OBJECTIVE

Seeking Senior QA Analyst position in the area o IT/Software Industry to contribute towards organizational success and improve company performance through enhanced quality standards by deploying strong, long-term QA integration strategies.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Well versed with both Manual and Automation testing
• Work experience in providing LoE's Level o Estimates
• Experience in Mentoring junior members o the testing team
• Hands on experience in Leading small scale teams
• Seasoned Software Quality Assurance professional with over 8.6 years o hands-on experience in Project Management, Software Testing, Quality Assurance and introducing SQA best practices into the software development life cycle o small to mid-sized companies
• Experienced in testing Web-based, e-Commerce, Mainframes, CMS and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Good experience in different testing levels Integration testing , System testing , User Acceptance testing , Alpha and Beta Testings
• Involved in various testing methods Ad-Hoc, Functional , Regression, Smoke ,Usability, GUI Testing , Browser Compatibility Testing, Load and Stress Testings
• Rich experience in working with Agile Scrum and Waterfall development methodology projects
• Ability to integrate Manual test scripts into QC and ALM
• Involved in writing high level Test Strategy and Test Plan documents
• Performed project management duties for version control utilizing VSS tool
• Hands on experience in Test Management and Defect Tracking tools JIRA , QC , ALM
• Worked with Automation expert to implement automation utilizing WATIR/Ruby
• Work Experience with utilizing tools Rally , TFS 2010 as Bug Tracking purpose during Agile Methodology projects
• Hands on experience in writing detailed SQL Queries extensively for applications in order to validate backend databases
• Rich experience in converting Business requirements into Test Procedures / Test Cases
• Involved in Reviewing Requirements , Test Plans , Test Cases and Defects
• Perform Test execution , Document test results and Prepare metrics on each test execution cycles
• Good Knowledge on Load Runner and QTP functional tool
• Domain knowledge on Retail Banking , Aviation and Logistics Transportation

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Professional EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Confidential

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements, meeting Business customers and users
• Performed Alpha and Beta Testings
• I involved in writing the Test Plan and Test Cases for manual testing
• Using ALM Application Life Cycle Management for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases
• Performed manual test case activities including Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing.
• Understood each sprint story from TFS and test them in defined span o time during integration testing
• Performed requirements review and make sure any open or incomplete requirements are documented
• Tested GUI for usability as per iRise documents
• Prepared test data for whole cycle
• Defined and Performed smoke tests in ALM
• Performed Test Execution procedures as per Test Plan in ALM
• Performed regression testing on secondary platforms
• Reported defects utilizing TFS 2010
• Documented results and metrics on each test execution cycle in ALM
• Assurance o the achieving deadlines with QA in advance got many appreciations in this regard
• Involved in Sprint Review meetings and giving suggestions from past sprint lessons
• Involved in High-level meetings and used to co-ordinate with various other project members
• Deliverables include : Smoke Tests, Functional Test cases , Regression Tests, Daily Metrics, Test Summary Report , Documentation on Test case Reviews

Environment : Windows 7, Visual Studio .Net 2010, SQL Server 2010, TFS 2010, Visio, iRise, SharePoint, Snag IT, Honeywell Scanners , Datalogic scanner, Caliber , KIOSK , JAVA , JTrack , LMS , Oracle , JSP , ALM , Tomcat server

Confidential

QA Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Assign tasks to Testing Team o 3 and ensure that all o them have sufficient work in the project.
• Followed traditional Waterfall development methodology for System test cycle
• Involved in throughout SDLC o the application
• Involved in gathering business requirements for Remedy, meeting Business customers and users
• Involved in gathering business requirements for Remedy, meeting Business customers and users
• Prepare the Agenda for the meeting and organize the meetings.
• Attend the regular Management calls and discuss the weekly status.
• Send the Status Report Daily, Weekly etc. to the higher Management.
• Successfully tested assigned projects, CRs, system enhancements, and/or process changes
• Review various reports prepared by the team and Frequent status check meetings with the Team.
• Communication by means o Chat / emails with the Management.
• Acted as the single point o contact between Development and Testers for iterations, testing and deployment activities.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc
• Wrote preliminary and contributed to final high level Test Plan
• Involved in define Testing tasks and dependencies in MS Project
• Created test procedures in QC tool for functional testing from Business Requirements
• Created test procedures from User Requirements, Use Cases, and existing system
• Led test execution
• Tracked test execution and defect metrics in QC
• Optimized QA procedures by standardizing and maintaining test processes
• Deliverables include: LoE ,Test Strategy ,Test Plan, Regression Tests, Daily Metrics, Test Summary Report

Environment : Windows 7 , VB.Net , Java Script , Web Logic , Oracle , BMC Remedy 7.1, Quality Center, Toad, SharePoint, Waterfall, CMDB UI, AO, SLM

