SUMMARY:

• As a capable Software Tester, I am determined and am seeking a position to utilize my proven technical, analytical and testing skills.
• I have 10 years work experience in software testing, hands on experience on Black box, White box, Integration, System testing, Database Testing, Automation testing, Performance testing & Test Management tools.
• Hands on experience in QTP, QC/ALM, Selenium, Soap UI, Oracle and Load Runner.
• I present a positive company image; commits to deliver top - quality service to all customers; detailed-oriented, possess excellent communication skills, and handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines in pressure situations. I want to associate myself with an organization with a common objective of quality, through client focused delivery, team work and a positive approach towards new practices.
• 9.8 Years of rich work experience in IT/Software Quality Assurance & Testing of Software Products & Services.
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and STLC
• Worked in Validation & Verification, Agile and Waterfall model of SDLC
• Experience in Project & Team Management involving project planning, estimation, scheduling and tracking; Team Building - Recruitment & Selection, Mentoring & & providing technical leadership to the team.
• Experience in the domain of Mobile Device Management, Banking, Health Care and Retail Payment Domains, and I.T. Management.
• Well versed in creation of test estimations, test strategy, test plan, RTM, managing stakeholders, creating test scripts and test execution.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, System, GUI, Automation Testing & Performance Testing..
• Well versed in defect management, test execution and producing reports and Metrics to the senior management.
• Hands-on experience and strong technical expertise on tools like HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium, HP Load Runner and Test Director/HP Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) etc...
• Experience in developing localized automation framework.
• Have People management experience, including of subordinates.
• Ability to understand various technologies and technical architecture within product
• Ability to successfully motivate the team, assess the capabilities of individuals and assign appropriate tasks with clear objectives to successful outcomes.
• Quick learner and known for delivering on deadlines, despite adverse circumstances and limited resources by team performance optimization.
• Self-motivated with good interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work individually as well as in the team.
• Excellent problem solving and reasoning ability and willingness to adapt with a quest and zeal to learn new processes and technologies.
• Hewlett-Packard Certified Software Professional in Quality Center and Quick Test Professional 9.2
• ISEB-ISTQB certified software Test Engineer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database Environment: Oracle 8i/9i/11g,MS SQL Server 2005, Associated tool TOAD

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Programming Languages: C, Java

Scripting Languages: VB Script

Version Control Tools: VSS, SVN, Star Team and SharePoint

Web Technologies: HTML,XML

Web Servers: Apache, IIS

Testing Tools: HP QTP, Selenium, HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center/ALM

Defect Tracking Tool: ALM, Mercury Quality Center 9.0/9.2/ALM

Web service testing: SOAP UI

Project Management tools: MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of the project requirement and technical design document
• Creating strategy, Proof of Concept of the architecture, building and managing successful large-scale Test Automation Projects.
• Managing whole sole delivery of projects and Resource management - Work allocation, estimation and tracking
• Formulated test automation strategy and work with manual test lead to identify and implementing test automation projects.
• Work as a technical mentor for all the other team members.
• Responsible for complete maintenance (Execution/Fixing/Analysis/New feature Automation) of test automation suites and test environments for nightly/sanity/ /.
• Define Test plan and allocate resources for the application module.
• Closely involved in defining the Test Execution and Reporting, Report analysis, Defect Retesting, Regression, Performance testing and exit criteria for each phase of the testing.
• Automated the test process by developing scripts using QTP as per test cases and Implemented Automation framework
• Used Quality Center/ALM extensively for Establishing Trace ability to Requirements, Test Cases, defect tracking and reporting. Followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and to update IR (Incident report or defect) status
• Report on a daily and weekly basis the status to the Testing Manager.
• Involved in creating system test cases for the product which is used across the organization and also perform the end-to-end test execution activity
• Performed Performance and Load testing using Load runner 11.0
• Performed performance testing for every release using Load Runner
• Effectively used Quality Center for End-to-End testing process, for requirements, test Cases, Test execution and defect logging
• Executed the test cases using Quality Center/ALM and analyzed the results
• Logging the defects through Quality Center/ALM

Environment: Java, Web services, SOAP UI,Eclipse3.1,Toad,Oracle,UNIX,Windows, Quality Centre & ALM, HP QTP, Selenium, Load Runner11.0, Manual Testing, MS Office Suite

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end testing for functionality testing for Producer Website Application.
• Performed Manual Testing of this Web based application and automated by using QTP.
• Provided weekly status reports on coordination activities during the transition.
• Prepared and executed test cases as per the documents provided using QC.
• Used QC for updating the status of all the test cases & test scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Involved in the process of analyzing the expected and actual results in the QC.
• Executed Test Cases and generated error logs, tracked bugs and created reports.
• Used Quality Center for managing the defect flow.

Environment: Java, .Net, Delphi,VSS,Eclipse3.1,Manual Testing, HP QC, HP QTP, UNIX, Oracle, VB, Ms Office Suite

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings
• Developed manual test cases and later created test scripts based on the requirement
• Ability to express technical concepts and procedures clearly and in easy to understand information, both verbally and in writing
• Conducted Functionality testing of the applications
• Responsible for the preparation of the test data for the application under test
• Developed strategy linked to requirements to create the comprehensive plan
• Developed SQL queries to test the back-end based on the front-end inputs
• Developed system use cases by understanding business requirements and technical specifications
• Developed Base line scripts for testing the future releases of the application
• Involved in the preparation of Performance test plan with the team
• Assisted the team with daily QA tasks. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings
• Conducted Performance testing under off load and peak load conditions
• Retest the defects fixed and update the status in the database on a daily basis
• Designed the SQL queries to check the back-end information
• Created user acceptance test cases for the application under test with business users
• Executes the regression test suite to identify the unexpected side effects
• Executed the user acceptance test cases closely with the business users
• Worked closely with the documentation team to ensure that the content of the user manuals are meaningful and correct
• Worked closely with the development team and other team members to review the design
• Communicate application readiness on time to time basis and testing results to project team
• Created quality assurance checklists for the application under test.

Environment: HTML, XML, .Net, JAVA, JDBC, JSP, SQL, XML, Manual Testing, QTP and Quality Center.

Confidential

Testing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identifying test scenarios, test cases using Functional specifications.
• Executing the Test Cases
• Logging the defects & classifying them based on the severity
• Performing Regression Testing
• Performing GUI, Functional, Integration and System testing.

Environment: VC++, JNI, JAVA, JSP, HTML, XML, VisualSourceSafe6.0, Manual Testing.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements.
• Performing GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing.
• Identifying test scenarios, test cases using Functional specifications and Executing.
• Logging the defects & classifying them based on the severity
• Reporting Bugs using Test Director

Environment: VC++, MFC, WinSock, STL, JAVA, XML, VisualSourceSafe6.0, WINDOWS 2000