SUMMARY

• A dynamic ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) certified engineer with over 11 years of Software testing experience working on Web based, ETL, Data warehouse and GUI applications.
• Extensive experience in performing Black box, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Usability testing, UI Testing on Web based applications.
• Strong experience in creation of Test Plans, Test Conditions Matrix, Test Scripts, Test execution and defect management.
• Involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), STLC and defect lifecycle.
• Experience with SQL to query the oracle database.
• Proficient in Mercury’s Test Director and Quality Center, ALM for Test Designing, requirement mapping, Reports, Test Execution and Defect Tracking
• Expert in creating requirements trace ability matrix as well as mapping requirements in HP Quality Center
• Experience in automation testing using Selenium and Jenkins to schedule jobs.
• Experience working in Agile and/or Scrum environments
• Experience in Web services testing using SOAP
• Experience in testing ERP - CRM applications
• Experience in designing and executing exceptional modularized re-usable automated scripts using - Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Experience in XML, XSD, XPath, HTTP, HTTPS, JSON
• Experience in ETL testing, Data Migration Testing, Database Testing, Data Validation & Data Comparison Testing with Hand on experience in IBM Datastage tool (v8.5)
• Experience in visualization tools like Tableau, Cognos reports
• HP certified accredited integration specialist in HP Quality center
• Experience in Globalization testing & Localization Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows XP

Database: Oracle 11g, MySQL

Defect Tracking: JIRA, Bugzilla, Clear Quest

Test Management tools: Quality Centre, Test Link, and Team Foundation Server, HP ALM

ETL Tools: IBM Datastage

Other tools: Soap UI

Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Automation: Selenium, Winrunner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Technology: Microsoft VSTS, JIRA, TestLink, SQL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for offshore Coordination including the efforts, billing and resource utilization.
• Gather and interpret the functional requirements of the work items
• Prepare test estimates and revise if applicable, Escalate issues/risks to Test manager / Project Manager, ensure quality of deliverables meet expectations.
• Handled the team of 8 members in the project including the offshore lead. Track and monitor their work items and the progress till the end of the release.
• Preparing Test Approach document, Test conditions and detailed Test Script Development based on the design documentation.
• Build Validation, End of Day Validation, Smoke Testing and Functional testing of the Next Gen application.
• Performed Test Script Peer Review and Knowledge sharing to the team.
• Running the Automation scripts on demand
• Performing End 2 End testing
• Defect Reporting and follow up in JIRA and conduct Defect Triage meeting
• Developed training manuals and conducted cross training session for the team
• Maintaining the test deliverables of each phase in Windows SharePoint.
• Involved in preparation of RCA. DSR, risk assessment of the work items and report the same to client.
• Interaction with the Business Partner’s, External Vendors, BA’s and the customer

Confidential

Technology: SharePoint, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Responsibilities:

• Provide Test Manager with the detailed estimates of the work effort required for testing
• Involved in understanding business requirements and translating them to software requirements
• Involved in preparation of test plan document and delegating testing team tasks
• Review and approve the test artifacts(test cases, test results, defect reports etc.,) developed by the test team
• Collaborate with the development team and business partners to ensure the scope of tests is comprehensive, and to mitigate defects prior to testing
• Performing End 2 End testing
• Create a full length Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to test cases and identified gaps
• Creation/Execution of test cases to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements
• Tracking, reviewing, analyzing the defects by conducting review and defect meetings
• Generate Test Summary Report (Exit Criteria) with following detailed information
• Test Scope and summary
• Variances
• Summary of Results showing all the defects found by functional area with severity, description and resolution

Confidential

Technology: Java, Postgres, Selenium and HP ALM

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Core activities around planning and executing System Integration and User Acceptance testing tasks, which includes creating Test Plan, Test case development, defect management and test execution
• Attended design reviews, requirements sessions, core team meetings, and technical team meetings to understand business requirements and business operating processes/procedures in order to identify test scenarios
• Performing End 2 End testing
• Identified the Test requirements based on business requirements
• Interacting with Business Analyst, Development team to understand business requirements
• Involved in the review & preparation of the Test cases and Test Scenarios
• Execution of test cases on development & production server
• Identifying defects and tracking to closure using Bugzilla defect tracking tool

