Experience Summary:

• 10 years of IT experience primarily in testing, test design and quality assurance for applications involving multi technology client server and web platforms along with extensive expertise in building effective software-testing environments using a range of test automation tools.
• Experienced in creating test plans, test cases and test scripts, manually and using automation tools like Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager and Test Director, Rational Team Concert RTC , Quality Center
• Extensive knowledge of Waterfall, Agile methodologies and Rational Unified Process.
• Worked closely with users and business analyst for understanding the requirements and business processes and test case traceability using the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Testing experience in all phases and stages of testing with good working knowledge of testing disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling.
• Experience in preparing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Automated and manual testing based on the Requirements document and System Specifications using Mercury Quality Center.
• Knowledge of statistics, sampling plans, process control, and process capability.
• Strong knowledge and implementation experience of Quality Assurance Principles and white box testing.
• Expertise in understanding and documenting Business Flow Diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams and Use case diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Strong leadership skills working across various IT teams and domains.

Technical Skills:

• Operating Systems Windows XP/2000/NT/98/ 95, UNIX
• Databases Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access
• Programming Languages Basic knowledge of C, HTML XML, SQL
• Testing Tools Quality center, Quick Test Pro, Clear Quest
• Rational Test Manager/SQA Manager,
• Statistical Quality controls Methods.
• Requirement Management Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Rational Rose
• Defect Trackers Quality Center, Clear Quest, SQA Manager, PVCS
• Collaboration tools Rational Team Concert RTC , EMC Documentum eRoom, IMB Lotus
• Quicker
• Project Management M.S. Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Q.A. Lead Engineer

• Confidentialis the third largest telecommunications company in the Confidential and is recognized as a leader in the network services market by technology industry analyst firms. The Company is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprise customers. Century Link provides data, voice and wireless and managed services in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers for businesses and consumers. I worked as QA Lead for the Hosted VoIP and TSSIP TRUNK TSST projects. The software division of any CTL is broadly divided into 4 teams Ordering team, Provisioning team, Billing/Pricing team and the Issue Handling team with each having its own set of roles and responsibilities.
• Reviewed Requirements documents and artifacts in Caliber.
• Reviewed low level and high level design document with the team
• Reviewed mapping documents requirements story cards and design with all testers.
• Provided Test planning level estimate Level of Effort as applicable.
• Experienced in coordinating with offshore team of testers.
• Managed the onshore and offshore testing team
• Applied static testing techniques to review the requirements and its traceability to business needs.
• Created system test plan document.

• Monitored defects/incidents using HP ALM
• Conducted project review meeting with the QA team, Business analysts ,System engineers and developers
• Monitored Defect
• Used SQL queries to test back end data
• Created test cases UAT Testing
• Involved in User Acceptance testing.
• Participated in lessons learned session
• Conducted daily status meetings and walkthroughs.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, Oracle 11.0g, SharePoint, MS. Office Outlook and office communicator, Caliber 11.1, MS VISIO, Oracle SQL Developer 3.2.10.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Lead

• The key objective of the Ohio Enterprise Data Warehouse EDW project is to create the enterprise data warehouse in support of State of Ohio business processes, program objectives, funding plans and the use of enterprise data and technologies in a very practical, understandable and actionable manner. Provider, eligibility and claims data is extracted, Transformed and loaded to EDW from Legacy system.
• Created and Maintained Master Test Strategy and gained approval of MTS.
• Prepared test design, test cases, and traceability for the ETL solutions under test
• Established defect cycle management process.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Created Extensive test plans for testing data transfer for source to staging, staging to preload and preload to EDW tables.
• Wrote SQL queries and used Teradata SQL assistant
• Reviewed EDW design documents, such as EDW Logical design and Physical design document.
• Reviewed mapping documents requirements story cards and design with all testers.
• Reviewed System Requirements, Screen Mock-ups and provided Test planning level estimate as applicable.
• Participated in the full life-cycle of the test phase of a project from its kick off until delivery and deployment to Production..
• Monitored the progress during testing, and ensured team is following defined test approach as defined.
• Worked in Agile software development environment.
• Attended daily scrum meetings to review the project progress.
• Determined 'number' of scripts to be created and QC structure
• monitoring progress during testing, and ensuring team is following defined test approach
• Prepared Testing status report to be reviewed by QC and Project Manager.
• Defined Testing Project timeline.

• Extracted Weekly status report from Rally.
• Created test scripts, created/Updated Requirement Test Matrix in QC and tie to test scripts.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing.

Environment: Teradata SQL Assistant, PuTTY, UNIX, Rally for test planning and defect Management, ERWIN data modeling, Informatica, Outlook, M. S. Lync, MS SharePoint, M.S. Office 360, M.S. Project .

Confidential

Q. A. Test Lead /project Lead

• NFID at nationwide caters to the different data needs of the various source systems such as DC Direct, Keynotes, Cyber-life, PALLM Packaged Automated Life Liability Management IPAS. The data is extracted to staging system to SALESMI and manipulated as per the requirements and fed to EB2B and external systems.
• Defined Testing Project timeline.

