SUMMARY:

• Tweleve years of experience in the information technology field as a Software QA professional including test management of Applications built using Webservices based on Service Oriented Architecuture
• ERP Applications - Oracle e-Business suite, People Soft, and SAP. Enterprise Application Integrations (using EAI tools - Tibco, Seebeyond and webmethods)
• Data warehouse (Using Informatica) and Reporting (Cognos Reports and Actuate)
• Embedded Systems (Using C, C++ and VC++ )
• Mobile applications (tested iPad2 and iPhone 4G) web applications ( Using J2EE - EJB and Microsoft .net using n-tier architecture), Platforms Unix and Windows O/S
• Seven years plus financial domain experience
• Strong work experience in Black box testing - Functional, Regression, System, Integration and Performance testing
• Proficiency in Defect tracking, reporting, maintaining Defect Management tools
• Expertise in Writing and documenting Bug Reports,Test Plans and Test cases
• 6 + years experience in leading a team of upto 12 testers at onshore and offshore, ensuring deliverable of the team members are met in a timely manner
• Built a dynamic relationship with the client, development and marketing/sales departments to insure the highest quality deliverable possible and to deliver them on time
• Successful track record working closely with and maintaining excellent relationships with individuals, teams and departments
• Uncommon determination to provide exceptional quality assurance and testing services
• Extensive experience and good knowledge of SDLC, Software Engineering umbrella activities Software Quality Assurance, Software Configuration Management and Metrics
• Professionally Trained Internal Auditor and conducted internal audits in different departments - SQA, SCM, Release Management, Infrastructure, HR, Marketing and Purchase
• Prepared SQA Audit plans and carried out the audits successfully
• Defined and followed processes according to ISO standards and Quality Management System, experience in working CMM and ISO process environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: iTKO LISA, Quick Test Pro(QTP), Quality Center, WinRunner and LoadRunner

Middleware: Tibco, Business works, Designer, Smart mapper, SeeBeyond ICAN suite

ERPs: Oracle 11i, Siebel, Peoplesoft and SAP

Data warehouse and reporting: Informatica Power Center and Cognos Reports

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT, Windows 2003 and UNIX

Browsers: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 4.0.1 and Safari 5.0.5

Languages and scripting: Java, TSL, Shell, PL SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, SQL server 2005

Application Server: WebSphere, WebLogic

Web Technologies: JSP, XML, J2EE, Microsoft .net and C#

Concepts and methodologies: Computer system Architecture and Organization, Data structures, Software Engineering, Agile,System Analysis and Design

Configuration Management Tools: Microsoft Sharepoint and MicroSoft VSS (Visual Source Safe), JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lyndhurst, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain functional Integration, Platform, Security Testing and regression test plans using MS Project including QA tasks cost & time estimation
• Collect End user scenarios and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases
• Participate in requirements definition reviews and functional specification reviews to ensure that critical information is included and testability requirements are met
• Participate in production issues review meetings with business team
• Responsible for conducting QA entrance and exit criteria meetings with project stake holders
• Create integration test scenarios and tested application areas developed on SOA architecture and webservices
• Manage resource allocation & team members to design and execute test procedures
• Analyze customer defects to identify deficiencies in test plans and procedures, and enhance test overage accordingly
• Supervise team members who are developing new and improving existing test procedures for better test efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot software defects.
• Mentor software test engineers to encourage best practices and thorough testing of the application.
• Document software defects in OnTime defect tracking system and keep defect records up to date
• Responsible for testing progress meeting and sending testing status reports to Project Management team and Development Team
• Facilitate defect review meetings and improved existing defect management process, driven team to work in faster manner by reporting defects status.
• Proficient in SQL queries; use SQL queries to setup and validate test data
• Extensive experience testing web services and skillful in XML
• Domain knowledge in healthcare information and medical communications, serving healthcare professionals and the pharmaceuticals and biotech
• Manage onshore and offshore resources; provide project cost estimates

Confidential, NJ

Senior QA project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead project testing efforts following Scrum approach of Agile software development methodology
• Develop and maintain functional Integration, Platform, Security Testing and regression test plans using MS Project including QA tasks cost & time estimation
• Collect End user scenarios and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases
• Participate in requirements definition reviews and functional specification reviews to ensure that critical information is included and testability requirements are met.
• Participate in production issues review meetings with business team
• Responsible for QA entrance and exit criteria meetings with project stake holders
• Administrate test ids setup and maintenance using identity management tools.
• Create integration test scenarios and tested application areas developed on SOA architecture and webservices
• Manage resource allocation & team members to design and execute test procedures
• Define requirements for test tools and manage their implementation
• Analyze customer defects to identify deficiencies in test plans and procedures, and enhance test overage accordingly.
• Manage test lab resources and processes to allocate functional testing and to simulate customer production environments.
• Supervise team members who are developing new and improving existing test procedures for better test efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot software defects.
• Mentor software test engineers to encourage best practices and thorough testing of the application.
• Document software defects in defect tracking system and keep defect records up to date
• Responsible for testing progress meeting and sending testing status reports to Project Management team and Development Team.
• Responsible for Defect life cycle process, maintain and track Defects using Quality Center.
• Generate Defect reports using Quality Center API and SQL statements, on daily and weekly basis in the form of tables & Graphs using Microsoft Power Point, prepared associated action plans and documented, distributed across the various project teams.
• Facilitate defect review meetings and improved existing defect management process, driven team to work in faster manner by reporting defects status.
• Co-ordinate and execute backend jobs in Unix and Sybase environment for test env setup
• Proficient in SQL queries; use SQL queries to setup and validate test data
• Extensive experience testing web services and skillful in XML
• Excellent domain knowledge in Wealth management and Investment banking including Equities and securities trading; tax lots; funds transfer using journals
• Manage onshore and offshore resources ; provide project cost estimates
• Administrator for Quality Center

