SUMMARY:

• Senior Software Quality Assurance Professional with Over 15 + Years of experience in Software Testing and Automation Activities.
• Well versed in Defining Test Strategy & Test Plans, Designing Test Cases, Standardizing Test Procedures, QC Administration and Establishing Test Environments. Having hands on experience in Building Test Teams by Conducting Interviews, New Testing Team Members for the Project and Setting Test Team with Required Access to Applications and Databases. Well versed in Client/Server, ETL, SOA, Internet & Web applications, Web Services, MicroStrategy and Legacy system environments and Embedded Systems in Banking & Finance, Insurance, Annuity, Mortgage, Pricing and Promotions, Anti - Money Laundering, Credit Risk Management.
• Having Hands on Experience in Developing Complex SQL Queries to Validate ETL Processes, Reports, Unix Shell Scripts, SQL, C, C++, HP Mercury TSL, VuGen Script, Visual Basic scripting, SOAP, UI environment.
• Having hands on expertise in HP Mercury Suites include ALM, QC, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Silk Test, Selenium.
• Automated processing by creating and developing Perl scripts in UNIX environment. Thorough knowledge in Data Migration, Integration Testing & ETL Process and Developing Test Strategies for New Implementations and Major Releases with good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Automation Tools: Win Runner 9.2, Load Runner 9.1, Quick Test Professional 10.0 (QTP), Silk Test, Silk Performer, Selenium.

Quality Assurance: Quality Center, ALM, JIRA, BugZilla, ISO, CMM 5, KPAs, PCMM, CMMI, Process Plan Reviews etc.

RDBMS: Oracle 11g, Oracle EBS, DB2 8, Siebel, MS SQL Server 2007, MS Access 2003.

Programming Language: C, C++, JAVA, C#

Scripting Language: UNIX Shell Scripts, VB Script, Perl Script, TCL/TK & Expect scripts, VuGen Script, TSL

GUI Applications: .Net, VB 6.0, VC++, Java SWINGS, Actuate Reports, MicroStrategy Reports.

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/NT/9x/2000, UNIX, LINUX, HP-UX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

UAT Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 12 UAT Testers
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with offshore & onshore development & business stake holders.
• Validated UNIX shell and PERL scripts as part of the QSMP Package
• Involved planning and testing of new MicroStrategy reports.
• Involved in planning and testing of any modifications to the existing MicroStrategy reports.
• Created & reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases for UAT testing.
• Conducted QC Administration, designed & implemented new functionalities, workflows, configurations and set up roles & permissions for QC users.
• Analysed & debugged SQL Statements, Stored Procedures and monitored for slow performance and conducted stress analysis & fine tuned indexes.
• Generated reports in Quality Centre 11.
• Used Perl Scripts to perform QC checks to find any difference of data between source and target file
• UsedUNIX environmentto validate the auto-generation and content of the emails when a is created.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development Teams to resolve defects.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Agile PLM, SOA, Java, JSP, Oracle 11g, MicroStrategy, Oracle SQL Developer, PL/SQL, Quality Centre (QC)

Confidential, Lynchburg, VA

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 12 Test Analysts
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with offshore & onshore team.
• DevelopedPerlscripts to automate the process of updating host software and modifiedPerlbuild scripts to build new software releases.
• Involved planning and testing of new MicroStrategy reports.
• Involved in planning and testing of any modifications to the existing MicroStrategy reports.
• Reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases for System, Regression & UAT testing.
• Write Perl scripts to define code mappings and business rule application.
• Conducted QC Administration, designed & implemented new functionalities, workflows, configurations and set up roles & permissions for QC users.
• Analysed & debugged SQL Statements and Stored Procedures, monitored for slow performance and conducted stress analysis & fine tuned indexes.
• Generated reports in Quality Center 11.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development Teams to resolve defects.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Agile PLM, SOA, SOAP UI, Web Services, MicroStrategy, Java, JSP, Jscript, JUnit, Oracle 11g, Oracle EBS, PL/SQL, SQL Profiler, Siebel, Mainframe, Quality Center (QC) 11, ALM 11.5, QTP, Selenium.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 5 Test Engineers
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with onshore team.
• Reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases for System, Regression & UAT testing.
• Maintained UAT/Dev Test environments.
• Analysed & debugged SQL Statements and Stored Procedures, monitored for slow performance and conducted stress analysis & fine tuned indexes.
• Involved planning and testing of new MicroStrategy reports.
• Involved in planning and testing of any modifications to the existing MicroStrategy reports.
• Regular Database Static Refresh and Clear down done.
• Conducted QC Administration, designed & implemented new functionalities, workflows, configurations and set up roles & permissions for QC users.
• Troubleshooting done on UNIX test environments.
• Quality Assurance of Java-based IM Downloads and Alerts on SIM.COM, Web & Schwab Link Client. Launch Run PERL & Unix-based Alerts and Downloads File Splitter Perl and Unix Shell scripts.
• Generated reports using Unix Shell scripts.
• Involved in developing complex SQL queries to verify data integrity with databases.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development Teams to resolve Issues.
• Captured Daily work progress & Generated weekly Status report.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Agile PLM, SOA, SOAP UI, FX, Oracle, MicroStrategy, PL/SQL, SQL Profiler, Siebel, UNIX Shell Scripts, Jira, Quality Center (QC), QTP.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 12 Test Engineers
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with offshore & onshore team.
• Involved planning and testing of new MicroStrategy reports.
• Involved in planning and testing of any modifications to the existing MicroStrategy reports.
• Reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases for System, Regression & UAT testing for various modules such as Security Availability, Order Management, External Availability and Report generation.
• Involved in developing complex SQL queries to verify data integrity with databases.
• Analysed & debugged SQL Statements and Stored Procedures, monitored for slow performance and conducted stress analysis & fine tuned indexes.
• Involved in defects verification and regression.
• Conducted QC Administration, designed & implemented new functionalities, workflows, configurations and set up roles & permissions for QC users.
• Coordinated with other interfacing teams to resolve defects.
• Automated regression test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Generated Defect analysis report for Release level testing.
• Maintained Issue Log’s for release level testing.
• Captured Daily work progress & Generated weekly Status report.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, Agile PLM, SOA, SOAP UI, Web Services, MicroStrategy, Actimize Case Manager Model, FX, Options, AML, Anti-Money Laundering, Cash Market, Equity Market, Windows NT, Siebel, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL Profiler, Sybase, Perl, Oracle EBS, DB2, SQL, Integration, Migration, ETL, UNIX Shell Scripts, QC, QTP, Selenium.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 9 Senior Test Engineers
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with offshore & onshore team.
• Prepared Test Plans for Functional, Integration, System and Regression testing of ETL & Integration processes.
• Created / reviewed test cases for various modules such as Security Availability, Order Management, and External Availability and Report generation.
• Conducted Build Verification, Functional, System, Regression and Performance Testing.
• Involved in developing complex SQL queries to verify data integrity with databases.
• Developed test cases and scripts using Perl.
• Involved in defects verification and regression.
• Involved in testing the capture of Credit Risk & Market Risk Management data.
• Worked in waterfall model & in incremental (iterative) development environment.
• Automated regression test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Environment: Windows NT, SOA, Web Services, SOAP UI, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, CICS, SAS, SQL, Migration & Integration testing, ETL, UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl, Java/Flex, SOAP, XML, Oracle, PL/SQL, QTP, Web Services, JIRA