• Reviewed System Requirements, Screen Mock-ups and provided requirement level estimate as applicable.
• Analyzed business and user needs and documented the requirements.
• Reviewed design documents, requirements story cards and design with all testers.
• Determined 'number' of scripts to be created and QC structure
• Updated weekly planning sheet
• Created Master Test Strategy and gained approval of MTS
• Created test scripts, created/Updated Requirement Test Matrix in QC and tie to test scripts
• Scheduled test script review meeting with tester developer and requirement analyst and reviewed test scripts/made updates if required.
• Prepared Testing status report to be reviewed by QC and Project Manager.
• Reviewed unit test plans and Reviewed unit testing results
• Reviewed implementation plan.
• Scheduled defect review meetings with testers, developers and QC manager.
• Attended daily scrum meetings to review the project progress.
• Participated in Begin, Proceed, Define, Commit, Accept, close gate meetings.
• Actively involved in complete ESDm Agile cycle i.e. Initiate, Solution scoping, Design, Develop and Implementation phase of project.
• Participated in TROIKA meetings.
• Worked closely with tech lead
• Provided testing status report for release purpose.
• Ensured Post install testing completed
• Monitored post install defects/incidents
• Conducted project review meeting with the QA team
• Created test cases UAT Testing
• Involved in User Acceptance testing.
• Participated in lessons learned session
• Ensure that Data Warehouse Staff follow the established process for defect tracking and reporting
• Conduct training and mentoring with Data Warehouse staff on QA processes

Environment: Db Visualizer 7.1 / WinSQL, Netezza, SQL, ERWIN data modeling, Mercury Quality center, Informatica, Lotus notes and Sametime, Rational team concert RTC , Lotus Quicker Place

Confidential

Q. A. Test Lead

• Extensively worked on requirements using Requisite Pro, QA practices, preparing test strategies, identifying critical application arenas.
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications and analyzed the test scenarios and ensured that test requirements are correct and complete
• The Keynote system Defines and Maintains private sector retirement plans. Within this section of the code you'll find specifics regarding Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans
• Prepared and documented the test cases, test procedure, test data and expected results for the system testing of the application.
• Using Mercury Quality Center created and maintained the test plans and test cases based on project inputs and made use of the folder structure of the test plan as a daily guide to all testing work, managing all aspects of testing
• Experience in creation and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using both Manual and Automated testing techniques.
• Well Versed with System testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Positive Testing, Negative Testing, and End-to-End Testing, regression testing, UAT test and Production test per the needs of the application and defect testing.
• Prepared and documented the test cases, test procedure, test data and expected results for the system testing and Defect Testing using Mercury Quality center 9.2. Currently using HP-Application Life-cycle Management software Quality Centers V11.0 Enterprise Edition
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.
• Strong skills in Backend testing SQL Queries on Oracle RDBMS / SQL Server.
• Used Db Visualizer for writing and executing complex SQL queries
• Tested Data migration from one data base to other data base by using SQL scripts..
• Tested the data extraction procedures designed to extract data from Mainframe into flat feed files.
• Performed Back end testing by writing SQL statements using DB Visualizer and TOAD.
• Performed Backend/SQL Test for Insert, Update, and Functions.
• Performed Back end testing by writing SQL statements like Join, Inner Joins and Outer joins and Self Joins used TOAD and DB Visualizer.
• Tested Source count from Source table, target counts from target table and compared the results for finding discrepancy.
• Conduct training and mentoring with Data Warehouse staff on QA processes

Environment: Windows XP, Mercury Quality center, Oracle server, Db Visualizer 7.1, SQL, TOAD, Lotus notes and Sametime, Rational team concert RTC , Lotus Quicker Place

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

• Used Rational Clear Case for Unified Change Management and Rational Team Concert RTC updating Project Information
• Collected the test metrics from the Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1.0 database and analyzed them to monitor the status of the testing effort
• Performed Positive Testing, Negative Testing, and End-to-End Testing, regression testing, UAT test and Production test per the needs of the application and defect testing.
• In a team environment, planned testing strategy for end to end flow through the system to link the front end functionality to the back end.
• Well Versed with System testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in creation and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using manual testing techniques.
• Using Rational Test Manager V 7.01.0 created and maintained the test plans and test cases based on project inputs and made use of the folder structure of the test plan as a daily guide to all testing work, managing all aspects of testing
• Prepared and documented the test cases, test procedure, test data and expected results for the system testing of the application.
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete
• Nationwide Retirement Solutions offer Confidential as a defined contribution and online brokerage application that stores organization, plan, account, and product information processes and tracks participant and sponsor activities, processes and tracks transaction requests related to 457 and other retirement solution plans. The users can make transactions using web based front end. The Confidential project involves data extraction using ETL process.
• Extensively worked on requirements using Requisite Pro, QA practices, preparing test strategies, identifying critical application arenas.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.

