SUMMARY:

• Over 9.5 years of experience in Manual Testing, software Analysis along with Test Lead experience on Client - Server and Web based and WAP/Mobile applications.
• Expertise in analyzing Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Preparing Test Schedules and identifying Test Requirements.
• Expertise in preparing Test Strategy, Test Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Automated and Manual Testing based on the User Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents.
• Experience in Functional, Integration, Database, GUI, Regression, User Acceptance Testing on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Experience in developing test cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Experience in using Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.
• Experience in using Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest and Quality Center.
• Expertise in Middleware Testing, SOAP Testing and Siebel Testing.
• Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries and Joins.
• Possess strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, time management and technical skills.
• Worked closely with all types of team members in projects including cross-functional and offshore teams along with development team.
• Strong working experience Software Defect Management in Windows 95/NT/2000/XP and UNIX.
• Good Knowledge of SDLC methodologies like Agile and WaterFall Models.
• Will actively participate in the overall enhancement of the software product quality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java 1.4, 1.5, J2EE, C, C++, C# and PL/SQL.

Internet Skills: JSP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SOAP, Web Services, Oracle Endeca Guided Search & ATG.

Databases: SQL server & Oracle 8i/9i.

O S: Windows NT/95/98/2000, UNIX (Solaris, Linux), MS DOS.

Servers: Web logic, Apache Tomcat & Web sphere.

Testing Tools: Mercury Interactive Test Suite, Rational Test Suite, HP Quality Center, ALM, Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, PostXML, JMS, Curl, Soap UI, SQL Server Management Studio, MS-Project, HP Quick Test Pro(QTP).

Test Strategies: System, Integration, User Acceptance & Black Box Testing.

Automation Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Quality Center, Test Director, ALM & WMS.

Design Methodologies: UML, Rational Rose

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Reviewed the business requirement documents, approach document and designed test cases and test plan document.
• Created automated test suites for web service functional, soap faults, data validation and performance using SOAP UI.
• Reviewed the test documents with Project Stakeholders and received approvals on timely basis.
• Coordinated with PMs, Dev Lead, Business Analyst and UAT Test Lead on the progress of the Projects.
• Attended Status calls on a regular basis and updated the team on test execution status and worked with the team in case of impediments during test execution.
• Shared Test execution reports across the team on a daily basis.
• Attended GO No Go Meetings and Provided QA Signoff as required.
• Overcame several impediments like environmental issues, project related issues, road blocks in testing Change Requests and last minute scope changes.
• Tested the application during deployment times and provided final sign off.

Environment: Agile, .NET, SQL Navigator, Oracle 10g, 11i, Quality Center, Work Flow Manager, Microsoft Access, QTP 10, XML, XML SPY & SharePoint. RDBMS, N-tier Client Server Architecture, ATG & B2B E-Commerce.

Confidential

Sr QA Analyst /Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Project Managers & Business Team, participated in requirements and Use case review meetings to provide input on completeness and accuracy on functional requirements and design specifications.
• Identified interdependencies, ambiguities and made suggestions to improve requirements and ensure testability.
• Planned test schedules and test estimates in accordance with project scope and delivery expectations.
• Designed test plans, scenarios, test scripts, and provided test estimates by leveraging offshore teams support.
• Developed Test plans, test scenarios and test cases to perform, regression testing, boundary, negative testing, error or defect retests, usability in adherence to standard QA policies, processes and documentation guidelines and gained approvals from the project team.
• Performed Test Execution by directing and monitoring offshore testers during test execution. Documented the defects, using a defect tracking tool ALM.
• Documented test procedures to ensure repeatability and compliance with standards.
• Ensured adherence to standardized QA policies, processes and documentation standards.
• Reported test results and communicated them to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Lead other QA team members in primary and offshore locations, coordinating work for timely deliver in an Iterative development frame work.
• Provided daily and Weekly status reports to the project team and QA Management team.
• Tested the Oracle Endeca Guided search functionality on the in house E-Commerce Employee purchasing portal which has been migrated from ATG search functionality.
• Designed test cases for Record Search and Dimension Search for Endeca Frame work implemented on the Employee Purchase Portal.
• Tested the product catalog on the E-Commerce Employee purchase portal to check the cross sell and Up sell merchandise functionality are implemented using Endeca Guided Search.

