SUMMARY:

• 7.5+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Testing Methodology, Test Plan Formulation, data analysis and data validation corresponding to (Manual and Automation) Testing of Client/Server, ETL, ERP, Business Intelligence, Mainframe and GUI/Web based applications.
• Quality Assurance Team Lead /Senior QA Analyst with over 4 years of experience in testing team management.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Test Management and Defect Management Process.
• Worked on various Software Development Models including Waterfall and Agile Methodology.
• As a Test Lead, Proficient in analyzing Business & Functional requirement specifications, Test Feasibility and Effort Estimation.
• Expertise in designing, developing and executing Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts & Test Reports.
• Effectively involved in defect tracking, reporting, reviewing and analyzing test results.
• Experience in different stages of test such as Unit, Build Deployment, Integration, System, Performance, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Have performed Manual and Automation Testing in traditional and non - traditional testing fields such as GUI, Functional, SOA, Performance, Security, White-Box, Data Warehouse and End-to-End Testing.
• Extensive knowledge of Test Automation Tools and implementation of keyword driven, data-driven & descriptive programming frameworks using QTP, SoapUI Pro, Load Runner and Jmeter.
• As an Automation Lead and Consultant - Defined Automation Test Strategy, Conducted feasibility analysis, Effort Estimation, Analysis and Selection of testing tools, Automation framework development and troubleshooting.
• Development experience involved building Web Applications and Test Tools using Java, VB, VB Script and Excel with an aim towards minimization of testing effort.
• Experience in working with waterfall and Agile/Scrum Software development environment.
• Extensive experience in Defect Tracking and generating detailed reports using tracking tool(s) such as JIRA & Quality Center.
• Hands on experience with End to End Test Management, including supervising QA Teams both Onsite & Offshore and Risk Management. Proven ability to complete and delivery of products, their related features and corresponding documentation in a timely fashion, dedicated to maintaining high quality standards.
• Active team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP 9.2/10.0, Win Runner, Test Complete, SeleniumSoapUI Pro, Parasoft, CA LISA, Load Runner 11.5 and Jmeter.

Test Reporting Tools: HP Quality Centre, Jama Contour, JIRA, Bugzilla & Rational Quality Manager.

Project Management Tools: MS OFFICE & Microsoft Project.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Cassandra, SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL, MS Access, Netezza

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008 R2, XP, Linux & Unix

IDE/Tools: Eclipse, Net Beans, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, SQL Plus, PL/SQL Developer, Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, Visual SourceSafe, Informatica.

Database Designer Tools: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office Excel 2007/2010

Languages: SQL, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, Groovy Script, Adobe Flex, ActionScript, XML

Web & Distributed Technologies: J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Adobe Flex, Hibernate, Struts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed the system requirement analysis in conjunction with the Technical Architects to determine the Integration points and the System Performance Parameters.
• Coordinated with the Functional team on the application regarding the business functionality implementation and identified the critical business scenarios.
• Prepared the Overall Test strategy, effort estimation, entry and exit criteria, test schedules, and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings & walkthroughs.
• Created, Executed and maintained the manual regression and Integration Test Cases in HP QC.
• Created, maintained and followed the defects through to closure in HP QC.
• Determined the System configuration, Test Data, System Peak load, average load and setup the load generation environment.
• Created and Reviewed Performance Test Scripts to generate the required loads based on current Production logs.
• Monitored the system Application Server and Database server to capture the Performance metrics.
• Prepared the Test Reports and provided recommendation based on the performance metrics captured.
• Hosted Triage calls with business team and technical architects to perform root cause analysis and defect prevention.
• Hosted daily Scrum meetings with Technical Architect and the Test team to track and monitor daily progress.
• Attended weekly conference call & provide weekly reports to Management.
• As the Onsite test Manager, coordinated and managed the offshore test team.

Environnent: Linux Server, Oracle 11, SAP 7.3, HP LoadRunner 11.5.

