SUMMARY

• 8 years of diversified experience as a Senior QA Lead in various areas in Web Based and GUI based client/server applications Manual Testing, Automation Testing, System Integrations Testing, End - to-End Testing, Test Data Management & Business Process Testing
• Experience in developing Test plans, defining Test Cases, designing Test Strategies, developing and maintaining automated test scripts, analyzing errors and applications. Strong Experience in Quality Assurance, Automated testing using HP Quick Test Pro, Back End Testing (Database Testing) using TOAD, Oracle and SQL-Developer by using SQL.
• Professional domain experience in Telecom and Media - Entertainment domain.
• Experience is developing scripts for Manual / Automation test scripts and test procedures..
• Experience in preparing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Reports and test documentation and can comply with your established processes, can maintain strict adherence to your guidelines, policies and procedures
• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation Excellent Knowledge in Agile, V- Model and Waterfall methodologies.
• Testing expertise includes Formulation of Test Assets, Strategies, Test environment setup and Test data management & setup, Implementing Test Standards
• Expertise in Agile methodology with Scrum Process for the product development
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in analyzing requirement, writing functional test cases, creating test scenarios, executing tests scripts and analyzing test results.
• Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule.
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Experience in design, implementation, maintenance and execution and result analysis for Functional automation test scripts in Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP) and extensive usage of Quality Center / HP ALM for test management and defect management.
• Experience in Descriptive Programming for developing QTP Scripts.
• Experience in performing different kinds of testing like Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black-box testing and Compatibility testing.
• Extensive experience in Data Base testing using TOAD and SQL-Developer for Oracle and DB2.
• Excellent experience in backend testing on Oracle and written SQL/PL SQL queries.
• Experience in testing Web Services using SOAP UI tool.
• Good Familiar with all DWH tools like informatica, Business Objects, Cognos.
• Expertise in ETL/ELT methodologies for Supporting Data extraction, Transformation and loading process using Informatica.
• Expertise in Validating Cubes/Universes, Reports and Dash boards by using Reporting tools likeCognos.
• Experienced in working with business analysts, development groups in analyzing business specifications and in Working with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Good Communication, Interpersonal skills and strong Team player with proficiency Confidential time management, multitasking, able to meet deadlines and handle changing priorities

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, V - Model & Water Fall model

Automation Functional Testing Tools: HP QTP (Quick Test Professional), Selenium

Web Services Testing Tool: SOAPUI, Para soft SOA Test Tool

Performance Testing Tools: Knowledge in IBM RPT (Rational Performance Tester)

Test Management Tools: HP QC & ALM 11.0

Database Tools: Oracle PL SQL

Database Validation Tool: TOAD for Data Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Sr Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed business requirement documents, technical requirements and functional specification of various functionalities.
• Conducted and involved in meetings and walkthroughs with users, developers and Business Analysts to gather information about business process.
• Prepared detailed Test Plans and Test Cases which specify testing overview and testing approach depending on the Business and Technical requirements.
• Created and executed the Test plan, Test Cases, Automation Test Scripts, and Test Steps for all the modules and stored in HP Quality Center.
• As a Quality Analyst responsible to plan and priorities of daily and weekly deliverables and status update to QA Manager and Project manager and actively participate in team meetings, status meetings and work progress meetings.
• Worked on Agile Methodology framework with respect to the change in application requirements so as to achieve the target in stipulated time.
• Involved in the test enhancements, issues tracking and issues resolution fixes in the production environment.
• Involved and trained offshore team to improve QA process and establish strong QA Team.
• Took part in the creation of QA metrics and Graphs to help the top management to keep update with the QA Team progress.
• Performed of Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing/Back-end testing, Black-box testing, UI Testing, Cross Browser testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing of Complex SQL and PL/SQL queries in DB Tool SQL Developer.
• As a part of Database testing, extensively used SQL queries to verify database table in the backend using SQL Developer.
• Involved in creating and executing SQL using SQL Developer to create test data and validate the results Confidential the back end.
• Developed Test scripts on application using QTP to perform Regression and Functional testing.
• Inserted GUI checkpoints, Database Checkpoints, Text checkpoints and Bitmap checkpoints in QTP using VB Script.
• Identified defects, bottlenecks, data errors and integration problems and have done regression testing using QTP to enhance the performance before application launch.
• Involved in identification of Test data for the ETL Process that BI produces the report for.
• Created the shared object Repository and Used the Object repository manager tool to merge the object Repositories created for different modules.
• Created Action Parameters to use the parameter values that have been passed from external Action.
• Created Recovery Files using Recovery Scenario Manager, associated the recovery scenarios to tests to instruct QTP with specified trigger action on unexpected event/popup.
• Involved in Web Services testing during a part of Interface / E2E Testing to verify data flow from one Application to another Application.
• Used SOAP UI Web Services tool for testing Web Services, inspecting WSDL files, generating SOAP envelopes, and automating or accelerating many other common XML development tasks encountered when developing Web-Service enabled applications.
• Experience in Defect Tracking, Report generation and requirement tracking throughout the test life cycle using HP Quality Center.
• Involved in Production Planning and Implementation check list meetings / reviews.
• Involved in GO-NO-GO meetings and presented the Issues/Defects list to management.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed business requirement documents, technical requirements and functional specification of various functionalities.
• Prepared Detailed Test Plans and Test Cases which specify testing overview and testing approach depending on the Business and Technical requirements.
• Prepared and provided test status reports to the management on system status, system changes, problems and potential impacts.
• Involved in the test enhancements, issues tracking and issues resolution fixes in the production environment.
• Preparing and reviewing the Test cases for all functional Requirements in HP Quality Center.
• Conducted meetings and walkthroughs with users, developers and Business Analysts to gather information about business process.
• Involved in Agile methodology with Scrum Process for the product development.
• Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirement's documents, test plans and test lab.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing/Back-end testing, Black-box testing, UI Testing, Cross Browser testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Database testing by executing SQL queries using TOAD tool.
• Extensively used SQL, PL/SQL to do Database testing and validating the front-end functionality with back end of application.
• Design and development of automation test scripts by VB Scripts to the identified Regression Test Cases in Quick Test Pro (QTP) tool and executed the scripts in Regression phase.
• Extensively Worked with Object Repositories, functions, data tables and descriptive programming Language in QTP.
• Modified the Automation scripts by inserting check points to verify the object properties.
• Executed automated test scripts for various test scenarios using QTP.
• Execution of automation test scripts in batches using Quick Test Pro Batch Runner.
• Experience in defect tracking system and bug life cycle using HP Quality Center.
• Worked with developers by updating the defects and resolving them and tracking the status.
• Involved in Production Planning and Implementation check list meetings / reviews.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the System Requirements, Functional requirements and Business Requirement Documents.
• Preparing Test Strategies, Verification & Validation of system requirements, designing documents, analyzing Functional Specifications and Use Cases.
• Attended meetings with Business Users, Business Analysts, and Developers.
• Involved in Estimation of the Testing efforts based on the duration and Risk Areas of the project.
• Performed Manual testing extensively using Positive and as well as negative scenarios.
• As a Quality Engineer responsible to plan and priorities of daily and weekly deliverables and status update to QA Manager and Project manager and actively participate in team meetings, status meetings and work progress meetings.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Sanity Testing, Database Testing/Back-end testing, Black-box testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirement's documents, test plans and test lab.
• Bugs reporting, reviewing and Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
• Worked with PVT ( Production Verification Test ) for checking the code deployment
• Worked with UNIX environment