Professional Summary

• Over 7 years of Work Experience in the analysis, design, and testing software applications.
• Proficient in QA E2E methodologies, QA processes, experience in documenting test plan and test procedures.
• Preparation of test strategies and test scenarios, defect management and E2E defect life cycle management.
• Strong skills in developing functional test cases, ensuring that test cases are traceable to the business requirements through RTM documents thus ensuring complete functional testing coverage.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Agile methodologies with emphasis on black box testing, functional testing, GUI testing, system testing, regression testing, security testing and User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Strong hands on experience in manual testing on client, server and web-based applications.
• Knowledge in test automation and software testing of web based applications using Quick Test Pro QTP 9.2 .
• Experience in SQL Queries and performance tuning.
• Understands the importance of identifying high-risk functionalities of a system and focusing initial testing on the high-priority and higher-risk requirements.
• Proficient in using testing management tools like Quality Center.

Technical Skill Set

Professional Experience

Confidential

Role: Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the design and development of the testing/test code for a product feature or sub-system.
• Delivering key functionality to live site and ensures cross-functional co-ordination to validate the E2E functionality.
• Spends most of the time developing test code and testing, and efficiently produces elegant, clean tests with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Test code is thoroughly tested and is reliable with very few bugs.
• Lead feature or sub-system test design reviews and participates in code reviews for their areas
• Participates in test design and test systems architecture discussions, proposes and discusses solutions to system and product changes that are directly related to their area of focus.
• Frequently interfaces with other functional teams on all aspects of a feature or sub-system.
• Influences management on product direction and quality, particularly related to their area of focus and expertise.

Achievements

• Test fixtures and guide others on best way to create top notch technical solutions
• Good understanding of test framework or subsystem reusability, modularity, or scaling.
• Works well within a team, and contributes effectively to the success of those that they interact with regularly.
• Understands and able to reason about the business, as it relates.
• Developed the ability to diagnose and resolve live site issues.

Environment Parameters: RDBMS, Experience writing SQL queries/scripts, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Understanding of internet technologies and protocols, Reports, e-mail Alerts.

Confidential

Role: Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Gathered requirements and prepared modified business requirement documents BRD .
• Exclusively developed the Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases and maintaining them using Quality Center.
• Version management of the test artifact documents.
• Performed the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Performed data analysis and ETL techniques for loading high volumes of data thru self-written scripts.
• Prepared extensive set of validation test cases for system integration testing.
• Facilitated Test strategy meetings and bug tracking meetings.
• Tested critical bug fixes and coordinated with various upstream and downstream teams on their status.
• Performed Functional Testing and Back-end Testing using the database comparable results manually as well as automated ways using QTP/VB Scripting Macros.
• Working on final testing handing the product to the clients with zero issues in production.
• Preparing specification documents like test completion report test metrics report.
• Documenting, tracking, and communicating effort analysis, team sizing calculations, test plans, test results, analysis and unresolved problems.
• Assisted other test team members in set up the application for test i.e. installation of Database and other necessary configurations.
• Coordinating Weekly check-in meetings at executive level leadership teams.

Achievements:

• Client savings are huge with respect to re-use of test artifacts.
• Management reporting needs are sent in semi-automated ways, much appreciated by the client teams.
• KTs to client business teams on the technology implemented along with proper System Understanding documentations.
• Managed the activities of 9 peak size team members.
• E2E system testing for real time business scenarios, huge value add to UAT business teams.
• Supported client as L2 QA support in one of the major releases
• Received performance appreciations for 2 quarters in a row for complex implementations, from the employer.

Environment Parameters: ASP .Net2.0, C , SQL Server, Basecamp, MS Office Suite, Ajax, Reports, Utilities, and SMS alerts.

Confidential

Role: Jr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test plan and Test cases for testing the functionality.
• Implemented Client Side validation using JavaScript.
• Involved in the development of functional test cases.
• Responsible for gathering application data requirements from SMEs, Business Users.
• Monitored deliverables and deadlines to ensure the requirements/testing plan is properly executed.
• Worked with Business team in developing detailed Business Scenarios.
• Analyzed identified business scenarios and build supporting test cases, test scripts.
• Logged defects that are of Severity-1 2 prominently.
• Completed deliverables on time without a single miss.
• Report to test lead about status of assigned tasks.
• Preparing Weekly Status reports.
• Sending Daily defect Reports.
• Daily Status Report detailing the consolidated effort and execution details.
• Facilitated with test data to UAT/End users for UAT testing signoff

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, SQL Server, Rational Rose, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio

Achievements:

• Moved to module lead role comparatively among colleagues in less time.
• Received applauds for critical bugs identified in the earlier phase of testing life cycle.
• Appreciations received from business teams for facilitating with key business scenario testing.