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 with the latest testing technology and underlying system architecture
• Communicating with Business Analysts, Clients, Software Vendors and other participating groups to analyze any Requirement gaps or any other conflicting issues.
• Heavily involved and partnered with assisting Business in BAT &/or UAT to bring great success to the project
• With 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 within budgetary guidelines.
• Ability to work with minimal direction - taking concept to analysis and potentially leading QA through development, debugging, testing, defect documentation, regression and conclusion.
• Strong background in software for Welfare, Taxation, DMV, Manufacturing and Change Management domain.
• Borland Certified Silk test Professional.
• Good exposure to Confidential (BMC) Change management Tool and awarded as Confidential 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, with 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

BA/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• My Role as a QA Lead/BA for the Correspondence Conversion Project at Confidential, I gather and elicit the business requirement to clarify requirement ambiguities and Development issue logs with the Customer.
• As a BA I’ve developed BA checklist which will be utilized towards validating the final deliverables.
• As a QA Lead, I’m responsible for the creation of Master Test Strategy for the whole project and maintenance of Working Test plan and for the Functional and System Testing phases.
• Perform functional and System Test validations, from a System Integration Testing phase and file any incident identified and follow up by keeping log reports.
• Conduct Team Review meeting before the code gets deployed from a environment to another to accomplish different testing phases.
• Developed and provided data and quality review to senior management team

Confidential, Trenton NJ

Lead/Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Test Lead I was responsible for the System Testing of the Confidential application by reviewing, analyzing and identifying the requirements specification packages to understand the business logic and applications
• Lead and was responsible for a Team of 10 members who were assigned to me for dis effort.
• Conducted Daily Defect Triage Meetings and assisted Development and BA team in performing Root Cause Analysis on Defects identified, if necessary.
• Perform the Impact Analysis and provide the estimate for the Change Requests.
• Responsible in collecting test metrics and send the Daily/Weekly reports to Senior Management.
• As a part of Aglie methodology, I was actively participating in Daily Scrum Meetings
• Responsible for sending testing status and for the stories executed in the team room
• Involved in IPMs to understand the stories that will be pushed into team rooms that will be worked on
• Reviewed the work products of team members and would Mentor and educate the team on new functionalities, and Testing Process.
• Responsible for maintaining the Requirement Traceability metrics while writing test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Assist the customer to Plan, Develop, Execute and Track UAT scenarios.
• 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.
• Coordinating with different team like testing team, data conversion, development team and business analyst for any kind of testing issues
• Rational Clear Quest was the tool used to Report and Track Defects
• Responsible for Planning, Creating and Execution of automation scripts developed in Rational Functional Test.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Delivery Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for System testing the major module - Correspondence.
• Validate the right correspondence triggered by the STARS 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 STARS through External Agencies like Department of Administrative Services and USPS.
• Work with the Department Mailroom staff and USPS staff to test the POD and ACS services effectively.
• 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 with the development team in fixing up of the bugs.
• Attend meetings with other leads of department for “brain storming” possible ways towards smoother execution of the project
• Attend meetings with 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 with 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 with the development team in fixing up of the bugs.
• Requirement study, Impact analysis & effort estimation.
• Attend meetings with developers and managers for risk assessment of the system.
• Regular interaction with 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 with the development team in fixing up of the bugs.
• Work with the Support team to fix HOTFIXES.
• Coordinating with 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.