PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strong business and system requirement analysis experience, working on a daily basis in decision - making meetings with higher-level Management
• Experienced in managing large QA Testing teams and as Project Leads and Test Coordinators in Exelon
• Long time work experience in Agile and Waterfall methodology project
• A Certified Scrum Master
• Extensive experience in all testing methods including manual and automated testing using the Mercury tools such as HPQC (Quality Center), Rally for Test/Project Management, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Test Links, Bugzilla and PMF (Project Management Professional), and VERSIONONE tools
• Extensive work with TFS (Team Foundation Server) and MTM (Microsoft Test management) in Visual Studio, having strong knowledge of the tools
• Defects logging/Tracking, writing Test case, creating new Test Suite & importing Test case for Regression Test in MTM
• Used JIRA Project Management tools to manage project and bugs
• Experienced in functional testing, black box testing, white box testing, system integration testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, boundary testing, parallel testing, ad-hoc testing, exploratory testing, usability testing, negative testing, positive testing and acceptance testing
• Extensively created and documented Test Plans, test cases, use cases, and test scripts
• Performed browser compatibility and configuration testing on various operating systems
• Writing test plans and executing them to ensure full test coverage and quality product releases
• Performed back-end testing with SQL queries
• Familiar with Performance, Stress, Load and volume testing
• Team player and displays great verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills
• Worked as Development QA in Local/Development Environment
• Extensively worked in UAT testing before the applications sign off criteria
• Developed and implemented structured QA methodologies, setting tests strategies
• Flexible and effective in team collaboration, team building and mentoring on various testing tools
• Well experienced in Onshore offshore coordination of teams located at multiple time zones, Team mentoring, coming up best practices and knowledge sharing
• Experienced testing in Mobile application using Android devices
• Casualty Auto Insurance
• Active Property and Casualty Insurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visual Studio, MS Project
• Quality Center (HPQC), Rally for Project Management Tools that Uses Agile. Test Director, QTP, Win Runner,
• Test Links tools, Bugzilla Defect Management Tools
• PVC, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Rational Robot.
• Jira Tools
• Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall, V-Mode, Iterative, RUP and Borland Star Team SDLC methodologies
• Experience with database structures, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server 2000, DB2 and MS Access
• Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX.
• Experience testing various programming languages, including; J2EE, ASP.NET, JAVA, PEGA, C++, C#, VB 6.0, XML, and HTML
• Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Power Point)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reading, Pennsylvania

Project Coordinator/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead every release for QA signoff meeting with VP, Director, Stakeholder, program manager
• Manage conference calls with the onsite and offshore team to discuss the daily project status
• Meet the project testing schedule, follow-up daily basis with Upper level management
• Worked Closely with Clients and offshore team to deliver a quality product under intense schedule pressures
• Manages onsite and offshore testing team
• Organize each release and testing schedule and share with the team
• Coordinate with Developer lead onsite for all the new project added/enhance/change and give direction to the testing team the testing approach
• Tracked issues in defect tracking system, support onsite and off shore team for further investigation of those issues
• Planning, coordinating and implementing Offshore/onsite testing strategy
• Developed test approach artifact with an allocated time in each release for Offshore/onsite for regression test
• Reviewing requirements and design documents, test Scenarios, test cases, test Scripts before execute test case/script
• Priorities and identifies the blocker/critical defects, re- tested as soon as the code ready for test
• Coordinating with development team onsite/offshore when found any issue while validating defects and provide documents associated with the defects to resolve issues
• Working flexible to meet the project deadlines

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in DCO session for the project requirements/Design/new changes/UIUX and provide input to the team during session
• Participated in daily status meeting with onsite and Offshore team and responsible for Updating all the status report and provide to the entire team on daily basis
• Used Clip Board to detect and debug exceptions
• Used Tracer to analyze and drill down exceptions in detailed and provide analysis report to dev team
• Provide KT to the team to understand the Mobile application
• Used Mobile device to validate application and lead offshore team
• Managed verification of requirements, traceability and validation of system
• Understanding the Business requirements and Functional specifications.
• Managed Test Plan and Test Strategy preparation.
• Managed in Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Reviewing test cases/Test Plan and executing the test cases
• Involved in the Risks assessments and mitigation / contingency plan preparations
• Prioritizing the test cases and preparing the regression test suite
• Reporting test metrics
• Status reporting for test execution, defect resolution, productivity and bug statistics.
• Used Project Management Tool for documenting acceptance criteria
• Used VersionOne tool for defect tracking and use cases/backlog/Release/Sprint/story board
• Actively participate in organizational events

