SUMMARY:

• Dynamic IT professional with over 10 years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Development in various business applications.
• Well versed in all stages of testing and QA Cycles and highly motivated, organized and independent self - starter committed to the highest levels of professional and personal excellence.
• Highly motivated and an excellent team player with technical and communication skills and Implemented 100 % in software development life cycle (SDLC), CMMI and SOX.
• Highly proficient in Mercury suites, Microsoft Test Manager and various other testing and tracking tools.
• Worked on all Quality Center/TestDirector related technical problems.
• Involved in troubleshooting of integration related Technical problems.
• Worked closely with product management and development personnel to ensure testing is comprehensive.
• Implemented in testing complex Client/Server and e-Commerce Applications, and a wide variety of Integrated Development Environments.
• Strong automation experience using Mercury Interactive Tools - WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experience with Rational Clear Quest, Rational Rose.
• Implemented Automatic Tests, Manual Tests and Performance Tests.
• Implemented Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, System Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Executed Black Box and White Box Testing.
• Expertise in JUnit Utility.
• Expertise in Test case documentation.
• Implemented in writing Test plans, defining Test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results of scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.
• Proficient in testing methods like Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in implementation of Load test and database test using SQL.
• Expertise in SQL, Oracle 8i/9i, SQL server, DB2 and MS Access.
• Experience in UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to client/server and web applications.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills.
• Personal skills include Excellent Communication, strong sense of Organization and effective time management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Coded UI, Win Runner 7.x, 8.x, Test Director 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Quality Center 8.2, 9.0, Load Runner 7.x, 8.x, Rational clear quest, Rational Rose, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Rational Robot, Segue Silk Test, Selenium IDE .

Languages: Java, C, C++, Basic, J2EE, Servlets, VB, XML .

Operation Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003,7,UNIX, Linux, MAC

Hardware: IBM PC, X86, Pentium.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g,12c SQL Server 2000, DB2, MS Access, Sybase.

Oracle Tools: SQL Forms, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, SQL Developer

GUI Tools: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, VB.NET, Crystal Reports

Internet Technologies: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Source Safe, SVN, ASP.NET, Java Script, FrontPage, ActiveX Data Objects, VBScript, XML, HTML.

Other: XML Spy, SOAP, Middleware, HTTPPost

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead/Analyst/System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Initiate the test planning activities for test case design and encourage the team to hold review meetings, ensure the review comments are incorporated.
• During the testing cycle monitor the test progress by constantly assessing the work assignment to each of the resources and re-balance or re-allocate them as required.
• Involved in working with team on applications that was created from white board.
• Hold meetings within the test team to make sure everyone is aware of what the fellow team members are doing.
• Prepare any risk mitigation plans in case there are any delays are foreseen.
• Collaborate with developers in creating testable "Definition of Done" acceptance criteria for each User Story
• Design tests that clearly convey the business rules and code they are checking i.e., Story tests or Acceptance Tests.
• Perform manual exploratory testing of new and existing features.
• Responsible for QA status reporting to upper management.
• Involved in auditing QA process and strategies
• Manage and maintain QA, Staging and Production cloud-based environments: Amazon Web Service (Cloud computing)
• Automate monitoring and test disaster recovery and backup functions
• Support highly available 24x7 production environments
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
• One year of hands-on experience operating AWS-based applications
• Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS
• Identify the tools for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and educate the team as required to be able to use those tools. Again, plan knowledge transfer sessions in case required for team members for the tools they would use.
• Maintain user access administration and maintain about 30VM's that are hosted in two physical servers
• Add RAM, hard drives to the VM's and maintain their specs in Confluence page
• Disable unnecessary services on servers
• Manually deploy the build in Staging environment using TeamCity
• Trained QA’s on test management tools and domain knowledge
• Coordinates projects between application programming groups and QA

Environment: .Net platform, Microsoft Products, Oracle 12C, SQL Server 2005, 08, 12, JIRA, Confluence, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Team City, Fish Eye, Angular Material, JMeter, Fire Bug, Rules Engine, Middleware, HTTP Post, SOAP UI, XML Spy, Ultimate MS Visual Studio 2012.

