SUMMARY:

• Around 12 years of IT experience in Quality Assurance across U.S Energy & Utilities, Airlines and Telecom domains
• 8 Years of Domain experience in Energy Domain ( Confidential )
• Extensive knowledge of Software Testing Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) implementing Waterfall, V - Model,Agile, and Iteration and Scrummethodologies.
• Senior Software QA Analyst with full STLC experience, including requirement gathering, Risk Analysis, Test Effort Estimation, Test Scenarios Identification, Defect Management, developing and implementing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits.
• Technical expert in Testing the applications with Structured query language (SQL)
• Experience in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification
• Extensive experience in writing SQL to validate the database systems as part of backend/ database testing.
• Experience in testing Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Proficient working experience in Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Website Testing, GUI, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Usability Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Extensive experience withSoftwareQuality AssuranceTesting on GUI based Client-Server & Web Based applications, Data Driven Applications
• Good Knowledge on Texas Market Solutions.
• Skilled in analyzing Business Requirement Document and High-Level System Requirement Document to derive Functional and task specific requirements for testing.
• Expertise in Software Verification and Validation and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM).
• Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding Confidential the conceptual level and possess excellent presentation, interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: SOAP UI and Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Agile Craft

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle management, Microsoft Test Manager, Jira and Bugzilla

Programming Languages: VB script and PL/SQL.

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 9i/10g and MySQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bothell- WA

UAT Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with clients, information architects, user experience designers, website project managers or scrum masters, producers, usability experts, developers, marketing communications, and business leaders to create and implement projects for Digital Platforms and Sales Tools
• Analyzing complex functional and project requirements and product information, zero in on essential questions, and work with subject matter experts to document clear, concise material, and follow through with on-time delivery for use by multiple constituents
• Identifying and communicating risks, troubleshoot, and follow through with on-time delivery
• Developing and delivering communications and support to internal and external customers
• Ensuring concerns are addressed to the client's satisfaction in a timely manner
• Participate in product backlog meeting and prioritizing the requirements and grooming the team
• Prepare and present periodic status report and project metrics to the senior management and to the customers for governance calls
• Coordination with the developers, PM’s and Business teams for resolving the problems.
• Perform all QA Lead activities for Testing Lifecycle, Defect Lifecycle and Status reporting to all the project stake holders and QA management.
• Prepare Test plan and Test Strategery.
• Build SQL queries to get test data based on different test conditions

Confidential, Houston TX USA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handling 16 (Customer Recovery, Baggage, Electronic Time & Attendance, Fuel Automation….) applications on Airport Operations portfolio.
• Managed, mentored and coordinated the teams, aided in effective team building and took responsibilities to complete the task in the speculated time for the various releases and enhancements
• Attending Daily stand up calls and provide project updates.
• Participate in product backlog meeting and prioritizing the requirements and grooming the team
• Prepare and present periodic status report and project metrics to the senior management and to the customers for governance calls
• Coordination with the developers, PM’s and Business teams for resolving the problems.
• Set up the offshore team for the new projects.
• Assigning daily task to offshore team and Track and report upon Testing Activities. Track the progress of team deliverables and check the timely delivery of different milestones.
• Perform all QA Lead activities for Testing Lifecycle, Defect Lifecycle and Status reporting to all the project stake holders and QA management.

Confidential - Houston TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Waterfall and Agile project models.
• Worked in Confidential Residential Projects, Innovation Projects, Enhancements and Implementation
• Study new projects and prepare Test Plan document, provide testing estimates by reading Business Requirement Document (BRD) & Functional Specification document (FS) for new projects/enhancements.
• Participate in product backlog meeting and prioritizing the requirements and grooming the team
• Prepare and present periodic status report and project metrics to the senior management and to the customers for governance calls
• Coordination with the developers, DBA, system administrator to ensure the test environment setup and any further project related requirements
• Provide SWAG (high level) and Detailed Level Test Estimates for all the new projects
• Identify Test Scenarios, Author & Execute Test Cases for System Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Set up the offshore team for the new projects.
• Assigning daily task to offshore team and Track and report upon Testing Activities. Track the progress of team deliverables and check the timely delivery of different milestones.
• Perform all QA Lead activities for Testing Lifecycle, Defect Lifecycle and Status reporting to all the project stake holders and QA management.

Modules/Work Streams/Functionalities: Web Services (Enrollments), GEP Web services, Online Account Management (OAM), PEACE CIS, Discovery CIS, SQL Developer, Putty, File Zilla

Confidential, TX huoston

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attending Business reviews and walkthroughs of flow diagrams along with business users to discuss the various "business-critical" flows
• Design high level test scenarios and send them to Business for approval. Involve in review of test case design, test case execution and report the defects and track them to closure in Quality Canter.
• Participate /Schedule defect triage/Ambiguity/project meetings with Product group/BA's/Dev team and configuration of Quality Center
• Daily and Weekly reports to Project Team and stakeholders
• Analyze the data stores and the tables in each data store.
• Create different data sets and Data Analysis in the data base by performing Data validation testing

Confidential, TX huston

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Comprehend the testing effort by analyzing the business requirements &systems development specifications (SDS) and providing QA estimations
• Attending the scrums & updating the scrum board and coordinating with team for completion of requirements
• Attending Business reviews and walkthroughs of flow diagrams along with business users to discuss the various "business-critical" flows
• Preparation of functional test plan, requirement ambiguity reports, requirement traceability matrix, test approach document
• Design high level test scenarios and send them to client for approval. Involve in review of test case design, test case execution and report the defects and track them to closure in Quality Canter.
• Participate /Schedule defect triage/Ambiguity/project meetings with Product group/BA's/Dev team and configuration of Quality Center
• Daily and Weekly reports to Project Team and stakeholders
• Analyze the data stores and the tables in each data store.
• Create different data sets and Data Analysis in the data base by performing Data validation testing
• Preparing project closure summary reports

Confidential

SR QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile methodology.
• Collaborate with systems developers, business analyst and product owners to provide Quality Assurance Agile practices
• Participate in sprint planning and executing test cases against incremental builds to better access project needs on a bi-weekly basis
• Responsible for analyzing technical specifications, creating test plans, designing test cases.
• Involved in various testing - Exploratory, Adhoc, functional, integration, compatibility, database and regression on Discovery web-based Customer Information System application
• Performed database testing such as data integrity, accuracy of stored data, data type, data size, data security and database performance
• Create and process data driven customer applications into customer accounts that exercise real world scenarios for Discovery applications
• Act as point of contact for defect management during defect triage to resolve issues and bugs found during testing phase