SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance providing extensive support in test planning, test development and test execution of projects manually.
• Experience in Functional Testing, Agile Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing and expertise in developing Test Estimations, Test Plans, Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures, analyzing Test Results and Test documentation and Test Metrics.
• Good working experience at Core Banking, Retail and Wholesale Lending applications.
• Experience in back end testing of databases like Oracle, SQL Server etc. and Experience with QA Methodology, QA Matrix, SDLC and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Proficient in Manual Testing using HP interactive products like - HP Quality Center (QC), HP Application Lifecycle Management
• Performed Browser compatibility using Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, Firefox, Chrome &Safari.
• Experience in writing advanced SQL queries, executing test scripts and performed backend validation testing.
• Proficiency in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard Tools like Mercury HP Quality Center/ALM 11.0.
• Good experience in preparing Traceability matrix between requirements and Test cases.
• Working UFT knowledge.
• Experience in maintaining and uploading the Test Scripts to ALM.
• Excellent communication skills including listening and observation, interviewing/questioning, meeting facilitation and writing skills.
• Ability to understand Business and Functional requirements and transform them into test cases, test scripts and ability to assess whether deliverables meet requirements.
• Strong understanding of software Test Methodologies and knowledge of modern software development processes, including Issue/Bug Tacking, Release management, Requirements etc.
• Self-Starter and comfortable in high intensity and challenging work environment
• Coordinated testing efforts and effectively managed Off-Shore teams.
• Experience with Onsite/Offshore global delivery models.
• Can work very well in a team as well as independently with strong interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills. Able to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.
• Experienced in effectively executing multiple projects form 25K to $1 million USD
• Seeking challenging management positions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: WINDOWS 2003 & XP

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 9.x/10.x/ALM 11.0

Programming Languages: Fundamentals of C, C++, JAVA

DBMS: Oracle, MS SQL SERVER 2005

Querying Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer 2003/2005

Web Technologies: HTML, JSP,JSF

Domain: Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Onsite Test Lead /Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in high level Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis, CR’s and Gap Analysis.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix for new developments, enhancements and Fixes.
• Performed in development & execution of Functional Test Cases
• Involved requirements review Sessions and performing Functionality Testing on core banking applications.
• Thoroughly involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and UAT
• Analyzed the Functional requirements to fully understand the scope of the testing.
• Working on the Test Completion reports and Test Readiness Reports for the new developments, enhancements and fixes.
• Worked as SME for the QA team, providing clarifications on requirements as needed.
• Preparing Release level test plan and conducting Release level testing status meetings to track the testing progress and presented the Release level metrics on a regular basis.
• Used ALM for mapping business & functional requirements with the test scripts in QA and UAT.
• Reviewing scripts and executing the test scripts/cases in ALM 11.0 (Application Lifecycle Management).
• Involved in preparation of Test Data used to test the latest Builds delivered.
• Validated the source database, target database and transformations.
• Interaction with the Team members and client, in daily SCRUM meeting
• Prepared Test Data for Database Validation.
• Good Track record of producing High quality results while under Pressure.
• Used ALM/Quality Center to report bugs and follow up.
• Leading a testing team of 15 members and Conducted KT sessions to Offshore.
• Co-ordination with the offshore team to carry on the Test Execution.
• Experience Coordinating (Onsite & Offshore) team members, giving suggestion on their concerns.
• Work on the bug fixes and enhancements and monitoring the various processes on the Autosys.
• Effectively reduced the testing cost by more than 30% by using automation of the manual test scripts through QTP in Regression testing

Environment: Java, J2ee, Mainframe (Host Application), HP ALM 11.0, TML, XML, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000/NT, SQL, SharePoint, UNIX.

