SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of IT Experience in Software Quality Assurance testing on Client - Server, Web, Database and Mainframe applications / Technologies.
• Lead QA project teams on multiple projects, and Extensively involved in System Integration testing (SIT), End to end, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Automation Regression Testing, Validation testing, Backend testing, Performance Testing, Product validation testing, Web Services and UAT.
• Expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and V-Model.
• Excellent working knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle, Test Life Cycle and industry best practices and developed and organized QA Planning tasks in QA Plan and project management schedule using MS Project.
• Effectively interacted with the development, Release Management, Business Analyst, Business Users / Owners stakeholders for QA tasks.
• Proficient in analyzing system requirements, use cases and other documents to gain overall understanding of the applications to determine the appropriate level of testing required and creating Test plans/ Test Strategy and test cases based on requirements.
• Lead in the planning, assessing challenges/ risks, estimating and scheduling of testing tasks for QA engineers and proficient in reporting, tracking, scheduling and managing bugs and issues to ensure commitment/release dates are met.
• Developed Test Strategy Documents, Test Plan Documents, Use Cases, Manual Test Cases, Automated Scripts.
• Organize & coordinate the Defect triage meetings and discuss the issue status.
• Experiences in implementation & Configuration of Payments Product Confidential large banks.
• Experience on Payment Reconciliation, SWIFT, Cash Management/ SEPA-NEFT and financial messaging standards like ISO20022,MT Messages.
• Effective work experience on Agile Scrum Teams, including working with Product Owner, managing grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint review and retrospective.
• Proficient in Defect Management, Bug Severity analysis, Bug tracking system and Bug Reporting.
• Proficient in Tracking and Reporting defects using Industry and Internal tracking tools like Quality Center,Zephyre,Lotus Notes, JIRA and Bugzilla.
• Expertise in Automation testing using automation tools (Selenium), manual testing, backend testing and creating automation testing environment.
• Good understanding and knowledge in Financial,Telecom,Insurance & Health domain.
• Experience in Planning and execution of Performance, Load and Stress tests for Web applications.
• Extensively worked on SQL Queries using DDL, DML, DCL, Transition Control statements and develop stored procedures.
• Developed the QA entry / exit criteria are met and review with all the stakeholders, development team and other teams to get sign off of products and ensuring quality of products and projects.
• Created and executedJmeterwith Blazemeter performance test plans for gaming Mobile application in Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience in IT testing on Client-Server, Web, and Database applications/Technologies.
• Experience working with the full life cycle development process, which includes analysis, design, development and testing & support.
• Good knowledge in business functionality for developing multidimensional modeling (Data Modeling).
• Exposure to ETL methodology for supporting Data Extraction, Transformations and Loading processing in a corporate
• Experience in API testing(SOAPUI,Postman,REST) for send calls to the API, get output, note down the system's response. Extensively worked on XML files and validating the XML files.
• Accomplished Six Sigma Green belt projects.
• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Background managing all aspects of project lifecycle in wide range of organizations.
• Proactive team player with excellent interactive and interpersonal skills to communicate with team members, developers, clients and end users Confidential all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA-Testing & nd Management: Win Runner, JMeter, Test Director, Selenium, Quality Center, ZephyreJira,Rally, Jenkins(Automated Build tool), VMWare

Programming Languages: C, C++, Cobol,Java, VB.NET,VB Script, XML

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/XP/2000/98, UNIX, Linux ES 5/4

RDBMS: Oracle 10G/9i, MS Access 2000, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL

Web/Application Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Java Web server

Reports: Crystal Reports, Business Objects and Oracle Reports

Project-Planning tool/Design Tool: Microsoft Project, MS Visio

App Server: Tomcat, Web Sphere 5, Web logic 9

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VBScript

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, SOAP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSL

Version Control: Tortoise SVN

Defect Tracking: JIRA, Bugzilla, Rational Clear Quest and Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Louis

