SUMMARY

• Seven years of IT experience in system analysis and in Quality Assurance of Client/Server, and Web based applications. Excellent professional skills to prepare test plan and managing projects by meeting with business or technology owners to gather information to determine project parameters and specifications.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Plans and Test scripts.
• Well experienced in Test planning, documentation, defining and executing the test scripts.
• Proficient in QA processes, test strategies, and in performing Functional,
• GUI, Regression, Database, and Integration testing
• Strong experience in creating test scripts using Excel, Word and HP Quality Center / HP ALM.
• Strong skills in SQL, PL/SQL
• Expertise in working with different browsers like IE, Firefox.
• Excellent rapport with Business Analysts, Developers and Testers in the projects and worked in close collaboration with team members to ensure quality of the application.
• Good Skills in Manual testing and Web testing.
• Expertize in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows (XP/2000/NT/me/98/95)

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Unix/Linux.

Manual Test Tools: Quality Center, HP ALM 11.0, Clear Quest, XML/ULDD and QTP.

Languages: C, SQL, PL/SQL.

Packages: MS Office, VSS and Sharepoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Test Lead/Project Manager Involved in Day - to-Day activities related to supporting procurement technology systems.
• Work with Up/Down stream systems and other staff to determine business needs and functionalities desired for every release.
• As a Test Lead Involved in all aspects of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) from requirements definition to execution and deployment.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) from requirements definition to execution and deployment.
• Worked and supports to customizable requirements types to capture in all levels of requirements.
• Store them in the centralized repository, along with any supporting attachments.
• Worked on requirements traceability (RTM) and other Deliverables.
• Reuse and share application requirements
• Document changes to scope or functionalities with change ticket and other procurement related documentation which includes people soft information
• As a Test Lead Expertize in both customer-driven and technological industries, Facilitated development of Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse systems,
• Worked on FAA contracts
• As a Test Lead, I participated from the beginning of the Release. Like from the Initiation, I was involved in the scope analysis meetings.
• Interact with business and UAT people during requirement gathering.
• Managed a team of 12 people with 7 people From OR and the rest from SADC.
• Provided High level and Detailed LOE for different functional and Regression Testing.
• As a Test Lead Created Test Plan, Test Strategy documents and reviewed by the stake holders.
• Once the project plan is finalized, I send the formal email to all the up/down stream systems with the Integration time line, and asking their availability at that time. In that case we can avoid the last min conflicts.
• Worked with Application Developers, Business users and other stake holders during estimation, planning and execution phase.
• Worked for a total of 8 Release with in CMH (Capital Markets).
• Expertized in Bank, Financial and Treasury industries.
• As a Test Lead conduct a team meeting with the team every alternate day, so that we will discuss questions /concerns anything relevant to work. In that way able to see how the work is going on.
• Highly participated in the identifying, evaluating, and resolving highly complex test problems.
• Reviewed test deliverables, defects and test results with stake holders.
• Created reports and testing metrics as requested by senior management.
• As a Test Lead Managed Team members work during Planning and execution phase to ensure that testing is completed on time and within budget
• Identify risks and provide mitigation plan and escalate issues on timely manner to the management.
• Supported multiple releases parallely by assigning resources properly and coordinating with them.
• Working in High potential agile environment.
• Review the Test Results with UAT, Business and Dev team.
• Participated during the production time along with UAT, Business and Dev team.
• Experience working in an Agile SDLC using a SCRUM framework.
• Experience in prepare the documentation and ad-hoc functional tasks.
• Created PRR and PQO documents.
• Participated in the PRR and PQO Presentations along with the business delegated, directors and stake holders.
• As Test Lead involved in the project and team Budget/cost meetings.
• Worked with multiple up/down stream systems with the entire project time line, and asking their availability at that time and also.
• To establish and maintain a timely manner test methodology and to resolve questions during the testing process.
• Worked on new Industry methodologies for improvising the testing process.
• As a Test Lead, Supported SIT efforts for Web-Services application.
• As a Test Lead Supported automation efforts for Web-Services application.
• Extensively used QTP for developing the automation scripts.
• Developed Custom Functions to be used by QTP Scripts.
• Prepared data for all the manual test cases in QC for automation.
• Prepared all the ER files needed for the automating the test cases.
• Executed Test cases in QC and updated the status and attachments for each test case.
• Created XML files from Excel and validated the XML Response back to Excel
• Interacted with developers in case of any issues.
• Involved in the test case review meetings by the team members.
• Responsible for updating the status to the lead on a daily basis.
• Used DOORS to verify the requirements.
• Used ClearQuest to Open and View the defects.
• Use SQL to generate procurement reports
• Performed Backend database testing to validate the data using complex SQL queries.
• Ability to communicate proficiently with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Handle responsibilities of organizing data in tables and provides support
• Perform the tasks of ensuring that the data is stored and maintained properly in the backend
• Responsible for identifying and solving system deadlock, data loss, and data corruption issues
• Handle the tasks of identifying bug in back end and perform fixing of bugs
• Conduct root cause analysis on Production issues, and develop plan to mitigate recurrence
• Extensively used Share point and extranet systems for Ticket Tracking
• Good in creating and updating the test scripts
• Worked on EPPM Tool for report generation

Environment: Java, J2EE, DOORS, ClearQuest, GEMS, Agile, QTP, SQL server, HP ALM / HP QC11.0 and Oracle

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr.QA Analyst, participate in Sprint planning by providing LOE.
• Review Business, Design and Data Requirements
• Create and Review BAS with Business and QA manager and get sign off.
• Performed different types of testing like Extraction, Transformation and Loading
• Based on Transformation Logic, created Derivations
• Create scrub book when data is required and mock test data when source data not available.
• Create test cases using standard test case template.
• Review the test cases in Excel and export to Quality Center
• Participate in daily stand-ups to communicate to the delivery team and QA Manager about the issues, concerns / risks.
• Executed ETL jobs(Ab-Initio) on Unix and validate against the database
• Worked independently on multiple projects
• Working with delivery team to resolve defects and issues.
• Validating defects and updating BAS Results and generate test completion report.

Environment: Java, JBOSS, Ab-Initio, Oracle, Quality Center, Clear Quest and UNIX.

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr.Test Engineer, developed all the test cases based on the requirements document.
• Involved in the status meetings to discuss the issues and progress of the application on a weekly basis
• Used Clear Quest to open and validate the defects.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to validate that all requirements are covered.
• Created XML files to be used for Web-Services application and validated the response XML
• Used SQL Server for backend validation.
• Verified the log files for error messages when the application encounters any errors.
• Performed bug regression, release testing and supported end to end testing.
• Responsible to work with the developers to get the defects fixed.
• Tested the applications with different versions of web browsers and Operating system.
• Involved in the release meeting to see the status of the application after installed in the production.

Environment: Java, JBOSS, SQL Server, Visual Source Safe, Quality Center, Clear Quest and QTP