SUMMARY

• Solutions - Oriented Sr. QA Lead with over 13+years’ Experience in Testing, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis & trouble-shooting skills
• Extensive experience for Onshore/offshore team leadership and management experience.
• Scaled Agile Framework - Certified
• Software Engineering experience in testing of different areas of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing Selenium, QTP & Load Runner.
• Extensive experience in working on all HP Mercury Interactive Tools - Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (11.0 ALM) and Load Runner.
• Experience in Black box testing and also participated in White box testing.
• Experience in creating Manual and Automated scripts for performing Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing
• Good Experience In Mainframe Testing (green screen)
• Having good knowledge on Selenium Web Driver & Web Driver RC (Automation tool) with Java & C#
• Having good working experience with different Methodologies - Agile, Scrum.
• Experience in TFS - Team Foundation Server & Microsoft test manager
• Good Experience In IB (Investment Banking) .
• Developed and executed Non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, stability, and security testing using Load Runner.
• Extensively used Quality Center - HP ALM (QC) to Create and execute scripts in SIT and UAT environment and created dash board report and graphs
• Good experience in SOAP UI/SOA & API Testing. Good experience in XML knowledge
• Having good understanding of Testing Processes and able to meet project requirements and to meet stringent deadlines.
• Wrote SQL queries for database verification and validation of table which were loaded through ETL process. Good Experience in ETL Testing
• Mobile Automation testing with Appium on iOS/Android simulators and real devices
• Extensively used SQL to retrieve the suitable data from database and validate the data quality.
• Sound Knowledge in data warehouse concepts, STAR Schema, SNOW FLAKE Schema designs and dimensional modeling
• Extensively worked on Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading with, Flat files and Oracle Database.
• Having good Experience in Mobile Testing with symbain tools .
• Testing of Mobile Applications developed for various Mobile devices on different platforms for Functional, Usability, Performance and Security aspects
• Tested Ab Initio graphs for data movement between Source 2 Target.
• Designed and Installed test scripts for ETL code.
• Efficiently dealt with employee resistance to quality improvement through training, selling teamwork concepts and personal empowerment.
• Managed the offshore team and the onsite team (13 personnel). Assigned manual and automation work for daily tasks and provided status report to the QA Manager and the Project Manager
• Experience in working on various test strategies, writing, maintaining and executing test plans, test procedures and test results and generating software defect reports for developers.
• Implemented the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to follow standards in the application development. Good knowledge of QA methodologies and process
• Extensive experience in Backend testing (SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL and Oracle 8i/9i).
• Experience in UNIX and WINDOWS platforms
• Worked closely with the Client, Project manager, Development team, Business Analysts and end-users.
• Excellent analytical problem solving and documentation skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to test with minimum software specifications.
• Ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Handling the Project PQM Role (Project Quality Manager)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux Red Hat 9.0,Windows 9x, NT, Server 2000, & Windows XP

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, ASP, VBScript.

Software Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, “V”, Waterfall, Incremental & Spiral

Language: VB 6.0, C/C++, PL/SQL & Shell Scripting

Reporting Tools: SAP BW, Microstrategy & Crystal Reports

DBMS: MS-Access, Oracle, SQL server, PostgreSQL 8.1.

Testing Tools: Load Runner, VSTS, QTP, QC 10.0 & 11.0, Rational Robot, Test Complete & Soap UI.

