SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and result - driven Quality Assurance professional with over 10 years’ experience in application testing, requirement analysis, developing and implementing test strategies, operational procedures and quality methodologies to support development and release of business applications in both Agile and Waterfall methodology. Highly motivated, detail oriented, having ability to work independently and as a part of the team with testers and developers in testing complex projects. working closely with business users and end users to clearly understand the Business Requirements, and Software Requirements Specifications preparing High Level SWAG Estimates for the Projects testing in multiple browser
• GUI based software testing testing client/server and Web applications with bug tracking and reporting tools like Rational Clear Quest, StarTeam, JIRA and VersionOne working as part of agile team and participated in sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, task assignments, sprint reviews, and retrospectives preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defects log and Test Metrics, leading and motivating cross functional and offshore teams integration and testing of third party software

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing Tools: RPT, RFT

Operating System: Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP/7

Languages: C, C++, HTML, Java

RDBMS: Oracle 8/9i/10i, PL/SQL, Ms Access

Other Tools: HTML, TOAD, MS Office, Clear Case, Clear Quest, RETS API tool, Star Team, Help Star Service Request, JIRA, Version One, Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

QA TEAM LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Led the testing team by coming up with efficient testing techniques and tracking the team members work on daily basis to deliver quality product and meeting the dead lines in an Agile environment.
• Worked as part of agile team and participated in backlog grooming, sprint planning, task estimates including SWAG, task sequencing, task assignments, sprint reviews, daily scrum and retrospectives.
• Creatively addressed conflicts between schedule, costs and quality goals.
• Involved in coming up with efficient test plans and defining test cases on complex features of the application for Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing. Helped the team members to define test cases based on the designed Test plan.
• Involved in identifying and documenting the screens that needed to look across different browsers to make sure the GUI is intact on different browsers on different platforms.
• Managed Mobile Testing activities on both iOS and Android versions of MRIS Mobile App
• Involved in preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Defects log, and Test Metrics using VersionOne/StarTeam/HelpStar/JIRA for different projects
• Prepared reports, charts and graphs on project status and made presentations to management to keep them updated
• Scheduling and running testing status and defect calls.
• Attending daily calls with Vendors & Offshore Testing Resources
• Provided QA sign-off for the Releases done in UAT / Production
• Performed backend testing by using SQL to verify the actual and expected results.
• Extensively used SQL to perform data integrity testing and to load data.
• Develop data requirement documents for testing the data conversion.
• Conduct detailed and an extensive test of data that is being migrated to Cornerstone using RETS API tool and also the front end of the MLSs.
• Involved in identifying the features that needs to be automated and documenting the features that cannot be automated but needed to be verified manually before every release.
• Worked with Cornerstone Migration Management System (CMMS) to configure the picklist items and also used CMMS to compare the data for QA Test bed.
• Performed testing of Security Roles using Cornerstone Administration Tool (CAT) and created picklist items in CAT.

Environment: VersionOne, RETS API tool, Salesforce, CRM, Java, CAT, CMMS, Star Team, JIRA, MS Office, SharePoint and Windows XP

Confidential, DC

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create test cases, test scenarios and test scripts
• Perform System and Regression Testing and reported QA status during team meetingd
• Develop and maintain test plans for enhancements to existing system.

Environment: Java, HTML, MS Office and Windows XP

Confidential, MD

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases, test scenarios and test scripts for Member, and Rate Setting modules.
• Performed intense System and Integration Testing, and created RTM
• Develop and maintain test plans for enhancements to existing system.
• Track software issues using Clear Quest and provide updates to the Enhancement List
• Created management report and tracking tasks in Microsoft Project (MPP)

Environment: Java, HTML, Empirix, Oracle, TOAD, As-One, Microsoft VSS, Rules Engine, Clear Case, Clear Quest, MS Office, MS Project and Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Tester/developer

Responsibilities:

• Creating and updating test plans according to the system requirements.
• Involved in analysis of various Tests scripts, Test Scenarios, Test plans.
• Extensively used SQL to perform data integrity testing.
• Performed user interface testing for examining the spelling the button text, window title text, label text and checking for the consistency.
• Tested the functionality against a variety of browsers
• Extensively tested the Shopping Cart in the application by placing end-to-end orders.
• Involved in the complete Testing Life-Cycle of all the applications

Environment: Test Director, Java, HTML, Oracle, MS-Office and Windows 95