SUMMARY:

• Eight years of experience in IT industry with expertise in Manual and Automation testing of Web and Client/Server based applications.
• Expertise in Testing levels like Sanity, System, Inter - System and Regression Testing.
• Certified in Service Virtualization from Parasoft.
• Experienced in preparing Test Plan, Test Design, Traceability, Test Summary and Status Reports.
• Extensive knowledge about Software Testing life cycle (STLC).
• Experienced in Parasoft Virtualize Service Virtualization tool and Parasoft SOA Test , SOAPUI / Ready API Web services Test Automation tool
• Hands on experience in virtualizing web services with transport protocols including HTTP/SOAP, JDBC, JMS/MQ.
• Good understanding of Web service components like WSDL, SOAP, XSD, XML.
• Regular Interaction with Business users, System Analysts, Development team for delivering quality software.
• Have experience in Agile Testing methodologies.
• Experienced in coordinating Testing efforts in Onshore-Offshore model.
• Excellent Analytical and Communication skills.
• Remarkable ability to quickly learn and use new software and applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Unix

Languages: Groovy, SQL, VB script, VBA,BPM,MDW,RDBMS,Oracle 9i, 10,App ServersmIIS, BEA Web logic, IBM Web sphere.

Software Expertise: MDW Designer, Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM, Dimensions, Toad, Putty, Soap UI, SOA Test, SQL Developer

Test Management Tools: HP Quality center or ALM, Bugzilla

Automation Tools: Parasoft SOATest, Parasoft Virtualize, CA LISA 7.5, HP Quick Test Professional, VB scripting, Excel with VBA, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Test Automation and Service Virtualization Lead

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate Service Virtualization to different Application Development and Testing teams.
• Showcase benefits by virtualizing the dependent systems or services which are unavailable or having limited availability
• Remove the bottlenecks in the testing lifecycle and enabling Continuous Integration.
• Gather requirements and use cases by identifying the constrained systems
• Create Virtual Services (simulated web services) and deploy in the Virtualize server.
• Validate the behavior of Virtual service by comparing with the expected behavior and deliver the Virtual service to the Application team.
• Create training material, governance model and draw roadmap for implementing Center of Excellence for Service Virtualization.
• Setup standards and naming conventions for Service Virtualization and maintain the life cycle of Virtual Services by constantly engaging with the teams.
• Automation of Test Status Reporting to all the stake holders on daily basis. Automation of Metrics collection and analysis.
• Assigning action item based on metrics data report.
• Identifying improvement and automation opportunities and working on value additions.
• Preparing automated scripts for Regression and Sanity Test Suites.

Tools: and Software: Parasoft Virtualize 9.10, Parasoft SOA Test 9.10, Parasoft CTP 3.0, HP Quick Test Professional, SOAP UI

Confidential, MN

QA and Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Estimating the Level of Effort based on Requirements and Release time frames.
• Preparing Automation Strategy and identifying Risks and Issues upfront.
• Performing Static testing through Reviews and inspection which enables early detection of defects.
• Test Designing using optimization techniques and Risk based analysis
• Test Execution and Defect Tracking using HP ALM.
• Coordination with other dependant applications during Inter-System testing.
• Assigning tasks and coordinating the activities within the team on daily basis.
• Perform database validations using SQL queries.
• Work in an Agile Scrum environment - Interact with Scrum masters, Product owners, Developers and Architects to identify new user stories and to implement the identified stories.
• Creating Virtual Service Image (VSI) using LISA Virtualization for dependant systems using VSE Recorder
• Updating Magic Strings in VSI, editing steps, filters, assertions in Virtual Service Model (VSM)
• Deploy the VSM in the VSE (LISA Server) and monitor the virtualization
• Creating Automated Test Cases using LISA Test with Properties, Assertions, Filters and Data Sets
• Automation of Test Status Reporting to all the stake holders on daily basis.
• Execute and maintain existing Selenium automation scripts for UI testing
• Test Summary Report and Lessons Learnt Documentation.
• Automation of Metrics collection and analysis . Assigning action item based on metrics data report.
• Identifying improvement and automation opportunities and working on value additions .
• Preparing automated scripts for Regression and Sanity Test Suites .

Tools: and Software: HP ALM, Caliber RM, CA LISA, Oracle, Toad, MDW, VB Scripting, Putty, Excel

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements for the change requests and Enhancements Consolidating requirements.
• Development of Automation scripts for Billing applications.
• Development/Coding of validation modules for order flows
• Development and Design of Test Cases based on the client requirements.
• Setting up the environment.
• Executing FIXIT and making sure that all the test accounts are posting in the ordering application thereby enabling further testing in other applications.
• Validating the Test Run using Cycle Validation to ensure all the accounts got processed fine.
• Processing and Correcting invoice errors which occurred during invoice processing using RIB Validation.
• After the cycle is done, executing PDF generation to generate the PDF bills which will be reviewed by business clients of Qwest Telecom.
• Listing discrepancy accounts in the bill across the different releases using COMPBILL.
• Determining requirement of interfaces.
• Carrying out impact analysis.
• Developing tools using REXX and JCL for reducing manual effort and for achieving cost savings.

Software and Tools: Mainframes, HP Quality Center

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Use cases, FDDs, SDDs and APIs from the business processes.
• Preparation of Smoke and regression Test Plan
• Deciding on the Test Estimation for the entire testing cycle.
• Preparation of regression Tests plan using Mercury Quality Centre.
• Preparing automated scripts for Regression and smoke packs using TIBCO technology (Emm).
• Execution of Regression/Smoke Tests using TIBCO Middleware tools.
• Log Defects.
• Imparting Training to new members inducted into testing team.

Software and Tools: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, VB Scripting.