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director 8.2, PVCS, Quality Center 9.2, 10.0, 11.0 Trac Systems, Zira, ZeroD & Mantes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client’s business requirement.
• Creating Database Queries for MicroStrategy MSTR Reports.
• Validating the Reports with End to End Business Flows as per the design documents iOS Test Automation with Appium
• Creation of QA Plan and Test Plan. Participate in daily Scrum meetings.
• Writing scripts, executing test cases and debugging.
• Coordinating the Offshore team - handling team activities
• Writing scripts, executing test cases and debugging.
• Verifying the OMS - Order status, create orders, POS, POC and validating the same till fulfillment process:
• Interact with the API layer, client development, client testing efforts from an interface perspective
• Android Test Automation with Appium
• Performed Functionality testing with various iPhone and Android mobile handsets to ensure that functionality works fine
• Works closely with developers and design analysts to define test scenarios and develop a plan to accomplish the test objective.
• Communicate problems or issues with the team.
• Coordinate the test activities with the project team.
• Conducting sessions with end users/clients to gather business & Providing Demos for each stories.
• Captured the log files using Log Cat feature on Android’s DDMS.
• Participate in Functional, System Integration, and UAT Testing.
• Extensively used SOAP UI, REST to test the Web Services & MQ - messages - using sterling consoule
• UAT Testing Supports with Business users.
• Involved e-com mobile web testing and SOA testing in retail domain.
• Walk though Scenarios and End to End Flow to Business users
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in preparing test execution summary, EOD reporting.

Environment: MicroStrategy, Java, IPhones 3G/3GS/4/5 ipad2, Web Services, Soap UI, XML Unix, Appium,SQL Developer, Oracle, Websphere-MQ & Manhattan -OMS.

Confidential, WI

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client’s business requirement.
• Creation of QA Plan and Test Plan. Participate in daily Scrum meetings.
• Coordinating the Offshore team - handling team activities
• Writing scripts, executing test cases and debugging.
• Verifying the OMS - Order status, create orders, POS, POC,
• Prepare automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver, Junit.
• Interact with the API layer, client development, client testing efforts from an interface perspective
• Designing Automation Framework and Implementing Automation Framework.
• Performed Functionality testing with various iPhone and Android mobile handsets to ensure that functionality works fine.
• Responsible executing the Test Cases in Test Lab and created execution reports using Quality Center.
• Extensive worked in a agile environment.
• Captured the log files using Log Cat feature on Android’s DDMS.
• Performed Functionality testing with various iPhone and Android mobile handsets to ensure that functionality works fine.
• Used Android SDK Tools and Android Platform Tools for installing and extracting logs of mobile application.
• Solved interesting, real-world challenges - from optimizing content for small screen sizes, developing new ways to shop using tablet computers, overcoming slow networks to inventing different ways customers can interact with mobile devices.
• Tested applications that run on a range of mobile handsets and tablets including iOS, Android, Windows Mobile.
• Tested world-class mobile user experiences that meet users' demanding expectations.
• Using Appium tool to automate regression set for mobile application.
• Tested New Features and their impact on existing functionality before each release.
• Tracking the Daily Functional Regression Suit & Automation - Fixes the failed Automation Regression Suite.
• Works closely with developers and design analysts to define test scenarios and develop a plan to accomplish the test objective.
• Communicate problems or issues with the team.
• Coordinate the test activities with the project team.
• Conducting sessions with end users/clients to gather business & Providing Demos for each stories.
• Participate in Functional, System Integration, and UAT Testing.
• Extensively used SOAP UI, REST to test the Web Services & MQ - messages - using sterling consoule
• Extensively used REST for restricted-profile
• Verified the SOA businesses respond more quickly and economically to changing market conditions
• Executes test cases and evaluates the results using Web Driver.
• Review defects to ensure that the severity, root cause, R&D Comments are filled in, etc.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in preparing test execution summary, EOD reporting.

Environment: Java, Tibco, Selinum, WebDriver, Junit, eclips, Web Services, Soap UI, XML Unix, SQL Developer, SVN, Websphere-MQ & IBM Sterling.