Test Architect/Defect Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA team and developed planning and execution of QA activities for multiple project releases.
• Developed test plans, established test strategy and created test cases based on Business requirement documents.
• Analyzed use cases, developed path analysis, identified gaps and communicated them to the management and Business Analyst.
• Assigned tasks to the QA team and coordinated all testing activities for assigned projects.
• Attended in detailed requirement walkthrough meetings and Q&A sessions with the Business Analysts.
• Planned and coordinated all QA team activities from test planning, execution and defect tracking to re-testing defect fixes, regression testing and post production closeout activities.
• Schedule & conducted Defect triaged & review meeting with Development team and discuss about the open tickets created by QA team.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions periodically.
• Created & managed all the defects in the HP Quality Center.
• Mentored team members and Conducted knowledge sharing sessions among team members to resolve problems.
• Collaborated with regional users (customers) and coordinated all activities during the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase for several releases; including engaging users for testing, escalating issues that interfere with UAT lifecycle process, feedback, meetings, etc. during the testing cycle.
• Actively contributed to process improvement discussions following each major release.
• Wrote test cases in Quality Center, linking the test cases to the requirements and generate the RTM.
• Reviewed requirements and created test cases in the HPQC.
• Performed functional and regression testing in the HPQC for all releases.
• Retrieved data from Oracle database for data validation, using SQL queries.
• Stored all the testing and project documents in the SharePoint site.
• Executed test cases, logged defects and coordinated with the development team and business analysts to follow up for defect fixes and re-testing.
• Analyzed use cases, developed path analysis and wrote test cases in Quality Center, linking the test cases to the requirements for traceability.
• Reviewed Test Cases developed by other team members as part of peer review.
• Managed SharePoint site for the documentation and storage purpose.
• Provided input and feedback for identification of a regression test suite and provided assistance in automation.
• Performed administration of HP Quality Center (QC) on an ongoing basis.
• Set up projects, created custom roles and implemented process for authoring of test cases and creating/running test cases in the Test Lab.
• Lead the Test Cases & Results review sign-off meetings with stakeholders, development & other teams
• Reviewed and understood functional and nonfunctional requirements of the project.
• Designed and executed Functional and Regression Test Cases for Defect and Enhancements.
• Created test data for System Integration Testing Test Cases bases on requirement and functional documents.
• Partnered with Business Users to execute User Acceptance Testing prior to delivery of code to the production
• Created logical test cases to verify and validate Backend testing, executed SQL queries to validate data from backend.
• Implemented Agile methodology throughout SDLC for developing the project in incremental approach and managed the application testing in Sprints.
• Participated in the end user meetings to get the business requirements from users to understand the reports requirements
• Developed test cases based on Detail design Documents & business requirements for the reports.
• Extensively Created Metrics, Prompts, Transformations and Filters to generate reports in System Testing environment.
• Created reports for Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and yearly for various transactions of Business.
• Analyze defects opened, providing exact cause, decide the severity of defect & track the defect to closure.
• ProvidingTestEstimates for the new build pushed into ORT/PVT environment
• Negotiating the testing efforts with stakeholders and upper management
• Preparing Risk Mitigation plan and tracking the risk items till closure
• Experienced in managing reporting teams, platforms, and cross team projects.

Environment: Apache Tomcat Server, Webserver (IIS), AJAX. SqlServer. Web service, Oracle, Performance tool (Jmeter), Toad, Bugzilla

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading QA team and Involved in reviewing and analyzing the functional requirement documents with the Business Analyst & stakeholders.
• Developed test strategy & test plan and reviewed with all stakeholders, Development team, Infrastructure team and other teams.
• Extensively worked Agile Scrum methodologies of the application and involved in System Integration testing, Smoke, Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Created test design by using Quality Center test Management tool and tracked the defects and reported the defects to the concerned persons
• Performed database testing by using SQL queries
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro for regression testing for automation of multiple modules in the environments
• Coordinate & schedule the defect triage meetings with the development team and business to discuss about the open issues reported using HP Quality Center
• Set up Requirements Traceability Matrix with all the testable Business scenarios
• Created different Traceability views to maintain the Traceability of the requirements and test cases
• Involved in testing the log files in Unix server
• Frequently updated the requirements and defect status as per the current status of the testing project
• Planned and worked flexibly to meet the dead lines
• Wrote extensive SQL and PL/SQL scripts to test the ETL flow, Data Reconciliation, Initialization, and Change Data Capture, Delta Processing, Incremental process.
• Prepared a SIT Plan and set up SIT environment.
• Prepared Execution procedure document format to prepare the Test cases based on mapping document.
• Involved in API testing for 9 services through POSTMAN in JSON format Analyzed the Data Dictionary developed by the Systems Analyst for developing test scripts.
• Executing ETL - Data Stage Workflows for updating test Databases from the Production servers.
• Tested Data Stage Workflows and worked on Staging area to validate the data with SQL Queries.
• Initiated and developed new techniques to improve the testing process and improve the performance of the test scripts.
• Developed SQL queries to verify the number of records from Source to Target and validated the referential integrity, Time variance, Missing records, Nulls/Defaults/Trim spaces rules as per the design specifications.
• Coordinated execution of System Testing, regression and integration testing with multiple departments.
• Updated the status of the testing to the QA team, and accomplished tasked for the assigned work to the Project Management team regularly.
• Performed Regression testing of the fixed issues in the new build until no new issues are identified.
• Submitted weekly bug or issue report updates to the Project Manager in the form of the QA Error Log.
• Submitted Final Test Report and required documentation for the entire project within the assigned time frame.
• Used Toad extensively to test and data as a key step in data validation.

