PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• More than 10 years of experience in IT industries including Software Testing and Quality Assurance
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Planning, Development and Testing
• Strong understanding of Confidential ’s Enterprise Testing Methodology (CETM) and Enterprise Delivery Framwork (EDF)
• Experienced in Test Strategies, Test methodologies, Test Planning, Test Scenarios, Test Case writing, Test Coverage Matrix, Test Execution Plan, Testing and Defect tracking for manual and automated testing
• Develop and execute test cases for various types of testing such as GUI, Functional, Cross Browser, Smoke/Sanity, Integration, Data - driven, End to End, User Acceptance, Regression and Systems testing
• Experienced in reviewing and understanding Business/Solution Requirements Document, Functional Specification and Interface Agreement documents
• Experienced using various modules (Dashboard, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defect) of HP QC/ALM, as well as the other testing tools such as SOAtest, HP QTP, Jira, VMware
• Experienced in testing Text Data File Interface Testing (e.g. XML, HTML, Flat Files) Web Services (SOAP/XML/WSDL) using Parasoft’s SOAtest
• Comprehensive knowledge of testing web applications, test methodologies, and tools
• Participate in development, execution and maintenance of automated scripts (QTP and custom solution developed by test automation team)
• Experienced with End to End testing for a complex project where multiple application from different LOBs were involved.
• Experienced with Oracle and SQL queries and tools such as TOAD for Data Analysts, familiar with Object Oriented Programming concepts
• Experience working in an Agile and waterfall project environment.
• Experience with testing in multi-tiered consolidated environments.
• Ability to communicate proficiently with strong problem solving and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, able to prioritize tasks and workloads in order of importance
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a very fast pace environment
• Strong experience creating concise and clear reports for distribution and presentation to senior management on a weekly basis. Experience monitoring and tracking implementation plans.
• Ability to encourage, motivate and provide recognition, able to motivate and lead others in a team environment
• An ability to build rapport and trust quickly with colleagues, different LOB within an organization and internal & external partners
• Proven track record of delivering results with deadlines
• Demonstrated leadership skills with proven ability to manage, train and over look near shore and offshore resources; acted as a SME to help them with their queries
• Solid interpersonal skills to develop positive working relationships with internal partners and external vendors
• Maintaining cordial relationships between cross functional teams like development, configuration management, program management, product managers etc.
• Ability to lead the team, work under pressure and meet deadlines, strong decision making and problem solving skills
• Strong analytical skills to assess situations and make informed decisions quickly
• Experience working with various payment file types Wires (MT101, CMO103, ISO 20022), EFT (80 / 1464 byte), ACH (NACHA), eTransfer etc.
• Supported an application under the warranty after the production implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Manual Testing: Test Planning, Testing Suitability Analysis, Traceability Matrix, Test Case Creation and Execution, Test Execution plan, Defect reporting & tracking

Test Management Tools: HPQC Quality Center/ ALM, Jira

Test Automation Tools: Parasoft’s SOAtest/ Virtualize, HP QTP Quick Test Professional, Selenium

Relational Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 2005/2008 queries, MS Excel, TOAD

Languages: C#, VBScript, Java, HTML, .Net, XML

IDE: Visual Studio 2008, Team Foundation Server

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, Blackberry, iOS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Others: SharePoint, Live meeting, WebEx, SIEBEL, Mainframe applications (e.g., COINS, ECIF), VMware, MS Office Applications, Visio, Tivoli

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Business / Solution Requirement Reviews and contribute to a Testing Suitability Analysis for the Solution Requirement documents to influence the quality of the requirements from a testing perspective.
• Contribute to the creation of Test Strategies, Test plan, Suitability Analysis, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, end to end scenarios and Test Execution Plan
• Support, train and manage the efforts of near shore and offshore Test Analysts and Testers
• Upload test cases and requirements in to HPQC, map test requirements to various test artifacts, prepare a test lab, assign a test cases to the testers according to the test execution plan
• Prepare a burn down chart; Develop test preparation, execution, and variance tracking reports that provide the required metrics to senior management.
• Scheduling and chairing daily variance meeting for defect management and to provide testing status updates to all stakeholders.
• Contribute to the creation and seeding of test data, test execution as needed during the testing cycle.
• Preparing detailed test plan, test scripts and test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements. Expertise with Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing, Expertise testing the application on data driven testing to test the application UI.
• Improving specification and design documents through active review and feedback with developers.
• Working with the development team to create a suite of test data (both input files and expected results) that fully exercises data validation. schedule the tests for execution and then monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM,SOAtest 9.7,TOAD for Data Analyst, Windows 7, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle, SQL, Putty, WinSCP, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Business / Solution Requirement meetings, Reviews and sign-offs.
• Completed project Risk and Scalability assessment, test plan and suitability Analysis.
• Participated in daily Agile POD and SRD meetings as a voice of QA team.
• Participate in Technical Design Reviews and contribute to a Testing Suitability Analysis for the Technical designs to determine testability and scope of testing
• Responsible for conducting Function Point Analysis for test effort estimation and attending Project meetings and other meetings for department initiatives when required.
• Walkthrough Business and other internal groups to explain test coverage against the requirement, work closely with different stakeholders.
• Responsible for the resource planning and estimation.

