SUMMARY

• Ambitious IT Quality Assurance Lead with 8 years of software testing experience including Functional, Cross Browser, Product, Wired/Wireless LAN technologies, Automation, Mobile and Regression Testing
• Experience in working with Telecommunications, Ecommerce, Banking and Insurance domains
• Experience in planning and estimating test resource requirements and test execution timelines, identifying risks, tracking project status
• Experience in Client server, Desktop Framework and Mobile Testing
• Experience working on the configuration, server settings and client installations on both Windows and UNIX environments
• Expert in Agile Methodology
• Executed effective QA processes and excellence through the development cycle with clear goals and formal testing methodologies
• Experience in developing quality assurance standards including identifying and recommending areas of test process improvement
• Defined process for tracking and reporting defects using HP ALM Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA and Rational Clear Quest
• Solid experience in SDLC and Testing Planning process. Proficient with Agile - Scrum methodology
• Experience in creating Project Plans, QA Test Schedules using MS Project
• Experience in designing framework, Scripting (UI & Database) using Automation tools HP Unified Functional testing and knowledge on J-meter
• Hands on Experience in Mobile Application testing on multiple platforms such as Android and IOS
• Supervised and lead effort to create test plans test scripts, testing documentation, and risk analysis to comply with client requirements
• Experience in automation testing using QTP, Selenium and SOAP UI
• Ensure deliverables of QA are on time, on budget and of suitable quality to mitigate risk for all projects and software releases
• Extensive experience in working with onshore and offshore model in managing and coordinating the tasks
• Excellent leadership, communication and coordination skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem solving ability, analytical and programming skills in high speed, quality conscious, Multitasked environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

Languages: Java, VC++, JavaScript, XML

Testing Tools: QTP, SOAP UI, REST, Selenium, Appium and J-meter

Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, HP ALM, Microsoft share point and Jira

Web / Application servers: RED5, Tomcat 6.0, Apache 2.2

Java IDE / Tools: Eclipse 3.2, TOAD, Query Browser

Mobile Testing: Android and IOS

Debugger Tool: Charles, Fiddler

Version Control: SVN 1.5

Database: Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing Test Strategy, Test Approach and Test Plan from business sources related to property and casualty insurance.
• Conducting Code reviews, Design meetings, Test Plan reviews, Test case reviews and Defect reviews.
• Maintaining the test data and plan for automated regression using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Update Project Plans with testing schedules and resource allocation.
• Schedule daily scrum meetings with QA team and attend Project weekly status meetings in getting updates and provides QA status to the Management.
• Automated the test cases using selenium web driver methods
• Maintaining the metrics of Test results, Defect counts by Severity and Priority to meet exit criteria and report the status and to the management on daily and weekly basis.
• Execution of Selenium test cases and reporting defects
• Extensively worked on End to End testing with other groups like Billing and Scanning for payment processing for the surcharges which was created.
• Performed Web services testing using SOAP UI for checking reports of each agents.
• Running database queries in getting the data from various tables and used to compare the results.
• Maintain Test documents and reports in the ALM Quality center and SharePoint. Report the defects in JIRA in a timely manner.
• Tested the application under different networks and Internet speeds including while onEDGE, 3G, 4G, LTE and Wi-Fi
• Tested the mobile version of the application in Android and IOS platforms
• Thoroughly understand the behavior of the device under test and test the device for 802.11b/g/n protection
• Contributed greatly to increases in code quality and productivity through his leadership and guidance in areas such as Test/Behavior Driven Development, Refactoring, and Agile Estimation and Planning
• Performed Compatibility testing for major browsers and operating systems to validate products stability

Environment: Java, Adobe Flex 3,Putty, Oracle10g, 11g, Tomcat 6.0, Red5 Server, Apache 2.2 server, SVN 1.5, QTP, JIRA, Fiddler, Web Services, JMS SOAP UI,Windows server 2003,Android, IOS, Fiddler,HTTP Analyzer,Charles, Jmeter, Selenium WebDriver

