SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of experience in Information Technology as a QA Analysts TD/QC Application Engineer, QA Analyst and Lead in web and client/server applications.
• Experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) various methodologies - Waterfall, Agile and Scrum, creation & execution of manual & automated test scripts for Web Based, Client Server, Selenium, Python, Selenium IDE, QTP
• Advanced knowledge of HP manual & automated testing tools, Test and defect management tool Quality Centre (ALM) and QTP 11.0/ UFT for Functional & Regression Testing.
• Expert in writing and executing Test Plans, Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), Test Cases and Test Scripts from Requirements, Use Cases, Design Documents and other project documentation.
• Proficient in performing various types of testing, including Functional like Black Box, Adhoc Testing, Exploratory Testing, UI, Usability Testing, Integration and System Testing by various testing tools.
• Knowledge of SQL Server & Oracle environments to query and manipulate data for data validation, manipulation and verification by SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experienced with automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional and Selenium.
• Quality to coach and mentor other QA Team/Engineers in writing good & smart test cases & defects, and application of quality principles.
• Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including project plan development, test strategy development, test plan development, test case & test data review, and test automation.
• Very good in scheduling, planning for the releases, builds, and patches for the QA testing worked with multiple releases simultaneously in QA environment.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with time-sensitive deadlines.
• Excellent troubleshooting and technical support abilities.
• Quick learner and able to grasp new ideas. Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.
• Highly dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Centre/Test Director, CDET, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Eclipse, QTP 11.00, UFT, HP ALM, JIRA

Languages: C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, JSP, Junit, .NET, JavaScript, VB/VB Script, Web Services, HTML, XML PYTHON

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005/2008, MongoDB

Operating System: RHEL 5.x/6.x, Sun Solaris 8.x/10.x, Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7

Browsers: Internet explorer 7/8, Mozilla Firefox 10, Chrome 15,16, Safari 6/7

Documentation Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS-Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston

Sr. Integration Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed User Stories and created test scenarios & test cases based on various use cases drawn from User Stories.
• Developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Test strategy, Test Scenario, and Test Reports.
• Closely worked with product owner and scrum teams in various discussions ranging from backlog grooming meeting, sprint planning & daily scrum meetings.
• Configured continues integration system for performing build, deployment & running smoke, sanity testing on test servers.
• Performed tests for Functionality and Infrastructure validation for various cloud and non-cloud applications.
• Scheduled a lot of meetings with application teams and stake holders to go through the requirements for the infrastructure project.
• Created test plan for performing various performance validations to test resiliency, availability, failover and fail back on various cloud and non-cloud applications.
• Elicit requirements effectively related to cloud infrastructure for various applications.
• Model and document requirements needed and communicate the same with the stakeholders and application teams.
• Analyze the time constraints to perform infrastructure testing for various applications prior to going to production and making sure that all applications have considerable knowledge on the test requirement and test the applications.

Confidential, NJ

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Results, Estimated the hours for the project for the enhancements
• Organized the daily standup meetings with offshore team to discuss the progress of the enhancement and review the submitted defects.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios, Requirement Traceability Matrix, and Test Cases during the Test Design Phase.
• Configured continues integration system for performing build, deployment & running smoke, sanity testing on test servers.
• Performed tests for Functionality, Security, GUI, API, End to End, System, Configuration and Backend.
• Created automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver using Python
• Created test plan for performing various server performance validations to test memory, CPU utilizations on various server instances.
• Create test automation for performing load generation to validated and identify server capacity using j-meter.
• Create automation script to perform data validation in various business flows such as Product & inventory management, Order & fulfil management using python scripting.
• Worked on server side service validation and debugging for various problems ranging from null pointer exception to different http error codes, by looking at logs in different UNIX servers.
• Created test automation framework for performing cross browser compatibility testing on various operating systems.

