OBJECTIVE:

To be involved in imperative Software Testing Techniques through various Software Testing Methodologies and to possess a challenging position utilizing my abilities of test lead experience.

SUMMARY

• Having 8 years of experience in the field of Information Technology with specialization in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Windows based and Web-based.
• Good functional and automation knowledge and extensive testing experience in Insurance, Banking, Real Time Trading, Financial and Capital Markets Service Industry.
• Good experience with working on Offshore-Onsite model and leading teams.
• Diversified experience in testing Client Server, Web based applications and financial C , .Net and JAVA designed systems.
• Earned reputation for meeting demanding deadlines and delivering critical solutions on various levels of Quality Assurance.
• Adapted to technical skills in functional and regression testing of various organizations.
• Good experience in developing test automation scripts using QTP- Quick Test Professional data driven for regression and functional testing.
• Extensive experience in manual testing and Specialized in writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scripts, Test cases, Test Designs, Test Analysis and Testing Life Cycle and creation of Test data and following SDLC.
• Well experienced in documenting and translation of Functional Specifications into Test Objectives and writing detailed Test Scripts.
• Executed test cases and document results via defect tracking system.
• Good experience in QA Methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Excellent experience doing backend testing using SQL..
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Database Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Security Testing, Black box testing and creation of test cases for User Acceptance Testing UAT ..
• A self and quick learner and can learn new technologies very fast

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Testing Tools: Quality Center, SOAP UI, QTP, Load Runner, Visual Studio
• Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visual Studio, TFS
• Operating System: Windows XP/2000/98/95
• Databases: MS SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle 10g/9i/8i
• Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, Visual Basic
• Bug Tracking Tool: Test Director/ Mercury Quality Center 9.2, 10.0, MS-TFS
• Browser : Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari, Google Chrome
• Other Tool: SQL plus, QC, UNIX, SOAP UI, Selenium

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities as the Lead Quality Assurance Analyst Agile methodology for multiple applications.
• Discussed extensively with developers, customer care in depth about the problems in design, functionality to make the application more user friendly.
• Estimation for projects, Test plan and test case preparation, Execution of test cases and logging defects.
• Coordinating between offshore and onsite for Multiple Projects
• Participate in the creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews.
• Conduct and attend weekly status meetings and Send Daily Project status reports
• Created test cases, executed test cases and reported bug results to development teams.
• Log, track, and verify resolution of software and specification defects along with documenting all phases of QA process using Quality Center 11.0.
• Performed Functional, Regression and End to End testing.
• Participated in UAT with editors and product teams and guided, supported them in testing.

Environment: HP QC 11.0, SQL, Dash board, MS Office Suite, Share Point, XML

Confidential

Role: QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews.
• Send Daily Project status reports
• Delegating work on daily basis and reviews
• Attend weekly status meetings.
• Created test cases, executed test cases and reported bug results to development teams.
• Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application and reported the defects clear and understandable way
• Functional and Regression testing.
• Documented test cases using Quality Center and logged the defects in the Defects Module of Quality Center.
• Performed system testing and adhoc testing.
• Assist in User Acceptance testing for knowledge transfer and bug fixing.
• Managed project documents centrally and defined action items and project issues using SharePoint.

Environment: Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management v2.2, HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, XML, TWS Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Confidential

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.
• Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architects, developers and business users.
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specifications Documents and developed test plans and executed test cases, test scenarios to test the functionality using the Quality Center.
• Recorded, maintained tracked defects, assigned type priority/severity level.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional.
• Executed test scripts using QTP for Regression testing.
• Detected Defects, communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and tracking the Defects using Quality Center.
• Developed cases to test the backend Database by retrieving the data for the tables using SQL queries.
• Discussed extensively with developers, customer care in depth about the problems in design, functionality to make the application more user friendly
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Defect report meetings periodically.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center, Oracle, Visual Basic, XML, SQL, UNIX, Windows 2000/XP

Confidential

Role: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed the Requirements and Design documents and understood the system implementation.
• Involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Prepared Test Cases and developed Test Matrix for various scenarios.
• Created, Executed test cases manually and verified actual results against expected results.
• Performed Smoke testing and adhoc testing of the applications.
• Performed Stress Testing.
• Performed Regression testing, Functional testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Executed scripts to load the source files into the system using UNIX.
• Validated the data in the system the source files using SQL queries.
• Attended daily status meetings, go no-go meetings.
• Created status reports.
• Identified defects and logged defect using Test Director/Quality Center.
• Attended defect meetings and tested production defects.

Confidential

Role: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user and business requirements for the new build and compared those with the old build to modify test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional and performance testing.
• Prepared Test Plan and templates to create test cases, test scripts.
• The whole application was manually tested before going for the automated testing.
• Performed the Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface Testing on the application.
• Performed Manual and Automated Regression testing after every build Installation.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and test management.
• Executed the Performance testing Using Load Runner to analyze the behavior of the application under different load conditions.
• Kept track of the bugs, decided their priority and then assigned them to different developers.
• Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers, Architects to resolve the issues.