SUMMARY:

• I am a seasoned QC/ALM Administrator with over twelve years of experience in the IT industry, which includes five years of experience in HP QC, ALM administration and seven years of experience in Software Testing/Quality Assurance. Confidential is HP ALM Certified.
• He has strong experience in upgrading QC and ALM. He also has hands on experience in implementing test automation using HP QTP/ UFT with VB Scripting.
• Confidential has excellent communication skills and a fantastic personality. Although he currently lives in NJ, his contract ends this Friday and is looking for a position in NJ or NY.
• Certified on HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• ISTQB Certificed Test Professional.
• Experienced in HP QC Site Administration ( QC 9.2, QC 10.0, ALM 11.0 and ALM 11.50)
• Experienced in Installation and Configuration of HP QC, ALM platform(s)
• Experience in QC Migrations from QC 9x to 10.x and 10x to ALM 11x
• Experienced in ALM Integrations with TFS, SAP SolMan, Clear Quest, SharePoint Server (SPS) or other third party solutions and install the ALM patches.
• Hands on experience in implementing Test Automation using HP QTP/ UFT with VB Scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Bug Tracking/ Test Management Tools: Quality Center 9.0, 10.0 & ALM, Microsoft TFS, SAP Solution Manager (solman), Jira, Bugzilla, Buganizer, TestDirector

ALM Admin Tools: ALM Synchronizer, PC11.5, ALM Ali

Test Automation Tools: QTP, LoadRunner, Junit, WinRunner, Selenium (RC, IDE)

Platforms: Linux, UNIX, Windows

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML

Database Systems: Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, TOAD

Other Software: Subversion, Perforce, ANT, Jenkins, Eclipse

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Insurance, Health Care and Supply Chain Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QC/ALM Administrator and Tools Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Propose unification and centralization approach on how test tools should be managed in the TCoE environment and benefits it could bring to client and provide services for tools administration, customization and maintenance.
• Analyze Confidential DI existing tools and needs and propose tools strategy.
• Install and configure ALM11.0, QTP, LR 11.0 and performance center 11.50 tools.
• Perform site administration and customizations on HPQC 9.2 and HP ALM 11.0.
• Track and maintain the license management of ALM users using defects, requirements, full licenses, QTP seat and concurrent licenses.
• Plan, prepare and perform domains and project migration from QC 9.2 to ALM 11.0.
• Implement various customizations for 12 domains and 50 projects in QC 9.2 and ALM11.0 per project requirements.
• Established ALM integrations with Microsoft TFS 2010, SharePoint and other third-party solutions and installed ALM patches.
• Provide ALM training to resources at all levels, technical, business and project managers.
• Develop dashboard, reports, graphs and Excel reports.
• Design and develop defect workflows and configure in QC.
• Set up SQL queries to generate reports.
• Coordinate activities with various technical teams, i.e., network, database, architecture to design solutions and resolve incidents, requests and support.
• Conduct demos and trainings to various client teams on ALM new features.
• Function as first level support for HP tools.
• Carry out ticket logging system with HP.

IT Environment: Java, JSP, XML, SQL, Oracle, PERL, LINUX/Windows, TOAD, QTP, Quality Center/ALM, TFS

QC Administrator, Tools Architect and QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed custom solutions, packaged software integration and product migration of Aprimo products.
• Provided software development, enhancement, testing tool support and testing services.
• Performed Quality Center 10.0 site administration.
• Created domains and projects in QC 10.0, performed project customization and managed groups and user roles.
• Carried out user management and license management.
• Conducted workflow customization and defect process customization.
• Generated customized reports by extracting data from QC using customized queries in the QC query builder.
• Recommended a complete reporting solution by creating a customized schema based on QC database.
• Established and maintained overall tool methodology and strategy for integration phase.
• Analyzed requirements/use cases and designed the tool strategy.
• Tracked defects on various projects and provided reports to particular projects.
• Monitored QC performance and control outage.
• Added customized fields for modules per needs of projects.
• Processed archiving of old/unused projects.
• Integrated QC with HP LoadRunner for performance testing.

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with 4-9 member team including offshore and onsite team members.
• Created schedules for all maintenance, feature releases and additional test requirements.
• Collected metrics to ensure SLAs were met.
• Functioned as a point of contact b/w offshore coordinator and QA team.
• Maintained continuous communication with client for status reporting, new tasks planning and any dependencies b/w different teams in the work.
• Executed team performance appraisal and communicated performance feedback to management and to team.
• Attended bug triages to discuss delivery priority of outstanding bugs.

IT Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, SOA/SOAP, Tomcat, Tomcat/WebSphere, DB2 Quality Center 9.2,10.0 with BPT, Mercury QTP, LoadRunner, Windows XP, Solaris, AS/400

Test Lead and Test Tools Co-coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided end-to-end testing services including SIT and regression testing services as mandatory and supported UAT testing and post Go Live support.
• Analyzed system specification requirements (SSR) to understand test requirements in each release.
• Carried out system, functional and regression testing phases.
• Evaluated business requirements and defined the test strategy and test plan.
• Prepared test scenarios, test case and test data requirements.
• Conducted test execution and tracked defects.
• Performed Quality Center project customizations.
• Added users and assigned them to projects and group permissions.
• Executed addition of new fields in defect screen and project entities.
• Established status reports and circulated to various stakeholders.

IT Environment: Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Oracle, HP QC9.2

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established BRT (business requirement testing) test phase which was performed before UAT and after system (ST) and system integration testing (SIT).
• Carried out requirement collection and analysis.
• Conducted test reviews to ensure requirements coverage.
• Provided test estimations.
• Reviewed test plans with onsite team and client.
• Executed defect reporting using Quality Center and status reports.
• Managed the communication with onsite team and client.
• Designed and executed test cases.
• Processed regression testing using QTP and VB Script.
• Performed functional and data driven testing using QTP.

IT Environment: Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Oracle, QTP, HP QC

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided manual testing services including localization and internalization testing services, automated the entire regression testing using Mercury Tool and developed the robust regression automation suite.
• Developed automation scenarios using manual test plans.
• Performed automation using the Mercury WinRunner.
• Carried out I18N testing (internationalized testing).
• Prepared the check list and test assessment matrix for I18n.
• Conducted onsite and offshore coordination.
• Executed knowledge sharing between team members.
• Generated various reports during the execution.
• Established checklist (test plan) and verified content with developers.
• Wrote acceptance test plan for automation project.

IT Environment: Java, J2EE, Weblogic, SQL, Oracle Bugzilla, WinRunner

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement and created high level scenarios.
• Wrote test cases against requirements and use cases.
• Set up test environment for QA.
• Carried out black box, system testing and regression testing.
• Executed defect reporting using TestDirector during the execution.
• Automated using the testing tool WinRunner and TSL.

IT Environment: WinRunner 7, TestDirector 6.0, Servlets, JSP1.2, Jboss3.2.3, Oracle, Win2000