SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Professional.
• Scrum Master for the feature team.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.
• Expert in Internet/Intranet, GUI and Client/Server based business applications.
• Ability to analyze the functional specifications and write detailed test cases.
• Ability to create test data, execute test scenarios and analyze the actual results against the expected results.
• Experience in manual testing and automation testing using Mercury Interactive/HP tools.
• Well versed with Black Box testing
• Experience in e-Commerce and Data Warehousing applications.
• Experience in performing functional, system, regression, user acceptance tests.
• Expertise in problem solving using Defect Tracking Tools.
• Involved in testing ETL, C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Java, SQL Server, VB, and Oracle applications.
• Proficient in Backend Testing using SQL statements to retrieve data from relational databases.
• Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Strong problem solving skills, extremely reliable, quick learner and a very good team player.
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment:C#.Net, SQL Server 2012, ALM, UFT, SharePoint, Test Management Server, BrainWare, Geneos, Bitbucket, SVN, JIRA, Confluence.

Scrum Master/QA Lead/BA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Work closely with Product owners in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Confidential

Environment:VB.Net, SQL Server 2008, ALM, SharePoint, Web service, Test Management Server, BrainWare, IBML Automation Utility, JIRA.

Senior QA Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Product Owners and monitoring/resolving any issues that arise throughout the course of development/testing.
• Make sure the team meets the tight deadlines and timeframes.
• Make sure goals are clear and visible to teams by frequent check-ins, daily standups.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage by working closely with the Business Analysts and development team to prioritize testing execution, report on test execution progress, and results.
• Prepare Test Plan, Test Requirements as per agreed format.
• Translate existing manual regression test cases into automated tests.
• Implement agile into QA by practicing principles such as TDD and ATDD
• Engage with projects in early phases of the development lifecycle to ensure alignment with the overall release schedules.
• Lead and provide direction to all affected teams to ensure QA activities are managed and coordinated accordingly.
• Send out daily status reports on QA script execution.
• Conduct bi-weekly defect meeting with development, BA and Project Management teams.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment:Java, J2EE, Oracle, Actuate, HP Quality Center 10, SharePoint, Web service.

Senior QA/UAT Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing during the development phase and validating / testing defects during the QA/UAT phase of the project.
• Compose test scenarios, cases and related data.
• Ensure UAT test scripts are aligned to the requirements.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment:J2EE, Oracle, HP Quality Center 9.2, SharePoint, Web service, SQL Navigator 5.5, QTP 9.5.

Senior QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Develop testing processes and approaches according to JPMC Chase, and Six Sigma/CMM standards.
• Assist in designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy.
• Work with appropriate business and technology leads to determine the acceptable range for test results and performance.
• Help design, develop and implement test plans, scripts, and tools using the detailed business requirements document provided by the business analysts.
• Work with business and technology teams to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for the test cases.
• Assist Application Developers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving problems.
• Facilitate resolution and communication of cross-application/organization architectural issues and decisions.
• Assess and revise test sequence and scope based upon test results and/or changes in product design.
• Document test procedures and findings.
• Reconcile test results from different tests and different groups.
• Perform the tests in QA environment.

Confidential, Elmhurst, IL

Environment:ASP.Net, C#.Net, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, WebTrends Analytics 8, HTML, Issue Tracker, JMeter.

QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Created the test documentation such as System Test Plans for the application.
• Designed, developed and executed test cases and test procedures based on the functional specifications from scratch for all the E-Commerce applications.
• Created and executed load test scripts for stress testing the application.
• Evaluated many open source and medium range functional and performance testing tools to use for the application.
• Tested the applications in different browsers like IE, Fire fox and Safari.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment:ETL, Cognos, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, Unix Shell Scripting, Quality Center, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase, Rational ReqPro, Windows XP, SecureCRT, WinSCP.

QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing System Test Plans for the application.
• Designed, developed and executed test plans, test cases and test procedures based on the functional specifications. Maintained test cases and results in Quality Center.
• Responsibilities include Smoke testing, System testing, and Regression testing.
• Developed SQL scripts using TOAD and Query Analyzer tools, to extract data from the target tables. Used SQL extensively to perform Backend Testing.
• Logged issues using ClearQuest as a defect tracking tool.
• Worked with the business users and recreated test cases based on the change in requirements.
• Launched the reports using Query studio to check the formatting issues.
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing.