SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience and a proven track record of continuous and noticeable improvement in managing the software development and testing teams for major corporations. Highly skilled Software Quality Assurance Manager/Lead with software development and system integration background.
• Around 8 + years’ experience in Quality Assurance, Manual Testing and Automation.
• Comprehensive Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Design, Development and Testing.
• Strong experience in using Quality Center for Requirement Management, Test Strategies, Test Planning, Test case development, Test Case execution and Defect Tracking .
• Proficient in implementation of Testing Process (Functional, Acceptance, browser compatibility, Load, Stress, Performance, volume) and development of high quality Assurance standards.
• Experience in Database Testing using SQL Queries on RDBMS database like SQL Server and Oracle.
• Extensive Knowledge of V - Model, Waterfall, Agile (Scrum) Software development methodologies and techniques.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JavaScript, HTML (hand-coded), DHTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM Manipulation, XML, XSLT, ASP, JSP, HTA, SQL, Visual Basic, Advanced Revelation, R/Basic, GUPTA SQLWindows,J2EE,JAVE,.NET.

Tools: MS Project, MS Office, Visio, Excel 2007, Home Site, Top Style, Google Analytics, Quality Centre(QC), Web Trends, Media Wiki (Wikipedia), particle Illusion

Methodologies/Competencies: SDLC, Agile Methodology, ITIL, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Project Management, Business Analysis, Information Architecture, Website and User Interface Development, Software Testing, Courseware Design, Training, Data Flow Diagrams/Process Modeling, Use Cases, Logical Data Modeling, Object Oriented Design and Programming (OOD/OOP), EDI, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Website Localization (Arabic).

Databases: SQL Server Developer, Admin,Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, SQLBase, Access, dBase, Rumba, ODBC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.
• Works with the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on a Quality Assurance plan for the CTS implementation.
• Ensure that QA process is documented and communicated and adequate to ensure agreed quality levels for the application.
• Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements, working with the project Business Analyst to ensure all requirements are tested.
• Works with technical analysts to identify unit testing coverage and ensure any gaps are documented and addressed.
• Work with Testing Coordinator to ensure testing of functional areas is complete, tracked and on-schedule.
• Coordinates performance testing and ensures that performance standards are communicated and documented.
• Oversees determination of need, selection and implementation, and maintenance of QA tools.
• Oversees, point of escalation for the QC HP (defect tracking) database for all testing phases (update, follow-up and escalate overdue issues).
• QA issue prioritization and resolution facilitation.
• Facilitates weekly Quality Assurance meetings and maintains agenda.

QA Lead

Confidential, Chicago-IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for acting as the primary point of contact for development, project managers, and customer advocates as it pertains to testing, methodologies, and quality driven software products.
• Continually promoted improvements within the development and quality assurance process that conformed to particular stages of the software development life cycle to produce quality software products.
• Utilized impact analysis to ensure business requirements contain test case coverage and reported gap analysis coverage.
• Managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.
• Continually managed and updated requirements management, defect management, and change control management processes to be utilized throughout the software development life cycle.
• Managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.
• Ensured business analysts, project managers, developers, and quality assurance engineers adhered to the processes for requirements management, defects management, and change control management as broken processes were updated or changed.
• Managed a team of three onshore and ten offshore Senior Quality Assurance Engineer resources. Offshore resources were located in Chennai India.

Test Coordinator

Confidential -Chicago-IL

Responsibilities:

• Manage the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.
• Continually promoted improvements within the development and quality assurance process that conformed to particular stages of the software development life cycle to produce quality software products.
• Utilized impact analysis to ensure business requirements contain test case coverage and reported gap analysis coverage.
• Managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.
• Successfully implemented an automated data-driven testing framework and environment that assisted in transitioning from manual to automated testing using Quick Test Professional 10.
• Responsible for building and managing quality assurance standards for business requirements documentation, test environments, test planning, test lab management, defect tracking, functional, regression, load, and unit testing.
• Continually managed and updated requirements management, defect management, and change control management processes to be utilized throughout the software development life cycle.
• Managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.

QA Lead

Confidential -Chicago-IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed comprehensive quality assurance programs that address all aspects of regression, unit, functional, system, security, user acceptance, compatibility, integration, stress, load, and database testing.
• Implemented and configured a Virtual Machine Host Test Lab that managed the Unit Test, Manual, and Automated Testing environments using VMware.
• Established a continuous automated build process and created C# Unit Test code using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation that was integrated with Microsoft Unit Test Framework and executed on the Unit Test Environment per build.
• Managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.
• Responsible for building and managing quality assurance standards for business requirements documentation, test environments, test planning, test lab management, defect tracking, functional, regression, load, and unit testing.
• Managed a team of ten onshore and twenty five offshore Senior Quality Assurance Engineer resources. Onshore resources were located in Chicago IL and the offshore resources were located in Hyderabad India.
• Familiar with the software development process and managed the continuing changes to ensure quality within the product being developed.
• Development Platform: .Net, Java, J2EE
• Created C# Unit Test code using Microsoft Visual Studio that was integrated with Nunit Framework and executed on the Unit Test Environment per build.
• Established a continuous automated build process using CruiseControl.Net that monitored the VSS source code repository for any development changes. The Unit Test environment executed a build every five minutes if changes were found within the source code and the Testing environments were scheduled to automatically deploy if the last unit test build was successful.
• Conducted manual front and back end web application testing to ensure proper functionality and data population.
• Successfully tested front and back end applications within Windows and UNIX web environment utilizing automated testing tools for the front end and SQL queries or scripts to test data using Oracle and SQL Server RDBMS backend.
• Conducted manual front and back end web application testing to ensure proper functionality and data population.
• Ensured business analysts, project managers, developers, and quality assurance analysts adhered to the processes for requirements management, defects management, and change control management as broken processes were updated or changed.

Confidential

JAVA Developer

Responsibilities:

• Simple web services
• JSP pages binding everything together.
• Involved in the architecture of the modules according to the J2EE standards (Client-tier, Web-tier and Business-tier).
• Developed web-tier by using Framework, JSP's, Tag Libraries, Servlets, Java Script, HTML and XML.
• Developed business-tier by using Data Access Objects (DAO). Implemented own transaction management.
• Developed the Ant script to create the war/ear file and deployed into Web Sphere 5.1.
• Wrote complex SQL queries and reviewed SQL queries for the other team members.
• Wrote various Queries and Stored Procedures to augment the application logic
• Design of use-case diagrams, ER diagrams, class diagrams (UML) and sequence diagrams

Environment: Java 1.4, WebLogic 8.1, XML, JSP, JBDC, Java Script, Servlets, Oracle 8.0, Korn scripts, Unix, CVS.