CAREER SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of extensive experience on Quality Assurance & Software Testing including QA Lead in US IT Industry with emphasis
• Excellent Functional knowledge on various domains like Logistics, Insurance, Healthcare, Embedded
• Knowledge of all phases of SDLC including Requirements definition, Design and development, Maintaining full bug/defect life cycle, Management & Reporting
• Excellent knowledge of Client Server, Web based application testing and Embedded testing like Handheld scanners
• Familiar with Quality Assurance methodologies like Waterfall and Agile
• Well versed with writing detailed test cases for functional & nonfunctional requirements
• Good experience with Quality Center, QTP frameworks like Keyword driven & Data driven testing
• Expert in different types of testing that includes Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functionality testing, Localization testing, Migration testing, Installation testing, System Integration testing, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing & User Acceptance testing
• Good experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of application to be regression tested
• Familiarity with SOAPUI, web services testing
• Worked as member in SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group) for CMMI5 company
• Familiarity with Scripting languages like Perl and VB script
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/7, LINUX & UNIX environments and VMWare images
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, technical support & help them to base line the requirement specifications
• An effective communicator with strong analytical abilities combined with skills to plan, implement & presentation of projects
• Good communication & interpersonal skills & self-motivated & quick learning skills

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

• Testing tools: Quick Test Pro
• Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Access
• Test Management tools: Quality Center 11, Rally
• Defect Tracking: Mantis, Bugzilla, Testtrack
• Scripting languages: Java script, VB Script, HTML, Perl
• MS Suite: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• IDE and Other Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Visual Studio Team Server, Profiler, Microsoft VSS, SVN
• Operating Systems: Windows 7, XP, NT, 2000, 98, UNIX, LINUX

ACHIEVEMENTS
Secured 75% in ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) foundation level Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Confidential, Jul 2011 Till date QA Lead

• Preload Assist/KOR: Logistics domain Jul2011 Till date
• Used to lead a testing team for Hand held scanners application
• Used to communicate as a core team member with Business analysts and developers
• Used to be key member to estimate testing efforts and scheduling test cycles
• Task assignment for team members and status updates for their executable
• Reviewed team member’s deliverables, checked coverage
• Prepared documentation such as Test plan, test scenarios and Test completion reports
• Verification on AS/400 (I Series) systems to verify database updates
• Used to verify database changes using SQL queries
• Verify the logs and status on Linux systems and servers using Putty
• Test execution on hand held scanners
• Tracking of defects on Quality center 11.0

ENVIRONMENT

• Windows7, XP, LINUX Ubuntu and Fedora
• Putty, Oracle SQL developer, I Series (AS 400)

2. Confidential, July 2010 Jan 2011 Sr. V & V Engineer
(Sr. QA Analyst)

• MetLife: Insurance domain Jul2010 Jan2011
• Preformed Onsite coordinator(Team lead) role in USA
• Prepared the Test Plans, test completion documents
• Scheduled test cycles and distributed Task assignment among team members
• Maintained Requirement traceability Matrix across the project
• Produced high level test scenarios for AUT
• Reviewed test scenario and scripts of team member
• Prepared test scripts and imported into Quality Center
• Executed test scripts for functional testing and compatibility testing on different browsers
• Automated test scripts using QTP9 for regression test suits
• Prepared and executed SQL queries for results verifications
• Performed web services testing using SOAP UI
• Analyzed defects and determined the route cause
• Created defect reports for the defects found during execution cycle and documented into Quality center and assigned same to respective Developers/Architects
• Attended several walkthrough meeting with Business analysts, Project Manager and Developers and provided feedback accordingly

ENVIRONMENT

• Oracle8i/10g, Windows XP/VISTA/7, JAVA, QC9
• Browsers: FF 3/4, IE6/8

3. Confidential,India August 2007 July 2010
SWQA Engineer

• Polyvision: Room Wizard - embedded testing project May 2010 Jul 2010
• Performed team lead position
• Worked closely with the project team in planning coordination and implementing QA Methodology
• Understanding of requirements for generating goals and test plans
• Created Test plans and test completion reports
• Scheduled test cycles and distributed Task assignment among team members
• Reviewed the test cases for the project
• Performed Ad Hoc testing for the Clustered Exchange Connector and verified creating, updating and deletion of appointments on exchange servers and on devices
• Assigned Severity and Priority to the defects into TestTrack
• Assigned defects to respective developers
• ENVIRONMENT
• Windows 7, XP, LINUX , Java, TestTrack
• Polyvision: Walk n Talk- embedded testing project Jan 2010 Apr 2010
• Performed team lead position
• Created Test plans
• Scheduled test cycles
• Setup/configured test systems
• Reviewed the test scenarios and test cases and checked test coverage
• Created automated regression test suit using QTPs
• Performed Ad hoc testing for the firmware on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems
• Executed test cases for functional testing, Installation testing and UI testing on different configurations
• Reviewed defects and assigned them to developers

ENVIRONMENT
Windows 7, XP, 98, LINUX Ubuntu and Fedora, Java, Test track, TOAD

• Bioscrypt: Sep 2009 Dec 2009
• Configured Test Systems
• Prepared test scenarios
• Created test scripts and executed test scripts and test analysis
• Performed Migration testing with SQL scripting for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008
• Running full Regression testing cycles for the functionality of the system in serial and ethernet communication

ENVIRONMENT

• Windows XP/VISTA/98, JAVA, TestTrack, SQL Server 2005 and 2008
• uControl: Agile Methodology Project Mar 2009 Aug 2009
• Worked closely with the project team in planning for the sprints
• Test System configuration
• Prepared and executed test cases
• Executed full Regression testing cycles for the functionality of the system
• Bug reporting and verification
• As a test management tool used Rally- agile test management tool
• Participated into scum meetings

ENVIRONMENT

• JAVA, Windows XP/VISTA, Rally
• Object Video: Surveillance System Jan 2008 March 2009
• Configured Test Systems
• Prepared test scenarios
• Created test scripts using QTP with VBScript and implemented keyword driven and data driven testing
• Prepared automated test cases, executed test scripts and test analysis
• Running full Regression testing cycles for the functionality of the system
• Bug reporting and verification into Quality Center
• As a test management tool used Mercury Quality Center
• Automated test cycle on QTP using VB scripting

ENVIRONMENT

• Windows XP/VISTA/98, JAVA, Quality Center
• Perl Scripting Project Aug 2007 Jan 2008
• Developed Perl scripts for reports for an automobile company’s automated testcases in Text and HTML format
• Validated Test plan file & Feature list files
• Generated reports for Features and Test plans mapping & regression in text and HTML format

4. Confidential,
Test Engineer

• Intelligent Medical Software (IMS):Healthcare domain June 2006 July 2007
• Prepared test plans, test cases, test case execution and test analysis
• Bug reporting and verification
• Provided training and support for Allergy Shots module to doctors

ENVIRONMENT

• PowerBuilder, Oracle8i, Windows XP, ASP.Net

5. Confidential,

• VAT: Government domain(taxation department) January 2005 April 2006
• Prepared test cases , test case execution
• Running full Regression testing cycles for the functionality of the system
• Bug reporting and verification

ENVIRONMENT

• Windows XP, Oracle8i/10g, JAVA

EDUCATION
Bachelor in Computer Science