SUMMARY

• A Software Testing Professional with experience of 7+ years in Functional, Automation & Mobile Testing.
• Functional Testing experience in Web Based (Exception Pricing Management, Online Banking) and Mainframe Banking Applications like: (Service Charge Analysis systems, Escrow and Sweep Systems, Check Reconciliations, Positive Pay and Reverse Positive Pay)
• Automation experience in Automation feasibility analysis, Scripting, Framework and Execution of mainframe and web based applications using QTP.
• Mobile testing experience in Mobile Banking application on Handheld (Android, iPhone and iPad Devices) and via Device Anywhere.
• Extensive experience in End to End Testing Process: Requirement Analysis, Test Plan preparation, Test Case Preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management, Reporting, Retesting and Test Completion Report preparation.
• Very good experience in eliciting requirements, defining test plan/ test strategy/Test management/ Defect Management.
• Have successfully executed testing of projects using waterfall as well as agile methods.
• Well versed with SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Extensive experience in banking (Consumer and Commercial) applications with very good communication skills.
• Can co - ordinate efficiently for projects operating with Offshore-Onshore model.
• Well versed in using Quality Center and ALM (Application Testing Life Cycle Management) for the testing and reporting activities.
• As a Test Lead, involved in test estimations, task allocation, review, team management and test metrics reporting activities.
• Participated in training sessions for the end users during the Implementation Phase and was part of Pilot testing. Also contributed in the creation of user manuals.
• Good organization and time management skills.
• Very analytical and have good problem solving capabilities.
• Ability to deal with and manage changes that are encountered during the course of the project.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Complimented in customer interaction and received appreciations at various levels.
• Very good leadership skills and drives the team to meet testing deliverables of high quality.
• Good interpersonal skills for interactions with the client and the team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP/NT/95/98/2000, Mainframe

Languages & Testing Tools: QTP & VB Scripts; Device Anywhere Mobile Testing

Test Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, Application Management LifeCycle (ALM)

Database/Utilities: SQL,MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Share point

Domain Knowledge: Consumer Banking, Online Banking, Mobile BankingCommercial Banking, Positive Pay, Escrow, Sweep, Service Charge Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting
• Define the Test Strategy
• Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Identify Training requirements and facilitate the same.
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Identify the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Engage the team in analyzing business requirements.
• Create test plan & requirement traceability matrix.
• Engage the team in writing test cases and review test case preparation
• Perform data setup.
• Conduct Smoke Testing on various builds and OS of different devices.
• Execution of test scripts using Android, iPhone & iPad Devices
• Drive Execution of test scripts using Device Anywhere from offshore.
• Test execution review.
• Log defects, Defect Management and attend defect calls.
• Perform GUI, Functional, System-Integration and Regression testing
• Reporting test metrics to the client managers
• Working with the developers to figure out the root cause and record all the testing activities in QC/ALM.
• Preparation of Test Completion Report.
• Ensuring content and structure of all the testing artifacts are documented in SharePoint Tool.

Confidential, RI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Determine objectives of test, scope, timelines, resources, environments and deliverables.
• Test Planning and Preparation & obtain necessary approvals.
• Perform automation feasibility
• Automation of the feasible scenarios using QTP and Macros
• Perform data setup and Test execution.
• Defect Management and attend defect calls.
• Analysis and reporting of defect information to assist management with risk management, process improvement and project management.
• Reporting test metrics to the client managers
• Working with the developers to figure out the root cause and record all the testing activities in QC/ALM.
• Preparation of Test Completion Report.
• Ensuring content and structure of all the testing artifacts are documented in SharePoint Tool.
• Support Implementation and Production validation.

