SUMMARY

• A technocrat with over 12+ years experience results driven and diversified IT industry experience in Analyzing system functionality, Conceptualization, Design and implementation of QA testing strategy for Travel, Banking, Finance, Retail for Web based ecommerce applications.
• Involved in all parts of SDLC life cycle for multiple projects starting from Validating Solution Options, Estimates, Analysis, Requirements & Design Review, Test Plan & Test Case Documentation, Execution, UAT support, Implementation and Warranty Support.
• Currently handling a team of 30 testers working from 4 different locations from 3 countries in 4 different time zones. Testing done continuously for 24 hours.
• Responsible for implementing process initiatives of forecasting, utilization and status reporting, collecting metrics and maintaining fact sheets to calculate the risks and follow - up etc
• Strong background of black box testing, functional, usability testing, Mobile testing for ecommerce applications using Agile Methodologies.
• Worked with multiple stakeholders & planned the work across various streams & kept all well informed about the progress, issues, risks & managed them proactively.
• Prepared test strategy, test plans & drive the testing execution end to end within time scales against plan.
• Responsible for technical leadership of QA team in assigned product areas. This includes mentoring, helping team with performance and achieving tasks given in allotted time.
• Played the role of Onsite coordinator and Set up the process and roles and responsibilities for the same.
• Liaise with environment and data teams to ensure that the environment is ready for testing and has the necessary data setup done.
• Have good knowledge on Selenium and writing SQL queries.
• Having been conducting interviews for all roles in the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9X, XP, WIN7, WIN 8, Linux, Unix

Programming Languages: SQL

Web Technologies: HTML

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g

Functional: Installation, System, End to End, Integration, Regression testing, Database testing & Acceptance testing

Test Management Tools: Test Link, RADAR, QC 9.2 & QC 10.0, JIRA

Miscellaneous Skills: Configuration Management, Quality Management & Software Build Deployment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the Test strategy and Test Plan for the release.
• Understand the requirement and analyze it impact on the existing feature.
• Responsible for test estimation and execution timelines.
• Prepare the Regression suite based on upcoming feature using Risk Based Testing.
• Assign the Story cards and test cases to testers for review and gap analysis.
• Coordinate with SWAT/environment team for build deployment and point it to correct hangers/environments.
• Allocate functional and regression test cases to testers for execution and keep track of the status.
• Responsible for Defect triage, Daily stand up and Timely escalation of issues.
• Work towards process implementation to achieve high levels of efficiency and effectiveness
• Collection and analysis of quality metrics for the project.
• Involved in UAT testing.
• Solely Responsible for Production Sign off.
• Good hands on experience on Siebel, SABRE and SAAS tool.
• Played the role of onsite coordinator for 3 years.
• Currently handling multiple teams working in four different locations and time zones.
• Responsible for both automation and Mobile testing team.
• Working on Agile Methodology.
• Improved the knowledge of the team by organizing KT session using K-Map.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web sphere, Struts and Oracle, HP Quality Centre, Siebel and SAAS(Sabre).

Confidential

Sr. Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Effectivelyleadin estimation, planning, cost-of-quality and quality risk analysis.
• Plan work and allocate the same to the team members.
• Review the test cases and identify the gaps in the test cases.
• Performed Regression and system testing.
• Test case preparation and execution.
• Prepare Test Summary report and daily bug reports.
• Performing Functional, Compatibility and Regression Testing.
• Worked as Onsite coordinator for 6 months.
• Followed the TCoE model and understand the importance of testing process and governance.
• Plan and prepare test data and configurations.
• Maintaining Test case execution using Quality Centre.
• Defect reporting and tracking using Quality Centre throughout the defect life cycle.
• Mapping, Tracking and maintaining the Test Case Scenarios with SRS, Use case, Design Document and UI Requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrix

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web sphere, Struts and Oracle, HP Quality Centre

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in providing inputs for the Test Plan.
• Test case preparation and execution.
• Involved in defect status reporting and prepare bug summary reports.
• Performing Functional, Compatibility and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for coordinating with client Quality Analyst.
• Involved in the Weekly meetings with the Client’s team and prepared the MoM (Minutes of Meeting) of the same.
• Reviewed the test cases and identifying the gaps.
• Work towards process implementation to achieve high levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
• KT Sessions to the Testing Team on the Functionality of the application.
• Conducts test cycles as per test plan.
• Mapping the Test Cases Scenarios with Requirements, Use case in Quality Center.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web sphere, Struts, Oracle and Linux

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in providing inputs for the Test Plan.
• Test case preparation and execution.
• Involved in defect status reporting and prepare bug summary reports.
• Performing Functional, Compatibility and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for coordinating with client Quality Analyst.
• Involved in the Weekly meetings with the Client’s team and prepared the MoM (Minutes of Meeting) of the same
• Conducts test cycles as per test plan.
• Review the test cases and identify the gaps in the test cases.
• Prepared the requirement traceability matrix to ensure maximum coverage of test cases.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Identified the Test Cases based on requirement document of the application.
• Accomplish the Test Cases on AUT for different modules.
• Performing Functional, User Interface, Smoke and Exploratory Testing.
• Regression testing was performed after each build of the application.
• Actively attended meetings with team members to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.

Environment: JSP, EJB, JavaScript, Oracle and Windows NT.