SUMMARY:

• Over 11+ years of diversified experience in all phases of Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Agile Scrum and Lean methodologies and Custom Client - Server applications.
• Handling project delivery throughout all the phases of execution. Taken ownership and responsibility in delivering project across all phases - Test Planning, Test design, Test execution, Test report and knowledge documenting. The scope of work includes,
• Release Requirements Analysis, Effort sizing, Test Plan and Test Case design
• Involve in Work sizing and task allocation. Size the work using Work Breakdown structure model to its micro granular level, use Estimator to calculate independent efforts for these granular level tasks and calculate the overall project effort
• Review milestone deliverables like Test Plan, Test case and Test Results with the project stakeholders (Business team and internal development team). Conduct walkthrough meeting for the above deliverables
• Planning and management of multiple projects
• Collaborate with project stake holders
• Project health monitoring and control. Project Status reporting (DSR and WSR)
• Triaging of defects and coordinating defect fix testing by working with onsite and offshore teams
• Gather project and process metrics and share it with project stakeholders. Collect the Software Quality Metrics which involves collecting the process metrics typically Productivity, Defects Per Unit, Operational Effectiveness Rate and project specific metrics typically Schedule variance, Effort variance, Test coverage, and Test confidence
• Involved in RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and DP (Defect Prevention) activities as required by the project.
• Root Cause Analysis - conducted RCA meetings and performed RCA using Fishbone Analysis method and suggested improvements in test processes based on the analysis
• Review and mentor team members for the application / domain specific knowledge and technical knowledge
• Have worked and strong knowledge in Agile Scrum methodology and Lean methodology
• Assisted/Acted as Scrum Master in test planning and estimates with JIRA tool
• Keep track of the deliverables such as backlog, user stories etc.,
• Conducted daily Scrum stand up calls
• Identified the Lean points and reduced the effort of test execution
• Participate in daily lean meeting and updated the same in lean dashboard
• Apply Risk Based Testing concepts by analyze the projects for its feasibility and Detailed study of the system or application and devise strategic plan for implementation. This involves Cost Benefit analysis, ROI analysis and Scalability analysis
• Perform pilot project implementation, a Proof of Concept for the identified project and analyze the success factor of tools implementation.
• Provided training to both onsite and offshore team about Risk Based Testing and Product Risk Analysis
• Experienced in designing automation scripts using HP - Quick Test Professional 10 and Selenium Tools
• Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG, Maven framework and knowledge in Cucumber.
• Experience in testing Web Services with SOAP UI PRO.
• Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features and TestNG Annotations. Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience in executing UAT testing using Fitnesse with Selenium IDE
• Rich experience in Banking Domain, especially Payments industry (T24 product) and Commercial Lending system and CRM on multiple platforms.
• Experience in handling Claim Processing and HealthCare Industry
• Experience in products like Finacle(Universal Banking Solutions), T24 Payment system, Federal Employee Program(Claim Adjudication system)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Methods: Manual Testing using Black Box Techniques System & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional & Non- Functional Testing including Load/Performance testing, Client/Server Application testing, Regression testing, Load/Performance testing Data Base Testing

Testing Tools: ALM 11.52, JIRA 7.2, RALLY, SOAP UI PRO, Selenium WebDriver, Fitnesse with Selenium IDE, QTP, Quality Center, Rational Functional Tester, Win Runner8.0, Load Runner8.0Operating Systems: Windows 9x, Windows 2000/NT/XP, MS DOS

Languages: UNIX Shell Scripts, VBScript, Info Basic

DBMS: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000 and MS Access

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script, ASP, JSP

Tools: Toad for Oracle10g, VSS8.0

Software Packages: Microsoft Office 2007/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Texas

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involves with business team in analyzing and validating requirements. Creating, implementing, maintaining, documenting and enhancing test plans, test scripts, and test methodologies that ensure exhaustive testing of application for each systematic release.
• Involved in review discussion with BA on User Stories and Business Requirements to support the development of our software application. Work with product stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit accurate information for use in the Business Requirement Documents.
• Collaborate with developers and technical team to improve overall product quality of the system by emphasizing defect prevention throughout the development process.
• Define the processes to be used during UAT phase of system change and ensure appropriate engagement and oversight of testing quality.
• Support and provide inputs to the other specialty testing activities in the areas of functional testing, non-functional testing, automation testing, regression testing, performance testing, parallel testing, test environments or application specialties.
• Identifies and develops ways to improve the quality, capability, or efficiency of the testing process using JIRA Agile scrum management tool.
• Worked on Testing of Restful Web Services for EDI file using SOAP UI PRO.
• Assist with process improvement and compliance to successfully and consistently deliver high-quality software products and services on a timely basis.
• Prepare test data, load and maintain the data on the RDBMS (DB2) databases, setup test specific data to test the data driven functionality, work with database administrators and developers on data and database related issues.
• Created various automated scripts with Selenium WebDriver for the parallel testing and regulatory changes.
• Developed various macros to downsize testing effort in validating system effectively and reduce leakage of production defects.
• Report issues and results, researching and identifying root causes as appropriate using JIRA. Provides technical support for system malfunctions and corrects errors. Ensure results of Root Cause Analysis are addressed.
• Involved in Post Production testing in regular intervals.

