SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of professional experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Development of various business applications.
• Extensive validation experience in Automation and Manual Testing of Database, Web and Client Server Applications, Java and Ruby development tool.
• Excellent validation skills in Black Box and White Box Testing.
• Specialized in Software Management, Analysis and Testing.
• Extensive experience on generating JMeter script for performance validation
• Successfully implemented Automation Frameworks (Data driven and Keyword driven) for QTP 8.2 and 9.0.
• Strong programming skills in writing automation test scripts using VB Script.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, System testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) & Smoke/Touch/Sanity Testing.
• Good experience on all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and various Software life cycle models (Waterfall, Iterative, V - Model).
• Proficient in Software Quality Assurance Testing Client/ Server and Web based applications.
• Expertise includes preparing and executing software Validation/Test Plans and user requirement analysis, testing and implementation of Test Cases on various systems.
• Experience in automation tools like QTP, WINRUNNER, LOADRUNNER and Silk Test.
• Excellent functional knowledge in Financial, Mortgage, Insurance, Banking and Telecom industries application validation
• Expertise validating on application servers and web servers.
• Validation experience using Mongo, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i/9i, MS Access and MS SQL Server databases and also experience in writing small scripts.
• Validation experience on Operating Systems like Windows and UNIX.
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills along with can - do attitude.
• Never hesitated in bringing up and implementing any new ideas & methods for improving the process or productivity either from within or from the team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Management: Rational Requisite Pro

Test Management: HP ALM (Quality Center) and Test Director

Defect Management: Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center and Test Link

Automation Tools: Selenium, QTP, WinRunner, IBM Rational tool

Performance Tool: JMeter

Databases: Mongo, Oracle 8.1.7, SQL Server 2000 and MS Access

RDBMS/Query Tools: MS SQL Server, DB2 and Toad

Scripting Languages: HTML, DHTML and JavaScript

GUI Tools: VB 6.0, Developer 2000 and XML

Change Management: Rational Clear Case, MS Visual Source Safe, PVCS Tracker

Operating Systems: Windows family and UNIX

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java and J2EE

Browser Testing Add-ins: Firebug, REST Client, Modify Headers and YSlow

Others: MS Project and Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owner to understand the business requirements, create user stories and assign to a team
• Preparation of Test Cases, Test Execution and Test Results Validation/Reporting
• Reporting the Defects found to the intended groups through HP ALM (Quality Center) and later migrated to Jira
• Validation/Execution involves testing various ShopYourWay brand pages like Adam, Nicki, Health etc.,
• Communicating with business SMEs and the UAT team throughout the testing life cycle
• Developed automation framework using web drivers and validate QA, and Prod env
• Created performance scripts using JMeter JMX files
• Manage a team of 32 members and 3 Leads, gauge their performance and review deliverables.
• Test Management processes like estimation, allocation, strategies, risk analysis
• Defect analysis and Status reporting on weekly basis
• With highly client recognition on domain knowledge and also Involved in recruitment process

Environment: JMeter, Selenium, ECOM, Mongo, JIRA, IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IPad, Mobile and Jira, Agile, HP ALM (Quality Center), IBM Rational tool

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis of the Functional and Technical Specification Documents
• Preparation of Validation/Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Execution, Test Results Validation/ Reporting
• Reporting the Defects found to the intended groups through Jira
• Understand XML schema and critical data mapping
• Validation/ Execution involve testing various batch/ETL jobs, stored procedures and data stage jobs.
• Develop automation framework using web drivers and validate QA, Pilot and Prod environments on need basis
• Manage a team of 20 members and 4 Leads, gauge their performance and review deliverables.
• Test Management processes like Estimation, Resource allocation, test strategies, risk analysis and management using Microsoft Project Plan.
• Defect analysis and Status reporting on weekly basis
• With highly client recognition on domain knowledge, Involved in recruitment and provided KT to SHI (Sears Holdings India) team
• Worked on major modules like SPIN, WCS7 migration etc., from requirements analysis till production validation
• Lead key module of DataStage Conversion to TALEND

Environment: Selenium, ECOM, DB2, JIRA, IE6.0 & 7.0, MOZILLA, DB Visualizer, FileZilla, UNIX, Jira, XML, ETL

