SUMMARY

• Having around 11 years of Software Development and Testing experience in IT.
• Proficient in developing Test Strategies, Test Planning, Test Case documents, Test monitoring, perform test execution and reporting and analyzing the results of scripts to support quality deliverables.
• Completed the Scrum Master Certification.
• Experienced with Agile Management tool like HPAGM, Kanban Board, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, facilitating the daily scrum meetings, Preparing the status of the project regularly with the Burn Down and Burnup charts, Review/updated the product backlog with PO & Scrum Team
• Good understanding in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), STLC, QA methodologies like Water fall model and Agile Methodology.
• Experienced in Manual testing with tools like Quality Center, ALM, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Soap UI.
• Proficient in usingQuality Center, Team Foundation Server, and Test Manager
• Profound knowledge of Web Services testing using Service Oriented Architecture tools SoapUI, using JDBC in SoapUI and Operating Systems like Linux/Unix
• Heaving Knowledge and experience in automation testing with QTP.
• Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from detection until resolved using defect tracking tools. (HP ALM and JIRA.)
• Participated rigorously in end to end testing with various front end clients (stores and banking) and resolved issues by doing thorough analysis of the request XMLs and client logs Well Versed.
• Experience in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements.
• Experience in working closely with users, business analysts, project managers and developers to understand requirements and business processes for testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, self - motivated individual with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills and TECHNICAL SKILLS.
• In depth understanding of Data warehouse concepts.
• Have good knowledge in SQL server/Oracle /SQL/PL-SQL.
• Good understanding of Software development Life cycle ( SDLC)
• Having good working experience on both Web applications and Client-Server applications.
• Have Strong Skills with Reporting Tool MicroStrategy 8.x.x/ 9.x.x and have good knowledge in ETL Tool Informatica
• Worked on MicroStrategy Desktop to create Application Objects like Template, Filters, Prompts, Reports and Report Services Document etc. OLAP standard Features like Drilling, pivoting, formatting, page-by, thresholds, banding etc on the reports, Schema objects and OLAP Services Features i.e. creating View Filter, Dynamic Aggregation, and derived metrics.
• Skillful tester with ability to achieve corporate goals, sincere and hard working with proven time Management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0/9.2/8.0/ Test Director, TFS, MTM, ALM, HPQTP, HPAGM, Version one

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, DB2, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MS Access, Teradata

Utility Tools: TOAD 10.5/8.5, SQL Developer, SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Assistant

ETL Tools: Informatica 8x/9.0, SSIS, DataStage

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, MicroStrategy 8

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Linux and UNIX.

Microsoft Office: Excel, Access, Outlook, Word and Power Point

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, C, C++, Java

Other Tools & Utilities: Erwin, TOAD, MQ-SERIES, FTP, CICS, DB2 STORED PROCEDURE, MS Visio, Visual Source Safe (VSS) and PM tool like Microsoft Project Plan (MPP)

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Project lead for the Team.
• Manage the Agile process and facilitating the Daily Scrum, update the Electronic/Physical Kanban Board, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Preparing and updating the status of the project regularly with the Burn Down and Burnup chats.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of project including Planning, Test design test case execution and progress of test cycles for Test, Integration and Pre-production checkout and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Coordinate with multiple client teams in test deliverables and issue resolution.
• Reviewing the Test Reports and Preparing Test Summary Report in each sprint.
• Responsible for developing Manual and Automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of all user stories / business requirements.
• Log, track, prioritize, and retest defects, write defect test cases, document, notify and escalate matters based on business priority and needs
• Tested requirements coverage by conducting walkthrough meetings of Test plan and scenarios with business analysts, project manager and test supervisors.
• Day-to-day activity includes substantial smoke, system, integration, and regression testing, defect management, write, update, and execute test cases, preparation of test execution status report, regression test summary report, preparation of bulk test data and coordination with the teams.
• Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries in Oracle database.
• Guided the Team for their day to day activities and preparing them to reach the deadlines.
• Preparation and Review of End-to-End Test Scenarios/Test Cases, Coverage matrix and Test Data.
• Involved in attending and organizing testing and status meetings at team level and project level on a regular basis.
• Assisted agile teams and implemented all test plans in accordance to need of development projects in product development lifecycle to conform end user product and quality requirements and shipment schedule.
• Assist in project planning, scheduling, budgeting and tracking activities.
• Provide support in project design, development and deployment activities.
• Review and recommend improvements to existing test procedures.

