PROFILE

• IT professional with 12 years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology in Manual and Automation Testing for Web, Client Server, Web Services and Mainframe applications in Testing methodology, Test Management Defect Management
• Experience as a QA lead for manual and automation projects which includes development of Plans, Strategies, Test Certification Report, Risk Analysis and Gap Analysis.
• Provide excellent technical leadership design and implement cutting-edge solutions proactively bring new ideas, technologies, and methods to the table.
• Work closely with development, business analysts, and other QA team members to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner
• Well versed with Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke testing and End to End Testing
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team, having strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Involved in various Quality Assurance activities like collecting and preparing metrics reports and other Quality documents for the team.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Mentorship Help others on the team to grow as technical professionals, including running code reviews, tech workshops and 1-on-1 guidance for more junior
• Have sound understanding of Software Development and Project Management Life Cycle.
• Excellent working knowledge in design implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the Business users.
• Excellent leadership skills, mentoring skills, people skills, Team Player and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Expertise in creating daily weekly plans and schedules and appropriately allocates work to the team.
• Team builder and Team Leader with excellent motivational abilities.
• Highly experienced in training and grooming of new resources.
• Define appropriate approach/strategy for testing.
• Experienced in Waterfall and Agile models.
• Highly experienced in Quality Center
• Working knowledge of Version control tools like VSS Share Portal
• Strong experience in providing effort Estimates for new testing projects
• Experienced in managing an off-shore team and acted as an on-site coordinator and Extensive experience in coordinating testing efforts, responsible for Test Deliverables.
• Design, build and maintain component-based automation products using suitable automation tools.
• Automating Web Based Application, Web Services , IBM Mainframe CICS and client server Applications, Exposure to wide Business Domains like CRM, Insurance, Banking, Trading accounts, Quality Management Systems, IBM Test Frameworks.
• Highly motivated, organized, results and detail oriented. Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Proven capability of adapting to new and fast changing technologies.
• Experience in Manual and Automated Testing using tools like Selenium, Win Runner, Quick Test Pro for Functional and Regression Testing and Quality Center for Defect Tracking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role : Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and strategy for quality assurance activities and project estimation for nationwide releases.
• Expertise in creating daily weekly plans and schedules and appropriately allocates work to the team.
• Team builder and Team Leader with excellent motivational abilities.
• Training and grooming of new resources.
• Define appropriate approach/strategy for testing.
• Strong experience in providing effort Estimates for new testing projects.
• Responsible for implementing Automation Framework/approach for the project and responsible for Estimation
• Assign tasks to all Testing Team members and ensure that the project timelines are met.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations, testing and deployment activities.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including test results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Used Microsoft Team Foundation Server TFS
• Provide excellent technical leadership design and implement cutting-edge solutions proactively bring new ideas, technologies, and methods to the table.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Work closely with development, business analysts, and other QA team members to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner
• Well versed with Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke testing and End to End Testing
• Used Agile and Waterfall testing model.
• Performed user-acceptance testing for various Titan IT projects.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team, having strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Mentorship Help others on the team to grow as technical professionals, including running code reviews, tech workshops and 1-on-1 guidance for more junior
• Have sound understanding of Software Development and Project Management Life Cycle.
• Excellent working knowledge in design implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the Business users.
• Excellent leadership skills, mentoring skills, people skills, Team Player and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Involved in various Quality Assurance activities like collecting and preparing metrics reports and other Quality documents for the team.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Create QTP scripts for Web based applications for Regression suite and Functional testing
• Created Selenium scripts for Data Migration of test data.
• Responsible for Database verification Testing, using IBM DB2 and Toad
• Created the generic VB scripts useful for business needs like connecting to Oracle Database and executing SQL queries through QTP.
• Responsible for all Co ordination activities between Client to IBM and between projects both from Offshore as well as Onshore.
• Continuously worked on improving the automated solutions to suit new business needs.
• Mentor/Train new resources on Automation concepts/Tools.
• Creating and maintaining VB Scripts for QTP automation testing, parameterization, checkpoints, data validation, data-driven and keyword driven testing, object repository.
• Developed test scripts using Selenium and QTP and performed functional and regression testing on new builds of the applications.
• Involved in gap analysis and risk analysis and provide recommendations from QA perspective.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements Software, Hardware, Resources to the Project Manager.
• Escalate the issues in the application to the Client.
• 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.
• Review test results, test summary reports, test execution schedules.
• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
• Managed multiple projects and prioritized tasks based on timelines provided. Assigned tasks to onsite and offshore team members to finish projects in a timely manner.
• Check for timely delivery of different milestones.
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager.

Environment: Web, Web services, Java, Quality Center, Selenium, QTP, Windows XP, Windows 2003, SQL, Oracle, DB2, XML, JCL, SQL Developer, TOAD, QMF, SOAP UI, Waterfall and Agile testing model, Microsoft Team Foundation Server TFS, Microsoft Visual Studio

Team Size : 6

Trainings Acquired:

• Know your Industry Insurance Online
• LITMAS Lessons on IBM Test Methodology, Techniques and Services Online
• Selenium On Job

Confidential

Role : Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing Automation Framework/approach for the project and responsible for Estimation
• Responsible for creating Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Responsible for implementing Business Objects Model for Automation BPO
• Responsible for creation of QTP scripts on the application with the customized Approach
• Responsible for Integration Testing with external connection using Mainframe as Channel
• Responsible for Database verification Testing, using IBM DB2 and Toad
• Defect Tracking and Management and report generation on Quality Center.
• Coordinates issue resolution
• Conduct Smoke, functionality, regression testing on the required components with the team.
• Monitors day to day test progress
• Coordinate with all projects level QA leads to identify, define and execute tests for the program.
• Interface with developers to resolve technical issues and gave training to new team members on Automation tools and process of testing
• Converting Manual Test cases to automated test scripts using QTP and Developed Test scripts using VBS Language.
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding Business Requirement Specification BRS and Software Requirement Specification SRS documents.
• Provided Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM document to Project Manager, Requirements team and Development team for approval.
• Wrote Quality Control Plan, Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts in Quality Center based on Requirement documents, Use cases, High Level Design and Detail Design.
• Conducted Black Box, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance testing on different modules of Web Based application.
• Conducted Data driven testing using QTP and parameterize the scripts to execute multiple sets of data.
• Creating and executing detail function test scripts and Test Scenarios based on the business requirements.
• Converting Manual Test cases to automated test scripts using QTP and Developed Test scripts using VBS Language.
• Utilized release notes to reflect changes /additions into the scripts as needed. Conducted regression and performance tests to identify the impact caused by the release modifications.
• Performed testing for cross-browser and cross-platform testing for different test environments.
• Involved in testing Business Objects reports by connecting to universe, checking Data results, filter options, Column and Row formatting etc.
• Logged Defects in Quality Center for Test Cases that did not satisfy the SRS Software Requirements Specifications documents and actively participated in Defect Management meetings.
• Tracing Test Cases with the requirements using coverage tab in Quality Center.
• Quality Center was used as a defect tracking tool.

Environment: XML, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Business Objects, Windows XP, UNIX, SQL and Oracle.

Team Size : 5