PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience with strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Defect Management Life Cycle Methodologies.
• Expertise in Efforts sizing for the Testing project according to the time lines of Master Project Plan(MPP)
• Excellent experience of working with Agile Methodologies.
• Expertise in Preparing Test Plan, Test Specifications as per Standard Operating Procedures.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, white box testing, GUI testing, back - end-testing, browser compatibility testing, load/performance testing in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in developing and executing Test Strategies and Plans for very large and complex projects involving manual and automated testing with a wide ranging set of dependencies and integration points.
• Experience in project management and coordination activities including planning, resource administration, efforts sizing, set up of processes and quality assurance.
• Expertise in Functional Testing of Client/Server Applications, Web-based applications in .Net and JAVA Environments and Banking Applications,
• Expertise in creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases from business, technical and functional requirement.
• Well experienced in User Stories creation, Use case specifications creation and present to technology teams.
• Identify project risks / dependence and provide recommend solutions.
• Project management activities include project planning, tracking of project cost, project deliverables and resource handling.
• Experience in configuring ITKO LISA for using Performance testing to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc. using LISA Console.
• Experience in creating virtual services for SOAP, REST and MQ protocols.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Confluence and XLR.
• Experienced in working with ITKO LISA for performance testing, automation testing of web services, web applications.
• Experienced in creating virtual services for MQ Services and Web Services using CA Service Virtualization.
• Experienced in defining testing methodologies, designing test strategy, designing test plans and test cases, verifying and validating wed based e-commerce applications and documentation based on standards for software development.
• Proficient in various software quality assurance methodologies with strong emphasis in white-box testing, test automation, stress, reliability, performance testing and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation.
• Very good at bug- reporting and bug-tracking using the test management tool like HP ALM, JIRA.
• Strong influencing and Communication skills and having a flexible attitude and positive approach.
• Will take the responsibility of accomplishing the project objectives within the constraints of the project (Scope, Time, Resources, and Performance Specifications).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/7, Unix, Mac OS

Tools: Selenium, CA LISA, TOAD, SOAP UI, HP ALM, JIRA, Eclipse IDE, JMeter, Cucumber, Jenkins, MS Office

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB Script, Java Script, Servlets, XML, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle 9i/11g, MS SQL Server 2000, MYSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Define approach and provide direction to enhance Functional and Regression automated LISA scripts to maximize coverage, make them self-sufficient / intelligent in and hence minimize data inputs.
• Define approach for Web service testing with SOAP UI.
• Implement agile methodology techniques across different project teams.
• Project management activities include project planning, tracking of project cost, project deliverables and resource handling.
• Drive Best Practices and Standards in scripting, data management and execution.
• Identify project risks / dependence and provide recommend solutions.
• Works collaboratively with the rest of the core team members to decompose User Stories into tasks and Assists the rest of the core team members in resolution of impediments related to User Story solution development.
• Worked on Project Plans, reviewed testing progress and mentored team on improving quality standards to be applied.
• Worked on resolving issues escalated by team members by working across different application teams and ensured testing deadlines are met.
• Worked on detailed iteration planning and Continuous Product Backlog refinement while preparing for future Iterations. i.e., analyze new stories added to the Product Backlog, estimate the story points, split stories and prioritize/ re-prioritize stories where needed.
• Project management activities include project planning, tracking of project cost, project deliverables and resource handling.
• Worked on Continuous Integration and Virtualization to support both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and drive early testing.
• Developed testing strategy, defined testing scope and testing milestones.
• Developed VSI and VSM’s using CA Service Virtualization for request response pairs for MQ Services and Web Services, REST services.
• Experience in creating virtual services for SOAP, REST, Java, JDBC protocols.
• Developed test cases using LISA Test for all MQ Services and Web Services (SOAP).
• Automate SOAP and REST services using SOAPUI.
• Integration of LISA web services scripts with Jenkins and XLR.
• Create MAR files using LISA Dev/Test and deploy using GIT tool.
• Involved in backend testing of databases and writing sql queries to validate the data that is flown through backend systems.
• Involved in UAT testing of Merchant Transaction & Payments Processing.
• Identifying and tracking risks and follow-up on issues with all teams to a closure in Clarity and setting mutually agreeable time lines
• Allocate resources to the project and assign those tasks according to the respective Agile / SDLC phases.
• Ability to drive results, strong prioritization and time management skills, solid communication, negotiation, collaboration and influencing skills with ability to manage testing tasks to achieve common goals with aggressive timelines.
• Facilitate meetings effectively with all levels in the organization.
• Logged all defects in JIRA and did weekly reports for the management.

