SUMMARY

• 9+ years of IT experience with focus on QA and testing of web based and Client - Server applications, Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and testing life cycle.
• Over 5 years of experience in Automation Testing as a Sr Automation Engineer & Automation Consultant along with being responsible for high quality deliverables involving Package testing and Implementation / Roll out over chain wide retail stores.
• Specialized as a Automation Consultant and working as a Test Lead with responsibilities which includes co-coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting, issue / risks escalations, Identifying automation scope within project and outside of the project Confidential account level.
• Professional experience in performing all types of testing Functional & Non-Functional, Installation, User Acceptance Testing, browser compatibility, Regression, Scalability, Exploratory testing, End-to-End testing.
• Strong Experience of Automation on QTP 11.0 and good exposure in Load Runner 11.5.
• Strong Experience in Backend Testing using SQL.
• Scripted and executed automated test scripts with automation tools like QTP.
• Experience in Agile Software Process using Scrum methodology.
• Installation & Configuration builds on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Experience of Domain Knowledge in Retail, Pharmacy, Telecom, Loyalty.
• Used Quality Centre,Visual Source Safe, Version ONE.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies (Waterfall/ Prototyping/Iterative/V Model, Agile), Requirements analysis, Designing Test Plan and Test Cases, Test Cases Review, Preparation of test data, Execution of test cases and Bug Tracking.
• Involved and helped business users for designing User Acceptance Test (UAT) Plans and User Acceptance Test (UAT) Scenarios.
• Expertise in all types of Test Documentation: Test Strategy (Manual & Automation), Integration/System/Regression Test Plan, Test Exit Reports, Test Summary Report, Reporting metrics like Defect Aging, SSD, Testing Dashboard, Presentations.
• Sound knowledge of project management concepts. Involved in Request for Proposal, Due Diligence, and Preparation of proposals, Planning, Estimations, Resourcing, and Statement of Work, Knowledge Management and Risk Management, ROI for new project acquisitions.
• Good understanding of the CMM Level 5 Processes followed Confidential organization, involved in recruitment process of new joiners and providing training to make them productive for project delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Win 8/ 7/ Vista/XP/98, UNIX

Browsers: IE 6.0/7.0/8.0/9.0 , Mozilla Firefox 2.0/3.0

Programming Languages: VB Scripts

Database: SQL server 2008, DB2, Oracle 11g

Query Language: SQL

Tools: & Technology: Quality Center 11.0, QTP 11.0, Load Runner 11.5, Visual Source Safe, Version One, NMON, HP RUMMON

Packages: PDX EPS, Retailix R10, RGP, NGenPOS, MS-Office 2003/2007 (Visio, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Microsoft project plan).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MPLS

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review Program Test Strategy and update for lessons learned.
• Create Functional Test Plan and obtain management approval
• Test Project and Test Phase Kick-offs
• Coordinate Traceability Matrix & Approval
• Coordinate with Business to identify UAT selection
• Coordinate definition and setup of test data
• Coordinate setup and maintenance of test environment
• Cross Project Test Coordination
• Test Environment Requirements
• Test Deliverable Approvals
• Schedule and Facilitate Defect Review Meetings and manage defects using Quality Center.
• Confirm Phase Entrance and Exit Gate requirements are met.
• Conduct meetings with Vendor & business people to understand the application & end user expectations in better way
• Communicating the schedule and expectations to the team involved
• Performing all types of testing (functional, installation, acceptance.
• Acting as intermediate between business & Vendor / QA teams
• Review developed test cases and facilitate external review with Tech Leads & Business.
• Prepared & uploaded documents into SharePoint site
• Reporting of the testing status, including which tests have been completed and which need to be retested and maintenance of a tracking log to capture test failures
• Facilitated UAT testing across the teams & helped other teams to understand application.

Environment: - Quality Center, Mainframe applications like CSL / SPAM/OTEP, Retailix R10 package & Retailix Global Pyments Package (SAAS), BAMS, VANTIV

Confidential, MPLS

Performance Automation Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Defining QTP - Load Runner Automation approach and scripting framework
• Performance Testing environment setup for QTP - Load Runner communication
• Co-ordinating performance testing activity with TCOE
• Gathering NFR’s from business and analyses with vender
• Identify applications focus area for performance
• Identify testing and monitoring tools and co-ordination with Capacity management & Infrastructure team for various support
• Review test scenarios and test scripts developed by TCOE
• Create workload distribution and pattern for Load, Stress& Soak test
• Execution of custom build Injectors to test ECC & Open LDAP communication with package
• Perform Load testing, Soak testing and Stress testing for results validation
• Identify performance bottlenecks in releases and inform stakeholders
• Analysis and Generation of Performance testing report
• Provide employee coaching and mentoring
• Facilitated QA Test Plan reviews meetings attended by members of Product, Development and Senior Management.
• Analyzed pharmacist day to day activity through database, to prepare effective performance test scenarios

Environment: - QTP 11.5 Load Runner 11.5, Quality Center 11.0, BMC Perceive, NMON.

