SUMMARY:

• Eleven plus years of experienced as a QA Lead/ Lead Automation Engineer/ QA Analyst/ Software Test Engineer. A forward thinking, capable and committed QA Person with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co - ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a structured environment. Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes. Having first class executive leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third party test teams.
• In-depth knowledge in the analysis of application’s higher-risk aspects, and determining scope and limitations of tests.
• Has experience around measurement of software quality.
• Have deep understanding of system architecture and experience with large complex distributed transactional systems.
• Full Software Development Life Cycle experience, involved in requirement analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and support in Web-based and Win Based client-server testing.
• Strong experience in Creating Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and creating RAR, TAR, Executive Summary, LOE.
• Experience in automating scripts using QTP, LoadRunner, Selenium and implementation of Test Automation FrameWork .
• Well experienced in implementing Test Automation Framework .
• Experience in defining the test automation approach to develop test scripts using QTP.
• Well experienced in working as a QC/TD admin.
• Experience in System testing, Functional, Positive, Negative, Regression, Smoke, UAT, Load, Stress, Volume Testing, Embedded / Low-Level Testing.
• Expertise in Data Analysis, Understanding in Data Extraction, Transformation & Loading (ETL) and End User Reports.
• Experience in Configuration management with Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
• Very good Experience in xml files validation and verification.
• Very good experience in writing SQL scripts and Shell scripts.
• Have excellent programming concepts of C++, C, Java, PL/SQL, and VB.
• Strong experience to work in UNIX and Windows (All) operating system.
• Well experienced on using & managing SharePoint as document repository.
• Holds a strong functional knowledge of the CMMI guidelines through Level 3 and Level 4.
• Experience in managing the implementation of custom packaged Salesforce solutions.
• Supervisory and leadership experience, overseeing dozens ofemployees and millions of dollar worth of testing tools and equipments.
• Vendor negotiation experience, establishing favorable contracts with several vendors resulting in substantial annual cost savings .
• Eye for detail - Plans and organizes tactics for improvements at work.
• Experienced in to define, implement, direct and continually review the QA process.
• Good team-handling abilities - Possess the ability to interest and convince others when changes are required. Experienced in leading multiple team simultaneously.
• Experienced in planning testing capacity, resource utilization, and risk assessment.
• Experienced in defining and maintaining the acceptance criteria.
• Experience in process improvement design, risk assessment analysis, formulating test strategies and estimating test coverage.
• Developed work guides and time lines via MS Project to track maintenance project progress, maximize resource allocation, and ensure tasks were completed on schedule.
• Coordinate & participate in QA hiring Activity.
• Trained new test team members.
• Well Experienced in client facing roles.
• Presentation and technology leading skills, results-oriented person .
• Managed million dollars worth of testing tools.
• Manage the test strategy and schedule.
• Experience to Work in multi vendor environment.
• Close familiarity with the tools, concepts and methodologies of quality management.
• Manage the day-to-day testing activities.
• Met project deadline consistently.
• Experience on Visualforce and Flows to create/update business processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95/98/2000 server/XP/2003 server/7, z/os .

Languages: C++, C, PL /SQL, Visual Basic, Java, Java Script, VB Script . HTML, XML.

Database: Oracle, Microsoft Access, SQL server, DB2, Sybase, TOAD, PL/SQL Developer .

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center (Designer, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor,)

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Image Composer, SVN (Subversion control), BMC Remedy Action Request System, Salesforce

Project & Agile Management Tools: MS project, MS Visio, OpenProj, Accept 360, TFS

Methodology: AGILE, SCRUM, STEP, RAD, RUP. Prototyping, SRIDE (Security Testing)

