SUMMARY

• Accomplished and results driven seasoned IT professional wif 12 years of experience in Testing Domain. Has an outstanding experience in test management, test planning, estimation, execution and monitoring.
• Recognized for professionalism & commitment to excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and working wif senior management, associates, and customers.
• Self - motivated and can work independently or in a team. Well versed in written and verbal skills from both business operations and client base perspectives.
• Experience in working on complex testing projects from concept to fully operational status wif Onsite-Offshore model.
• Experience in working wif manual testing for web-based applications & Product Testing and knowledge of automated testing.
• Experience in Systems, Storage & Banking domains on software testing.
• Extensive knowledge on testing types - Functional Testing, Integration testing, System testing, Performance testing, User Acceptance Testing & GUI testing.
• Knowledge on ALM 11.0(Installation & Configuration on Windows, Project Customization, Template Project customization, Defect flow customization, Import teh business models into ALM & Implementing new KPI’s)
• Possesses excellent communication skills and an ability to self-manage work independently as well as in a team environment and team lead activities.
• Handled multiple testing projects wif teh team size upto 8 team members.
• Interface wif Business Analysts understand teh business process, metrics to comprehensively support and understand business rules dat drive testing scenarios.
• Hands-on experience on Quality Center 8.0/8.2 for test design, test execution and defect tracking.
• TEMPEffectively training, motivating and mentoring team members. Review individual performance reviews and establish goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows NT 4.0, 2000/2003/2008 , XP, VISTA, MS-Dos, UNIX(HP-UX, Linux & Solaris)

Products/Tools: ALM 11.0, QC 8/8.2, Test Director 7.6, Vantive 8.5, QTP 9, JIRA, Bugzilla, QuIX-PCT bug tracking tool, Remedy User, Perl, Cognos & HP Agile Manager.

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic 6.0

RDBMS: Oracle 10g Release2, SAPDB 7.6, DB2 9.2, Sybase 10.0.1, MS SQL Server 2005

Web Technologies: HTML, JSP, VB Script, Unix/PERL Script, Weblogic, Apache

MS Applications: MS Office, Microsoft Project Planner, Sharepoint personal details

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

QA Lead / Test Engineer

Environment: C, C++, Java

Responsibilities:

• Understand teh requirements and prepare teh test plan.
• Involved in doing estimation for testing activities like Test Case development & Test case execution.
• Participating in daily scrum, sprint retrospective and sprint planning meetings.
• Involved in writing teh test cases & test case execution and also involved in reviewing test cases and test reports of peers.
• Executing performance & stress test case execution using scripts on blade servers & storage setups wif maximum configuration.
• Analyzing teh performance/stress test results in detail and report teh defects if any deviations observed.
• Involved in setting up teh testbed setups for specific configurations at onsite location for offshore team to perform testing.
• Co-ordinate teh testing activities wif external project teams.
• TEMPEffectively coordinating wif teh development team and helping them in reproducing teh customer issues.
• Submit testing status, testing progress, defects report & test summary reports to teh Managers on daily & weekly basis.
• Ensure dat required processes are adhered during test execution.
• Preparation of test reports after each release.

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: Microsoft.Net, Jquery

Responsibilities:

• Understand teh requirements and prepare teh test plan.
• Participating in daily scrum, sprint retrospective and sprint planning meetings.
• Involved in test execution & helping teh team in test execution as and when required.
• TEMPEffectively coordinating wif teh development team & onsite team.
• Submit testing status, testing progress, Defects report & test summary reports to teh Managers on daily & weekly basis.
• Planning and monitoring of test activities.
• Ensure dat required processes are adhered to during execution.
• Preparation of test reports after each release

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: Web Sphere RAD (Application & Web) v6.1, Java, iBatis, Flex 3, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Understand teh requirements and prepare teh test plan.
• Involved in doing estimation for testing activities like Test Case development & Test case execution.
• Involved in writing teh test cases and also helping teh team in test case development.
• Involved in reviewing test cases and test reports of peers.
• Responsible for monitoring test execution - Functional (Regression and New features) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) based on testing schedule.
• Also, hands on test execution of these applications.
• Task allocation, collecting teh status from teh team and prepare weekly status report.
• Problem solving and escalating issues.
• Planning and monitoring of test activities.
• Coordination wif teh development team, onsite team and BA.
• Submit testing status, testing progress, Defects report & test summary reports to teh Managers on daily & weekly basis.
• Ensure dat required processes are adhered during test execution.
• Preparation of test reports after each release.

Confidential

QA Lead

Environment: Web Sphere RAD (Application & Web) v7.0, Java, Hibernate, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Understand teh requirements and prepare teh test plan.
• Involved in doing estimation for testing activities like Test Case development & Test case execution.
• Involved in writing teh test cases and also helping teh team in test case development.
• Involved in reviewing test cases and test reports of peers.
• Responsible for monitoring test execution - Functional (Regression and New features) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) based on testing schedule.
• Also, hands on test execution of these applications.
• Planning and monitoring of test activities.
• Coordination wif teh development team and BA.
• Submit testing status, testing progress, Defect reports & test summary reports to teh Managers on daily & weekly basis.
• Ensure dat required processes are adhered during test execution.
• Preparation of test reports after each release.

Confidential

Module Lead & Testing Engineer

Environment: Windows and UNIX(HPUX & Linux).

Responsibilities:

• Assigning teh tasks to team members.
• Conducting MOM and Tracking of their activities and helping them as and when required.
• Preparing of WSR report and sending to teh client & to teh team.
• Generating of outstanding defects report and sending to teh team for retesting them as and when they are fixed.
• Generating of reports for team wif spent hours on teh different activities on weekly basis and monthly basis.
• Preparation of Project Monthly Review(PMR) for my team wif testing effort, raised defects effort, retested defect effort, unscheduled activities effort and finally projecting, effort variance of teh team
• Preparing of defect analysis report (report includes rejected defect analysis, missed/customer raised defect analysis, RFE analysis) and projecting them in PMR.
• Conducting training programs for teh new joiners in teh team.
• Analyzing and Clarifying of Project requirements.
• Writing test plans based on functional specs & design specs.
• Creation of System Test Level Test Cases wif low level design in Talisman test management tool based on test plan documents.
• Sending for Internal and External review and fixing of review comments and make them ready for execution.
• Execution of created test cases once QA builds is ready.
• Reporting teh defects in Quix for found issues, retesting of defect after fixing and closing teh issue.
• Good in setting of test bed setups for testing as and when required on HP-UX, Linux & Windows operating systems.