SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of relevant experience in test leading inclusive of 6 years to deliver in agile teams and over 1.5 year as Scrum Master.
• Seasoned in preparing test strategy, test plans, effort estimations, schedule tracking and test reporting.
• Resourceful in creation, review, execution of test cases, test scenarios, defects reporting and tracking till closure
• Experienced in onsite and offshore coordination, mentoring the team and stakeholder’s management
• Highly experienced in system, integration, regression, user acceptance testing UAT
• Experienced in coordinating UAT activities by collaborating with various stakeholders
• Web services testing using SoapUI
• Over 3 years of experience in automation using Selenium and QTP
• Planning the efforts for releases by estimating user stories and scheduling them across sprints, tracking the delivery.
• Conducting sprint planning, retrospective meetings and demonstrations of final deliverables to stakeholders.
• Domain experience in financial derivatives, test automation, online advertisement, process instrumentation and banking.
• Managing the team throughout the Software Testing process.
• Leading the team for the creation of test plans, test cases, scenarios, and test execution.
• Allocating tasks based upon project requirements and skill set. Ensuring task completion as per timelines and adherence to quality process guidelines.
• Guiding team members, ensuring all parameters and performance benchmarks are met.
• Conducting team meetings to brainstorm positive & negative scenarios, with regard to business requirements
• Providing scope, resource and time estimates for testing projects
• Creating documents like traceability matrix, defect trend charts and metric reports.
• Providing test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management.
• Leading UAT activities for test planning, designing, execution, defects triage and updating user manuals

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 7

Languages: Java, SQL

Web Services: SoapUI

Agile Tools: JIRA Agile, HP - ALM

Test Automation: Selenium, Quick Test Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and efforts estimation.
• SIT planning, designing, execution, test reporting and triage
• Web Services testing using SoapUI tool
• SIT and UAT test coordination and progress reporting
• Defects reporting and triage till closure

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle Testing Tools: HP ALM, SoapUI

Confidential, Battle Creek

Global Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing processes, tool and solutions
• Designing of test strategy for the proposed solution
• Efforts estimation and tools selection
• Coordination between onsite, offshore and consulting teams
• Sprint planning, testing and defects management
• Product demo to various stakeholders

Testing Tools: HP ALM, JIRA AGILE

Confidential

Test Lead UAT

Responsibilities:

• User story analysis and efforts estimation.
• UAT planning, designing, execution for user stories
• Coordination with end users for review of test cases, test data, scheduling and test execution
• Defects reporting and triage till closure
• Demonstration of user story implementations to stakeholders

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle

Confidential

Scrum Master / Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• User story analysis and efforts estimation.
• Sprint planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Managing the scrum delivery by coordinating between product owner and scrum team.
• Status reporting to management and product team.
• Developed test scripts using Selenium Web driver, executed automated test scripts & analysed the results
• Demonstration of user story implementations.
• Proficient use of HP ALM to manage the software testing process
• Helping agile team to understand the requirements.
• Review the test artefacts and implementation of testing process.
• Review of developed features, test plans, test cases, user manuals
• Coordinate the sprint demonstrations

Environment: Java, J2EE, spring, IBatis, JQuery, Oracle

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the detailed project plan with specific milestones
• Managing project activities in order to achieve the progress in line with plan
• Deliverables are being completed in time to complete the tasks in planned cost targets and quality
• and mentoring for the team in order to achieve expected results
• Coordination and communication between various stakeholders across distributed team
• Managing changes to the project without adversely affecting the stated milestones and deliverables
• Timely reporting of project progress to the stakeholders

Environment: C#, Dot net

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• User story analysis and efforts estimation.
• Designing and review of test plans, test cases, user manuals.
• Defects reporting, review, prioritization and tracking
• Helping business users for writing and executing acceptance tests and defects

Environment: Java, Oracle

Confidential

Lead Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Had been responsible for conducting requirements analysis and efforts estimation.
• Managing and execution of testing activities inclusive of design and implementation of testing process, test plans, test strategies, test cases
• Development and execution of automated test cases using VSTE 2010.
• Played a pivotal role in defects prioritization and tracking.
• Facilitated recruitment and appraisals.

