Experience Summary:

Lead Tester with over 7.5 years of cumulative experience in the industry. Exposed to all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle withthorough understanding of the Software Testing process including GUI Testing, Compatibility Testing,System Testing including Integration, Regression, UAT Testing ofClient/Server, Web based applications,Server Side Testing and Database testing. An Effective Team leader and a dedicated team player.

• Analysis of business requirements and system design
• Formulation of detailed Test Plans and executing Test Cases for Functional, Regression and Integration Test scenarios
• Testing Client/Server, Embedded and Web-based Applications
• Excellent knowledge of Iterative Software Development Life Cycle process and Waterfall Model.
• Understanding of business process and Functionality
• Effective communication across both technical and non-technical audience to synchronize the efforts towards various components of a Project.
• Responsible for the planning and coordination of QA team when scheduling and maintaining current status of projects and assigned projectdeadlines
• Coordinating with the Projectmanager, Client and third party vendors on daily basis.
• Managing Test Cases and user requirements.

Languages: Knowledge ofJava and XML
Databases: Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and MS SQL Server
Database/Reporting Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer
OperatingSystem: Windows XP, Windows 95/98/00, UNIX, DOS
Tools: JiRA, Quality Center, SOAP UI

Education:

MSc Software Technology
Master of Computer Management
BSc Electronics

ProfessionalExperience:

Confidential Jun 2010 - Present

Lead Test Engineer (Working on two projects)
Client: Confidential

Project: QCHAT-XDMS (From Jun 2010 to Present)
The QChat XDMS is part of Sprint's PTT (Push To Talk) service QChat on CDMA. It provides PTT group management based upon OMA XDM 2.0 Shared Group specifications with extensions to support the QChat specific requirements as well as serves as a proxy to user database for user profiles/gateway data

Project:MDB (Master Database)(From Dec 2011 to Present)
The Master Database (MDB) maintains the core inventory data of vehicles and radio modules; relationships between users, vehicles, and services; references to users in Uconnect; and the complete device wireless profile (carrier specific device profile attributes).

Responsibilities:

• Set up test environment for manual testing
• Server Side testing, Server logs monitoring,API Testing (REST Services) and Regression testing using SOAP UI
• Help in defect triage calls, finding root cause analysis of problem
• Participate in daily stand up meeting for SCRUM
• Participate in Client meetings, meetings with vendors
• Arrange interoperability testing with different vendors
• Performed data validation testing on different Databaseslike Oracle, MySql, DB2
• Involved in Integration and system testing
• Used JiRA for defect tracking and assigning priorities to issues
• Created Test Plans and created test scripts for functional as well as regression testing
• Create Test Reports at the end of QA milestones for stakeholder review
• Sharing testing reports / status with Client, third party vendors and internally within team
• Responsible for onsite QA activities

Environment: J2EE, SOAP UI, Oracle, REST Services, XML

Confidential Nov 2009 - Jun 2010

Analyst Programmer
Client: Confidential
Project: Confidential

Moody\'s Investors Service is among the world's most respected and widely utilized sources for credit ratings, research and risk analysis. Current project facilitates to handle the life cycle of the Deals within companies for credit rating purposes. Which include the assigning of the deals from top management to different analysts for Surveillance and either approving/reassigning/rejecting the deals handled by the analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Module lead for SMART project
• Writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents.
• Lead the team in preparing project testing schedule / plan, defining and forming testing team structure
• Lead team in defining roles and the responsibilities of all participants involved in different types of testing like functional, regression etc.
• Analyzing Use Cases, Defining Test Requirements, Writing Test Cases, Test Data Generation, Bug Tracking and Bug Reporting and analyzing root cause of bug
• Database testing
• Performing module wise GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Unstructured testing

Environment:J2EE, Rapid SQL, Quality Center

Confidential India Mar 2008 - Oct 2009

Senior Testing Engineer
Client: Confidential, Australia
Project: Sensis - iGen

iGen is an Advertising and Marketing product which

• Provides an integrated Advertiser Management framework
• Provides a software platform supporting entire life cycle of advertiser and advertising product management
• Enables advertisers to compete in an evolving digital media environment

Responsibilities:

• Wrote numerous test cases to test different requirements and business scenarios specifying the test procedure and the expected result for each of the test cases for various phases of SDLC
• Developed and enforced standards to ensure the qualityassurance achievement in all phases of SDLC.
• Resource allocation within the QA team to cover all components of testing
• Tracking the daily status of QA Team
• Communicating the project QA status with Management and made sure project deadlines are met.
• Performed Smoke Test before any build releases.
• Used theQuality Centerto view, report and track history of defects.
• Involved in Functional,Regression and System Integration Testing.
• Mentoring junior QA members
• Performed Sanity and GUI testing.

Environment:J2EE, Toad, Quality Center

Confidential Mar 2006 - Feb 2008

Software Engineer
Client: Confidential
Project: Retain

Retain is a call center tool used by call agents to create a retention process and order flow informing end users with a quick view of a customer\'s churn and retention potential related to his or her past behavior analysis, predictive modeling, segmentation and churn score. For customers, wanting to disconnect line services or remove product/s, the retention order process flow will enable strategic retention and special needs offers to be displayed to end users arming them with the personalized and suggested products and services to meet the needs of the customers they are consulting.
Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual testing of the test cases.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Developed the Positive and Negative Test Cases for various modules based on the business requirements.
• Created Test Cases and Test Procedures based on the documentation with the intent of finding as many errors as possible.
• Involved in Integration, End-to-End testing and User Acceptance testing phases and corresponding process of migration.
• Performed regression testing to ensure the best quality of the source code.
• Worked closely with developers and the Business team to fully understand the scope and functionality of the proposed systems requirements.
• Executed SQL statements forData base testing.
• Performed Sanity and GUI testing.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Verizon in-house bug tracking software.

Environment:ASP.NET, C#.NET, MS SQL Server 2000

Confidential Jun 2002 - July 2003

Software Engineer
Client: Confidential
Project: Property Management Systems

Webizus Technologies was start up which was doing outsourced product development as well as providing software services. I worked here as a test engineer and responsible for end to end testing of Property Management System

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Defining scope for projects
• Assisted with system testing, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Analyzing Use Cases, Defining Test Requirements, Writing Test Cases, Test Data Generation, Bug Tracking and Bug Reporting and analyzing root cause of bug.
• Performing module wise GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Unstructured testing, Business Process Testing and UAT testing.

Environment:Visual Basic, VB .Net, MS Access