PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with the emphasis on Quality Assurance and Software Testing in various sectors including Asset Servicing, Finance, Banking, Insurance and Retails. Experienced in testing both Web - based and client/server applications. Proficient in Manual and Automated testing of applications.
• Expertise in Specifications and Requirements Analysis, Testing Methodology, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Use Cases - Test Cases preparation and documentation, Verification & Validation.
• Good Expertise in testing Data warehousing environment.
• Extensive knowledge of data warehouse testing procedures, data transformation stage, and data storage systems
• Worked as Test Lead, Onsite Coordinator, SQA Analyst, QAManager and managed teams.
• Designing, developing, and implementing manual and automated tests for Black box, white box, Functional, Integration, Regression, Ad-hoc, Stress, Smoke, Performance, Compatibility, Cross-Platform, System, Data Driven, database testing, Data Flow and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in defining, designing, creating, & executing automated tests using ‘Quick Test Professional (QTP), Winrunner, Load Runner and SOAP UI tools.
• Excellent knowledge in Quality Center in uploading test cases, preparation of test cases and execution of test cases and tracking defects.
• Experience in test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center, Jira, AOTS, Clear quest and Buganizer.
• Experienced in planning, creating and executing tests from large system wide tests (Unit, IT, SIT, UAT, etc.) to individual functional tests and regression tests.
• Expertise in maintaining Requirement Tractability Metrics (RTM).
• Specialized in testing MAINFRAME, UNIX and Datastage environments.
• Proficiency in writing test scripts and test scenarios, data loading and extraction, identifying defects and reporting, configuration of testing environment, creation and execution of System Test Plans and Test Cases, as well as defect tracking.
• Knowledge in using ETL Datastage tool and RDBM systems like SQL Servers, Oracle, Teradata and DB2.
• Ability to test backend applications by writing SQL and PL/SQL statements.
• Experience in Mobile Testing.
• Experience in testing web based applications.
• Good working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Agile methodologies.
• Good Knowledge in C, C++, Python Web Technologies.
• Extensive experience in Upgrade & post Go Live implementation support.
• Effective Team Leader and Member with proven track record of Quality Attention to Detail, Defect Free Implementation and On-Time Delivery.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality center/Test Director, Dollar Universe, Data flux, Win Runner, SQL Loader, SOAP UI, ACAPS, Provenir, Lendscape, QTP

Bug Management Tools: Quality Center, Buganizer, Jira,AOTS, Clear Quest

Languages: C, C++, Mobile Testing, Web testing, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Informatica, Teradata.

Other Tools: Developer 2000, Toad, ETL, Toad, Microsoft Office(excel, power point, visio, word etc.,), Oracle 9i, Informatica, SOAP UI, Main frames

OS: UNIX/LINUX, Windows NT/2000/XP,7, chrome and Mac

Oracle Applications: Oracle Applications 11i, 10g

Database: g edit 2.30.3, Ubuntu 10.04, Google Chrome 18.0, Firefox 9.0.1, OpenOffice.org 3.2, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2

Additional Skills: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CO

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide operational leadership for the department, ensuring direction is in line with the goals of the division and overall bank strategy. Manage the day-to-day activities of QA Group resources (QA Leads, QA Engineers, Test Analysts) while achieving individual and organizational objectives efficiently and cost effectively.
• Responsible for the effective development and implementation of programs to ensure that all information systems products and services meet minimum organization standards and end-user requirement
• During the planning and testing phases of the program manage the day to day testing for program (i.e. test planning, execution and analysis, and the prioritization and delivery of defect fixes).
• Administer problem management process including monitoring and reporting on problem resolution. Make recommendations to superiors regarding the acquisition and/or implementation of software to increase information systems efficiency.
• Direct accountability for assigned testing resources including strategic partners
• Responsible for on-time, on-budget delivery of assigned testing activities required to support the delivery of end-to-end functionality into the production environment.
• Coordinate with PM’s and UAT team to ensure alignment of testing activities and timelines in support of enterprise releases.
• Work with cross functional team members to manage the backlog of features and bugs, plan and schedule releases content, finalize content for release
• Ensure successful definition of test strategies and test execution for assigned enterprise programs and projects owned and driven by the offshore
• Provide oversight and guidance to QA resources assigned to component Agile Scrum teams and work as an SME on all internal / external applications used for testing
• Support operational and strategic implementations through test data management, defect management, testing tools, automation, regression, estimation and test environment usage and governance.
• Responsible for owning the testing estimates as well as monitoring and managing to approved testing budgets within assigned functions and programs
• Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of robust test metrics that provide clear understanding of progress as well as drive continuous improvement throughout SDLC
• Check the data consistency between Provenir and ACAPS and perform testing activities.
• Review the loan details, process details and loan process updates to the Bank.
• Check Loan review, Action resolution and Financial controls in Lendscape.
• Used SOAP UI as part of testing.
• Used ALM quality center and clear quest. Involved in UAT.
• Used QTP for regression testing.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Linux, SharePoint, ACAPS, SOUP UI, QTP, ALM, Clear quest, Provenir, Lendscape

