SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of strong Software Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Software Development experience in Web and Client Server environment.
• Extensive experience working with Business and Functional Requirements in analyzing and creating test plans for Financial, Insurance (Auto, Personal, Business) and Printing industries.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated Testing using tools WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, WAS, Robot Framework for Web, Client/Servers, Linux/Unix & Mainframes application.
• Expertise in Running the test and analyzing Test results, Synchronizing the test, Checking GUI and Bitmaps etc with WinRunner
• Used Web Application Stress tool to find out the maximum stress the site can with stand.
• Created Test reports based on the testing results.
• Well versed with Testing Methodologies, Testing Strategies and SDLC .
• Expertise in developing Test Estimates for Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures for Functional Testing (Integration and System), Regression Testing, UAT .
• Scheduled and coordinated all the quality and performance monitoring activities of QA staff across the project.
• Participated and Managed the application Security Testing.
• Managed cross - team integration effort between QA and Dev teams.
• Experience in writing SQA Plans, System Test Plans, Traceability Matrix, defining Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on business and functional requirements.
• Documented all phases of QA process. Excellent knowledge of QA Principles, SEI CMM levels, ISO, RUP and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) .
• Created Test plans for all phases of Testing from Smoke till UAT.
• Expertise in analyzing the Problem and Bug tracking using defect tracking Tools Jira, Bitbucket, Github, PVCS, Test Director, Quality Center, Devtrack, Clear Case and Clear Quest.
• Excellent knowledge in implementing Software Configuration Management Process and using Version Control VSS (Visual Source Safe).
• Extensive experience in testing applications under .Net, Java, Windows, UNIX & Mainframes Environment.
• Extensive experience in working with applications developed in ASP. Net, Bonnet, C#, Active Server Pages 2.x/3.x, Visual Basic 4.0/5.0/6.0, Java, Beans, Applets, Servlets, HTML, DHTML, CSS, SOAP, XML, UML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, XPointers and COM/cOm+/dCom components, Web Servers like WebLogic, WebSphere, TomCat, Apache and IIS.
• Capable of Leading Teams, working as an Individual and also as a part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS-Dos, Windows, OS/400, Linux/Unix and Mainframe

RDBMS: MS-Access, Oracle 7.x/8.x, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Vertica

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0, VB.Net

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, EJB, C#., Perl, Hadoop, DMExpress

Application Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Apache.

Web Servers: IIS 4.0/5.0

Languages: J2EE (Java, Servlets, JSP), C, C++, XML, Perl, TSL , SQL , UML , Shell Scripting.

Testing Tools: Win Runner 7.5/7.0/6.5 , Test Director 8.0/7.5/7.2/6.0 , Load Runner 5.0/6.5/7.6 , Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Site Check, WAS.

Mainframes: Mainframes, OS/400, AS/400, COBOL

Designing/Planning/Reporting: Visio, MS Project, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint,

Tools: Crystal Reports.

Version Control: VSS, PVCS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead/Manager

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Responsibilities:

• Experian is a global leader in consumer and business credit reporting and marketing services.
• Interacted with clients on quality issues plus resolution of any problems within process and final product acceptance
• Created Over all TestPlan for the project.
• Expertise in developing Test Estimates for Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures for Functional Testing (Integration and System), Regression Testing, UAT in Agile way.
• Managed the Webservice part of testing (used SOAP UI).
• Managed the application Security Testing.
• Motivate and coached others in data analysis and perform root cause analysis.
• Provided feedback on requirements and functional specifications
• Provided input, guidance and coaching to site leadership team to insure continuous QA process improvement takes place in QA Team.
• Scheduled and coordinated all the quality and performance monitoring activities of QA staff across the project.
• Managed cross-team integration effort between QA and Dev teams. Involved resources in the US and Chile Delivery Centers
• Analyzing Test Results and create detailed Test Metrics for the management.
• Involved in hiring and training the QA Team members.
• Involved in all the phases of the project which used Agile methodologies.
• Participated in scrum meetings to update QA status.
• Participated in retrospective meetings to provide feedback and QA process improvement.
• Supported product owners by providing detailed weekly and monthly QA trend reports.
• Experience in back end testing of databases like DB2, MySQL, Vertica etc.,

Environment: JIRA, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Robotframework, SOAP UI, Java, XML, Mainframe, Linux/Unix, DB2, MySQL, Vertica, DMExpress (ETL tool),Hadoop.

Confidential

QA Lead/Test Co-ordinator

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed System Test Plans .
• Coordinated cross-team integration effort between QA and Dev teams. Involved resources in the US and India Delivery Centers
• Assists QA applications Capability Lead in overall initiative strategy
• Reports initiative status to Quality and Dev leaderships.
• Identifies project risks and direct risk mitigation activities
• Establishes and maintains project planning and other quality records
• Responsible for getting the detailed Test Scenarios for testing the functional flow of System Testing.
• Worked as Onsite - Offshore Coordinator, facilitated proper knowledge transition, assign tasks and monitor offshore activities.
• As a Project Manager created the estimates of Hardware resources, Human resources and Test schedule .
• Defining and performing the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Managed Functional, Regression, UAT & GUI testing, Boundary testing and equivalence partition testing.
• As Project Manager generated defect reports for issues found during testing.
• Classifying the bugs based on the severity, done test evaluation.
• Responsible for identifying the Go/No Go status of the product.

Environment: AS/400, Mainframes, Unix & C, .Net, Java, DB2, SQL Server 8.0, Quality Center, Software Planner, Mantis, Share point, MS Office, MS Project OS/400 and Windows XP.