SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of professional experience in QA software testing with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases, test Scenarios and test processes in Web oriented, middleware and client server applications. Experience in testing of ETL testing, data warehouse testing, Point of Sale testing, 4690 Operating System Testing, Web Testing, and Embedded System Testing.
• Over 6 years’ experience in ETL testing, Data warehouse testing, Point of Sale applications, 4690 Operating system, UFT (Unified Functional Testing),Web Applications, C#, ASP, .NET, Power Shell,MongoDb,Pearl,Python,XML and Embedded Systems testing.
• Did M.S (Masters) in Applied Electronics and Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Actively involved in LOE preparation and project management.
• Efficiently leading and managing testing team both onsite and offshore and handling teams with team sizes of 10+ people.
• Very Strong Experience and through understanding of software quality activities throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) and Scrum
• Hands on experience on money transfer system.
• Expertise in analyzing Business requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications and strong working experience in developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, creating Test data, defect management including reporting, analysis and defect metrics.
• Experienced in building testing teams right from scratch including devising the selection process and actively participating in interview panels and training programs
• Hands on experience in Tracking and Reporting of defects using Defect Tracking Tools such as Clear Quest, HPALM, Rally, HP/Mercury Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in ETL testing and strong knowledge on data warehouse testing.
• Excellent knowledge on Teradata and SQL
• Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Expert in Rational Quality Manager RQM and RTM.
• Expert in testing 4690 operating system, UNIX, XML Command line.
• Professional experience in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Backend Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in integration of various data sources with Multiple Relational Databases like SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Access.
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing )
• Strong knowledge on JIRA
• Experienced and detailed understanding of Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and SDLC methodologies.
• Extensive working knowledge in Health Care and Retail Domain Testing, Embedded System Testing.
• Good experience in Process Flow Charting, Root Cause Analysis in UAT.
• Good experience in Bug Tracking tools like Clear Quest, HPALM and Test director
• Hands on experience on testing of network, software or an integrated environment.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.
• Strong analytical, design skills and problem solving abilities with quick turnaround.
• Result oriented, self - starter and able to work with minimum or no guidance.
• Proven ability to understand business problems and apply technology to formulate feasible solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ETL testing,UFT,SQL Server, HP Quality Center, HPALM, Clear Quest, Rational Quality Manager, Requirement Traceability Matrix, POS Testing, Toshiba 4690 operating system Testing, Rational Performance tool, Load Runner, CAMEL, mongoDb,QTP

Bug Reporting Tools: Clear Quest, HPALM 11.0, HP Quality Center 9.2 / 10.0/11.0, Rally, Test Director

Programming Skills: C/C++, XML, HTML

Data warehouse: Teradata

ETL tool: Informatica Power Center 8/7

Database: MS SQL 2008/2008R2/2012, MySQL, MS Access, DB2,IMS, Oracle

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows, WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS VISTA, UNIX, IBM 4690

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP, VB Script, Java Script

Web Browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera

Project Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Scrum, Waterfall

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint

Other Tools: MATLAB,LABVIEW,MS Word, MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, MS Power Point, FTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently leading and managing testing team both onsite and offshore and handling teams with team sizes of 10+ people.
• Test artifacts creation - Test strategy, test plan, test cases, test evaluation summary
• Review the Requirement analysis document, Test Cases,Test Plan, Test execution Results and Test evaluation summary document .
• Defect Management in Clear quest - Log and track defects to closure, defect triage, defect reporting
• Extensively involved in Database Testing.
• Experience in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Verification and identifying data mismatch.
• Hands on experience on Teradata and strong knowledge on SQL queries.
• Experience in integration of various data sources with Multiple Relational Databases like SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Access.
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing )
• Strong knowledge on Healthcare domain.
• Found lot of seveority1 defects and which in turn made as Change requests.
• Actively involved in LOE preparation and resource planning.
• Suggested lot of business enhancement ideas and received lot of customer appreciation mails.
• Interacted with the Developers to discuss about the Defects raised and follow-up, and involved in the Defect Triage meetings.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC (Software development Life cycle) and followed Agile methodology.
• Train the new joiners in the team on application and business concepts.
• Given requirement walkthroughs and test case walkthrough to client.
• Task allocation, status reporting, execution and coordination between onsite and offshore team.
• Proficient in solution identification, Effort estimations, project scheduling, implementation processes, project tracking, team management metrics collection & analysis to facilitate process/product improvements
• Effective in communicating project status, test deliverables and issue escalations to key stakeholders on product quality

