EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Confidential has 9.5 years of professional experience in software quality assurance. This includes over 42 months of customer facing experience working at client onsite location in teh US. 3+ years of Project Management experience as a QA lead.
• He has extensive experience in software functional testing; both manual and automation, database testing. Currently leading a testing engagement consisting of 12 members in different geographical locations.
• 9+ years of hands on experience in All phases of Software Testing Life Cycle - Test Requirement Analysis, Test estimation and planning, Test environment and Test data set up, Test case development and review, Test execution, Status reporting and Defect management.
• Extensive hands on experience in Automation Testing techniques. Have applied automation testing wherever possible to minimize testing effort and cost, thereby reducing teh time to market of software applications.
• 3+ years of extensive experience in Database testing.
• 3+ years of hands on experience in HP Quick Test Professional writing independent test scripts, user defined functions, designing and customizing automation testing frameworks.
• 2+ years of hands on experience in Selenium Webdriver as an automation testing tool.
• Extensive knowledge of Data Driven testing framework - designing, customizing and enhancing teh framework for specific automation testing needs.
• Proficient in VB Script, Java and C.
• Strong SQL skills.
• 3+ years of experience in leading a team of more TEMPthan 10 people at different geographical locations. Hands on Project Management experience.
• Extensive experience in creating and sharing software testing metrics at every major milestone.
• Adept at onsite-offshore co-ordination, status reporting and continuous process improvements while liaising with teh development team and business analysts.
• Extensive experience in Waterfall and Iterative software development models and knowledge of Agile development model.
• Excellent domain knowledge in Insurance, Re-insurance and Brokerage.
• 1+ years of experience in working on Request for Proposals as Pre Sales Lead.
• Superior analytical, troubleshooting, communication and presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and great team player.
• A good eye for attention to details.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Automation tools: HP Quick Test Professional, Selenium Web-driver

Scripting Languages: VB script, Java, C

Test Management tools: HP Quality Centre, Microsoft Test Manager

Database tools: Toad for Oracle

Testing Skills: Functional Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Lead (Onsite)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 8 people at onsite working on a portfolio which consists of policy admin systems, integration systems, upstream and downstream applications
• Resource planning and capacity planning based on forecast
• Resource allocation based on capacity
• Presentation of testing metrics periodically after every successful milestone
• Taking up and leading initiatives which assist in continuous improvement
• Taking teh lead in identifying opportunities for automation and working with teh team in order to achieve that
• Working with teh customer in identifying teh key quality goals of teh organization and providing a road map on how they can be realized
• Setting up training sessions for teh team and tan having brainstorming sessions with them on how to adapt them in teh work that we are doing efficiently
• Performance evaluation and goal setting
• Working on teh test strategy for large projects where multiple interfaces are being tested across multiple applications\business units
• Being teh test co-ordinater for these large projects and co-ordinating with teh business, development and testing teams
• Defect management and triage
• Providing root cause analysis for any defects found in production
• Creating and presenting teh lessons learnt document

Onsite QA lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined teh overall Project Testing Strategy outlining functional testing, data migration testing and performance testing of teh new application.
• Took complete ownership of teh QA testing project plan and ensured that teh project is functioning as per teh planned schedule and effort. Worked closely with teh Application Project Manager to align teh QA schedule with teh overall project schedule.
• Charted out risks and their mitigation strategies and monitored them throughout teh project lifecycle.
• Was instrumental in using Selenium Webdriver as an automation testing tool; carried out teh feasibility analysis and designed teh data driven automation testing framework.
• Took teh lead in coming up with teh approach for data migration testing and ensured that teh same approach was followed.
• Determined teh environments needed to carry out data migration testing.
• Used teh in house tool to perform data migration testing thereby ensuring enhanced test coverage and completeness of teh data being migrated.
• Controlled teh data migration onto different environments and ensured that a round of functional testing was carried out on teh migrated data to validate teh functional completeness on teh migrated data.
• Defined teh defect management process and made sure that everyone in teh project team is aware of teh same and is followed.
• Held review meetings with teh business stakeholders to review teh test deliverables.
• Presented QA status reports (daily and weekly status report) to all teh stakeholders of teh project.
• Held defect triage meetings with teh development team and business analysts.
• Presented QA metrics at teh end of each testing milestone.
• Demo teh application functionality to teh customer before UAT start and provided QA support during UAT.
• Came up with teh smoke testing checklist to be executed after every deployment. Used automated test scripts to smoke test teh application upon every deployment.

Pre Sales Lead Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on request for proposals to understand teh nature and scope of teh proposal.
• Worked closely with teh other testing teams to gather and consolidate teh overall testing effort for a particular request for proposal.
• Attended knowledge sharing sessions presented by teh customer to clarify issues and questions related to teh proposal.
• Estimated teh effort required for teh proposal. Derived teh cost and schedule estimates based on teh effort estimates.
• Came up with teh content related to software testing activities to be included in teh RFP solution document.
• Co-ordinated and organized client visits.

Test Analyst Onsite

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set up meetings with teh business analysts and development team to come up with teh test requirements document.
• Prepared impact analysis document in order to identify teh areas in teh application that had to be tested in every release. It also included teh testing of areas of teh application which interacted with other downstream applications.
• Analyzed and validated teh risk based testing plan whenever required.
• Created and reviewed comprehensive test case documents to ensure maximum test coverage.
• Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Designed and maintained teh regression test harness for both Policy Management application and web based front end application.
• Defined and implemented QA processes in production support stream which enhanced teh quality and TEMPeffectiveness of ticket remediation.
• Created and reviewed effort estimates for test activities.
• Involved in test execution and test status reporting.

Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Object repository creation using shared object repository.
• Automation script preparation and execution.
• Automation feasibility analysis.
• Analyzing teh test results and status reporting.
• Application analytical analysis to come up with independent automation test scripts.
• Customizing teh automation testing framework.
• Knowledge management and mentoring teh new comers to teh project.