Confidential, NY

QA Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain functional Integration, Parallel, Platform, Security Testing and regression test plans using MS Project including QA tasks cost & time estimation.
• Collect End user scenarios and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Participate in requirements definition reviews and functional specification reviews to ensure that critical information is included and testability requirements are met.
• Create manual test scripts and converted required manual test scripts to Automated test scripts
• Manage resource allocation & team members to design and execute test procedures
• Define requirements for test tools and manage their implementation
• Analyze customer defects to identify deficiencies in test plans and procedures, and enhance test overage accordingly.
• Manage test lab resources and processes to conduct functional testing and to simulate customer production environments.
• Supervise team members who are developing new and improving existing test procedures for better test efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot software defects.
• Mentor software test engineers to encourage best practices and thorough testing of the application.
• Document software defects in defect tracking system and keep defect records up to date
• Responsible for testing progress meeting and sending testing status reports to Project Management team and Development Team.
• Responsible for Defect life cycle process, Maintained and Tracked Defects using Quality Center.
• Generate Defect reports using Quality Center API and SQL statements, on daily and weekly basis in the form of tables & Graphs using Microsoft Power Point, prepared associated action plans and documented, distributed across the various project teams.
• Facilitate defect review meetings and improved existing defect management process, driven team to work in faster manner by reporting defects status.
• Prepare test data for functional, integration, system and User acceptance testing.
• Maintain all Project related artifacts ( using MS Share Point)
• Administrator for Quality Center all projects of various domains.
• Develop test strategy, followed Agile methodology and defined execution flow of tests set in Test lab of Quality Center.
• Represent Conference Room Pilot program(CRP) on behalf of Testing services.
• Develop automated functional test scripts using QTP and Performance & Load automated test scripts using LoadRunner.
• Train business users about Quality Center for UAT and Successfully conducted User Acceptance Testing(UAT).
• Configure Quality Center Project modules - Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects using Script Editor and API
• Manage and maintain requirements, test cases, test sets & test results, defects and traceability matrix in Quality Center.
• Import Requirements, Test cases and defects from Excel format into Quality Center.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.2, QTP, Oracle 11i enterprise business suite ( OHRMS ), Cognos Reporting tool, Windows XP Professional SP2, IE 6, Informatica Power center, Tibco, Oracle 9i on Sun Solaris 2.8 Hardware, Linux OS, Websphere Application server 5.1, MS Share Point, Load Runner, MS Power Point & MS Project, Knowledge Xchange, MS Share Point and MS TFS.

Confidential, VA

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing test plans based on the project plan.
• Assigned the test areas to QA team and monitored, tracked the test status.
• Created test cases in Test Director.
• Conducted regression and functionality testing.
• Reported bugs and done defect tracking using Defect tracking and Management tool.
• Updated test progress to Project Manager and prepared weekly work status reports.
• Updated Project Plan based on QA Plan using MS Project.
• Executed test cases, compared and analyzed actual results against expected results.
• Tested database running SQL queries to verify data storage matches with the data entered in the application.
• Separated Manual testing areas and Automated testing areas.
• Defined Test automation frame work, Created test scripts using QTP and executed the scripts.
• Done smoke and acceptance testing.
• Reported and tracked defects in TestDirector.
• Moved already existing defects in PVCS tracker to TestDirector.
• Performed web browser compatibility testing using - IE, Firefox, Mac Safari and Netscape.

Environment: QTP, Test Director, PVCS Version Manager I-Net 7.5.1.0 and PVCS Tracker, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Sun Solaris 7, Windows XP, WSAD, J2EE, EJB, Struts, SSJS, Vignette, Sun one directory Server, Oracle, Websphere, iPlanet, DHTML, javaScript, Macromedia Flash MX.

Confidential

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test runs using Mad Dog.
• Performed test metric management.
• Setup the test environment that included formatting the machine and installation of Windows 20003 server, MS office, SQL Server 2000 and Visual studio.NET.
• Performed defect management and resolution.
• Reported work progress and status to Program Manager.
• Prepared Test Data for negative testing.
• Reported bugs using Mad Dog Application.

Environment: Windows 2003, MS Visual studio.NET 2003, SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and updated test plans using Test Director based on feature sets of different product versions.
• Developed test cases from architecture and design documents
• Executed test cases and interacted with programmers to resolve issues and bugs.
• Reported bugs and done defect tracking using Test Director
• Reported weekly progress to Testing Manager, including issues found and suggestions.
• Tested functionality, GUI and performance requirements using multiple browsers.
• Executed test cases, compared and analyzed actual results against expected results.
• Conducted regression testing, identified bugs

Environment: Java, Oracle Database Administration, SQL, XML and Windows NT.

Confidential

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Direct the testing team during testing life cycle.
• Developed test plans based on WBS, worked with programmers to ensure test plan acceptance across departmental lines.
• Updated test plans based time to time, whenever changes were happened in requirements and design documents.
• Written test cases, input documents were design documents and usecases.
• Identified automated testing areas
• Developed automated test scripts using WinRunner for Regression testing.
• Ran test scripts and interacted with programmers to resolve issues and bugs.
• Reported bugs and done defect tracking using “TestTrackPro”.
• Developed and distributed bug reports that identified vulnerable areas in product feature set.
• Updated test progress to Project Manager and prepared weekly work status reports.
• Executed test cases, compared and analyzed actual results against expected results.
• Tested database running SQL queries to verify data storage.
• Compared generated reports with data pulled running SQL queries.
• Developed automated test scripts using Winrunner and executed them during Regression testnig.
• Generated vusers and updated already existing LoadRunner test scripts.