Environment: .Net, Java, CA LISA, Eclipse IDE, Jenkins, GIT,XLR, Rally, Clartiy

Confidential, WI

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases based on business and functional requirements.
• Responsible for developing and executing functional test cases to ensure that the delivered solution meets project requirements and handles data in a predictable, error-free fashion.
• Involved in reviewing project requirements to ensure requirements are testable.
• Reviewed user stories based on the requirements for each sprint.
• Develop testing processes, test strategy, test plans and mentor team in implementing the processes.
• Develops and executes test cases based on user stories contained within an Agile Sprint
• Involved in creating test scripts using different filters, assertions to verify the steps match the expectations.
• Drive Best Practices and Standards in scripting, data management and execution.
• Effort Value Analysis was performed for all manual test cases and then assigned to the team for automating the manual test cases.
• Drive Best Practices and Standards in scripting, data management and execution.
• Involved in creating ITKO LISA web service scripts to test the web service execution steps to test the request and responses of the web service.
• Inserted Assertion using LISA for Verification of page loads and also created Java script assertion for some complex verification scenarios.
• Wrote JavaScript steps within the script to validate and insert runtime values while running the scripts.
• Executed the web services and web test scripts in different environments using test case and test suite functionality.
• Executed the scripts with different sets of data to validate the functionality under test.
• Created Filters to capture the runtime data and use them in the scripts to get the desired output.
• Created and Executed Automation Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing for new functionality using ITKO LISA.
• Created performance test scripts using ITKO LISA to test the performance of the application.
• Wrote many Test Suites of LISA which internally has group of test cases, Filters, Assertions, Data Sets.
• Ran the test scripts in different environments using the test case execution for all the test cases using the staging document.
• Entered the defects into JIRA and manages the resolution and documentation of these defects.

Environment: Lisa 7.5.1, Java J2EE, JSP & Web Services, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, XML, SharePoint, JBOSS, JIRA.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Sr QA Analyst

• Performed functional, regression, end-to-end and usability testing.
• Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT.
• Wrote, updated and executed test cases manually using Quality Center.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts to find out the gaps in functional requirements.
• Crated and maintained requirement traceability matrix to find out the gaps in requirement and test case coverage.
• Created and executed regression test scenarios using automation tools and VB scripting.
• Duties included documentation reviewing and analysis.
• Filed, followed and verified bugs and bug reports using QC.
• Worked closely with project management teams.
• Responsible for uploading test cases from excel sheets to Quality Center.
• Responsible for analyzing the defects logged by client in pilot mode.
• Performed Smoke Test after each new build.
• Helped data migration team in testing the migrated data through back end.
• Worked closely with development team to discuss and priorities the defect fix.
• Created and worked on user Security Matrix.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

• Reviewed Business Requirement and Technical Specification Documents.
• Involved in Developing High Level Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix with screen prints of the policy screens wherever required.
• Documented Test cases based on the DOS policy outlines in Quality Center.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Functional Testing.
• Was involved in the regression testing during automation process.
• Prepared Status Summary Reports with details of executed, passed and failed Test Cases.
• Created XML files using XML schema.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Responsible for updating Quality Center with the test case results and findings.
• Involved in Data Analysis, Data Validation and Data extraction.
• Used Quality Center as defect logging tool and pass them onto the developers
• Extensively involved in using various file compare tools like Beyond Compare, Ultra Edit, Adobe Reader to compare the Rating Work Sheets and Policy Issuance Files (PIF) generated from the new Web application to that of the current Dos application.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary Reports and participated in Defect Review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.

Environment: ASP.NET, VB.NET, IIS Server, XML, DB2, Vitria, WINXP/NT, QTP, Quality Center, Lotus Notes, Irfan View, TSO, Beyond Compare.