SUMMARY

• 12 years of total experience in Manual and Automated testing of Client Server Web Mainframes Applications in QA Tester, Lead, Analyst, Roles.
• Eight plus years’ experience in using the Mercury Automated Tools like Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Business Process Test and Test Director/Quality Center. Knowledge of Selenium.
• Three plus Years Experience with Database testing with ETL and Data Tapping projects.
• Three Years’ Experience with Rational Test Manager and rational clear quest.
• 8 years of banking/finance domain experience with major financial firms and 4.5 years tax domain experience with Confidential .
• Experienced in setting and configuring QA Environments for financial and non - financial clients.
• Excellent experience in time estimates, scheduling the timelines meeting the project deadlines.
• Proficient in Black Box testing, QA Methodologies and Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Methodology, and TOAD.
• Proficient with Agile tools like version one and TFS
• Expertise with web services testing by using SOAP UI and ECM.
• Well versed in creating test strategies that ties test plan and test scripts together to enhance the quality assurance process. Good knowledge in Test Matrices, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Agile Methodologies, bug statistics, weekly and daily status reports.
• Excellent Training and presentation skill.
• Methodical knowledge of the datamart and data warehouse development life cycle. Performed all dimensions of development including Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) of data from various sources (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Flat files, XML files, COBOL) into data warehouses and data marts using Informatica Power Center and involved in performance tuning on ETL processes and testing ETL Mappings
• Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as individually. Strong inter-personal communication skills.
• Specifically used SQL for Backend testing to validate the data.
• Has good knowledge of web technologies like Web Services, SOAP, XML, HTML, Style Sheets, ASP, JSP, ASP.NET, .NET, JavaScript, VB Script, VB, Java, C, and C++.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Triggers, Stored Procedures and database connectivity for Back-end testing
• Good knowledge of Web Servers, Database Servers, Application Servers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, VB, Java, .NET, ASP and SQL, JCL.

Web Technologies: ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, WSAM, Delphi, SOA.SOAP UI

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Rational Team Test, Test Director/Quality Centre, Test Complete, Quick Test Pro/UFT, VS Coded UI,Excel Macros

Data Warehousing Tools: Informatica 7.1.1/8x/9x, Cogno’s, Business Objects.

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9i/8.0/7.x, DB2, SQL Server 2012, MS-Access, Erwin Tool.

Hardware: IBM Compatible PCs, Terminal Emulators, Pentium PCs, Intel based machines

Reporting Tools: Rational test Manager, Test Director/Quality Center, PVCS tracker, Rational Clear Quest

Operating System: Windows 8/7/XP/NT,2000 98/95, UNIX, Linux.

Methodologies: Agile, RAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working in Agile and Waterfall Methodology, where requirements change dynamically.
• Involved in discussing requirements with the BA and Product owners
• Responsible for determining the regression test suites along with new development modules for each of the production releases.
• Involved in designing of the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test plan
• Responsible to organize all QA activities in Quality Center for all the projects.
• Discuss the everyday status in QA call involving both offshore and onsite.
• Tested End to end process flow from enrollment until client communications.
• Validated the data by using data-x tool and Control Panel system for MLone.
• Validated client communications using C-dol applications for checking client welcome letter and maintenance mailers.
• Raising defects, determine the cause and assigning them to the appropriate team. Also tracking them till closure.
• Working with multiple development and business partners and presenting the SIT status and blockers in various project status call .
• Executed Automation regression test suite with UFT during the multiple production release cycles.
• Ensure testing services are done and met as per the scheduled timelines for each of the production releases.
• Support testing during various production releases as part of SIT- System integrated test team.
• Responsible for Regular review of testing progress recommend improvements and best practices.
• Responsible to Report status to leadership team on ongoing basis and deal with any prod issues by coordinating with various teams
• Involved in Creation of Excel macro for test data validation to determine the variance type
• Lead regularly scheduled defect meetings/ triage meetings where defects are monitored so that they are driven to resolution in alignment with allocated time frames.
• Work closely with application development, quality management, Business and operation units.
• Working on required testing’s to be performed as per the projects demands like Data testing, Web services testing etc.
• Generated the reports from Quality Center and made available to all teams in email communications.

