Experience Summary

• 12 yrs of diversified experience in software testing with good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Test Methodologies.
• Extensive experience in testing web-based, CRM Applications, Banking Insurance Applications.
• Extensive experience in leading and managing a team of both manual and automation testers.
• Experienced in System Integration testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing activities in both Manual and Automation using QTP.
• Excellent knowledge and Hands on experience in test management tool HP QC / ALM.
• Experienced with onshore / offshore model projects.
• Extensive experience in performing Requirements Gathering, Functional Specifications Document preparation, Gap Analysis, Product Setup and Testing.
• Good understanding of Agile, Waterfall and Iterative software development life cycle models.
• Quick learner and excellent team player with ability to meet tight deadlines meeting the business expectations and work under pressure.
• Well versed in the preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Data, execution of Test Cases and tracking the defects till closure
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to manage and work in a team.
• Ensure test adequacy and traceability.
• Experience in Effort estimation and resource planning.
• One of the FAR members for implementing CMMi L3 certification.

Testing Tools Experience:

• HP ALM - Hands on experience for 2 years in Creation of projects / Users, customizing the workflow, creation of dashboards and Test Management.
• HPQC 10.0 Hands on experience for 10 years in Test Management Requirements to Defect Management.
• Test Director 7.2 and e-Manager Hands-on experience in Designing of Test Scripts and Defect Tracking in 3 Projects.
• HP QTP 9.2 Hands-on experience in creating test scripts, using record and play back and descriptive programming in 2 projects.
• Selenium and JIRA Basic knowledge in working with Selenium, JIRA.

Functional Experience:

• Expertise in complete software testing life cycle process, which includes Test Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Reports.
• Expertise in Manual Testing.
• Played lead role in onsite-offshore model projects.
• Handled client business, client IT directly for knowledge acquisition and status reporting.
• Extensive experience in using Ms Office products including MS Project.

Domain Experience:

• BFSI 6 years
• CRM 3 years
• Hi-Tech Engineering 1 year
• Retail 2 years

Professional Experience:

Role QA Manager

• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role ALM Admin Defect Manager

• Setting up HP ALM as per the client's requirement.
• Customization of HP ALM as per the project and business needs.
• Preparation and Customization of dashboards.
• Cross project customization using the template.
• Tracking the activities of the team and timely update to avoid SLA slippage
• Defect triage meeting and identifying the RCA of all slipped UAT / PROD defects.
• Detailed review of RCA and showcasing it to Senior Management on a weekly basis.
• Preparation of Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Report and sharing the same to the management.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Test Manager

• Preparation of Test Plan and Test strategy.
• Review of Test Scenarios and Test scripts to ensure Traceability with respect to requirements.
• Preparation of effort estimation.
• Creating the WBS Work Breakdown Structure .
• Creating and updating the effort through iPlan Polaris's proprietary tool .
• Review and collect Metrics in the project.
• Responsible for quality and on time delivery of the deliverable.
• Allocation of tasks to the team and monitoring them.
• Attended Client's discussions and daily status meetings.
• Preparation of weekly and daily status report.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role ALM Admin

• Setting up HP ALM as per the client's requirement.
• Customization of HP ALM as per the project and business needs.
• Preparation and Customization of dashboards using the workflow editor.
• Conducting bi-monthly Audits for different projects and inform the senior management for any NC's.
• Creation of Projects/Domains and Users and assigning them to the projects after the FNFG committee approval within the SLA's defined.
• Defined the process to be followed by creating PRF and URF.
• Cross project customization using the template for project creation.
• Tracking the activities of the team and timely update to avoid SLA slippage.
• Preparation of Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Report and sharing the same to the management.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Test manager