Confidential, FL

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the meeting with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing team for Requirements gathering in Definition Stage.
• Worked with multiple teams to analyze scope of testing, define test goals, and set direction for testing, schedule, requirements, environmental and data needs.
• Participate in Sizing, Estimates and update Project Plans using MS Project with testing schedules and resource allocations.
• Schedule daily scrum meetings with QA team (Offshore & Onshore) and attend Project weekly status meetings in getting updates and provides QA status to the Management.
• Expertise in Quality Management, Budget Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Release Management and Resource Management.
• Implemented Automated execution of tests using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Performed Compatibility testing for major browsers and operating systems to validate products stability.
• Managed Offshore and Onshore resources in providing the knowledge Transfer of the functional specs, gathering status and coordinating with the defects.
• Performed Web services testing using SOAP UI in validating the XML and AJAX features
• Created Automation framework from the scratch by using Keyword driven, Data Driven and Hybrid frame works
• Contributed greatly to increases in code quality and productivity through his leadership and guidance in areas such as Test/Behavior Driven Development, Refactoring, and Agile Estimation and Planning
• Executed Test Cases using positive and negative data in Test Lab and reported results and defects.
• Expertise in performing Black box, Module, Integration, Stress, Volume, System, Performance, Regression, functional, integration, system, regression, security, and UI and user acceptance tests
• Executed test cases which involved working with tables which use star schema.
• Involved in providing Test Closure reports and review Lessons learned with the team to work more effectively in the future releases
• Tested the mobile version of the application in Android and IOS platforms
• Identified, analysed and documented defects utilizing Team Foundation Server as defect tracking system
• Reached Testing Goals by doing Data Completeness, Data transformation, Data Quality, Performance and Scalability.
• Extensively used and developed SQL scripts/queries in backend testing of Databases.

Environment: Java, Adobe Flex 3, Oracle10g, 11g, Tomcat 6.0, Red5 Server, Apache 2.2 server, SVN 1.5, QTP, JIRA, Fiddler, Web Services and SOAP UI, Android, IOS, Fiddler, HTTP Analyzer

Confidential, TX

QA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business Analysis team to prepare Test strategy and Test plan. Self-managed and self- motivated under agile methodology and involved in scrum team work.
• Assist in creation of and ensure proper execution of test specifications, test cases, test scripts in alignment with established methodology and ensure that it supports Testing objectives.
• Authorized, scheduled, supervised and smoke-tested thin code and data migration from development to test environments.
• Maintained Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Data Requirements Matrix.
• Developed the QTP Scripts using different Checkpoints, Parameterization, Regular expressions, User defined functions, and used Recovery scenarios for Error handling.
• Hands-on experience with UI and GUI testing, as well as web application.
• Attended weekly meeting with team leaders, managers and developers to discuss the issues found during the creation of the test case/scripts

Environment: QTP, HP QC, HTML, Ms-Excel, UNIX, Microsoft Technologies Vb.net, ASP.Net, SQL Server2005, Dot Net 3.5.1, Oracle10g, SVN 1.5

Confidential

Project Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Played a major role in Development, Integration and Evaluation of Software for computer vision.
• Involved in Creating and Testing Image Processing Algorithms for Machine Vision and Automation, for the processed image
• Maintained central repository to determine the readiness of the application by combining Planning, Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Used SOAP UI, WebLogic ANT task to test Web Services running on WebLogic Server.
• Developed Test Cases using WSDL, Schema files which defines Web Service Request, Response, methods/operations, End Point of web service to be tested.
• Created and executed JUNIT Test cases, Test suites using JUnit for Java Service Layer which was developed using spring, Persistence layer using Hibernate.
• Worked closely with the business and development groups from conception to completion of multiple simultaneous projects.
• Communicated daily execution status reports to the management and conducted review meetings for the open defects on the daily basis.
• Worked on AGILE Methodology in attending the daily scrum meetings and reports the impacts caused by the environment or application related issues for the Project level.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 10, SOAPUI 4.0, VC++, C#, MS Web, Web Services, XML, Oracle 11g/10g, JUnit, Excel, SQL, Windows NT, UNIX, Putty. VC++

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in gathering requirements from Business Users in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Scenarios.
• Coordinated with customers in obtaining the profile information and altering the look and feel of the website.
• Participated in documenting Test cases and Test data creation for executing it
• Work closely with the Project Management and Business users for updating the plan and provide estimates if any RFC or Change request is made.

Environment: ASP .NET, C#, Java script, XML, Oracle10g