Environment: TERADATA, SQL server, Informatica,Clear Quest and ETL testing.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Experience on Money transfer system
• Experience with HPALAM-- Design Test Steps, Requirement Mapping to Tests, Executing Tests Manually, Defect Logging, Defect Reporting to Developers, Tracking Defects
• Interacted with the Developers to discuss about the Defects raised and follow-up, and involved in the Defect Triage meetings.
• Perform 4690 operating system testing
• Extensively involved in Database Testing.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC (Software development Life cycle) and followed Agile methodology.
• Check the files sent in SMART/POSHOST during running the SNE Specific application and do back end system testing. Find the store number in the files sent.
• Review the Requirement analysis document, Test Case and Test execution Results.
• Analyze the unit test plan and put the queries in clarification tracker and then to share point.
• Train the new joiners in the team on application and business concepts.
• Created WIKI pages for SNE Remediated Applications
• Coordinating requirement walkthroughs within team to ensure the team is up to date with application changes.
• Regression testing
• Run different types of transactions like Layaways transactions
• Train the new joiners in the team on application and business concepts.

Environment: HPALM 11.0,4690 operating system, XML, Share Point, Window NT/XP, HTML, Excel, UNIX,SMART,POSHOST,FTP

Confidential

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Experience with HPALAM-- Design Test Steps, Requirement Mapping to Tests, Executing Tests Manually, Defect Logging, Defect Reporting to Developers, Tracking Defects
• Hands on experience on UFT
• Executing the Test cases against the business requirements in test environment and publishing the status to stakeholders.
• Experience with RQM-Requirement Mapping, Test case Execution, Test Suite Execution, report generation
• Review the Requirement analysis document, Test Case and Test execution Results.
• Leading the peer review Group and guiding the team to complete planned reviews on time.
• Validation and execution of the batch job streams
• Managing all RQM related Activities like template creation, mapping and Execution.
• Interact with onsite and business stakeholders for requirement clarifications.
• Train the new joiners in the team on application and business concepts.
• Defect Identification, reporting and co-ordinate issue resolution.
• Documentation of the learnings and best practices.
• Coordinating requirement walkthroughs within team to ensure the team is up to date with application changes.
• Tracking, monitoring and Effort tracking.
• Coordinate Requirement walkthroughs by SA.
• Worked closely with Automation team and executed the test cases in QTP.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and Sanity testing.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform database/backend testing.
• Took sessions to the Automation team regarding the application and executed test suites using Selenium.
• Interacted with developers for resolving the defects and setting the priorities
• Performed all phases of testing which includes Black box testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, negative testing, and system testing of the application
• Managed the offshore team by creating the tasks and assigning work to the team, interacted with the Leads and managers
• Took online Sessions to offshore team members regarding the business requirements and functionality.
• Regularly scheduled Knowledge transfer meetings to offshore team regarding the Application functionality
• Generated Documents for teams and Uploaded in Share point
• Handled multiple offshore teams by interacting with the Leads and managers
• Involved in the Daily Status calls and follow up’s with offshore teams.
• Coordinated between Offshore and Onsite managers to share the business logic with them.
• Given Presentations to the Product owners about nice to have features in the application.
• Uploaded Daily Status in SharePoint for tracking

Environment: HPALM 11.0,Quality Center, Clear Quest, SOA testing,Batch job Running, Database testing, SQL, XML, Share Point, Window NT/XP, HTML, Excel, SOAP UI

Confidential, St. Van Nuys, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business requirements in detail once test request is initiated.
• Worked with IT team for test environment setup and test data if not provided.
• Walk through of the test plan, Test cases with the development team and ensured that they are in sync with the Business Requirement/RTM created by IT.
• Created System Test Plan and Test cases and ensured that they are in sync with the Business Requirement/RTM.
• Experience in HPALM - Design Test Steps, Requirement Mapping to Tests, Executing Tests Manually, Defect Logging, Defect Reporting to Developers, Tracking Defects.
• Performed Defect Identification, reporting and issue resolution.
• Followed appropriate defect life cycle management plan for retest and closure of the defect.
• Mapped Requirements to Test Cases for Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Co-ordinated weekly team meetings and onsite-offshore calls.
• Quality controller for the production environment and status reporting to Senior Management.
• Involved in developing detailed test cases and test scripts using Rally for Functional and Regression Testing
• Performed regression testing and validated fixes to the system using QTP.
• Work with developers, business and Release managers to discuss ways to fix the Defects.
• Supported the production line in the form of testing, trouble shooting and various modular assemblies for both RF over Fiber line and also digital SFC line.
• Executed the test procedure for each individual module and ensuring that it meets Quality standards of noise figure, intermodulation distortion measurements like IP3, OIP3.
• Additional responsibilities include Quality control, generating corrective action report, administrative functions and other supports for management.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center 10.0, Query Analyzer, XML, Window NT/XP, HTML, Unix, Web Services, SOAP UI, Windows server 2008.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the hardware through ORCAD software.
• Programming was done using PIC18F8722 Microcontroller.
• Major responsibilities were designing the hardware, designing the code, and verifying the output.
• Presented a seminar on this project at Confidential .
• Helped the Confidential official staff to prepare the official documentation.