SUMMARY

• Resourceful and Dynamic Technical professional with 10 years Software Quality /Functionality Testing expertise coupled with good business requirement gathering experience
• Experience in Mainframe Testing, Database Testing, Functional Testing, Automation Testing in Logistics, Health Care, Banking & Financial Services (BNFS), E - commerce applications on Windows & UNIX environment.
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and also have Exposure to Agile process and methodologies.
• Extensive experience in understanding, gathering Business & Testing requirements and prepared Test Artifacts - Test plan, Test cases and Test execution report.
• Involved in UAT Support to the client and was involved in Client Interactions and UAT Environment setup for the client.
• Hands-on experience with IBM-Rational Integration Tester (formerly Green Hat Tester), HP ALM, Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, Selenium WebDriver.
• Good knowledge on CA-LISA
• Full life cycle experience in Quality Assurance, including Black Box, system, integration, database, performance, GUI, Functional, Regression, Unit testing, User Acceptance, Smoke testing and Sanity testing of both client-server and web-based applications.
• Worked on various Defect tracking tools like Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Team Track, RFC Tracker
• Possess good level of understanding of WSDL, XSD, Schema, DTD, XML documents for Web Services Testing
• Experience in testing Web Services through XML.
• Responsible, Quick Learner, Team player with good communication and inter-personal skills.
• Well versed with SQL, PL/SQL queries to run the data integrity tests.
• Well versed with SOAP UI
• Extensively involved in testing Client/Server and Web applications and Middleware Applications.
• Willingness to learn new Technologies and Techniques
• Willing to exhaust all avenues to deliver a highly functional product to the client in a timely fashion

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management: HP-Quality Center ALM, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, RFC Tracker, Team Track

Testing Tools: Selenium,QTP,SOAP UI

Data Bases: TeraData, Oracle 10g,MySQL, SQL Server 2005,2008

Test Management Suite: QC, HP ALM, IBM-Rational Integration Tester (formerly Green Hat Tester)

Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2007/2000 , CentOS 5, Red Hat Enterprise 5

Modeling Tools: MS Visio 2007/2003

Others: MS Office 2010/2007/2003 (MS Projects, Front Page)

Version Tracking tools: VSS

Scripting Languages: VB script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Memphis

Test Lead

Environment: Database Testing (TeraData, SQL Assistant),Quality Center, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word).

Responsibilities:

• Performing Scrum Master Role apart from regular Test Lead activities.
• Creating & modifying SQL Queries and stored procedures for backend testing scenarios for quality assurance and analysis.
• Write scripts to validate the output.
• Creating hierarchies, Link/De-link EANs & other relationships as per business rules using using SoapUI & XML scripts
• Coordinated with the business team to generate the XML's based upon the account criteria.
• As a scrum team member involved in Sprint planning, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective meeting, Sprint release demo.
• Preparing and updating kanban, demo deliverables.
• Participated in Go/No-Go decision meetings.
• Performed System Integration testing to ensure the integrity with data base and Assisting Business for performing User Acceptance Testing.
• To participate in the defect analysis meeting set up by the development team and to perform a root cause analysis.
• Mentoring off-shore & On-shore team, review their deliverables before presenting to the client.
• SME for test case execution to the business users and offshore team.
• Provide effort estimates by analyzing the work.
• Testing the data volumes & data integration after data re-load(s).
• Write queries to compare the counts and data from source to target database.
• Daily and weekly status meeting with customer, Tracking and presenting status reports to all stake holders on all Testing activities, which include test results, test coverage and defects management.
• Co-ordinate with the Business leads and Team members on daily activities & execution plan.
• Creating Test Hierarchy for sales and pricing purposes. Executing in Level 2 and Level 3 Environments and doing End to End Testing.
• Involved in CE/SE for designing, creating the test case, executing it.
• Understanding the Business Requirement Specification & Software Requirement Specification and Formulated test plan for the Functional testing of the application.
• Preparation, Designing and Execution of condensed and detail Test Scenarios, Test Procedures, Test cases, Test Data in Quality Center. Preparing weekly, monthly reports and other reporting activities.
• Responsible for on-boarding & training new onsite & offshore resources (gathering profiles from HR, interviewing the candidates,identifying training needs and providing necessary training)
• Defect Management using Quality Center (HP-ALM).
• Preparing Test case traceability against the business requirements.

Confidential, Tukwilla, WA

Test Lead

Environment: AS/ 400 - mainframes, COBOL

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements.
• Participate in Business meetings
• To create Test scenarios based on the BRD.
• To create test cases for the test scenarios identified.
• Prepare test data.
• Regression Testing on Mainframe screens.
• Defect Triage.
• Off-shore team coordination & reviewing their deliverables.
• Faciliate the Business users in carrying out User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepare traceability matrix to ensure complete test coverage & requirement tracking.
• Status reporting and balancing the task across the team
• Managing the Onsite and offshore team

