Qa Lead Resume
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- 6 years of experience as a Test Lead on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment in Requirements Management, Systems Design, Project Management, Software Testing.
- HP Certified Professional in QTP (Quick Test Professional)
- HP Certified Professional in QC (Quality Center)
- CISCO Certified Network Associate
- IBM DB2 700 Certified
- NSE’s Certified in Financial Markets
- Strong domain knowledge in Insurance (P&C), Banking & Financial Services.
- Extensive experience in Acceptance Testing, Black-box Testing, End-to-End Testing, Exhaustive Testing, Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Verification & Validation.
- Extensive experience in Water Fall model and Agile Methodologies.
- Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from Requirements phase through Implementation phase.
- Proficient in using JIRA
- Proficient in documenting the Test Plan, Traceability Matrix, Test Cases, Test Data.
- Extensive experience in Manual Testing (using Quality Center), Automation Testing (using QTP) and Mobile Testing (on different mobile devices like iPhone, Android, Tablets, iPads, Google Nexus)
- Extensive experience in building applications with Microsoft Excel Macros and VBA.
- Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling.
- Excellent client relationship management, communication and presentation skills.
- Extensive experience working on onshore/offshore/near-shore team.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Manual Testing Tools
- Proficient in using Quality Center
- Automation Testing Tools
- Proficient in using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
- Proficient in writing QTP Scripts
- Proficient in writing Microsoft Excel Macros and VBA.
- Experience in building applications with Microsoft Share-point.
- Experience in building applications with Microsoft Infopath.
- Defect Tracking Tools
- Proficient in using Quality Center
- Proficient in using Borland Star Team
- Proficient in using JIRA
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows
- Database
- Experience in writing SQL queries.
- Experience in testing on Mainframe applications.
education
- Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jan 2012 till dateChurch Confidential,Merrill, Wisconsin
QA Lead
This project is developed for policy administrative system with multiple databases storing features along with all customer preferences insurance products to client-specified requirements, as recorded in the Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
Responsibilities
- Prepare the software test plan.
- Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.
- As a QA Lead, coordinated as a single point of resource across the project team.
- Plan the tests including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident management.
- Initiate the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria.
- Adapt planning based on test results and progress and take any action necessary to compensate for problems.
- Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
- Arrange the software requirement for the Test setup.
- Develop and implement test plans.
- Review the system, integration and user acceptance tests prepared by test engineers.
Environment: Java, Windows XP, Quality Center, SQL, JIRA
Confidential, Jan 2011 – Dec 2011
San Antonio, Texas
Test Lead
Provide members with the ability to schedule an auto appraisal, reserve a rental vehicle and schedule a property inspection via the mobile channel to enhance the member experience. This project will allow member to schedule an auto appraisal and rental car, as well as property inspection, comparable to usaa.com. Also implement for iPhone and Android USAA applications.
Responsibilities
- Prepare the software test plan
- As a Test Lead coordinated with the project team both: onsite and offshore.
- Successfully managed multiple projects and also create different tools for automating different processes in project execution.
- Acted as a single point of contact and conducted release status meeting to review a daily status of different projects at HUB level.
- Analyzed and identified different errors that generated from the batch logs on a daily basis.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro and QTP script to automate the process of extracting the batch logs from mainframes and identify the common issues.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro to auto-send email notifications to the respective parties associated with those errors
- Send a daily status to the HUB Leader for all the projects in that release.
- System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers.
- Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
- Arrange the software requirement for the Test setup.
- Develop and implement test plans.
Environment: Java, Windows XP, QTP, Quality Center, Star Team, iPhone, Android, Tablet, iPad, Nexus
Desktop Preferences Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
Confidential,San Antonio, TX
Test Lead
Improve USAA\'s existing Portal role structure so that it supports USAA strategic vision of Multi-CoSA and MX support
by MSRs. The current portal role management process is not agile enough to support the integrated skills in the contact center of the future and MSR\'s are not currently able to migrate effectively to areas where an unplanned surge of business occurs. To avoid a flexible and self administering portal preference that is separate from security role management. This will reduce maintenance cost and provide much needed flexibility to re-focus our MSR\'s when needed.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare the software test plan
- As a Test Lead coordinated with the project team both: onsite and offshore.
- Check/review the test cases document
- Automated the execution process by creating a tool using Excel Macro and QTP script to integrate with mainframes application and usaa.com to create a contract which reduced a lot of manual effort.
- Created an automated release workbook using Excel Macro which keeps a track of the project timeline and generates alerts at different milestones.
- Created a project estimation tool using Excel Macro which helps to provide estimates across a given schedule.
- Acted as a single point of contact and conducted release status meeting to review a daily status of different projects at HUB level.
- Analyzed and identified different errors that generated from the batch logs on a daily basis.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro and QTP script to automate the process of extracting the batch logs from mainframes and identify the common issues.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro to auto-send email notifications to the respective parties associated with those errors
- Send a daily status to the HUB Leader for all the projects in that release.
- System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers.
- Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
- Arrange the software requirement for the Test setup.
- Develop and implement test plans.
- Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any.
- Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
- Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
Environment: Java, Portal, QTP, Quality Center, Star Team, IBM Mainframes
Improve Data Integrity on Life Contracts Jan 2009 – Dec 2009
Confidential,San Antonio, TX
Test Lead
Correct inaccurate age and gender data on all active life, health and annuity contracts and recalculate guideline premiums on universal life accumulator products. There are in-force contracts that have incorrect age, gender and guideline calculations. Therefore, the premium and expiry dates are not reflected accurately. Upon completion, contract values, premium and expires are reflected accurately, member experience will be improved since contracts will be functioning appropriately.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare the software test plan
- As a Test Lead coordinated with the project team both: onsite and offshore.
- Check/review the test cases document
- Automated the execution process by creating a tool using Excel Macro and QTP script to integrate with mainframes application and usaa.com to create a contract which reduced a lot of manual effort.
- Created a project estimation tool using Excel Macro which helps to provide estimates across a given schedule.
- Acted as a single point of contact and conducted release status meeting to review a daily status of different projects at HUB level.
- Analyzed and identified different errors that generated from the batch logs on a daily basis.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro and QTP script to automate the process of extracting the batch logs from mainframes and identify the common issues.
- Created a tool using Excel Macro to auto-send email notifications to the respective parties associated with those errors
- Send a daily status to the HUB Leader for all the projects in that release.
- System, Integration and User Acceptance prepared by test engineers.
- Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
- Arrange the software requirement for the Test setup.
- Develop and implement test plans.
- Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and resolve issues if any.
- Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
- Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
Environment: Java, Portal, QTP, Quality Center, Star Team, IBM Mainframes