SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of diverse experience of Quality Assurance and Analysis with emphasis on multiple phases and types of Testing for Stand - alone, Client/Server and Web based applications majorly for Telecom, Healthcare and Finance domain.
• Years of experience, working in Agile Software Development and SCRUM and around 2 years of experience as a Scrum-Master.
• Organize and facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint retrospective & sprint review sessions.
• Exposure with QA Principles and various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in preparing test plans, test matrix, test cases, test report and test data based on business requirements and functional requirements.
• Involved in design reviews and requirement analysis with development team and client.
• Quality experience in automation tools like QTP and Selenium
• Intense experience in tracking defects using Bug Tracking Tools like Test Director/ ALM(Quality Center), Bugzilla, PVCS Tracker and Jira
• Expertise in critical complex problem solving, investigation and troubleshooting on various environments for engineering team and client escalations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases and test scenarios. Prepare test data to optimize testing., Generate other testing related documentation
• Effectively interpret Design/Requirements documentation and work with business and IT staff to create test plans/scripts
• Conduct meetings with Business and Development for requirements and implementation review
• Accurately report and track testing for provided test build along with related defects and issues, by writing effective and thorough bug reports, and verify bug fixes
• Developing SQL queries and using different Joins on multiple tables to perform Backend Testing
• Conduct meetings with Business and IT Teams for requirements/implementation review
• Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing effective and thorough bug reports, and verify bug fixes
• Coordinate UAT and other testing related tasks with Business and other IT departments
• Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve QA Processes
• Working independently as well as contributing the overall success of the team

Software /Tools Used: Rally - Jira V7.3.4, Confluence 5.10.4, MS Excel 2013, LDAP Admin 1.6.0.0, Confluence, Micro DICOM Viewer, EZ-capture/Fast map third party applications

Confidential

Lead Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review project and releases to ensure compliance with approved tailored procedures and standards.
• Engage throughout software development, planning, phased releases and release note follow up.
• Planning and execution of all QA tasks based on overall project plan and release cycle. - Also, closely work with development and product teams to ensure proper communication of issues and project health before and after release.
• Closely monitor project development and new features and updated. To ensure proper procedures and standards is maintained.
• Also maintain proper communication between QA team, Project Manager and Engineering Manager to keep all in same page for long running complex projects.
• Responsible for Test plan, Test protocol, Test Report and Traceability matrix.
• Deeply involved in Ad-hoc, Functional, Integration and regression testing.
• Highly involved in troubleshoot along with Engineering team for challenging bugs
• Go-to person for complex scenario generation. I have found several critical bugs which needed immediate attention to ensure best quality of the product being delivered.
• Task planning and review for my team-members, test protocols review, bugs/work/task review, mentoring and problem solving
• Perform the required software quality phase end reviews of work product and process for each software project and produce the required software quality reports, as specified in the project's software quality plan.
• Based on project need, plan for QA test plan, procedure and resources to ensure QA task align well with the overall project timeline. Communicate with all project teams to ensure we have available time, resources and test protocols. So, we can achieve our goals in allocated time frame without any compromise in quality.

Software /Tools Used: Rally - Jira V7.3.4, Confluence 5.10.4, MS Excel 2013, LDAP Admin 1.6.0.0, Confluence, Micro DICOM Viewer, EZ-capture/Fast map third party applications

Confidential

Lead Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Being a part of these both two new projects, which follows agile methodology, getting deeply involved in Scrum activities.
• Requirement (SDAS) understanding and mapping by getting involved into Grooming and planning meetings
• Create and implement detailed test cases and test suites for integration, regression and functional testing.
• Integration testing to ensure seamless integration of features across PACS applications.
• Ensure repeatable, reproducible testing results
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across teams (Quality Software Engineering, Software Development Engineering, and Product Management & Senior Management)
• Closely work with engineering lead, engineering manager and project manager for project planning and incremental release plans.
• Getting deeply involved in Sprint activities like backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint retrospective & sprint review sessions

Software /Tools Used: Protractor, Jasmine, Rally - Jira V7.3.4, Confluence 5.10.4, MS Excel 2013, LDAP Admin 1.6.0.0, Confluence, Micro DICOM Viewer, EZ-capture/Fast map third party applications

Confidential

Sr. Quality and Release Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Taking care of Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications across various Portfolios. These releases include content updates, systems updates, Projects and Programs.
• Responsible for planning, implementing and managing release processes for the progression of content and code updates in the development, test, and production environments.
• Work collaboratively with all participants in design, production, operations and software development area and supports developers and testers as they conduct their building and testing.
• Completely responsible for Regression testing for all deployed releases into individual environments via automation suits.
• Completely responsible for Security testing.
• Also being a part of new project which follows agile methodology, getting deeply involved in Scrum activities.

