SUMMARY

• Analytical, detail - oriented & result-driven software professional with inquisitive approach towards quality enhancement and strong work ethic.
• 6.5 years of Software Testing experience that includes 2 years of experience in Test Automation using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0 and IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT) 7.
• Around 1 year of on-site work experience in United Kingdom.
• Experienced in testing applications in Banking-financial and Public Sector domains.
• HP Quality Center (QC) 10, HP-Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0 and Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) 1.4 certified.
• Experienced in working in Waterfall, Rational Unified Process and Agile Scrum process framework with good understanding of SDLC and STLC.
• Experienced in Test Effort Estimation, Test Planning, Test Approach, Test Preparation & Execution, and Reporting & Reviewing with good understanding of Test Scripting methodologies.
• Experienced in Functional, Regression, UI, Retesting, Smoke Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Experienced in Testing Web services, Web based, Windows based, client-server and Mainframe applications, in Citrix and remote desktop environment.
• Experienced in Defect management using tools such as Test Director, Quality Center and Clear Quest
• Represented QA team in defect triage meetings.
• Shared status reports with necessary metrics for clear visibility of project health to project stakeholders.
• Proven ability to elicit, gather and analyze requirements and transforming them into test scenarios and test cases.
• Proven capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Test Director 8.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, Clear Case, Clear Quest, SOAP UI, Extramate (Mainframe testing)

Automation Tools: QTP 10.0, Rational Functional Tester 7

Methodologies: Water Fall, Rational Unified Process, Agile Scrum

Scripting languages: Java, Groovy, VB script

Programming Languages: VB, Java

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 9i

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and performed System and User Acceptance testing on various modules in RUP process framework.
• Identified defects and came up with ideas to organize various defects that led to easy maintenance and tracking for various modules and assisted in uncovering hidden/missed defects.
• Learnt RFT tool and assisted team in creating/updating automation scripts for the given module.
• Applied inquisitive approach to analyzing requirements for new Change Requests based on Use Case document, query logs, liaising with Business Analyst and developers and helped the team in understanding the requirements and come up with right approach to test functionalities.
• Planned and performed acceptance testing and defect retesting for new release.
• Transformed given Use case document and requirements into Test Scripts.
• Identified and logged defects with detailed information for smooth tracking of changes across various releases and versions of application.
• Analyzed defects with respect to existing defects and liaised with developers and other stake holders with useful inputs that led fixing the defects within minimum test cycles.
• Provided timely suggestions from user’s perspective for the betterment of functionalities during analysis phase hence saved effort on User Acceptance Testing.
• Planned and assisted in task/CR spanning the overall application.
• Trained new team members in CQ, CC, RFT and application under test.
• Documented new findings with representations of functionalities in state transition diagrams for better and quick KT to new team members.

Environment: RFT, Clear Quest, RUP, Windows XP and 7, Cross browser testing, windows and web based application testingOrganization - DELL services (formerly known as Perotsystems) Aug 06 - Nov 11

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Estimated test effort considering relevant factors, risks and mitigation plan for system testing involving cross browser and UI testing.
• Lead a team of 5 testers in performing testing activities.
• Performed Test planning and preparation (test plan documentation, test case preparation)
• Identified defects in Requirement documents during Requirement Analysis that led to less defect in system testing phase
• Explored and trained team in web service testing using SOAP UI Tool saving the training cost. Assisted team during test script preparation.
• Identified test data.
• Automated test scripts for GUI based functionalities using QTP.
• Lead and monitored the team during test execution (test case execution, identifying and logging defects, Defect verification) both manual and automation using QTP.
• Represented testing team during status meeting involving the client.
• Reported daily activities/status regarding the project to the stakeholders with necessary metrics.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP 10.0, SOAP UI Tool (Web service testing), Citrix Environment, Quality Center, Cross Browser testing, UI testing

Confidential

Designation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a key contributor in Agile Scrum and Waterfall process framework
• Attended training in using Mainframe applications.
• Identified records with and without match as part of requirement analysis.
• Analyze testing approach in verifying the generated triggers.
• Identified test scope and approach.
• Identified test data.
• Identified test conditions.
• Test Preparation (Test Scope and Approach documentation, Test Case preparation)
• Assisted in creating a suite of supporting tools to facilitate identification of test data records.
• Created customer dairies to assist test execution.
• Involved in identifying the discrepancies in the records.
• Involved in identifying defects and defect logging and tracking.
• Reporting daily activities/status regarding the project to the stakeholders.
• Performed Web service testing using test harness tool

Environment: Citrix Environment, Quality Center, Extramate (Mainframe testing), Agile Scrum, Test Director, PDT (.Net based Proprietary tool), Test Harness Tool (Web service testing)