OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging career as a Software Technical Lead /QA Test Lead / QA Manager.

SUMMARY

• Around 10 years of industry and Agile environment experience in performing manual and automated testing of various manufacturing applications developed in object-oriented technologies.
• Experience in testing Web-based, PC-based E-commerce and Client-Server applications on different platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing: System, Integration, Regression, Performance, and Stress and Volume Testing etc.
• Have better understanding of the priorities and direction of government leads in the area of test planning and executing them.
• Provide technical leadership and vision at the program level for test planning, execution and test asset maintenance.
• Provide daily direction and attend standups and resolve impediments related to testing work.
• Develop and maintain a user story backlog for technical test related work items
• Lead support of design and development of test plans and test cases based on user requirements specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Perform testing efforts for any new releases and production deployment: including hands-on testing, developing deliverables, participating in status meetings and reviews, coordinating work with other scrum and development teams.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Rational Clear Quest. And Mercury Interactive Automated Testing Tools WinRunner, Load Runner and Test Director, Familiarity with other tools like SQA Test Suite, Requisite Pro, ClearCase, and ClearQuest etc.
• Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems RDBMS .
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of SQL, PLSQL for back-end testing.
• Extensive working knowledge in UNIX and WINDOWS platforms.
• Excellent interpersonal customer interaction skills, proven communication and presentation skills.

NO SPONSORSHIP IS REQUIRED.

Technical Skills:

• Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 9x and Windows NT/2000
• Languages: C, C , JAVA, .NET Framework and UNIX Shell scripting.
• RDBMS: Oracle 8.x, MS SQL Server 2000 and Sybase
• Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XSL ASP, Java Script,.NET, Java Servlets, JSP, FrontPage and IIS
• Packages: MS-Word, MS-Access, MS-Excel and MS-Project.
• GUI Tools: Oracle Developer 2000 and Visual Basic 6.0
• ERP: People Soft, Oracle Financials
• Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, CBT, WinRunner 6.x/7.x, Test Director 6.x/7.x, Load Runner 6.x/7.x, SQA Suite, PVCS Tracker, Requisite Pro, ClearCase, ClearQuest
• Test Strategies: Integration, System, Regression, Performance, User-Acceptance, Smoke, White Box and Black Box Testing.

Experiences:

Confidential

Title: Senior QA Lead / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed Test Plans, USER Training and Requirements documentation for enhancements and projects including business process models and business / systems requirements documents and use cases. Ensure that the requirements have been reviewed by development
• Manually tested and troubleshoot new features from a multitude of dimensions: Executed systems integration, GUI, Compatibility, User Acceptance Testing, functionality, database, and regression Test features across web browsers. Also took the lead coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Performed analysis, research, and troubleshooting of software defects and aid in the documentation of defects and anomalies Build, maintain and improve test artifacts for rapid and efficient reuse by the Test Engineering team Worked with developers.
• As Quality leads to defined Acceptance Criteria and ensure successful delivery of requirements Created and executed Test Cases manually as well as verified the actual results based on expected results.
• Participated in critical release activities for all platforms and Ensured complete and timely reporting of bugs and test results Passion for helping improve the quality of a software application product.
• Developed and maintained effective working relationships with business users and supported production issues and worked with Users to gather and clarify production issues.
• Managed testing efforts including developing test plans, coordinating setup of the test environment, managing issue resolution.
• Perform production support duties as assigned - monitor trouble ticket system, analyze support tickets, work with customers to gather additional information, ensure all reported production issues are addressed according to published service level agreement.
• Ensure that bugs identified during UAT are logged in the TFS bug tickets.
• Created issues, risks, change requests, as necessary, and manage them through to resolution in the Issues/Risks Database.
• Work closely with development to call attention to problems, resolving problems and/or assist in recreating them in agile methodology.
• Conduct daily scrum meetings for individual sprints.
• Provided ongoing tracking and monitoring that environments/hardware/software/data readiness is on track to meet project team requirements - proactively identify any issues and facilitate resolution.
• Provided weekly status reports to Domain leadership as well as environment/hardware/software/data owners.
• Involved in EXIT and USER demos or USER Trading's about new features added to existing system and new feature integrations to the existing application.

