OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a challenging and growth oriented position in Quality Assurance. Drawing on a wide experience in the realm of Web based applications as well as back - end server modules, distributed-computing modules and interfaces, especially related to the telecommunication industry.

SUMMARY:

• Dedicated and hardworking professional with 6 years of coding and 8+ years of Quality Assurance experience in the field of distributed applications, business process re-engineering and client/server based projects.
• Currently a Test team lead and very well handle offshore team and projects.
• Proficient in all types of software testing with a strong background of software development.
• Being an achiever, I actively pursue a goal-oriented life that is challenging and fulfilling both professionally and personally. My personal repertoire includes excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills.
• Expert in System testing and SQL queries and have a good knowledge in Sybase RDBMS, Oracle RDBMS.
• Worked on a three tier software testing, with JAVA/JSP as the front end, Corba server and Sybase/Oracleas the backend.
• Good Experience in testing XML (DTS, SCHEMA) based applications while interfacing with external systems.
• Very good knowledge of Manual Testing as well as Automated Testing using Mercury’s WinRunner, Load Runner, TestDirector

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows95/98/NT/2000, Sun Solaris

Languages: C, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Programming, C++, COBOL

Web & J2EE Tech: JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, J2EE, HTML

Middleware: CORBA (VisiBroker)

Web Server: iPlanet6.0, Java Web Server

Database: Oracle 8i, Sybase 12.0

Testing Tools: Mercury s Win Runner, Load Runner, TestDirector

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

System Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the Software Test Plan. Check / Review the Test Cases document
• Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
• Keep track of the new requirements from the Project.
• Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements.
• Develop and implement test plans.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Test Manager.
• Escalate the issues in the application and aggressively work to resolve them
• Conduct war-rooms for Critical projects.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Organize the meetings.
• Prepare the Agenda for the meeting, for example: Weekly Team meeting etc.
• Prepare the Runrates on the projects.
• Send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Managert.
• Frequent status check meetings with the Team.
• Communication by means of Chat / emails etc. with the Client (If required).
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations, Testing and deployment activities.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
• Check for timely delivery of different milestones.
• Identify requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
• Motivate team members.
• Organize / Conduct internal s on various products.
• Provide guidance,, SME support to the team onshore and offshore.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

System Testing, Regression, Unit, E2E testing

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all types of testing which includes
• Unit, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, E2E testing and User Acceptance testing(UAT).
• Work involves preparation of test plan, test hierarchies and test cases.
• Used Manual as well as Automated testing (WinRunner TSL scripts, Testdirector).
• Rigorously used SQL queries during testing.
• Involved in design reviews and customer reviews for further developments to the system and to integrate it with other systems
• Gave support to the existing system by handling Modification Requests(MR)
• Responsible for Repository management, source integrity using Sablime and deployment of the application
• Worked as E2E IST tester (Jan.04 ~ Sept.04)
• Created E2E IST test plans for quarterly releases.
• Worked closey with system test districts to create and execute IST testcases.
• Worked closely with UAT team to transition IST tested software to UAT environment.

Environment: Corba - Visibroker 3.4, JDK 1.2, iPlanet, Sybase, SunOS 5.6

Confidential

Development/Testing

Responsibilities:

• Financial Accounting System
• Conducted requirement study to gather requirement.
• Responsible for development of user input screens, reports.
• Overall responsibilities also include installation of system, data collection and creation, user, testing and maintenance of system.
• Purchase & Raw material Inventory Control.
• Involved in the design/development of a database application using ORACLE RDBMS in Unix environment, C language was used as an interface to access ORACLE.
• Responsible for development of user input screens, reports.
• Overall responsibilities also include installation of system, data collection and creation, user, testing and maintenance of system.
• The system details as follows

Environment: ProC, Oracle 6.0/7.3, SQL Plus, C, COBOL, Report Writer 1.1