SUMMARY

• 9 years of extensive and diversified experience in Information technology field with emphasis on, Software Quality Assurance,GUI, Manual, UAT testing of Web applications.
• 4 + Years of Test Management experience
• Well versed with Testing concepts and SDLC Methodologies
• Well experienced in Testing Center of Excellence(TCoE) model
• Have wealth of working experience in Banking & Finance, Retail and Media Research domains
• Working experience with defect management tools - HP ALM 12.01, HP Quality Center 10.00 andSIR Database
• Tested applications built inJava, J2EE, .Net, Sybase platforms
• Tested Salesforce.com application
• Involved in System, Functional, Regression, QTP and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Preparation of Test Estimation, Resource Modeling and Plan, Test Strategy
• Experienced in Preparation of Requirement Coverage Analysis, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Metrics for the projects
• Preparation of Execution Summary, Defect Summary Pie-Charts and Reports using the HP ALM &Quality Center
• Experience in writing SQL Queries in the scripts to query the database
• Familiarity in Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft Office Share Point 2010 tools
• Have wealth of experience in leading Offshore Teams and working with people from diverse cultures & Ethnic Background
• Strong detail orientation and problem solving skills.
• Efficient team player with excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and writing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Types of Software testing: Functional, Regression, Systemand UAT.

Test Management tools: HP ALM 12.01,HP Quality Center 10.0

Defect Management Tools: HP ALM 12.01, HP Quality Center 10.0, Lotus notes - SIR database

Languages: COBOL, JCL, C, C++, SQL, JAVA

Operating Systems: Windows8, 7, 2000/XP/Vista. Mac OS X Lion

Databases: Oracle 8.0/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, DB2 8.0

Other tools: Rapid SQL, Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, MS Office Suite 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the 10-member team in multiple locations.
• Preparing Testing Strategy, Test Estimation, Resource plan
• Providing cost effective measures to the resource model
• Conducted daily defect scrum meetings with Project management
• Generation of Test Execution status, Defect report for daily basis
• Track and Report accurate execution status to project management

Environment: Salesforce.com, HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Office Suite 2010, and Microsoft Project 2010

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the 10-member team in multiple locations.
• Preparing Testing Strategy, Test Estimation, Resource plan
• Providing cost effective measures to the resource model
• Conducted daily defect scrum meetings with Project management
• Generation of Execution status, Defect report for daily basis
• Conducted daily defect scrum meetings with Project management

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Office Suite 2010, and Microsoft Project 2010

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Testing Strategy, Test Estimation, Resource plan
• Providing cost effective measures to the resource model
• Generation of Execution status, Defect report for daily basis
• Track and Report accurate execution status to project management
• Conducted daily defect scrum meetings with Project management

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Office Suite 2010, and Microsoft Project 2010

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate business requirements, create detailed test scenarios and prepare the test cases.
• Managed the 5 member testing team and provided the status to project management
• Coordinate with the development teams for overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables
• Generation of defect report documentation, Test Summary Report for the project stake holders.

Environment: Rapid SQL, Sybase, DB2, J2EE, SIR database, MS Office Suite 2007, Microsoft Project 2007

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Testing Strategy and Test plans.
• Evaluate business requirements, perform a Gap analysis, and create detailed test scenarios, prepare the test cases.
• Executed the developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Coordinate with the offshore team for overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables

Environment: SIR Database, MS Office Suite 2007

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Testing Strategy and Test plans.
• Evaluate business requirements, perform a Gap analysis, and create detailed test scenarios, prepare the test cases.
• Executed the developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Exporting the test cases into Quality Center 9.2 and executing those test cases in the ‘Test Lab’.
• Generation of defect report documentation for the defects entered.
• Track and Report accurate status
• Be responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of the deliverables.
• Attended daily status meetings with Project management on testing update.

Environment: Oracle 10g, MS Office Suite 2007, Microsoft Project 2007, HP Quality Center 10.0.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Testing Strategy and Test plans.
• Evaluate business requirements, perform a Gap analysis, and create detailed test scenarios, prepare the test cases.
• Executed the developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Exporting the test cases into Quality Center 9.2 and executing those test cases in the ‘Test Lab’.
• Generation of defect report documentation for the defects entered.
• Track and Report accurate status

Environment: MS Excel, Oracle 8i, Java, Sybase, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Excel Files and Windows NT & UNIX.

Confidential

Functional Analyst & QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of the GM legacy applications.
• Preparing Testing Strategy and Test plans.
• Prepared Functional Scenarios, Test cases, TSDs and Functional Specification documents.
• Preparation of KT plan for New Joiners and onsite teams.
• Discussions with domain SME’s and scheduled KT sessions.
• Involved in preparation of test plan and estimates for requirements.
• Assigning tasks to the team members and contributing for test execution tasks in different test environments (ST& UAT).
• Conducting daily defect meetings with onsite and offshore teams and prioritizing the defects.
• Preparation of Project test status reports (Daily, Weekly, and Monthly) and reporting issues and concerns to Project manager & Delivery manager.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, MS Excel, IBM OS390,COBOL, JCL

Confidential, Florida

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate business requirements, perform a Gap analysis, and create detailed test scenarios, prepare the test cases.
• Executed the developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Performed functional, GUI, Browser compatibility and Regression testing
• Worked as Team lead and coordinating all the Testing activities with the offshore team of 10 members

Environment: MS Office Suite, Java, J2EE, Windows NT4.0, Remedy