EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 8 years of Testing / Quality Assurance experience in Designing, Developing and Testing Software Applications
• Testing / Quality Assurance experience in Designing, Developing and Testing Software Applications
• Experience working with Banking, Financial, Ecommerce and Retail applications
• Experience in Loan Origination, Trading, Taxation and Servicing
• Managed all testing resources (Staff and Tools), work with on - shore and off-shore as well as vendor teams
• Managed design, development and execution of the entire test process, track and report progress of test execution, document and coordinate the detailed execution plan for all cycles to support testing
• Manage usability testing with business clients, gather feedback, review with Business Analyst and prioritize results
• Knowledge of computer software, such as Visual Basic, Java, SQL
• Expertise in project test scheduling, coordination and leadership in Waterfall, Iterative, Agile/Scrum environments
• Understanding of the focus of extended members of the project team and strong communication skills resulting in building successful collaborations with all members of the project team
• Extensively involved in Black Box, White Box and Full Life Cycle Testing
• Strong understanding of QA principles, QA Process, Use Cases and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Hands on experience using Quality Center, Selenium and QTP
• Experienced in Testing Web, Data Conversion to implement new software into the production environment
• Manage Business Acceptance Testing, obtain required business client sign-off at completion of testing
• Develop test strategy for each project using a risk-based approach
• Involved in analysis, design and quality assurance of Client/server and Web applications
• Proficient in Manual Testing on both Client Server, Web based Applications and Mobile Applications
• Experience in testing SOA and component-based architecture
• Extensive experience in creating detailed Test requirements, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategies and generating/executing Test Scripts to meet business and functional specifications
• Expertise performing different kinds of testing like Functional, GUI, Regression, Unit, Integration, Performance, Database, User Acceptance and System Testing
• Expertise in Test Management and Bug tracking tools like Quality Center
• Effective L eadership Skills with good written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Expert knowledge with MS Office applications including Outlook, Lync, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Project
• Ability to prioritize workload, balancing different projects, to meet the deadlines
• Self-motivated with result oriented approach
• Worked effectively and productively in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Coordinate and manage projects with high level management, maintain Project Work Plan for all phases of the System Test Life Cycle using different Test management tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: Selenium, QTP

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 95/98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7, UNIX, Linux, DOS.

Testing Areas: Regression, GUI, Functional (Integration, System, Smoke, Interface, Ad-hoc Testing), Non-functional (Performance, Batch job)

Test Management tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, JIRA, HP ALM

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Rational Clear Quest

WebServices: SOAP and REST/JSON

Environment: Architecture: Client Server Applications and Web Based Applications

Languages: Java, C, VB, SQL, .Net

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VBScript

Internet Programming: JSP, HTML, DHTML, XML

Databases: Oracle 8i, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Sr. Quality Analyst/BA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Hands on experience in functional, nonfunctional, integration, and user acceptance testing strategies, methods, and procedures
• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures
• Prepared traceability matrices to reflect test coverage
• Created test cases/scripts and executed tests
• Experience in documenting and reporting software defects
• Experience in planning test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates
• Understanding the goals and requirements.
• Analyze the Business Requirement Document, Functional Specification documents to prepare Test Cases.
• Involved in Developing the Test plan that contains the entire schedule and deliverable list including the testing phases.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures and analyzing Test Results.
• Experience in conducting software compatibility tests with programs, hardware, operating systems, or network environments.
• Involved in setting up the standards to determine product quality or release readiness using the Exit Criteria
• Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
• Experience in documenting software defects using a bug tracking tool and reported defects to software developers
• Monitor bug resolution and track to Closure
• Good Experience in documenting test procedures with replicability and compliance with organization standards
• Involved in evaluating software for bug tracking.
• Identified program deviance from standards and suggested modifications to ensure compliance
• Experience in installing and configure software production environments to allow testing of software performance
• Experience in investigating customer problems/Issues logged by technical support
• Involved in product design reviews and provided input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
• Experience in initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code pieces
• Done Planning test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
• Provided feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality based on user experience
• Involved in testing system modifications/Change Requests to prepare for implementation.
• Experience in coordinating with user or third-party testing teams.
• Done store visits during beta testing to evaluate software performance
• Created, Managed and Tracked Defects using Quality Center
• Generated Defect Summary Reports for defect review meetings using Quality Center
• Performing backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries to test the integrity of the application.

Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle, Windows XP, SOAP UI, HP Quality Center and Selenium

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Team member my responsibilities are create, update and identify test conditions, test scenarios, test cases perform regression and functional testing.
• Involved in Reverse presentations
• Involved in peer reviews
• Involved in creating the Requirements Traceability Matrices to Map and cross check the Requirements with the Design and further with Test Case.
• Involved in preparing the Test Case, Test Report and other project related documents.
• Involved in execution of system and integration test plans.
• Involved in testing the application in a controlled environment, by logging into clients desktop using Safer card or Secure Card.
• Involved in System Testing & User Acceptance Testing for certifying the functionality of application.
• Involved in OS compatibility testing
• Involved in Defect review meetings.
• Involved in Daily Status meetings.

Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle, Windows XP and HP Quality Center

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Team member my responsibilities are create, update and identify test conditions, test scenarios, test cases perform regression and functional testing.
• Involved in Reverse presentations
• Involved in peer reviews
• Involved in creating the Requirements Traceability Matrices to Map and cross check the Requirements with the Design and further with Test Case.
• Involved in preparing the Test Case, Test Report and other project related documents.
• Involved in execution of system and integration test plans.
• Involved in testing the application in a controlled environment, by logging into clients desktop using Safer card or Secure Card.
• Involved in System Testing & User Acceptance Testing for certifying the functionality of application.
• Involved in OS compatibility testing
• Involved in Defect review meetings.
• Involved in Daily Status meetings.

Environment: UNIX, Oracle, Windows XP, HP Quality Center

Confidential, CA

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Team member my responsibilities are create, update and identify test conditions, test scenarios, test cases perform regression and functional testing.
• Involved in Reverse presentations
• Involved in peer reviews
• Involved in creating the Requirements Traceability Matrices to Map and cross check the Requirements with the Design and further with Test Case.
• Involved in preparing the Test Case, Test Report and other project related documents.
• Involved in execution of system and integration test plans.
• Involved in testing the application in a controlled environment, by logging into clients desktop using Safer card or Secure Card.
• Involved in System Testing & User Acceptance Testing for certifying the functionality of application.
• Involved in OS compatibility testing
• Involved in Defect review meetings.
• Involved in Daily Status meetings.

Environment: Unix, Oracle, Windows XP, HP Quality Center and QTP