SUMMARY:

• QA Lead with 11+ years of professional experience in Software Industry, majorly in Software testing and quality assurance.
• Experienced in various phases of Software Testing life cycle (STLC) with rich domain knowledge on Banking, Healthcare & Telecom especially on web based applications.
• Experienced in various Software methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall. Functional Testing (Planning, Execution and Implementation) with exposure to End to End testing, Database testing, SIT, UAT and Regression testing.
• Currently playing a role of Software QA Tester & Test Lead at onsite.
• Major responsibilities include Requirement analysis, Test scenarios development using Gherkin language, test data identification and JSON file creation, automated test execution on selenium - webdriverio using cucumber framework and API test automation using CA DevTest, managing QA team at offshore; Project management activities include effort estimation, test strategy creation, task prioritization, effort tracking, test management and status reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS (Desktop Testing): Windows XP, Windows 7, MacOS

OS (Mobile Testing): Android, iOS

Internet Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, BDD, DevOps, Functional UI & API Testing

Scripting Languages: JavaScript

Test Management & Defect Tracking Tools: Collabnet TeamForge, JIRA, HP ALM 11.52

Test Automation Tools & frameworks: Cucumber, Webdriverio, Jenkins, Gherkin, JSON, GitHub, CA DevTest (formerly known as CA-Lisa)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Front End: Website developed using Backbase technology

Browsers: IE11, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari

Operating System: Windows 7 / Mac

Devices: Windows PC, Mac mini, Android & iOS phones and tablets.

Tools: JIRA, Collabnet TeamForge, Cucumber, GitHub, Jenkins, CA DevTest, DbVisualizer.

Programming Language: Gherkins, javascript.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint planning meetings and Sprint review meetings.
• Conduct Quality Milestone review meetings on a regular basis to keep track of the deliverables during each phase of the project.
• Prepare the testing strategy and resource estimates.
• Analyze the Business and Technical Requirements and receive the product knowledge from the Business Analysts.
• Design test scenarios in Gherkin format, identify test data for the test scenarios and create JSON files to support the test execution.
• Coordinate and guide the offshore QA team to perform the SIT in lower environments.
• Perform UI application test execution using selenium-webdriverio using cucumber and analyze failures if any.
• Create API test scenarios and perform API test execution on REST services using CA DevTest, SoapUI and Chrome postman.
• Perform Mobile testing for the mobile web application and native app on Android and iOS operating systems on mobiles & tablets.
• Conduct Defect triage meetings and track the defects to closure using TeamForge ALM.
• Prepare and share the Daily and Weekly status reports to the project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Line of Business users to perform UAT and prepare the application for Production implementation.
• Coordinate with the non-functional test leads to perform security and performance testing during every production release.
• Prepare the End of Testing Summary Report before every production release.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Back End: Oracle, SQL Server

Operating System: Windows 7

Tools: SQL Developer, MS SQL Server 2008, HP ALM (v11.5), Mainframe and Abinitio.

Programming Language: SQL

Test Lead (Onsite)

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Quality Milestone review meetings on a regular basis to keep track of the deliverables during each phase of the project.
• Prepare the testing strategy and resource estimates.
• Analyze the Business and Technical Requirements and receive the product knowledge from the Business Analysts.
• Design test cases/Review the test cases prepared for the testable requirements and maintain requirement traceability in ALM.
• Coordinate and guide the offshore testing team to perform the SIT in lower environments.
• Perform test execution on the GUI application across multiple browsers like IE8, Chrome and Firefox.
• Execute Abinitio jobs to load data to enable the offshore team to perform validations.
• Conduct Defect triage meetings and track the defects to closure using ALM.
• Prepare and share the Daily and Weekly status reports to the project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Business users to perform UAT and prepare the application for Production implementation.
• Coordinate with the non-functional test leads to perform security and performance testing during every production release.
• Prepare the End of Testing Summary Report before every production release.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Solution Environment: Windows 7/Office2010

Tools: HP Quality Center (v10)

Test Lead (Onsite)/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Collect information on the list of applications used by the Business users in the Bank Coordinate with SMEs of each application and get the application tested on the new Windows7/IE8/Office2010 environment.
• Assist the application SMEs with the test data preparation and test execution. Log defects in ALM in case of any compatibility issues and coordinate with the development team in order to resolve them.
• Prepare and share the Daily and Weekly status reports to the project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with the non-functional test leads to perform security and performance testing for the applications undergoing change.
• Prepare the End of Testing Summary Report before every production release.

Confidential, Boston, Massachusetts

Operating System: Windows XP, NASCO (Mainframe)

Tools: HP Quality Center (v9.1), HP MetaVance, eFDE.

Tester (Onsite)

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Test data preparation,
• Test design and execution of Test cases.
• Defect Tracking and Daily status dashboard preparation.

Confidential

Back End: Oracle 10g

Front End: Online Stores Web sites, Agent Assistant (Desktop Appl.)

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 7 and MacOS

Browsers: IE8/9, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Programming Language: SQL

Tools: IBM Rational Quality Manager, Clear Quest, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.

Test Lead/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the testing strategy and resource estimates.
• Analyze the Business and Technical Requirements and receive the product knowledge from the Business Analysts.
• Design test cases/Review the test cases prepared for the testable requirements and maintain requirement traceability in IBM RQM.
• Perform test execution on the GUI application across multiple browsers like IE8, Firefox and Safari.
• Conduct Defect triage meetings and track the defects to closure using IBM Clear Quest.
• Prepare and share the Daily and Weekly status reports to the project stakeholders.

Confidential

Back End: Oracle 9i

Front End: Remedy AR System

Operating System: Windows XP

Programming Language: SQL

Tools: SQL Confidential, HP Quality Center.

UAT Coordinator/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand the requirements Design the UAT test cases, get them reviewed by the UAT team and upload them to Quality Center.
• Prepare the UAT test plan and manage the UAT progress.
• Coordinate with the UAT testers and assist them in test execution and report the status Open defects in Quality Center and track it to closure.
• Prepare and share the Daily and Weekly status reports to the project stakeholders.

Confidential

Solution Environment: Windows XP, Solaris 9

Programming Language: XML, UNIX shell scripting

Tools: WebLogic 8.1 Admin console, Clarify Client 10.1, Veritas Cluster Manager 4.0

Application Maintenance and Test Support

Responsibilities:

• Deployment of IMB applications to production server
• Perform End to End testing after each deployment
• First Order Acceptance Testing support in production
• Monitor the application logs and report errors.

Confidential

Solution Environment

Back End: Oracle 9i

Front End: Remedy AR System

Operating System: Windows XP

Programming Language: SQL

Tools: SQL, HP Quality Center.

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand the requirements Design the test cases, get them reviewed and upload them to Quality Center.
• Perform test execution and report the status Open defects in Quality Center and track it to closure.
• Prepare the causal analysis report at the end of each release.

Testing Methodologies: Product Testing, End to End (Black box) Testing and Database validation using SQL queries.