Confidential

Performance Tester - Jmeter

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements in conjunction with the Business Analysts.
• Prepared Test plan; performed Test effort estimation and defined the test criteria, test schedules, and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings & walkthroughs.
• Defined the Performance Test Strategy and performed analysis and selection of Testing Tool.
• Determined the System configuration, Test Data, System Peak load, average load and setup load generation environment.
• Created and Executed Performance Test Cases and Test Scripts to generate the required loads
• Monitored the system Application Server and Database server to capture the Performance metrics.
• Prepared the Test Reports and provided recommendation based on the metrics captured.

Environment: Windows Server, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2008, Cassandra, Jmeter.

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst/ Test Lead - SoapUI Pro, Selenium, Jmeter, Eclipse

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and formed the requirements in conjunction with the Business Analysts and customers.
• Prepared system Test plan; performed Test effort estimation and defined the test criteria, test schedules, and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings & walkthroughs.
• Defined the Test Automation Strategy and performed Analysis and selection of Testing Tools.
• Created and reviewed Test cases, Scenarios and modifications done to the test cases against the internal reviews and upgrades in the build.
• Streamlined Build Deployment and Automated the Smoke test execution on the deployed build using SoapUI Pro.
• Designed and implemented the SoapUI Automation framework to implement functional test of Web Services
• Performed Performance testing and Bench marking of Web-Services using Jmeter.
• Worked on Integration testing of modules and performed white box testing using Java and Eclipse to validate the integrity of the code.
• Performed Database backup and Restoration, including validation of restored data on the Cassandra database.
• Validated Encryption of sensitive data using Safenet based on PCI compliance.
• Used Microsoft Excel, Word, JIRA to document the test status reports and the Test Data.
• Hosted Defect Triage calls to perform root cause analysis and defect prevention. Interacted with business users to understand the bugs and report them back to the developers.
• Coordinated with Functional team on the application clarifications w.r.t business functionality implementation.
• Hosted daily Scrum meetings with Business, development and Test team to track and monitor daily progress based on Agile Methodology.
• Attended weekly conference call & review meetings with weekly reports.
• Worked with Users to develop Test cases for user acceptance testing.
• Had good coordination with the team in other activities such as motivation, weekly meetings with agenda, s, responsibilities, Quality process & problem solving.

Environment: Linux, Windows 2008 R2, Cassandra, MySQL, Java, J2EE, SoapUI Pro, Jmeter, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Quality Manager, Jama Contour, JIRA, Microsoft Office Excel 2007/2010

Confidential

Test Analyst/Test Automation Consultant - QTP

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and rules from business requirements document.
• Attended meetings with architects, developers and business analysts to understand Payments systems and transactions made.
• Prepared the Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Prepared the bi-weekly Test Estimates for Sprint Planning.
• Created test plan and test cases based on the business requirements to match the project’s initiatives in Quality Center and JIRA.
• Involved in Automation of Sanity, Sprint and Regression Testing.
• Customized the QTP Automation Framework and created the Automation Test Scripts using VBScript.
• Developed tools using VBScript and Excel to create and manage Test Data.
• Attended Daily Scrum Meeting with Developers and QA Team to discuss Software changes.
• Attended Weekly Review meetings with the Business Management team. Prepared and provided the weekly reports in Word and Excel.
• Trained new resources in the use of Automation framework and QTP.
• Coordinated with Offshore team on Application Requirements and Automation Scripts implementation.

Environment: JIRA, HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP 10.0.

Confidential

ETL Tester /Automation Consultant - Oracle/Netezza Database

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis on business process through Use Cases, Work Flows, Requirement specifications, Change request specification, and Production issues.
• Developed Automation strategy, Automation guidelines and Process guidelines.
• Attended meetings with architects, developers and business analysts to understand data model, data flow and enhancements made to create test cases relatively.
• Involved in rigorous meetings with the developers and the Oracle DBA to plan and implement testing efforts.
• Implemented Test Strategy & Methodologies at various phases of test life cycles.
• Developed an Automation tool using VBScript and Excel to validate the Data Transformation from Mainframe and Oracle data sources to the final Netezza database.
• Performed the functionality and report validation testing of the application both manually and using Automation tool.
• Involved in System and Integration testing, Regression Testing and Report Testing.
• Interacted with other team members and monitored the progress of QA activities. Also was responsible for Onsite-offshore QA activities.
• Maintained test logs, test reports, test issues and defect trackers using QC 9.2.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, Informatica, Netezza Database, TSYS, Oracle 9i, TOAD 10.5, HP Quality Center 9.2, VB script, MS Excel 2003.

