SUMMARY

• Result focused and customer oriented QA lead with Professional expertise in designing test strategy, test planning, estimation, leading testing effort for large/complex projects
• Over 10 years of experience in Testing and Quality Assurance of Web - Based, Client-Server and Multi-Tier applications.
• Extensive experience in manual testing on Windows and Linux Environment.
• Experience working both individually and in leading a global team.
• Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance concepts, practices, and procedures in an Agile/Scrum-based product development environment.
• Experience in Creation of Test Artifacts (Estimates, Test Plan, Test Findings, Daily Status)
• Experience to Document software failures and anomalies providing sufficient detail to facilitate reproduction by developers, or work to identify root cause where feasible.
• Proficiency in back-end database testing and verification of data integrity using SQL.
• Experience setting up a QA division in a start-up company.
• Experience with QA Methodologies - Black-Box and QA Strategies to ensure the Quality Control.
• Strong experience in performing Functionality, Database, End-to-End, UI, API and Regression tests
• Knowledge of Robot framework for automation.
• Knowledge in creating automation environment using Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center.
• Possesses good analytical skills coupled with interpersonal, communication, presentation and self-organizing skills, assertive and a committed team player
• Knowledge of VMs for testing.
• Awarded Best QA Engineer for identifying Complex issues in the Product ( Confidential ).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Engineer / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined the SDLC strategies for requirements gathering, QA, UAT, and release and defect management.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Document QA process in Confluence for teams to follow
• Tested applications across multiple Operating Systems and browsers for GUI, functional, and scenario defects
• Create and inspect MySQL queries to retrieve and compare application data
• Used Postman for manual API testing
• Created Confidential ’s regression and feature test repository (using BDD scenarios with Gherkin syntax) in HipTest
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Working experience in teams with Kanban
• Used Robot Framework for Automation testing.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Environment: JIRA, Hiptest, Postman

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management support assigned projects
• Perform analysis of project requirements
• Support client meetings and checkpoint
• Document, review and assess operations
• Reviews Test plans, Test scenarios, Test Strategies, Test cases and all Test artifacts created by the Testers.
• Reviews, updates and finalizes the project’s Functional sizing and communicates the sizing appropriately.
• Monitors team progress and QA progress in every sprint.
• Attends Agile ceremonies and provides input.

Environment: TFS, Quality Center

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing Testing of the Breach Analytics Framework involved in the Confidential ’s breach prevention system.
• Responsible for monitoring/reacting to Threats using the Confidential solution.
• Responsible for Coordinating Efforts between Quality Assurance Team and Project Management / Development Team / Security Team
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing of the browser-based application;
• Covers the high-level scope and objectives of the project and establishes communication channels; understanding and documenting the business processes of a section or whole of the organization in a very clear and concise manner and translating that knowledge into User Requirement, User Stories and Use Cases.
• Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing of the browser-based application.
• Identifies, analyzes, and documents defects utilizing FogBugz; an integrated web-based project management system featuring bug/issue tracking, discussion forums, wikis, customer relationship management as defect tracking system;
• Plays an active role in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements as well as improvement of UI\UX design of company software product;
• Created bug reports and other test related documents.
• Involved in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC.
• Leads initiative for proper detailed documentation of QA reports.

Environment: Python, Perl, Vertica DB, Mongo, Redis, JavaScript, Linux, Windows 7, FogBugz, Spiratest, Pivot Tracker

Confidential

Sr. SQA Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing web-based applications in multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and web browsers (Google Chrome, IE 7, 8, 9)
• Responsible for performing black box testing, database testing and regression testing.
• Responsible for bug filing, bug validation and verification.
• Interact with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.
• Involved in writing test cases from business requirements
• Responsible for migrating defects from Mantis to Rally.
• Interact with the global QA team
• Define iterations, test sets, user stories in Rally.
• Responsible for executing test cases and filing results in Rally.

Environment: PHP, JAVA, C#, MySQL, Oracle 11g, SQLServer, IIS 6, IIS 7, Apache

Confidential

QA Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up QA division.
• Responsible for single handed manual testing of the entire application.
• Responsible for Testing web-based applications in multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL) and web browsers (Google Chrome, IE 7, 8, 9)
• Responsible for performing black box testing, database testing, system testing, API testing and regression testing.
• Responsible for bug filing, bug validation and verification.(Filed more than 300 bugs)
• Interact with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.
• Involved in writing test cases from business requirements

Environment: PHP, JAVA, C#, MySQL, Oracle 11g, SQLServer, IIS 6, IIS 7, Apache

Confidential

QA tester.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing test plans and develop test cases from business requirements
• Responsible for performing black box, system testing.
• Responsible for both manual and automation testing of the entire application.
• Developed automated test scripts, defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance, security, recovery and reliability of the application.
• Created and customized automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro 11.0
• Generated test logs and performance reports for future reference.
• Maintenance of Quality Center for Global test management and to track the bugs.
• Interact with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 11.0, Quality Center, Java, JSP, Oracle, UNIX

Consultant

Confidential, Dallas,TX

Responsibilities:

• Experience in developing web-based applications in Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET using Visual C# .NET
• Experiences on .NET data provider component of ADO.NET for designing data access layer for the business objects.
• Extensive experience with expertise in: Client Server, Internet and Intranet Applications in Microsoft technologies
• Strong in RDBMS, ODBC Connectivity, Data Control, ADO Concepts
• Developed Training Management System and Sales Maintenace System for Confidential .
• Used C# and ADO.NET to define and implement secure middle-tier components using both connected and disconnected environment strategies. Components were consumed by web applications and windows applications utilizing SQL Server 2000 and stored procedures to perform logical business transactions.
• Experience in designing and developing reports using Crystal Reports.