SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of QA experience in all phases of Software development life cycle/Software testing life cycle, including requirements gathering, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect management, risk analysis, reporting, leading and managing teams/projects in a variety of industries.
• Excellent domain skills in Life Sciences, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecom and Healthcare.
• Expert in evaluating new business capabilities and developing a comprehensive test strategy which defines the testing approach for function or release.
• Expert in Preparing, designing, and executing test plans and cases (of moderate to high complexity) based on customer and software requirements and technical understanding of product architecture to attain quality software both economically and efficiently, including both new and existing feature regression tests.
• Expert in evaluating new business capabilities and developing a comprehensive test strategy which defines the testing approach for function or release.
• Expert in Identifying and documenting plans for identifying the project’s testing activities and approach.
• Expert in ensuring traceability of test cases to requirements. Verifying accuracy of test results and document results.
• Excellent knowledge in identifying gaps in the business requirements.
• Expert in manual testing for Client/Server, Object Oriented and web based multi - tier architecture applications.
• Expert in both Black box testing and White box testing.
• Expert in setting up Test environments which includes Configuration, data, builds and batch job installation & execution
• Expert in Designing, Implementing & Development of Test Plans, Test Scenarios & Test Cases and Execution of Test cases as well.
• Experience in authoring Use-Cases, Test schedule, Test summary Reports and Traceability Matrix.
• Expert in System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Mobile Testing, POS testing, Compatibility Testing, Backend Testing and handheld Testing.
• Expert in Backend testing using Oracle and SQL server databases.
• Expertise in XML files validation and comparison using OXYGEN Editor/developer tool.
• Bug Reporting or Defect tracking using Quality Center/ Test Director, ALM, JIRA and Clear quest.
• Excellent experience in 4010 to 5010 and ICD 9 to10.
• Performed Browser based testing on various browsers.
• Highly Commendable in core concepts of Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Web Services Testing.
• Worked as SCRUM MASTER for sprint team conducting scrum calls in agile environment.
• Worked on different testing methodologies like Agile/Scrum, Water Fall and V- model
• Experienced in Managing the QA/test team and conducting status calls, Daily stand ups.
• Participated in Production deployment.
• Having good working knowledge in Automated Testing Tools like Win Runner, Selenium, QTP and Test Director
• Persistently energetic in Leading and motivating the team to complete the tasks with eminent problem solving skills in all aspects that are needed for accomplishing goals and deliverables.
• Experience on QA estimates using Estimation Techniques like Test Case Point, Functional Point and Use Case Point.
• Worked on Metrics preparation of the project.
• Worked as a Defect Prevention Coordinator in the triage team.
• Detail driven with outstanding communication skills and proven success interfacing with both customers and cross functional teams.
• Proven excellence in creating business and technical presentations/documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM,SOAP UI, Quality center, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Test Director, Quick Test Pro,Selenium, Oxygen Editor, WinScp, Putty, SQL developer, Rally, Oxygen Editor/Developer

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM, Quality Center, Clear Quest and Test Director

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP and UNIX

Scripting Languages: TSL, VB Script, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, Shell Script, HTML, XML. XSLTLanguages: TSL, SQA Basic, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Sybase

Technologies: Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP,.Net Servlets,ASP, .Net, C#

Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Tomcat, Apache server, MS IIS.

Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, SSL, HTTP, HTTPS,SMTP,UDP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TX

SR QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Prepare Test estimation based on the particular requirements.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the test estimation.
• Closely worked with business users and Clients to nail down the technical problems
• Update daily status with Team lead through daily stand up call.
• Conduct defect triage meeting on a daily basis.
• Capture defects in ALM
• Performed Web Testing, Database testing, SOAP Testing, Mobile testing, Functional testing, end to end testing and integration testing of the application.
• Performed back end testing using SQL developer.
• Validating web services using SOAP UI.
• Performed Browser based testing on various browsers
• Analyzing Integration and Regression testing issues and co-ordinate with the developers if required.
• Reporting End to End testing status to the higher management on a daily basis.
• Prepare requirement Traceability Matrix and Test case Report.
• Conduct user acceptance meeting with the business and story owners at the end of each iteration.
• Analyze and review defect reports and daily status reports
• Oversee the logging, review, and assignment of testing defects to the appropriate developers to ensure all defects are driven out through resolution. Log, track, and verify defects.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis, based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Coordinated with the Business Users for Pilot and User Acceptance testing.