Environment: Quality Center 10, QTP/ UFT 11.5,, VB Scripting Visual Studio 2010/2013, TFS, Rally, Oracle, PL/SQL, Jira, C# Java, J2EE, VBScript, Web Logic, Server 10.3.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working in Agile Methodology, where requirements changes dynamically.
• Involved in Sprint planning and effort estimation and discussing requirements with the BA and Product owners
• Involved in designing of the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test plan
• Responsible for allocating the work to the different teams based on the projects and skills.
• Responsible to organize all QA activities in TFS and Quality Center for few projects.
• Discuss the everyday status in QA scrum call from offshore and onsite.
• Discuss the Complexity of User story/PBI, estimate the time for each user story/PBI.
• Tested Complex end to end Data extraction process by executing the Stored Procs.
• The Defects which were tracked for DB testing further lead to creation of new requirements in future sprints.
• Tested End to end DB testing Process by writing the Complex SQL Queries.
• Validated the data by using Advanced excel Spreadsheets for SSI By Partners Scenario’s
• Built Automation regression test suite with UFT as well as CODED UI which used highly efficient framework.
• Ensure testing services are done and met as per the scheduled timelines.
• Responsible for Regular review of testing progress recommend improvements and best practices.
• Responsible to Report status to leadership team on ongoing basis. .
• Lead regularly scheduled defect meetings/ triage meetings where defects are monitored so that they are driven to resolution in alignment with allocated time frames. .
• Work closely with application development, quality management, Business and operation units.
• Working on required testing’s to be performed as per the projects demands like Data testing, Web services testing etc.
• Responsible for creating all required reports, daily, weekly Sprint wise reports.
• Arrange the defects triage meetings coordinating with development teams.
• Generated the reports from Quality Center and made available to all teams in SharePoint.
• Planned and Designed the QTP Framework, worked with offshore team to work on into.
• Introduced Coded UI automation with visual Studio for Functional testing.
• Created Excellent QTP scripts with, QTP framework and reduced the regression testing time.
• Selected best skilled resources with excellent development and testing skills.
• Demonstrated the QA achievements Automation work, regular work in each Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Attend all the meetings and achieved the results as per the targets,

Environment: Quality Center 10,QTP/ UFT 11.5,LoadRunner 9.0, SOAP UI,VB Scripting Visual Studio 2010/2013, TFS, Coded UI, Oracle, PL/SQL, Toad, Query Analyzer, Business PVCS, C# Java, J2EE, VBScript, Web Logic, Server 10.3.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on Data migration which involves database testing using Unix and SQL
• Responsible for testing the migration of 600 client file profiles in production which include both standard and custom map file profiles.
• Involved in designing of the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test plan
• Leading the test team in testing each File profile which need to be migrated from Vendor to in-house translation system.
• Involved in Sanity testing till production after deployment testing of each client file profile being migrated.
• Involved in test planning and effort estimation.
• Discuss the everyday status in QA call from offshore and onsite.
• Tested Complex end to end Data extraction process by executing the Stored Procs.
• Tested End to end ETL Process by writing the Complex SQL Queries.
• Coordination with offshore team.
• Involved in Test Plan Preparation, Estimation (Project, Resources) and Risk Analysis documents.
• Defect logging in Quality Center 9.0 and tracking it to closure
• Responsible for Regularly review testing progress recommend improvements and best practices.
• Responsible to Report status to leadership team on ongoing basis. .
• Lead regularly scheduled defect meetings/ triage meetings where defects are monitored so that they are driven to resolution in alignment with allocated time frames. .
• Responsible for creating all required reports, daily, weekly Sprint wise reports.
• Generated the reports from Quality Center and made available to all teams in SharePoint.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2,QTP 10, VB Scripting Visual Studio 2010/2013, Oracle, PL/SQL, Toad, Query Analyzer, C# Java, J2EE, VBScript

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in every client walkthrough’s or discussion’s for understanding the requirements and presented the walkthrough’s on the same.
• Leading the test team for the agile test environment ECM project.
• Involved in Sprint planning and effort estimation.
• Coordination with offshore team.
• Responsible for delivery of daily and weekly status reports, Defects report, early warning systems to all the stake holders of the project.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting the project status to the Internal teams.
• Involved in Test Plan Preparation, Estimation (Project, Resources) and Risk Analysis documents.
• Preparation of Test plan
• Involved in review of the Test Scenarios, Test Cases prepared by the team.
• Review of Components and test scripts using BPT framework by the team.
• Creation of scripts for regression testing using QTP 9.2.
• Execution of test cases from QC
• Defect retesting and updating the defect status in QC
• Defect logging in Quality Center 9.0 and tracking it to closure