Confidential

QA Lead /Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple projects that are large in scope for Gators, Orders Gateway, ResWare applications.
• Involved in working with team on applications that was created from white board.
• Created test cases, test strategy and functional testing for applications that was created from white board.
• Coordinate with Product Managers, Engineering, and Customer Support department to deliver high-quality and enterprise-class releases on a timely basis
• Write user stories for different modules for Integrity 2.0
• Collaborate with the agile teams to understand requirements and plan testing efforts to complement and facilitate effective execution of development projects.
• Collaborate with developers in creating testable "Definition of Done" acceptance criteria for each User Story
• Design tests that clearly convey the business rules and code they are checking i.e., Story tests or Acceptance Tests.
• Perform manual exploratory testing of new and existing features.
• Design, organize, and execute test cases, including test scenarios based on understanding of applications in order to test new/existing functionality including Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and System testing.
• Understand user behavior and ensure application usability as guided through usability standards; write scripts that reflect user’s usage of various applications.
• Ensure application accessibility as guided through established accessibility standards.
• Manage defect tracking and defect maintenance and perform defect root cause analysis.
• Contribute to and assist in implementing improvements in test methods and strategies.
• Create the functional decomposition of applications as part of feature testing and develop test coverage matrices to maximize testing efficiency.
• Organize and facilitate reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs of test plans.
• Track issues found during UAT and throughout QA lifecycle
• Attend SCRUM meeting everyday
• Manage the team and assign task thru Team foundation server
• Provides oversight and management of test management tools.
• Co-ordinate with the team and how efficiently and effectively to test certain tasks.
• Create PROD Test plan for the production deployments via MTM
• Trained QA’s on test management tools and domain knowledge

Environment: .Net platform, Microsoft Products, SQL Server 2005, 08, 12, Team Foundation server, Microsoft Test Manager, Gators, ResWare, Middleware, HTTP Post, SOAP UI, XML Spy, Ultimate MS Visual Studio 2012.

Confidential

QA Lead / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Product Managers, Engineering, and Customer Support department to deliver high-quality and enterprise-class releases on a timely basis
• Responsible for planning, creating and developing test plan and test cases for Information Management software products
• Handle the tasks of executing tests manually and developing test automation
• Perform designing, configuration, and building test environments that emulate customer environments
• Responsible for reviewing product requirements, engineering designs and user documentation
• Communicate product quality assessment, status and metrics across all levels of the organization
• Responsible for master test plans, environment configurations, application installations and testing schedules
• Motivated all the team members in achieving all the targets,
• Arranged different training programs for the team and responsible for organizing meetings with the team members to discuss about project.
• Manually performed Functional testing that includes Security, System Testing .
• Back-End Testing, database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries manually
• Implemented testing methodology, engineering and product knowledge in the design of tests and testing strategies for the analysis and qualification of products.
• Communicate significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management
• Prepare and presents technical and program information to team members and management.
• Responsible for testing the Application against Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Server.
• Performed database integrity tests to create db script with SQL commands to extract the actual results.
• Involved in performing Performance, Stress, Load Testing on Application Under Test (AUT)

Environment: Java, Services (Tomcat, Terracotta), MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, File Zila, Notepad++, IBM Lotus Notes, MS Office 2007, Adobe 9.0, Visual Source Safe, SVN and SQL Server

Confidential

Software Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formulated Test plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents .
• Created several Test cases that cover the entire Functionality of AUT using .
• Written and executed Test scripts to verify the Test cases using .
• Involved in developing test cases for Smoke and Regression testing .
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test cases .
• Performed the navigational testing, object load and timing verification, browser page testing.
• Responsible for creation of test documentation and procedures .
• Manually performed Functional testing that includes Security, System Testing .
• Back-End Testing, database table manipulations of relational database systems by writing complex SQL queries manually
• Involved in Performance and Load testing of the web site using Load Runner (both IE & NN).
• Automated test cases using Selenium IDE for the web application.
• Tested security privileges of the application using different User Ids and Passwords .
• Reported defects about any failures in the script using Mantis .