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Project EUT Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing conference calls with onsite Client and offshore team to discuss the daily project status
• Coordinating with development team onsite/offshore and assigning defects to resolve and follow-ups
• Managing/coordinating EUT team
• Coordinating with offshore team and get update for their work status and any road blocks and resolve issues
• UC’s tested for the primary and alternate paths
• Pre Build Process
• Post Build Process
• Prepare Release notes for each build
• Entry and Exit Criteria
• Defecting Management using HPQC
• Verifying Fixed Status defects
• Business rules validated against the Business Rules (BR) document - For both changed and No change use Cases
• Sanity test was performed in INTEG/QA on the build before releasing to QA
• Maintaining a daily status report and weekly status report to communicate the work status to onsite and off shore teams
• Reviewing process of test case
• Defect Log - Defect lists with description
• Coordinating with BA and Dev team for the updates, assigning defects and following-up for the defects status and priorities tasks

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked Closely with Clients and offshore team to deliver a quality product under intense schedule pressures
• Tracked issues in defect tracking system, support onsite and off shore team for further investigation of those issues
• Planning, coordinating and implementing onsite testing strategy
• Developed test approach artifact with an allocated time in each release for onsite smoke test
• Meet the project testing schedule, follow-up daily basis with Upper level Management
• Reviewing requirements and design documents, test Scenarios, test cases, test Scripts before execute test case/script
• Sharing the test result with the team after test is completed for each release
• Priorities and identifies the blocker/critical defects, re- tested as soon as the code ready for test
• Coordinating with development team onsite/offshore when found any issue while validating defects and provide documents associated with the defects to resolve issues
• Providing Demo to offshore team when they are unable to replicate the issue in their local environment
• Updating Master Excel file to capture defect details/Screenshot after the demo provided to onsite/offshore team
• Attending conference calls with the onsite and offshore team to discuss the daily project status
• Working flexible to meet the project deadlines

Confidential - Center city, Philadelphia, PA

Project Lead & Test coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Working with the project Management team in planning, coordination and implementing testing strategy
• Preparing test procedures, schedule for testing team
• Managing Test Plan for the project and update Test Plan
• Managing Test Analyst team for Site Accepting Testing
• Maintaining and adjusting the testing planning to execute within time frame/Scheduled time
• To attend daily meetings with Project Manager and Project Management Team
• Coordinating meetings and assigning works to the QA and Developer team
• Following-up and solving any issues where team needs help
• Emphasis high priority defects by assigning/re-assigning to the developer team
• Coordinating with off shore team with WebEx meeting
• Prioritizing work and focusing to complete scheduled tasks
• Managing Defect Track meeting everyday with Testing and Developer team
• Cleaning up defect list in Bugzilla & assigning defects to the Developer team and follow-up with them
• Managing Test Links tools, Test matrix, create report and e-mail to the project Team daily basis
• Creating test Execution folders and monitoring execution Test cases in Test Links tools
• Teaching and coaching testing teams for creating Defects and maintaining in Bugzilla defect tracking tools
• Communicating with vendors for any necessary project related changes

Confidential - Center city, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working with the project team in planning, coordinating, and implementing QA methodology
• Attending iteration/Sprint-planning meeting for each-iteration
• Participating daily agile scrum meeting with the team to discuss current iteration
• Performing as Development QA & tested in Local/Development environment before code deployed in QA Environment for to end-to-end test.
• Writing and executing Test Cases to validate products & software applications thru Rally Tools in Development Environment
• Collaborating with products and developments teams to identify product and technical requirements
• Reviewing and verifying requirements as well as designing specifications for validation in overall product designs, with an emphasis towards product testability and verification
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in terms of significance
• Using both HPQC (Quality center) & Rally Tools to execute test cases in Development environment
• Preparing test procedures for automation in Quick Test Professional
• Performing browser compatibility and configuration testing on various operating systems
• Being active and involved in functional, exploratory, and Integration testing
• Performing Regression Testing using QTP
• Executing Scripts, Reporting and Tracking Bugs /defects
• Providing back end testing for data validation using SQL Queries
• Setting up internal QA environment for browse projects
• Identifying defects and entering required information in Rally Tools
• Using Apache J Meter to validate xml output from REST, GET, and PUT API calls.

