SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience in testing Web and Client/Server application across various platforms and on the largest projects at Fortune 100 companies in the 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 the 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 the project
• Wif experience as a QA Lead, carried out some lead functions such as creating flow schedules, assigning tasks to the 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 knowledge 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 knowledge 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 the business requirement from the Customer.
• Clarify requirement ambiguities and Development issue logs wif the Customer.
• Develop the BA checklist towards validating the final deliverables.
• Design and develop various client correspondences using HP Exstream.
• Develop Test plan and Test strategy for the Functional and System Testing phases.
• Perform functional and System Test validations, and file incident reports.
• Coordinate wif Development and Testing team and clarify the requirement related questions.
• Conduct Green Team review meeting before the Client Correspondences are moved to the System Test Env.
• Conduct Red Team review meeting before the UAT move and hand off the deliverables.
• Prepare various reports to track the 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 the requirements specification packages to understand the business logic and applications
• Responsible for the System Testing of the Confidential application.
• Assist the Development and BA team in performing Root Cause Analysis on System Test Defects.
• Conduct Daily Defect Triage Meetings.
• Perform the Impact Analysis and provide the estimate for the Change Requests.
• Allocate work to the team members and track them to closure
• Collect various test metrics and send the Daily/Weekly reports to Test Manager.
• Actively participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Review the work products of team members.
• Mentor and educate the team on new functionalities, and Testing Process.
• Perform the Gap Analysis and ensure the Requirement Traceability.
• Assist the 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 the client
• Maintaining the Requirement Traceability metrics.
• Performing the Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing, Integration testing, System Testing, and Regression Testing by using Rational Manual Tester and Rational Functional Tester.
• Performing the reverse and forward flow testing in Agencies and COMP system and validating the oracle and mainframe database.
• Identify, Reporting and tracking the 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 the major module - Correspondence.
• Validate the right correspondence triggered by the Confidential system for the taxpayers.
• Validate each correspondence is composed and formatted based on the functional specification.
• Validate the post processing of the Correspondences generated by Confidential through External Agencies like Department of Administrative Services and USPS.
• Work wif the Department Mailroom staff and USPS staff to test the POD and ACS services TEMPeffectively.
• Review of the 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 the 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 the application and addressed the anomalies using HP ALM.
• Work wif the development team in fixing up of the bugs.
• Attend meetings wif other leads of department for “brain storming” possible ways towards smoother execution of the project
• Attend meetings wif developers and managers for risk assessment of the system.
• Assist the customer to develop the UAT scenarios.
• Train the customer /end users on new Software.
• Regular interaction wif the client for the updates on various aspects.
• Revise current test cases to reflect changes made to the 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 the Silk Test regression suite as per the CRs and new functional requirements.
• Execute Functional and Regression test cases.
• Review of the Functional Specification Documents..
• Performing Functional and Regression testing of the application and filing the Incident Reports.
• Work wif the development team in fixing up of the bugs.
• Requirement study, Impact analysis & effort estimation.
• Attend meetings wif developers and managers for risk assessment of the system.
• Regular interaction wif the client for the updates on various aspects through telecons/mails

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

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