Confidential

Test Specialist

Technology: ETL, Datastage, Oracle, Quality Center, Data warehouse

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts for SIT and support for UAT tests
• Extensively used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using Datastage
• Developed the ETL and BI testing strategy
• Performed Sanity, system, Integration, Regression Testing
• Supported Performance, Load and UAT testing
• Created requirements traceability matrix for the test cases developed
• Reviewed Test plan and Test cases with the team
• Used Quality center for documenting the test cases
• Executed the Test cases in Test lab and Logged the defects and linked the same with the respective Test cases
• TEMPEffectively communicated the Defect status within the team for clear idea on issues affecting the release timeline
• Developed Shell scripts and successfully executed the scripts
• Performed Positive and negative Testing for all the data fields
• Used the Designer to develop processes for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating and loading data into data warehouse database
• Worked on SQL scripts to load data in the tables
• Extensively worked with DS (Designer, Director and Manager)
• Used the DATASTAGE Director and its run-time engine to schedule the jobs, validating and debugging its components, and monitoring the resulting executable versions
• Tracked the defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports
• Worked with Data Warehousing developers who extensively used DATASTAGE, to design mapping to move data from source to target database using Stages to do the functionality

Confidential

Test Specialist

Technology: Dojo, EJB 3.0, Oracle, RTC, HP ALM, Putty, WinSCP

Responsibilities:

• Preparing effort estimation, planning and delegating tasks to the team, and tracking team activities including test case coverage, defects discovered & their status, test results, etc.
• Identified the Test requirements based on business requirements
• Interacting with Business Analyst, Development team to understand business requirements
• Involved in review, Test Case creation and Test Data from High-level Scenarios
• Involved in creating End-to-End flows for User Acceptance Testing
• Performed Report testing and Data validation of reports with SQL’s, referencing through database schemas
• Involved in the review & preparation of the Test cases & Scenarios
• Performing system integrated testing and UAT support
• Identifying defects and tracking to closure

Confidential

Test Specialist

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Eclips, Clear Quest, CERT, eBART, SOA, eLVIS

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with onsite and Client team on clarifications on the PRD
• Assess the critically of the feature and its dependency to provide estimation of train seat if it seems to exceed
• Preparing Test Plan and Test case document based on the PRD
• Responsible for Cord Hardening completion, DEV to QA hand off, Merge Approval and Automation
• Preparing Effort estimation and providing Inputs to Domain Manager on the Resource and effort allocation
• Review the Test cases internally and organizing External review meeting with client
• Execute testing in the most efficient manner since deadlines in Confidential is very stringent
• Prepare for the risks in the execution and escalate timely
• Coordinate with various teams for the environmental issues
• Prepare for regression and International testing subsequently
• Identifying the Test cases to be automated and getting functional Approvals from EDLs
• Automate the scripts using Selenium for the feature, get it approved
• Automate the Service Test cases using LISA tool
• Prepare RCA for the production bugs
• Identifying Risk and its mitigation
• Performing Production Smoke Test for feature roll out
• Used SOAP UI, Web Logic ANT task to test Web Services running on Web Logic Server

Confidential

Test Specialist

Technology: Java/J2EE, Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Raising the bugs and assigning the same to the respective developer
• Generating the test results and publishing the same to stake holders
• Capture and maintain the review comments from the service delivery team/business people in review report document and follow up till closure, also used the same to generate metrics

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Quality center

Responsibilities:

• Identified the Test requirements based on business requirements
• Involved in the review & preparation of the Test cases and Test Scenarios
• Performed system integrated testing
• Used VSS (Visual Source Safe) to manage files and directories and their versions
• Identifying defects and tracking to closure

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Quality center, Jira

Responsibilities:

• Analysed and updated business requirements, wrote and implemented the Test Plan, various Test cases and Test Scripts in VBScript to test various functionalities using the automated tool QTP and also wrote manual Test Cases using Quality centre according to functional documents and requirements
• Analyse the requirement documents and get it clarified in requirement analysis meeting with BA/Business head
• Perform Peer Reviews Business Scenarios/Test Case
• Execution of Manual Test Cases
• Raise the bugs in Quality Center and assigning the same to the respective developer.
• Generate the test results and publishing the same to stake holders.
• Review the Mapping of all the requirements to the functional documents in the requirement
• Traceability Matrix.
• Involve in defining various templates such as test case, etc.
• Conduct weekly meeting within the team and publish the MOM document

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements and interacted with software developers to understand applications functionality and navigational flow
• Performed Regression, System, and Integration testing
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix to track all the requirements

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Developing Functional Test Cases for the modules
• Executing Test and sending Issue Logs to Bug Tracker
• Review of change control Test Cases.

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Bugzilla, Winrunner

Responsibilities:

• Creation of detailed test cases by understanding the end user requirements for manual testing Developing Functional Test Cases for the modules
• Executing Functional, GUI, Unit and Regression Testing.
• Interacting with the developers for fixing of bugs.
• Executing Test and sending Issue Logs to Bug Tracker

Confidential

Technology: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Bugzilla

Responsibilities:

• Developed & executed detailed Test cases for testing the Functionality, GUI application
• Extensive use of SQL queries to perform Back End testing
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to test whether it meets the User Requirement Specifications.