SUMMARY:

• ISTQB certified Test Professional with 9 years of experience in IT focusing on test delivery, efficient way of managing clients, stakeholders/product owners and third - party vendors
• Success in QA project management with client-focused delivery and maintaining a track record of delivering high quality products within proposed schedule & budget
• Strong experience and exposure to SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle
• As a Business Analyst, collaborated with stakeholder groups across organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and business requirements.
• Experienced planning test cases, plans and release using testing tools like Team Foundation Server, HP QC, Rally, Jira
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Data Warehousing specializing in ETL, Database Testing, Data Migration Testing, Data Quality Analysis, System Testing, Integration Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Retrofit Testing, Staging Testing, Web Service Testing.
• Experience working in domains like Insurance (Metlife), Media, Educational, Human Resource and Auto
• Having an Onsite experience (United States), comfortable in working with cross-cultural and Multinational teams; interacting with senior management for project needs
• Managed large teams across projects, performance appraisals, performance based rewarding, guiding/training for performance improvement and developing QA driving culture
• Experience working in Scrum based agile methodology for project execution, Strategizing Testing Process, Risk Management and Resource Management
• Software Testing Process i.e. Test Planning, Test Execution, creation of Requirements Traceability Matrix and Tracking Defects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Processes & Documentation: Test Strategy, Test Plan, QA Timelines, Test Coverage Matrix (RTM), Test Execution Report, Test Closure Report, Test Summary Report, Test Learning Document, Business Process Testing (BPT - Automation Framework), RRA (Requirement Risk Analysis), ETL testing processes

Test Management & Bug Tracking Tool: Quality Center 11 (ALM), Rally, JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis & iMacros (flash automation) SOAP UI, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Project management Tool: Clarity, Rally & Teamtrack

Application Technology & Build/ CI: Microsoft, Java/J2EE & Maven, hudson

Application Database: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, Toad, DB2

Testing Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative

Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP

Version Control System: VSS, Share point, Tortoise Subversion (SVN)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for Project Planning, Resource Allocation
• People management, Scheduling / Tracking and Reporting.
• I was involved in understanding the business needs and data requirements of external and internal clients.
• Involve in problem-solving phase, including defining the project scope and objectives, modeling business processes, identifying minimum performance expectations and participating in prototyping solutions to create preliminary user interface scenarios.
• System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Webservice Testing using SOAP UI.
• Solicit feedback and apply necessary changes to the project’s scope, as well as maintain standards and manage resources according to the project schedule.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating project estimates and Project Kick-off meeting and documentation, analyzing the project scope, preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy
• Reviewed database business and functional requirements, reviewed mapping transformations
• Worked with Program Managers, Requirement Analysts, Mappers, Developers, and other testers to resolve issues with requirements/mapping transformations
• Managing functional, regression, staging and retrofit test execution

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading an independent test team of 10 members
• Managing functional, regression, staging and retrofit test execution
• Creating project estimates and Project Kick-off meeting and documentation, analyzing the project scope, preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy
• Resource planning and coordination with multiple vendors
• Participate in M-review meeting and reporting the status to stakeholders
• Creating and Reviewing Test Conditions, test scripts designed by the team, Managing Defect Logging & Defect tracking in the Quality Centre. For Agile project, Rally was used as a Project Management tool.
• Did extensive work with ETL testing including Data Completeness, Data Transformation & Data Quality for various data feeds coming from source.
• Responsible for end to end automation of the recruiting site using iMacros tool.
• Data Traceability Matrix (DTM) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for the project.
• Maintaining Testing Control Cycle Sheet (TCCS) for the timely execution of the project.
• Participated in the RRA (Requirement Risk Analysis) meeting for finding the key risk areas from the Business and the technical point of view and preparing the mitigation plan for those risk areas.
• Participated in Project Forecast meeting and Estimate the Project future requirements.
• Define quality measurements: Map quality measurements to Customer satisfaction goal (CPE).
• Working with the team to implement Agile processes e.g. Project Inception meetings, Sprint planning meeting, Done criteria, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement, Demo, Sprint Velocity, Burn down charts, metrics etc.

Confidential

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Follow AGILE methodology of Software development
• Working with different vendors for our client projects
• Onsite experience in United States as a Test Analyst directly interacting with client
• Status reporting via Daily/weekly client calls
• Coordinating with the onsite testing and various development teams
• Writing and Executing Test Case in QC with agile outlook
• Multi browser/OS testing
• Identifying the system flow to be tested for a requirement
• Creating reusable business components and Business Process Test and executing the same

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in STLC (Black box technique)
• Requirement analysis, Deriving test conditions from Requirement specifications
• Preparing System and Regression test scripts
• Execution of System and Regression Test Scripts
• Defect logging, Retesting and tracking the defect to closure Database Testing