SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance. Proven ability in Software Test Automation and implementing QA processes.
• 4+ years of Test Lead experience managing a team of 11 globally distributed testers.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle and implementing the QA processes across teams and projects, thereby providing high quality deliverables.
• Strong experience and conceptual understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models, Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM).
• Expertise in developing test automation framework and scripts using general purpose programming languages Java and Python
• Expertise in estimating effort of a testing project using SMC & TUE Models
• Strong skills in leading multiple projects in parallel, which is completely different in requirements and target delivery timelines.
• Strong experience in Financial Market domain, by working with the applications dealing with Securities, Trades, Third - party Vendor management, Asset Management, Advisors, Retail clients etc.
• Hands-on experience in applications dealing with securities like Equities, Fixed Income, Options, ETFs, Mutual Funds etc. and clear understanding on the trade cycle of different securities.
• Expertise in developing software test plans, test case design, test scripts based on Business Requirements Specification and System Requirements documents.
• Diversified exposure in testing of Client/Server & Web-based applications with focus on System Analysis and Quality Assurance.
• Strong participation in product design review meetings and requirements review meetings with tech leads and business partners.
• Strong skills in reviewing, performing walkthroughs of the system documentation and test artifacts to ensure QA is in right path.
• Expertise in outlining the production test plan and coordinate with team to have the install certified.
• Strong Service orientation combined with experience in playing a vital role in conducting User Acceptance Test (UAT) procedures; Participated in UAT Test Strategy and designed UAT Test Plans managing UAT Defect reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Test Management Tools like Team Foundation Server 10/Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Mercury/ HP Quality Center 10/ALM, JIRA (Zephyr).
• Expertise in developing test automation framework and script using tools HP QTP/UFT, Selenium
• Expertise in analyzing application server (Tomcat and Web Sphere) logs hosted on Unix servers.
• Proficient in using complex UNIX commands.
• Effective verbal and written communication with Project Managers, Business team, Development and Test teams throughout the test life cycle to provide clear objectives and report on progress and issues in a timely manner.
• Expertise in database testing by writing complex SQL Queries using Oracle SQL, Toad and SQL Developer.
• Experience in using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning powered analytics driven testing tool MANA, in complex web applications.
• Worked on entire lifecycle of the assignment while adhering to the quality procedures as followed by a SEI CMM level 5 Organization.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Visio, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Possess excellent problem solving skills, leadership skills, analytical, client interfacing and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability in multi-tasking and prioritizing work load.
• Highly motivated, detail oriented and has ability to work independently and also as a part of the team with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills.
• Achieved recognitions multiple times from clients for the good work and for being a good team player.

• Capital/Financial Markets
• Banking
• JIRA
• Rational Clear Quest
• Team Foundation Server
• Microsoft Test Manager
• TOAD
• PL/SQL
• Informatica 9.6.1
• Para Soft SOA Test Tool
• UFT/QTP
• Selenium
• Putty
• Agile Methodology
• Water-Fall Model
• Mainframe
• Unix
• Jenkins
• ALM/HP Quality Center
• Oracle
• DB2
• Mongo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 11 testers across multiple work locations
• Extensively involved in QA life cycle from Requirement Gathering and Analysis until the production install of the application.
• Preparing the Test Plan, Test Estimates by analyzing the Functional Specifications, Product Requirements etc.
• Involved in Test Case/Test Plan review with Business and Tech team.
• Works with the applications dealing with multiple systems, securities, trades and third party vendors.
• Test cases review and update in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and Zephyr
• Test results review with team and business partners and tracking the issues until closure
• Involved in Release Management and Production Install support.
• Working in Agile methodology with expertise in using TFS (Team Foundation Server) and JIRA
• Test Automation Feasibility Analysis for the new functionalities.
• Test Automation Framework implementation and working with globally distributed team to get the functionality automated
• Work with business for coordinating the UAT testing
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream applications to perform Integration/End to End testing
• Preparing Daily, Weekly and Monthly test reports and updating Project Plan and Governance reports
• Defects logging, analysis, review and tracking using TFS and JIRA
• CI/CD process implementation through Jenkins
• Presentation on good work and progress to higher management, business partners and tech team.
• Performed POC on various automation tools to identify better tools to the market

Environment: Oracle 11g, Mainframe, DB2, Unix, Agile Methodology, WebSphere, Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, TFS, MTM, Clear Quest, HP ALM Quality Center, Parasoft SOA test, TOAD, UFT/QTP, Informatica, JIRA, Zephyr, Jenkins, Selenium

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirement analysis and estimating the QA effort and timelines for the completion of the work in water-fall methodology
• Meet with onshore counter-part to clear out the ambiguities on the requirements
• Attend client meetings to identify functional and non-functional requirements
• Knowledge transition to team members and testers to have the team go in right direction
• Test Planning and test cases preparation
• Onshore/Offshore coordination and daily work allocation to the offshore team
• Mentor the team and review the test cases
• Test cases update in Quality Center and tracking the effort daily.
• Daily test execution report generation from Quality Center
• Functional issues tracker consolidation and report to the onshore counterpart and track to closure
• Log the functional and regression bugs in Clear Quest and track to closure
• Prepare the test data well in advance to the testing and ensure that the functional testing process is seamless
• Regression testing to ensure that there is no impact to the application due to functional changes implemented.
• Test metrics generation and reporting to the management
• Test Automation Feasibility Analysis and plan for the automation effort
• Test Automation using QTP
• Getting business sign off on the test data/test flows being automated
• Prepare and archive the Test Results Summary document for all the releases with appropriate information and get sign off on the same.

Environment:: Mainframe CICS screen, DB2, Waterfall Model, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Office, QTP

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the team to document the ambiguities on the business requirements
• Data mining from DB2 tables to match the test requirements
• Review the RTM and test scenarios to ensure that the test data matches the scenarios
• Document the DB2 table relationship and mentor team on mining the test data
• Update the test data for each test case in Quality Center
• Analyze the automatable test cases and provide the same to the test lead
• Test scripts execution, results reporting in Quality Center
• Bug reporting in Clear Quest and track till closure
• Send the daily test execution status and report to test lead.
• Optimize the regression suite using the risk based analysis
• Send out the analysis to the test lead and get sign off on the same
• Preparing& submitting excellent business documents based on every module for ramp up by new joiners
• Document the learnings from each release and archive the same on share-point

Environment:: Mainframe CICS screen, DB2,Clear Quest, HP Quality Center 10.0, REXX scripts, QTP

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Review the RTM with Test Lead and get sign off on the same
• Prepare the test scenarios out of the RTM.
• Generate test cases out of scenarios and update the same in Quality Center
• Test scripts execution, results reporting in Quality Center
• Bug reporting in Clear Quest and track till closure
• Send the daily test execution status and report to test lead.
• Review the growing test cases suite and perform risk based analysis
• Optimize the regression suite after the risk based analysis
• Send out the analysis to the test lead and get sign off on the same
• Preparing & submitting excellent business documents based on every module for ramp up by new joiners
• Document the learnings from each release and archive the same on share-point

Environment:: Java, .NET, Oracle, Unix, PERL script, Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, PL/SQL, MS Office, Putty