OBJECTIVE

• To establish my career as a lead Software Quality Assurance in a progressive and growing organization where my experience, ability and performance can make an impact on the company’s benefit and growth.

SUMMARY

• 15 Years of experience in Software Quality Assurance & Testing including diversified experience in Manual and Automated testing of various distributed Client/Server and Internet applications.
• 12+ years of QA Team Lead experience.
• Extensive testing experience on Financial Market (Brokerage, Trading & Settlement, Investment Risk & Portfolio Analytics Systems).
• 3 years with Stock Exchange (Clearing & Settlement System, Trade Feed).
• 2 years with CIBC WorldMarket (Institutional Trading System).
• 7 years Confidential Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Implementation of ISO 9001 (Tick IT) certification for Quality Assurance Department.
• Certified Test Professional from ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualification Board.
• Canadian Securities Course (CSC Certified)
• Extensively used automated Testing Tools such as Mercury Test suite (QTP, WinRunner and LoadRunner), TestComplete and Rational Suite TestStudio (Rational Robot and Rational Performance Studio) for functional, stress/load and regression testing.
• Experienced in performing business function tests at various stages of SDLC like build verification, Integration, System, Security, User acceptance, Data Reconciliation and Regression which includes Black box, White box, Positive, Negative testing & End-to-End Test Automation.
• Strong understanding and experienced on Agile software development.
• Highly skilled in creating and executing test cases, test scripts from Requirements documents, Functional specification/Detail Design Documents and General Design Document.
• Generation of Bug (Defect) Reports, tracking the status of each defect (Open, fixed and New) and analyzing the bugs using JIRA, QualityCenter, IBM Rational ClearQuest and PVCS Tracker.
• Responsible for GUI, Web Testing and Database Testing and validating the application against the database using SQL scripts.
• Developed automation strategy and regression testing framework for various projects.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, quantitative and qualitative abilities.
• Adapt and deliver well under pressure, in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent Oral and Written communication skills.
• Quick self learner, adoptable and great flexibility to work independently as well as to perform effectively in a team oriented environment.
• 4 years of testing experience on Data Reconciliation & Validation.
• Trainer for Software Quality Assurance & Testing courses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• SSIS SQL Server Integration Services
• KDB q-language
• HTML
• XML
• WML
• VB
• Java Scripting
• C/C++
• ASP
• JSP
• Developer 2000
• ColdFusion
• J2EE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Testing & Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Leading & provide coaching for Testing & Quality Assurance to Agile Team
• Defined QA strategy & testing guidelines for Agile & other software development models.
• Formulated Test strategy & Test plans.
• Performed Functional/Performance Testing using QTP and in-house custom build tools.
• Back-end system testing by writing complex SQL queries.
• Track & reported testing activities, including status report to higher management.
• Developed automation strategy and regression testing framework for various projects.
• Developed, maintained, implemented homegrown automated data reconciliation tools.
• Develops strong relationships with business partners across the organization.
• Build automated test solutions for UAT and production support.
• Developed test strategy for End-to-End test automation.
• Provide on-call Production night support, release deployment.

Confidential

QA Lead Analyst

Environment: J2EE, EJBs, Oracle 8i, SQL Server, FIX Protocol, KTG, FMCNET, ADP and IBMSys BackOffice

Responsibilities:

• Formulated Test plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents and created and review several Test Cases.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the Tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Mercury QuickTest Professional.
• Manually performed Functional testing that includes Security, Unit, System testing, Gray-box Testing, Smoke testing and Back-end Testing.
• Database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries manually.
• Task & resource assignment between team members.
• Track & report testing activities, including status report.
• Development of Automation Framework on Mercury QTP.

Confidential

Environment: IBM AIX, Servlet, EJBs, Oracle 8i, Weblogic, JReport.

Responsibilities:

• Helped QA Team to implement testing objectives, studied and understood the functionality of the application under test.
• Formulated Test plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents and created several Test Cases in Rational RequisitePro.
• Bug reporting using Rational ClearQuest.
• Performed Web Testing.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the Tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Rational Robot.
• Manually performed Functional testing that includes Security, Unit, System testing, Gray-box Testing, Smoke testing and Back-end Testing.
• Database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries manually.
• Conducted Stress/Load Testing using Rational Performance Studio and Mercury Load Runner.
• Actively participated in Status Reporting meetings.

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Generation of quality related documentation, Test Plan and Test Cases
• Time, Resources allocation and task monitoring
• Review of plans, specifications and records
• Audit of processes, procedures
• Monitoring of plan implementation, meetings, and status reports
• Inspection of delivered items, code and documentation
• Participate in design reviews
• Conducted Functional Testing, Automated Test, Load, Performance and Stress testing

Confidential

SQA Engineer

Environment: SQL Server 7.0, HTML / DHTML / XML, ASP, Java.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements.
• Performed Web Testing. Created Test input requirements and prepared the test data for data driven testing.
• Used PVCS Tracker to record and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developed developers to track and resolve the problems.
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL statements.
• Participated in defect review meetings with team members. Used MS-Word for documentation.
• Involved in other test planning meetings and submitted test metrics daily to the project manager.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements and design specification document.
• Development of applications according to specifications.
• Unit testing
• Project status reporting to the project manager.