Environment: Appian DCM, PSA and DCMIFS, .net, TFS, Heat, Remedy, Selenium IDE, UAT Testing, Test Director, JavaScript Java, JIRA, J2EE, XML, XSL, XSLT, SQL, IIS, HTML, MS Excel, Oracle and Windows NT

Confidential

Title: Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintain a thorough understanding of business processes within the assigned area. Work with DCI business partners to gather process, functional, and data requirements.
• Developed detailed requirements documentation for enhancements and projects including business process models and business / systems requirements documents and use cases. Ensure that the requirements have been reviewed by development teams, vendors and business users and signoff has been received.
• Participated in the design process to ensure that business requirements are being satisfied. Coordinate design reviews with business users.
• Assist in coordinating the implementation of new system functionality into production. Perform shake-out testing. Provide functional, business, and system expertise for IT projects and business systems support
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with business customers
• Plan, document, and execute unit, integration and acceptance testing. Managed testing efforts including developing test plans, coordinating setup of the test environment, managing issue resolution, and coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Perform production support duties as assigned - monitor trouble ticket system, analyze support tickets, work with customers to gather additional information, ensure all reported production issues are addressed according to published service level agreement
• 2nd level support for production issues which includes problem identification, definition and implementation of short term work around and coordination of long term software solution with development team.
• Provide system expertise to training and support staff in support of new employee training and ongoing system training needs
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Automated major test cases using Selenium IDE to enhance the regression schedule.
• Involved in Parameterization of scripts for performing data driven testing
• Prepared the test data for weekly based regression testing in QA, Stage Production.
• Performed Integration, System and Regression Testing
• Monitored daily PRODUCTION environment on Splunk notified / identified potential conflicts/risks that are results from PRODUCTION environment/hardware/software/data requirements between the teams.
• If required opened JIRA tickets for Splunk errors by using JIRA.
• Interacted with developers/ project manager / business analysts to follow up on Issues occurred in dev/qa, Stage Production
• Supported weekly based production migrations for two projects Sponsorship and HUB .
• Created test data to perform special test scenarios in DB testing.
• Involved in Asset Management testing and Interacted with Technical Managers and content people to test successfully in Asset Manager.

Environment: Selenium IDE, CBT, Load Runner, Splunk, UAT Testing, Test Director, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JavaScript Java, JIRA, J2EE, XML, XSL, XSLT, Oracle 9i, IIS, HTML, MS Excel, Oracle and Windows NT

Confidential

Title: Senior QA Tester OIM-DoS - Performance, Acceptance and Testing Team

Responsibilities:

• As a Center Tester Coordinator enlist test machines and users in all areas of the Offices and Divisions to insure thorough testing of center specific applications.
• Keep OITSS/ Testing and Evaluation up to date on any center tester or test machine changes, such as new testers or new machine names prior to test deployment.
• Assist OITSS/Testing and Evaluation with the collection of responses after receiving the new images or software updates from our center testers.
• To collect testing results from center testers and report any issues to Center Testing Coordinators, Client Services Representatives and the DAE/Systems Integration Team for follow-up.
• Research and trouble / debug issues occurred in any security upgrades / patches, browser upgrades or any other IT related changes on all center applications.
• Provide / suggest solutions to the issues and sit with application testers and fix their issues.
• Work with overall project team to manage required testing activities for Enterprise and Large applications.
• Manage test case development, maintenance and storage
• Prepare expected testing results
• actively participates in appropriate EPLC stage gate meetings
• Ensure entry criteria are achieved prior to System Test start
• Coordinate review signoff of test conditions
• Manage test cycles tester identified issues
• Ensure test systems outages/problems are reported immediately and followed up
• Verify exit criteria is achieved
• Ensure that a detailed test plan is available for test users
• Ensure that bugs identified during UAT are logged in the OITSS Test Log
• Ensure testing takes place within agreed timeframes
• Supported testing activities for FDA Legacy based applications.

Environment: Selenium IDE, CBT, Load Runner, Rational Functional Tester, Test Director, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JavaScript Java, J2EE, XML, XSL, XSLT, Oracle 9i, IIS, HTML, MS Excel, Oracle and Windows NT

Project: 4

confidential

Title: QA LEAD and CM Configuration Management Support

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plan and test cases according to software development framework, considering the system requirements, design documents, change requests, and interface agreements.
• Interacted with business analysts to understand the existing and new business rules.
• Installed and configured Test Director.
• Executed and tracked entire testing efforts through Test Director.
• Automated major test cases using Rational Robot to enhance the regression schedule.
• Involved in Parameterization of scripts for performing data driven testing
• Prepared the test data for batch testing
• Performed Integration, System and Regression Testing
• Identified potential conflicts/risks that may result from environment/hardware/software/data requirements between the teams and the environment/hardware/software/data owners.
• Checked the log files for real-time error messages to pin point the problem.
• Opened SPR's Software Problem Reports by using Test Director.
• Interacted with developers/business analysts to follow up on SPR's.
• Involved in analyzing the system under test, identifying system components, describing configuration, user community profile and system operation profile for Load/Stress testing.
• Created issues, risks, change requests, as necessary, and manage them through to resolution in the Issues/Risks Database.
• work closely with development to call attention to problems, resolving problems and/or assist in recreating them
• Provided ongoing tracking and monitoring that environments/hardware/software/data readiness is on track to meet project team requirements - proactively identify any issues and facilitate resolution.
• Provided weekly status reports to Domain leadership as well as environment/hardware/software/data owners.
• Conducted Performance Testing by creating GUI Virtual Users scripts to measure end-to-end response time using Load Runner.
• Performed load testing for some business functions using Load Runner.
• Reported testing status on daily basis
• Created test documentation, such as test cases and test scripts for each project assigned.
• Created and maintains a Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Environment: Load Runner, Rational Functional Tester, UAT Testing, Test Director, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JavaScript Java, J2EE, XML, XSL, XSLT, Oracle 9i, IIS, HTML, MS Excel, Oracle and Windows NT