Environment: Java, Java script, JDBC, XML, DB2, QTP

Confidential, Dallas

Sr Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a QA team lead is responsible for planning & managing the System test phase of a release.
• Coordinate & managed assigning projects in the release and coordinate developers & testers to create test cases, test data and setup
• Initiation and Involvement in Test Design, Test Plan, conduct audits, Test Development and analyzing Test Results
• Worked in agile development environment with frequently changing requirement and feature set and Participated in daily SCRUM meeting.
• Identifying software capabilities and reliability by conducting System Integration, Functional, regression, Backend.
• Analyzing Business Requirement Documents, functional specification documents, System Requirement Specifications.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining Application development test plan, scripts, and manual test cases for the application and documenting bugs.
• Experience with software change management and bug tracking system using Quality Center.
• Preparation of Test Cases and executed Test Cases for complete application.
• Responsible for both manual and automation testing of the application.
• Worked in identifying Regression Test Cases which can be automated using systematic approach and doing Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Conducted Meetings/ Conferences with development team for discussing bug fix status and build releases.
• Participated in Walkthroughs with team leads, System Analyst, Project coordinator and the development teams to discuss the outstanding defects and scope change request.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to perform back-end testing for data integrity and data verification.
• Defect Tracking using Quality Center And administrating Quality Center for QA and development team.
• Resolved both stability and scalability issues through identifying bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Profiled existing applications deployed in production for usage/throughput as well as applications for net new deployments. Planned, created, and executed performance tests.
• Conducted Performance analysis for hardware capacity planning. Tuned the software application layers to allow applications to scale: webservers, java application servers, connection pooling, network protocols.
• Participated in the go /No go Call’s before the release.
• Log necessary, timely, critical problem reports into the defect tracking system.
• Manage all owned (by feature or origination) bugs
• Postproduction testing based on role complexity and preparation of status reports after complete SIT.

Environment: Java script, JDBC, Oracle, QTP UNIX.

Confidential

Sr.Test Analyst/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted smoke testing coordinating with the Business analysts and Testers.
• Reviewed Use cases in the Rational Requisite Pro and wrote manual Test cases.
• Executed the test casesandverifiedthe actual results with the expected results.
• Execute test cases and track theDefectsand ensure Closure of defects.
• Preformed End-to-End testing coordinating with the different team members.
• Conducted regression testing and wrote the regression test scenarios in the HPQC.
• Involved in Performance testing and calculated the average timing comparing with the baseline of the previous release.
• Participated in writing Test Plan and Test scripts and analyzing the test results.
• WorkedwithBusiness Users to conduct the User Acceptance Testing.
• Created and stored periodical reports in the SharePoint.
• Map the Requirements with Test cases in Zephyre.
• Executed the Test Cases Manually (Functional Testing) to check the functionalities and used Quality Center (QC) to log and track defects.
• Identified the manual test cases that needed to be automated.
• Created, updated and ran the selenium scripts.
• Used parameterized scripts in VB script for Data Driven Tests in Safal(Inbuilt Tool)
• Performed Back-End Testing using SQL queries.
• Wrote Complex SQL queries to perform data validation and ensure Oracle database integrity.
• Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI.
• Using SOAP UI, tested request and response XML and updated end point as needed.
• Performed Load testing using the SOAP UI.
• Produced test results Report and Presented to the business.
• Wrote User stories and allocated the task in the Rally to developer, analyst and tester.
• Attended daily meeting to update status and worked closely with QA manager, developers.

