SUMMARY:

• IT professional (MCA) with 6 years of rich experience in Software Quality Testing, Project Execution and the successful delivery of software projects. 2 years of additional experience as Software Trainer.
• Previously associated with Confidential Limited, Kalkaji, New Delhi as Senior Test Engineer.
• Extensive experience in Black Box (Functional) Testing of Information Systems for various web based applications including projects in IT - ITES-Internet, eLearning, Public(Application work flow with different users role & email relationship), Leisure, Travel & Tourism (Flights, Cars & Hotels) domain.
• Well versed with all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) with skills in identifying loopholes at various instances in the process.
• Well versed with all stages of V-Model regarding verification (Static Testing) and Validation (Dynamic Testing).
• Extensive experience in release processes of software project development, weekly build and daily content uploads.
• Distinction of mentoring and leading teams that have reported consistent escalation in productivity and have been working with absolute loyalty.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills that have been put to good use while interacting with Clients & Internal Teams to facilitate seamless execution of projects.
• An enterprising leader with strong communication, analytical, organisational and relationship management skills.
• Fundamental Knowledge in automation (Exposure in QTP), SQL, UNIX, Agile Scrum methodologies, ISO & CMM / CMMI.
• Track requirements, understand User Cases, prepare Functional Test Plans, design Test Scenario’s & Test Cases.
• Ensure that Test Strategy and Test Plan are updated and base lined to reflect changes to the project risk profile, schedule, testing processes, etc.
• Conduct Test Case / Test Readiness Review meetings. Administer the test and configuration environment set ups as per client requirements. Prepare Build for QA Environment to execute test cases, E2E test cases & Regression Suit.
• Perform rigorous Black Box (Functional) Testing and identifying, analyzing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content. Defect logging & retesting.
• Execute database queries using Toad provided by development and ensures data integrity and errors while executing select, update and delete SQL database queries. Fundamental knowledge of database concepts.
• Perform compatibility testing using different browsers XP/IE, FireFox, Opera, Vista/IE-7, and MAC/SAFARI.
• Write release notes, provide builds and coordinate with Hosting Team for Staging and Production releases.
• Prepare various matrixes required for analysing progress of Testing and Quality of the product.
• Supervise the planning, execution and documentation of all entry and exit criteria reviews.
• Guide and mentor Test Team technically as well as product knowledge wise, & deliver the project releases on time.
• Interface with Business Analyst and Development for mapping requirements & finalising specifications.
• Support design & development; undertake testing, debugging and troubleshooting of the application.
• Oversee smooth implementation of the application. Facilitate the installation of software at client locations. Interact with team members to ensure smooth progress of project work.
• Ensure adherence to quality norms throughout the development & implementation process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: Quality Center 9.2, ZIRA 3.8, Bugzilla 3.4.6

Tools usedfor Build: Eclipse SDK 3.4.2, WinSCP 3.6.8, JBoss 5.0

Configuration Management Tools: CVS, VSS, Subversion-SVN

RDBMS: Oracle (SQL), Ms Access

Data Base Tool: Toad 4.6.0 for SQL Server & Toad 9.0.1 for Oracle

Operating System: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS, Linux/Unix. Testing Tools Known(exposure): QTP 8.2/9.2

Terminal Emulator: Putty 0.60

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer, Manual

Responsibilities:

• The Confidential of India is an autonomous body of Government of India and Indian Industry to establish and operate accreditation structure and promote quality through nation-wide quality campaign. It required an online system for school, EIA consultants and hospitals to automate accreditation process by applying online for accreditation and publishing the results of assessment online. Online accreditation system should help in select assessor team and schedule assessment visits. Online system should be able to maintain the history of application. Dynamic form generation and Payment gateway are one of those key features. It deals in issuing and renewal of online Accreditation system with three different sector - School, Hospital & EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment).

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer, Manual

Responsibilities:

• QLearn LMS is designed with a vision to enable organisations and corporations operating in various domains to deliver cost effective and efficient services to their learning and communities. It covers various functions such as learning,, onsite messaging, performance tracking and reporting. The administrator of QLearn manages the entire system administration, organizations, users and s. It provides following functionalities: Home, Message Center, Manage Catalog, Configure Site, User Management, My Profile, Reports, as well as Department.