Environment: Agile, ALM, IBM-I series, DB2, Green Screens, MainFrames, Unix, ISPF, File Manager, Vision Plus Software, MS Project, Unix, ATG 10.2 & Endeca 3.1.2.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and reviewed end to end test cases based on the requirements.
• Tested web applications My Business and My Business Administration to establish functionality and effectiveness by working with cross functional teams.
• Performed manual testing on cross browsers for the E-Commerce B2B platforms My Business and My Business Administration.
• Documented results and observations after inspections and audits.
• Determined what modifications are needed after testing and documented the changes.
• Developed and planned change implementation.
• Interpreted a variety of technical information and communicated the issues to developers and business team when defects were found.
• Performed Soap UI and API testing for B2B E-commerce transactions using WMS tool.
• Queried the database via SQL Navigator to check records are properly inserted or updated as expected in the B2B Platforms.
• Regressed the existing B2B systems modules to test the existing E-Commerce functionality for business consumers.

Environment: Agile, .NET, SQL Navigator, Oracle 10g, 11i, Quality Center, Work Flow Manager, Microsoft Access, QTP 10, XML, XML SPY, SharePoint, RDBMS, N-tier Client Server Architecture, ATG & B2B E-Commerce.

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Tested the end to end functionality of the Adapter.
• Captured the logs and communicated defects with Microsoft team and made sure that the defects are resolved.
• Helped with MSISDN provisioning and white listing the MSISDNs.
• Verified the daily and monthly settlement files to see that all transactions are captured.
• Verified the Confidential customer care tool for transactions including the refund functionality.
• Performed API testing of the application by verifying and validating the XML files according to schema.
• Verified the xml files for proper attributes/values in the response xml.

Environment: Agile, Java/J2EE, ASP.NET, XML, XML SPY, Content Management Systems(CMS), SharePoint, Androids, Windows mobile devices, Blackberry, IPhone, SQL Server Management Studio, Agile Scrum, RDBMS, N-tier Client Server Architecture & E-Commerce.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily meetings to review wireframes and functional requirements, created and updated test cases per changes to the documentation and Change Requests.
• Executed Test Passes on different handheld mobile devices such as Androids, Samsung, Blackberry, Nokia, Symbin, Motorola, Windows phones, IPhone and logged defects, collected Log Files and attended daily Triage meetings with vendors.
• Used Quality Center for Test Execution and worked with developers in case of issues or change requests.
• Performed Black-Box Testing of the application and reported the results.
• Performed client API testing using XMLs and the command line tool "Curl" and Soap UI.
• Tested the Functionality of the application as well as the Front end/Graphical User Interface.
• Verified and Validated the XMLs and performed Client API testing using Soap UI and Curl.
• Conducted Functional, System, Regression and Browser Compatibility Testing of the application.
• Identified high quality bugs, validated defects, verified defect fixes, assigned priorities to defects and logged issues in Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed extensive Backend Testing using SQL Queries.
• Co-ordination with the development team in Defect Management and Training activities.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform transaction testing.

Environment: Java/J2EE, ASP.NET, XML, XML SPY, Unix, Content Management Systems(CMS), SharePoint, Androids, Windows mobile devices, Blackberry, IPhone(iOS), SOAP UI, SQL Server Management Studio & Agile Scrum.

Confidential

Java Developer/White Box Test Engineer

• Participated in requirement design and walk through meetings with Business Analysts.
• Designed UML and Use case diagrams along with data base design.
• Performed coding for the modules Chemicals and Stock Solutions using Eclipse.
• Designed queries to perform data base transactions and incorporated the queries in java code.

Environment: Java/J2EE, XML, JavaScript, MySQL, Unix, Visual Source Safe, Oracle, Eclipse, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, Windows, SQL, MS Office and HTML.