SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of experience in the field of Software Testing with a sagacious knowledge of various testing tools, operating systems, client - server technologies, web technologies.
• Excel at interpretation of client needs to produce high levels of satisfaction on time and within budget.
• Thrive in cohesive, productive groups of creative people.
• Visionary and goal-oriented consultant with demonstrated experience in planning, testing, quality assurance and implementing cutting edge information solutions to address business opportunities.
• 12+ years of diversified experience in Quality Assurance testing; Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing using HP Interactive tools like QTP, Test Director / Quality Center and ALM.
• Proficient in analyzing the Business, Functional requirements, Specification (FRS) & Design documents to formulate test plans and test cases.
• Excellent Experience in Agile testing methodology and have extensively used IBM RTC (Rational Team Concert) for creating Product backlogs in Sprint 0, Pointing and Ranking the user stories, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meetings. Effectively working with near shore and offshore teams in handoff meetings.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, User Acceptance, Web services, Database, Load Testing, and End to End Testing
• Excellent experience in managing the whole testing process flow using HP Mercury Interactive Test Management tool - Quality Center 10.0
• Have adequate experience in providing Estimates, Resource & schedule planning and QA lead activity.
• Excellent experience in writing test cases from different requirement documents and find multiple combinations of testing scenarios for thorough testing avoiding redundancy and reducing cost
• Experienced with Onshore / Off Shore / Near-shore model Projects. Involved in initial Financial Year Planning to go through high level Business Capability Assessments (BCA) to allocate budget & resources across various programs & identifying cross dependencies and align all programs to the roadmap.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure; Dynamic and assertive team player with strong communication skills and strong commitment
• Innovative, Self-starter and self-motivated with Strong Analytical and problem solving skills.
• HPQC 10.0 - Hands on experience for 6 years in Test Management (from Requirements to Defect Management)
• Test Director 7.2 - Hands-on experience in Designing of Test Scripts and Defect Tracking in 3 Projects.
• Win Runner 7.0 - Hands-on experience in Recording and playing back scripts and creating Data-Driven Tests in 2 Projects.
• HP Load Runner 7.0 - Hands on Experience in performance testing in 3 Projects
• Expertise in complete software testing life cycle process, which includes Test Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Reports.
• Expertise in Manual Testing.
• Played lead role in onsite-offshore model projects.
• Handled client business, client IT directly for knowledge acquisition and status reporting.
• Extensive experience in using MSOffice products including MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing of Business required documents and Functional Specifications, Identification of Test Requirements.
• Preparing Estimation and Effort for the Release Projects
• Preparing Test plan, Test scope, Test Data Requirements and Exit report
• Preparing Traceability Matrix and Reviewing Test scripts
• Experience in establishing QA Procedures / Standards to meet QA, documenting the Testing Procedures and Test Cases to meet the Testing Cycle.
• Analyzing the User requirements and Creating/Modifying test cases based on the client Specifications.
• Pro actively monitor and escalate risks/issues, and implement mitigation and contingency plan.
• Review the Team deliverables for conformity to quality and standards.
• Manage Test team task allocations to ensure successful delivery (on-time and with expected quality).
• Work closely with project / Delivery managers and developing team to get the issues resolved.
• Reporting the testing and daily activity progress to the client
• Attending Daily Defect and Client Call and sending Defect Summary to client.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
• Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
• Providing status reports to the project sponsor.
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management.
• Managing project evaluation and dissemination activities.
• Managing consultancy input within the defined budget.
• Final approval of the design specification.
• Working closely with users to ensure the project meets business needs.
• Definition and management of the User Acceptance Testing program.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning & Estimations.
• Coordinated as a single point of resource across the project team: both onshore and offshore.
• Review and Analyze the Business Requirements in a testing and automation perspective view.
• Work with Business Users and analyzed the objective of business scenario to understand business requirements and application functionality for script development.
• Coordinated with the project team regarding the testing of complex software applications and modifications, providing testing strategies from project start through implementation.
• Plan the tests including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident management.
• Design and document the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center in each release.
• Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodology.
• Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.
• Review the system, integration and user acceptance tests prepared by test engineers.
• Collaborate with Technical Lead for unit and integration testing; review unit and integration test plans/results.
• Coordinated with external teams and vendors.
• Maintained the project in Quality Center based on release calendar.
• Conducted GUI, Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing and logged the defects in the defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center.
• Initiate the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria.
• Adapt planning based on test results and progress and take any action necessary to compensate for problems.
• Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.
• Provide Sign Off at each phase of testing as per the entry/exit criteria in each phase.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning & Estimations.
• Coordinated as a single point of resource across the project team: both onshore and offshore.
• Review and Analyze the Business Requirements in a testing and automation perspective view.
• Coordinated with the project team regarding the testing of complex software applications and modifications, providing testing strategies from project start through implementation.
• Plan the tests including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident management.
• Design and document the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center in each release.
• Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on Agile methodology.
• Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.
• Use testing tools to build and record automated test scenarios, execute test scripts, prepare the test data and document defects.
• Review the system, integration and user acceptance tests prepared by test engineers.
• Collaborate with Technical Lead for unit and integration testing; review unit and integration test plans/results.
• Coordinated with external teams and vendors.
• Maintained the project in Quality Center based on release calendar.
• Conducted GUI, Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing and logged the defects in HP Quality Center
• Initiate the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria.
• Adapt planning based on test results and progress and take any action necessary to compensate for problems.
• Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.
• Provide Sign Off at each phase of testing as per the entry/exit criteria in each phase.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for effort estimation for QA phase of the projects
• Involved in review and sign-off of requirements
• Develop Test strategy, Test Plan & Test Coverage report based on the priority of the requirements
• Review data strategy and data-setup activities
• Review test objectives & test cases
• Walkthrough the individual Business units of the QA process & procedures
• Manage the QA phase of projects which includes test execution management & defect management

