Qa Lead Resume
Brea, CA
SUMMARY
- Over 13+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, and Testing, worked through each and every phase of QA Life cycle, beginning with planning to the release of the product.
- I have implemented QA methodologies, practices and processes in all kinds of environments including Client/Server, Web, IBM Mainframes, and UNIX.
- Furthermore, my strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills emphasize my experience and qualification in the pursuit of delivering a quality product on time.
- Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Business Acceptance Testing
- Good experience in gathering Requirements from End Users, Scope Documents and Business Specifications
- Highly experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall methodology
- Good experience with working on Offshore - Onsite model and leading teams
- Possess an excellent understanding and working experience in Enterprise service testing
- Strong skills in performing System, Acceptance, Web Services Testing, Integration, Regression, Security, Front End and Back End Testing
- Expertise in mobile application testing for Android, Blackberry and Cloud applications
- Experience in developing Test Strategy, Test plan, Test cases, Use Cases, Test scripts and traceability matrices
- Experience with Rational automated testing tool - Rational Functional Tester
- Experience in testing both REST and SOAP web services application
- Expertise in ETL/ Data warehouse backend testing including three years in Data Archiving and Test Data Management
- Good understanding of HP Load Runner for Load and Stability testing
- Strong Skills in performing automated testing for Web and GUI applications
- Expertise in Functional, Non Functional testing of web based applications, and Batch applications
- Expertise in use of HP tool for writing test cases, test execution, defect management, and defect tracking
- Excellent skills in Bug Reporting using HP Quality Center
- Exposure to software development methodologies such as Waterfall, Scrum and Agile Methodology
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven team player with problem solving and delivering product
- Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing tools: HP Rational Tools, RQM, RFT, RPT, Clear Quest, Clear Case Win Runner 7.6, Load Runner 8.0, Quick Test Professional 11, SOAP UI PRO, Selenium
Scripting: TSL, VBScript, JavaScript, SQA Basic, and Jscript
Bug Reporting: Test Director 8.0, Quality Center 9.2, JIRA
Programming Languages: J2EE, JAVA, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL
MAINFRAME: JCL, CICS, VSAM
Databases: Oracle 9i, DB2, SQL Server 2000,2005,2008 and MS Access
Web Technologies: J2EE, .NET and MQ Series
Operating Systems: HP Unix, Windows 2000Professional/NT/XP, and MSDOS
Front Ends: Visual Basic 6.0 and Developer2000
App Servers: Web Sphere, Web Logic
Network: FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Brea, CA
QA Lead
Environment: .NET, PL/SQL, Oracle, Team foundation Server, RQM, RFT, Cloud Computing, Visual Studio 2013, Sales force, SOAPUI Pro, Quality Center ALM
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
- Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
- Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
- Tracking Product backlog items, defects
- Functional Testing of Cloud based web applications
- Gather requirements for Test Data Management and Data Archival
- Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using RQM
- Conducted functional test automation tasks using RFT
- Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
- Validating the response against the database and expected result
- Analyzed application data using theSQLto identify the ETL processes
- Modifying and creating SQL Queries and stored procedures for quality assurance and analysis.
- Worked with data analysts to implementInformatica mappingsandworkflows,shell scriptsandstored proceduresto meet business requirements.
- Performing backend testing of the DB by writingPL/SQL queriesto test the integrity of the application and Oracle databases.
- Wrote and modifiedSQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs.
- Extensively worked onMapping Variables, Mapping Parameters, Workflow Variables and Session Parametersto extract only the additional data added during that period.
- Implemented end to end Enterprise Data Management
- Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
- Planning and managing functional and regression testing
- Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.