Environment: PSH, HP Quality Center/ALM,SOAtest 9.7,TOAD for Data Analyst, Putty, WinSCP, Unix, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, SQL, IE 11, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a Testing Suitability Analysis for the Solution Requirement documents to influence the quality of the requirements from a testing perspective.
• Responsible for conducting Function Point Analysis for test effort estimation and attending Project meetings and other meetings for department initiatives when required.
• Participated in daily project meeting with PM, business, solution team and vendor to review progress of the project and resolve any blockers.
• As a SharePoint administrator - Obtain and store all project related documentation in SharePoint site where it can be accessed and cross-referenced by all the team members
• Budgeting or forecasting for testing as a service dependent on organizational process
• Working with all stake holders to ensure that the quality metrics is reviewed, closed and agreed upon
• Providing technical expertise to the team, e.g. proper use of test techniques in appropriate cases involved in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM,SOAtest 9.7,TOAD for Data Analyst, Windows 7, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle, SQL, Citrix, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Walkthrough Business and other internal groups to explain test coverage against the requirement, end to end scenarios and work closely with different stakeholders to ensure minimum efforts with maximum coverage of the functionalities under test.
• Responsible for managing a team, planning activities, creating test plan, requirements Traceability Matrix and standard templates (Daily status, defect status, defect process etc.)
• Preparing detailed test plan and test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements.
• Responsible for creation of project plan, defining QA tasks to be done and estimating times for those tasks.
• Performing test data set-up in XML for testing and update test data based on the requirements.
• Preparing status reports and defect reports for daily status meetings and sending them to all the stakeholders of the project
• Responsible for attending to any environment related issues that arise during testing
• Analyze Interface Agreement document to configure and use Parasoft’s SOAtest and Virtualize to automate web request and responses
• Upload test cases and requirements in to HPQC, map test requirements to various test artifacts, prepare a test lab, assign a test cases to the testers according to the test execution plan, open and track the defects, generate various reports for the management.
• Prepare a test regression package in HP QC/ALM
• Responsible to prove guidance and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM,SOAtest 9.7,TOAD for Data Analyst, Windows 7, Unix, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle, Putty, WinSCP, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the creation of Project suitability analysis, Test Strategies, Test plan, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, end to end scenarios and Test Execution Plan
• Walkthrough Business and other internal groups to explain test coverage against the requirement, end to end scenarios and work closely with different stakeholders to ensure minimum efforts with maximum coverage of the functionalities under test
• Lead Sit/UAT Test activities including creating Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases and project test executions for highly complicated financial applications
• Expertise with XML web services to test the functions in SOAP and validate the output against the Confidential bank accounts against the database.
• Coordinating the Offshore/ Onshore team with respect to QA activities
• Expertise with testing various services to validate data for Smoke testing,
• Identifying and logging defects if a test fails, if necessary, using SQL to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation by the development team and log accordingly.
• Expertise working with Database tools generating SQL queries for checking the Data.
• Experience testing the application to validate the functional flow of the business logic on Open systems and Main frames.
• Validating data from different database tables and executing the source queries from workflows.
• Contribute to the creation and seeding of test data as needed during the testing cycle.
• Reporting defects in ALM and generating reports for the daily status meetings
• Maintain database of generic test, user-specific test and production IDs for use by testers in SIT/UAT testing. Ensure that IDs are maintained current with valid passwords and appropriate entitlements by user role

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM,Parasoft Virtualize,TOAD for Data Analyst, Putty, Windows XP/7, Unix, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle, Putty, WinSCP, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing detailed test plan, test scripts and test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements.
• Expertise with Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing and UAT testing.
• Working with the SME and development team to understand the Business logic and create test scenarios for validation.
• Expertise working with Database tools generating SQL queries for checking the Data.
• Participated in writing HLS (High Level Scenarios), Test plans, Test scenarios and Test cases, software documentation from business and functional requirement.
• Tested the web application for multiple logins and verify unauthorized accesses.
• Contribute to the creation and seeding of test data as needed during the testing cycle.
• Contribute to the creation of Automated Test Cases as needed
• Contribute to the execution of PreSIT, SIT and UAT
• Prepare a burn down chart; Develop test preparation, execution, and variance tracking reports that provide the required metrics to senior management.
• Scheduling and chairing daily variance meeting for defect management and to provide testing status updates to all stakeholders.

Environment: HP Quality Center/ALM,SOAtest,TOAD for Data Analyst, Windows XP/7, Unix, VB Script, Java, XML, MS Excel, MS Word, IE/Chrome/Firefox/ Safari, Oracle, SharePoint, Live meeting

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Create Test Scenarios, Test cases, traceability matrix according to the business requirements
• Used HP Quality center for Planning, Executing, Generating various status, defect reports and Bug Tracking
• Responsible for conducting software quality assurance and regression testing
• Responsible for generating SQL queries; modifying, preparing diagrams and flow charts required for testing
• Responsible for tracking errors and update the report to the team lead for resolution
• Participated in walkthroughs and Defect report meetings periodically

Environment: JIRA, SQL, Java, .Net, Windows 9X, Unix, MS Excel, MS Word, Web-ex, Selenium