SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of QA experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Adept at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression
• Worked in an agile environment. Have good knowledge of JIRA and Sprint process.
• Develop use cases, user interface specifications, and user requirement specification documents.
• Worked with the developers and product owners to triage the bug using JIRA.
• Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Superior analytical, troubleshooting, communication and presentation skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation & Defect Test Tools: HP - BTO (Mercury) Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center10.0, Test Link, Selenium with Ruby, LISA tool

Programming Languages: VBScript, SQL 2000/2005/2008 , Ruby

Relational Databases (RDBMS): MS SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access, People Soft CRM

Other Tools: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Team Foundation Server, ER Studio, Crystal Reports, Business Objects

Other Skills: Competent knowledge of the following: Agile (SCRUM), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Black/White/Grey Box testing, Unit Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Negative Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Sr. Systems Analyst /QA Lead

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created (PSE team - part of YMS team) TestNG framework using Selenium for UI testing, LINUX shell script runs and also for SQL connect and pulling data to compare against baseline values.
• Worked on parsing the data from the logs using grep commands and validating it using the framework.
• Validated the logs from Nateeza database using TestNG framework.
• Created processes for PSE team to use JIRA for project tracking.
• Created dashboards and Kanban task boards to track the workload and requirements.
• Created dashboards for RTM and for project management.
• Created test flow using LISA tool from Confidential .
• Self-trained on LISA and trained the onshore and offshore team to get up to speed on LISA.
• Have good knowledge of complex XML files and Oracle DB.
• Ran regression, smoke test and end to end testing on complex xml files using manual process and also using LISA.
• Created automates test flow for component testing.
• Created documents for automation of the complex manual process.
• Using automation tool reduced the test time from 2 days to 5 mins.
• Developed test flow in LISA to do end to end testing of the complex XML files sent from the suppliers to make sure data sent to the test engineers meet the quality standards.
• Have knowledge of Java Script to script the functionalities that are not supported n LISA.

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created test scripts using Selenium with Ruby within the first 4 months.
• Managing a team of 6 team members both onshore and offshore team.
• Have good knowledge of Web testing and understanding the SOAP UI calls.
• Have good knowledge of understanding the log files to investigate the errors.
• Created documents for setting up the QA process and regression testing process.
• Created BVT to test the code before promoting to QA for testing.
• Worked with the product owners and end users and participated in user acceptance testing.
• Made sure QA team is on track with the Sprint velocity.
• Have good experience working in an agile environment and actively participated in grooming of requirements and bug triage on a daily and weekly basis.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans and test cases for assigned projects.
• Successfully implemented the automation framework from the ground up.
• Researched, evaluated and made recommendations regarding proposed automated testing tools to the senior management team based on budget, software test requirements, testing environment, proof of concepts, technical support, market influence, etc.
• Created and maintained numerous automated functional regression tests using QTP 10.0 from the ground up and delivered on time working within an Agile (SCRUM) process environment. Automated test suites/scripts were stored within our dedicated test repository under version control using TFS.
• Created test scripts using QTP to validate the SQL Server 2008 database. Validated the ETL/ SSIS packages for all the tables
• Led the automation test effort and mentored a automation team consisting of 3 additional QA automation engineers for creating automated functional regression tests using QTP 10.0 against web-based applications developed in VB.NET and Business Objects
• Developed test plans, test cases, and test evaluation summary reports for multiple projects (large scale) and effectively communicated the project’s QA status throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Worked directly with managers and their cross-functional teams to continually improve the processes throughout the life cycle of project.
• Attended several meetings with the Internal and External customers to gather requirements.
• Worked on creating Functional Specification document, Test plan and user training document according to FDA regulations for several critical projects.

Software QA Analyst/Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration, System and Regression Testing for Payroll Package that has the flexibility and diversity to cater to the most complex and unique payroll requirements across Central government departments.
• Performed extensive manual testing on critical functionalities of the application.
• Prioritized and reported defects using Test Director 7.2 to present documents and reports in weekly team meetings.
• Documented test requirements and test cases using Test Director
• Prepared Test artifacts like Test cases, Test Steps, Defect Reports, and Test Log for different components of the Mechanical Maintenance Information System which is intended to create a system wherein the MMU Engineers has the flexibility to store, search, view, download the print, enter and manipulate records, schedules, and technical details from their respective terminals.