SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of software testing experience in manual testing, automation testing and Production Support.
• Domain knowledge in Retail, Electrical, Banking & Financial Services,
• Worked in Agile teams collaboratively with international teams, including UK, India, Puerto Rico, Japan & China
• Strong knowledge in Point Of Sale systems.
• Experience in Data Service Interactions, Record sales involving services testing.
• Document Test Execution, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios for both manual and automated testing
• Perform Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Functional Testing.
• Prepare Defect reports, test results and failure analysis reports
• Create Master Scripts on Telerik Test Studio (TTS) Automation tool.
• Focus on creating and scheduling automation scripts to be run in regular intervals of time and provide reports.
• Create data tables and write SQL queries for data bound steps in the automation scripts
• Create Test plans and Scenarios for New functional requirements
• Create Test cases, User Stories and Bugs on Team Foundation Server (TFS) & JIRA
• Familiar with Load Runner, Win Runner, QTP, RTM, Test Director and Quality Center and Eggplant.
• Familiar with Selenium scripting.
• Organize and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Prioritize and reprioritize work depending on the priority and severity of issues reported
• Train users and customers on the designed and intended work flow of the application.
• Document and publish the Release notes and user training documents for recent changes.
• Analyze bugs reported thorough PITS to provide Root Cause Analysis for development teams
• Good understanding of the business operations across various departments and IT support for each of those departments.
• Won the ‘Epic Fire Fighta’ Award for exceeding expectations
• Awarded highest Gold Star ratings badge for uplifting IT relations with operations
• Represent Wachter in the NWAQAA Chapter meetings
• Earned maximum number of “You Earned it points” in the DSI team.
• Awarded “Role Model” in annual assessment in Walmart.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Software Testing (Manual), Automation testing, System & Integration Testing, Writing Test cases, Test Plans, Test Execution, User Stories, User Training documentation on new features.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Languages: C, C++, VBScript, HTML, XML, SQL

Scripts: VBScript, UNIXDatabases: ORACLE 9i, MS SQL Server, SQL Terra Data, DBeaver

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Electrical Services & Retail

Testing Tools: Rational Test Manager, Rational Clearquest, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Team foundation Server, Load Runner, SOAP UI, Eggplant & Cucumber, Contorller

Automation Testing tools: Quick Test Professional 9.2, Telerik Test Studio 2012, Selenium, Eggplant, Cucumber, Girkin.

Documentation: MS Office, Quality Center, TFS, Wiki, JIRA .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QE Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with BA and Dev leads to understand requirements and measure effort required.
• Participate in the technical design meetings to understand the flow of code.
• Conduct the Sprint planning, PI planning, on behalf of Scrum master if required.
• Provide feedback in the backlog refinement sessions.
• Prepare in advance and meet with the downstream teams to plan for validations.
• Lead UAT and Store pilots
• Design roadmap for Fuel Automation
• Provide QA inputs to Dev team for designing new Architecture using Camel.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams for delivering high quality product in time.

Confidential

QE Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in strategy and Automation planning meeting for all teams in my domain.
• Design Test plan and manage resources.
• Pull reports and test metrics for senior leadership.
• Migrate test suite from ALM to JIRA.
• Help out with root - cause analysis for bugs found by the team.
• Determine QA efforts in Sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions.
• Mentor junior QA and motivate them.
• Build partnerships and collaboration with external and internal partners.
• Manage QA efforts that span across multiple QA teams.
• Strong knowledge of the POS systems.
• Deliver and support high profile projects such as Digital Entertainment, Arkenstone, Walmart Pay, GIF, PUT, Japan Glory cash recycler.

Confidential

Business Support Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assess and record the Priority and Severity of the bugs discovered in Production environment
• Participate in the Requirements gathering meeting with the end users to define the core objective of the features requested and design test plans accordingly
• Participate in the Technical design meetings to provide inputs towards test driven development
• Come up with a road map for the critical operations activities to Automate the System Test activated.
• Compare and analyze the available Automation tools in the market and suggest a tool that works best for the given environment.
• Groom backlog work items and answer questions, provide inputs etc
• Participate in all iteration planning meetings to analyze the work items and suggest deployment dates on them.
• Record user stories and create Tasks from it for the test team.
• Report bugs in the test environment
• Work closely with the development team to help with the code reviews.
• Document and publish business rules and training material for support purposes.
• Organize and lead the Dev/Test - Operations relations by creating opportunities for knowledge transfer and shadowing.
• Build good relations with Operations to create a bridge between Operations and IT.
• Provide customer demo for existing and potential customers
• Take the test ownership to create test plans and be accountable for test coverage of major projects like: Timesheet Integration, AX2012 Upgrade, Trust Mobile, Intercompany/Interdepartmental Billing, Inventory Orders, Program Removal, Account Planning, Sales Tracking, Permits etc...