Confidential

Title: Application Test Lead and CM Configuration Management Support

Trained as CM with CMMI Level 3

Responsibilities:

• Develop and tune PL/SQL stored procedures/packages
• Identify and resolve application issues for production systems
• Create test plans and test cases for new applications or modules.
• Developed and executes software test plans, including component testing, integration testing, systems testing, regression testing, performance testing, and stress testing.
• Execute test plans through manual and automated test execution - develop programs to test, track, and verify defects in software programs.
• Assist with the implementation of QC policies and procedures.
• Assist with complying to CMMI and ISO 9001:2000 standards.
• Involved in the code walk through, Involved in creating Process workflow using Visio. Analyzed the business requirements and wrote Test Plans.
• Did the Documentations for the USER TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION, APPLICATION PROCESS FLOW, SYSTEM DESIGN, and APPLICATION OVER VIEW, Disaster Recovery Procedures, Security Documentation, and Production Support. And also involved in migration procedures from Dev to Test or from Test to UAT or from Test to Prod.
• My responsibility for evaluating, approving, or disapproving proposed changes to items after they have been baseline. CCBS is responsible for ensuring that approved changes are implemented.
• In-service management configuration management shifts to items related to operations and support of installed equipment. Such configurations item includes: technical and maintenance manuals, engineering drawings and facility layout drawings.
• In-service configuration management resides within the service organization or service-area CCB as designated in appropriate CCB charters. Service teams remain responsible for configuration management of pre-planned product improvements, technology refreshment, and product upgrades.
• Involved in Planning and Implementing of CMDB information and created procedures for collecting and maintaining that information.
• I was involved in communicating why information about configuration items CIs is collected and also took the lead in training users and members of other processes about the importance of configuration management.
• I was also involved in Auditing and reporting which involves organizing audits of the IT infrastructure and identifies unauthorized CIs. And reported the occurrence of unauthorized CIs.
• Used TOAD to run queries for database validation of updates and log points. Communicated team's daily status on conference bridges.

Environment: Java, J2EE, XML, XSL, JavaScript Oracle 9i, Jboss, Web logic 8.1, CVS, Rational Functional Tester, Load Runner, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest

Confidential

Title: QA Test Lead and Web / PROD Support

Responsibilities:

• Attend requirements analysis working sessions along with design reviews and working sessions, when applicable, to gain a thorough understanding of the intent of the requirements and software system designs.
• Installed and configured application on test server.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration, Regression and Stress testing.
• Performed negative and positive testing for accuracy and completeness.
• Used SQL scripts to query and validate data.
• Communicated inconsistencies between system requirements and test results to development/analyst team.
• Opened defects during testing phase using Test Director.
• Analyzed all the bugs in the PVCS tracker reported by the users during the UAT.
• Retested the fixes for the reported bugs.
• Evaluated the progress and take initiatives to meet the QA testing targets.
• Conducting status meetings on a regular basis to discuss and review testing progress.
• Participated in post-production support and attended production calls.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Involved in the code walk through, Involved in creating Process workflow using Visio. Analyzed the business requirements and wrote Test Plans.
• Did the Documentations for the USER TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION, APPLICATION PROCESS FLOW, SYSTEM DESIGN, and APPLICATION OVER VIEW, Disaster Recovery Procedures, Security Documentation, and Production Support.
• Used TOAD to run queries for database validation of updates and log points. Communicated team's daily status on conference bridges.

