SUMMARY

• Test lead close to 6 years of work experience. Having experience working as a lead in UAT, Increment and multiple teams.
• Performing User Acceptance Testing of the Functional Requirements insymphony projects. Handled multiple teams and projects both at offshore and onshore.
• Enhanced new implementations to achieve targets with Quality within stipulated time frames.
• Good Knowledge and vast experience of consumer banking Domain applications, customer lending and loan servicing application system, Database testing.
• Experienced in translating business requirements into test scenarios & setting up test environments, writing Test cases.
• Exceptional skills in Manual Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity testing, Regression Testing, E2E testing, User Acceptance Testing and preparation of Test plans & Test Cases, including defect life cycle.
• Involved in development and maintenance of QTP automation framework. Experienced in working with tools like QTP (Quick Test professional), QC (Quality Center), ALM and UFT
• Responsible for preparing Monthly decks which includes PowerPoint presentation, Excel and word documents with smart art graphics of PowerPoint.
• Hands on experience in working on projects with agile methodology - conducting daily stand up meetings, maintaining public wall, experience in sprints, preparing burn down charts, conducting retrospective meetings.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)/ Test Life Cycle including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases.
• Handled End-to-End planning and Test execution process of projects individually. Initiating daily status calls, defect calls and scrum calls and involving in preparation of QA (Quality Assurance) dashboard for the leaders in organization in every release.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and leadership qualities, with an ability to deliver on agreed timescale, which has been appreciated by various clients on numerous occasions.
• Possess excellent Communication, Time Management and applies new procedures quickly, manage multiple tasks simultaneously and function effectively under pressure

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows7Languages C,C++,VB

Database: SQL servers, Oracle

Testing Tools: Quick Test professional (QTP), Unified Functional testing(UFT), Quality Center(QC), Application Lifecycle management (ALM) and FLEX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of Business requirements, software specifications, requirement specifications, technical design documents and related artifacts
• Responsible for the effort estimation, planning, and execution of chunks of testing activities
• Having experienced working using Ab Initio(ETL tool) and this is a reusable software module for sorting, data transformation, and high-speed database loading and unloading
• Participated in BRD(Business Requirement Document) walkthroughs and analyzed business requirements, design document and prepared requirement review report.
• Extensively used Chordiant’s decision management tool Strategy Director for business logic development.
• Prepared test strategy document for the project
• Responsible for setting-up the test bed to ensure that all the needed components are being Implemented in the test environment.
• Converted business requirements into test objectives. Involved in Data analysis and prepared required test data for validation of test cases.
• Reviewed test cases prepared by offshore team in accordance with defined guidelines and Processes. Performing manual testing of the application in various stages.
• Liaise with Business Analysts and responsible for driving issue-log meetings on regular basis.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center, Application Lifecycle management tool for Test management and execution of test cases.
• Involving in automation execution and maintaining of test scripts in every release.
• Single point of contact for QC Administration to preparing and updating all business stakeholders regarding project status with daily reports. Responsible for preparing Monthly deck and PowerPoint presentation.
• Coordinating with offshore project team members to achieve project goals through status Meetings and reviews
• Responsible for End to End testing which involves testing Chordiant applications and Data validation using Tool. Involved in Preparing Regression test suites by using QTP and UFT.
• Conducting Regression Testing whenever some code module is changed. Responsible for periodic update of Test Plans and Test Cases as per Requirement Specifications
• Participation in peer reviews of test artifacts. Interacted with Development managers to discuss the outstanding issues.
• Attending daily Defect/Bug review meetings with business and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by Team.
• Apart from the offshore co-ordination also handling a team of around 20 members at onsite

Environment: TIBCO, ETL, Java, Oracle, Chordiant, COGNOS, Quick test professional (QTP), Unified functional testing (UFT), Quality Center (QC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identification of Critical End to End manual scenarios
• Identifying test scenarios from the manual test cases to automate.
• Working on planning, test plan and test scenarios of manual scripts.
• Execution of Regression Test Suite and raising Defects for every build received
• Working on maintenance of scripts due to Requirement changes.
• Worked on Test Data preparation for Automation, reducing the manual efforts.
• Work on optimization and regression suite preparation.
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Traceability Matrix, and Test Scripts (Manual) for various applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Excellent knowledge of QA Principles, SDLC methodologies like V, waterfall and SCRUM, agile methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.

Environment: TIBCO, ETL, Java, Oracle, COGNOS, Reveal, Quality Center (QC)