SUMMARY

• 8 + years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in performing Manual and UAT Testing.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional and System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing and User Interface Testing etc.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) models like Waterfall model, V - model and QA Methodologies like Agile
• Expertise in understanding the business requirements and prepared Test documents such as Test Plans, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Strategy, Test Cases using requirements, Overview, Scope, Defect Triaging, Defect Summary Reports, Test Execution Metrics, Test Results and Test Summary Reports
• Strong experience of conducting test review meetings, defect triage meetings, walkthrough meetings to discuss requirements, test status, issues and open defects with all stakeholders
• Responsible for communicating and helping in resolving major issues with the Test Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Stake Holders
• Responsible for conducting and organizing reviews with the Test Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, DAM and Project Stake Holders
• Responsible for reviewing the Test Cases, Defect Reports, Test Evidence Reports and Test Summary Reports throughout the Testing Lifecycle
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing: White box, Black box, Module, Integration, Stress, Volume, System, Performance, Regression.
• Involved in testing of Oracle, Informatica, Java, VB, IVR and Mainframes applications.
• Industry experience includes Banking and Healthcare
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills. Proven communication, presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities
• Able to effectively and professionally interact with people at all levels of management
• Experience in testing Web Services through XML
• Self-starter, energetic, highly motivated team player with good communication / problem-solving skills. Capable to quickly learn new technology and adapt to a new environment
• An out-of-the-box thinker with a consistent track record of increasing efficiency in testing, and creating a team environment to enhance productivity
• Strong problem solving & technical skills combined with ability to make confident decisions
• Worked onsite - offshore model and managed an offshore testing team of 15
• Project management experience including effort estimation, risk management and billing
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Extensively interacted with Developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the applications
• Experienced in mobile application testing in both iOS and Android platforms

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7, 2003 Enterprise Edition, Sun OS, Citrix, UNIX, andIBM Mainframe environment

Languages: SQL, JCL, COBOL

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Loader, DB2, TOAD, IBM DB2 Command Editor,Putty, Test Director, Informatica and Beyond Compare

Test Strategies: Integration, System, Regression, User-Acceptance, White Box,Black Box & Stress Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - KY

UAT Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete Software Testing Life Cycle from analyzing requirements, test planning, developing test cases, test execution, defect reporting and test closure.
• Analyzed the business requirements, functional specifications and user stories and develop test plan.
• Performed Functionality testing, Usability testing and interface testing.
• Performed Manual tests to make sure the product met the stated requirements.
• Performed manual testing for checking functionality, security, and regression during various phases of the development of the application.
• Prepare Risk based testing and identify business critical and high stories for testing
• Review Test artifacts from offshore team
• Communicate plans, status, issues, and concerns through the appropriate management channel
• Request Test Data (if needed) for new functionalities in all releases
• Track environment issues and escalate when necessary
• Conduct Triage calls with Program Manager, Project Manager, Product Owner, BA, Scrum master & System tester and follow Defect management approach
• Defect Reporting and defect tracking till closer in Squids
• Train UAT testers on new functionalities.
• Help Usability Team to understand the application
• Validated out going XML messages
• Post implementation validation in production
• Experience in testing Web Services through XML
• Act as a mentor and train new testers on testing standards and guidelines
• Act as subject matter expert for multiple projects.
• Conduct KT sessions to offshore Testing team
• Involved in lesson learnt, Retro and mitigation plan meetings
• Involved in late slotted items meetings with management and plan to deliver items within project timelines
• Collaborate with business analysts to clarify application requirements.
• Coordinating with the Entire Team (onshore/offshore)
• Preparing Project estimation and metrics

Environment: .Net, site coreTools: Squids 2.0, Version One, DB2 Command Editor, Soap UI

Confidential - Shoreview, MN

QA Analyst & Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create, direct and lead the overall System Testing test approach for designated projects utilizing the use case, business requirements, and technical requirements documents.
• Analyze the use case and requirements documentation, solutions designs, business processes, customer journey and other resource material to define and document test scope.
• Plan and write Test Plan ensuring full stakeholder involvement and agreement and create the Resource Plan
• Responsible for the creation of the Requirement Traceability Matrix and preparing test cases
• Responsible for Test Data Preparation as per the requirements
• Ensure all test cases are appropriately written meeting agreed standard format and content.
• Perform problem analysis on issues and raise Defect records for identified problems.
• As requested, monitor and manage defects to resolution for multiple tests/common problems.
• Provide status reports, issue/risk identification and test management.
• Identify and develop Regression test cases leveraging off base test bed.
• Thoroughly review and validate/verify test case results and document them.
• Fully document defects found, ensure defect is fully analyses and confirmed as a defect prior to sending to Problem Manager.
• Monitor defects to resolution as assigned by the Team Lead or Test Manager.
• Responsible for conducting and organizing reviews with the Test Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Stake Holders.
• Responsible for reviewing the Test Cases, Defect Reports, Test Evidence Reports and Test Summary Reports throughout the Testing Lifecycle.
• Provided Production Support for the end users after the software was deployed in the Production Environment.
• Extensively worked on XML for data transformation of data from flat files to the database.
• Validated out going XML messages
• Worked as a part of the team, which was responsible for designing the User DocumentationReport on the Lessons Learned and Recommendations etc
• Verifying the Session properties, Execution and monitoring the scheduled mappings
• Logging Defects in Merant Tracker and Tracking it till Closure
• Preparing the Test Execution Metrics and Defect list
• Reporting daily Status to all project stakeholders

Environment: J2EE, PL/SQL, XML, JAXB, Web services, ATG Framework, OracleTools: Used: SQL Server, PL/SQL Developer, Gemini, TOAD, IBM DB2