Confidential

Test Engineer / Automation Consultant - QTP

Responsibilities:

• Performed Feasibility and Effort Estimation analysis for the application to be tested.
• Developed the Automation Test Plan, Test Strategy and guidelines.
• Implemented the Automation Framework for QTP and modified and enhanced the automation Scripts to meet the applications needs.
• Created test plan and test cases from the business requirements to match the project’s initiatives in Quality Center.
• Performed Automated Regression test execution as well as integration testing for the web application developed in .NET.
• Created Automation Scripts using QTP to create Test Data in TSYS
• Queried database using SQL queries in TOAD and implemented Automation scripts to run Validations between database and application user Interface.
• Wrote the Automation Test Scripts as well as Maintained and executed them for Regression testing.
• Logged defects in Quality Center and tracked till the closure of Defects.
• Produced reports (Test execution report and Defect status report) on weekly basis
• Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center
• Performed troubleshooting of Automation Scripts.
• Attended weekly conference calls & review meetings with weekly reports.
• Maintained project specific QA documents as per Quality process.

Environment: Oracle 9i, TOAD 8.5, HP Quality Center, UNIX, TSYS, QTP

Confidential

Test Engineer / Automation Consultant - QTP

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Feasibility analysis and development of proof of concept for the application to be tested
• Developed the Automation strategy, Automation guidelines and Process guidelines.
• Implemented process guidelines such as configuration management, knowledge management, management and defect prevention under the guidance of QA Manager.
• Created test plans and Test cases using Quality Center for the project after discussions with the business users.
• Involved in Production activities such as Automation Script generation, creation/modification of methods and code Review.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to document issues found during the test and coordinated with the developers to resolve defects.
• Trained new team members in use of Automation framework.
• Involved in status meetings and Reporting.

Environment: Visual basic, QTP 9.2, QC 9.0

Confidential

Test Engineer/Automation Tester - QTP

Responsibilities:

• Undertook work flow analysis against requirement and created documents for various payment Transactions such as Balance Transfer, Lost/Stolen, Address Change, etc.
• Assigned as Backup Lead to review Automation Scripts and Workflows, and to implement coding guidelines.
• Created Test scripts using QTP and automated the process of Test Data creation.
• Performed Regression Testing by Test Script Execution and Defect Fixing of Scripts.
• Documented the Data Conditioning Requirements for Maintenance
• Involved in status meetings and Reporting.
• Involved in Production activities like defect/Script fix, function remediation and Review.

Environment: Oracle 8i, TSYS, Toad, QTP 9.2 and Quality Center 9.0

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis and Development Planning.
• Created Use Cases, (HLD) High level design and (DLD) detailed level design documents.
• Implemented the Struts framework with Adobe Flex and Hibernate.
• Designed the backend, tables including creation and development of the Hibernate and DAO layer.
• Programmed and unit tested complex Business scenarios using java.
• Involved in Integration of modules and integration testing.
• Implemented Exception handling and defect prevention and review for the entire application.
• Provided proof of concept for the implementation of the ITAA tool at client site.
• Involved in end user support and documentation.

Environment: J2EE, Adobe Flex 2.0, MS SQL Server 2005, Eclipse, QTP 9.2 and Quality Center 9.0.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual test cases using Quality Center
• Performed independent Testing based on manual test cases.
• Performed Ad-hoc testing.
• Involved in the Test report creation and presentation.
• Logged Defects and coordinated with developers to resolve defects.

Environment: MS Visual Studio 2005, MS SQL Server 2005, Quality Center 9.0.