Confidential,MN

QA Lead

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Analyzed the user stories, decomposed them into user scenarios and summarized them in the Rally (Internal Scrum Tool).
• Coordinate with offshore team for providing KT sessions for each sprint.
• Prepare Test estimation based on the user stories for that particular iteration.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the scrum estimation.
• Conduct User story Analysis with the business users and development team
• Closely worked with business users and Clients to nail down the technical problems
• Update daily status with Scrum Master through daily stand up call.
• Conduct defect triage meeting on a daily basis both for scrum and QA environment.
• Capture defects in JIRA, HP quality center, ALM in QA window
• Performed Web Testing, Database testing, SOAP Testing, Functional testing, and end to end testing and integration testing of the application.
• Performed back end testing using SQL developer.
• Validating web services using SOAP UI.
• Performed Browser based testing on various browsers
• Managing the integration testing team - defining the scope for each integration testing cycle and coordinating on time lines completion.
• Analyzing Integration testing issues and co-ordinate with the developers if required.
• Leading the integration test activities from the planning phase till the delivery.
• Reporting Integration testing status to the higher management on a daily basis.
• Performed production support testing.
• Performed performance testing.
• Prepare requirement Traceability Matrix and Test case Report.
• Conduct user acceptance meeting with the business and story owners at the end of each iteration.
• Analyze and review defect reports and daily status reports
• Managing QA onshore and offshore teams oversee development of test cases and test execution.
• Conducted Scrum calls in agile environment, acting as a Scrum master for sprint team.
• Oversee the logging, review, and assignment of testing defects to the appropriate developers to ensure all defects are driven out through resolution. Log, track, and verify defects.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis, based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Coordinated with the Business Users for Pilot and User Acceptance testing.
• Review offshore deliverables on daily basis

Confidential,MN

SR QA Analyst

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Analyzed the user stories, decomposed them into user scenarios and summarized them in the Rally (Internal Scrum Tool).
• Conducted Scrum calls in agile environment, acting as a Scrum master for sprint team.
• Coordinate with offshore team for providing KT sessions for each sprint.
• Prepare Test estimation based on the user stories for that particular iteration.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the scrum estimation.
• Conduct User story Analysis with the business users and development team
• Closely worked with business users and Clients to nail down the technical problems
• Update daily status with Scrum Master through daily stand up call.
• Conduct defect triage meeting on a daily basis both for scrum and QA environment.
• Capture defects in JIRA and HP quality center in QA window
• Performed Web Testing, Database testing, SOAP Testing, Functional Testing, and end to end testing and integration testing of the application.
• Performed back end testing using SQL developer.
• Validating web services using SOAP UI
• Performed production support testing.
• Prepare requirement Traceability Matrix and Test case Report.
• Analyze and review defect reports and daily status reports
• Conduct user acceptance meeting with the business and story owners at the end of each iteration.
• Performed Browser based testing on various browsers
• Worked on SOAP UI tool for validating restful URL’s
• Managing QA onshore and offshore teams oversee development of test cases and test execution.
• Oversee the logging, review, and assignment of testing defects to the appropriate developers to ensure all defects are driven out through resolution. Log, track, and verify defects.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis, based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Review offshore deliverables on daily basis

Confidential,MN

Embedded Scrum QA

• Determine the test methodologies (Scrum) that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Analyzed the user stories (functional requirements), decomposed them into user scenarios and summarized them in the Rally (Internal Scrum Tool).
• Prepare Test estimation based on the user stories for that particular iteration.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the scrum estimation.
• Conduct User story Analysis with the business users and development team
• Prepared business critical test data since the project was only executed onshore.
• Test case creation activities were completed in a very short time span since 2 iterations happens in parallel.
• Closely worked with business users and Clients to nail down the technical problems
• Update daily status with Scrum Master through daily morning scrum call.
• Conduct defect triage meeting on a daily basis both for scrum and QA environment.
• Capture defects in Rally (Internal Scrum Tool) while in scrum window and in QC while in QA window
• Prepare requirement Traceability Matrix and Test case Report.
• In the regression phase, the project was automated using Selenium WebDriver. I was responsible for developing a dynamic framework which could automate all the test cases.
• Used ANT and MAVEN to build and run the Selenium automation framework. Once the script got over, framework used to send the automation reports over email.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis, based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Coordinated with the Pharmacists, Advocates (Business Users) for Pilot and User Acceptance testing.

