SUMMARY:

• Well experienced professional in Software testing and Quality Assurance methodologies having an experience in Mortgage, Banking & Financial, Life Sciences, Retail, Telecom domain in Waterfall and Agile based development environments, with responsibilities as a Test lead, Senior QA, PMO Test Lead cum Business Analyst handling multiple projects involved directly with requirements to test case estimation based on complexity, manual functional testing both front end and back end database, SIT, UAT, Regression, web portal content testing, single sign - on authentication testing, cross-browser testing, web services etc.
• Possess excellent written, verbal and negotiation skills with equally good knowledge and experience in project coordination, planning, test case design/review/execution, offshore onsite team leadership and an overall thorough understanding of SDLC.
• Successfully handled Senior QA consultant and Test lead roles that includes Test Lead/Test Manager role in a PMO environment
• Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Conducted a Test planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Test Design, Test Plan, Test Execution and implementation.
• Acted as liaison between management and development team for Requirements and QA.
• Preparing Test Metrics management
• Black box testing and White box testing
• Functional coverage, Statement coverage, Path coverage
• Requirement based testing
• Business process based testing
• System testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Acceptance testing
• Backend database validation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: SQL queries in Oracle 9i, 10g

Scripting Languages: Javascript,HTML, XML

Operating systems: - Windows (95, 2000, XP),Safari, UnixXML Testing SOAPUI testing - Basics

ESB testing: - Tested XML files and compared data with backend tables

Java testing / JavaUI: - Java Based application - 2 yearsValidating XML messages, XSLT, XPathWSDL testing for both tier 1 and tier 2 environments-Basics of WSDLOracle / Toad/ Rapid SQL - 3 yearsWeb based and Windows Application

Project Management Framework: - Scrum, Agile, Waterfall.

Framework: - MS .NET, UFT, SOA

Testing Tools: - Clearquest, Test Director, Quality Center 10Defect Management: Silk Radar, JIRA( Project tracking tool) HP ALM 11,Star Team, CVS, Bugzilla, Jira, Zeenyx.

Requirements Management: DOORS, Requisite Pro

Web Service: SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Engineer - Enterprise Test Services (ETS)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a lead in ETS test service for 3 projects. Rest of the time working as team member/ within ETS in their Requirements Validation team.
• As test lead, followed and performed tasks as per ETS services checklist guide throughout the test event
• As test lead, entered requirements in ALM, test case folders created and linked to the requirement, test cases assigned to team members, created Test Plan summary from ALM - as per internal template guide which goes through an artifact review process, maintain project dashboard, schedule and facilitate daily stand-up meetings with the test team and project coordinator, take meeting minutes and post them in the project’s Service Artifacts folder
• As tester, design test cases in the Test Plan section of ALM which are mapped to requirement, run test cases when build is ready - smoke test cases, new requirements, regression suite
• Defects - enter defects, track defects, attend defects triage meetings with project team/client, defect report(lead), defect test, re-test with new build
• Project Closeout (lead activity)- test analysis summary report in ALM as per internal template guide - goes through an artifact review process and other closeout activities - such as update project dashboard
• Ongoing throughout the test event: Enter lessons learned throughout the project as per internal guide

Confidential - Mclean VA

Technology used: Weblogic, Webservices, JUnit, J2EE, Java FrameworkTools: SOAP UI, Rapid SQL, IBM Rational Doors(requirements management), ALM Quality Center, Putty, Winscp, QBrowser, Hermez, Internal Automation tools to push XML messages

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a focused workgroup in driving execution of testing frameworks across various projects
• Independently lead the Testing solution delivery of a project, program or the entire portfolio
• Champion quality assurance that improves Test delivery processes and be a role model and mentor to the junior and midlevel Testers, working alongside of highly collaborative, open minded, technology savvy members
• Analyze requirements, identify gaps, write/review test cases, support testers with execution assistance, track defects
• Interface with business for issue resolution. Communicate with project managers, initiative leads and other test leads on the project data requirements, plan detailed tasks, and timeline for the development effort of Test scripts
• Interact with senior customer personnel on significant technical matters frequently requiring coordination across organizational lines
• Understand Testing needs and processes; identify solutions, present and guide Test team /sponsors in identifying best solution
• Provide/Seek relevant data on metrics for module she is part of
• Provide daily, weekly and monthly project status reports to senior management
• Execute shell scripts to generate XMLs and extract from Winscp
• Expected to use some in-house automated tools written in QTP to execute many of our new functionalities in my current project such as XML validator, Cardinality error and datatype error testing, pushing changed attributes to webservices for generating response request etc.

Confidential - Atlanta GA

Technology usedIST, E2E, UAT PMO Test Teams within IT Unified Process

Test Manager/Business Analyst: Agile and Waterfall - PMO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting QA assessments in Agile environment, partitcipate in agile reviews
• Responsible for reviewing current business processes, requirements management in Requisite Pro, and the assessment, consultation, and test support of IST, End to End and UAT Testing.
• Ensure all test related tasks are accurate, complete and delivered in accordance with the methodology of the IT Unified Process for a successful product delivery to the client.
• Support and provide consultation to the PM and support all testing phases, ensure complete execution and planning
• Phase 2: Review solution baseline, requirements and other documents to determine the level of testing required and provide recommendation
• Review and provide feedback on the Project Plan, Test Schedule and the Target Release Dates.
• Attend weekly status meetings
• Phase 3: Review & confirm Test Package has been created and are compliant
• Deliver or ensure that daily metrics statuses are provided to the Directors and other stakeholders
• Ensure defect tracking is done
• Ensure Data Management Agreements are documented, reviewed and approved in support of IST,E2E and UAT for all applications.
• Phase 5: Participate in Lessons learned

