meeting, assigning and follow up of the defects.
• Experience in preparation of Reports - review reports, execution reports, defect reports, daily status reports and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Exposure to all stages of SDLC and STLC.
• Experience on different testing methodologies like Agile, V-Model, Spiral, Waterfall
• Experience in preparation of Test Plan and Estimations.
• Experience in documentation - preparation of training templates, user guides, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Project related documents, build details etc.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, System, Ad-hoc, Smoke, Exploratory, UAT, Interface, E2E, Web, Server and Regression Testing.
• Experience in SQL, IBM Doors, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Soap UI 3.0, Putty, Toad, Unix Commands, SQL Server Management Studio and Rapid SQL.
• Self Starter, Self-Motivated and Enthusiastic about learning newconcepts in emerging Technology.
• Extensive experience in Health Care, Finance, Insurance, Logistics, Banking and Confidential hardware setup business domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Win Vista/Windows 8

Products/Tools: Quality Center, QTP, BBT, JIRA, IBM Doors, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Soap UI 3.0, Putty, Toad, Unix Commands, MS SQL Server Management Studio, Rapid SQL, Test Track and JIRA.

Programming Languages: C, C++, COBOL & Java

Database: Oracle, SQL and MS Access

Business Domains: Health Care, Finance, Insurance, Logistics, Banking and Confidential hardware setup business domains.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Testing Lead

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test Plan - Defining test strategy, estimate testing efforts, periodic review with customer.
• Scheduling the meetings with Developers, Business Analysts, Testing Team and Business.
• Participate in defects triage meetings and discuss about the defects.
• Training the new members and make them trained to get them speed to adjust project timelines.
• Arrange the cross training sessions among different testing teams to have the knowledge across the application and utilize the team members into different function whenever necessary.
• Analysis, Design and Implementation of Software Requirements for Testing
• Develop test scenarios, test cases; execute test cases, review templates and reports.
• Utilization of test management tool Test Track - Designing Test Cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• UAT Testing – Review UAT requirements, review test cases, created scenarios, writing and executing test cases. Reviews – Peer reviews of test cases, reviewing documents.
• Review the defects of new team members and assign the defects as per.
• Working on System, Regression, Smoke, Web, E2E and Ad-hoc Testing and recommend test cases for automation.
• Preparation of test data for Testing.
• Share the testing efforts and deliverables with clients.

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, El Paso, TX

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Detailed Test Plan - estimated the testing efforts, outlined the scope of testing for each testing release, testing deliverables and resources estimation.
• Presented the test plan to clients and defined the scope and schedules.
• Schedule and participate in requirement review meeting with each assigned tester involving SME.
• Developed test scenarios, test cases; execute test cases, review templates and reports.
• Develop, enhance and optimize the automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for regression testing.
• Execute the automated test scripts, review and fix the failed scripts.
• Use the automated script for the aid to manual testing.
• Run the autosys and batch jobs to load the loans and complete the transactions.
• Utilization of test management tool Quality Center (QC) – Designing Test Cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• Review the test cases written by testers and arrange test case review meetings with SMEs, Developers and Client Project Manager.
• Participate the defect triage meeting consisting of Testing team, Developers, Business Team and Scrum Manager.
• Prepared Daily Status, Execution Status, Defect Status reports and shared with clients. Presented the entire project progress, issues, and challenges to clients as monthly project status meeting.

Testing Lead / Onsite Coordinator

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Responsibilities:

• SPOC for the offshore team – Plan and assign the work, get daily status from offshore team.
• Prepare Power Point presentation to present weekly project status to client manages.
• Lead the daily defect triage meeting with offshore testing team, developers and BAs.
• Follow up the tasks and make sure they completed within stipulated time frame.
• Developed the test plan, estimated the testing efforts, set goals and target to the testing team.
• Develop test scenarios, test cases, execute test cases, review templates and reports.
• Utilization of test management tool Quality Center (QC) – Designing Test Cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• Coordinate with Database Administrator and make sure the data is uploaded from source system to staging tables and from staging table to target tables.
• Involved in the database testing, created and executed complex SQL queries using MS SQL Server Management Studio.
• Involved in Interface testing and make sure the required data is extracted in required in target table from source database.
• Involved in End to End (E2E) Testing – Created E2E scenarios, test cases for the application, Data flow from source to application, application to reports.
• Run the autosys jobs to load the data from staging table to application database depending upon the scenario.
• Reviews – Peer reviews of test cases, reviewing documents
• Preparation of test data for Interface Testing.
• Prepare the daily, weekly and monthly status reports and share with the clients.

Sr. Testing Engineer / Lead

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand the requirements.
• Assign and Monitor the progress of tasks, schedule and participating in meetings, discuss the defects in defects triage meetings.
• Develop test scenarios, test cases, execute test cases, review templates and reports.
• Utilization of test management tool Quality Center (QC) – Designing Test Cases, Mapping requirements to test cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• Set up the OnStar hardware parts for System Integration Testing.
• Take the Blue Button calls from the hardware set up the OnStar application.
• Reviews – Peer reviews of test cases, reviewing documents
• Documentation – preparation of training templates, user guides, Requirement Traceability Matrix and project documents

Sr. Testing Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review the requirements; enter the requirement defects for requirements ambiguity and gaps.
• Mapping requirements to test cases, executing test cases, analyzing coverage, logging and tracking defects.
• Writing test scenarios, writing test cases based upon new specifications, modifying existing test bed based upon new functional changes.
• Assemble Confidential servers using the server hardware parts.
• Involved in End To End (E2E) testing – Assembling the server parts, flashing the servers, running the auto sys jobs using the console, Testing the Application flow and testing with the virtual connect.
• Flash and update the server software and make the servers ready for software testing.
• Documentation – preparation of training templates, user guides, Requirement Traceability Matrix and project documents