Confidential, OH

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client’s business requirement.
• Identifying and Mitigating Testing Risks
• Managing team of 8 Resources - Onsite and Offshore model.
• Creation of QA Plan and Test Plan. Participate in daily Status meetings.
• Writing Test Scenarios, Scripts in TFS.
• Works closely with developers and design analysts to define test scenarios and develop a plan to accomplish the test objective.
• Communicate problems or issues with the team.
• Coordinate the test activities with the project team.
• Conducting sessions with end users/clients to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams.
• Participate in Functional, System Integration, and UAT Testing.
• Extensively used SOAP UI, REST to test the Web Services
• Extensively used REST for restricted-profile
• Verified the SOA businesses respond more quickly and economically to changing market conditions
• Adding tasks TFS - Team Foundation Server & Microsoft test manager
• Executes test cases and evaluates the results using HP ALM.
• Identifying Test Strategy and Ensuring Test Coverage
• Review defects to ensure that the severity, root cause, R&D Comments are filled in, etc.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in preparing test execution summary, EOD reporting.

Environment: C#, Visual Studio -2013, TFS, C# Script, iPhone4, Android Jquery, eclips, Web Services, Soap UI, XML Unix, SQL Developer, SVN, Websphere & HP ALM.

Confidential, MN

QA Lead Automation

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client’s business requirement.
• Creating the Selenium using C# Automation Test script for the given requirements.
• Creation of QA Plan and Test Plan. Participate in daily Scrum meetings.
• Writing scripts, executing test cases and debugging.
• Prepare automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver.
• Designing Automation Framework and Implementing Automation Framework.
• Tracking the Daily Automation Regression Suit - Fixes the failed Automation Regression Suite.
• Works closely with developers and design analysts to define test scenarios and develop a plan to accomplish the test objective.
• Communicate problems or issues with the team.
• Coordinate the test activities with the project team.
• Conducting sessions with end users/clients to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams.
• Participate in Functional, System Integration, and UAT Testing.
• Extensively used SOAP UI, REST to test the Web Services
• Extensively used REST for restricted-profile
• Verified the SOA businesses respond more quickly and economically to changing market conditions
• Executes test cases and evaluates the results using Web Driver.
• Review defects to ensure that the severity, root cause, R&D Comments are filled in, etc.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in preparing test execution summary, EOD reporting.

Environment: C#, Visual Studio -2013, Selinum, TFS,WebDriver, C# Script, Jquery, eclips, Web Services, Soap UI, XML Unix, SQL Developer, SVN, Websphere.

Confidential, NYC, New York

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and Understanding client’s business requirement and translate them into a Functional Specifications.
• Tracking the requirement changes, impact analysis and updating test wares to cover the changes.
• Creating the Selenium using Java Automation Test script for the given requirements
• Identify Test cases for Automation.
• Developing methods for repeating steps.
• Writing scripts, executing test cases and debugging.
• Prepare automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver.
• Designing Automation Framework and Implementing Automation Framework.
• Regression Testing, support and reviewing Test scripts.
• Data driving Test script. Conducting sessions with end users/clients to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams.
• Participate in Functional, System Integration, and UAT Testing,
• Extensively used SOAPUI to test the Web Services
• Executes test cases and evaluates the results.
• Responsible to Mentor the QA resources, distributing the QA effort, managing the QA Resources, monitoring the QA resources performance
• Created Data Driven tests using SOAP UI to test the web services with different inputs
• Involved in Web service server side deployment, Base III/ Base II Stress Testing & Web service testing using SOAP UI client identify discrete elements within your legacy applications and “wrap” them in standards-based interfaces and use them as services within your SOA.
• Review defects to ensure that the severity, root cause, R&D Comments are filled in, etc.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in preparing test execution summary, EOD reporting.

Environment: J2EE, Java Server Surfaces, Java Script, JSF, Jquery, eclips, Spring, Web Services, Soap UI, XML Unix, SQL Developer, Oracle 11.0, Ab-Intion, SVN, Websphere.

