SUMMARY:

• A Quality Assurance, Test Lead and Software Test Analyst with over eight years of strong experience in both manual and automation testing, with a specialty in end - user testing.
• Able to apply broad technical and functional expertise to organize and implement black-box test efforts and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation.
• Experienced in the lifecycle of a project from inception to final production. Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels, including senior management and the customer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Bugzilla, Rational Clear Quest, Selenium Webdriver 2.9.0, HP Unified Functional Testing 11.5, QTP 9.2, Eclipse, Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Project Plan, SOAP UI, JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, Soap/REST Service

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 8, WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS XP, Mainframes

Database: Oracle11, DB2, SQL Server

Languages: Java, Java Script, VB Script, HTML5

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland

Sr. Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Plan phases and release testing in DEV, QA environments and get sign off from Business for PROD release
• Create/Review Test Cases for new Requirements
• Analyze application requirements and identify if any gaps
• Feasibility study of existing manual test cases
• Involved in developing Proof Of Concept, Estimation
• Building up Automation test strategy and plan documents
• Identification of risks, their impacts and mitigation plan
• Automation framework creation
• Estimating automation efforts and also following Automation Testing Life Cycle(Requirement understanding, script creation/review/rework, execution, defect process)
• Experience in writing CSS Selectors and Xpath expressions to identify web elements
• Involved in developing scripts using Page Object Model
• Work experience in building automation scripts on TestNG framework and Maven, ANT for Project building tool, Jenkins for Continuous Integration.
• Worked on Web Services Testing using SOAP UI
• Developed Test Cases using WSDL, Schema files which defines Web Service Request, Response, methods/operations, End Point of web service to be tested
• Team management by delegating tasks to team and tracking the same
• Maintain/Organize the Requirement Traceability Matrix ( RTM )
• Reviewing the Test Cases and Test Results prepared by the Team Members
• Perform End to End Test Execution
• Involved in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Migration, End to End and UAT Testing, Performance Testing
• Monitor the Test Execution Progress and Manage the Issues during Test Execution
• Defect Management (Triaging and Reporting) Act as a SPOC for onsite team
• Preparing & Sharing the Status Report as applicable
• Co-ordinate/Delegate the task(s) to the team members
• Mentor new team members
• Organize status meetings and send Status Report to the Client
• Discuss issues faced by the team with Test Managers and with Client.
• In charge of tracking and maintaining defects logged by the Client during UAT phase and follow up on timely resolution of those defects.
• Involved in post-production support to Users for application related questions
• Prepared relevant Process Metrics documents, Best Practice documents, checklists and status reports relevant to project
• Prepared Weekly Status Report and Month Status Report to be shared with Client

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Proof of Concepts(POC) and demonstrate to the client
• Designing the automation framework
• Identifying end to end regression scenario and automate them using QTP
• Writing scripts and trouble shooting in automation project
• Monitoring, controlling and reporting project progress to the Client
• Involved in Offshore-Onsite Communication Management Plan
• Client Co-ordination
• Guide team for designing automation framework
• Installed, configured SOAP UI to test web services using WSDL file given by Development team.

Testing Onsite SPoC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the requirements from client and provide estimates accordingly
• Act as a SPOC for Onsite Team
• Worked in Agile environment
• Have given transition to offshore team on various project work requests
• Followed up with team members on various project work requests and helped them to get work done on time.
• Reviewed test cases and test execution results and have driven sign off meetings with client to get approval.
• Involved in creating test cases for new functionalities
• Write SQL queries for testing purpose.
• Organize status meetings and send Weekly Status Report and Minutes of Meeting to the Client
• Proof of Concepts(POC) and demonstrate to the client
• Designing the automation framework
• Identifying end to end regression scenario and automate them using QTP
• Writing scripts and technical trouble shooting in automation project

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test case creation and performed Functional and Regression testing
• Involved in Smoke Testing to deliver a reliable smoke tested build within estimated timeline and performed Defect Verification
• Creating Basic SQL queries needed for the testing purpose.
• Completed UTC and ITC testing based on scenarios in Quality Center within the estimated timeline.
• Identifying the test cases for the automation.
• Executing the Test Scripts using automation script
• Analysis of defect failure to fix
• For 60% delivery of Encore ensured that the scenarios are 90% pass as per client requirement after a thorough testing process.