SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience in testing Web and Client/Server application across various platforms and on teh largest projects at Fortune 100 companies in teh financial, insurance, and health industry
• Proven skills on Testing Process, Techniques and Strategies by creating Master Test Plan based on unique requirements of each client and ultimately responsible for execution of Master Test Strategy (MTS)
• Working expertise in Agile Methodology sought by clients to improve their Agile best practices and mentor teammates and also in Waterfall methodology.
• Experience wif teh latest testing technology and underlying system architecture.
• Communicating wif Business Analysts, Clients, Software Vendors and other participating groups to analyze any Requirement gaps or any other conflicting issues.
• Heavily involved and partnered wif assisting Business in BAT &/or UAT to bring great success to teh project
• Wif experience as a QA Lead, carried out some lead functions such as creating flow schedules, assigning tasks to teh team and training junior team members on various elements of QA/Testing.
• Knowledgeable in determining priorities, work scheduling and meeting critical deadlines wifin budgetary guidelines.
• Ability to work wif minimal direction - taking concept to analysis and potentially leading QA through development, debugging, testing, defect documentation, regression and conclusion.
• Strong background in software for Taxation, DMV, Manufacturing and Change Management domain.
• Borland Certified Silk test Professional.
• Good exposure to Marimba (BMC) Change management Tool and awarded as Marimba Certified.
• Solid expertise in automated testing tool like Silk Test and Selenium and sound noledge of test management tool like HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management and Rational Clear Quest tools.
• Strong Experience in RDBMS like Oracle; Teradata; DbVisualizer; SQL Server 2000; MS Access.
• Good noledge in UNIX Environments, wif great analytical and programming skills.
• Possess Excellent Communication, Interpersonal, Problem Solving Skills, and Good Team Ethics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test & Defect Management Tools: IBM Clear Quest, Rational Manual Tester, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Requisite Pro, and Perforce

Automation Tools: Silk Test, Rational Functional Tester, and Selinium

Languages/Tools: VB Script, JavaScript, HTML and Shell Scripting.

Databases and Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, DbVisualizer and SQL Developer

Operating Systems: UNIX/Linux/Solaris, Windows & Mac OS X

Business Domains: Taxation, DMV, Welfare, Manufacturing and Configuration Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Folsom, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a BA/Test Lead for Confidential Client Correspondence Conversion Project
• Gather and elicit teh business requirement from teh Customer.
• Clarify requirement ambiguities and Development issue logs wif teh Customer.
• Develop teh BA checklist towards validating teh final deliverables.
• Design and develop various client correspondences using HP Exstream.
• Develop Test plan and Test strategy for teh Functional and System Testing phases.
• Perform functional and System Test validations, and file incident reports.
• Coordinate wif Development and Testing team and clarify teh requirement related questions.
• Conduct Green Team review meeting before teh Client Correspondences are moved to teh System Test Env.
• Conduct Red Team review meeting before teh UAT move and hand off teh deliverables.
• Prepare various reports to track teh progress and coverage of both Testing and Development activities.

Confidential, Trenton NJ

Lead/Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as test lead for Functional/System testing team of 10 members.
• Reviewing, analyzing and identifying teh requirements specification packages to understand teh business logic and applications
• Responsible for teh System Testing of teh Confidential application.
• Assist teh Development and BA team in performing Root Cause Analysis on System Test Defects.
• Conduct Daily Defect Triage Meetings.
• Perform teh Impact Analysis and provide teh estimate for teh Change Requests.
• Allocate work to teh team members and track them to closure
• Collect various test metrics and send teh Daily/Weekly reports to Test Manager.
• Actively participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Review teh work products of team members.
• Mentor and educate teh team on new functionalities, and Testing Process.
• Perform teh Gap Analysis and ensure teh Requirement Traceability.
• Assist teh customer to develop UAT scenarios.
• Writing test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Developing and executing various forms of test cases before and after delivery to teh client
• Maintaining teh Requirement Traceability metrics.
• Performing teh Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing, Integration testing, System Testing, and Regression Testing by using Rational Manual Tester and Rational Functional Tester.
• Performing teh reverse and forward flow testing in Agencies and COMP system and validating teh oracle and mainframe database.
• Identify, Reporting and tracking teh defects using Rational Clear Quest.
• Execution of automation scripts developed in Rational Functional Test.
• Coordinating wif different team like testing team, data conversion, development team and business analyst for any kind of testing issues

Confidential, Columbus OH

Delivery Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for System testing teh major module - Correspondence.
• Validate teh right correspondence triggered by teh Confidential system for teh taxpayers.
• Validate each correspondence is composed and formatted based on teh functional specification.
• Validate teh post processing of teh Correspondences generated by Confidential through External Agencies like Department of Administrative Services and USPS.
• Work wif teh Department Mailroom staff and USPS staff to test teh POD and ACS services TEMPeffectively.
• Review of teh Functional Specification Documents.
• Actively participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Utilized HP ALM for creation of test cases to test module specific functional requirements. Traced all test cases to corresponding use cases and functional requirements, and business rules to ensure teh Requirement Traceability.
• Conducted defect triage meetings to ensure all defects and issues are identified, tracked, reported using HP ALM.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing of teh application and addressed teh anomalies using HP ALM.
• Work wif teh development team in fixing up of teh bugs.
• Attend meetings wif other leads of department for “brain storming” possible ways towards smoother execution of teh project
• Attend meetings wif developers and managers for risk assessment of teh system.
• Assist teh customer to develop teh UAT scenarios.
• Train teh customer /end users on new Software.
• Regular interaction wif teh client for teh updates on various aspects.
• Revise current test cases to reflect changes made to teh Test Plan documentation for new functionality issues.
• Performing backend testing using SQL queries in SQL Developer for data validation and verification.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and update teh Silk Test regression suite as per teh CRs and new functional requirements.
• Execute Functional and Regression test cases.
• Review of teh Functional Specification Documents..
• Performing Functional and Regression testing of teh application and filing teh Incident Reports.
• Work wif teh development team in fixing up of teh bugs.
• Requirement study, Impact analysis & effort estimation.
• Attend meetings wif developers and managers for risk assessment of teh system.
• Regular interaction wif teh client for teh updates on various aspects through telecons/mails

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain teh Automation scripts using Silk Test.
• Review of teh Functional Specification Documents.
• Preparing test scenario documents.
• Test environment setup.
• Preparing teh test plans and test cases and updating teh same in teh Test Director.
• Review of teh test cases written by teh other team members.
• Performing Functional and Regression testing of teh application and filing teh Incident Reports.
• Work wif teh development team in fixing up of teh bugs.
• Work wif teh Support team to fix HOTFIXES.
• Coordinating wif all teh team members for testing teh application and consolidating teh status sent by teh team members on a Daily basis.
• Reviewing teh release notes.