SUMMARY

• Award winning, dynamic, self motivated and result oriented individual with excellent academic record and 9 years of valuable software testing (QA) experience in IT industry
• Complete understanding of the software Testing life cycle(STLC)
• Good experience in High Risk projects dealt with functional/manual Testing, Automation Testing, Leading and managing testing teams.
• Have excellent communicational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable in working independently as well as a great team player.
• Worked as an Onsite - Offshore coordinator ensuring onsite deliverables on track as per client requirements and expectations.
• Profound knowledge in writing and executing MS SQL server queries.
• Worked on Agile methodology.
• Expertise in Banking, Energy, AMI, Utilities, Gas and Health care Domain.
• Proficient in using source control tools like TFS and VSS.
• Proficient in using Autosys iXp
• Experience in using HP Quality Center, HP QTP 10, HP UFT 11.5, IBM Rational Clear quest & Rational Team Concert

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP & 7

Other tools: HP Quality Center, HP QTP 10, HP UFT 11.5, IBM Rational Clear quest,, Oracle TOAD, TFS, VSS,SQL Server 2008, SQL Developer, Mainframes DB2, Unix, Autosys iXp, MS Office & MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Task assignment and tracking
• Responsible for handling deliverables at onsite & Leading/coordination with Onsite/offshore QC teams and provide updates to the leadership.
• Handling Multiple projects and responsible for deliverables.
• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module
• Cost & Effort estimates for QA activities
• Test Plan preparation
• Ensure consistency in testing lifecycle processes across projects
• Reviewing Test Scripts and upgrading whenever needed
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly status to the client
• Responsible for setting up defect triage meeting to ensure that defects were brought to closure in stipulated amount of time.
• Regression testing and post production support.
• Synchronize schedules
• Set expectations and establish service level agreements (SLA)
• CreatedShared Object Repositories,Re-usable Actions, Recovery ScenariosandUser Defined Functionsthat can be used in other Automation Scripts.
• Useddata-driventesting and database accessing techniques during automation scripts development
• Data Verification of Source and Extract files.
• Bluestar Data verification
• Coordinating & mentoring offshore team in delivering the product right, taking advantage of the time zone to ensure faster delivery.
• Test Execution and Scheduling from Quality Center. Test Closure Report generation
• Defect Reporting
• Test Closure Report preparation.
• Experienced in Agile technology with Scrum.

Confidential - St. Louis

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Task assignment and tracking
• Leading a team of 5 members
• Handling Multiple projects and responsible for deliverables.
• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module
• Estimation preparations
• Test Plan preparation
• Reviewing Test Scripts and upgrading whenever needed
• Test Data Preparation to ensure smooth test execution
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly status to the client
• Responsible for setting up defect triage meeting to ensure that defects were brought to closure in stipulated amount of time.
• Test Execution and Scheduling from Quality Center. The test execution is unattended with no manual intervention.
• Test Closure Report generation
• Perform billing in test environments
• Run Batch using Autosys iXP

Confidential - Chicago

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Task assignment and tracking
• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module
• Handling Multiple projects and responsible for deliverables.
• Leading a team of 3 members
• Test Plan preparation
• RFP preparation
• Ensure consistency in testing lifecycle processes across projects
• Test Data Preparation to ensure smooth test execution
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly status to the client
• Responsible for setting up defect triage meeting to ensure that defects were brought to closure in stipulated amount of time.
• Coordinating & mentoring off shore team in delivering the product right, taking advantage of the time zone to ensure faster delivery.
• CreatedShared Object Repositories,Re-usable Actions, Recovery ScenariosandUser Defined Functionsthat can be used in other Automation Scripts.

Confidential, California

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module
• Monitoring Quality and Productivity.
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly status to the client
• Reporting of the results generated after testing to the Quality Audit
• Preparing the Test Data required for execution by writing complex SQL queries & running backend transactions in Mainframe.
• Reviewing Test Scripts and upgrading whenever needed
• Estimation preparations
• Quality delivery check of scripts as per the coding standards.
• Responsible for Defect Triage Meetings

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Task assignment and tracking
• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module
• Monitoring Quality and Productivity.
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly status to the client
• Reporting of the results generated after testing
• Preparing the Test Data required for execution by writing complex SQL queries.
• Reviewing Test Scripts.
• Estimation preparations
• Quality delivery check of scripts as per the coding standards.
• Responsible for Defect Triage Meetings

Confidential, California

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding scope of the module, Business requirements and Integration of the complex architecture Sub Systems.
• Planning and executing activities as per the scope of the module and their interaction with the systems.
• Monitoring Quality and Productivity.
• Maintaining status tracker and providing weekly and monthly status to the client.
• Coordinating with Offshore team in delivering the product right, taking advantage of the time zone to ensure faster delivery.
• Reporting of the results generated after testing to the Quality Audit Team ensuring clarity and Perfection in the testing performed.
• Preparing the Test Data required for execution which involves complex navigations through various systems & backend transactions in Mainframe.
• Reviewing Test Scripts and upgrading when needed
• Estimation preparations
• Quality delivery check of manual scripts as per the coding standards.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Test Data required for execution
• Reviewing Test Scripts.
• Execution of the test scripts
• Reporting of the results generated after testing
• Defect Tracking
• Preparing the Test Closure report

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Scripts
• Execution of Test Scripts
• Reporting of the results generated after testing
• Preparing the Test Data required for execution
• Defect Reporting.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy
• Identifying test scope and test scenarios.
• Preparing the test cases and scripts and executing the them
• Involved in Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Detecting Bugs in the application and reporting them as and when they occur, into HP Quality Center (Defect Tracking Tool).