Confidential

QA Lead

Confidential

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements for Greendot web sites, meeting BAs Clients and users
• Involved in writing the Test Plan and Test Cases and Feature files for manual testing
• Involved in UAT, Regression, Integration and end to end testing
• Using QC for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases
• Generate different kind o reports from the JIRA for QA team metrics
• Attend the meetings with developers and business users to work on defects opened
• Reviewing the Test cases o other Team members and participating in weekly status meetings and taking Minutes
• Extensive use o SQL queries to perform Backend Testing o the Application
• Prepared the test cases for Unit testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Tested the IVR applications.
• Resolved the production issues and support tickets.
• Documented System Integration Test Plan for end to end testing
• Created Requirements Traceability
• Defined and set expectations o vendors testing effort
• Created UI test procedure template that was utilized across team for creating test procedures for UI testing
• Designed User Interface UI screens using Snag IT
• Converted test procedures from old system to new system according to the new UI Design
• Performed User Interface testing and Browser compatibility testing
• Defined and coordinated set up o System Integration Test environment
• Updated Test Case Database in Access, including Reports and Metrics
• Detailed repeatable end to end test cases for application, interviewed developers to gain detailed information on complex calculations and backend exception processing in order to validate the back end utilizing SQL Plus
• Deliverables include: Master Test Plan, Trace Matrix, Regression Tests, Daily Metrics, Test Summary Report

Environment : Web Testing , ASP.Net, MVC 2.0, SQL Server 2008 , JIRA , QC , SharePoint , Web Services, JAVA , Rally , IE Dev Tool bar , Snag IT , Fiddler , Crystal Reports

Confidential

Module Lead

Confidential

Environment : Java, JSP, Oracle 9i, WebSphere5.1

Confidential is a web based, deal life cycle and document management system based on documentum framework. The main objective is ability to control and access documents/folders by using access controls. Deal works allows you to set up secure deal folders to store project documentation, manage conflicts submissions and register your project name in one workspace it also allows the sharing o documents regardless o location.

Confidential

Environment : .Net 2.0 Frame work, SQL Server 2005

This project is a portal for Confidential for its customer and their Admin needs. It will include the content that is present on the current site, as well as integrate several third party applications such as Online Booking, Hotel Booking, PNR Status, a Frequent Flier Program Application and a newsletter for a more comprehensive user experience. Users will be able to access various parts o the site with a Single Sign on SSO .

Key Responsibilities:

• Led to completion the testing effort o project utilizing milestone approach to development
• Guided and Mentored Junior Testers o the team
• Performed back up project management duties
• Performed requirements review and refinement
• Defined and coordinated set up o System Integration Test environment
• Defined smoke test for Manual suit
• Detailed repeatable end to end test cases for application, interviewed Business team to gain detailed information
• Executed ad hoc ,Functional/Regression testing
• Involved in Browser compatibility testing
• Defects were logged in JIRA defect tracker tool
• Developed and Refactored WATIR scripts using RUBY with QA standards
• Maintained and executed automated test scripts
• Performance testing was done by conducting load testing using VSTS to simulate the load generated by hundreds o users to achieve optimum performance.
• Suggesting Improvement areas in terms o performance enhancements.
• Discuss the analysis with the client and present the risks before the release goes in
• Deliverables includes: Smoke Tests, Regression Tests, Daily Metrics, Test Summary Report , Watir Automated scripts

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Environment : Windows NT/2000, ASP. Net, VB script, SQL Server

The Application is developed for Datamatics Technologies Ltd. The floating Holiday application is used for taking leave on predefined list o holidays. Any employee o DTL is entitled to take maximum o 10 holidays per year. Out o this 10 holiday four are public holiday six are floating holiday. Public holidays are fixed. Employee can choose six holidays from a list o twelve holidays. There are certain rules guidelines to take this holiday's, for instance employee can opt for maximum o six holidays from list o twelve holidays, he/she can select holiday for a date range from current date to one month later o system date. Maximum o 50 o employee strength o one department in organization can take holiday for one particular day. I more than 50 o employee o one department applies for holiday on any o the floating holiday date, then email is sent to respective department head. In this case department head will decide to approve or reject the holiday for that employee.

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in Ad-hoc, Regression and Stress testing's
• Prepared and Executed o regression test cases
• Detected defects and documented them through approved defect reports in Excel spread sheets
• Kept track o them efficiently till they were close
• Coordinated with development team
• Performed Stress Testing with bulk call generators utilizing MS-WAS tool
• Wrote test scripts and tweaked out them
• Recorded performance measures and analyzed them with graphs
• Tested Back-end using SQL queries extensively