Confidential, East Providence - RI

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attending discussions with Requirements Team and Design team on various Project issues via Conference calls, meetings, informal discussions etc.
• Impact analysis and requirement analysis.
• Test Planning and Preparation & obtain necessary approvals.
• Perform File Transmissions through GIS Systems
• Coordination with the interfacing teams for running batch jobs.
• Perform the validations on the Mainframe and TSO.
• Defect Management and attend defect calls.
• Analysis and reporting of defect information to assist management with risk management, process improvement and project management.
• Reporting test metrics to the client managers
• Working with the developers to figure out the root cause and record all the testing activities in QC/ALM.
• Preparation of Test Completion Report.
• Ensuring content and structure of all the testing artifacts are documented in SharePoint Tool.
• Support Implementation and Production validation

Confidential, East Providence - RI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project carried on Agile Methodology in small iterations.
• Coordinated with Business users in analyzing the Business requirements.
• Reviewed Work flow charts with the functional requirements and participated in developing the Work flows with the Application Coordinators.
• Engaged the team in writing Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test Cases, in accordance to the Business requirements, Use Case, Technical Design Specifications.
• Created Standard Templates to use by the team for creation of various testing artifacts.
• Created QTP Tool to perform repetitive action in Test Data Creation
• Team management & Work Allocation and reviewing the test artifacts.
• Performing GUI Testing, Functional, Regression, System Integration Testing (SIT) System
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Executed test cases in various builds for different cycles.
• Perform automation feasibility
• Automation of the feasible end to end scenarios
• Logged Defects in ALM and actively involved in Defect Tracking meetings.
• Defect Resolution - Work by the development team to prioritize, schedule and fix a defect, and document the resolution through weekly bug walkthrough calls.
• Process Improvement - Identification and analysis defects perform RCA and identify process for defect prevention and implant validation process to identify the defects earlier.
• Management Reporting - Analysis and reporting of defect information to assist management with risk management, process improvement and project management.
• Test metrics reporting activities.
• Preparation of Test Completion Report.
• Participated in Training Sessions for the end users
• Contributed in documenting User Manuals.

Confidential, East Providence - RI

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client Interactions in understanding the applications,
• Preparing RKT documents for the applications for future reference,
• Support Execution of the available test scripts.
• Perform Automation feasibility of the applications being transitioned.
• Identify the Automation framework to fulfill the requirements of the automation feasible applications
• Attending discussions with Requirements Team and Design team on various Project issues via Conference calls, meetings, informal discussions etc.
• Analyze change requests, create test plan, create requirement traceability matrix, write test cases, perform data setup, execution of test scripts and report the status to the client record the testing activities in Quality Center, Automation of Regression scripts using QTP,
• Conduct sessions on QTP Automation and VB Scripting for the new team members.
• Identify Regression test scripts frequently executed,
• Perform Automation Feasibility Analysis on the Regression scripts,
• Customizing the Automation Framework or Developing a new framework,
• Mentoring Team Members on the usage of VB Scripting & Automation,
• Tracking automation progress and resolving issues of the team mates.
• Preparation of Test Completion Report.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the business process through Use Cases, Work Flows and Functional specifications
• Analyzed the business and functional requirements of the application and developed detailed test scenarios and test cases in Test Director.
• Coordinated and communicated the whole QA effort by effectively working with different teams.
• Conducted Smoke Testing on new versions.
• Performed GUI, Functional, System-Integration and Regression testing.
• Performed database testing using SQL.
• Participated in writing user documentation for the applications
• Involved in the documentation of the complete testing process
• Involved in meetings for preparing test plans based on Software Requirements Document (SRD).
• Developed the test cases to test functionality, interface of the application from the Requirement Document.
• Tests were planned and managed using Test Director and performed Manual Testing.
• Assisted developers with the test files and test data.
• Executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Track defects and work closely with Project Manager and developer to resolve the defects based on their priorities.
• Used Test Director to store all testing results and metrics
• Prepared defect report using Test Director and analyzed the test results.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression & Automation
• Prioritized the reported defects and prepared test status documents and reports for
• Weekly team meetings.
• Conducted Automation Regression testing on various builds of the application
• Developed and maintained SQL scripts using Toad to test Database.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the business process through Use Cases, Work Flows and Functional specifications
• Analyzed the business and functional requirements of the application and developed detailed test scenarios and test cases in Test Director.
• Creation of automation scripts using descriptive Programming.
• Execution of Automation scripts.
• Reporting execution status.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirement
• Developing the code
• Independent Unit testing
• Integration and System testing