SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of Experience in the IT industry with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance using Black Box Testing and various automated testing tools under Windows and UNIX/Linux Environments.
• Complete understanding and experience with Software development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Life Cycle (TLC) and QA methodologies
• Experience in analyzing requirements - Business requirements, Functional requirements and Technical specifications
• Excellent skills in Automation Testing using Quick Test Professional 8.2, WinRunner 7.6, LoadRunner 7.8, Test Director 8.0 along with Manual Testing.
• Experience in developing Test plans, designing Test Cases, developing automated Test Scripts and Test Procedures.
• Strong skills in performing Functional testing, Black box testing, GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing, end-to-end testing, Regression testing, Data-driven testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, User Acceptance testing, Cross-browser testing and Backend testing
• Good Knowledge and experience in Performance testing, Stress testing, Load testing and endurance testing
• Experience in Backend Testing and in executing PL/SQL commands and stored procedures
• Experience in bug tracking and reporting tools like Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Team Track, BugZilla and Test Track.
• Experience in troubleshooting and interacting with Project teams and Development teams and also in critical decision making
• Excellent communication skills along with verbal and written skills.
• Ability to master new technologies, new methodologies quickly

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (Solaris, Linux) Mac OS.

Mobile OS: iOS 7 64-bit, Android 1.5 - 4.4

Testing Software: Mercury Interactive Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.2, WinRunner 7.6, Load Runner 7.8, Jmeter, Test Director 8.0, Rational Clear Quest, Team Track, Jira, Asana, TFS, Git, SVN, CVS BugZilla, Test Track, UIAutomation tool(ios), Zap-fix (iOS/Android), Meu-x.

Databases: Oracle 10g, SQL Server, MySQL, Mongo, Postgres, MS-Access.

Languages: TSL, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java, JSP, VB 6.0, ASP, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript.

Web Server: IIS 5.0, IBM Web Sphere, Web Logic, Apache, Nodejs

Other tools: VSS, Rational Clear Quest, TOAD, VNC, Mongohub, TFS, Jenkins and Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SQA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led all aspects of the day-to-day QA workflow
• Maintained a high performing team by hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing QA Engineers
• Developed and maintained test automation scripts; increased automation coverage 60%
• Participated in design and specification reviews and develop accompanying test plans
• Increased productivity through automation, tools, and best practices
• Work directly with Russian based software teams to deliver high quality software features and updates
• Work with product leadership to establish quality standards and processes

Environment: MongoDB, AWS, Xcode, Testflight, Jenkins, cocos2d(x), calabash, Git, Jmeter

Confidential

SQA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led implementation of mobile automated testing solution
• Planning, creating, and documenting tests for product features
• Daily coordination of testing activities with product managers and development leads Participated in technical review meetings
• Routinely coordinated with offshore assets (India and China).
• Reviewed and inspected team work products
• Assisted Performance QA team as a part of Stress testing, load testing, endurance testing of the whole architecture, using LoadRunner scripting and Load Runner Controller
• Test case and script design, maintenance, and validation
• Development, integration and coordination of cross-organization test projects

Environment: SQL Server, .NET, AS400, TFS, Android/iOS SDK, HTML 5, QTP/Certify

Confidential

SQA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Daily coordination of testing activities with product managers and development leads
• Working closely with on-site and remote development resources onshore/offshore
• Planning, creating, and documenting tests for product features
• Reviewing test plans, test cases, and scripts to ensure best possible coverage based on requirements
• Test case and script design, maintenance, and validation
• Identifying and communicating risk and risk mitigation strategies
• Reproducing customer-reported issues
• Assisting developers with issue analysis
• Verification of patches and bug fixes
• Executing black and white box tests on web-based products
• Identifying issues and generating issue reports

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Silverlight,VB6, Visual Studio 2010, VSS, TFS, MS Test pro 2010

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead team specialists on QA initiatives and projects
• Led testing effort of Facebook connect integration, mobile device compatibility and iOS/Android app testing (using emulators as well as on device testing)
• Worked with Product Management and Engineering to fully estimate the scope and resources required for QA efforts
• Developed QA project plans to list out key testing milestones and activities for each product releases
• Assisted in writing in-depth, comprehensive test cases to exercise the full complement of functionality available in the client’s suite of products
• Collaborated with Product Management and Engineering to fully refine test cases and test scenarios
• Assisted with the development of thorough test plans, incorporating available test cases, to be executed for each release cycle
• Managed the overall defect workflow using Bugzilla and QTP and work with Engineering and Product Management to minimize defect age
• Worked with developers to understand new features and bugs to be tested in releases
• Assisted with the product release process, including software product release, release notes and upgrade process testing
• Conducted product stress and performance tests, including simulating loads and measuring performance of all system components.