Confidential, NY

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed QTP Test Plans, Test Case design using HP ALM.
• Developed hybrid automation framework that integrates between QTP (UFT), QC (ALM) and external data sheet the drove keywords and data inputs.
• Created Automation Execution Strategy that laid out a work plan and engagement model for both the, manual and automation team during automation executions.
• Developed process for onsite offshore co-ordination, status reporting, artefact’s review, test data development, shakeout testing of front end applications
• Worked in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirement and features set.
• Involved in Sprint testing, Planning, Review using Scrum process that process payment.
• Involved in preparing the Test execution summary and bring up the Risk/Issues well in advance for proper planning
• Functional, Regression test scripts executed using QTP scripts
• Maintained scripts and performed data driven regression testing through QTP
• Participated in process improvement for the Testing Centre of Excellence.
• Optimized Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Extensively used SQL query statements to verify the data integrity and validation between the front-end values with the backend database values of the application

Confidential, Milwaukee WI

QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as a Test Management Lead in managing Manual and Automation test teams both at onsite and Offshore and estimation planning of resources in the team based on the scope of work.
• Requirement Analysis and maintaining Requirements Trace matrix and Preparation of Test scenario /Test Cases /Test Data, MS Team Site is used for maintaining the documents
• Quality Centre is used for test case preparation, test case execution, report generation and defect tracking for the Agile Testing Process.
• Executed System integration testing/Regression Testing using agile methodology.
• Defect Management and Test Execution in Quality centre/Test Summary Preparation
• Project Planning and allocating resources and tracking project progress.
• Effectively reduced the testing cost by more than 50% by using automation of the manual test scripts for the sprints in Regression testing and also for Multilanguage testingFacilitate Defect report meetings periodically.
• Assist in managing, report and tracking defects inHP ALM.
• Created and executed SQL queries against Oracledatabase compared the results and analyzed discrepancies.
• Participated in bug triage meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the testing life cycle.
• Maintained strong working relationship with teammates and management staff.
• Coordinated day-to-day activities with team members.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Regression, System Integration, User Acceptance and Configuration testing for web-basedE-Commerce Application.
• DevelopedQTP Scriptsfrom scratch usingDescriptive Programming.
• Collected and analysed site effectiveness metrics to identify usability issues and recommend solutions to enhance user experience.
• Created test cases and Automated them usingQTP.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data through data driven testing in QTP.
• Involved in executingSQL queriesto verify database was updated.
• Met on-time delivery expectations and exceeded satisfaction levels

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Test Cases were written and executed for Functionality/Globalization/Localization testing.
• Tested localized build on a test server and performed regression in agile environment.
• Resolved web services-related defects in production using various tools like XML Soap UI
• Performed white box testing on application written in Java.
• Testing and Certifying the fixes for issues found/small enhancements requested by Line of Business in Production
• Assessed current manual QA processes and made recommendations for enhancements.
• Document QA methodology for both manual and automated testing initiatives
• Lead the testing efforts for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Understanding the existing Automation Framework and created new functions required for new automation scripts using QTP
• Involved in review of Automation scripts developed by other team members.
• Managing the test scripts and test results in HP Quality Centre/ALM
• Interacting with multiple onsite client teams to resolve technical related issues

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysing and understanding the Business Requirement provided by the client for the project and preparing test scenarios for the same.
• Creating and executing complex scenarios, Test Requirement, Test Scenarios identification, Test case preparation, Test data preparation, Test case reviews and approval etc.
• Analysing work requests from Onsite.
• Reporting the progress of the Project on a Daily/ Monthly basis to Team Leader and Onsite Counterparts.
• Involved in Integration testing, Regression Testing, UAT Testing, execution of Test cases, capturing, reviewing and analysing test results.
• Raising the defects, tracking for its closure and preparation of defect report.
• Attending weekly project checkpoint meetings and addressing issues related to test activities.
• Met on-time delivery expectations and exceeded satisfaction levels

Confidential

Software Game Tester

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated all game programs for flaws and issues on both computer and mobile phones.
• Identified bugs and prepared reports for designers and management.
• Assessed game and network functionality on a regular basis.
• Assisted with online game monitoring as required.
• Collated and analyzed data to identify game issues and potential bugs.
• Conducted game tests to determine long-term functionality.
• Identified glitches, freezes and errors in a variety of games.
• Examined controller pads for functioning and durability.
• Identified and reported character flaws and graphic gaps.
• Worked on different mobile phones and operating systems
• Prepared and submitted test finding reports to design and management teams on a regular basis