Environment: Windows XP, Rational Suite, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Oracle server, Db Visualizer 7.1, SQL, TOAD, MS Project , Informatica, Lotus notes and Sametime, Rational team concert RTC , Lotus Quicker Place

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

• Confidential is a leader in developing specialized investment portfolios that are essential components of a modern portfolio. Confidential provides to the investors modern platform for investing into Exchange traded funds and Currency Shares through their web site. Investors can track their investments, monitor and make changes to their portfolios.
• Expertise in Design development of Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Cases for all kinds of quality dimensions web applications, enterprise client server apps mission critical real time Systems.
• Strong experience in testing and QA of systems involving Data Bases such as Oracle, SQL Server Using Rational Test Manager maintained the test plans and test cases based on project inputs and made use of the folder structure of the test plan as a daily guide to all testing work, managing all aspects of testing.
• Categorized the test cases based on their modularity, functionality and priority allocated the testing work to team accordingly.
• Involved in managing the test environment for efficient recording, editing and playback of the test scripts using Rational Test Manager
• Prepared and documented the test cases, test procedure, test data and expected results for the system testing of the application.
• Developed test plans and test cases considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• Created Test Strategy and Test Plan documents for in web testing applications for ETFs and Currency Shares.
• Used Rational clear Quest for defect tracking, defect logging and defect monitoring
• Collected the test metrics from the Rational ClearQuest database and analyzed them to monitor the status of the testing effort.
• Guided and mentored the test team for use of Microsoft SQL query analyzer for executing SQL commands and generating back end testing data.
• Back end testing of the web application to see the data changes dynamically and respond to database changes.
• Worked with the equity, derivatives and fixed income groups to coordinate the efforts for transaction processing
• Guided the team of QA testers on how to use on BizTalk server and used receiving function and file polling for data file processing.
• Used MS Visual Source Safe V6.0 for version control and file management.
• As team lead Involved in the weekly Status Update Meetings daily progress meetings with the manager and the project leader.
• Facilitated Project Defect Triage Meetings. Provided Senior Management with Defect Management Metrics
• Generated reports from Rational test manager for presenting status to QA manger and Project manager

Environment: RationalSuite, ClearQuest, DB2, BizTalk, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

• Confidential is a healthcare delivery system and is a leader in providing high quality, cost effective healthcare to benefit the community in Confidential. This intranet web site provides all agents and the individuals the needed links to prepare a quote, modify the client's information, and feed to Tel-App underwriting software. Application finally generates the Confidential policy and monitors the policy holder's data. The project involved development and enhancement of a web based application where existing customers could review policies, print an evidence of insurance, view billing and payment history, request policy changes etc. online.
• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document BRD for testing purpose

• Created QA Project Plans for all phases of the Project Life Cycle for Test Resources.
• Wrote Vision and Requirements Management Plan documents using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created high-level use-case text and generated UML use-case diagrams and Activity diagrams
• Involved in creating Business Flow Diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, UML Activity diagrams and Use case diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Assisted the QA team to devise and manage the test plans and to design test cases from the detailed use cases and the use case diagrams, using Rational Test Manager.
• Documented Test Plans and Test Cases using Rational Test Manager by reviewing the Requirement Specifications document
• Interviewing client employees and application owners from different business lines to gather information, understand the users need, define requirements and develop specifications for making changes to Business logic.
• Analyze business and technical requirements in order to generate an implementation specification plan for each individual application.
• Prepared Logical Process and Data Models that contained set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document Business Data Requirements using MS Visio
• Was responsible for continuous process improvement and for identifying and maintaining a clear and measurable Development Process that is deployable throughout the enterprise.
• As Test lead verified and ensured the documents are written in line with the guidelines as specified by the client, and the quality standards specified
• Coordinated work plan between project manager and client with Microsoft Project implemented and managed migration process developer fixes retested fixes scheduled and tracked progress for team members of project through completion

Environment: Windows XP/2000/Vista, MS Office Tools, Rational Suite, Rational ClearQuest, MS Access, GRASS Mainframe, Visual Basic, MS Project

Confidential

Teaching assistant

Confidential

Project Manager

• Confidential Software Company deals and produces software applications for data acquisition for engine and vehicle testing called EDACS. The system is useful in automated engine testing and gathering the test data for the purpose of analyzing, recording the performance of the engine. The system also generates the performance graphs required by the end user.
• Defined the scope, financial projections and Cost/benefit analysis. Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented Designs.
• Monitoring project progress on day-to-day basis and controlled the activities lagging behind by schedule compression techniques. Used Gantt charts to schedule the activity.
• Control and managed the project execution and design team.
• Inspired the project team for quality execution of the project.
• Strong mentor and coach, skilled at inspiring confidence, leading by example and building loyal, high-performance teams that exceed expectations.
• Exceptional ability to simultaneously manage multiple matrix teams to consistently deliver complete projects on schedule and within budget, despite intense pressure and aggressive timelines.
• Preparing the Gantt charts and setting of the milestones for monitoring project work
• Used CPM to monitor critical path and employed crashing of the activities to control the overall cost of the project.
• Successfully applied PMI project management techniques to manage projects from solicitation of requirements to project completion.

Environment: Windows 98, XP, MS OFFICE Tools.