Professional Profile

Around 4 years 6 months of experience in Information Technology Industry. For the past 4 years and 6 months, specialized in software quality assurance and testing in positions as varied as Senior Test Engineer and QA Automation Test Lead, Test Lead. Knowledge and skills span all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle with experience in implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Currently working as QA Test Lead at Sunmarg Soft Tech, since June' 2010.

Experience Highlights

• Have around 4 years 6 months of experience in test approaches, test strategies, effort estimations , test plans, Checklists for test design, execution, defect process, Test Evaluation summaries and Test metrics etc and involved in each phase of testing life cycle until UAT.
• Analyzed business requirements, prepared Test plan and test cases Standard Testing techniques.
• Responsible for performing Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, GUI testing, Black Box testing and Cross Browser testing.
• Actively participated in walk through, Meetings and interacted with developers for technical issues.
• Performed Smoke Tests after installation of each build on QA servers
• Modified and maintained test cases with changes in application interface and navigation flow.
• Development and execution of Test Cases, Test Scripts and conducted tests manually. Prepared User Acceptance Testing UAT Test Plan, scripts and test data.
• Experience in database testing using My SQL. Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.
• Logged the traced defects and analyzed the defects in Bugzilla.
• Prepare Consolidated Defect Report at the end of each round of testing and attended daily status meetings to discuss defects and testing progress.
• Expertise in automated, manual, web testing and Mobile Application/Web/Text based testing. Created test cases and generated test scripts.
• Experience in conducting System, Integration, Functional, Regression, User-Acceptance Testing and improvement of QA Process.
• Defect Tracking and reporting to improve testing process and reduce delay. Hands on Experience in various SDLC. Experience in Product Verification Validation.
• Good exposure and grip on automation framework using Selenium Webdriver and good command on testing tools like QTP 11 and QC 10.
• Experience in tools like Device Anywhere, Perfecto Mobile, User Agent Switcher, and Selenium.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle, Agile/Scrum Testing Methodologies.
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming Concept and adhering to coding standards.
• Experience in Testing Database Applications of RDBMS in DB2, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Demonstrated strengths in communicating with all levels within an organization, and possesses excellent interpersonal, written and spoken English.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center

Test Automation Tools: QTP, QC, Device Anywhere Pro, Perfecto Mobile, Selenium IDE/RC, Omniture, Site Catalyst.

Languages: HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, Java, Linux/Unix

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Chronology of Experience:

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Key Accomplishments:

• Analyzed business requirements and prepared Test plan and test cases using the Standard Testing techniques.
• Responsible for performing Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, GUI testing, Black Box testing and Cross Browser testing.
• Hands on experience on Omniture and Site Catalyst tools.
• Actively participated in walk through, Meetings and interacted with developers for any technical issues.
• Developed Robust Automation Framework with which we have automated regression suite of 1600 test cases and well maintained.
• Extensively used Simulator Emulator tools in testing environment.
• Maintained test cases, test executions in Quality Center
• Development and execution of Test Cases, Test Scripts and conducted tests manually. Prepared User Acceptance Testing UAT Test Plan, scripts and test data.
• Developed Robust Automation Framework with which we have automated regression suite of 1600 test cases and well maintained.
• Worked in projects that followed Agile testing methodologies, Water fall and V Model of SDLC.
• Actively Involved in Future Project Sizing/Estimations, Resource and Work allocations.
• Logged the traced defects and analyzed the defects in Quality Center.
• Prepare Consolidated Defect Report at the end of each round of testing and attended daily status meetings to discuss defects and testing progress.

Environment: Content Manager, Java script, HTML, HP Quality Center, SQL Server Queries, Quick Test Pro 11, Manual Testing, Device Anywhere Studio, Perfecto Mobile, User Agent Switcher

Confidential

QA Module Lead

• Created test plan, executed test cases, developed reports benchmarking the performance of various builds and documented results.
• Managed all phases of software testing for assigned components. Ensured Test plans, Test Strategies and Test cases were completed to meet business requirements.
• Hands on experience on Selenium IDE/RC used for web based automation.
• Hands on experience in System, Integration, Regression, Black Box, Functional and Operational Acceptance testing, test planning, scripting and execution.
• Extensive exposure in Test Management tool like Quality Center 10.
• Experience of testing in Banking Domain along with good planning, organizational and communication skills. Developed tests for Selenium in Java.
• Understanding of the end to end test processes in a medium to large scale systems projects and knowledge of industry standard testing practices.
• Worked on testing of new enhancements to the Scotia Online banking website.
• This application was developed in JAVA and uses Oracle Database.
• Analyzed test results and generated defect reporting and tracking via Quality Center. Designed and executed test cases for enhancements in all the modules.
• Involved in peer reviews and lead reviews. Conducted Knowledge transfer to new team members. Maintaining Selenium Test suites.
• Was responsible for all the test and quality deliverables of the product.
• Responsibilities included managing the quality process, design of test automation tools, developing test strategy, defect management and performance management of the team.

Environment: HP Quality Center, HP Quick TestPro, Oracle, Web Testing, Selenium, Java script, HTML, XML.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

• Created test plan, executed test cases, developed reports benchmarking the performance of various builds and documented results.
• Managed all phases of software testing for assigned components. Ensured Test plans, Test Strategies and Test cases were completed to meet business requirements.
• Planning/Implementing Testing Standards and Guidelines for Functional, Smoke, White Box/Unit, Integration, Regression, Build Verification, User Acceptance testing and Risk Management thrust for enhancement of software product quality.
• Manual testing and automated testing was performed on Green screens and connectivity testing for entire site.
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases as per functional, Business requirements.
• Investigated software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using ClearQuest. Wrote SQL statements to extract data from the Tables.
• Involved in developing, executing manual and automated test cases/automated test scripts in agile environment. Measured Response Time for Testing.
• Checked Configuration and compatibility testing for s/w versions and hardware.
• Established the Benchmarks to ensure testing environment behaves as expected.
• Participated in system, UAT and functional testing manually and automatically with Mercury Tools. Involved in testing of standalone-application screens.
• Participated in generating Test Scripts using Quality Center.
• Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.

Environment: HP Quality Center, HP Quick TestPro, Oracle, Web Testing, Selenium, Java script, HTML, XML.