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro, Selenium (RC & Web Driver), LoadRunner, Rational Requisite Pro, DOORS, Rational Clear quest, SoapUI, LoadUI, Fitness, WFC UAT, Cucumber. Bug Reporting and Tracking Tools, & Build Management Tool: Quality Center, Test Director, PVCS, ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Jira, Rational Clear Case, Team Foundation Server, Serena Business Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Act as a focal point and leader to all quality related programs - Directed QA activities to ensure maximum quality and effectiveness.
• Supervise and guided quality analyst, stuff, and departments to establish quality standards as per industry and market requirement.
• Ensure that all QA activities are planned and executed efficiently within the scope of project deadlines and schedules.
• Provide testing support for CMS website and CMS Enterprise portal and other applications, systems, and tools as directed by CMS.
• Identify, triage, and evidently report all defects to facilitate delivery of error-free products.
• Intended for employees to ensure highest standard of quality so that the organization meets both internal and external requirements
• Worked in coordination with other departments in implementing the quality standards and benchmarks - Developed new matrices and benchmarks of quality standards, directed towards improving performance of departments.
• Conduct detail data validation in ETL process and from backend MS SQL Server DB. Used ETL and data warehouse tools in data migration and data upload process
• Responsible to Interview & evaluate potential candidate, and provide the hiring decision in order to bring a new candidate on-board.
• Procure QA software tools, developed QA procedures and established quality assurance methodologies/standards in order to clarify the quality objectives of the organization.
• Create LOE, DRE, and Quality & Performance reporting.
• Manage the build using Serena Business Manager.
• Created & managed Remedy ticket to submit support request to the outside vendor.
• Testing of ETL jobs that are scheduled for file transfers from Operational Data Stores to designated file systems/directories.
• Tested various Reusable ETL Transformations, which facilitate Daily, Weekly & Monthly Loading of Data.
• Using Informatica and PL/SQL Developer for testing execution of ETL Processes' PL/SQL procedures, packages for business rules.
• Extract data from the warehouse to create XML file and generate XML file using XML generator.
• Write and execute SQL query to perform backend validation.
• Perform Smoke, Regression, Functional, Automation, UAT, 508 testing.
• Developed Test Cases for ETL Data Validation and Report testing.
• Manage, improve and drive HP ALM usage, best practices and enhancements for (QA).
• Customize/manage project/Workflow/managed Dashboard using HP ALM.
• Log, trace & managed defect, and wrote, review, and maintain the test cases using HP ALM.
• Create test execution report, defect status report, requirement coverage report.
• Provide support to the Automation Team to identify the automatable test cases, functionality & define the approach to develop the Automation Script.
• Co-ordinate and Monitor UAT Testing Activities, and working as Confidential POC for UAT
• Directly work with the automation team to develop & Implement the Test Automation Framework and Perform Load Testing using HP Loadrunner.
• Perform SQA and CMMI Level 4 activities throughout the complete SDLC.
• Held weekly QA status, task management, Test Case Peer Review Meeting, DEV & QA co-ordination meeting, and Defect Triage Meeting (Internal & with external Vendors ).
• Participate in QA Lead status Meeting, Leadership Management Meeting,

Environment: Unix, Win 7, JBoss 5.1, J2SE, WebLogic, Jdk1.6, Apache 2.2.17, SSO, MS .NET Framework, MS Visual C++ Redistributable, MS Visual J# Redistributables, MS Visual Studio, Oracle Database & Client, PL/SQL Developer, Informatica, HP-QTP, HP-ALM, HP-LR, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, MS Project, TortoiseSVN, Serena Business Manager, BMC Remedy Action Request System.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Lead Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created & executed highly effective quality process. define and maintaining the Test acceptance criteria for the products
• Responsible to manage multiple test projects on several complex financial applications.
• Managing SharePoint as a documents repository and management.
• Implemented production procedures to maximize quality and reduce costs.
• Manage multiple team members to ensure the on time project delivery.
• Analyzed work problems and evaluated resolutions to prevent delays in the production area.
• Successfully evaluate the potential candidate/employee for the QA team and assisted in organizing activities to new employees.
• Successfully perform the testing capacity, resource acquisition, risk assessment.
• Led the team to Identified and fixed the maximum percentage of bugs in Confidential software products.
• Redesigned and implemented more effective Test Automation procedures, which decreased the testing time and testing cost.
• Provided solution options and time estimates for application enhancement requests.
• Analyze, Evaluate & implement several test automation tool and QA environments.
• Performed application, regression, Functional, Automation, and Acceptance testing.
• Worked as a Quality Center admin to ensure efficient services to the team and the client.
• Created & managed defect in Quality Center and conduct regression testing after fix the defect.
• Configure Quality Center to run automated test scripts from Quality Center.
• Plan, Design, developed & implemented the test automation Framework (Hybrid) using QTP.
• Developed and maintained QTP scripts to perform functional, sanity, and regression testing for both Thick Client and Thin Client.
• Monitor and provide guideline to the performance testing team to in order measure the Application performance using HP Loadruner.
• Analyze LR test report in order to create Executive Summary of application performance.
• Hold daily Scrum meeting (Automation Team) & QA meetings (Weekly/bi-weekly) as needed.
• Actively participate in Story grooming meeting, Sprint Review & retrospective meeting.