Confidential

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with development and Business Analysts
• Coordinating and presenting User acceptance testing with client teams
• Creating / Documenting High Level Test strategies and Test plans.
• Coordinate the test activities with the project team.
• Worked with diverse QA teams located in different locations
• Verified the accuracy of the Data by executing SQL queries against the database -Database testing.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Extensively involved in SFTP Test
• Executed the Test Cases and reporting the defects.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Bug reporting via Bug tracking tool. (JIRA)
• Making Test Execution Metrics.
• Attending review meetings.
• Key role in daily project scrum meetings as part of Agile project management

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, Jdbc, Struts, Jexcel, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential

Sr Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in creating test plan.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Executed the Test Cases and reporting the defects.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Verified the accuracy of the Data by executing SQL queries against the database -Database testing.
• Involved in backend testing using SQL Queries
• Bug reporting via Bug tracking tool. (TFS)
• Making Test Execution Metrics.
• Attending review meetings.

Environment: Java, JSP, Java script, Jquery, Jsun, Servlets, Jdbc, Struts, Jexcel, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in creating test plan.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Evaluated web traffic analysis reports, Revenue reports using Micro strategy
• Involved testing Attributes, Metrics, Selectors, Formats, exporting options in reports generated from Micro strategy
• Involved in ETL testing using Informatica Power Center
• Involved in Apache Active MQ message monitoring, validating Ebsco Holdings Import, Export functionality
• Executed the Test Cases and reporting the defects.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Involved in ETL testing using Informatica Power Center
• Responsible to test the application in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment
• Bug reporting via Bug tracking tool.
• Making Test Execution Metrics.

Environment: EJB 2.1, Spring-iBatis, Hibernate 3.1, spring framework1.2.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in creating test plan
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases. documents actual results, and evaluates compared with expected results.
• Developed and executed Non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, stability, and security testing using Load Runner.
• Works closely with developers and business analysts to define test scenarios and develop a plan to accomplish the test objective.
• Communicates problems or issues with coworkers and managers.
• Conducts formal test case review sessions with project team, business analysts and incorporates feedback.
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Performs Integration, Functional, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participates in Test Case review meetings with customers and development teams.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Run all Symbian Tools related to mobile support.

Environment: Symbian OS v 9.2, Carbide C++, J2ME

Confidential

Involved in Functional testing

Responsibilities:

• Involve in creating test plan.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Executed the Test Cases and reporting the defects.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Verified the accuracy of the Data by executing SQL queries against the database -Database testing.
• Bug reporting via Bug tracking tool.
• Making Test Execution Metrics.
• Attending review meetings, Bug triages and ensuring that the resolutions taken in review meetings and bug triages are accomplished.

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, Jdbc, Struts, Jexcel, PostgreSQL 8.1.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in creating test plan.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases
• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Executed the Test Cases and reporting the defects.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Collects and share metrics with the project team
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Responsible for doing the Functional, Ad-hoc and Regression testing.
• Verified the accuracy of the Data by executing SQL queries against the database -Database testing..
• Bug reporting via Bug tracking tool.
• Making Test Execution Metrics.
• Attending review meetings, Bug triages and ensuring that the resolutions taken in review meetings and bug triages are accomplished.

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, Jdbc, Struts, Jexcel, PostgreSQL 8.1.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Creating Smoke, Functional and System Test Cases.
• Executed the Test Cases manually.
• Set up recurring defect meetings to discuss defects found during testing.
• Collects and share metrics with the project team
• Update test cases and retests the application after requirement changes.
• Involved in Regression Testing of the application.
• Executed the Smoke test of the application.
• Defect Review, Tracking bugs.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Executed the Test Cases manually.
• Involved in Regression Testing of the application.
• Review the functional requirements and developed the test cases from the functional requirement documents.
• Communicate problems or issues with team.
• Coordinates test activities with the project team
• Conduct formal review of functional and system test cases with the business analyst/subject matter expert, technical team and customers.
• Executed the Smoke test of the application.
• Defect Review, Tracking bugs.

Confidential

Functional tester

Responsibilities:

• Executed the Test Cases manually.
• Involved in peer review of test cases.
• Executed the Smoke test of the application.
• Report the bugs using bug tracking tool.