SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in Manual and Automated and system software testing for various client/server and web based applications.
• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying teh application and collecting teh information from developers and Business analyst.
• Expertise in analyzing client needs by participating in requirement review and design meetings.
• Good understanding in Software Testing fundamentals and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Extensively worked in all 4 phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensively involved in writing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and project related documentation.
• System software testing which involves Setup and Manage Server Racks hosting HP ProLiant Servers and Blade Enclosure. Software Package distribution, Operating System Image deployment, Software patches deployment, Hardware Health monitoring and Virtual Machine management.
• Deep noledge on Virtualization technology VMware and Hyper - V
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches,
• Different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX/ESXi 3.X,4.x & 5.x and Virtual Center .
• Strong experience with teh VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Extensive background in working with teh VMware vMotion technology
• Extensive experience with VMware clustering services.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• Sound noledge on ESX/ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration.
• Build and troubleshooting experience With ESX/ESXi hosts and Virtual Center Server 3 years in teh area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 5, 4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Experience with Netapps NAS/SAN storage
• Highly experienced in implementing different testing methods like black box testing.
• Involved extensively in various stages of Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing.
• Extensively used Mercury Quality Center and Bug Tracking System for reporting Defects, performing bug tracking, submitting teh quality bugs, raising teh issues, changes and defects resolving bugs.
• Involved in test planning, writing test cases/scripts, test case automation and test execution.
• Worked on joins, views, functions using SQL and good in documenting teh testing process.
• Ability to execute test cases for functional testing, system integration testing, create defects, manage defects.
• Experience with automation tools: HP Quality Center, QTP (Quick Test Pro), QUIX
• Proficient in Functional, Negative regression, System Integration (SIT), Acceptance (UAT), Security, Browser compatibility
• Developed and executed formal test plans to ensure teh delivery of quality software applications
• Experience in Water Fall, Agile scrum methodology
• Great Knowledge on Web applications and Web Portals
• Estimated UAT effort for individual change item and ensured schedule commitments were met.
• Strong noledge of MS Office - Word, Excel, Access and Outlook
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment with resource constraints
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team
• Exceptional ability to quickly acquaint with new concepts and technology.
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills and a good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Ixia Tool, Scott Supercharger, MeatGrinder, Medusa, QC, BoneCrusher.

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 10.00, QUIX

Database: MYSQL, Oracle, MS-Access.

Utility: WinSCP, putty, MS-Office, MS-Outlook, vSphere Client, vCenter Server 4.x and 5.x

Operating Systems: Virtualization (ESX, ESXi 4.x, 5.x, Hyper-V)Windows (WIN2K3, WIN2K8, Win XP, WINDOWS 7, Windows 2008 R2 Server SP1, EBS, SBS 11 Essentials Aurora, SBS V7, Windows 2012, Unix, Linux (SLES 9, SLES 10, SLES 11, RHEL 4, RHEL 5, RHEL 6)

Hardware Platforms: Intel/AMD based Confidential ProLiant DL, ML and BL Servers, Workstation, Blades, and Smart Array Controllers. Intel, Emulex, QLogic and Broadcom NIC/CNA.,Controllers (SAS, SCSI, SA, FC) Storage Boxes (MSA 20 / 30 / 50 / MSA1500 / MSA2012i) Netapps NAS/SAN storageSwitches (Cisco Nexus 5020, Brocade FC/FCOE and Procurve family).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Updating teh QC (tool to track teh test status).
• Co-coordinating with teh offshore team and providing them remote setups.
• Tracking test status and co-coordinating with onsite counterparts.
• Tracking bugs (in Quix) found during teh testing.
• Co-coordinating with teh developers and providing them full support to minimize or close teh issues/bugs.
• Evaluate user requirements for applications and refine those requirements
• As a tester, me ensured that daily regression testing is running & completing successfully.
• Project planning, schedule, cost and resourcing.
• Performing teh gap analysis, cost and time requirements & feasibility study.
• Closely monitored QA progress in line with Project and QA Plans.
• Conducting defect status meetings with development and business teams to resolve outstanding issues.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of teh application.
• Managing teh Testing related activities closely with Development Team.
• Test Execution, Test Management & Test Closure.
• Common approach for cross platform and cross browser testing.
• Responsible for software, Hardware installation and maintenance.
• Ensure teh secure and safe storage of data and hardware and software access
• Prepare reports, flowcharts and manuals based on daily requirements
• Responsible for noledge transfer and staff training
• Actively handled status reporting and weekly Meetings
• Sign off teh QA releases.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Engineer/ Onshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan investigated on designing Test case and wrote test cases.
• Investigating on creating new test cases for testing on different vendors NICs like Intel, Broadcom and Emulex.
• Research new technologies and give demo to teh team.
• NIC Driver and Firmware testing on SRIOV feature and compatibility with Server Rom, OS Windows, VMware, Linux and hardware.
• Helping in teh PRG of various NICs (1 GB, 10 GB, CNAs, FCoE) from different vendors (Intel, Broadcom, Emulex, Mellanox, Qlogic).
• Tracking test status and co-ordinating with onsite, offshore and stake holders.
• Tracking issues (quixes) rose during teh test cycle.
• Co-ordinating with teh developers and providing them full support to minimize or close teh issues/bugs.
• Taking teh whole responsibility in teh completion of testing in any phase (EST, ST, Sanity Regression, Regression or OOBE).
• Helped teh scripting team in running teh scripts and also worked on tracing teh scripts to find teh errors.
• Performance testing of different vendor network adapters on SRIOV features using IxChariot, Scott supercharger and MeatGrinder tools.
• Worked on Netapp SAN/NAS storage.
• Used QUIX and Quality Center for issue tracking and updating test progress.
• Risk analysis, Trend analysis on Productivity, Defect Detecting Efficiency and Effort Variance for analyzing teh team efficiency.