Confidential, Centennial, CO
QA Lead
Environment: .NET, SQL Server 2012, TOAD for Oracle, Microsoft Test Manager, Team foundation Server, Cloud Computing, Visual Studio 2013, SOAPUI Pro, Selenium, Octopus
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
- Performed requirements verification testing, functional and user acceptance testing (UAT), Risk Based testing
- Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
- Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
- Tracking Product backlog items, defects and queuing new build releases and deploying in QA using TFS
- Functional Testing of Cloud based web applications
- Gather requirements for Test Data Management and Data Archival
- Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using Microsoft Test Manager
- Strong experience in Automating Web Application testing using Selenium WebDriver
- Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
- Involving in writingSQL queriesandDatabase Checkpointsto verify data quality and calculations, reviews
- Validating the response against the database and expected result
- Used SQL Server Management studio for creating and executing SQL queries for testing the conversions and ETL Process
- Wrote complex queries in SQL assistant to check the data from Source and Target
- Implemented end to end Enterprise Data Management
- Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
- Planning and managing functional and regression testing
- Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.
Confidential, Englewood, CO
QA Lead
Environment: Java, SQL Server 2008 R2, RQM, RFT, Visual Studio 2013, SOAPUI Pro, STARC, UFT, Selenium and Octopus
Responsibilities:
- Working with Product Team to understand the business requirement and technical specification documents
- Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
- Reporting Daily progress and discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
- Expertise working with Requirements Traceability Matrix
- Web based and Cloud based applications testing in Agile
- Expertise with security testing of PMI application based on roles
- Create and execute automatedtest scripts using RFT
- Developing test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement document using RQM
- Developed complex SQL queries for querying data against different data bases for data verification process
- Performed Smoke, System testing, Integration Testing, User acceptance testing, Database testing and Regression testing.
- Performed Testing on web services and updating test data based on the requirements using SOAPUI PRO
- Experienced in running and validating the batch jobs in Dashboard Job Scheduler
- Expertise in testing the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) application
- Reviewing change request documents, defect description and attendant meetings to document the required changes.
- Worked with the development team to create appropriate cloud solutions for client needs
- Updating status report daily basis and weekly basis by conducting meetings with QA team.
- Closely interacted with product management and development teams to assure most effective project execution.
Confidential, Englewood, CO
Sr QA Analyst
Environment: Java, TOAD, WebLogic, SOAPUI, JMeter, Quality Center, SSIS, Selenium and OBI
Responsibilities:
- Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
- Reporting Daily progress in Rally and also discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
- Lead the QA team by providing effective SDLC process and providing status to the management on the daily test coverage
- Gather requirements for Data Archival and Data Life Cycle Management
- Planning and managing functional and regression testing
- Drive quality assurance initiatives and process improvements and testing on premise and cloud applications
- Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
- Used Selenium IDE for Open source web testing
- Preparing the test scenarios as per the BR for all the web services
- Preparing the test cases in the SOAP UI tool for all the identified test scenarios
- Performed comprehensive testing of Prepaid App on Mobile devices in android and iOS platforms
- Profound knowledge of writing security test scenarios and procedures
- Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
- Validating the response against the database and expected result
- Preparation of Test Cases and performing Regression Testing for new builds
- Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, executed Test Cases, and reported Defects
- Involved in conducting reviews of test documents with SM Teams
- Performed ETL testing using SSIS and ensures that all expected data is loaded
- Validating peaks, valleys of the network traffic and dashboards
- Validating Sessions with AD, clicks and play
- Monitoring the daily ETL process data
- Comparison of ETL loading times with peak production volume and smaller amount of date
Confidential, CO
Senior QA Analyst and QA Lead
Environment: .NET, DB2, Mainframe, SQL Server2005, 2008, TOAD for Oracle, Quality Center, QTP, HTML, SOAP UI, TFS, SSIS, Tealeaf
Responsibilities:
- Source Code Maintenance, Requirements Gathering and Bug Management using Quality Center
- Translate requirements into documents and executable test cases with a coverage of testing methodologies
- Working Mode - SCRUM and AGILE Process. Projects deliverables as per the each sprint schedule
- Extensively interacted with developers, business& management teams to understand the project business requirements and ETL design document specifications
- Reporting Daily progress in Rally and also discuss during the sprint's Story Grooming, Demo and Retrospective meetings
- Lead the QA team by providing effective SDLC process and providing status to the management on the daily test coverage