Confidential, Rhode Island, RI

Onsite Test Lead /Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in high level Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis, CR’s and Gap Analysis.
• Analyzed the Functional Requirements to fully understand the scope of the testing
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix for new developments, enhancements and Fixes.
• Planned KT session’s to offshore team to ensure smooth transition.
• Work on the bug fixes and enhancement for the application and monitoring the various processes.
• Lead a testing team of 5 members and managed multiple tasks efficiently.
• Monitoring and Analysis of the logs for various failures.
• Interacted with the project team to assign priority to Projects based on dependency and criticality.
• Worked on Traceability Matrix for the functional requirements of the system
• Created Test Sets in Quality Center/ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM )and executed for each build
• Regularly performed requirements analysis and provided feedback as necessary. Created processes for configuration and release management.
• Report the weekly and daily status to the stakeholders.
• Reduced the cost by 25% in Testing by proactively using the resources to do both Analysis and Testing of the modules at the release level.
• Mentored and coordinated the teams and aid in effective team building and take responsibilities to complete the task in the speculated time for the various releases.
• Extensively used Quality Center/ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to report bugs and follow up.

Environment: Java,J2EE,Mainframe, HTML, HP Quality Center, SQL, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000/NT, UNIX.

Confidential, Rhode Island, RI

Onsite Test Lead /Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plan and test cases based on the Functional Specification design documents.
• Participated in requirement and design walkthroughs.
• Performed Manual Testing on different modules of the application.
• Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.
• Provided Daily and Weekly project report that includes Test Metrics and status reports
• Performed in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Ad-hoc Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications
• Provided client developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes.
• Created Test Sets in Quality Center and executed for each build
• Created and executed various testing scenarios on Windows 98/2000/XP/2000 Server/2003 Server machines with compatible versions of different browsers (IE, FIREFOX).

Environnent: ASP.Net, Java, J2EE, SQL, Oracle, Mainframe, HTML, Quality Center, UNIX

Confidential, Rhode Island, RI

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the Business and System Requirements.
• Project Planning and allocating resources, tracking project progress.
• Prepared test plan and test cases based on the design documents
• Performed in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Ad-hoc Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Conducting weekly meetings and involving in the meetings with the development and build Team every week and as necessary.
• Involved in generating Master Test Plan, which had all complete information about the Test Strategy involved in verifying the functionality of the application.
• Created Test Sets in Quality Center and executed for each build
• Created Reusable Functions which covers the functionality of the application
• Worked with different stakeholders as multiple interfaces were present.

Environment: Provenir tool, Quality Center, UNIX

Confidential, Rhode Island, RI

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan Based on Business Requirement Document
• Prepared of Test Cases based on Functional Design Documents
• Liaison between Testing team and Development teams for Defect resolution.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing.
• Performed Sanity testing and Ad-hoc testing on the AUT.
• Responsibility of all QA deliverables
• Performed Black box testing, Verification & Validation Testing
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix between requirements and test cases
• Used Quality Center as Test Management Tool to report bugs and follow up
• Attended Status Meetings

Environment: SQL Developer, Oracle 10G, Java, J2EE, Mainframe.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Scenarios and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Analyzed Test Plans based on Requirements and General Design Documents
• Planning the analysis and testing timelines of a release for the various SDLC testing.
• Preparing Test Cases for modules and system testing.
• Preparing Test Data’s for the test Application.
• Checking the Test readiness of the Environment to execute the test suit.
• Defect logging and Tracking.
• Developed Test Summary Reports and provided the test metrics.

Environment: C, C#, Java, J2EE, SQL, Mainframe, HTML, Quality Center, UNIX

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed Test Cases, Test Data, Traceability Matrix and Test Summary Reports.
• Involved in requirements gathering, business analysis and requirement analysis.
• Conducted functional and regression in both SIT and UAT phases
• Worked on Test Data preparation.
• Test Case Management using Quality center.
• Defects Reporting and providing support in analyzing the root cause of the defect.

Environment: Mainframe, JCL, CICS, .NET, PACS, Quality center, TOAD, Oracle 10G, TOAD, Windows XP, UNIX.