Confidential

Test Analyst, Manual

Responsibilities:

• Confidential are part of the lastminute.com group. Apart from their website Confidential have also their call centre application known as Voyager. In the process of making a quote or a booking, Voyager generates a unique number which identifies the complete lifecycle of a customer’s transaction is called the Voyager Booking number. A present the Voyager booking number is a seven digit numerical sequence. It is proposed that it be increased to an eight digit numerical sequence. At present ownership and tax for any booking belongs to point of sale. It is proposed that ownership as well as tax will belong to point of consumption.

Confidential

Senior Executive Testing, Manual

Responsibilities:

• The DRE Project was implemented on hotel club, rates to go and asia hotels. The aim of the project is to implement a location based search capability using geocodes mapped to Confidential ’s current location data. In order to achieve this, there are following requirements: geo-coding, predictive text search, and search results rules.

Confidential

Senior Executive Testing, Manual

Responsibilities:

• MTM Project is implemented on Hotel Club ( http://www. Confidential .com), RatesToGo ( http://www.ratestogo.com) and Asia Hotels ( http://www.asiahotels.com). The multi tier project has been broken into three parts as follows: Data Segmentation, Tier Implementation, and Dynamic Switch. Data segmentation is described as:
• Platinum Club i.e. 5 Star (6 or more bookings), Gold Club i.e. 4 Star (2-5 bookings), Silver Club i.e. 3 Star (0-1 bookings) based on booking activity over a 2 year period. Tier Implementation is the display of the segmented data back to the member user. Dynamic Switch functionality enables the Member$ payback percentages to be altered. This percentage payback will be displayed to the Member via the Tier Implementation in the booking path.

Confidential

Senior Executive Testing

Responsibilities:

• It is a world-leading last minute online hotel reservation service, offering great service and discounted hotel rates. It is operated by Confidential Travel Pvt. Ltd., Australia. It has a worldwide network which provide hotel reservation service in multiple languages - Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

Confidential

Senior Executive Testing, Manual

Responsibilities:

• The project entails redevelopment of the main booking path of Confidential site (from Home Page to Thank You Page) to improve the overall user experience. The main purpose is to revamp look and feel to make the Hotel Club booking engine more user friendly. Confidential is operated by Confidential Travel Pty Ltd. Australia that is one of the world's largest and most geographically diverse collections of travel brands.
• Confidential is a world leading global accommodation website offering hotel bookings for up to 12 months in advance. Confidential offers an extensive range of 1 to 5 star properties through luxury resorts, serviced apartments, budget motels and global hotel chains. Confidential offers its services in multiple languages including: Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Swedish and Polish.

Confidential

Executive Testing, Manual

Responsibilities:

• The Payment Gateway is essentially a gateway to which multiple products and applications can connect. When a payment is submitted, and after initial form validation has been done (ensuring all the necessary fields have been populated) it is passed to the Payment Gateway. The Gateway determines the
• PSP (Payment Service Provider) account and then passes to it for Authorisation. Authorisation is initially done for a minimal amount to validate the card and then a full amount is processed. If the product requires a third party to take payment, the amount passed through the gateway will just be for the booking fees and any Cross Sell with that product. Once payment is authorised and confirmed, it is passed to the Notifier which will then capture the payment from the PSP. It is implemented following versions of Confidential UK,DE,AT,CH,SE,DK,NO FI,FR,IE,BE,NL,ES.

Confidential

Executive Testing

Responsibilities:

• The aim of the project is to build a centralised web service that acts as the Low Cost Carrier Hub for accessing and distributing airline content to all TDS channels (B2B & B2C & Agency). This Low Cost Carrier Hub is the aggregation point for GDS and non-GDS Airline content. Implemented LCC functionality using Openjaw in UK and other EU countries of Confidential that do not have LCC content.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of the application from relevant documents BRD and FSD.
• Writing of test cases. Execution of test cases and Defect Logging.
• Prepare report for Test Set run and Defect Logged. Retest bug fixes, Run Regression suit.

Confidential

Software Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Provided for Visual Basic 6.0 & MS-Access in-house projects and understanding of the applications.
• Provided in writing test cases, execution of test cases, logging the bugs in test director.
• Given the guest lectures in Software Engineering, RDBMS (Oracle), Data Structure and UNIX.