• Preparation of effort estimation.
• Creating the WBS Work Breakdown Structure .
• Involved in requirement study and functional walk through.
• Creating and updating the effort through mPower MindTree's proprietary tool .
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test strategy.
• Review of Test Scenarios and Test scripts to ensure Traceability with respect to requirements.
• Setting up offshore team and connectivity.
• Review and collect Metrics in the project.
• Responsible for quality and on time delivery of the deliverable.
• SMR's discussion and participation.
• Allocation of tasks to the team and monitoring them.
• Attended Client's discussions and defect Triage meetings.
• Preparation of weekly and daily status report.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Test Lead

• Setting up Offshore team and Connectivity.
• Review of Test Scenarios, Test Cases Scripts.
• Carried out Functional, GUI, and Regression testing execution for the application using QTP.
• Review of Test Case Execution.
• Interaction with Clients for any queries/issues.
• Tracking and Reporting Defects.
• Carried out defect review meeting.
• Preparation of Daily Status Report and sending the same to the client and offshore manager.

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Role Onsite Test Lead

• Involved in setting up of test environment and VPN connectivity.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases to ensure Traceability with respect to requirements.
• Carried out Functional, GUI, and Regression testing execution and updating the Test Results accordingly.
• Preparation of Automation Test data and carried out automation test execution using e-Tester.
• Interaction with Clients and offshore team for any queries/issues.
• Tracking and Reporting Defects.
• Attended Client's discussions and defect Triage meetings.
• Preparation of Daily Status Report and sending the same to the client and offshore manager.
• Project artifacts and all project related documents are maintained and version controlled using PVCS Polytronic Version Control System .
• One of the FAR members for CMMi L3 Certification.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Test Lead

• Requirement Study of Elsevier Application.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Test strategy.
• Involved in Effort Estimation Schedule Planning for automation.
• Preparation of Framework document and Coding Standards document.
• Identification of critical business scenario to be automated.
• Allocation of work to the team.
• Automation of application using QTP 8.2.
• Execution of Test scripts.
• Peer Review of Test Scripts.
• Attended Client's discussions and meetings.
• Conducted Knowledge transition training to equip the new members of the team on domain and testing process.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Test Lead

• Preparation of Coding Standards document.
• Identification of critical business scenario to be automated.
• Automation of application using QTP 8.2.
• Execution of Test scripts.
• Peer Review of Test Scripts.
• Defect Tracking and Test Management in Quality Center.
• Worked on major modules like Purchase Order, iSupplier, Bill of Materials, Account Payable, etc..,
• Attended Client's meetings and discussions.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Senior Test Engineer

• Involved in understanding business requirements and preparation of test strategies, test plan, component test plans and test data for Patches and Maintenance releases.
• Involved in QC Quality Control of software products.
• Involved in setting up of test environments Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Windows Platforms .
• Participated in document reviews of Functional Specifications, Test Scripts, release notes, upgrade and installation guides.
• Involved in developing automation test scripts using Win Runner tool and executing the scripts.
• Involved in preparation of project status reports.
• Involved in continuous process improvement initiatives wherein causal analysis is performed for the issues that occur during the project life cycle.
• Involved in coordination with support groups, Software development team and clients to resolve technical issues.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Associate QA Engineer

• Involved in writing the test cases and reviewing them.
• Involved in creating test scripts test procedures using TSL supported by Win Runner 7.5.
• Manual testing the complete product.
• Reported the defects and tracked for its closure.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Associate QA Engineer

• Involved in writing the test cases and reviewing them.
• Involved in creating test scripts test procedures using TSL supported by Win Runner 7.5.
• Manual testing the complete product.
• Reported the defects and tracked for its closure.

CONFIDENTIAL

Role Software QA Engineer

• Involved in understanding the design solution and the prototype.
• Evaluate functional requirements and use cases to create functional test cases, scripts and pre-conditions. Preparation of test scenarios, test cases and test data.
• Preparation of Traceability Matrix.
• Execution of test cases and logging of defect in Test Director.
• Preparation of defect log with screenshots.
• Performed Integration testing, System testing, Functionality testing and Regression testing.