Environment: VMware, Linux (RHEL 6.3, RHEL 6.4, SLES 11 SP2, SLES 11 SP3), Windows server 2012

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in reviewing and analyzing teh Data Models & Data Maps with Business Analysts & End Users to come up with efficient test scenarios & test cases.
• Involved in gathering, analyzing functional & performance requirements.
• Analyzed source systems, Staging tables, Fact & Dimension tables in target Data Warehouse.
• Created Test Readiness Review (TRR), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) documents.
• Created Test Strategy, Test Plan & Test Scripts in HP ALM / QC.
• Created complex SQL queries using TOAD & SQL Navigator to validate teh Oracle & MS SQL Server databases.
• Created ETL test scripts based on Technical Specification, Data Models & Data Map documents.
• Experience in testing ETL transformations (Filters, de-duping, Joins, Reformats) by creating complex SQL.
• Extensively validated teh loading of teh flat files into teh database by using MS Access.
• Test Lead for different ETL projects & mentored junior testers.
• Experience in using HP ALM / QC for Defect Reporting & Tracking.
• Worked with teh ETL Development team in resolving defects, create defect status reports.
• Clear understanding of business procedures and ability to work as an individual and as a part of a team.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and training teh end users. Participated in cross -functional teams to reengineer and improve business processes.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full testing life cycle, analyzing business requirements and gathering teh needy information.
• Understanding requirement analysis and specifications before testing an application.
• Involved in preparing test cases, test procedures and documenting them.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing and GUI testing.
• Prepared test logs exception documents, running of test cases for different testing stages like Integration testing and system testing.
• Interacted with developers on teh status of Bugs reported on daily basis.
• Interacted with developers and users to analyze functional specifications.
• Involved in back-end testing.
• Used Test Director to track and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Communicate with fellow testers and developers on continuous basis.
• Performed other related duties as assigned.
• Formatting teh data sheets with all teh information.

Environment: JAVA, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, WebSphrere4.0, HTML, Pdf,XML, JavaScript, Windows NT4.0,Linux, SQL Server, MS-Excel, MS-Word,MS-ACCESS, Test director, Manual testing.

Confidential

Quality analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design and execute various test artifacts e.g. Test Completion Reports, Requirement Matrix, Test scenario, Test cases.
• End to end test management including estimation, planning, tracking & reporting.
• Management reporting on defects, test status, risks and issues.
• Involved in reviewing and analyzing teh requirement documents.
• Closely monitored QA progress in line with Project and QA Plans.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing for multiple releases of teh application.
• Collected and evaluated business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Identifying business scenarios for UAT testing.
• Reported and tracked teh status of teh bugs, assigning severity ratings to them using Clear Quest.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in system test plan preparation and requirements streamlining.
• Enhanced teh test scripts for global execution.
• Understanding and analyzing teh functional requirements.

Environment: Java Scripts, Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Clear Case, MS Office, MS Excel, Desktop Applications, Win2000, HTML, SQL Server.