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 10, VB Scripting Visual Studio 2010/2013, BPT framework.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the automation test team for Cash Management application.
• Involved in designing test plan, test cases and automation test scripts using QTP 9.5
• Preparation of Test data for the automation framework
• Worked with the QA team to create a QC-QTP automation framework using OTA (Open test architecture)
• Execution of test cases and creation of evidence documents
• Test data creation using Excel macros. Test data excel with more 30 fields needed to be populated and uploaded into test harness, for this purpose a script was developed with macros which would help the pre population of data.
• Coordination with offshore team.
• Defect retesting and updating the defect status in QC
• Defect logging in Quality Center 9.0 and tracking it to closure

Environment: Quality Center 9, QTP 9.5, VB Scripting Visual Studio 2010/2013, OTA framework, Excel macros 2010.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of test requirements
• Preparation of test scenarios and test cases
• Creation of scripts for regression testing using QTP 9.5
• Preparation of Test data
• Performing regression test and smoke test for weekly releases
• Execution of test cases
• Execution of test scripts through Quality Center
• Defect logging in Quality Center 9.5 and tracking it to closure

Environment: Quality Center 9.5,QTP 9.5, IE 6.0, C Sharp, VB

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business requirements
• Preparation of test scenarios and test cases around the different criteria
• Preparation of Test data to verify the following:
• Earnings were stored correctly for everything that was supposed to be earned - Policy & certificate level
• Earnings ITD spreadsheet was generated correctly
• Earnings Monthly spreadsheet was generated correctly
• Earnings screen behaves properly - displays status messages correctly, sets/resets the Accounting Month correctly, etc.
• Performing regression test and smoke test for weekly releases
• Execution of test cases
• Execution of test scripts through Quality Center
• Defect logging in Quality Center 9.0 and tracking it to closure

Environment: Quality Center 9.5,QTP 9.5, IE 6.0, C Sharp, VB

Confidential, NYC, NY

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements and arriving at the test scenarios
• Preparation and Review of Functional Test Cases
• Preparation and execution of SQL Queries in Advanced Query Tool for verification of Cognos reports.
• Creation of scripts for driving the regression testing using QTP 9.2
• Test case execution and defect logging in Clear Quest and tracking it to closure
• Analysis of test requirements that can be automated
• Providing functional understanding to the team members.

Environment: QTP 9.2 & Quality Center 9.0, PVCS 8.0, IE 6.0, Java, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Confidential, NYC, NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identifying test scenarios from business requirements & functional specifications
• Test Scenario and Test Data preparation
• Preparation of automation scripts using QTP 9.2
• Functional Test case preparation and Execution
• Role Based Verification
• Defect logging & tracking it to closure
• Traceability matrix creation to ensure test coverage for requirements

Environment: QTP 9.2 & Quality Center 9.0, PVCS 8.0, IE 6.0, Java, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Confidential, NYC, NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases
• Preparation of Automation Scripts in QTP 9.2
• Test case execution and defect logging in QC and tracking it to closure
• Verification of Change Requests
• Traceability matrix creation to ensure test coverage for requirements

Environment: QTP 9.2 & Quality Center 9.0, PVCS 8.0, IE 6.0, Java, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Confidential, NYC, NY

Junior System Administrator (Intern)

Responsibilities:

• Developed Hardware Inventory Software involving Hand-held device for scanning barcodes of each system in the LAN
• Used Embedded VB and stored data in Microsoft Access Database.
• Worked on SAN Migration Project(EMC Clairiion)
• Maintained System Backups and System Locks and resolved Incident Calls
• Maintained Hardware and Software Inventory and Documentation

Environment: SAN, embedded VB

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a program in Visual basic.net and worked on SQL Server.
• To Perform Bio analytical testing.
• Worked on real-time operating systems

Environment: VB basic.net, SQL Server