PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in the IT industry with emphasis in Software Quality Assurance and Software testing.
• Extensive Experience in DevelopingQA Standards, Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Traceability Matrixand Test Cases based onBusiness and Functional Specifications.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Involved in Designing, building and executing of test scripts.
• Expertise in Black Box testing techniques on Client/Server and Web based Applications.
• Involved extensively in white box testing to unleash the errors beyond black box testing.
• Good at bug - reporting and bug-tracking using the test management tools Quality Center, Jira and Bugzilla.
• Strong experience working on financial, entertainment, mobile, health care, ecommerce modules, Payment systems, Billing and Order management systems.
• Experience in testing huge Enterprise Resource System applications (Oracle ERP).
• Involved in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) during integration.
• Extensive experience in Onshore/Offshore Development model.
• Leading & coordinating the offshore team through very complex applications.
• Experience in testing the web services using SOAP UI and HP service test.
• Well versed with UNIX and Windows flavors.
• Expertise in testing of application developed using JAVA, J2EE, VB and .NET architectures
• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries
• Good knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) right from Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Deploy and Support phases
• Involved in Integration, System, Functional, GUI, User Acceptance and Regression Testing & Back-end testing, Web services and API level testing using SOAP UI.
• Experience in testing the batch jobs using Autosys.
• Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment.
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional interpersonal skills. Good team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, HP Service Test

Defect tracking tools: Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA, bugzilla

Languages: JAVA, J2EE, VB script, C++, XML, HTML, PLSQL

Database: Oracle, Sql Server, netezza, teradata

Web/App Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, ATG-DAS 6.3, BEA Web logic, Web sphere

Other: TOAD, SQL Developer, Autosys, MS-Office, VM WarePutty, WinSCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, UT

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business, systems requirements and technical system design documentation.
• Created the test strategy, test plan and test approach for the personal savings project.
• Created the RRA (Requirement risk analysis) for all the work streams involved.
• Followed the waterfall methodology as defined by the amex standards for huge projects.
• Created the test scenarios and test cases for all work streams responsible.
• Performed connectivity testing using soap ui to make sure the integration between the multiple systems is working as expected.
• Created the test data and executed the test cases with in the defined timeline.
• Performed system, functional, integration, compatibility, availability, regression testing.
• Performed negative testing to test the application for invalid data, verified and validated the error messages generated.
• Represented the defect triage from testing team to discuss on the defects.
• Represented as a test lead for 4 work streams out of 8 work streams involved in the project and was responsible for coordinating with offshore.
• Used SQL queries to validate data and updated the records for the various modules.
• Used UNIX commands to run the batch jobs and manipulate the data.
• Utilized Quality Center for test management and defect tracking.

Environment: Manual Testing, HP Quality Center 9.0, XML, Java, dot net, SQL, Oracle 10g, HTML, UNIX, TOAD, BIDW, MS Office.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business, systems requirements and technical system design documentation.
• Maintained proper traceability between test cases and requirements documentation.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Working on the Agile methodology to cut down the time and deliver the results
• Representing the TRIAGE & SCRUM from Testing Team to discuss on the defects.
• Ensured that defect reports were documented, maintained and monitored.
• Coordinated with offshore personnel to ensure daily test activities and deliverables are met.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Training the new resources and preparing the functionality documents for future reference.
• Conducted System Testing, GUI Testing, Sanity testing and Cross Browser compatibility testing during the releases and interacted with the developers to resolve any technical issues.
• Perform Pre-prod testing for checking the capability of the new prod environments.
• Used SQL queries to validate data and updated the records for the various modules.
• Used UNIX commands to run the batch jobs and manipulate the data.
• Designed detailed test cases for testing software functionality.
• Utilized Quality Center for test management and defect tracking.
• Performed negative testing to test the application for invalid data, verified and validated the error messages generated.
• Performed automation testing on the web services using SOAP UI & HP Service test.

Environment: Manual Testing, HP Quality Center 9.0, SOAP UI, HP service test, XML, Java, dot net, SQL, Oracle 10g, HTML, UNIX, sql developer, autosys, Jira, MS Office.

Confidential

Senior QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents.
• Responsible for developing and implementing test plans, test requirements, test cases and test scripts in Mercury Test management tool - Quality Center.
• Tested scenarios manually based on test cases to validate system with different data sets.
• Used Quality center for defect Management. Analyzed, documented and maintained Test Results and Test Logs.
• Conducted System Testing, GUI Testing, Sanity testing and Cross Browser compatibility testing during the releases and interacted with the developers to resolve any technical issues.
• Tested the functionality of each screen to monitor proper navigation.
• Worked on total code review with developers. Assisted production support on an as needed basis.
• Defined test strategies, planned and managed all testing activities including functional, UAT, and regression testing.
• Responsible for weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to QA lead.
• Representing the TRIAGE from Testing Team to discuss on the defects.
• Used TOAD to run the sql queries.
• Used to mainframe billing application to verify the data updates done in frond end.
• Used UNIX commands to run the batch jobs and manipulate the data.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Java, dot net, SQL, Oracle 9i, HTML, UNIX, TOAD, MS Office.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business, systems requirements and technical system design documentation.
• Maintained proper traceability between test cases and requirements documentation.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Worked on the Agile methodology to cut down the time and deliver the results
• Ensured that defect reports were documented, maintained and monitored.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Used SQL queries to validate data and updated the records for the various modules.
• Designed detailed test cases for testing software functionality.
• Utilized Quality Center for test management and defect tracking.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL, Oracle 9i, TOAD, MS Office.