SUMMARY:

• Solution-oriented professional with a dedicated 10 years career leading the appropriate testing and delivery of quality softwares, products, systems, and applications to meet business, market and customer needs, utilizing blended on-shore/off-shore delivery model.
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile, Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
• Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated, manual, database/backend testing strategies to identify risks and issues, design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.
• Specialty: QTP SoapUI Automation, SOA web services, Quality Center test management, large enterprise projects across business units, test estimate LOE , test strategy, test plan, write test matrix, walk through updating, test scenarios, test conditions, defects and issues management, ensure test client is available, gather test data, create test cases, scripts and keep track of all tests using matrices, execute tests, review test results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing the test plan, test scripts and test strategies for the applications
• Executing test scripts, analyzing test results, tracking and prioritizing defects
• Track progress of the projects and deliverables and regular report generation to the clients
• Measuring and monitoring progress during each test cycle to ensure that the application is tested, validated, and that it meets expectations
• Reporting bugs and Prepared reports using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Attending defect resolution meetings with the development teams and working towards bug resolution
• Maintaining requirements, test cases, test data, test results and bugs using Quality Center
• Managing Production Support issues and maintained production quality standards for NCP
• Web Services testing using SoupUI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SQA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Carried out back end testing and data integration testing by writing SQL queries
• Logged and tracking of Defects in Quality Centre
• Developed Test Reports and Matrices for Testable Scenarios, Test Cases Executed
• Detected bugs in various phases of the QA life cycle and co-coordinating with Dev. Team, Business Analysts and Business Users for documentation, review and re-test
• Created Data Driven test scripts and automated the testing process for regression testing
• Performed Smoke, System, Integration, Performance and Data integrity Testing
• Performed reviews of different deliverables from team and responsible for providing sign offs
• Designed, developed and implemented test scripts, test cases, and test data using business requirements provided by business analysts
• Defined test strategies/methodologies and writing test specifications
• Estimated Project Testing efforts LOE and prepared project testing/schedule plan
• Co-coordinated UAT of multiple projects with end users
• Analyzed Business Requirement, Technical Design Specification, developed Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Delivered projects within the established commitments, ensuring quality, performance and conformance with established specifications
• Led a team of 4 QA analysts, managed the entire testing effort and ensured that all relevant standards and procedures are applied
• Coordinated during System, User Acceptance, Functional, and Regression testing with development team throughout the life cycle of the project

Confidential

SQA Test Lead

• evaluate the dynamics of consumer purchasing. Analysis tool produces reports like:
• Monitor basic purchasing behavior
• Identify key buyer groups by their demographics and purchasing behavior
• Evaluate new product introductions through trial and repeat analysis
• Track brand interaction: brand shifting, consumer loyalty, and new/lost/retained buyer flow
• Determine which consumers are shopping at which outlets and channels

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 8 in different remote location. Effort was 40 automation using QTP
• Established and followed QA documentation standards and quality checks to ensure client satisfaction in a new applications and enhancement
• Led several weekly and daily meetings with the team and client leadership to manage risks and issues
• Closely managed all QA factors, schedule, cost, deliverables, risks, quality and client expectations
• Demonstrated a high level of perseverance under extreme pressure while managing the QA deliverable
• Managed day to day testing project activity and coordination between Project managers, SME's, Business users, UAT Team leads, CSM, DBA's, Release Mangers, QA and Development team
• Reviewed requirements, create and executed test scripts in Quality center
• Created and maintained Test Estimate LOE , Test Strategy, Test Plan, System Test Summery Reports and approval from leadership or cross-functional teams
• Maintain and monitor the defects error log for all issues identified using Quality Center
• Involved in managing customer change requests, new features, issue-logs and reproducing customer issues
• Established projects, requirement and traceability matrix in test management system Quality Center
• Track testing effort against test schedule, co-ordinate the setup of Test Environment and test data
• Analyze input and output of test data and identified discrepancies between requirements and expected results
• Interaction with clients regarding best possible solution and delivery procedures
• Responsible in defining Automation Test Objectives for smoke and Regression testing utilizing QTP
• Developed Data Driven Automation Framework, VBScripts using QTP for Smoke and Regression testing, and enhanced test scripts with QTP functions, conditions, loops and regular expressions
• Querying the Sybase database for back-end testing to verifying outputs against UI reports on frontend, checking Unix/Linux Log files, batch process /job scheduler Autosys
• Performed Web Services testing and Validated XML request/response data using SoapUI
• Created Test Sets to do Functional and Data Driven Testing on the Web Services
• Supported testing manual on legacy system on Mainframe
• Analyze test effort for risks, track risks and report risks to upper management
• Provide leadership on issues that are escalated from test team
• Negotiate with multiple test teams and Project/Product teams to create test schedule
• Managed Production support issues and maintained production quality standards

