SUMMARY:

• 15 plus years of experience in Mortgage, mobile testing, web based and client/server applications with 5 years of Team Leadership experience
• Expertise with testing in - Waterfall, Interactive incremental, Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Comfortable liaising with offshore teams
• Proficient in writing, reviewing and execution of test scenarios
• Domain Experience: Mortgage, Insurance, Telematics, Banking, Health Care, Web content Management, Customer Relations Management systems
• Proficient in Manual testing and Quality Center, Load Runner
• Expertise in Requirement Analysis, Test Design, prepare Traceability Matrix
• Experience with bug tracking tools HPALM, Jira, MTM
• Proficient in Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing, Database testing, Security Testing
• Well versed with black box testing, Grey box testing, Web Services validation, Performance testing
• Competence in using HP Quality Center for analyzing, monitoring and status reporting
• Proficient in creating reports, dashboard using Microsoft excel, power point presentation
• Expertise in Functional testing, Database Testing, GUI Testing, Reports Validation, Regression, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing and experience in Agile environment
• Proficient in creating and developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix and Defect Reports
• Project management activities - Project Estimation, resource allocation, metrics collection, audit, tracking, release management, configuration management and Status reporting to PMO
• Proficient in developing SQL queries, run stored procedures for backend validation
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work on multiple test projects at the same time
• Able to interact with Business Analysts, Developers as a key QA Team Member for major iterations and Cross Group Collaboration
• Self-starter, Quick learner, energetic, highly motivated team player with excellent communication / problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and meet individual deadlines, while effectively focusing on priority issues with the emphasis of Integration & User Acceptance Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools:  HP Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager, Jira, Rational Quality Manager

Defect Tracking Tools: HPALM, Jira

Web Languages/Scripts:  HTML, Java Script, XML, VB Script

Web/Message Services:  Soap UI 3.6.1, FrontPage, XML Spy, Web Services

Search Engine Experience/GUI:  FAST, Web Analytics, Social Sharing, Pluck, Web Content management

Mobile Testing:  iPhone (IOS), Android SDK, Emulator

Automation Tools:  Load Runner, Databases, SQL Server 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA 

Test Lead

Environment: Empower, SNAP2.0, TFS, SharePoint, SQL 2008, MTM, BKFS, Setups

Responsibilities:

• Product eligibility, Product & Pricing testing, Setups verification, End to End Loan creation
• Work under minimal supervision and independently
• Responsible for preparing the Test Plan, Test cases, Traceability Matrix, Defects logs, Defect Tracking reports etc.
• Preparing high Level scenarios
• Coordinating weekly/daily status meeting with client & testing team. Tracking and monitoring project tasks
• Understand various business applications across loan Origination and Empower
• Participate in triage calls, review all deliverables in TFS(Visual Studio 2013)
• Participate in Review meetings and prepare WBS as per release Testing schedule
• Allocating tasks to resources and monitoring till they are completed
• Provide functional test expertise and assist team in building automation test and Integration scripts
• Preparing ORM Operational Reporting Module report for every month
• Tracking and reporting team performance metrics and bug resolution
• Review, Update existing test cases, Peer reviews of test plans, test cases and maintain review documents

Confidential, CA 

 Test Lead

Environment: SQL 2008, XML, Valium, Eclipse, TOAD, HPALM 11.00, Beretta, SharePoint, Log Miner, iOriginate, IMPACT

Responsibilities:

• Work under minimal supervision and independently
• Responsible for preparing the Test Plan, Test cases, Traceability Matrix, Defects logs, Defect Tracking reports etc.
• Providing high level estimates on requirements
• Preparing high Level scenarios
• Coordinating weekly/daily status meeting with client & testing team. Tracking and monitoring project tasks
• Understand various business applications across loan Origination and I Fulfillment
• Identify and Create reusable test cases to ease testing of regression scenarios
• Participate in triage calls, review all deliverables in TFS ALM
• Participate in Review meetings and prepare WBS as per release Testing schedule
• Allocating tasks to resources and monitoring till they are completed
• Provide functional test expertise and assist team in building automation test and Integration scripts
• Independent Build verification for E2E scenarios for application (Smoke test) after each code deployment iteration
• Preparing ORM Operational Reporting Module report for every month
• Tracking and reporting team performance metrics and bug resolution
• Review, Update existing test cases, Peer reviews of test plans, test cases and maintain review documents
• Reporting the daily progress on the overall Testing in the form on testing deck (Retesting, Regression, Integration, System Testing, User Acceptance testing)

Confidential, CA

Integration Test Lead/Release Manager

Environment: C#, SQL 2008, XML, TOAD, HPALM 11.00, Head Unit, Handset (iOS, Android), SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test Strategy and Test plan for the CY13 project
• Review and understand the Business Requirements, HLDs and LLDs
• Review, Update existing test cases, Peer reviews of test plans, test cases and maintain review documents
• Prepared the HPQC configuration document and implemented the HP ALM 11.5
• Imparted HPALM training for key stakeholders and Suppliers Co-ordinated with suppliers for the unit/Functional weekly and months testing status
• Testing mobile applications for Confidential using iOS, Android
• Deployment of the code on Lexus/Toyota head unit’s and installation of the software code on IPhone and Android
• Ensure the appropriate traceability between the requirements and test scripts
• Coordinate with the Business Analyst and development team to review requirements and the test coverage
• Task allocation to the QA team, track the status of execution and defects on daily basis
• Test case execution, defect reporting, regression testing, and lab maintenance
• Drive the triage meetings and ensure right severity and priority is given to the defects
• Prepare Daily Status Report with different metrics collected and act as Point Of Contact for all testing activities
• Participate in the Client Meetings, Effort Estimation, Risk and Impact Analysis
• Reporting the daily progress on the overall Testing in the form on testing deck (Retesting, Regression, Integration, System Testing, User Acceptance testing)
• Publishing Weekly dashboard for project progress
• Performed the activities as release manager for the CY13 Project
• Co-ordinate between the partners for the deployment & maintenance windows for their respective partners servers
• Ensured that all partners teams are well informed beforehand about the code deployments and schedule maintenance for all the CY13 Environments
• Coordinated between with CY13 partners for Vehicle Identification Setup (VIN’s), which is very critical for the integration of head unit mapping with partners
• Ensured that all the CY13 evaluation phones are upgraded latest client Apps used for CY13 integration testing