SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years and 10 months of extensive experience in IT industry with extensive experience in Functional Testing and Automation testing
• Experience in using MTM/TFS, ALM, Quality Center and Test Director for writing the test cases, executing the test cases and defect reporting
• Experience in working with Agile and Waterfall methodology
• Worked extensively with JIRA and Zephyr tools on Agile Methodology
• Extensive experience in tracking bugs using Bug tracking tools such as Team Tracker, Star team Client, Prolite, and Bugzilla
• Involved in performing regression testing using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Good working experience in Database testing using PLSQL Developer, Oracle and Toad.
• Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Metrics for both manual and automated tests.
• Strong experience in testing with different Java Runtime Environment (JRE) versions which will be certified for the customers to use Production jars
• Involved in various types of testing such as Functionality/System testing, E2E Testing, Back end testing, Browser Compatibility testing, Smoke Testing, Dry Run testing, Roll Back Testing and Regression Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Strong working background in domains like Investment Banking, HealthCare, Telecom, Media & Information domains.
• HP Certified in Quality Center (QC) and Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Good understanding on CMM/CMMI model, levels of the CMM and Key process areas.
• Excellent problem, solving skills with a strong technical background and good interpersonal skills, good team player with good communication skills and an ability to work in a team and individual environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT. QTP, ALM HP Quality Center, MTM/TFS, JIRA, Zephyr

Defect Tracking Tools: Team Tracker, Star team Client, Prolite, Bugzilla

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, V - Model

Languages: Java, VB, ASP.Net, COBOL and Mainframe

Database: Oracle 8i, PLSQL Developer, TOAD

Scripting Language: SQL, VB Script, HTML, XML

Domain Knowledge: Investment Banking, Healthcare, Telecomm

Applications: MS Office

Operating Systems: Windows 10/8.1/7/XP/Vista

Browsers: IE, Chrome, and Firefox

Email: Lotus Notes, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Test Lead

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Leading team of QA engineers based at onshore and offshore.
• Involving in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Review/Demo meetings.
• Involving in creating the testing subtasks for the user story and estimating time for the same
• Collaborating with all stakeholders for Quality Assurance and Development process.
• Preparing and reviewing test plan, fully responsible for setting up of data, performing smoke test after the code is deployed to QA before delegating to offshore QA, reporting of test results and providing signoff.
• Host triage calls with all the teams involved in the project across various geographical locations for troubleshooting defects.
• Provide daily status report (DSR) and weekly status report (WSR) across team.
• Streamlined projects to make them meet changing needs.
• Highly responsive to team and clients
• Worked on continuous improvement of QA process by reviewing and evaluating existing practices with standard testing guidelines to ensure overall quality of the product.

Environment: Windows 8.1, Angular JS, MTM/TFS, JIRA, Agile Methodology.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance test lead for Fidelity s brokerage and advisor channel web application projects. This involves working with in house and third party vendor partners.
• Lead team of QA engineers based at onshore and offshore.
• Prepare test strategy, test plan, test scenarios and write exhaustive test cases based on business requirements and system delivery specifications.
• Review all deliverables with business and other stakeholders and obtain signoff. In corporate feedback into all deliverables.
• Identify and set up test data before the kickoff of testing cycle.
• Execute test cases and track defects in HP QC 11/ALM.
• Develop automation test scripts in HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for regression.
• Host triage calls with all the teams involved in the project across various geographical locations for troubleshooting defects.
• Provide testing status updates to senior management timely manner and forecast any risk.
• Participated in Change Request meetings and implemented procedures for test changes.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including test results, test case coverage, defects discovered and their status and performance base lines.
• Production validation and production support during the implementation of the project.

Environment: Windows 7, .Net, ALM 12.0, UFT, Waterfall Methodology.

Associate Consultant - QA

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Working for Citi-Direct File Import and Export project ( Corporate Banking) under Banking and Financial Domain.
• Attending walk-through meetings with the Business Analyst team discussing about the requirements and raising the ambiguities for the same.
• Developing test plans, writing test cases and documenting them along with the results in Quality Center
• Testing with different java versions which will be certified for the customers to use Production Jars and also checking the application in different IE’s like IE 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and Safari
• End-to-End testing for selected regions (E2E environment availability), validation within transaction status changes in CitiDirect.
• Testing extensive back end testing using TOAD to retrieve data from the database
• Using Team tracking tool to manage, coordinate and report defects in both functional and regression testing
• Interacting actively in the team in identifying bugs
• Involving in Production release activities and also attending Production Support calls.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, IIS Web Server, TOAD, Quality Center, Team Tracking Defect Tool, Waterfall Methodology.

Software Engineer - QA

Confidential, MN

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users
• Documenting and executing Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts based on baseline requirements in Test Director
• Ensuring that as many defects as possible, in both software and documentation are removed from a product before it reaches the customer.
• Performing Regression testing by applying parameterization of the automated test scripts in QTP to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data
• Involved in preparing Casual Analysis Report for every quarter release to present for Project Management meetings.
• Involving in Production support calls at the end of every release.
• Defect tracking through a tool named Star team Client and Reporting the status of Test Execution through Daily Status Report.
• Coordinating with the Client (QA Team) every week for the status and project discussions through Live Meeting and telephone.

Environment: Windows Vista, ASP.Net, Oracle 8i, QTP 8.2, Test Director 7.0, Star Team Client, Waterfall Methodology.

Test Engineer - QA

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Working for Strategic Systems & Processes (SSP) under Health Care domain.
• Interacted with software developers and Business Analysts to understand functionality and navigational flow of the application
• Reviewed business requirements documents, functional requirements documents and technical specifications of the application
• Involved in the development of System test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents
• Performed functional testing, GUI testing, regression testing
• Executing the Regression test scripts for various Use cases with the updated build of the application
• Utilized Test Director for communication with the production personnel, developers and team members
• Reporting defects through a Defect Tracking tool called Prolite.

Environment: Windows 98, Visual Basics, Mainframe, PLSQL Developer, Test Director 7.0, Prolite, Waterfall Methodology