Confidential - Framingham MA

Technology Used: J2EE, Javascript, QCTools:Star Team, Zeenyx, Oracle SQL Developer, Toad for backend testing, ALM Quality Center, JIRA

Onsite Lead SEO QA

Responsibilities:

• Played the Onsite Test lead role for the highly technical project.
• Responsible for design and test execution of SEO regression suite and new highly technical functionalities - that includes strategies around Google +, on-site reviews, YouTube and seasonal campaigns and white box testing.
• Running SQL queries with complex data set-up to make product and category pages inactive and redirect customers to relevant products and services when something is out-of-stock.
• Performed testing around keyword research, site-wide optimized META tags, alt img tags, search engine compatibility analysis, site maps, navigation structure and site submission Confidential source code level
• Optimizing regression test suite

Confidential - Weston, MA

Technology Used: Java

Onsite Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played the Onsite Test lead role for the project.
• Performed project analysis, database and application design, prepared project estimates and came up with project plan.
• Responsible to execute the project along with the client IT manager in a very short deadline.
• Coordinated with the various business analysts on the project requirements, test cases review and provided the design walkthrough with all the stake holders.
• Multiple modules were identified and offshore team was split for individual modules and all their project clarification and development status were effectively managed and informed with the clients PMO.
• Planned Iterative testing of the project module and module build were delivered on a phased manner.

Confidential - Boston, MA

Technology UsedSQL, Javascript, HTML5, ETL for DW

Onsite Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Data Warehousing Testing which included testing all projected data was loaded correctly into the data warehouse without any data loss and truncation.
• DW testing also included Migration Testing with large volume of data - where there was an exisiting data warehouse and ETL was performing the job but client was looking into a new tool to improve efficiencychange request - where new data was being added from different sources to the client's exisiting data warehouse. The client also changed existing business rule to calculate investors' financial health score etc.
• Tested ETL application appropriately rejected, replaced with default values and reported invalid data.
• ETL Testing required writing SQL statements or tailor the SQL provided by development team.
• Migration Testing from Oracle 9i to 10g - Verified that data transformation from source to destination works as expected.
• Verified that expected data was added in target system
• Verified that all DB fields and field data was loaded without any truncation
• Verified data checksum for record count match, NULL value fields, no data duplication and data integrity
• Advocated for Quality throughout the project life cycle. Adhered to QA Standards and Best Practices
• Front and and backend testing using Toad for Oracle 9i
• Looked for ways to implement technical/automation solutions to streamline test execution, validation and coordinate test efforts with offshore team, schedule calls, assist in coaching offshore teams
• Developed and executed of Test Strategy, Test Plans, Schedules, Test Execution and QA Artifacts such as test cases and status reporting and executed test cases in iPad iOs
• Oversaw small to mid-size quality and test efforts for Putnam DC QA group.
• Identified, communicated, and proactively managed project risks as well those of our supporting teams (as applicable)
• Communicated plans, project status, project risks and project metrics to all levels of the project team - including our supporting teams (as applicable)
• Partner with development teams to build an understanding of QA and its’ role in the project
• Partner with development teams and internal clients to plan for and execute tests
• Provide metrics that measure test coverage and effectiveness for all assigned projects

Confidential

Technology UsedPro*c/Oracle 9i/Oracle forms/Unix

Offshore Test Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Managed, performed and delivered QA deliverables & work products for the engagement
• Owned the end-to-end testing activities, test strategizing & planning, Scoping and effort estimation for all the tracks
• Interacted with the entire stakeholder such as the business analysts, developers, QA manager and on-site QA delivery manager for planning, status reporting and issue resolution.
• Ensured timeliness and quality of project delivery for the Testing part for all the delivery tracks
• Highlight individual release risks & issues from QA perspective
• Understood the business functionality, business requirements and technical specifications of the application(s) under test
• Reported weekly project level status and other metrics to onsite manager
• Performed gap analysis & suggest resolution for process, methodology,
• Stayed focused on continuous process improvement & value-adds

Confidential Boston, MA

Technology UsedJavascript /Java/C/Oracle 9i/

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualized and implement test approaches to achieve necessary results under accelerated timeline and resource constraints.
• Interacted with the stakeholders such as the development managers, QA managers, Business analysts for status reporting and issue resolution.
• Ensured timeliness and quality of project delivery for the Testing part for all the delivery tracks
• Highlighted individual release risks & issues from QA perspective
• Understood the business functionality, business requirements and technical specifications of the application(s) under test
• Performed gap analysis in requirements documents versus test outcome
• Stay focussed on continuous process improvement & value-adds
• Tracked / reported bugs and validated fixes to ensure quality product releases; work closely with developers and product managers to successfully resolve critical defects

Confidential - Boston, MA

Technology UsedASP/Oracle 9i/Informatica

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed click stream projects reports and validate against UI and backend driving Web usage and client behavior to measure site visits / visitor counts; interpret System Delivery Specification Document and Technical System Design documents to define purpose and requirements. Write SQL queries in Toad for Oracle to validate data in aggregation tables against UI; present feedback to developers to guide quality and adherence to software development methodology standards and practices.
• Interacted with the stakeholders such as the development managers, QA managers, Business analysts for status reporting and issue resolution.
• Ensured timeliness and quality of project delivery for the Testing part for all the delivery tracks
• Highlighted individual release risks & issues from QA perspective
• Owned the defect management process for the assigned application. Conduct defect triage meeting and ensure the timely resolution closure of the issues.
• Understood the business functionality, business requirements and technical specifications of the application(s) under test
• Developed, tracked and reported project level status and other performance metrics to managers
• Stayed focused on continuous process improvement & value-adds