SUMMARY:

• Seasoned QA professional with 12 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance/Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Project Management, Client Management, Offshore - Onsite coordination, Implementing Process, Defect Management, Defining Test Strategy, best practices, and methodology.
• Managed and provided technical solutions for multiple QA Projects in geographically distributed teams. Demonstrated ability to plan and execute projects, and manage human and material resources including cost and risk tracking.
• 12 years of IT experience spanning in Manual Testing, Automation and Project management.
• Currently working as onshore offshore coordinator at Milwaukee,USA on
• Responsible for planning, providing technical solutions and managing multiple concurrent projects in different technology/functional streams.
• Responsible for coordinating the transition status for different projects and reporting it to the management.
• Extensive experience of Automation testing including Planning, coding and designing framework using SilkTest.
• Good knowledge of Functional testing process including System Test Plans, Test Strategy, Requirement Gathering, Test Cases, Defect Reports, Test Reports, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Data preparation.
• Good knowledge of Regression Testing, UAT, and Smoke Testing.
• Good knowledge of test effort estimation, task estimation and resource management.
• Work experience in different SDLC Model like Agile and traditional waterfall model.
• Experience in Publishing, Health Care and Banking domain.
• Managed multiple project in different geographies of onshore and offshore
• Involved in providing organizational s on SilkTest
• Participating in organizational activities like recruitment and Performance appraisals
• Good communication skills and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Macintosh OSX/Panther

Languages: C, C++

Tools: Silk Test 2009, Silk Radar, QTP 9.0, Win Runner, VSS, Vault

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Test Analyst Senior

Responsibilities:

• Working as onshore off shore co-coordinator for 25 personnel QA team at offshore.
• Responsible to provide technical solutions along with planning and managing manual and automation testing and software delivery activities for an assigned application portfolio.
• Develops and executes project plans outlining project scope, activities, schedules, deadlines and cost/time estimates.
• Manages the team of personnel assigned. This includes career planning, setting objectives, conducting performance reviews and performance management.
• Meets the timeline, quality and scope requirements of testing and development projects.
• Ensures applications meet appropriate quality standards.
• Adheres to the testing and client delivery process standards; set up processes wherever required and makes process improvements.
• Assigns project team members to various project activities.
• Manages project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress proactively to ensure project goals are achieved. Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed.
• Coordinates activities and tasks among project team members, other internal departments and client organizations as needed to meet project goals.
• Liaise with onsite client manager for project status.
• Providing guidance to team members on technical and other issues.
• Involved in setting automation environment, scripts execution using SilkTest and QTP.
• Involved in creating TAFFY automation framework.
• Help develop automation coding standards to ensure consistently strong quality and performance

Tools: Quality centre 10, QTP, SilkTest, Sharepoint.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage the testing efforts from offshore
• Evaluate potential risk & plan mitigation in test preparation or execution phase
• Estimate the testing effort for different release cycle
• Liaise with onsite leads and client managers for Daily and weekly status
• Create the Test Execution report
• Implemented the project quality process, calculate & publish project metrics
• Plan & manage resource ramp up
• Participating in discussion with BA, Developers on Requirements & Defects
• Onsite assignment: Took KT and high level scope document preparation

Tools: Quality centre 10, QTP, SilkTest, Sharepoint.

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed manual testing of version 4.0,4.1 and 4.2 is in progress
• Managed QA Project Deliveries from Noida GDC
• Resource Management
• Conducting Performance appraisals and individual development review
• Managed client calls and discussion with Development, product and other stakeholders.

Tools: Quality centre 10, QTP, SilkTest, Sharepoint.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Automation Team Lead
• Involved in automation Test Planning, creating automation framework, preparing automation standard, guiding and mentoring the team on automation tools
• Involved in imparting SilkTest to QA
• Involved in automation on Macintosh platform using Eggplant
• Involved in hiring automation expertise in Quark.

Tools: Quality centre 10, QTP, SilkTest, Sharepoint.

Confidential

Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for manual testing of Quark Rights Manager
• Responsible for confirming, thrashing and filing bugs.
• Responsible for demonstrating testing processes and standards followed in Quark.
• Communicating with Development, SCM, WWPS and Localization teams.
• Involved in functional, ad-hoc, configuration and regression testing.
• Using the bug tracking system of Silk Radar to report and regress bugs. new team members on product functionality.

Tools: Quality centre 10, QTP, SilkTest, Sharepoint.