Environment: JAVA, HP Tool QC, Oracle, SharePoint, SQL, PLSQL, SVN, Visual Basic, Windows server 2005,SOAP UI,Unix.

Confidential

Test Analyst/Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in writing Regression test cases and executing them.
• Stored and managed all the testing requirements in the Lotus notes.
• Wrote Complex SQL queries to perform data validation and ensure database integrity, also wrote queries for Log table and Validate that all order Counts are as expected compare to production.
• Extensively involved in data validation /Back-end testing by writing complex SQL quires on the Oracle database running on both LINUX and UNIX platform.
• Created SharePoint site, given users privileges and maintained SharePoint site for the project.
• Retrieved data from multiple tables by using SQL quires using JOIN condition.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings. Worked on functionality testing.
• XML data mapping using SQL and SOAP UI for various checking transaction Implemented manual testing of web services using SOAPUI.
• Sole performance ofAPI testing with different sub-systems as a part ofBack-end test
• Analyzed test specification and perform manual testing.
• Wrote test cases for functional testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing.
• Done Functional, System and Regression testing of the application
• Maintained SharePoint site for multiple projects.
• Performed Version Controls in the SVN tortoise.
• Prepared documentation for testing Standards and procedure documentation of rule guidelines.
• Testing experience in Web Services and XML using Soap UI & web applications developed with ORACLE, DB2.
• Understanding WSDL file to understand the operations and services and used SOAP protocol in form XML Language to send and receive request.
• Conducted functional testing for the system routing using HPQC
• Acquired good skills in Project planning, Coordinating testing activities with design/development team, Defect Analysis, Coordinating Test Environments and Risk Management.
• Analyzed test data and Conducted Database orData driven testing under certainbusiness rules for data population in DB. Involved in API testing for 9 services through POSTMAN in JSON format.
• Handled Knowledge Transfer sessions for both Testing and Development team to understand the functional requirements of different Modules such as Billing, Collection, Expenses, and Premium Calculation etc.
• Involved in BCP and suggested ideas for improvement which was accepted by Business Unit.
• Identified tests to be automated and converted to Test Scripts using QTP for Functional and Regression testing.
• Verified software upgrades based on yearly schedule by completing User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and submitted test reports to management.
• Involved in each stages of test documentation with Test Policy, Test Strategy, Test Methodology
• Planning, Test Case Specification, Test Procedures, Test Scripting, Test Logs and Defect Reports.

Environment: COBOL, QTP, HPQC,Oracle, MS SQL, SOAPUI,Ubuntu 10 and manual testing.

Confidential

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzingBusiness Requirements DocumentsandUse Casesto developTest Plan, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Attended requirement review meetings and provided feedback to the business analysts.
• Analyzed UML Use Cases and Activity Diagrams to understand business process.
• Documented and reviewed Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases by identifying features and functions to be tested.
• Performed smoke testing to check the major functionalities of application.
• WorkedwithBusiness Users to conduct the Business Process Testing.
• Executed the Test Cases Manually (Functional Testing) to check the functionalities and used Quality Center (QC) to log and track defects.
• Performed Integration Testing to ensure the flow of communication between different modules of SAR.
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end by executing SQL scripts.
• DevelopedSQL scriptsto perform Backend Testing.
• Identified and reviewed theManual Test Casesto be automated.
• Participated inreview meetingsanddailystatus meetingsduring the testing process.
• Identified Test Cases to be executed in automated environment and performed automated testing using HP Quick Test Pro 9.5
• Used parameterized scripts in VB script for Data Driven Tests in Quick Test Pro

Confidential

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Testing team member involved in writing Test Scenario Document from FRS Writing Test Case, Execution test cases updating test case.
• Preparation and review of the scenario based test cases of the product, Conducted various kind of Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing.
• Managing testing activities like browser, accessibility, performance and cache ability testing according to the testing schedules and scope.
• Directly interacting With the Clients and submitting reports.
• Handled KT sessions for the team to understand the functional requirements.
• Bug analysis and Reporting Identified and reviewed theManual Test Casesto be automated.
• Participated inreview meetingsanddailystatus meetingsduring the testing process.

Environment: Java, Oracle, HTML, SVN, .NET, XML, Ajax, HP Interactive, Quality Center