SUMMARY:

• To find a challenging and technocratic position, which will allow me to leverage my 10+ years of experience and enhance my passion for innovation and strong technical skills.
• Over 11 years of experience in Fast Paced IT Environment with expertise in Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing. Obtain an interesting and challenging position that utilizes my expertise as a QA/Test Analyst. Experienced in Software Quality Assurance Processes and have been involved in testing of stand - alone as well as web-based client/server application. Strong analytical & problem solving techniques, presentation skills, Quick learner and a team player backed by good communication skills. Experienced in Test Management and Automation Tools.
• Extensive working understanding of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Experienced with Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User acceptance (UAT), Usability & Performance testing for both Web based and client/server applications
• Excellent analytical, logical and problem solving skills
• Proficiency with different methodology like Waterfall, Agile (Scrum) and RUP.
• Experience in Manual and Automated Testing in both Windows and Unix environments
• Proficient in Analyzing System & Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Business Rules to Identify Test Requirements, Write Test Plans, Design Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, and Execute Test Runs.
• Experience in Establishing QA Procedures / Standards to meet CMM and ISO Standards
• Create and execute automated test scripts for functional, regression and performance testing using QTP, Selenium IDE, Load Runner & QA Load 5.5

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Winrunner

Rational Tools: Rational Clearcase, Rational Clearquest, Rational Performance Tester

Scripting Languages: TSL, VBScript & JavaScript

Programming Languages: C#, ASP.Net, VB.net, PL/SQL, JAVA, J2EE

Database: Oracle 9i, SQL Server, MS Access 2003 and TOAD

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

Design Methodologies: UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall, Rational Rose

MS: TFS, Bugzilla, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, JIRA

Web Browsers: Internet explorer, Netscape navigator, Mozilla Firefox

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager - Build Integration

• Facilitation of inter-team communication across many agile projects within an organisation
• Defining and implementing the role testing plays within the organization
• Budgeting or forecasting for testing as a service dependent on organisational process
• Ensuring the teams (Scrum Teams) implement and follow best practices to prevent defects
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project
• Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery
• Deploying and managing the appropriate testing framework to meet the testing mandate
• Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement/release
• Achieves quality assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews
• Acting as a catalyst for change and improvement in performance and quality

Environment: VB .Net, JIRA, HPSM, XML, SQL Server 2008

Confidential

Sr. QA Engineer (Off Shore/Onsite)

• Managed all types of Change Requests (CR’s), enhancements, issues and documentation changes
• Interacted and coordinated with developers and discussed technical problems to resolve Crawfords Client Server system and reporting bugs/defects and prioritized
• Daily Shakeout notification, BVT’s, Day to Day activity process of release management with project management on testing update, all through the testing phases
• Successfully managed software test projects to insure testing was coordinated, adequate and timely
• Provided design and implementation of formal software quality assurance processes and methodologies
• Creation and execution of test plans and test suites; exploratory/ad hoc testing; bug documentation and regression and summary writing
• Upgrading, rewriting and reorganization of product test specifications and test cases

Environment: VB .Net, JIRA, Appian, XML, SQL Server 2008

Confidential

Sr QA Analyst

• Architected and implemented Agile QA processes and practices, including defect and test management
• Constant interaction with business, development and production teams onsite
• Coordinate efforts between product development teams and onshore enterprise test team
• Standardize QA standards and practices across teams where possible
• Provide functional, business process and technical testing services for all software & business process development projects, and externally developed projects, from initiation through to implementation
• Forecast / Estimates the project future requirement
• Wrote effective test plans and understands test strategy and project risk, particularly from a Quality perspective
• Responsible for all aspects of running a Large web site and web application development including working extensively with SQL Queries for Backend validation
• Responsible for supporting Dynamic pages using Selenium WebDriver
• Evaluated, acquired, implemented and administered enterprise-wide defect tracking software
• Working with selenium WebDriver API to run test on same browser instead server
• Evaluated, recommended, purchased and implemented automated load testing software (Gomez)
• From Detailed Use cases, Create Manual & Automated test cases for Web application & Web services

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, Selenium IDE / RC, IIS 7, AJAX, MS - TFS (Team Foundation Server), XML, SQL Server 2008, Netezza, Gomez

