PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 12 years of experience in IT industry as Software Quality Assurance Engineer with specialization in Manual and Automation testing
• Extensively worked on Web based, GUI applications and API testing
• Excellent knowledge of VB Scripting and Descriptive Programming for developing QTP Test Scripts
• Experience in SQL querying
• Extensive use of HP Quality Center/ALM, a Test management tool
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Exposure to bug tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla
• Exposure in creating automated test scripts using Selenium Webdriver
• Experienced in frameworks such as Data Driven Framework, Hybrid framework in QTP
• Good working knowledge in Banking, Telecom and Manufacturing domains of IT industry
• Played key roles such as Technical Lead and End to End Test Manager
• Well acquainted with complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and exposure to all stages of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life cycle
• Experience in GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Traceability Matrix and Test Cases based on Business and Functional Specifications
• Facilitate stand up calls and Sprint Backlog review calls
• Involved in creation of project status report, traceability metrics, resource management plan, risk management plan
• Efficiently managed End to End Manager roles, working with cross - organization teams (technology, quality assurance, and support) and completed successful releases
• Managed offshore testing team and assisted with recruiting, on-boarding, and retaining resources
• Good communication, interpersonal skills and strong team player with proficiency at time management, multitasking, able to meet deadlines and handle changing priorities
• Experience working with Onsite- Offshore teams and monitor the testing activities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Selenium, Quality Centre/ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA, SOAP UI, Microsoft Test Manager(MTM)

Development Tools: Toad

Programming Languages: VBScript, Java, SQL

Database Systems: Oracle

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, XML, .NET

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Methodologies: V-Model, Agile, Waterfall, TDD, BDD

Project Management: Microsoft Project Plan, TFS Share point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,St. Louis, MO

Sr QA Engineer/End to End Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the Business Clients, Product Owners, Developers and QA Manager for clear exposure of the technical/functional User Requirements & Change Requests to Test Plans and Test Scenarios.
• Test the application in highly dynamic environment with sprint team using Agile methodology.
• Identified test cases to automate then tested these cases using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing and End to End Testing.
• Automated the Test cases using Selenium for Regression testing and TestNG for grouping the tests.
• Involved in testing both SOAP using SOAPUI and tested XMLs
• Involved in all stages of testing life cycle, Test Driven Development methodologies, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile methodologies.
• Developed BDD tests using Cucumber by writing behavior and step definitions
• Logged defects using HP ALM/quality center, linked defects with requirements and generated Defect Reports in QC.

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, SOAP UI, TestNG, Quality Center, Eclipse

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Trainer & Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared power point presentations for lectures
• Handled topics on Manual Testing covering all of SDLC and STLC concepts, Testing types, Testing methodologies
• Lectured on Automation test tools - QTP with VB Scripting and Selenium with Java programming, TestNG
• Conduct online sessions on bug testing tools like Quality Centre,ALM, JIRA and Bugzilla
• Prepared practice exercises on the topics and track completion from the students
• Involved in performing Usability, Functional testing, tree tests for websites or Windows based apps
• Write and execute test cases as requested by the clients
• Find and log maximum number of bugs
• Provide with Usability test reports on the websites tested

Confidential, Dallas, TX

End to End Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the entire QA team
• Drive the QA testing phase to successful completion
• Coordinate with all the teams involved in the project and explain the scope of the project
• Ensure that all the teams required are engaged for the project
• Closely work with E2E PM to ensure all the updates are in sync in the team
• Ensure the test deliverables of each phase are communicated to the team and the same is tracked to closure
• Responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team
• Facilitate connectivity testing calls with the teams involved in the project
• Facilitate online execution amongst the testing teams
• Ensure the Quality Centre is updated for execution status on a daily basis by the E2E test team

Tools: PDI, HP Quality Centre 10

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

End to End Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with all the teams involved in the project and explain the scope of the project
• Ensure that all the teams required are engaged for the project
• Closely work with E2E PM to ensure all the updates are in sync in the team
• Ensure the test deliverables of each phase are communicated to the team and the same is tracked to closure
• Responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team
• Facilitate connectivity testing calls with the teams involved in the project
• Facilitate online execution amongst the testing teams
• Ensure the Quality Centre is updated for execution status on a daily basis by the E2E test team
• Work in co-ordination with the Scrum Masters/BSA and communicate the Backlog updates to all involved teams
• Validate the data in using SQL queries in database
• Perform database testing

Tools: HP Quality Centre/ALM, Toad for Oracle, SQL

Confidential

End to End Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure engagement details are documented and communicated accordingly to the teams
• Ensure the test deliverables of each phase are communicated to the teams and the same are tracked to closure
• Responsible for preparing the E2E Test strategy document as per SDLC2.0
• Develop Requirements Risk Assessments document
• Responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues
• Coordinate with Technology and Test teams on issues and defects
• Proactively communicate status and managing expectations
• Involved with the planning, controlling and monitoring, and also managing and directing the assigned project resources to meet project objectives
• Prepare regression automation scripts using Selenium Webdriver

Tools: HP Quality Centre 10, Selenium Webdriver, SQL

Confidential

End to End Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the consolidated defect tracker for the day and share the same with the BA’s
• Assign the defects raised to respective teams
• Co-ordinate with Environment teams and ensure to resolve the environment related issues on time
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of data in QC
• Facilitate the End to End flow calls from source to destination systems involved in the project
• Validate the XMLs using SOAPUI assertions
• Ensure the data flow from source to destination system is the in the correct format and right data
• Validate End to End integration testing using SOAP UI and XMLs
• Perform backend testing using SQL queries

