Professional Summary

• 9 years Extensive experience in analyzing Business Requirements and writing Test Plans, Test strategy, Test Cases and Test Scripts. Strong experience in preparing Estimations, Traceability Matrix, Risk Analysis in different domains like Retail and Investments. Performed System Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proven ability to execute Scenarios and Monitoring various Web and Client - server based apps in C , Java and .Net environment
• As a QA Lead experience in leading teams sized 10 -15
• Expertise in defect tracking using Quality Center. Used Mercury Quality Center as a defect reporting and tracking tool, reviewed and analyzed Test results using the result logs and reported defects using the defects module of Mercury Quality Center
• Excellent understanding of the entire Software Development Life Cycle SDLC with emphasis on the Testing phase.
• Extensive experience in Agile Methodology, participated in Daily Scrum meetings, taking responsibility as a Scrum Master to resolve issues
• Participate in Defect review meetings with both the stakeholders and developers
• Participate in Weekly review meetings and GO/NO-GO meetings.
• Taking initiatives to prepare Lessons learnt document post deployment of the projects
• Experience in conducting/actively participating in brain storming sessions related to complex Test scenario creations, defining the processes
• Defined taken part in Defect Analysis detailed Documentation
• Experienced in Preparing Testing Metrics
• Involved in Internal Quality Audits
• Proven ability to lead train the Testing teams and ability to independently deliver the projects - Held roles like - Associate QA Engineer, QA Engineer, Senior QA Engineer and QA Lead.
• Excellent problem solving skills and multi-tasking abilities. Worked on different Project Managements on-shore off-shore teams .
• Highly motivated and self-directed software professional with excellent communication and organization skills.

Skill Set

Professional Experience

Confidential

QA Lead / Sr. QA Engineer

Jumpstart World, Math Blaster and Super Secret are online games available in the US market for kids belonging to different age groups, from 3 yrs. to the teenagers. These games have lot of calls made to the DB and from the DB. These are tested and certified and later are integrated with the games. Achievement System is a huge module, where the no: of time each player plays 1 particular game is recorded and when a set target is achieved it rewards the player with points and ribbons and finally a trophy.

Responsibilities:

• Agile Methodology used for most of the modules.
• Analyzing Requirement and Preparing Test Plan and high level Test Scenarios.
• Preparing Project Estimation and Risk Management Plan
• Resource planning and identify the scope.
• Preparing team members for the project with required skill set.
• Arranging Test case walk- through
• Allocating task to the team, plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis
• Arranging Scrum meetings
• Test metrics gathering and analyzing the functional differences.
• Performing daily defect triage meeting and prioritizing defects with Project team.
• Consistently made efforts to streamline the testing process and increase the productivity.
• Constantly endeavored to keep the morale and enthusiasm of the team high during periods of stress and pressure.
• Review test results and identify any dependencies, which may result in risk.
• Document Lesson Learned and develop preventive actions
• Working with production support team to ensure the quality of the delivery.

Key Achievements:

• Thinking out of the box: Suggested testing in various Windows OS versions that resulted in making the application educational software cross-system compatible. This was increase in testing scope but increased the quality of the application.
• Innovation: My idea of adding a new feature to the Math Blaster game was accepted and implemented by the Game Producer.
• Established defect management and reporting processes that became a guideline for the entire QA group in Knowledge Adventure.
• Handled a large team of 10 members. Being a green team they also had to be trained in testing methodologies and the system domain.
• Identified star performers from the team and provided growth opportunity Took steps to boost team morale as a reward to good performance.

Tools: Quality Center, TFS Team Foundation Server , MS SQL Server

Environment: Java and .NET

Sr. QA Engineer Resume Profile

QA Engineer

• Performed Testing on various projects listed below:
• Memo Enhancements - Application's notification generation process
• Fidelity Now Inbox - Employee Communications websites developed in Java and deployed in the J2EE Web Sphere Technology Stack.
• IRL - PIRL - A conversion of the old IRL application to the new PIRL application.
• SP Attestations - Checks if employees confirm to the accuracy of registrations
• FESCo FACTS - Allows management and FBS Compliance to monitor specified transactions and Portfolio Reviews
• E-Review Reporting - Reports generating module
• Web Trades - Consolidated view of transactions performed every business day
• Tenant Billing - Client server application to generate monthly bills for internal Fidelity occupancy.
• Access Central - A web based .NET app to track, manage and archive all logical user access requests

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing System Design document, developing manual test cases to test the functionality of the application.
• Participate in writing Test Plan, Test Estimations Test Scenarios based on software documentation from business, technical and functional requirements. .
• Develop and execute test cases for integration, system and regression testing throughout the software development life cycle, Participate in Test Case review and Test case sign off meetings.
• Track, Review, Analyze and Compare defects using Quality Center.
• Provide clients with documentation of Test results and status reports.
• Participate in various meetings to discuss Enhancement and Modification Requests.
• Perform end-to-end testing of application and also verified compliance for software quality standards of the organization.
• Setting Daily and Weekly meetings with the clients and team members
• Prepare Test Metrics, MoM, Project Closure and Project Learning reports

Key Achievements:

• Went over and above expectation by conducting quality audits for critical and strategic projects to help achieve Quality Compliance for CMMI 5.
• Identified as a Star performer for improving productivity by 10 and maintaining quality as expected for SP Attestations project.
• Mentored fresh recruits while working on high visibility projects like FESCo FACTS, E-Review Reporting and Web Trades.
• Created Project Plan for a 150K project which was over and above my daily task.

Tools: Quality Center, Quest Toad and SQL

Environment : Java and .NET

Confidential

Onsite Co-ordinator Associate QA Engineer

• FedEx Ship Manager is a hardware/software-based shipping solution that is deployed free of cost to customers shipping 500 of packages daily. It is Windows based and supports 2000, NT XP.
• Charles Schwab's' Retirement Plan Solutions takes initiative in helping companies deliver superior benefits provide enterprise solutions for an organization looking to enhance its retirement or equity compensation plan benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the domain, executing Test cases provided by the client.
• Preparing and Automating Test scripts using QTP and Silk Test 7.1
• Conducting sessions for the new team members
• Coordinating with the team, clarifying doubts
• Interacting with the onsite coordinator to solve issues
• Quality Compliance

Key Achievements:

• Ramped up within 1 month for a long running multi-million project, that resulted in productivity within short time of joining project.
• Created Knowledge artifacts to remove people dependency for projects.

Tools: Quality Center, Silk Test 7.1, QTP, SQL

Environment: C and Java

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System Network Administrator