Environment: Windows 2008 Server, Win 7, SQL Server 2008 R2 64bit, SQL Server 2008 R2 32 bit Client, JBoss 5.1, J2SE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Jdk1.6, Apache 2.2.17, SSO, MS .NET Framework, MS Visual C++ Redistributable, MS Visual J# Redistributables, MS Visual Studio, Oracle Database & Client, HP-QTP 11, HP-ALM, HP LoadRunner11.51, Selenium, Team track, Accept 360, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, MS Project, SVN (Subversion control), Team Foundation Server, SalesForce.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements in order to create test plan.
• Analyzed and validated requirements to develop and execute test scripts.
• Wrote and executed test procedure and track defect using Quality Center.
• Worked as a Quality Center support to ensure efficient services to the team and the client.
• Wrote Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test scripts and Test cases.
• Conducted End-to-End verification for the entire application.
• Monitor day-to-day testing activities and team activities.
• Performed System Integration, Functional, Regression, Backend Testing, Black Box testing at various phases of the development and test cycles.
• Performed Automated Functional test using Selenium.
• Design & implement a successful test automation framework.
• Created Automated Test scripts using Selenium for the web-based Application.
• Used the LoadRunner tool for Stress/Load Testing.
• Attended weekly QA, Agile Scrum meeting.

Environment: Selenium, HP QC, LoadRunner, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, .NET, HTML & DHTML, SSL, Windows, IE, Web Logic, TOAD, XML, TCP/IP, VSS, MS Visual Studio, SharePoint.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Software Quality Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and executed Test Cases for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center to write and execute test cases.
• Kept track of all the errors in Quality Center and reporting to the PE group.
• Tested application that runs on WebLogic and WebSphere.
• Developed Test Metrics, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios.
• Performed manual testing by following the end user business processes on the entire application to test for real world scenarios.
• Involved in Test Planning phase in preparing Test Plan/Test Strategy Document and identification of High Level Test Conditions.
• Conducted Black box testing, Navigation testing, Functional testing, User interface testing, Data driven testing, Regression, User acceptance testing.
• Actively participated in the Agile Scrum team meeting
• Validated application data from Oracle by using SQL for Back End Testing
• Analyzed scope and boundaries for test cases to be automated.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, SQL Server, WebLogic, LoadRunner, Selenium, Quality Center, SOAP UI, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business manuals and requirement document .
• Evaluated requirements verifiability for manual testing.
• Wrote and executed test using Test Director.
• Worked as a Test Director support to ensure efficient services to the team and the client.
• Analyzed requirements, and developed and executed manual test scripts.
• Created Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test scripts and Test cases, corresponding to the test requirements in order to maximize verification coverage of system variables.
• Conducted.
• Developed test scripts for Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Performed Backend, Functional, UAT and Performed Negative and Positive testing manually.

Environment: ASP,ASP.NET,VB.NET,C/C++,COM/DCOM,MFC,OLE,HTML,DHTML,VB,SQL Server,SQL, TCP/IP, Windows Server, IIS,MS Exchange Server, QTP, LoadRunner, TestDirector, z/os.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created scripts using QTP to automate the test cases & to perform regression testing.
• Wrote and executed Test Plan/Test Cases following Tech-Specs.
• Tested application with different interfaces.
• Have worked with Test Plan, requirement traceability matrix, Test Report
• Logged & manage the bugs using the defect-tracking tool, ClearQuest.
• Have used Clear Case as a CM tool.
• Testing the program written in Visual Basic, ASP, JavaScript, and VBScript.
• Wrote SQL script to test the integrity of the Oracle back-end database.
• Wrote the UNIX commands and shell scripting for the server testing.
• Communicated with the development team with the latest issues.
• Performed various types of testing such as UI, Functional and Regression

Environment: QTP, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Tomcat, Visual Basic, VB Script, Oracle.