SUMMARY:

• Around 14 years of software testing experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, project planning, methodology definition, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting
• Intensive experience in process improvement and in designing, building, validating, maintaining and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in Banking, Financial, Insurance, Health Care, Microsoft and Auto Domain Technologies
• Adept at using manual testing techniques to troubleshoot systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality and regression
• Hands on automation experience in UFT, Tosca and SOAP UI and Exposure on Selenium
• Extensive experience in functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, Component testing, GUI testing, system testing, back end testing, UAT testing on Web Based and Main frame applications
• Experience in QA Testing Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Expertise in Web Services/API testing.
• Proficient in documentation of deliverables in testing process (Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Summary, Defects in HP Quality Center/ALM & Microsoft Product Studio, Status Reports, and Best practices in Testing)
• Experience in writing SQL queries for database transactions.
• Has successfully led Manual, Automation & Performance testing teams
• Experience in creating Test Strategy, Test plan and Test approaches
• Creating Schedule plan & Estimation for various clients.
• Fair Knowledge on the Costing models (T&M and FP)
• Liaise with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application design and document reviews
• Superior analytical, troubleshooting, communication and presentation skills
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to the Stake Holders, issue escalations
• Capable of leading & motivating individuals to maximise levels of productivity; a customer - centric professional and knack for motivating large workforces for exceeding customer expectations in delivery of committed services
• Abroad/Client site work experience in USA, UK and Germany; Anchored testing requirements, prepared solution delivery of Testing projects, Estimations, developed test strategy and test plans & reviewed test cases and validated defect prevention plans with an objective of delivering effective testing solutions for clients
• Worked in the capacity of Senior Automation Technical Test Lead; engaged in conducting manual & automated testing, training team members in Software Quality Awareness; creation of Test Plans; Resource Management, Project Management, SoW, POC’s, Proposals and Project delivery
• Involved in ISO/FR/SR/SD walkthroughs along with Stake holders and cross streams
• Interacting with Integration Architects/Business Analysts/Service Design/Development teams
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) & Involved in Walkthroughs
• Worked in U.K for 16 months for HMRC and DWP Clients
• Got onsite experience in U.S for 18 months for Confidential and Confidential Client.
• Worked in Germany for 2.5 months for Confidential Client.
• Worked for Microsoft as a vendor for 14 months.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Designing test cases and test scripts
• Reviewing and Execution of test cases/scripts
• Defect Reporting
• Functionality Testing
• Regression Testing
• Load Testing
• Web Services Middleware Testing
• Estimations
• Reporting
• Test Plans
• Test Strategy and Test Approach
• Leading various teams
• UFT (Unified Functional Tester)
• Tosca
• Selenium
• QTP 9.2
• Load Runner 7.8
• Quality Center 9.2
• ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
• Test Director 7.6
• Product Studio
• RFT (Rational Functional Tester)
• Win Runner 7.6
• HP Service Test (HPST)
• Parasoft Test Tool
• Soap UI

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows: PL/SQL, MS Office, Win Diff, Clear Quest, CIS/NIRS and Legacy

Mainframes Testing: VSS, Microsoft Production Studio

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java scripting, VB scripting

Domain: Mortgage, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Health Care and Auto

Automation Tools: UFT, Tosca, SOAP UI and Selenium

Test Management: Test Strategizing, Test data management, Test Planning, Test design management, Test Estimation, Test Schedule definition & Defect life cycle definition etc

Business development: Responding to RFP, Creating Test solutions and Test offering

Defect Tracking Tools: QC, ALM, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Microsoft Product Studio

SCM Tools: Visual Source Safe, TFS and Clear Case

Database: MS SQL Server 2008

Packages: Microsoft Office, Exposure in Microsoft Project Plan & Microsoft Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Automation Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading Automation Test team of 7 members
• Test Planning
• Developing automation Frame work for QTP 9.2
• Perform functional and regression testing.
• Prepared Automation Test Approach
• Used Quality Center 9.2 as Test Management Tool
• Managing onsite & offshore team.

Confidential

Test Lead

• Performed analysis and develop automation programming scripts
• Developing automation test suite by using the QTP
• Performing Load testing by using the Load Runner tool
• Developing regression scripts for the change requests.
• Working on the different types of environments like; CIS, NIRS and Legacy
• Perform functional and regression testing.
• Perform Main Frame Testing by using Legacy Systems (JSAPS / PDCS and ISCS)
• Test Management by Quality Center (QC)

Confidential

Test Lead

• Had Lead 7 members’ team.
• Performing Review on Acceptance Criteria
• Preparation of Test Plan, test approach.
• Preparation, Review on Test Cases/scripts
• Test Execution and defects reporting
• Test Estimations

Tools: QTP & QC

Confidential

Test Lead

• Allocation of Task
• Test Estimates
• Smoke Testing
• Preparing the Break-up Plan.
• Test script creation. Test Review and Test Execution.
• Logging Defects
• Status Reporting.
• Preparation of Execution Status document.
• Retesting and Regression Testing.
• Communicating with the client.

Tools: RFT & QC

Project lead

• Identification of Scenarios.
• Test Estimates.
• Installation of new builds.
• BVT, Test Case Creation, Execution and adding defects.
• Test Review and Status Reporting.
• Preparation of Execution Status document.
• Send Sign-off document for completion of every build
• Retesting and Regression Testing.

Environment: and Tools: Net, C #, XML, SharePoint server 2003., Product Studio, SQL Server 2005

Senior Test Engineer

• BVT, Test Case Creation, Execution and adding defects.
• Bug Regression
• Regression Testing.
• Status Reporting.
• Preparation of Test Case Review and Execution templates.
• Test Case Review.

Environment: .Net, C #, SQL Server 2005, XML, SharePoint server 2003., Product Studio.

Senior Software QA Engineer

• Manual Testing
• Creation of Load Runner Scripts
• Parameterize the LR Scripts
• Creation of Test Data.
• Execution of the Load Runner Scenarios
• Analyzing the Results on Load Runner.
• Preparation of bug reports
• Retesting the defects.
• Performed Regression testing and prepared, executed and reviewed test scripts.

Environment: J2EE, Internet Explorer 6.0, Oracle 8.i, C #, SQL Plus, ASP.NET, VB, SSL.

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner 7.8