SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of professional experience in IT specializing in Software Quality Assurance Management, System Testing and Test Automation. Worked in different application domains like End User Computing, Finance, Health Care Management, Sales & Marketing.
• Over the course of career gained knowledge in different QA methodologies, test automation and testing tools. Managed off - shore QA team and have worked with geographically distributed teams. Possess good project management, communication, and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JAVA, PL/SQL

Practices: Agile, Confidential s QMS (Quality Management System)

Databases: Confidential DB2, Oracle 8i, Postgres

OS: Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server, UNIX, Linux, Mac

Tools: Selenium, VMware Fusion, vSphere Client, IntelliJ IDEA 12, Jenkins 1.5, LoadRunner 8.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Quality Engineer

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

Responsibilities:

• Developed test strategies and test cases using black and gray box testing techniques for Horizon Work Space product.
• Create and review test plans, test cases, and test specifications in TestRail and Quality Center tool.
• Created manual test cases for different modules of the application and designed corresponding automation test cases using Java, Selenium and TestNG.
• Used Firebug, Firepath extensively for creating selectors based on XPath, CSS elements, ID, Name etc.
• Incorporated OOPS concepts and Java Collection classes extensively for development of test scripts.
• Used GIT for version control and file revision management.
• Installing ova files on ESX machines using vSphere client and testing the application’s individual components on platforms like Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
• Installation of Active Directory on Windows 2008 R2 server
• Worked in Scrum teams and have used JIRA tool to create stories, tasks, issues and come up with burn down charts
• Configuring and testing of different SAAS, ThinApp applications on Horizon Workspace.

Environment: Selenium Web Driver, Java, TestNG, IntelliJ, UNIX, SQL, Postgres, ANT, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, GIT, VMware, Bugzilla, Firebug, Firepath, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Quality Center

QA Lead

Confidential, Sunnyvale

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 3 offshore QA engineers to ensure every monthly release is prepared and delivered per SLA guidelines.
• Estimate testing effort based on the requirements and prepare test schedule.
• Analyze functional requirements and interact/coordinate with QA at offshore to translate the requirements to test cases in Quality Center.
• Developing Functional Test Plan, Performance Test Plan and Test Report, Traceability Matrix and monthly test plan schedule in Microsoft Project.
• Created Scatter Diagram and performed Regression Analysis to arrive at the average distribution of workload for performance testing.
• Created Pareto Chart to determine how many defects were generated by type or category of identified cause.
• Collect monthly test metrics and present it to the Client.
• Defect tracking and managing through the defect life cycle in Quality Control 9.2 tool.
• Performed data testing for ETL Process and checking for the transformation in the Target Tables.
• Performed Web Services testing using SOAP UI tool.

Environment: Java, SQL, Bugzilla, Windows, Quality Center, Microsoft Project, XML, SOAP UI, LoadRunner

Technical Lead

Confidential, Sacramento, California

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 7 onsite QA engineers to ensure the test deliverables is of high quality and delivered on time per SLA guidelines.
• Developing Performance Test Plan, Performance Test Data and Test Report.
• Created Pareto Chart to determine how many defects were generated by type or category of identified cause.
• Creating the Traceability Matrix.
• Creation of the Test Data Sheet to insert records into Oracle Tables
• Creation and execution of test scripts for System Testing.
• Defect tracking and managing through the defect life cycle in Rational ClearQuest tool.
• Doing data testing for ETL Process and checking for the transformation in the Target Tables.

Technical Lead

Confidential, Foster City

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Stress Test Plan, Stress Test Strategy and scope of stress test execution.
• Prepared the stress/performance test result statistics/report of the VROL application for each business release.
• Prepared the Estimation of Effort, Test Scenarios, and Workload Characterization for the scenarios.
• Developed and maintained LoadRunner scripts for automating the stress testing of VROL business transactions flow using LoadRunner.
• Responsible to co-ordinate with different stakeholders like Deployment team, Middleware team, Data Management team and Stress Test team to setup the stress environment for stress testing of each business release of VROL application.
• Setting up Test Environment like Identify high volume members and configure them with stress test users.
• Configure users and members for specific critical business functionalities to simulate production like environment.
• Responsible for establishing a repeatable process and procedure that can be executed multiple times within the life time of testing.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Performance Test Plan and Performance Test Report.
• Authoring, Reviewing the Test cases and Defect Reports.
• Executing the Test Cases manually and executing performance test scenario’s using JMeter2.0.2
• Develop Acceptance Criteria for the System Functions.
• Develop Test Identification Matrix based on the Acceptance and System Functions.
• Development of Accessibility Test cases and prepare test Report
• Accessibility Testing for new Release
• Executing the Test Cases manually and using testing tools like Confidential Home Page Reader4.0 and WebKing4.1

Member Technical Staff/Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirement specification
• Writing of Use Cases, Test Cases for the modules and creating test data
• Functionality, compatibility and regression testing
• Generating automation scripts using Rational Robot
• Execution of test cases. Adhoc, manual and End-to-End testing
• Reporting of defects using Bugzilla