PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Total 10+ years of IT industry experience in Software Testing
• Experience in Agile (Scrum, Risk Based Testing and Kanban) and Waterfall methodology
• Worked on domains such as Finance (especially Credit Card), Healthcare, Internet Advertising and Security
• Led projects in functional automation and Non - functional testing such as Performance, Penetration and Usability
• Experience in white-box testing, black-box testing and data driven testing technologies
• Highly well versed in collecting, maintaining, and documenting project related data in a well-organized way
• Proficient in mentoring and managing resources towards project goal
• Experience in preparing and reviewing the Test deliverables wiz. Test Strategy, Test Approach, Test Conditions, Test Reports and closure activities.
• Experience in preparing the quarterly and yearly decks for the projects with Client and Business Partners
• Experience in monitoring builds, releases and continuous delivery.
• Good knowledge of service virtualization and web services testing
• Good knowledge of SQL and ETL testing

SKILL SUMMARY:

Domain: Domain expertise in Network Products, Security Products, HealthCare (EHR Applications) and BNFS (especially credit cards) domains

Test and Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Link, StarTeam, TFS and JIRA.

Functional Automation Tools: Winrunner and Selenium

Non-functional Testing Tools: Rational Performance Tester, HailStrome, AppScan and Nessus.

Test Support Tools: Fiddler, SoapUI, Tivoli and Nimsoft monitoring

Project Management tools: CA Clarity, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft SharePoint, Version One and Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technologies involved: VMWare workstations, SQL Server Management Console, Bamboo (Configuration Management Tool), Serena, Confluence (Collaboration Tool), Quality Center/ALM (Test Management Tool)

Test Environment: Windows 2008 Server, Web based frontend systems and backend SQL DBs

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Story Item grooming sessions and provide functional testing consultation from QA perspective. Ensure "Customer Requirement" for Completeness, Correctness and Understandability.
• Review Test Objectives and Test Scope for functional testing.
• Planning Test Data and Environments and develop install process and procedures on a Billing Project
• Test Management: Requirements, Tests and Defects management in Serena, HP Quality Center.
• Prepare and demonstrate Test Approach and Test Plan to the project team.
• Design Test Scripts and review the Test Scripts designed by team.
• Utilizing MS SQL in Test Validation (comfortable developing SQL queries and running stored procedures in pursuit of Expected Results or to use in Defects Documentation)
• Exercising SSIS in Test Validation (Import/Export features primarily exercised)
• Manage and monitor test execution schedule.
• Produce Test Reports and get the appropriate sign offs.
• Coordinate performance and vulnerability assessment test efforts.
• Coordinate Staging and UAT testing efforts
• Type of Installations tested: - dotNET Applications package

Technologies involved: VMWare ESX Server, CA Nimsoft monitoring, Cenzic scanning

Test Environment: Windows 2008 Server and Linux operating systems, distributed environment having web based frontend systems and backend DBs, Mainframes

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in application analyze sessions and provide functional and infrastructure testing consultation to project teams.
• Review test objectives for functional and infrastructure testing.
• Production infrastructure parameters analysis wiz. Application alerts, Scheduler jobs, Load balancers etc.
• Ensure the availability of the intended migration environment including ports, firewalls, VIPs
• Manage functional and infrastructure testing scope and schedule.
• Provide test approach and test plan to the E2E team.
• Design test scripts and review the test scripts designed by offshore testing team.
• Manage and monitor test execution schedule.
• Coordinate performance and vulnerability assessment test efforts.
• Provide the test metrics at the end test execution.
• Produce test reports and get the appropriate sign offs.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Analyze Sessions and provide performance testing consultation to project teams.
• Review performance and/or capacity requirements and their objectives.
• Production Metrics Gathering/Analysis/volumes verification
• Ensure the availability of the intended test environment.
• Manage performance testing scope and schedule.
• Provide performance test approach and performance test plan to the E2E team.
• Ensure the performance test scripts are delivered by performance tester.
• Notify testers to begin execution of performance scripts.
• Coordinate performance test execution meetings (connectivity, dry run, monitoring setup & actual execution).
• Ensure smoke test/dry run is completed and the test systems are verified prior to the performance scripts’ execution.
• Track down bottlenecks and pain points (suggest in modifying Scripts Variables, and analyze data)
• Provide the performance metrics at the end of the performance scripts execution wiz response time, running vuser, hits per second, transactions per second, throughput, CPU and memory utilization.
• Produce Final performance test report and get the appropriate sign offs.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Project Planning
• Ensure appropriate testing resources are assigned to each project
• Manage testing scope and schedule
• Review and consolidate the test approach and test plan
• Communicate test approach and test plan to the project team
• Baseline test Data Characteristics
• Notify testers to begin execution of test cases
• Coordinate testing meetings (i.e., daily status, establishment of priorities)
• System Incident Reporting Management
• Ensure test phase containment is followed
• Ensure end to end testing is completed in Integration Testing before UAT starts
• Status reporting on progress of test during SIT & UAT.
• Ensure Business Sign-off on test prior to any application releases code into production
• Ensure Quality Center is set-up, data loaded and kept up to date
• Provide Training to the team on Quality Center and RRA

Confidential

Language and Technologies involved - Selenium 2.07, WebDriver, Quality Center

Test Environment - Windows and Linux Servers

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from the client. Understanding the requirements of the client.
• Analyzing and observing functionality of Test Application i.e. whether or not application behavior is according to test cases or not.
• Preparation of Test Cases using Requirement documents.
• Creating the scripts and run with the automation framework.
• Defect Logging and verification.
• Analyze and troubleshoot problems in setup configuration scripts and automated Test script to debug the problems.
• Perform the regression testing and unit testing

Confidential

Language and Technologies involved - Manual testing, Performance testing and Application Vulnerability testiing

Test Environment - Windows and Linux Servers

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and mentoring resources.
• Work delegation and planning.
• Creating test scenario and setting up test environments.
• Test management in ApTest (designing and maintaining test cases) and defect management in ETrack.
• Preparing project related documentation.
• Reviewing test cases and tracking defects.
• Coordinating with development teams and management.
• After completion of every phase prepare Defect Analysis Report and present it in Defect Analysis Review Meeting.
• Tracking and maintaining PBIs (Project Backlog Item) and SBIs (Sprint Backlog Item) for QAs.
• Monitoring and managing Performance and Penetration testing efforts.

Confidential

Language and Technologies involved - Manual testing

Test Environment - Windows tablets clients

Sr. QA Engineer and QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and mentoring resources.
• Work delegation and planning.
• Creating test scenario and setting up test environments.
• Test management in Empirix (designing and maintaining test cases) and defect management in TTPro.
• Preparing project related documentation (Test Plan, WQSR, MOM, TSR, BAR, PSR)
• Reviewing test cases and tracking defects.
• Coordinating with development teams and management.
• After completion of every phase prepare Defect Analysis Report and present it in Defect Analysis Review Meeting
• Tracking and maintaining PBIs (Project Backlog Item) and SBIs (Sprint Backlog Item) for QAs.
• Handling Scrum meetings in absence of Scrum Master.
• Client communication