Confidential - Wayne, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing Software product (Java based application, Oracle backend, Hosted environment).
• Writing detailed Test Plans.
• Communicating the Release Status and Risk analysis to the QA Lead/Manager.
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) & Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) Tools for writing Test case & execute them.
• Defects Reporting in TFS & Managing backlog, user story, defects tracking, entering task for the each sprint, Correspondence with the team. Close defects when tested & verified.
• Participating in daily Scrum meetings.
• Directing integrating with hosting for environmental needs/Issues.
• Directing interaction with Release management team for release planning / timing.
• Corresponding/Managing team when the Lead is not present & sending update to the Lead/manager.
• Developing, executing and verifying test plans, test scenarios, test scripts and test cases.
• Estimating level of resources required for project completion, making timely adjustments throughout the project life cycle.
• Providing mentoring for team members, sharing my experience and expertise in software and workflow processes to increase team efficiencies and productivity.
• Subjecting matter expert and instructor for TFS and MTM software applications for team members, including team leadership.
• Providing back end testing for data validation using SQL Queries.

Confidential - Chevy Chase, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in peer reviews of software requirements, designs and test procedures.
• Documenting test plans and test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements. Manually performed System, Security, UAT, Functional, and Regression Testing.
• Maintaining and executing test cases and test scripts using HPQC (Quality Center).
• Reporting and tracking software defects from discovery through resolution and verification, maintaining communication with team members and other stakeholders.
• Establishing project standards and processes including CMMI.
• Designing, developing, implementing and automating Regression Tests.
• Developing and maintaining automated test scripts to support regression testing and participating actively in system testing and regression testing
• Extensively involved in creating regression automation test scripts, creating output values, doing data driven Test for all the projects using Quick Test Professional, including enhancing the scripts by creating Actions, Checkpoints, Synchronization points, parameterization and modular test in QTP
• Extensively working on VBScript to create the automated tests for QTP
• Performing System and Compatibility tests by running QTP scripts
• Performing navigation, exploratory, and data testing of different transactions
• Using Descriptive Programming in QTP extensively while automating the test cases
• Developing User Defined Functions (UDF) to support the automated scripts
• Using reusable actions with utilizing the flexible functionalities in Quick Test professional
• Providing back end testing for data validation using SQL Queries
• Performing UAT test for the test case proper coverage for all the scenarios during testing
• Working closely with Test Lead during the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) by ensuring full test coverage of the assigned test cases
• Managing files & folders; Checked out items, modified them and checked in updates, compared versions, merged files, created and modified change request, generated reports & charts, created & organized requirements, created change request etc. using Borland Star Team

Confidential - Alexandria, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing QA Test Plan which included objectives, testing strategies, and test environment for covering functional, integration and back end Testing
• Analyzing requirements, functional design, and detail design documents
• Developing and executing test cases, automation test scripts, and verified actual results with expected results
• Creating and executing test plans including regression test suits to support quarterly, monthly, and semi-monthly releases
• Conducted System, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and User Accepted Testing (UAT)
• Involved in Performance and Load testing using Load Runner. Developed the Load Test Scenario using Load Runner Controller
• Utilizing Performance/Load testing methodologies to identify potential bottlenecks and system performance problems
• Organizing test plan/test case review meetings and acquired test plan sign-off from QA, Development and Business Analyst groups
• Participating in product review, functional review and design review meetings and provided feedback from the QA standpoint
• Creating automation scripts for Regression testing using QTP
• Extensively writing VB Script in QTP
• Enhancing scripts by creating Actions, Checkpoints, Synchronization points, and data driven test and modular test in QTP
• Using Descriptive Programming in QTP extensively while automating the test cases
• Executing Scripts, Reporting and Tracking Bugs in Test Director
• Communicating all defects found and tracked them using the Test Director
• Working closely with the project team in planning, coordination and implementing QA methodology

Confidential - New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating and implementing test automation tools: Win Runner
• Preparing test procedures for automation
• Developing scripts and data driven GUI automation test tool using Win Runner
• Participating in meetings on a daily basis to track defects and perform risk analysis
• Assisting in creating functional Requirements catalog from Business Requirements
• Performing back-end testing with SQL queries
• Executing test cases and ensure that all elements of the product are tested based upon the test plan
• Identifying defects and imputing required information into Clear Case
• Coordinating with the Developers for Bug Fixing and documented defects using Rational Clear Quest
• Assisting the team in creating test plans and discovering new test paths to improve the current test coverage