SUMMARY

• Around 10+ years of proven experience in Test management, development and designing of various Test frameworks for several applications in Finance, Logistics, Audit and Retail domains.
• Experienced challenging roles like ‘Test Coordinator’, ‘Test Lead’ for various projects, the roles involve interaction with international customers from various countries like USA, UK and CANADA
• Acting as a mentor for the new test team and lead, a multiple member team spread across USA, UK and CANADA. Involving in their day - to-day work related issues, status updates, leave management activities.
• Worked on Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design and testing of several projects.
• Expertise in ‘ETL’, ‘POS (Point of sale)’, ‘Functional-Manual’, ’Web Services’, ‘Database’ and Automation testing
• Expertise in Software Test Life Cycle (Requirement analysis, Test estimation, Test planning, Test designing and execution and Test closure).
• Expertise in Agile Methodology (Scrum Meeting, Collaborated with all stakeholders in every project)
• Proven People management skills, proficient in managing widely-divergent, simultaneously occurring projects within agreed cost / time lines, by using strong organizational skills, out-of-the-box thinking, and innovative problem solving abilities.
• Managed projects to make sure that, they are delivering on time, on cost and defect free. Identified and escalated Risk and taken proper step to avoid/reduce the Risks.
• Proactive professional and a keen observer with ability to identify potential gap / trouble areas and take initiatives / measures to ensure the implementation in minimum down time
• Attended HP QTP technical trainings, which helped me to keep up to date with the latest technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Skills: ETL, Database, POS, Manual, Automation

Testing Tools: Putty, MS-VSTS Ultimate 10.0’, TV++, SoupUI

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center, File Auto.

BUG Tracking Tools: Jira, HP QC 10.0, HP ALM, CQ, Test Management

Language: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++

Databases: SQL Server 2008, Oracle 9i/10g/12c, Teradata, DB2, Informix

MS Office Tools: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook

Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP & Windows 7 and UNIX/Linux

DB Reporting tool: SQL Developer, PL/SQL Developer, Toad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond VA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the requirements and analyzing the requirements to ensure the smooth and quality delivery
• Provide inputs for estimating the time required for QA completion and preparing QA schedules
• Involve in the end to end QA activities for enhancements/customizations of MRDM application support
• Preparing Test Strategy and Test plan documents, Identifying Test Scenarios, Design and Execute Test Cases
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability, Testing and deployment of application enhancements, as well as project planning
• Performed Database Testing by using Teradata SQL Assistant tool
• Perform Meta data validation, Data validation by using ETL testing.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst and DB Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.
• Perform testing for different testing types like functional, system, regression and user acceptance testing.

Environment: Medicare Revenue DataMart application, Oracle SQL Assistant, Informatica Power Center

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Agile QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the requirements and analyzing the requirements to ensure the smooth and quality delivery
• Provide inputs for estimating the time required for QA completion and preparing QA schedules
• Analyzing software specifications and identification of Store Systems application functionalities for QA activities
• Coordinating the project and team activities, defining and tracking metrics & Status reporting
• Developing QA strategies and Solutions adhering to the quality standards and practices investing maximum effort for adhering to the correctness and verification of Requirements
• Coordinating with business clients, onsite team & offshore team, thereby supporting the application and implementing QA process as per specifications provided
• Discussing business solutions with client business team, analyzing existing problems and improving the application stability through regression testing
• Perform testing for different testing types like functional, system, regression, exploratory, security and user acceptance testing
• Coordinating Certification Testing efforts between different QA Teams
• Involve in the end to end QA activities for enhancements/customizations of Store Systems application support
• Preparing Test Strategy and Test plan documents, Identifying Test Scenarios, Design and Execute Test Cases
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability, Testing and deployment of application enhancements, as well as project planning
• Conduct system study and co-coordinating with different strategic service team members for requirements verification, traceability mapping

Environment: JIRA, HP ALM, Point of Sale Application, Agile testing

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• In-charge for functional testing for about all W-2 related applications.
• Responsible for delivery of Project estimation, test plans, defect metrics, test cases, RTM
• Responsible for project invoice generation and tracking revenue identified, preparation of project presentations
• Identifying the testing process gaps, devise the process item and implementing the same in the project by training the team on the same.
• Functional requirements gathering and analysis
• Effort estimation for complete functional testing tasks
• Identification of Critical business scenarios,
• Planning and execution of Manual test suites
• Test evaluation summery report creation.
• Offshore Test coordinator and Test Lead, involves interaction with various customers from USA, PR and CANADA
• Test closure summery report.

Environment: Test Track, TFS 2012, TM, VSTS Ultimate, W-2 Management Application.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed DB, GUI and Functional test cases based on Functional Specifications and Use Case Document.
• Verify the Batch jobs in UNIX server which will be used for DB migration
• Do the Meta data validation, Data validation by using File Auto tool.
• Performed Database Testing by using SQL Developer
• Study and analyze software specifications documents to develop test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test data in support of test plans, and investigate data integrity issues.
• Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and in analysis of the functional specifications
• Result Evaluation, Defect reporting and Tracking.
• Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
• Actively participated through whole life cycle.
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid/Invalid inputs under different scenarios.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst and DB Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.
• Performed System Testing and Regression Testing.

Environment: HP QC, File Auto Tool, Oracle, DB2, Informix

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed GUI and Functional test cases based on Functional Specifications and Use Case Document.
• Study and analyze software specifications documents to develop test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test data in support of test plans, and investigate data integrity issues.
• Result Evaluation, Defect reporting and Tracking.
• Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
• Actively participated through whole life cycle.
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid/Invalid inputs under different scenarios.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.
• Performed System Testing and Regression Testing.

Environment: HBI Application, SQL Developer

Confidential, VA

Test Engineer

Responsibility:

• Prepared and executed GUI and Functional test cases based on Functional Specifications and Use Case Document.
• Study and analyze software specifications documents to develop test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test data in support of test plans, and investigate data integrity issues.
• Result Evaluation, Defect reporting and Tracking.
• Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
• Actively participated through whole life cycle.
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid/Invalid inputs under different scenarios.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.
• Performed System Testing and Regression Testing.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Clear Quest

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibility:

• Prepared and executed web service test cases based on Functional Specifications and Use Case Document.
• Study and analyze software specifications documents to develop test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test data in support of test plans, and investigate data integrity issues.
• Result Evaluation, Defect reporting and Tracking.
• Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
• Actively participated through whole life cycle.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.

Environment: Confidential order management system, HP QC

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibility:

• Prepared and executed GUI and Functional test cases based on Functional Specifications and Use Case Document.
• Study and analyze software specifications documents to develop test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test data in support of test plans, and investigate data integrity issues.
• Result Evaluation, Defect reporting and Tracking.
• Retesting the hot-fixes on current build of the Application.
• Actively participated through whole life cycle.
• Conducted Functional testing with Valid/Invalid inputs under different scenarios.
• Communicate with Functional Analyst on any issue clarifications.
• Preparing Defect report as per severity.
• Performed System Testing and Regression Testing.

Environment: Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2