SUMMARY

• Almost 6 years of experience in Software including 4.5+ in QA and 1.5 years in Java development,
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Implemented various test cycles including System Testing, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Black box testing, Recovery Testing, Compatibility Testing, End to End Testing.
• Involved in Analyzing Requirements during Requirement Gathering and Design Phase also Forecasting and Estimating future requirements.
• Prepared and executed Test Plans in Banking domains, trading domains and retail domain.
• Good experience in several Defect Tracking tools like Test director, Quality Center, TFS.
• Attended review meetings for continuous improvement of Software Quality.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background, good interpersonal skills and immense experience. Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.
• Experience involving entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including identification of business needs & constraints, collection of requirements, Impact Analysis, implementation, coding, code review, testing, deployment and maintenance.
• Worked as onshore/offshore test lead for several projects.
• Masters Degree in Computer Applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: VB Script, Java Script, Core Java, SQL.

Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, XML, CSS, DHTML.

RDBMS: Oracle, My SQL

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile Methodology

Tools: Quality Center, TFS, Team Track, Quality Test Professional

Scripting: VB Script, HTML, JSP

Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center 9.0, TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and lead QA team towards achieving testing goals.
• Discussed the requirements and change request with business and tech BA’s.
• Configured test environment and analyzed test data.
• Created test plan document.
• Created and uploaded test scripts inQuality Center 10.0.
• Used QC for defect tracking purpose.
• Reviewed test scripts created by team.
• Discussed the scenarios and test cases with BA’s and operations team.
• Discussed defects in defect status meetings and did follow ups to take defects to closure.
• Prepared requirement traceability matrix for coverage of all the requirements.
• Manual buy and sell trades via mainframe screens.
• Provided daily status report and defect report to client.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and lead QA team towards achieving testing goals.
• Reviewed Proposal & Estimation documents for testing activities.
• Discussed the change request and requirements with business and tech BA’s.
• Configured test environment and prepared test data, created test plan documents, scheduled automated/manual tests, created QA documentation, bug reports and tracked systems updates.
• Executed test cases & logged defectsinQuality Center 10.0.
• Wrote SQL queries in order to prepare test data, and to view successful transactions execution for validating data.
• Reported testing statistics and conduct defect calls with UAT, development and business teams and assure the quality of products.
• Provided UAT and PVT support when required.
• Provided Closure Report at the end of testing cycle to application team.
• Consolidated Closure Report and Test Summary Reports at the end of testing cycle to application team and higher management.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Onsite Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• OnsiteCo - ordination for TCoE team for different manual and automation Projects like RVB, CitiFT, BNP, IVR, Global Arms.
• Reviewed Proposal & Estimation documents for testing activities.
• Discussed the change request and requirements with business and tech BA’s.
• Configured test environment and prepared test data, created test plan documents, scheduled automated/manual tests, created QA documentation, bug reports and tracked systems updates.
• Executed test cases & logged defectsinQuality Center 10.0.
• Reported testing statistics and conduct defect calls with UAT, development and business teams and assure the quality of products.
• Provided UAT and PVT support when required.
• Provided Closure Report at the end of testing cycle to application team.
• Consolidated Closure Report and Test Summary Reports at the end of testing cycle to application team and higher management.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the detailed business requirements, and the SRS
• Configured test environment and created test, documented test plan documents, scheduled automated/manual tests, created QA documentation and requirement traceability matrix.
• Participated in daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews and planning activities for automation testing of some modules
• Used Quality center for reporting and tracking bugs, and provided updates on resolved bugs.

Environment: Quality Test Professional 9.5, Quality Center 9.0, VB Script, Agile, Scrum, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, SOAP/XML.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Use case documents to carry out the testing activities.
• Participated in Team Planning Sessions and Walkthrough Meetings.
• Designed the test cases and executed them.
• Performed complete manual testing i.e. Smoke, Functional, System Integration, Regression, back end, End to End and Ad-hoc Testing covering all specified features/requirements.
• Involved in writing SQL queries.
• Used Quality Center for Software Bug Identification, Tracking and Reporting,
• Analyzed test results and prepared test reports and defect reports.

Environment: Quality Center, JAVA, J2EE, Spring2.0, Hibernate3.0.

Confidential

Software Engineer (Coding and Self testing)

Responsibilities:

• Calculate the Level of Efforts (LOE) required for this change.
• Coded complicate Java programs based on design documents in form of UML class diagrams.
• Design the overall application change, so that it does not impact the existing functionality.
• Re-developed application using improved J2EE architecture with Spring and hibernate framework.
• Worked in team using Agile development process.
• Participated in daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews and planning activities.
• Worked in pairs as pair programming usingTest-Driven Development.
• Established connection between different applications using JMS.
• Created OR mappings in hibernate for new tables and views.
• Extensively used Java, Servlets, Spring, Hibernate for development and implementation for this transition.
• Wrote SQL blocks, triggers, stored procedures, packages etc.
• Supported the newly built website for couple of months before handling it to production support team.
• Developed, tested and deployed the application on Tomcat server.

Environment: Java, JSP Servlets, Spring/Hibernate, MS SQL Server, Ant, Windows, JUnit, AGILE, Tomcat.