SUMMARY

• Seven years of experience in Software Quality Assurance with automated and manual testing with extensive knowledge in Web Based and Client - Server applications.
• Qualified Bachelor of Engineer and Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
• Adept at the preparation of design document and development, implementation, support and knowledge in domains like Retail, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Credit Rating and Content Management
• Well versed with all levels of STLC, SDLC and BLC.
• Develop tools using common commercially available programming languages and environments to facilitate testing activities and responsible for maintaining and upgrading programs.
• Planning and tracking high quality tests to achieve objectives in cooperation with the customer and supporting them on how to best achieve the required objectives.
• Adhering to best practices for Requirements analysis and detailed preparation of Test Cases/Scripts via Structural setup for Test Artifacts and reviewing of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Cases and Data.
• Identifying faults and working with developers for Defect Resolution and Fixation.
• Impact Analysis, Problem Solving Skills and ability to recognize Application Architecture.
• Efficiently implemented Black Box and White Box testing
• Static and Dynamic Analysis
• Hands on experience working with the leading automation tools - HP Mercury Suite Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Mercury Quality Center (QC).
• Enhancement of automation infrastructure for global execution and responsible for regression testing using Quick Test.
• Skills in building accelerators using VB scripting, macros, perl, Regex, ANT etc
• Expertise Skill in Review and analysis of Test Management and planning, Test Automation, execution and Defect tracking and reporting.
• Business requirements reviews, Defect Triage meetings, and training sessions.
• Defect tracking via Bugzilla, Watson, Mantis, JIRA, QC
• Involved in Automation, functional, Database, Cards, Webservices, Build Preparation and configuration, UI, System, Integration, End-to-End, Regression and Browser compatibility testing and Supporting UAT testing.
• Co-ordination with cross functional teams.
• Strong communication skills and coordinated testing efforts for major testing projects interacting with on-site and offshore teams.
• Worked in Onsite-Offshore Model coordinating testing tasks and efforts, resolving impediments and streamlining process flow.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Watson, Mantis, JIRA, QC

Testing Tools: Automation Tools (QTP 9.2 & 10 & Silk Test), VBScript, Regex, PuTTY, SOAP WebService, Test Managment, Perl, Python, ANT

Platform Known: Solaris 10x, Linux, Windows, MS-DOS

Programming Languages: C, Java, VB 6.0

RDBMS: MySQL 5.0, Microsoft Access, Oracle (8i/9i)

Web technology: HTML, XML

Web Server: Apache Tomcat 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• QTP scripts (Hybrid Framework) and functional library implementation.
• Conducting Proof Of Concept (POC) to determine automation coverage for different applications, test plan and estimation.
• Determine and design the automation framework for an application.
• Designing Batch Suite with an user guide document that guides the member of the QA team and method of analyzing the Test Results with samples.
• Error handling and debugging the Scripts via dry run and bulk execution.
• Enhancement of automation infrastructure for global execution and responsible for regression testing using Quick Test.
• Updating and ensuring the compliance of scripting standards.
• Participation in functional user story reviews and designing Test Strategy / Plan, detailed Test cases and traceability matrix to verify the test coverage.
• Test planning and tracking
• Webservices testing, transaction processing and Debugging
• Requirement and Defect analysis with feature leads and making process driven decisions.
• Estimate work tasks to ensure delivery by agreed timescales
• Execution of test cases in accordance with department defined test plans and procedures, build regression smoke test and analysis i.e. (Perform root-cause defect analysis)
• Doing immediate quality control of the tests to ensure problems are quickly detected and immediately address. P articipation in Triage and peer review meeting interacting with the developers to resolve the issues.
• Organisation and participation in meetings with project teams and engaging the product management and development team leaders for roadmap and layed expectation, removal of impediments and detailing on components subjective to clarification, generation of MoM's.
• Creation of documented defect reports for anomalies found during test procedures.
• Develops ways to improve productivity, while at the same time ensuring the integrity and clarity of test results.
• Assist with pre and post production support activities as needed
• Coordinated on-site and off-shore test efforts for managerial reporting.
• Broadcasting test execution reports for defect tracking on daily and weekly basis

Environment: SOA architecture, Web Services SoapWSVCTool, PuTTY, Editors, HP Quality Center

Confidential, NY

QA - Lead (Manual & Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Planning testing effort estimation, milestones and timeline scheduling, Metrics and measurement and tracking test coverage.
• Requirement Analysis and Review, Document Review and Correction approval
• Co-ordinating QA activities in an Onshore-Offshore model, Organisation and participation in daily scrum meetings to discuss the accomplishments, issues (if any) and targets.
• Allocation of responsibilities, training, and organizing testing team efforts.
• Impact Analysis, researching, understanding and producing test-case scenarios that validate major functional subsystems, guiding team members, identifying and handling the risks.
• Direction in the tools, processes and use of quality metrics.
• Broadcasting of Weekly and Daily status reports as testing summary.
• Product Point of contact for defect status / resolution for the Development team, QA team and the users.
• Structural setup for Test Artifacts and reviewing of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Cases and Data.
• Querying SQL database for retrieval of expected values in order to validate AUT

Environment: Test Management and defect tracking tools, iTAP framework MySQL, QTP 11.5

Confidential, Springfield, Illinois

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• QTP scripts (Data Driven Framework) preparation and execution for functional testing of business process (Auto Insurance).
• Develop Parameterized, Descriptive and data-driven automated test scripts based on business scenario provided on excel datasheets using QTP.
• Compare actual and expected results by posting premium and related output back to excel datasheets for comparison
• Maintaining Object Repository, Error handling and debugging the Scripts
• Logging/Tracking Defects (HP Quality Center, BugZilla)

Environment: Dot Net 3.5, Duck Creek, SQL Server 2005 QTP 9.2, HP Quality Center, VPN, BugZilla

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functional, Database and Workflow metrics testing, Data Migration via TestLink - Managing/Executing/Regressing testcases
• Migrating data to new version of localization app Wordfast via Perl & Python scripts leverage
• Performance Tuning using WebLOAD (Webservices)
• Configuring platforms for build installation on variant platforms (like Solaris, Linux)
• Logging/Tracking Bugs (JIRA BugBase), Troubleshooting error logs, Fault diagnosis

Environment: Java, Servlets, XML, Solaris MySQL, Apache Tomcat, FTP

Confidential, San Jose, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing Regex for XML Query (XML API variant - DITA)
• Customization of ANT/Bat/VB scripts for automation, DIFF files and Tweaking
• Web testing (Link & HTML) and Browser compatibility - Automation using Perl script
• Static and Dynamic Analysis of XSLT code
• Scheduling/Regressing builds and Maintaining/Troubleshooting Client-Server issues
• Build preparation and configuration management via Perforce SCM system
• Logging/Tracking Bugs (Watson BugBase)

Environment: Windows, MAC, Joomla

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Silk Scripting using an in-house developed tool ‘ Confidential ’ for localization
• Logging/Tracking Bugs (BugZilla BugBase)

Environment: Windows, Silk Test Silk Testing Tool, Resource hacking tools, VMware, WorldServer, TechSmith SnagIT