Software /Tools Used: Rally - Agile Tool, HP ALM 11, Jira V7.3.4, Confluence 5.10.4, MS Excel 2013, SOAP UI 5.4.0, JMeter 3.1, Eclipse Oxygen.2 (4.7.2), CA CheckIt V: 2.4.0.0, WinSCP 5.11.1, LDAP Admin 1.6.0.0, Putty 0.60

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator & Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Onsite coordination. Understanding the client needs and offshore queries & issues. Establishing a bridge of unequivocal communication resulting in a win-win situation for both the parties involved.
• Assisted in automation framework design & review
• Analyzing test cases to understand their automation quotient. Classifying test-cases as automatable or not-automatable.
• Review of scripts, libraries files, object repositories
• Providing walkthroughs & demos on the framework, scripts & library functions
• Creating the test environment for script execution.
• Creation & review of documents which help the client in understanding & effectively using the automation framework.

Software /Tools Used: Rally - Agile Tool, QTP 11.0, HP ALM 11, Collaborator V9.3.9300, Confluence 5.8.17, Jive 8.0, Power Scribe 360|Reporting, iNTERFACEWARE Chameleon Simulator/listener, Test Tracker, Perforce, Crimson Editor, Santé DICOM Editor/Viewer, Eclipse, XML Spy, dbwin32, OneNote2010

Confidential

Sr. Verification and Validation Engineer/Scrum Master and onsite-coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Senior V&V engineer and SME for Centricity Universal Viewer (UV) and WEBDX - a leading radiology software solution
• Requirement (SDAS) creation and mapping.
• System level testing to ensure the FDA compliance
• Identify & create automation test cases for regression suite
• Create and implement detailed test cases and test suites for integration, regression and functional testing.
• Integration testing to ensure seamless integration of features across PACS applications.
• Ensure repeatable, reproducible testing results
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across teams (Quality Software Engineering, Software Development Engineering, and Product Management & Senior Management) at multiple geographical locations.
• Closely work with engineering lead, engineering manager and project manager for project planning and incremental release plans.
• Responsible for global release and UAT.
• Follow DICOM, IHE and HL7 standards during SDLC
• Worked as a Scrum-Master for more than a year. Responsible for breaking user stories in task and making sure all of them meet deadlines. Also responsible for allocation of scrum task to team member and monitor them for completeness and correctness
• Organize and facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint retrospective & sprint review sessions
• Provide realistic and accurate project status updates to all stake holders in form of daily and end of sprint reports
• Collaborate with product Owner and helping product owner to manage and prioritize product backlog
• Work closely with product owners, analytics, and user experience and delivery teams and ensure clarity in communication
• Monitor scrum boards, ensure alignment of prioritized work and help the team to stay on the track by co-ordination between different scrum teams
• Mentor and train team members and review their work
• Evaluate software requirement/s to create comprehensive test plan and procedure

Software /Tools Used: Rally - Agile Tool, QTP 11.0, HP ALM 11, Collaborator V9.3.9300, Confluence 5.8.17, Jive 8.0, Power Scribe 360|Reporting, iNTERFACEWARE Chameleon Simulator/listener, Test Tracker, Perforce, Crimson Editor, Santé DICOM Editor/Viewer, Eclipse, XML Spy, dbwin32, OneNote2010

Confidential

SR. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements, product design and functional specifications to create comprehensive test plan and strategy for overall system testing & performance testing
• Create manual test plan with detailed test cases for verification of new product functionality for wireless device applications based on functional & non-functional requirements.
• Test new releases, hot fixes, and emergency patches on UNIX with WebLogic and JBoss platforms within customer requirements.
• Responsible for overall system bootstrapping on every new release this includes setup for Oracle database, JBoss and WebLogic application servers. Deployment of new release and executing special ATP (acceptance test plan) for certification within project timeline.
• Validate firmware updates and performed fault diagnostics of wireless devices OverTheAir
• Prepared documents and setup guides for various installations and bootstrapping; which were used like bible by other team members.
• Responsible for cross team coordination between development team, product management and quality assurance team.
• Involved in Data Driven Testing by preparing and executed various SQL scripts for testing database, business reports and web pages

Software/ Tools Used: Solaris, Web Logic, Quality Center, Java, JMeter, HTML, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL, Bugzilla, Scrum Methodology