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage QA activities for various projects in the Online Banking & related applications with an average QA effort of 5 person months per project
• Manage a 14 member team comprising of onshore testers(full time, contractors & student trainees), offshore testers and data analysts
• Responsible for effort estimation for QA phase of the projects
• Involved in review and sign-off of requirements
• Develop Test strategy, Test Plan & Test Coverage report based on the priority of the requirements
• Review data strategy and data-setup activities
• Review test objectives & test cases
• Walkthrough the individual Business units of the QA process & procedures
• Manage the QA phase of projects which includes test execution management & defect management

Confidential, Wichita, KS

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team management
• Single point of contact for testing requirements of the project.
• Preparation of Test strategy, Test plan, Test reports.
• Involved in preparation of Detailed Test Plans, Detailed Test Cases and Detailed Test Scripts for Manual and Automation testing
• Maintaining deliverables like Test Plans, Test Cases and Review Defect Forms
• Identifying the Test Cases that could be Automated and capturing those Test Cases through Mercury’s Quick Test Professional 8.2
• Maintaining the Manual and Automated Test scripts through Test Director 8.0
• Involved in preparing Test Execution Run plan for Manual and Automation Testing
• Involved in preparing Data Guidelines document for Manual and Automation Testing

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation of Detailed Test Plans, Detailed Test Cases and Detailed Test Scripts both Manual and Automated
• Maintaining deliverables like Test Plans, Test Cases and Review Defect Forms
• Identifying the Test Cases that could be Automated and capturing those Test Cases through Tevrons’ Functionality Testing Tool, Citra Test 5.0
• Maintaining the Manual and Automated Test scripts in PVCS
• Involved in preparing Test execution Run plan for Manual and Automation Testing
• Involved in preparing data guidelines document for Manual and Automation Testing

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead an offshore team of 4 QA analysts
• Identify testing scope for every release
• Design Test Plan
• Review of Test wares - Test Conditions, Data Requirements, Test cases, Test execution Plan, & Traceability Matrix
• QA sign-off to release for UAT
• Trained QA team members

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• During Design Phase - Understanding of Functional Specification, Requirement specifications, Preparation of Phase system plan, Traceability Matrix, Prioritization of Test conditions, Test cases
• Reviewing the prepared test conditions and Test cases
• Reviewing and assigning of the defects
• Design and prioritize test cases.
• Client interaction
• Defect Management using Test Director 8.0.
• Retest resolved bugs on each release

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the Design Solution and the Prototype
• Evaluate Functional requirements and use cases to create functional test cases, scripts and pre-conditions
• Preparation of Test Scenarios, Data guidelines
• Preparation of Traceability Matrix
• Execution of Test Cases and Logging of Defect in Test Director
• Preparation of Defect Log with screenshots
• Performed Integration testing, System testing, Functionality Testing and Regression testing

Confidential

Test Associate

Responsibilities:

• Design Test wares for Functional testing - Test Conditions, Test cases, Data Guidelines, Run Plan, Check List, Traceability Matrix
• Perform Test Execution & Defect tracking
• Train end users on new applications
• Design UAT scenarios; perform UAT execution & Defect Tracking

Confidential

UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform Test Execution & Defect tracking
• Design UAT scenarios; perform UAT execution & Defect Tracking