SUMMARY

• A Seasoned QA Lead consultant wif 10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and testing in various industry domains like Product Engineering, Finance, News and Media/Broadcasting etc.
• Exposure to both Manual and Automated testing of applications in Client/Server& Web - Based environment.
• Experienced in developing& designing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases and generating test reports, defect reports and product quality assurance documentation.
• Working as QA Lead wif demonstrated leadership abilities and also performed onsite-offshore coordination for multiple projects to perform test related activities.
• Experience wif Mobile Compatibility testing and Mobile application testing on iOS & Android platforms and feature phones using Simulator "Device anywhere".
• Expertise in using Testing tools HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Strong skills in performing System, Integration, UAT, Functionality, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Stress, Usability testing for web and Client/Server application.
• Experience in Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, Unit, Front-End and Back-End Testing.
• Experience in working wif Agile methodologies well as traditional SDLC cycles.
• Hands on experience on automating web pages using QTP &Selenium Web driver.
• Proficiency in performing backend testing using SQL
• Involved in performing defect management using various bug tracking tools.
• Participated in design Walkthroughs and Inspection meetings to review Test scripts and results.
• Ability to quickly understand and interpret business requirements.
• Good Documentation and Process Management skills wif an ability to TEMPeffectively understand teh business requirements to develop a quality product.
• Excellent in communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Was awarded Company’s Spot Award & Summit Award for before performance in finding defects, handling multiple projects.
• Was awarded an annual Appraisal rating of 5 (on a scale of 1-5) by teh company for 2 consecutive years based on project success and appreciation from stake holder.
• Received excellent appreciations from Technical leads for providing value adds & enhancements.
• Got appreciations from Confidential Company for validating HP internal proprietary tools.
• Confidential Mobile App “NewsPro“ accolades includes teh Apple App Store "Editor's Choice," "New and Noteworthy" and “What’s Hot” plus an Apply Award for News.
• HP’s product “Intelligent PDU” awarded Silver Product of teh year 2013.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirements understanding, creation of test plan and test strategy
• Creation of test scenarios and review wif project stakeholders
• Responsible for managing a team of 8, planning activities, creating test plan & standard templates (daily status, defect status, defect process etc.).
• Task allocation to team members (onsite and offshore based) and team management
• Arranged daily meetings wif onsite and offshore leads to get and provide project status.
• Provide testing resources wif training and mentoring on teh testing processes, standards, and teh testing tools.
• Creation of test cases for verification of functionality and user experience testing on iOS, Android, Windows Linux OS operating systems & VMware configurations.
• Performed System Testing, Regression testing, GUI Testing and Cross Browser compatibility testing during teh releases and interacted wif teh developers to resolve any technical issues
• Executed Sanity and Smoke Testing of teh application manually after each build.
• Used emulator and device anywhere to perform mobile testing for AUT.
• Mapping test cases to requirement traceability matrix, Test execution and defects tracking
• Supporting development team wif debugging through log analysis
• Identification of automation candidates and scripting using Selenium & QTP.
• Participation in project status meetings, status reporting and communication
• Data validation output thru XML, MIB Browser, Perl Scripts

Confidential, New York, NY

QA / Mobile Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and analysis, creation of test plan and test strategy
• Understanding teh architecture and functionality of teh application in an agile environment.
• Creation of test scenarios for functional, API and report validations
• Active participation in QA process improvement activities like adding defect, problem resolution, bug tracking using scarab & bug tracker.
• Performed Sanity, Smoke, Functional and Regression Testing of teh application manually after each build.
• Supported business team wif UAT/production validations
• Used SQL queries to do backend testing to perform data validation, data migration/data conversion validation.
• Performed functional testing of individual modules Easy Access application on iOS & Android, MAC & Windows OS operating systems.
• Used emulator to perform mobile testing for AUT.
• Performed rigorous End to End testing before a release.
• Participated in release meetings.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan.
• Requirements understanding and analysis
• Creation of test plan/strategy
• Created test cases for front-end GUI experience and feature development.
• Executed test cases to validate GUI experience, functionality, integration, user privilege security, configuration and content testing of teh application.
• Executed localization and Internationalization testing.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to perform back end testing.
• Validation shopping cart & online payment gateway.
• Test execution, defect logging using Scarab, JIRA& Bugzilla, tracking and closure
• Status reporting to project stakeholders

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a System Administrator under Secured and Isolated Network. Maintained Windows servers which includes Fileserver Server, Application Servers and Database Server And support activities include Hardware Support, Mail Support, Network Support and App
• Accountable for maintaining teh Server security on Weekly Basis and maintaining teh Event Log and Security Audit log, Asset management. Attended maintenance activities along wif Clients.
• Responsible for Remote System Support Using Remote Desktop, SMS & Terminal Service and troubleshooting teh operating System and Application related problem
• Got a good Exposure in network administration.
• Responsible as a Backup Administrator for teh different internal projects.