SUMMARY

• 6 years of continuous and progressive experience in software Quality Assurance in various capacities in the role of QA Analyst, QA Lead, Automation Engineer and Performance Tester.
• Good experience and understanding of all phases of SDLC and STLC.
• Expertise in both Manual and Automated testing.
• In depth expertise in both front end and back end testing.
• Extensive experience in Functionality, Integration, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Thorough expertise in end to end quality assurance of complex enterprise applications.
• Thorough understanding of business process, scope and vision.
• Extensive knowledge regarding software architecture.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated Functional Testing using HP QTP.
• Involved in the various phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle that includes but not limited to Requirement Analysis, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting.
• Expertise in various phases of Performance Testing Life Cycle from Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Planning, Script development, Test Execution, Preparing Report and Analysis.
• Functional testing of both web based application and SOAP/ REST web services.
• Extensive knowledge in back end and database testing.
• Cross domain expertise including - Telecom, Banking and Finance, Retail, Healthcare.
• Besides core capabilities in QA, expertise in functional and system analysis.
• Good analytical ability and attention to details.
• Ability to think out of the box and formulate innovative solution.
• Ability to multi-task.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology: C, Basic JAVA, basic Perl and Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, TIBCO, Groovy Scripting, VB Script, XML, JSON, SOA, Web services, UNIX, Shell Scripting, RDBMS

Windows Tools: MS Office, MS Share Point, MS Visio, StarUML, CAD, HP Quality Center, Rally Dev, HP QTP, HP Open View, SeleniumJIRA,Bugzilla,Test Maker, Git, SVN, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, IBM Req Pro, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Clear Quest, Serena Dimensions, Borland Caliber RM, Toad, SQL Developer, MQ explorer, LISA Virtualization tool.

Methodologies: Agile and scrum methodologies, Waterfall and iterative waterfall methodologies. Understanding of continuous integration and Delivery Complete understanding of SDLC and STLC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Have worked in an agile environment that uses Scrum methodology. The main objective of scrum is collaboration between cross functional and self-organizing teams for delivering high quality software.
• Is the project is being developed from scratch have actively worked with Business Analysts, Developers and other stake holders to properly understand and analyze business requirements.
• Participated in brain storming sessions for analyzing and providing feedbacks to business analysts.
• Understood the user stories created by Business Analysts and formulated high level test scenarios from them.
• Created detailed test cases and maintained them in Quality Center.
• Performed peer review within the team to refine test cases written.
• Performed both front end and back end testing.
• Logged defects discovered while performing system test and logged them in Rally Dev.
• Performed integration testing.
• Created regression test suit.
• Performed regression testing.
• Planned and implemented test automation wherever possible.
• Participated in performance testing.
• Participated in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Provided feedback for betterment of system.

Environment: and Tools: Rally Dev, Quality Center, SOAPUI, QTP, Tivoli.

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Quality Assurance Lead and Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Have worked in an agile environment that uses Scrum methodology. The main objective of scrum is collaboration between cross functional and self-organizing teams for delivering high quality software.
• Have closely worked with Product Owner, Business Analyst and Subject Matter Experts in understanding and gathering requirements.
• Have worked with Product Owner and Scrum Master in creating user stories.
• Involved in user story sizing and sprint planning.
• Created high level test scenarios and conducted review at team level.
• Created test cases and maintained them in Rally Dev which is an agile project management tool.
• Performed functional testing on web services (SOAP/ REST) using SOAPUI tool. Using Groovy scripting for enhancing the test cases.
• Ran SQL queries through SQL Developer to perform back end validation.
• Executed test cases and logged defects in Rally. Tracked defects through their life cycle.
• Coordinated with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development team to keep tab on changes in the rapidly evolving environment.
• Created Regression Suit.
• User ITKO LISA tool for virtualizing services wherever necessary.
• Gained understanding regarding key performance requirement of the system.
• Created Performance Testing Strategy.
• Created performance testing script and executed the same through Test Maker tool.
• Captured various performance data using TIBCO admin, TIBCO HAWK monitor and TIBCO RT View.
• Used HP Open View to monitor system under load test.
• Created report on key performance data of the system. Presented and analyzed the report to key stake holders.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements from Business Analyst and other key stake holders.
• Gaining full understanding of business processes and conveying the same to the team members.
• Attending review meetings with all key stake holders for finalizing requirements.
• Creating test strategy and test plan. Estimating testing effort.
• Drafting test scenarios, creating test cases, maintain requirements and test cases in Quality Center.
• Maintaining traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Reporting and tracking defects using JIRA and Rational Team Concert.
• Working closely with Production Support teams and understanding the issues raised by end users of the system. Testing the fixes within defined time limits to ensure no defects in final deliverable.
• Distributing work among team members and tracking properly.
• Analyzing feed data and performing complex calculations on them to ensure correct data in reports.
• Generating and testing reports using Business Object.
• Testing data migration form legacy systems to ARIS.
• Preparing Regression test suits.
• Automating regression test suits using HP Quick Test Professional.
• Preparing and analyzing testing progress through various metrics.
• Providing inputs to key stake holders for betterment of process and product.

Environment: and Tools: HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional, SQL Developer.

Confidential

Quality Analyst and Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and understanding requirements from Business Analyst. Understanding and doing gap analysis of requirements
• Attending review meetings with all key stake holders for finalizing requirements.
• Effort and impact analysis using function point analysis.
• Creating test plan, drafting test scenarios, writing test cases.
• Maintaining test cases and requirements in Quality Center.
• Maintaining traceability matrix for requirement - test case - defect traceability.
• Execution of test cases along with other team members.
• As a module lead assigning work to other team members and reviewing their work.
• Reporting and tracking bugs. Regular synch up with development team regarding defects reported.
• Creating regression test suit.
• Planning automation wherever possible using win runner.
• Tracking QA progress using various graphs and charts in Quality Center.
• Providing final sign off on quality of the system.
• Providing support in User Acceptance Testing.
• Providing suggestion to key stake holders regarding betterment of system.

Environment: and Tools: IBM Req Pro, HP Quality Center, PL SQL Dev, Serena Dimensions, Mercury WinRunner.