Confidential, St .Louis

Sr. Testing Advocate /Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in BA meetings to understand the requirements.
• Arranged Review meetings with project teams to walkthrough the test scenarios
• Prepared Test scenarios and test cases - uploaded them in Test plan in QC
• Prepared SQL queries to validate the test results.
• Prepared data mining SQL queries to pull test data and worked on data manipulation based on test conditions.
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called ‘SOAP UI’. I have been using this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.
• Tested web services via SOAP Request and SOAP Responses using SOAPUI.
• Developed Test Plan based on requirements and design documents.
• Executed the test cases in Test Lab in HP QC
• Logged defects in HP QC and worked with the concerned developers for the closure.
• Retested the defect fixes, updated the status accordingly in MQC with proper comments and closed the defects in QC
• Backend (DB2) data validation and Execute batch in UNIX environment.
• Job scheduling and monitoring for Data loads and validation.
• Tested PDF application by validating the used cases.
• Validated the data from the upstream systems during Regression test phase
• Prepared Status reports on the daily/weekly basis and updated the status to my Client Supervisor
• Collaborated with programmers and business analysts to coordinate and facilitate testing process
• Prepared input flat files using mainframe File-Aid based on test conditions.
• Verifying the correctness of the software calculations and creating test data files (valid and invalid) to thoroughly test program logic and system flow.
• Scheduled review meetings with BA, Test Manager and concerned project team to walkthrough test results and get a signoff.
• Used AOTS for defect tracking.
• Prepared high level test scenarios for pre/post deployment.
• Involved in Pre/Post deployment validation and worked on hour by hour validation for a smooth deployment.
• Experience on black box testing and risk based testing.

Environment: SQL Assistant, SOAP UI, HP ALM, SQL Developer, DB2, Windows, UNIX, AOTS.

Confidential, St.Louis

Sr. QA Engineer/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in all phases of testing including System, Regression, Interface, E2E, Dress rehearsal for various requirements/projects.
• Involved in requirements gathering - attended turnover meeting with BA’s.
• Designed complexity tests for Integration and Functional Testing in the application
• Prepared Master test plan & Functional test plan in each face of testing.
• Logging of Defects and preparation of Analysis report
• Prepared Test Metrics, Results, Reports on Weekly basis for Management
• Running validation scripts, Job Flows, and basic queries in the SQL to validate
• Responsible to work closely with the customer to discuss the design and testing aspects of the application
• Responsible to attend walk through and understand the new system enhancements and transfer the knowledge to the offshore team
• Coordinate with the offshore team on addressing the issues and knowledge transfer of the new testing requirements and testing scope.
• Created and enhanced test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment.
• Automated the Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Used QTP for regression testing.
• Worked on the estimates for the projects and got them approved.
• Processed and executed test case documents using the Mercury Quality Center.
• Scheduled review meetings with BA/owner/SA for test cases/plans/results and got them approved.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing JIRA as defect tracking system
• Prioritized the defects in JIRA and worked with developers to fix the issues.
• Retested the fixes, updated accordingly in JIRA with proper comments and closed the defects in JIRA
• Extensively interacted with business users and department heads during requirements gathering.
• Attend defect call meetings, scrums with the customer and discuss the defects with development team.
• Responsible to create and execute different test packages in different test environments (IST and UAT).
• Responsible for regression package test coverage analysis, including developing and execution of manual test cases.
• Worked in onsite-offshore model.
• Data preparation/manipulation using basic SQL queries in ORACLE.
• Reviewed Business Requirements and designed Integration Test Plan.
• Involved in UAT testing.
• Documenting the status of the application after builds for review and discussions.
• Experience on web based testing.

Environment: JIRA, SOAP UI, Oracle, DB2, TOAD, Windows, LINUX, Unix, MS SQL, QTP

Confidential, Mountain View, California

Sr. Test Engineer/ Product Lead

Responsibilities:

• Classifying the customer reports and Escalating issues to Product eng. team.
• Working on multiple Google products both Desktop and Mobile apps (Android).
• Gathering user issues and classifying them into different (New/Trending/Potential) clusters.
• Reported bugs on both mobile and desktopapplications.
• Working along with product teams to get user issues resolve.
• Ensuring the quality of the work / involved in Quality Management.
• Was involved in production release testing along with consumer operation team.
• Tested Google Search mobile on Android and IOS, Google Search desktop, YouTube desktop.
• Testing the issues reported by users on different devices like Android phones, Android tablets, iPhones, iPads under different conditions like Wi-Fi, 3g, 4g, battery, Orientation, Downloading and installing.
• Tested products/apps on phones and tablets
• Verify the bug fixes and feature requests before production push and reopen the bugs with detailed information of the root cause which will help the dev team to fix.
• Knowledge in viewing console logs and taking crash logs from mobile devices.
• Performed Web testing, Cross browser testing and exploratory testing for Google+ desktop and Google + mobile desktop products.
• Analyzed the requirements and wrote test plans and test cases on internal dashboard & tested. Suggested feature enhancements & new feature requests.
• Ensuring deliverable SLA's are met.
• Update status reports to stake holders.
• Good Knowledge in C, C++, Web Technologies.
• Used Buganizer for defect tracking.
• Experience on web and mobile based testing.