Environment: J2EE, PostgeSQL, QTP 8.2, subversion, Jmeter, HTML, Java, JSP, JavaScript. Android/iOS SDK

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created comprehensive test plans and detailed test scenarios and test cases
• Performed functional, end-to-end, stress, configuration and performance tests
• Participated in technical review meetings
• Designed and implemented automated procedures to support testing activities
• Assisted with the development, integration and coordination of cross-organization test projects
• Reviewed and inspected team work products
• Identified potential testing problems and develops and implements effective solutions
• Wrote quality assurance documentation and summarizes findings
• Adopted industry best practices
• Routinely coordinated with offshore assets (India and China).

Environment: Working knowledge of Apama or similar algorithmic trading product Practical Securities Trading experience and industry knowledge (front, middle, back office) Hands on experience with Fidessa, Lattice and FIX protocols. Proficient UNIX and SQL/Database skills

Confidential, VA

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed requirement analysis, developed and maintained requirements traceability using in Test Management tool - Test Director
• Involved in developing Test Plans and designing Test Cases for various projects
• Executed Test Cases manually as well as using automated testing tools.
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.0/8.2 and WinRunner 7.6
• Performed both manual testing as well as automated testing on various releases
• Conducted functional testing, system testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing
• Involved in Regression testing and Data Driven Testing on various builds for several projects
• Conducted Backend testing by executing SQL queries and performed Data Validation
• Performed Smoke testing on various builds before accepting the build to QA environment from Development team
• Conducted cross-browser testing and GUI testing for various pages
• Identified, analyzed, logged and tracked software defects/bugs using bug tracking tools like Test Director 8.0 and Rational Clear Quest
• Participate in weekly meetings with the Project Management team, development teams and walkthroughs

Environment: HTML, Java, JSP, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i/10g, UNIX (Solaris), Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.0/8.2, WinRunner 7.6, Test Director 8.0

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan and implementing numerous test cases and scripts
• Developed automated test scripts using WinRunner 7.5/Quick Test Professional 6.5 as a part of regression testing and data driven testing of various releases of the application.
• Developed automated test scripts using Test Script Language (TSL) and VBScript
• Enhanced, modified and updated test scripts to introduce various check points and customize it for the data-driven testing
• Performed Functional testing, Integration System, System Testing and Smoke testing
• Developed and executed SQL queries conducted data integrity verification as a part of the back-end testing
• Performed extensive SQL queries to compare the database and the periodic reports generated by the application for various levels of management for decision and control purposes.
• Coordinated with backend team, development teams and functional QA team as a part of the backend coordinated testing effort
• Performed Functionality, Back-end and Regression testing during the various phases of the application
• Assisted Performance QA team as a part of Stress testing, load testing, endurance testing of the whole architecture, using LoadRunner scripting and Load Runner Controller
• Analyzed and reviewed performance test results to ensure the system stability
• Defect logging, defect tracking and defect status reports are done using Team Track
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings and process improvement meetings.

Environment: s: HTML, XHTML, XML, Java Swing, SQL, Linux (Red Hat), Quick Test Professional (QTP) 6.5, WinRunner 7.5, Test Director 8.0, Load Runner 7.8, Team Track

Confidential, Mississippi

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed specifications and business requirements and developed a test plan
• Developed Test Cases after analyzing the requirement/specification documents
• Developed, Maintained and updated the test cases in Test Director
• Used SQL queries Extensive to perform Back-end testing on the database views for various functionality
• Interacted with development team and backend team for requirements and developing the SQL Queries
• Developed automated test scripts for backend testing using Test Script Language (TSL) in WinRunner 7.5
• Performed Manual Testing, regression testing and smoke testing on various releases.
• Mapped Test requirements and Test cases and maintained the requirements traceability
• Performed Smoke testing on various builds before accepting the build to QA environment from Development team
• Conducted cross-browser testing and GUI testing for various pages
• Identified, analyzed, logged and tracked software defects/bugs using Test Director 7.6
• Attended weekly meetings to discuss the progress of the project

Environment: s: HTML, Java, JSP, JavaScript, SQL, Oracle 8i, UNIX (Solaris), Windows 2000, WinRunner 7.5, Test Director 7.6

Confidential, Mississippi

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing for several monthly releases - maintenance and new feature projects
• Involved in System Testing, end-to-end testing and ad-hoc testing
• Performed Functional, GUI, and Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing as per functional requirements from the Business team
• Used Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting.
• Executed Test Cases manually using Test Director and generated Test Case status reports on weekly and build basis
• Conducted Backend testing by executing SQL queries and performed Data Validation
• Participate in weekly meetings with the Project Management team, development teams and walkthroughs

Environment: s: HTML, XML, Java, Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director 7.5, Windows 2000