Environment: Java, J2EE, XML, XSL, XSLT, Oracle 9i, Web logic 8.1, PVCS, Rational Functional Tester, Load Runner, Test Director, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JavaScript

Confidential

Title: Application Tester CM Production Support

• Worked in Valuation Net VN . VN is a collection of core financial models and algorithms. Prepayment models, default models, financial simulation techniques, and pricing and accounting algorithms.
• Worked in Mark-to-Market Service, subgroup of VN , is a repository of commonly used marks with their associated sources and modeling assumptions.
• Mark-to-Market MTM is recording the price or value of a security, portfolio, and account on a daily basis, to calculate profits and losses and to confirm that margin requirements are being met.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, Automated, Schedule, Support the MTM Nightly Runs: MTM runs can start after market closes and standard data close is available. All MTM runs shall finish by 7:00 a.m. in order to prepare morning reports. At 7am Valuation Summary Report is being generated from VNDB with the summary of all valuations completed by that time. PMV report summarizes daily time values and daily differences.
• Created all xml templates, which will, useful for MTM Nightly runs.
• Automated the processes using UNIX jobs.

Testing Responsibilities:

• Purpose: The Test plan describes the scope, approach, resources and schedule of intended acceptance testing activities. It identifies what items model, functionality, and code are being tested, what types of tests are being performed, the tasks involved, responsibilities and associated risks.
• Prerequisite: Acceptance testing starts after all the components has passed unit and regression testing.
• Written Test Cases, before release thoroughly tested the applications
• Sign Off those Applications
• Involved in Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Reported the bugs using in-house tool, which is developed in MS Excel.
• Performed GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing,
• Data Testing, Regression Testing.

Environment: Java 1.4, XML, using xmlspy editor, JSP, Web Logic 8.1 SP1, Oracle 9.2.0.4, 1.3 Rational Functional Tester, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, UNIX, Windows NT/2000 and Lotus Notes 5.0

Confidential

NetworksDemandUnconstraining-NetworksDemand7.2.1 Title: QA Tester

The Networks Demand Un-constraining NDU module is a set of enhancements to the core Networks Demand product that provides the ability to provide a statistical estimate of lost demand in an environment where recorded demand has been constrained due to constraints or limitations. This process is referred to as un-constraining . Networks Demand Un-Constraining provides a solution to a common problem in providing reliable estimates of incremental demand in an environment where demand is restricted at times due to capacity limitations or other factors.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Data modeling, and Design.
• Prepared the Implementation Specification for the NDU Aggregation and Disaggregation modules, based on the Functional Specification.
• Used Extreme Programming as a Software methodology.
• Used SCPO framework performance oriented, and parallel processing for backend work, and the Web framework for the development of User Interface. JSP's were created using the SCPO framework.
• Implemented threads, as part of the SCPO framework and node architecture performance oriented architecture , and used threads as part of pipelining, and non-pipelining architecture.
• Implemented the Aggregation Process, which is used to UN-constrain the constrained data.
• Developed System test plans and Test cases after reviewing the business requirements, and technical specifications documents.
• Performed GUI, Functional, System-Integration, Regression and Stress testing.
• Wrote SQL scripts to execute data validation test cases.
• Reported and Tracked Defects using TestDirector.
• Performed data driven and navigational testing using WinRunner automated testing tool.
• Provided Status Reports to the management on a daily basis.
• Demonstrated the system to various clients and prepared user documentation.

Environment: Java 1.4.2, JSP, JUnit 3.8.1, Quick Test Pro, ANT 1.6, Web Logic 8.1 SP1, Oracle 9.2.0.4, TOAD 7.5.2.0, Rational Functional Tester WinRunner, IntelliJ 4.0.3, 1.3 Win CVS, UNIX and Windows NT/2000.

Confidential

Title: Sr.Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Scenarios, Test Process Flows and DTC's Detail Test Conditions . Involved in Partition
• Testing, System Interface Testing, Regression Testing, and Exception Testing, product Test on corporate releases.
• Developed front-end using HTML, Responsible for creation of VU Virtual Users test scripts to do performance test.
• Involved in Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Reported the bugs using in-house tool, which is developed in MS Access.
• Performed GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Data Testing, Regression Testing.
• Tested cognos Business Intelligence Application and documented all the test cases and test scripts.

Environment: Java, JSP, WSAD 5.0, JNDI, Rational Rose suite Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest , Rational Functional Tester WinRunner, HTML, XML, XSL, DTDs, TagLibs, Java Script, Windows NT/2000 and SQL Server.

Confidential

Role: Software Tester and did lay outing of pages, Designing Coding

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test plan and cases based on system requirements and functional specifications.
• Performed manual and automated testing at various stages.
• Extensively used Test Director for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Performed System testing, Regression testing, Database Testing, White and Black Box Testing at various phases of the development and test life cycles.

Environment: Java, Visual Basic, MS Access, Web Sphere 5.0, XML, XSLT, DTDs, Rational Rose suite, JDBC, HTML, Windows NT/2000 and SQL Server.