Confidential

Consultant

Environment: GreenHat, ALM, Clear Quest, SOAP Scope,IBM Hogan, Putty, Memento Viewer, Client-X, XMLSpy, ASP.net 2.0, Java, XML, SQL Server 2008,UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the QA meetings to understand the new functionality for the release and the Impact analysis
• Involved in Migration of Tests from legacy Client-X tool to GreenHat
• Fixed tests which were failing due to data issues by creating new accounts in Hogan mainframe
• Analyzed the Green Hat Issues in Tag store and fixed tests which were failing with Caching Issues
• Created/Modified the WSDL’s as per the change requests (CR’s)
• Have performed Schema Validation for XML files using SoapScope
• Analyzed the calls changes to the web services by researching Unix Log files and shared the information with team
• Created test cases using SOAP scope and executed in Green Hat as Automated suites
• Performed Functional, Regression testing throughout the release till Code Freeze and ensured the requirements are thoroughly tested on staging and Prod environments
• Performed validations using SWIFT FIN & SWIFT MX message formats to ensure that the responses are in-line with the expected business results.
• Worked as SME for some critical web services like get Account, get Customer, EnrollOnlineBanking, Transfer Funds
• Queried EDS tables using SQL to verify the Data Integrity
• Verified the encrypted responses through Memento Viewer
• Worked with Putty to log onto UNIX system to verify the log changes for a Business message and to know the root cause for unknown Spike in failure
• Automated set of MR (Manual Regression) tests through GreenHat to pass the log Validation
• Piloted for DTR (Daily Target Regressions) an innovation in process, which addresses the defects at the early stages of Regression
• POC for Verifying the Build flags and granting user access to the EDS table
• Performed Aggressive Ad-hoc testing on the Mainframe data and SOAP data elements
• Reported Work Items and Code Defects through IBM Clear Quest
• Published metrics for data disposition status using Graphs in HP ALM
• Participated in Defect Triage meetings
• Worked hand in hand with Development team to ensure testing issues are resolved on time

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: .Net, SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Business requirements
• Preparing test scenarios
• Drafting test cases
• Performed Functional,Regression testig,
• Involved in database testing in SQL tool in order to test Data validity and Data Integrity.
• Mentoring team member’s daily activities
• Conduct training sessions on the new updates.

Confidential

Environment: .NET, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Tested thoroughly in pre-production before deploying in production.
• Constantly involved in observing the application’s behavior at different levels of call volumes and report to the development team if any deviations found.
• Performed Integration, System and Regression Testing.
• Played a major role in User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for production support which will provide support at a 24/7 basis.

Confidential

Environment: ASP.NET,SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements from management.
• Documenting use cases.
• Assigning the work to team members
• Test Automation using selenium.
• Conducting training sessions for the team
• Update team members with the new requirements.
• Reviewing team member's activities.
• Structural and Functional Database Testing
• Conducting appraisals for the team members.
• Draft test cases for the requirements.
• Functional testing of the requirements.
• Testing the application for cross browser compatibility.
• Reporting bugs & validating bugs in Bugzilla.
• Sanity Testing the application.
• Regression testing for defect freeness.

Confidential

Environment: ASP.NET,SQL Server 2005, QTP

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Confidential application.
• Documenting the Test Cases using SRS, BRD.
• Update automation scripts for changes requests and enhancements using QTP.
• Prepare test data for automation scripts
• Draft Test cases
• Structural and Functional Database Testing
• Testing the application for cross browser compatibility.
• Reporting bugs & validating bugs in Bugzilla.
• Sanity Testing the application.
• Regression testing for defect freeness.

Confidential, NJ

Module Lead

Environment: ASP.NET,SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Confidential application.
• Preparing Test Plan
• Documenting the Test Cases
• Testing DB to check for the data insertion & retrieval.
• Executing test cases.
• Reporting bugs & validating bugs in Bugzilla.
• Testing the application for cross browser compatibility.
• Regression testing for defect freeness.
• Database Testing
• Training activities for team members
• Reviewing Team member’s work.
• Client Communication
• Conducting performance appraisals for the team members.
• Updating the Management with the work status.

Confidential, TX

Senior Test Engineer

Environment: C++, Windows Embedded, RFC Tracker, SQL server 2000

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the various hardware such as touch screens, display boards, poles and printers.
• Understanding the Restaurant Business.
• Preparing Test cases.
• Documenting the Test Cases using Software Requirement Specification and Design documents.
• Performed Regression testing to ensure the defect freeness.
• Regular interaction with client about feature discussions.
• Reporting bugs using bug management tool (RFC Tracker)
• Validating the RFC’s (Request For Change/Bugs) assigned to offshore QA team

Confidential, Texas

Sr. S/W. Engineer

Environment: C++, Windows Embedded, RFC Tracker, SQL server 2000

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Radiant’s Petroleum and convenience stores business process.
• Documenting the Test Cases using Software Requirement Specification and Design documents.
• Performed Regression testing to ensure the defect freeness.
• Reporting bugs using bug management tool (RFC Tracker)
• Validating the RFC’s (Request For Change/Bugs) assigned to offshore QA team
• Regular interaction with client about feature discussions.

Confidential, Texas

Sr. S/W. Engineer

Environment: C++, .net, SQL Server, Q-Track

Responsibilities:

• Analysing Functional, Technical, Design specification documents (FSD, TSD)
• Drafting the test cases
• Preparing test reports
• Tested the application using Black box testing techniques.
• Involved in Functionality testing, Regression testing
• Regular interaction with onsite team for installing the application and trouble shooting.
• Used Version Control Systems like Visual Source Safe to maintain documents
• Logging bugs into bug management tool -Q-track.
• Validating the issues assigned to QA team.

Confidential, CA

Software Engineer

Environment: Java, Oracle 8i

Responsibilities:

• Tested the site using Black box testing techniques.
• Regression Testing, System Testing, Database Testing
• Preparing test cases.
• Creating automated test scripts using QTP.
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Metrics for complete test coverage
• Defect Triaging
• Prepared Test Plans and Test Reports for specified features.
• Bug reporting and validation using Bugzilla
• Used Version Control Systems like Visual Source Safe to maintain documents