Confidential

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and evaluated the requirements to ensure testability, identify ambiguity, eliminate any duplication
• Developing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Approach and Test Design Document
• Developing test cases based on test plan and user requirement and executed using Quality Center
• Performing manual testing procedures and reported defects in ClearQuest
• Automating Web application for regression scripts using HP QuickTest professional QTP
• Performing Data Driven, Smoke, System, Functional, Regression, Integration and UAT Testing
• Wrote SQL Queries to check database
• Wrote and maintain Test Results, Evaluation Report TRER and Report Errors
• Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM using IBM Rational DOORS
• Interacting with the developers to report and fix bugs
• Reported daily Test status to the project Manager
• Participating weekly project status meetings and technical review meetings

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing test cases based on test plan and user requirement and executed using Quality Center
• Performing manual testing procedures and reported defects in ClearQuest
• Performing Data Driven, GUI, Smoke, Regression and Integration Testing
• Wrote SQL Queries to check database
• Wrote and maintain test results and report errors
• Developing manual test scripts and RTM using Quality Center
• Designing and developing Test Scripts using Business Requirement Document and Use Cases
• Interacting with the developers to report and fix bugs
• Participating weekly project status meetings and technical review meetings
• Developing various test plans, User Acceptance Test Plan UAT , Test Results and Evaluation Report TRER
• Prepare WSDLs and databases mapping documents and verified the XML documents XML Spy
• Worked on Web Services Testing using SoupUI
• Understanding of WSDL, XSD, Schema, DTD, XML documents for Web Services Testing

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created high level Test Plans to define test procedures and conditions using the product requirements and functional specifications
• Created manual test cases for Smoke, Integration and Regression testing
• Analyzed functional requirements and documented issues
• Created Test cases for Smoke, Integration and Regression Test Cases
• Created various reports using Quality Center and stored under Configuration Management's control for upper management review
• Involved in Data Validation in backend databases manually
• Tested web service for HTML protocol and XML Testing for front end
• Created Test Scenarios and modified the script Run Time Settings accordingly before executing
• Coordinated with infrastructure and networking teams to tune the environment
• Developed scripts for Integration and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional
• Build SQL queries for backend manual testing and data validation
• Participated in weekly project status meetings and technical review meetings

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirements analysis, designed and develop the Detail Test Plan using SRD
• Designed and developed Test Scripts using BRD Business Requirement Documents
• Used Test Director to write Test case, RTM, and Test execution
• Developed test matrices to trace various requirements to appropriately test scripts using QC
• Performed Regression testing using automated test scripts
• Maintained test scripts in CVS for further regression testing
• Performed data validation on SQL Server and Oracle Server backend
• Executed test procedures on CONNECTIONS System: a .NET based application VB.Net, C
• Identified usability issues and future vulnerabilities for failure and log bugs in the Bugzilla
• Designed and developed the Statewide SACWIS Test Procedures
• Utilized automated tested tool QTP for regression and Integration testing