Environment: Oracle 11g, DB2, Mainframe, SQL, Java, Php, SoapUI, Unix, HP Quality Center 11.0, HP ALM, HP QTP 11.0

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Project Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• worked as a Project test lead (PTL) and a Scrum Master for the Team from onsite for FedEx Pricing 01 products.
• Manage the Agile process with the HPAGM and facilitating the Daily Scrum, update the Electronic/Physical Kanban Board, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Preparing and updating the status of the project regularly with the Burn Down and Burnup chats.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of project including Planning, Test design test case execution and progress of test cycles for Level 2, Level 3, Pre-production checkout and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Coordinate with multiple client teams in test deliverables and issue resolution.
• Updating Framework functions when needed as per business and IT.
• Developed the Automation Test Scripts and execution of test.
• Reviewing the Test Reports and Preparing Test Summary Report in each sprint.
• Performed functional, compatibility and regression testing, sanity testing
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements and develop and configure test automation networks and execute stability and performance tests.
• Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing and Regression Testing.
• Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
• Analyze and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing.
• Coordinate with program and development management teams in product development lifecycle to conform end user product and quality requirements and shipment schedule.
• Continuous prioritizing of responsibilities and multitasking in a fast paced, diverse, and dynamic Agile Team setting involving parallel and frequent deployments in multiple environments.
• Responsible for developing Manual and Automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of all user stories / business requirements.
• Working with Dev-Ops team for Continuous integration(CI) of automation scripts to make sure scripts execute after each build to validate the build is successful or not.
• Log, track, prioritize, and retest defects, write defect test cases, document, notify and escalate matters based on business priority and needs
• Tested requirements coverage by conducting walkthrough meetings of Test plan and scenarios with business analysts, project manager and test supervisors.
• Cooperate and work closely in collaboration with the BAs and DEVs in understanding and managing new requirements and accommodating emergency changes
• Run the Automated Regression suite and analyzed results and file bugs.
• Day-to-day activity includes substantial smoke, system, integration, and regression testing, defect management, write, update, and execute test cases, preparation of test execution status report, regression test summary report, preparation of bulk test data and coordination with the teams.
• Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries in Oracle database.
• Created SQL scripts to test the stored procedures by sending different sets of input parameters.
• Ran SQL queries to performed database validation according to the business logic.
• Guided the Team for their day to day activities and preparing them to reach the deadlines.
• Preparation and Review of End-to-End Test Scenarios/Test Cases, Coverage matrix and Test Data.
• Provided demos and trainings to team members, junior QAs, interns and management to share and transfer of information and instructions.
• Attend Scrum and Weekly meetings via teleconference with offshore team to collaborate and sync up updates, provide transfer of information TOIs, and share experience and tasks.
• Prepared Test Status Reports during Test Execution processes.
• Attend Sprint Planning, Daily scrums, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Participate in Backlog grooming, Story Point Estimation and User Story Prioritization.
• Involved in attending and organizing testing and status meetings at team level and project level on a regular basis.
• Assisted agile teams and implemented all test plans in accordance to need of development projects in product development lifecycle to conform end user product and quality requirements and shipment schedule.
• Assist in project planning, scheduling, budgeting and tracking activities.
• Provide support in project design, development and deployment activities.
• Review and recommend improvements to existing test procedures.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2012, Teradata 14.0, SQL, Ab-Initio, MS Office,, Toad for Oracle, SQL Assistant, SQL Plus, Unix, HP Quality Center 11.0, SoapUI, HP ALM, HP QTP 11.0, PL/SQL, HPAGM

Confidential - Phonenix, AZ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead role in the project from onshore and also worked as onsite coordinator
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process
• Based on the requirement did the test case execution, progress of test cycles, status or details of testing, for E1, E2 and E3 like Pre-production checkout, where applicable and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Provide appropriate project status/reporting through QA completion/production
• Provides severity assessment of application defect process.
• Organized the day to day calls for the onsite - offshore, sprint calls in the project
• Responsible for all the deliverables to the Client at onsite
• Extensively worked in Agile methodology.