Environment: ASP.NET with C#, .net 4.0, NUNIT, Rhino-mocks

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• User story Analysis and efforts estimation.
• Sprint planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Managing the scrum delivery by coordinating between product owner and scrum team.
• Status reporting to management and product team.
• Demonstration of user story implementations.
• Developed the reusable functions in QTP using VB script.
• Automate some of the critical functionality using QTP scripts.
• Helping team to understand the requirements.
• Design and implementation of testing process.
• Review of developed features, test plans, test cases, user manuals.
• Development and review of automated test cases using QTP.
• Defects prioritization and tracking.
• Facilitate recruitment and appraisals.

Environment: Java, EJB, Db4o, Jboss, C++, COM, VB, C#, Web services hosted on Apache

Confidential

Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to Vice President-Testing Services and leading a team of 7.
• Managing Testing and QA activities inclusive of design and implementation of testing process, test strategies and test plans.
• Providing and mentoring to Team Members on testing processes and tools.
• Contributing to talent hiring & appraisals of team members.
• Merit of consistently delivering defect-free products (almost zero priority 1 production issues).
• Generated 6-7 leads, which were successfully converted into orders.
• Distinction of attaining Outstanding Performance grade from all the customers, without any complaints or concerns being reported.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the design and implementation of testing process.
• Maintaining coordination with Onsite Team with regard to change requests review, scope, issues and queries.
• Preparing effort estimates, test strategies and test plans. Designing templates for creating artefacts.
• Handling reviews of test cases, test scenarios and defects.
• Furnishing status reports on a regular basis to the Management.

Environment: C#.Net, SQL Server 2005, TFS (Testing tool)

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements, drafting proposal and mapping them with product features.
• Handling selection and review of test scripts developed in QTP 9.2. Designing test environment setup.
• Selecting and implementing test management and defect tracking tools.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Execution, Report Generation, and Defect Tracking.
• Coordinating sessions for review requirements understanding of Development and Testing Teams.
• Maintaining interaction with Development Team on requirements builds and defects fixing.
• Tracking and addressing defects to achieve product milestones. Implementing and tracking test plan.
• Developing product help manual and managing demo builds & environments.

Environment: C#.Net, MySQL; Testing Tools: QTP, Mantis

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the complete delivery of the quality products.
• Handling the set up of comprehensive testing process for organisation.
• Understanding and finalising business requirements from documents and application.
• Writing Test Requirements and plotting their traceability.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Execution, Report Generation, and Defect Tracking.
• Mentoring and guiding Customer’s Manual Testing Team to understand the testing process and write test requirements/ test cases.
• Identifying and designing Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Managing the development and review of test scripts using QTP.

Environment: C#.Net, Windows 2000 Server, Oracle

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designing different test documents like System Requirement Specifications, Test Strategy Documents, Functional Overview and Test Plan.
• Liaising with the client for understanding specifications and preparing estimates.
• Writing and executing test cases. Reviewing test cases written by Team Members.
• Reporting bugs using QC.

Environment: and tools: Environment: Java, J2ee, Jakarta-tomcat 5.0, and MySQL

Confidential

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with the client for understanding requirements, finalising estimates and specifications.
• Designing the Automation Framework. Writing Test Cases.
• Creating Test Scripts, Shared Object Repository and Functions in QTP 9.0.
• Reviewing Scripts written by the Team Members.

Environment: VC++, SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identifying Test Scenarios; and writing & executing Test Cases. Coordinating regression cycles.
• Reviewing Test Cases and bugs in Test Director and JIRA

Environment: ASP.NET, MS SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in ISO and TQM implementations.
• Erection & commissioning of control systems, handling the Troubleshooting, Loops testing & Programming of logic developed for PLCs like Allen-Bradley, Siemens, etc.
• Undertaking functional Testing, Fault Finding, Calibration and Testing of instruments.
• Maintaining smooth coordination with internal & external customers for ensuring smooth implementation of projects
• Programming Recorders, Controllers and Transmitters.