SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in Functional and Non - Functional software testing of Web based, Client Server, Data Warehousing, Mainframe and backend applications
• Worked in domains like Finance & Banking, Insurance, Health care and Telecom.
• Over 8 years of experience in leading and managing a testing team including Estimation, Resource Loading & Project Revenue Budgeting, Forecasting, Invoicing.
• Having sound knowledge of Software Development/Test Life Cycle, Test Methodologies and Testing Processes and extensively worked on End to End testing including Requirements Analysis, Planning, Design, Application Deployment and execution of Smoke testing / BVT, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in working in V Model & Agile Methodologies.
• Have been producing high quality Test Plan, Test Strategy, concise and effective management reporting on defects, test status, risks and issues.
• Experience in end to end test management activities, client interaction, project deliveries and achieving project milestones.
• Strong in database concepts, SQL, MS SQL & understanding of PLSQL.
• Have experience in data warehousing testing with Microsoft technologies using SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
• Have experience of using Test Management, Defect Tracking & Configuration Management Tools - HP (Mercury Quality Center), Microsoft Team Foundation Server (Visual Studio), Visual Source Safe.
• Have experience of using test automation & performance/ load testing tool like Quick Test Professional, MS Visual Studio and Compuware QA Load, Vantage Analyzer, Performance/ memory analyzer of DevPartner.
• Have experience of setting up Test Environment, evaluation, configuration and setting up of various testing tools.
• Excellent communication skills, self-starter and able to work with less or no supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows NT/2000/Server 2003/XP WIN 8, UNIX, MS DOS. Linux

Languages: SQL, MS SQL, VB Script, Java Script, HTML, DHTML

BI (Testing): SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SSMS

Reporting Tools: MS Excel, SQL Server Reporting Service

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Visio

Test Management & Defect Tracking Tools: HP (Mercury) Quality Center, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (Visual Studio), MS Product Studio, MS Test Manager, Compuware CARS, Jira, Bugzilla.

Configuration Management Tools: Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, SharePoint

Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional

Security testing Tools: Burp Suite, Tamper Data, Fiddler, MS Visual Studio, Eco Mirage, WebInspect

Performance & Load testing Tools: Vantage Analyzer, Performance/ memory analyzer of DevPartner

BUSINESS DOMAINS: Banking & Finance, Insurance/ Health Care and Telecom.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering/ understanding and producing high quality test plans, test strategies, associated test ware documents and support processes for the execution of tests at the project level
• Functional/ GAP testing
• Weekly Meeting with client on Project Schedule including Project Schedule Communications,
• Drive/ attend External Sourcing meetings, PM Huddle Meeting, Gap Review Meeting,
• Project Schedule Creation, Updates & Follow ups, Onshore Status Meeting,
• Work with offshore counterpart to keep the financial dashboard information up to date and all applicable organizational process are followed, Billing PMO meeting,
• Timecard Tracking, Review & Approvals, Generate client's Timecard Report, Upload data in the timesheet & billing system. Invoice creation and review of offshore invoice.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Providing accurate estimates, resource loading for a number of parallel, dependent and complex activities.
• Involved in requirements gathering/ understanding and producing high quality test plans, test strategies, associated test ware documents and support processes for the execution of tests at the project level.
• Creation & utilization of metrics, processes and tracking reports to measure, drive forward and quantify ongoing improvement across all areas:- scripting, execution, defect processing etc
• Offshore team management & co-ordination.
• Leading & review of creation of data base level validation cases. Cube level validation cases, report level validation cases.
• Test environment preparation & configuration.
• Deployment in SI environment & deployment support for UAT & PROD environments including log verifications & BVT/ smoke tests.
• Execution of system test cases at UI & database level through SQL queries, SSMS & comparing data through Excel pivots, SSRS reports and SSAS Cubes.
• Dtsx package execution using Visual studio.
• Defect triage.
• Management reporting on defects, test status, risks and issues.
• Project Schedule Creation, Updates & Follow ups
• Work with offshore counterpart to keep the financial dashboard information up to date and all applicable organizational process are followed, Billing PMO meeting, Timecard Tracking.
• Generate client's Timecard Report, Upload data in the timesheet & billing system. Invoice creation and review of offshore invoice.
• Involved in client interaction, business meetings and sprint meetings (Agile model)

Environment: .NET 4.5, SQL Server 2012, WIN 8.1, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Functional, front end GUI & backend testing.
• Creation of Test Plan.
• End to end test management including estimation, planning, tracking & reporting.
• Review of BRD & analysis of requirements, system test case review & creation of various matrices.
• Application deployment & test bed preparation.
• Application security testing which includes SQL injection, Server-side validation, Authorization and Authentication.
• Application code profiling for performance testing & Load testing.
• Attending Defect Triage & business meeting and clarifying functional understanding of the team.
• Attending process audit meetings.
• Team management & client co-ordination

Environment: .NET, MSNQ, Crystal reports, Oracle 10g, Windows server 2003, XP.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the QA team and coordinating with multiple teams comprised of IT, Vendor and Business
• Closely working with the Project Manager and the rest of project team to ensure quality deliverables and adherence to timelines,
• Scheduling testing activities of resources and leading testing efforts & day to day Team management activities.
• Overseeing Testing of all modules
• Involved in Analysis of requirements and change requests & Test planning.
• Application security testing which includes Cross site scripting, SQL injection, Server-side validation, Authorization and Authentication.
• Performance testing using MS Visual Studio
• Defect tracking using Product Studio/Team Foundation Server.
• Status reporting, maintaining different test matrices and providing sign off.
• Co ordination between development team (Another vendor) and testing team.
• Application deployment which includes database, web server and notification services installation.
• Interactions with the client.