Confidential,TX

Onsite Coordinator/Test Analyst

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Analyzed the functional requirements, decomposed and summarized them in the Caliber.
• Prepare Test estimation based on TCP template.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the estimation.
• Conduct Requirement Analysis with the business users and development team
• Prepared business critical test data since the project was only executed onshore.
• Test case creation activities were completed in a very short time span.
• Update Weekly and daily status with Test Manager /Development Manager
• Conduct defect triage meeting on a weekly basis
• Capture defects in Defect Management Tool (QC)
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis, based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Coordinated with the business users for User Acceptance testing.

Confidential,TX

Onsite Coordinator/Test Analyst

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Prepare test estimation based a TCP template.
• Prepare Test Plan and Master Test Strategy documents.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the estimation.
• Conduct Requirement Analysis with the business users and development team
• Update Weekly and daily status with Test Manager /Development Manager
• Coordinated with the development team on Batch job testing.
• Conduct defect review meeting on a weekly basis
• Capture defects in Defect Management Tool (QC)
• Prepare requirement traceability matrix.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Prepare test summary report, which documents test, results and lists any discrepancies, has been created at the completion of each phase of testing.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Produce metrics and measurements on a weekly basis based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.
• Coordinated with the business users for User Acceptance testing.

Confidential,TX

QA Lead

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy documents.
• Prepare Project Plan document.
• Conduct Requirement Analysis with the business users and development team
• Update Weekly and daily status with Test Manager.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the estimation.

Confidential,TX

QA Analyst, Onsite Coordinator

• Responsible for acquiring knowledge transition about various applications like IntreBOS/Transfer Engine, Center Stage and POP.
• Prepared knowledge transition document and other artifacts like Understanding documents.
• Acquired knowledge and worked on Quick Test Pro and regression suites on IntreBOS application.
• Have extensively used HP Quality Test Center tool for test management.
• Scheduling and planning on KT activities as per the KT estimation plan.
• Update daily status reports and score cards with the Test manager.

Confidential,NJ

Test Lead

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods, and test data collection.
• Captured defects in Cognizant’s internal Defect Tracking Tool (PROLITE)
• Prepare Requirement traceability matrix.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy documents.
• Involved in Adhoc testing, Functionality Testing, System testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and Performance testing.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Prepare test summary report, Test logs which documents test results and lists any discrepancies, has been written at the completion of each level of integration testing and placed in Prolite.
• Update Monthly, Weekly & Daily status with Development Managers.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the estimation.
• Produce metrics and measurements based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting

Confidential,NJ

Test Lead

• Involved in Preparing 34 OQ test scripts for 172 requirements.
• Involved in executing 1020 OQ test steps for 16 modules.
• Involved in Dry Run for 1020 OQ test steps.
• Involved in Reviewing the OQ Test scripts.
• Preparation of Test Data for 16 modules by thoroughly understanding the Software Requirement Specifications.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists
• Involved in collection of Metrics
• Preparing KT and Case study document
• Preparing Weekly status report and Engagement Status report

Confidential,NJ

Test Lead

• Preparation of Test Plan Document
• Preparation and Reviewing of Test Scenarios
• Preparation and Reviewing the System Test scripts
• Executing the System Test Scripts
• Capture defects in Defect Management Tool (TD)
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists

Confidential,NJ

Test Lead

• Determine the test methodologies that include the types of tests required, test documents, test methods, and test data collection.
• Capture defects in Defect Management Tool (Team track)
• Prepare Test dependency matrix and requirement traceability matrix.
• Prepare Test Plan document.
• Conduct document & project reviews in accordance with the Quality Standards & procedures outlined in the Quality Process checklists.
• Prepare test summary report, which documents test results and lists any discrepancies, has been written at the completion of each level of integration testing and placed in Team Track.
• Update Weekly & Daily QA status with Client QA Manager.
• Documented all the environmental issues and the possible contingency action taken.
• Scheduling and planning the activities as per the estimation.
• Produce metrics and measurements based on data collected and provide a baseline for future measurement and defect reporting.