Environment: Chrome

Confidential, California

QA Testing Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Executed backend data-driven test efforts with a focus on data transformations between various systems and a data warehouse
• Responsible for testing all new and existing ETL data warehouse components.
• Guided offshore test teams during testing various projects.
• Review test cases, test plans & test results of the offshore test teams.
• Involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Confidential the end of the test phases with the requirements collected from the user.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Methodology and Test Case as per Functional and Business requirement for System/Functional Test Specification, Unit/Integration Test Specification, Stress/Performance and Regression Test Specification.
• Done verification of Release notes for every build.
• Done Regression/Retesting for each release.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing MQC.
• Prioritized the defects in MQC and worked with developers to fix the issues.
• Retested the fixes, updated accordingly in MQC with proper comments and closed the defects in MQC
• Involved in Performance testing, Stress testing and Web Load testing for multiple V-users of application using Load Runner.
• Created Virtual Users and Load Scenarios for the application using Load Runner7.8/8.0.
• Coded SQL basic and advanced queries for accessing the database for testing purpose
• Data manipulation using SQL queries in ORACLE.
• Wrote PL/SQL procedures to automate testing database interactions
• Extensive usage of SQL queries for validating the database results.
• Involved in weekly staff meeting with team for gathering requirements, Bugs reporting and resolving the bugs.
• Testing bteq scripts to pull data from STG environment to 3NF layer.
• Scheduling the Jobs and checking with the logs through $U scheduling tool. Monitor EDW test environments on a daily basis.
• Done System testing, Integration testing, Performance Testing in TEST environment.
• Writing and executing the Order Creation Testcases, Functional Testcases, Data validation testcases, Performance test cases and verifying the quality of code, testing using Data flux tool and other deliverables.
• Experience on Black box, white box, table driven and risk based testing.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 10g, TOAD, Teardata, SQL, Windows XP, xml, Web Publisher, UNIX, Kintana.

Confidential

Mid-Level Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst to analyze and understand the user requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Involved in writing test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
• Performed black box testing of the application. Manually tested the functionality and User Interfaces of web application.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking.
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Regression, End-End testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Involved in Unit Testing of some of the sub modules/components of the application as per the requirements with developers.
• Worked on Web Interfaces functionality and participated in User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed automation strategy that defines: the test cases to be automated, reusable methods, parameterized functions, directory structure, naming standards for the functions, variables and scripts files.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests cases and bug reporting
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Created standard report, snapshots and full reports using Quality Center.
• Involved in Data Validation using SQL queries.
• Involved in database analysis and Back End Testing using specific SQL queries in Oracle.
• Participated in Team meetings and Defect report meetings
• Compared and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly.
• Experience on Black box, white box, table driven and risk based testing.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 10g, TOAD, SQL, Windows XP, xml, Web Publisher, UNIX, Kintana, $U.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understood & analyzed the requirements and Design Document to meet the Business prior responsibilities.
• Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on different types of Testing viz., Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, System and User-acceptance.
• Performed Database testing, Wrote SQL queries to validate data
• Documented errors in Test Director and performed Regression testing for the resolutions.
• Analyzing Test Results & Identify bugs and reporting to the developers using Test Director.
• Performed System Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing
• Executed Test cases manually to verify actual results against expected results.
• Responsible for tracking issues which are encountered during testing of various modules of the application/client
• Coordinated with Offshore team and Onsite managers
• Interacting with developers for the Bug Fixes and Problem resolution
• Prepare Test metrics and send the same to client
• Generated detailed daily test status reports using Test Director.
• Coordinated in meetings with Business, Project Managers, Technical Analysts and Developers.
• Experience on Black box, white box, table driven and risk based testing.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 10g, TOAD, SQL, Windows XP, xml, Web Publisher, UNIX, Kintana, $U.

Confidential

b Jr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Interface (GUI) Testing.
• Preparation and execution of System and Functionality Test cases.
• Testing the Respective User Privileges on this Web Site.
• Status reporting for the test runs and Bugs are stored into the Quality center.
• Performed database testing using SQL

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 10g, TOAD, SQL, Windows XP