Confidential, Houston, TX

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis of the Functional and Technical Specification Documents
• Preparation of Validation/Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Execution, Test Results Validation/ Reporting, Bug Tracking and Closure
• Reporting the Defects found to the intended groups through Quality Center
• Business Analysis with client regarding up coming projects
• Validation on testing re-usability by planning for automation process
• Manage a team of 11 members and 2 Leads, gauge their performance and review deliverables.
• Test Management processes like Estimation, Resource allocation, test strategies, risk analysis and management using Microsoft Project Plan.
• Defect analysis, Status reporting on weekly basis
• Closely interacting with OCCB team (Operation Change Control Board) i.e., release management.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, ClearQuest, Quality Center 9.0, Junit, IE 5.0&5.5, Agile methodology.

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis of the Functional and Technical Specification Documents
• Preparation of Test Plan, Manual & Automated Test Cases, Test Execution, Test Results Reporting, Bug Tracking and Closure
• Preparing and presenting Automation Demos to various clients and ensure they understand the leverage of employing QTP for end to end automation
• Proposal and preparation of Automation Frame Work adhering to the best practices
• Planning & implementing the automation test script development schedule in accordance to the scheduled releases
• Experience of Mainframe system to view/modify benefit holds and update their life events/ business rules and validate the updated in OAB database
• Verification involving the data flow across HoBs and Web Applications
• Developing Automation test scripts to suit for multiple environments and any specific modularity
• Good use of Query Tool to query for the complex data required in cross application testing
• Experience on various Insurance Protocols like GMDB (Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit), GMIB (Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit)etc.
• Ensuring the Data Quality across the HoBs, Web and Database
• Development of automation scripts for Re-Reporting process on CSR Admin Tool and test the functionality for a huge population.
• Reporting the Defects found to the intended groups through Quality Center
• Enhancing the automation test scripts to suite for the new code changes every release
• Tuning the automation test scripts to optimize the execution time & performance and also making the scripts more release independent

Environment: Mainframe, Quality Center, OAB, SQL, Win XP, Quality Center 9.0, QTP, IE 5.0&5.5.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involving in Test Requirement Analysis using Functional Specification document & Counterparty Mapping Specifications documents.
• Participating in Business Walkthroughs to understand change in Business functionality and its Impact.
• Preparation of Master Test Strategy, Test Sets & Test Cases for different functionalities across GUI, Backend & Integration in Test Director 7.6
• Estimation of the QA Resources, Time and Effort.
• Performing Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality testing involving Positive & Negative testing, Integration testing and Regression testing
• Implemented Keyword Driven Framework for QTP 9.0
• Preparation & Execution of Automation Tests on QTP 9.0 to test the Web console
• Performing Back End testing using SQL
• Reviewing the Test cases prepared and Test results obtained by team members
• Casual Analysis and Reporting of the Defects
• Providing adequate Test Metrics to analyze the current level of testing maturity and predict the future trends resulting in an improved test effectiveness
• Scheduling & managing regular Defect Triages to ensure that the Development team, Business team and the QA team are in sync.

Environment: QTP 9.0, C# .Net, SQL, XLCube, Win XP, Test Director7.6, IE 5.0&5.5.

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involving in analyzing System Requirements and developing Test Plans for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Execute Manual and Automated test cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Involve in User Acceptance and System Testing.
• Conduct Database Testing using SQL Queries.
• Write Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Used Bug Tracking System (BTS) for Reporting Bugs.

Environment: Win Runner7.5, Visual Basic, Oracle 8i, Ms Word and Data Reports, BTS.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing System Requirements and developing Test Plans for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Executed Manual and Automated test cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Conducted Database Testing using SQL Queries.
• Written Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Utilized Bug Tracking System (BTS) for Reporting Bugs.

Environment: ASP, SQL Server, Java Script, J2EE, VB Script, IIS and HTML.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing System Requirements and developing Test Plans/ Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing
• Executed Manual and verified actual results with expected results
• Involved in User Acceptance and System Testing
• Conducted Database Testing using SQL Queries

Environment: VB 6.0, C, C++, Oracle 8i and Crystal Reports, Test Director.