SUMMARY

• Highly skilled Software Professional in the field of Quality Assurance with about 10 years of experience in Software Product and Application Testing in the following Domains: E - commerce, Banking and Financial Services, Data Storage Management and Workflow Management. Very strong in Quality Assurance and Control Processes, self-starter and quick learner with good leadership & communication skills.
• Led various QA activities - Analysis and Creation of Test strategies, Test plans, Test cases for manual & Automation
• Expertise in performing all kinds of black box testing, cross browser testing, database testing (RDBMS), boundary analysis & web services testing in E-commerce website, Financial, Data Storage and Workflow Products.
• Experienced in Mobile application testing on various Android and iOS platforms.
• Extensive Functional & UI testing for E-commerce & Banking applications in various cellphone & Tablet models.
• Experience with Webservice Testing using Soap UI.
• Good Knowledge of FIX Protocol and equity trading life cycle.
• Knowledge of placing FIX orders through UI and testing FINRA compliance of Equity trading and verifying FIX messages delivered to Trade Vault.
• Worked as a BA in E-commerce website development based on responsive design.
• Experience in GUI Automation using QTP.
• Worked in Agile/Scrum development models.
• Created Test Cases based on requirements for each sprint cycle.
• Experienced in coding using scripting languages like Visual Basic and SQA Basic.
• Well versed in implementing different automation frameworks including keyword driven, Data driven and hybrid.
• Strong SQL skills used to do database checks in multiple projects using DBArtisan tool.
• Setting up and maintenance of Test environment & backup required for Test Automation.
• Experienced in RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) and other testing metrics used for effective planning and execution of QA cycles.
• Effective Test Managements skills using HP Quality Center including Creating Requirements, Test Cases, Test Sets, Defects tracking and Reporting.
• Exposure to Performance Engineering methodologies.
• Experience in performing User Acceptance testing in coordination with Product specialists and product managers.
• Good team management and leadership skills and adaptability to handle testing projects/tasks from any stage.
• Experienced in leading a QA team comprising of on-site & offshore team.
• Ability to meet major milestones and handle testing time crunches with effective test planning and coordination.
• Successful Six Sigma project in reducing Test execution cycle time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows (2000, 2003, NT, XP), Unix

GUI Automation tools: Extensive - QTP 10, Confidential Certify, Rational Robot, Exposure - Open STA, Load Runner, Win Runner, Selenium

Browsers: IE 8,9,10, Firefox 21 & Above, Chrome 28 & above, Safari, Opera

Mobile platforms: Android 4.1, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, iOS 6 & 7

Test Managment Tools: HP Quality Center 9.2, 10

Scripting Languages: HTML, VB, SQA Basic

Database/ Web servers: Oracle 8.0, SQL Server 2005, Apache Tomcat 5.x, Weblogic 7.1 SP4, Websphere 4.x, 5.x