Environment: SQL, Informatica Power Center 8.1, Oracle 9i, Microstrategy 9.x, Microstrategy Integrity Manager, Actuate Reports, Java, Fusion charts, Unix, Toad, SoapUI, Windows XP, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Test/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead role in the project from onshore and also worked as onsite coordinator
• Worked as a Test lead from Offshore
• Responsible for all the deliverables from offshore.
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process
• Based on the requirement did the test case execution, progress of test cycles, status or details of testing, for E1, E2 and E3 like Pre-production checkout, where applicable and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Provide appropriate project status/reporting through QA completion/production
• Provides severity assessment of application defect process.
• Organized the day to day calls for the onsite - offshore, sprint calls in the project
• Responsible for all the deliverables to the Client at onsite
• Extensively worked in Agile methodology.

Environment: SQL, Informatica Power Center 8.1, Oracle 9i, Natezza, Microstrategy 9.x, Microstrategy Integrity Manager, Actuate Reports, Java, Fusion charts, Unix, Toad, WindowsXP, Quality Center9.0

Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

Test/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead role in the project from onshore and also worked as onsite coordinator
• Worked as a Test lead from Offshore
• Responsible for all the deliverables from offshore.
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process
• Based on the requirement did the test case execution, progress of test cycles, status or details of testing, for E1, E2 and E3 like Pre-production checkout, where applicable and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Provide appropriate project status/reporting through QA completion/production
• Provides severity assessment of application defect process.
• Organized the day to day calls for the onsite - offshore, sprint calls in the project
• Responsible for all the deliverables to the Client at onsite
• Extensively worked in Agile methodology.

Environment: SQL, Informatica Power Center 8.1, Oracle 9i, Natezza, Microstrategy 9.x, Microstrategy Integrity Manager, Actuate Reports, Java, Fusion charts, Unix, Toad, WindowsXP, Quality Center9.0

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Test Lead & Project Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked in development, enhancement and production support.
• Prepared Unit Test Specification Requirements.
• Understanding customer business and user requirements
• Interaction with the users and SME’s to understanding current project requirement
• Extensively involved in Organization level Audits (PQI, SAS70, and SCM).
• Notifying and obtain clients approval for changes to the scope, timelines, deliverables or feeds.
• Gathering the requirements and translating the requirements into MSTR report document
• Extensively involved in creating the new reports by Work Request and do the enhancements to the existing projects.
• Involved in team meetings and providing daily, weekly and monthly status during meetings
• Analyzing and fixing the defects in day to day business issues raised by the users
• Estimating the time lines for new and enhancements and defects.
• Providing application support
• Knowledge Transfer and training to new team members
• Preparing detail design document for completed reports
• Involving in Unit Test case preparation with offshore team

Environment: Oracle, Informatica, Microstrategy 9.x, Microstrategy Integrity Manager, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Ab-Initio, Tibco, Java, Fusion charts, Unix, Toad, WindowsXP, Quality Center9.0

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the deliverables from offshore.
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process
• Based on the requirement did the test case execution, progress of test cycles, status or details of testing, Pre-production checkout, where applicable and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Extensively worked and developed Metrics, filters and prompts to give Decision makers a handy tool to choose the criteria for reports and view information in different perspectives.
• Extensively worked in developing Metrics and Compound metrics, filters for complex reports.
• Prepared Unit Test cases for the Reports Developed.

Environment: Micro Strategy 7i, Oracle 8i, Informatica, Windows 2000

Confidential

Senior Tester (Team member)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the deliverables from offshore.
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process
• Based on the requirement did the test case execution, progress of test cycles, status or details of testing, Pre-production checkout, where applicable and Post-Release checkouts.
• Provide defect management (Quality Center defect management, validation, meetings)
• Provide appropriate project status/reporting through QA completion/production
• Provides severity assessment of application defect process.
• Organized the day to day calls for the onsite - offshore, sprint calls in the project
• Responsible for all the deliverables to the Client at onsite
• Extensively worked in Agile methodology.

Environment: PL/SQL, Informatica, Microstrategy 9.x, Microstrategy Integrity Manager, Java, Toad, Unix, WindowsXP, Quality Center9.0 eBay IMD DW Project, AtrixSoft Technologies