Confidential

QA Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participated in business, client and status meetings
• Reviewed Functional and Design Specification documents.
• Analyzed business requirements for each sprint and developed Detail Test Plans, Test Strategies for functional testing.
• Leading team of testing resources.
• Co-ordinating with offshore team for day to day activities.
• Communicating with business user and help BA’s for gathering requirement for new enhancement or improvement in the application.
• Involved in review of test scenarios & test cases written by team
• Working on agile methodology of software development using Version One tool.
• Co-ordinating System and Regression testing from offshore.
• Co-ordinating performance testing activity with TCOE & team
• Trained team on Load Runner 11.5
• Gathering NFR’s from business and analyse with team
• Helped team to write new & modify existing VuGen scripts using Load Runner 11.5
• Co-ordinating for production collecting performance data with HP RUMMON tool
• Functioned as the point-of-contact during the defect tracking process
• Attended defect resolution meetings with the development teams and worked towards bug resolution
• Participated in UAT Testing activity with business users to get Sign-off for production deployment

Environment: - Java, J2EE, Version ONE, Load Runner 11.5, HP RUMMON

Confidential

Automation Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leading team of 3 automation and 5 manual testing resources.
• Communicating with client and gathering requirement for any new enhancement or improvement in the application.
• Analysing the requirement for RX, prescription, PSE, PSC and IC+.
• Working on new automation script development in HP-QTP 11.0.
• Smoke and Regression testing through HP-QTP.
• Framework migration from existing to RAFT
• Batch maintenance of existing test suits.
• Performing System, Regression, Ad-hoc, E2E (end to end testing).
• Regression Clean up and export test cases from xls to QC.
• Effective utilization of Quality Centre 10.0 for reporting and managing testing life cycle.
• IL logs verification.
• Daily coordination with on-site and offshore activities and status reporting to the client.
• Helped performance testing team in creating VuGen scripts and creating scenarios
• Provided training on Load Runner 11.0 to offshore team
• Helped various teams to analyse execution reports & graphs
• Participated in business, client and status meetings
• Reviewed User Manual & help documents Prepared a document that helped customer to understand the functionality of the application.

Confidential

Test Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding Functional Requirements Specification.
• Test Planning of the interfaces for wholesale ordering management system.
• Managing a team of 4 test engineers and interface with development engineers and managers successfully.
• Co-ordination with the on-site team for Knowledge transfer and understanding new interface.
• Interaction with the client regarding change request Impact.
• Creating tasks for a team of testers.
• Created Test Scenarios & Test Cases from the business requirement document and technical specifications document.
• Design and Execution of test cases to carry out GUI, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Review of developed tests and suggest necessary Changes.
• Participated in the Daily issue meetings.
• Using Quality Center for complete defect management and reporting.
• Making effort estimation using Client Template.
• Preparation of Conditions, Test Scripts and prepared automation scripts using QTP9.2
• Using Keyword-Driven framework for automation.
• Preparing data before the start of the Execution Phase.
• Involved in weekly interaction with on-site team about status for individual Change Requests.
• Regression testing for all the change requests and an overall regression for each release.
• Preparing test results document and Status reports for the release.

Environment: - Mainframe, Java, Oracle 10g with QMF, HP QTP, Mercury Quality Centre

Confidential

Module Lead - Testing

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding Functional Requirements Specification.
• Involved in functional study of the Application.
• Preparing and execution of Full suite of Test cases.
• Involved in Integration, Functional and regression Testing.
• Status Reporting for the Test Runs and Bugs are stored in Bug Tracking.

Environment: - Windows XP, Win 2k, .Net, Arc GIS

Confidential

Test Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding Functional Requirements Specification.
• Involved in functional study of the Application.
• Reviewing & writing Test Scripts based on Functional Specification and executing the same.
• Maintaining traceability spreadsheet for tracking the coverage of functionalities.
• Performing Functional Testing, Regression, GUI Testing and database testing.
• Preparation of Test Conditions, Test Scripts and prepared automation scripts using QTP 8.2
• Using Keyword-Driven framework for automation
• Interacting with developers to address and resolve technical problems.
• Coordinating with the Development team for defect analysis & logging defects in Test Track Pro.
• Documenting and communicating test results.
• Working with SCRUM methodology of software development.
• Status Reporting for the Test Runs and Bugs are stored in Bug Tracking.

Environment: - J2EE, XML, Test Director

Confidential

Test Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding Functional & Non-functional requirements and identifying gaps
• Involved in GUI, Functional, Regression and Load tests for the System.
• Developed automated scripts for Functional Regression Testing using QTP 8.2.
• Bug Reporting was done under using custom bug reporting templates built in-house.
• Gathering non-functional requirements and creating VuGen scripts
• Creating scenarios and defining load strategy for Ramp-up & Ramp-down virtual users
• Running VuGen scripts for baselining as well as load & stress testing
• Providing reports & graph to various stakeholders for analysis.
• Reporting bottlenecks and re-execution of VuGen scripts after tuning is done
• Status Reporting for the Test Runs and Bugs are stored in Bug Tracking.

Environment: - Java, XML, MY SQL, Mercury Quality Centre 9.0, Load Runner 8.0