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Analysis for the new Confidential .com website version involving responsive design.
• Active participation in Requirement Definition meetings involving Stakeholders, Business users & third party vendors.
• Verifying the new front end design source (HTML) developed by external vendor across all supported Browsers on Desktops and various Android and iOS devices (Cellphones & Tablets)
• Analysing the web content management system design by SDSA development team, for changes and missing functions.
• Performing Webservice testing using Soap UI.
• Creating Test Plan for the new Version and Test Scripts for both front end and WCMS.
• Developing Test Scripts for enhancements in existing Confidential .com website and maintaining Test Scripts for Regression testing.
• Supporting the Testing of the existing Confidential .com site for bug fixes and small - medium enhancement requests based on the business users requests made through Brightgreen.
• Testing creation and data management using various templates and group structures created in WCMS.
• Functional & UI testing of front end in all supported browsers and Tag testing using HttpFox.
• Integration testing for WCMS & Front end and also with the various third party vendors for Order processing & Rich Relevance.
• Defect creation and tracking till closure using Mantis.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Test Conditions development based on BRD and FRD, more focussed on business scenarios.
• Test Scripts development with mapping to Test Conditions and creating Test Sets in HP Quality Center.
• Shakedown of Test Scripts in the QA Environment in different mobile devices that are supported (iPhone, Android & Tablets). Updating the scripts with actual data from shakedown.
• Automating smoke tests in QTP and executing them for every UAT cycle.
• Maintaining the automation tests in Quality Center and executing them directly from QC.
• Analysing results of automation runs and correcting the scripts (or) raising defects based on the outcome, during regression runs.
• Reporting automation results to all stakeholders through email and also maintaining result logs in sharepoint.
• Assisting Production Managers in Script execution in different cycles of UAT.
• Maintaining UAT documents in Sharepoint.
• Co-ordinating with QA team and Dev team for required Test setups and Data setups in GE Database.
• Generating various payment reports for PD and IntraDay in COL and comparing against baselines.
• Validating the PD and Intraday account balances and CD,DB totals based on accounts and various currencies.
• Verifying the new features in various reports and different report formats (BAI2, MT940, CSV, CSV Unicode).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Lead Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Task Planning for QA team for each Release and allocation of Test Resources.
• Test Plan Development and tracking the progress throughout QA cycle.
• Task Allocation to team members based on their experience and capability.
• Appraisal of team members and resolving team conflicts smoothly.
• Test Conditions development based on Release documentation and/or Change Requests in HP Quality Center 9.2
• Preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy for Automation of some features.
• Analysing Test scripts failed in automation through manual Testing.
• End to end automation of Test Scripts in QTP - Preparing Object repository, reusable actions and functions.
• Integration of HP QC with QTP for regular scheduled Test runs for Regression Testing.
• Generation of Test Execution Reports for Manual & Automation runs in all Test execution cycles performed for the release.
• Maintaining Test Log with Application and Server down times and resolutions.
• Generation of Weekly Status reports and Monthly metrics.
• PVT - Production Verification Testing - Smoke test on final code deploy in Production Environment.
• Warranty Testing Support - Perform functional and Regression testing on Production defects.

Confidential

QA Analyst Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Generation of Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Manual Functional Testing.
• Defect Logging and defect tracking.
• Testing for session maintenance and back-end checks for data verification by writing SQL/Oracle Query.
• Cross browser testing (IE, Netscape, Firefox) and session maintenance testing for the GUI application.
• Involved in Automation Test Design, Planning, Development and Maintenance of Automated Test Suites for Functional and Regression through GUI.
• Generating GUI Maps for every screen in the application and maintaining them.
• Version the maps for changes in the underlying components and updating automation scripts.
• Execution of Automated Test Suites for different types of Testing like: Functional, Regression, Scalability, Sanity.
• Remote execution of QTP scripts on regular nightly runs using RemoteConnect and Vmwares.
• Setting up and maintenance of Test environment required for Test Automation.
• Setting up and maintenance of backup for Test Scripts and GUI Maps.
• Working with the Technical support team for the GUI Automation tool ( Confidential Inc. ) to resolve Tool related issues and defects.
• Assigning and reviewing test scripts for the team members.
• Providing Technical guidance and training in automation tool for the team members.
• Coordinated closely with the Development team to understand the automation Test requirements and to resolve any project support issues, to enable effective automation.

Confidential

Software Engineer Quality Control

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business scenarios and creating Test Design,Test Cases and Test Data using Design in EA, BRD & FRD.
• Setting up the Test Environment Server and Client Setup . Deploying the application in different servers like Apache Tomcat, Weblogic and Websphere.
• Manual execution of Test Cases, Defect tracking & reporting.
• Testing for session maintenance and back end checks for data verification by writing SQL/Oracle Query in SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 8.
• Involved in selecting, customizing and implementing automation framework.
• Generating automated scripts for Functional, Platform and User Acceptance Testing using Rational Robot - GUI.