SUMMARY:

• 16 years of IT experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Automation testing, expertise in writing Test plans, Test cases and developing & executing test scripts in an agile development environment.
• Strong Managing and Team Leading Skills. Leading Manual and Automation test teams through all phases of software development lifecycle (SDLC). Has an ability quickly understand and adapt to complex testing environments
• Experience in defining Test Automation roadmaps and setting - up organizational level short time and longtime Automation goals.
• Experience in RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL), Oracle (PL/SQL) and associated SQL Programming Knowledge.
• Extensive testing ETL experience using Data stage/Informatica/SSIS.
• Experience in Business Intelligence testing in various reports using Tableau,Cognos,Power BI, Crystal Reports.
• Expertise with Functionality, Integration, Black Box, White Box, Automation testing using Selenium, Junit, SoapUI/REST, VSTS/TFS (Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005 ).
• Extensive experience with application testing implemented in .NET (C#, VB.Net, ADO.Net), VBScript, JAVA, JavaScript, XML DOM, XSLT, HTML,AJAX SQL Server Proficient in Defect management, including Defect creation, tracking, and reporting using Industry standard tools like Quality Center/Test Director, Rally(CA), JIRA.
• Experience in performing the Installation testing, Sanity testing, Functional testing, Retesting, Regression testing, System testing, GUI & Browser compatibility testing and Documentation testing, Ad-hoc testing, End-to-End Testing, UAT testing.
• Motivated to work individually as well as in a team that has rapidly changing priorities and proven ability to deal effectively with change and to exercise good judgment.
• Good knowledge on Salesforce.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and creative skills. Highly organized, motivated, energetic, self-starter, detail-oriented. Ability to learn new software techniques quickly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day activities and Worked collaboratively and proactively led QA Team working on Merchandising/Supply Chain, Website, Retail point of sales, Warehouse/Delivery and Inventory Management Applications.
• Managed testing tasks/resources concurrently on multiple projects.
• Successfully Implemented framework for automation testing using Selenium web driver with TestNG, Xpath, Ant, Subversion.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to verify and validate the Database Updates.
• Tested Complex Reports in Cognos for the supplier certification metric system with Slice and Dice Drill down Functions Cross Tabs Master/Detail and Formulae.
• Prepared project deliverables documents by coordinating with team members
• Analyze software defects; conduct bi-weekly bug triage meetings with development and product Owners. Defect management using Rally(CA) and JIRA.
• Involved in leading and testing Cross browser and cross device testing including desktop, mobile and tablet
• Trained QA team on using Automation tools like Selenium, TestNG, Junit.

Environment: IBM WebSphere,J2EE , Cognos, Selenium Web driver, TestNG, Java, Web Services, SOAP UI, XML, Unix, Sun Solaris, ISeries. IOS, Putty, Android.

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed software testing and quality assurance on multiple applications.
• Strong in validating Databases, SQL Server, Also used T-SQL on some applications.
• Led the team and performed requirement analysis, preparation of test strategy, test plans and creating test cases.
• Developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing Team Foundation Server as defect tracking system. Run unit tests using Microsoft Test Manger
• Worked closely with development on using concepts of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD)Testing and integration in an Agile development team environment.
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle as well as Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings, domain walk through’s and iteration reviews.

Environment: Windows 7, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Manger C#.NET 3.5, SQL Server 2012, XML, HTML, SQL, Agile, Scrum, Kanban

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional requirements and implemented a strategy to create a detailed test plan and test cases for performing integration, functional, stress, system and user acceptance testing.
• Involved in producing the test results in a customized format to help the developers in quickly fixing the bugs and reporting it back to the testing team for further testing.
• Used SQL Plus to debug the validity of the data coming on to the application.
• Created and maintained test scripts in Quick test pro for regression.
• Used Load Runner to create and maintain performance scripts Used Test Director for creating Defects and Defect Tracking. Manage to develop and implement a test strategy and resource plan to establish metrics for measuring product quality and release readiness.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director, VB.NET Citrix, Win 2000

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans and test cases for Automated rating policy system.
• Designed and developed a testing strategy involving the process between the business, technical and testing teams.
• Used SQL Query Analyzer to perform extensive back-end data validation/testing.
• Involved in functional testing, operational testing, and error handling of the application. Executed scripts to perform GUI and Regression testing.

Environment: Winrunner, Rational Clear Quest, VB.NET Citrix, Win 2000

Confidential, NJ

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans and executed test cases.
• Create automated test scripts using WinRunner.
• Performed load testing using LoadRunner by creating virtual users of different simulation groups for Order entry to do the performance testing and assess response time.
• Created reports/graphs using LR Analysis tool and performed cross-scenario examinations.
• Extensively used SQL Plus to debug the validity of the data coming on to the application.
• Reporting, processing and tracking of defects is done by Test Director/Web detect manager.

Environment: Winrunner, LoadRunner, Testdirector, Silk, Linux, Visual Studio, Oracle 11i, Toad