PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8.5 years of experience in Web and Web Service Application testing
• 5+ years of experience in automating web and web service applications
• 3.5 years of experience in leading a team of 9 in parallel to regular project activities
• Experience in mentoring and leading a team of 9 resources working on multiple applications
• Experience in automation (SoapSonar 5.0, QTP 9.2, SOATest 5.5) and manual testing
• Experience in developing and implementing QA practice and process
• Experience in leading teams from multiple geographic locations
• Experience in disaster recovery testing and Failover Testing
• Experience in testing Rule Engines and rule based applications
• 2 years of experience in BA activities.
• 4 years of experience in working on SOA and web service applications
• 2+ years of experience in working on Parasoft SOATest 5.5
• 2 years of experience in working on CCN SOAPSonar 5.0
• 1+ years of experience in working on HP QuickTestPro 9.2
• Experience in designing automation framework using QTP
• Experience in descriptive programming using VBScript
• Experience in testing mobile applications on Blackberry products
• Experience in working on web services supporting mobile applications
• Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Good knowledge of payroll, banking & telecom domains
• Involved in production release process
• Trained over 70 resources on SOA Test
• Trained and mentored 5 resources on SOA and web services to take on small projects independently
• Actively participated in process related activities
• Experience in testing miscellaneous applications at short notice in short span of time
• Experience in working on multiple applications and projects simultaneously
• Experience in working independently and as a team
• Member of technical interview panel
• Effectively automated UAT scenarios and performed extended UAT on web based applications using QTP
• Exposure to Function Point Analysis
• Experience in planning and resource allocation activities
• Experience in designing Test Plan and Sign - Off documents
• Experience in designed master data for production environment
• Experience in documenting and auditing the process implementation
• Exposure to Oracle Fusion Middleware (BPEL) and Oracle ADF development tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: HP QuickTestPro 9.2, Parasoft SOATest 5.5CCN SOAPSonar 5.0, HP Service Test 11Eviware SoapUI 5.0

Test Management Tool: Mercury Quality Center 8.2/9.2/10.0

Operating System: Windows family

Other Tools: Merant Dimensions 9.1, TOAD 8.6.1Borland CaliberRM 5.0, Vignette Application Portal 7.2, ORACLE SQL Developer 2.1

Middleware: Oracle Fusion Middleware (BPEL) R12

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Lead

Confidential, Universal City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 9 members working from offshore and onshore
• Gathering requirements over meetings with business
• Preparing requirement documents and release plans
• SPOC and owner of QA activities for the application
• Attending requirement review meetings with business
• Writing and moving test cases to Quality Center 10.0
• Performing internal reviews and coordinating external reviews for test casesdesigned by team members
• Performing System, Integration and Regression testing
• Performing test execution on mobile application on Blackberry
• Preparing and maintaining process related documents
• Estimating efforts and preparing test plans for every release
• Involved in planning and resource allocation for every release across the projects to be handled by the team
• Preparing Weekly status reports and Monthly metrics reports for the team
• Organizing Defect Triage Meetings with Business and Development teams on daily basis during the Test Execution phase
• Providing sign off documents for all projects for System test and integration testing
• Preparing master data and implementing the master data set up in production environment
• Supporting Load & Performance testing team with scenarios and data analysis
• Working with business team and perform UAT
• Participating in Go/No-Go meetings and issuing test
• Involved in Production Release process

Test Engineer/SME/Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 12 members working on various projects andreporting to different clients
• Gathering requirements over meetings with business
• Designing requirement documents and XSD documents.
• Attending requirement review meetings with business
• Writing and moving test cases to Quality Center 10.0
• Performing internal reviews and coordinating external reviews for test casesdesigned by team members
• Performing System, Integration and Regression testing
• Performing test execution on iPhone
• Preparing, running and maintaining test scripts in SoapSonar 5.0
• Supporting downstream applications as and when required
• Reviewing test cases written by consuming application’s test team
• Preparing and maintaining process related documents
• Estimating efforts and preparing test plans for every release
• Involved in planning and resource allocation for every release across the projects to be handled by the team
• Preparing Weekly status reports and Monthly metrics reports for the team
• Organizing Defect Triage Meetings with Business and Development teams on daily basis during the Test Execution phase
• SPOC for all web service projects from offshore
• Providing sign off documents for all projects for System test and integration testing

Test Engineer/Automation resource/Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending requirement review meetings with business
• Writing and moving test cases to QC 9.2
• Performing System, Inter-System and Regression testing
• Analyzing the automation feasibility of requirements for each project
• Preparing, running and maintaining test scripts in QTP 9.2
• Supporting downstream applications with orders as and when requested
• Running sanity scripts to check the health of the application after every emergency build and when environmental issues are fixed
• Automating Regression and UAT scenarios and providing UAT team with orders for their testing
• Reviewing test cases written by manual test team
• Preparing and maintaining process related documents
• Estimating automation efforts and preparing test plans for every release
• Supporting manual test team by providing orders for intersystem testing
• Involved in planning and resource allocation for every release across the projects to be handled by the team
• Preparing Weekly status reports and Monthly metrics reports for the team
• Involved in preparing Work Breakdown Structure and Project Management Plan
• Involved in giving demonstrations to Enterprise and UAT teams on new functionalities implemented

Test Engineer/SME/Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending requirement review meetings with business
• Writing and moving test cases to QC 8.2/9.2
• Performing System and Regression testing
• Preparing test suites and executing tests using SOATest 5.5
• Defect logging and preparing process documents
• Supporting Load & Performance testing team with data and analysis
• Working with business team and perform UAT
• Participating in Go/No-Go meetings and issuing test
• Involved in Production Release process

Test Engineer/SME/Automation resource/Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending requirement review meetings with business
• Writing and reviewing test cases and moving them to QC 8.2/9.2
• Performing System testing and Regression testing
• Defect logging and generating status report and defect reports on weekly basis
• Participating in Go/No-Go meetings and issuing test
• Involved in production release process

Test Engineer/Acting Lead

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Creating and maintaining modules of application in VAP 7.2
• Involved in production release process
• Voluntarily automated a quarterly maintenance activity using QTP 8.2Coordinating with Production Support and Development teams
• Working with Production Support team in replicating the issues raised by users

Test Engineer/Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing test cases based on requirement specification
• Performing System and regression testing
• Defect logging and issuing system test
• Organizing Go-NoGo and deployment meetings