Environment: .NET, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a talented team of Senior and Junior QA analysts and coordinated testing activities
• Reported directly to QA Manager and Lead the analysis of Business Requirement(s), preparation of the testable Requirements from the Business requirements Specifications documents.
• Created and updated the master Test Plan.
• Involved in the preparation of the Functional, Integration, Detailed and End to End Test Cases. (Both customer & core versions).
• Reviewed the Test Scenarios & Test Cases with BA and key project resources.
• Responsible for configuring of the Application Server Integration Setup for testing.
• Testing included scenarios related to Defining protocols, setting up Trading Partners, Defining Agreement and then Deploying Agreement
• Lead the preparation of the Traceability Matrix from the Functional and Technical specifications to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Involved in performing & execution of the Functional, Integration and GUI, System, Regression and User Acceptance tests.
• Involved in the Integration testing as part of connecting the applications and checking the flow of data on these applications placed on different systems
• Drive daily Status Meetings to oversee testing progress.
• Lead Defect status calls and communication with in-house and vendor developer teams.
• Attended team meetings with PMO and provided high level status.
• High level Incident Tracking & Reporting of Bug Reports to upper management, using Quality Center and Test Log for the team.
• Providing Test Signoffs
• Post Go-Live maintenance testing, Upgrades and managed testing to support Change control

Environment: J2EE/EJB, Oracle 9i, Windows XP

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of automation test scripts.
• Execution of test scripts using an automation framework and analyzing the result.
• Identifying critical & regression business scenarios to be automated.
• Point of contact for application functionality understanding.
• Scheduling of work to script development team & monitoring the progress.
• Creation of executive test report manually & using MQC.
• Updating test reports in SharePoint.

Environment: J2EE/EJB, Oracle, Windows XP.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Checked the set of accounts for each verification cycle in Mainframes for valid bank ID, product and sub product codes. Also web enabled/disabled required accounts.
• Pre-conditioned each set of accounts. Preconditioning includes access manager preconditioning, money movement preconditioning, nicknaming accounts for viewing history.
• Verified the preconditioned accounts during different phases of conversion.
• Worked very closely with the Users for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to understand real time data.

Environment: J2EE, .NET, IBM Mainframe, under Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and Change Product Specifications and developed Test Plans.
• Tested the front-end for user interaction and validated user input from Web Pages to backend.
• Execution of system test cases in the test lab of Mercury Quality Center’.
• Regression testing & Aggressive adhoc testing.
• Raising trouble reports and defect tracking using ‘Mercury Quality Center’
• Retesting of defects in ‘Ready for retest’ status.
• Review of test reports.
• Updating internal status report.
• Generating various reports/graphs in MQC to track the progress of test case execution.
• Analyzed all the bugs reported by the testers and Interacted with Vendor Developers, Users and Business analysts to prioritize, and resolve defects.

Environment: J2EE, .NET, IBM Mainframe, under Windows 2000/XP

Confidential

Module lead.

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA team in Development of Standard Testing Procedures and Test cases for manual testing of the application.
• Updating and maintaining test case matrix, traceability matrix.
• Sending offshore status report.
• Interaction with client’s Test Analyst/ Lead regarding day to day issues and functional understanding.
• Generation of test scripts using ‘Mercury Quality Center’
• Execution of system test cases, review of test reports.
• Raising trouble reports and defect tracking using ‘Mercury Quality Center’.
• Re-test of production and warranty items.
• Test data conditioning in the backend using IBM mainframes,
• Identifying business scenarios for UAT testing.

Environment: J2EE, .NET, IBM Mainframe, under Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Execution of system and UAT test cases.
• Defect tracking using Test Director.
• Interaction with client regarding day to day issues.
• Preparing and sending the daily status report of test execution to the client

Environment: J2EE, .NET, IBM Mainframe, under Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Test Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test cases.
• Execution of test cases manually and using Winrunner.
• Defect tracking using Bugzilla.
• Regression and adhoc testing.
• Preparing the daily status report of test execution, designing product demo and training to end-users.
• Participated in post-delivery support.

Environment: Java 2.0, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Oracle 8i under Windows 2000.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test cases.
• Execution of test cases manually and using Winrunner.
• Defect tracking
• Preparation of help file for the application.

Environment: Java 2.0, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Oracle 8i under Windows 2000.