- Planning and managing functional and regression testing
- Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI
- Preparing the test scenarios as per the BR for all the web services
- Preparing the test cases in the SOAP UI tool for all the identified test scenarios
- Profound knowledge of writing security test scenarios and procedures
- Performed security testing using Tealeaf tool on web applications
- Executing the test cases at the project test suite level or individual level for the services
- Validating the response against the database and expected result
- Performed testing on Progressive native apps using different devices in different platforms (Android and iOS)
- Testing done for the Mobiles in Performance perspective to see how the Applications responds, when any input or Operation given for the Application to open
- Preparation of Test Cases and performing Regression Testing for new builds
- Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, executed Test Cases, and reported Defects
- Involved in conducting reviews of test documents with SM Teams
- Worked with ETL groups and Acquisition team and business analyst for understating mappings for dimensions and facts
- Comparison of ETL loading times with peak production volume and smaller amount of data
- Analyzing data transformation processing and understanding ETL workflows and monitoring production environment
- Extracted data from various sources like Oracle, flat files and DB2 server
- Worked on issues with migration of Data from development to QA-Test Environment
- Expertise with SQL & DB2 queries for backend testing and validating database, comparing the data
- Extensively used SQL server for writing SQL statements
- Responsible for coordinating with End Users during Acceptance testing
- Defect logging and defect tracking using HP - Quality Center
- Integration of QTP with the test management tools, responsible for maintaining automation infrastructure
- Coordinating sign off efforts and perform production checkout to move projects into production
Confidential, Cleveland, OH
Sr QA Analyst
Environment: Load Runner 8.1, Quality Center9.2, ASP.net, XML, JavaScript, Windows XP/NT, and MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio.NET
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios
- Authored Test Cases to include prerequisites, detailed directions and descriptions
- Performed requirements verification testing, functional and user acceptance testing (UAT), Risk Based testing
- Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center
- Interacted and worked with the development team to solve the problems encountered in the test scenario run
- Analyzed-Designed-Executed performance tests to meet App requirements in user perspective
- Designed the Load Runner scenarios with various user-mix incrementing in constant ratios
- Provided subset of Functional test cases to UAT test
- Extensively used SQL for data integrity testing at the backend
- Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems
- Participated in weekly status meetings to report any bugs, issues and risks
Confidential, DE
Sr QA Analyst
Environment: IBM-S/390, Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Professional 9.2, Java, HTML, UNIX, JSP and SQL server
Responsibilities:
- Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements
- Involved in writing Test Plan for the testing effort of the module
- Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Scripts using QTP and managed it using Quality Center
- Prepared Test Scenarios using SQL Queries for Backend Testing and
- Manually performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Prepared and planned shell scripts in UNIX using SQL commands for the data validation.
- Schedule reports through schedule Manager
- Conducted Security, Performance, and Regression testing during the various phases of the development
- Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
- Identifying Test Cases for Regression Testing and conducting Regression testing when new builds were made
- Used Quality Center for Bug Tracking and Reporting
Confidential, Columbus, OH
QA Analyst
Environment: IBM-S/390, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SPUFI, FILE-AID, Test Director 7.6, QTP 8.2, and Java
Responsibilities:
- Analysis of the Applications
- Source Code Maintenance, Requirements and Bug Management Using Test Director
- Performed Functional, System and Regression testing using QTP
- Created test cases and test plans according to System specifications using Test Director
- Developed test processes, procedures and practices for testing
- Wrote Test Scripts, executed Test Cases, and reported Defects
- Wrote SQL to validate or retrieve data and tested batch programs
- Analyzing the results and preparing the documentation
- Responsible for coordinating with End Users towards Acceptance testing
- Assist in the defect resolution process, following up with App Dev groups on the defect closures
Confidential, Bloomington, IL
Test Analyst
Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, XML Test Tool, Test Director, Java, J2EE, HTML
Responsibilities:
- Preparation of Requirement specifications, detailed test plans and Status of work
- Responsible for identification of test data requirements
- Identifying, Unloading and Loading Test data from Production to Test regions
- Set up Customers with IEFT, ACH, AT products & verify failed jobs against XML logs
- Executed Test scripts for IEFT, AT (A/C Transfer), ACH (Automated Clearing House)
- Performed User Acceptance Testing
- Preparation of Production verification Test plan
- Assist team in defect resolution process; follow up with App Dev teams for defect closure
- Responsible for preparing weekly status report