Confidential, OH

QA Lead

• Involved in all stages of testing process development of Test Plan and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and support for User Acceptance Testing
• Involved in back end testing where the flat files were loaded into the database and also extracting the data into flat files from database
• Track & report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defect discovered & their status, Performance baseline etc
• Used Quality Center for tracking and reporting defects, enhancement requests, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Working with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results
• Document, Implement, Monitor and enforces all process & procedures for testing is established as per standard defined by Organization
• Actively performed Iterative testing methodology and the test execution before the UAT
• Extensively used soapUI for testing web services for the application under test
• Tested Embedded Software / Hardware thoroughly & Participated in Firmware/ Device Testing
• Done Load testing/ Performance testing to see how application is responding to the user actions under different load conditions

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, QTP 9.0, Quality Centre 9.2, XML, VB script, SQL Server 2005, TOAD, MS- Visio, Load Runner, soapUI, Windows XP.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

UAT Tester

• Analyzed Business Requirements & Software Specification Requirements to achieve better understanding of the UAT
• Design Test scenarios for different user groups based on system requirements, solution diagrams and screen mock ups
• Involved in preparation of Test Strategy, Created Test Plan and responsible for executing the Test Script & Perform Unit / White box Testing
• Generated test scenarios, Requirement and authorized Test cases. Executed tests, created issue reports
• Extensively used SQL server to perform Backend testing / Database Testing & wrote complex queries to retrieve the data from database
• Perform Functional testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing and System Testing
• Conducted load and performance testing using Load Runner
• Created Vusers scripts for Load and Performance testing by recording, incorporating Transactions and think time to verify the capacity

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.2, Load Runner 8.0, Quality Centre 8.2, Java, VB Script, Web services, XML, soapUI, MS- SQL Server, MS- Access.

Confidential, Richmond

QA Analyst / Performance Tester

• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on User and Functional Requirements
• Wrote SQL statements extensively to retrieve data for Database Testing
• Tested the application manually by executing test cases prior to automation
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application using Mercury Quick Test Pro
• Performed Load Testing for identifying performance bottlenecks using Load Runner
• Maintained and executed test scripts using JIRA and analyzed the results
• Created Parameterization, Rendezvous, Host and Scheduling Operation
• Working with different Vuser types and groups, Transaction points to measure the response time

Environment: Load Runner 7.6, JIRA, Quick Test Pro 8.0, Java, J2EE, Html, JavaScript, XML, Web services, MySQL, MS- Access, Windows NT/2000, UNIX

Confidential

QA Engineer

• Involved in writing Test Cases and Test Scripts for different kinds of testing like regression testing, Functionality testing and Security testing
• Performed Database Testing / Backend testing to test the validity of the data in the reports using SQL and PL/SQL queries
• Used SQL queries to run Comparison Testing to compare data in database and data displayed on front end
• Performed System Testing to make sure that all new requirements are working according to user specifications outlined in Analysis & Design (A&D) document
• Performed Black Box, Regression, functionality, System, front end, negative, positive and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Mercury Quick Test Professional
• Test Director was used extensively for planning various stages of Testing, and also for Bug Reporting
• Done Load Testing/Performance Testing to see how application is responding to the user actions under different load conditions

Environment: Quick Test Professional, ASP .Net, C#, Test Director, Load Runner, HTML, Oracle 9i, XML, Web Logic, SQL Server 2000, Bug logging and Tracking

Confidential

Software Tester

• Confidential is a Global and Independent leader in alternative investments. Man has bought a C application SalesLogix a powerful and flexible CRM and customized the application to suit its company’s needs. Reviewed the Business Requirement documents with the business and development team
• Development of Test Plan and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center
• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality.
• Developed test automation scripts for Regression, Functionality, and GUI testing
• Analyzed Defect Reports and work closely with Application Developers for resolving the bugs.
• Performed Emulating Wokrload and evaluated Performance Test Result

Environment: Quality Center 7, Windows NT/2000, HTML, Oracle 8i, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Functional Tester (RFT), Rational Clearcase, Rational Rose, SQL Server

Confidential

QA Analyst

• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test Plan and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and support for User Acceptance Testing
• Executed test scripts using Winrunner
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center 8.2
• Used Quality Center for tracking and reporting defects, enhancement requests, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Interacted with the development and the business team in resolving the critical issue
• Extensively used SQL queries to test the database for Back-end Testing
• Analyzed results and co-coordinated across various departments with network administrators, database administrators and system administrators to resolve performance issues.
• Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix

Environment: Quality Center, Winrunner, Rational req pro, Rational robot, Rational Clearcase, Oracle, XML, Rational Performance Tester, TOAD