Technologies: JDK 8, JSP, Java Script, Servlets, Mainframe z/Os, DB2, SQL

Tools: HP ALM 11.52, JIRA 7.2, Selenium WebDriver, SOAP UI PRO, Share point, Teredata, Availity, Mckession

Confidential

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, analysis, and design, and performed end to end testing
• Created test plans and test scripts based on the higher/lower level design documents. Worked extensively with Line of Business and User Acceptance testing resources to cover total functionality for System Integration testing, including end to end and regression testing.
• Responsibilities included setting up the test environment, planning and deploying Test plans. Involved in preparing various test estimation for projects in course of the testing cycle.
• Performed manual testing, automated testing, functionality testing, performance testing, integration testing, load, stress testing and regression testing of application developed in J2EE.
• Created test data in System Integration and User Acceptance testing environments by conditioning data per scenarios identified in test scripts.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix after completion of test plan and test scripts.
• Gather project and process metrics and share it with project stakeholders. Collect the Software Quality Metrics which involves collecting the process metrics typically Productivity, Defects Per Unit, Operational Effectiveness Rate and project specific metrics typically Schedule variance, Effort variance, Test coverage, and Test confidence
• Identified and documented defects/system issues using the Quality Center, and assisted of root cause analysis for timely resolution of defects.
• Helped programmers to find and resolve potential logical and coding bugs during the development cycle. Reviewed the technical and functional specs and wrote Test plan and Test cases.
• Automated and wrote scripts for backend and front end testing.

Technologies: Infobasic, Jbase, Oracle10g, XML, J2EE, UNIX, Shell scripting, TOAD, SQL

Confidential

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 10 Members; Handle Offshore teams
• Actively involved in agile scrum team and Lean team
• Involved in User Acceptance testing using Fitnesse with Selenium IDE tool and Regressing testing using QTP
• Involved in testing web service with SOAP UI.
• Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation for both manual and automation testing
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Weekly Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
• Responsible for other Test Management Activities.
• Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
• Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
• RCA, DP and Metrics process owner for entire team
• Mentor and Trained team members on the project and risk based testing methodology.

Technologies: JDK 1.4, Struts1.1, JSP, HTML, Java Script, Servlets, EJB2.0, Oracle10g

Tools: Confidential 8.0, HP QTP 8.0, VSS, SOAP UI Fitnesse with Selenium IDE

Confidential, Chicago

Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 4 Members; Handle Offshore teams
• Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation.
• Prepared test script for automation testing in Test complete.
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Weekly Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
• Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
• Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
• RCA, DP and Metrics process owner for entire team

Technologies: Jdk1.4.2 04, JSP, XML, Oracle 9i

Tools: HP QC, Terra Data, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Confidential, California

Product Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Product Technical Lead for system testing
• Lead team of 10 Members; Handle Offshore teams
• Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Prepared Weekly/Daily Status report
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
• Involved as Configuration Controller (CC)
• Performed both Manual Testing and Automated testing for usability and compatibility of the custom Web application
• Assigned task to team members, provided assistance to team members to clarify functional and technical difficulties.
• Performed end to end testing for Regression, Integration and database testing.
• Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
• Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.
• Mentor and Trained team members on the project and risk based testing methodology.

Technologies: Jdk1.4.2 04, JSP, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL server 2000, IIS, Pramati41, Windows 2000, UNIX (HP, AIX, JRun4, SUN Solaris)

Tools: Rational Functional Tester 8.00.1, Firestone, IPM+, Radar, VSS 8.0, Toad for Oracle 9.5, Tcube 8.0

Confidential

Testing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Tester for system testing
• Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
• Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
• Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
• Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.

Technologies: Visual Basic6.0, SQL Server 2000

Tools: SharePoint, VSS

Confidential

Testing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Tester for system testing
• Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
• Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
• Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
• Defect reporting, tracking and monitoring

Technologies: Java1.4, HTML, MS-Access

Tools: SharePoint, VSS

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Tester for system testing
• Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
• Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
• Defect reporting, tracking and monitoring

Technologies: Visual Basic, Windows NT, SQL Server

Tools: SharePoint

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Tester for system testing
• Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
• Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
• Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
• Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
• Defect reporting, tracking and monitoring.

Technologies: JSP, EJB, JDBC, Servlets, Oracle

Tools: SharePoint