Environment: ASP.Net, XML, HTML, .Net, MS Office 2007, Adobe 9.0, Visual Source Safe, Selenium IDE, SVN and SQL Server

Confidential

Software Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented testing methodology, engineering and product knowledge in the design of tests and testing strategies for the analysis and qualification of products.
• This application was designed and implemented from white board.
• Created Test Plan and conducted analysis, inspection, design, test, and/or integration to assure the quality for large and complex projects. Verified, Validate and document completion of testing and development
• Heavily involved in P2P Application with Nabors and Pro Logic team
• Created Screen designs for the Web Application using Microsoft Visio and created/modified Business requirement documents
• Created Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test cases for the P2P Application.
• Worked with the development team to ensure that the Screen designs are met with Functional design documents.
• Enhanced and Created Functional design documents for the development team
• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on User and Functional Requirements and participated in the meetings with the business managers and the development team.
• Involved in developing Test Plan and Test Cases after analyzing business requirements and technical requirements
• Performed API level testing, system testing, black box functional testing, client UI testing, Stress testing and Compatibility testing. Also, Test server components, system interfaces and client components
• Design, implement, execute and debug information technology test cases and scripts.
• Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
• Communicate significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management
• Prepare and presents technical and program information to team members and management.

Environment: Share Point Services 2.0, Oracle 10g, ASP.Net, Microsoft Visio, MS Office 2007, Adobe 8.1, Visual Source Safe and SQL Server

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on User and Functional Requirements and participated in the meetings with the business analyst and the development team.
• Performed manual testing on this web based application Business Objects XI.
• Enhanced the test scripts by thoroughly applying parameterization and correlation concepts
• Responsible for performing functional & GUI testing on the Application by Manual.
• Responsible for performing User Interface testing, Regression testing and User acceptance testing on the AUT.
• Used Microsoft Excel to log all the test cases and report results.
• Responsible for testing the Application against Oracle server for data validity.
• Worked with the development team to ensure that the testing issues are resolved.
• Identified defects and logged/tracked them using bug tracking tool - Extra View.

Environment: Business Objects XI, Crystal Reports, Extra View, SQL Server, ETL, MS Office 2007, Adobe 8.1, Data Warehouse, LDAP Server.

Confidential

Application Support/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Investigate and resolve entire Quality center related Technical problems.
• Worked on installation issues such as installing TD/QC server on different platforms like windows, Linux and Solaris.
• Responsible for the issues regarding deployment of Quality center on application servers such as JBoss, Web Logic, Web Sphere and Dashboard server.
• Troubleshoot the issues on Manual migration and automated migration using migration tool.
• Responsible for replicating the technical issues of customers by restoring the database dump file provided by the customer, which helps us to find the root cause of the complex issue.
• Involved in troubleshoot Management issues in various modules like Requirements, Test plan, Test lab, Defects, Reports, Graphs, etc.
• Worked on Integration issues of Mercury interactive tools like Win runner, QTP, & Load runner.
• Responsible for providing assistance in the workflow code Customization of Requirements, Test plan, Test lab, Defects modules.
• Involved in third party integration issues on synchronization Tools such as Rational Req. Pro Synchronizer, Clear quest, Rational ClearQuest Defects Synchronizer Version Control tools such as Visual SourceSafe, Clear case.
• Worked on LDAP Authentication issues.
• Resolved Up-gradation issues from older TD/QC versions to newer versions.

Environment: TestDirector, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, Load Runner, Siebel, Oracle 9i,10g, SQL Server 2000, MSDE, Sybase, LDAP Server, Web Sphere, Web Logic, JBoss, IIS, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, IE 6.0.