Tools: CRUSE (Client Proprietary), HP Quality Centre 10, SOAPUI, SQL

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Go through the requirement documents and discuss the same with BA’s
• To deliver KT to the team members who are going to work on the project and explain how the application is going to work
• Involved in complete SDLC - Agile methodology
• Improved knowledge base to SME at offshore
• Prepared Test Scenarios for the Team to prepare Test scripts.
• Review the test cases prepared by the team and provide review comments
• Conduct walk through for the test cases with BA’s
• Assign work to the team on a daily basis based on a planned schedule and track the same to closure by EOD
• Prepare the consolidated defect tracker for the day and share the same with the BA’s
• Worked with development teams, Business Analyst investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Facilitated and recommended Go/No-Go decision for project launch
• Facilitate Defect Triage Calls on a daily basis and discuss on the defects
• Keep track of the down time experienced during the execution process and report the same to Environment team immediately and to Clients by COB
• Maintain a clarification tracker to post our queries related to the application and discuss the same with BA’s and get the resolution for the same
• Update test cases in Quality Centre and track the progress in execution
• Verify the defects in QC and track to the closure of the same after retests
• Prioritize the test cases for high, medium and low conditions
• Involved in writing SQL Queries to test backend Database
• Performed Regression testing using QTP scripts for the existing functionality, as and when the bugs got fixed and checked whether the application is free from bugs
• Create Object Repositories for the functionalities
• Maintain shared Object Repositories in the team
• Customized the QTP scripts according to the requirements by inserting conditional statements and loops.
• Used Descriptive Programming for object identification and created and maintained Function Libraries in early phases of the application when designs had changed and application snapshot was not ready.
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions extensively in QTP
• Extensively used Parameterization in QTP to perform Data-Driven testing
• Handled Dynamic Objects in QTP

Tools: iCRUSE (Client Proprietary), HP Quality Centre 10, QTP 10.0, VB Script, SQL

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare test cases for the requirements
• Review the test cases written by the team and provide appropriate review comments
• Conduct walk through for the test cases with BA’s
• Assign work to the team on a daily basis based on a planned schedule and track the same to closure by EOD
• Performed operations on the front end and check all the tables involved whether they are updated correctly as per the specifications.
• Maintain a clarification tracker to post our queries related to the application and discuss the same with BA’s and get the resolution for the same
• Update test cases in Quality Centre and track the progress in execution
• Verify the defects in QC and track to the closure of the same after retests
• Prioritize the test cases for high, medium and low conditions
• Involved in complete SDLC - Agile methodology.
• Created a Regression Suite using QTP in the application

Tools: CRUSE (Client Proprietary), HP Quality Centre 10, QTP 10.0, VB Script

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete SDLC - Agile methodology.
• To deliver KT to the team members who are going to work on the project and explain how the application is going to work
• Prepare the decision table flow based on the architectural diagrams provided by the Business team
• Prepare test cases for the requirements
• Conduct walk through for the test cases with BA’s
• Assign work to the team on a daily basis based on a planned schedule and track the same to closure by EOD
• Prepare the consolidated defect tracker for the day and share the same with the BA’s
• Attend Defect Triage Calls on a daily basis and discuss on the defects - explain about the defects to Technology team if needed
• Keep track of the down time experienced during the execution process and report the same to Environment team immediately and to Clients by COB
• Maintain a clarification tracker to post our queries related to the application and discuss the same with BA’s on a weekly basis and get the resolution for the same
• Update test cases in Quality Centre and track the progress in execution
• Verify the defects in QC and track to the closure of the same after retests
• Prioritize the test cases for high, medium and low conditions

Tools: B2B RCubed Application (Client Proprietary), HP Quality Centre 10

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepare of Functional Test Plan
• Update Functional Test Plan based on SME review comments
• Update Master Test Plan based on SME review comments
• Preparation of automation scripts in Bridge Test tool
• Execution of the automation scripts
• Log, track and close defects in QC

Tools: Bridge Test Tool (ATM Simulator), HP Quality Centre 10

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Manual and Auto Provisioning using Integrator Application (proprietary tool)
• Creation of Network Inventory
• Auto processors monitoring, trouble shooting.
• Test lab configuration, and test environment administration.
• Performing functional and regression testing for the DSL products
• Test Data generation
• Test Case Scripting in Quality Centre
• Test Case Execution
• Test Report generation
• Updating Quality Centre for the test cases execution
• Linking of defects in QC and follow up with development team.
• Validate the tables in backend Database
• Validate the logs in UNIX server

Tools: Integrator (Client Proprietary), HP Quality Centre, SQL, TOAD, UNIX

Confidential

Team Member Duration:

Responsibilities:

• Assessing the information & business needs of the users and understanding Business requirements by using the domain expertise gained.
• Preparation of Impact Analysis
• Test Case Scripting in Quality Centre
• Test Case Execution
• Test Completion Report
• Updating Quality Centre for the test cases execution
• Linking of defects and follow up with clients development team
• Validation of Test results in Online Screens, VSAM files
• Review of Test Cases from the requirement specification

Tools: TSO, ISPF, Expediter, HP Quality Centre

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Developing the code for the SAS reports in FOCUS by analyzing the SAS programs.
• Perform Unit Testing of the developed code
• Understanding the Customers’ requirements in a short time span, carrying out conversion effectively.

Tools: FOCUS, SAS, JCL