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 10 Test Engineers
• Planned & Coordinated QA activities with offshore & onshore team.
• Created / reviewed test cases for various modules such as equities trading, options, stocks, bonds and commodities.
• Effectively utilized Bloomberg/Portia
• Conducted QC Administration, designed & implemented new functionalities, workflows, configurations and set up roles & permissions for QC users.
• Designed and developed automated scripts using QTP to perform Regression Testing for Fixed Income, Hedge Fund and Derivatives.
• Conducted Build Verification, Functional, System and Regression Testing in the waterfall model.

Environment: Windows NT, FX, UNIX, Java/J2EE, PL/SQL, Sybase, Cognos, QTP, Quality Center 9.2

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Sanity Testing of new builds.
• Performed Bug Fix Verification.
• Executed Black box testing.
• Created Test Cases.
• Performed manual testing and Defect Verification.
• Developed Automation Scripts using Expect Scripting.
• Setup of the Switches to recreate Defects and to verify the Bug Fix.

Environment: IP filters, UDP Forwarding, Radius Servers, VRRP, MLT, RMON, DHCP, Static routes, TCL/TK/Expect Scripts.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in learning and knowledge sharing of C# language.
• Gained knowledge on .NET Framework 7.0.
• Developed .NET applications to acquire hands on .NET Framework.

Environment: C#, Visual Studio.NET 7.0, Windows 2000

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identified objects and their functions.
• Detailed design: Designing logic and writing program specs for online and batch processes.
• Developed the three Modules using Java and COMM Package.
• Developed Test Cases.
• Involved in Black box testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Defect Verification.
• Fixed Bugs for Integration Testing Defects.
• Fixed Bugs for User Acceptance Testing Defects.

Environment: Embedded Systems, RS-232 Cable, COM Port, TVS UPS, DELL Machine, JAVA, SWINGS, COMM Package, ComPro, Windows.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified objects and their functions.
• Designed logic and written program specs for online and batch processes.
• Coded in C language on Unix environment.
• Developed Test Cases.
• Conducted Manual Testing and Defect Verification.

Environment: C, H.323, H.225 UNIX, Shell Scripts, HP-UX, Embedded Systems.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coded in Visual Basic 6.0.
• Developed Test Cases.
• Conducted Black box testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Defect Verification.
• Bug Fixing for Integration Test Defects.

Environment: VB 6.0, ADO, ODBC, SQL Server 7.0, Crystal Report

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coded in Visual Basic 6.0.
• Prepared Test Cases.
• Conducted Black box testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Defect Verification.
• Fixed Bugs for Integration Test Defects.

Environment: VB 6.0, ADO, ODBC, SQL Server 7.0, Crystal Report, IBM Machine.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• High level designing and coding in C++.
• Prepared Test Cases.
• Conducted Black box Testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Defect Verification.
• Fixed Bugs for captured Test Defects.

Environment: C++ on DOS with Embedded Systems

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• High level designing and coding in C++.
• Prepared Test Cases.
• Conducted Black box Testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Defect Verification.
• Fixed Bugs for captured Test Defects.

Environment: C++ on DOS with Embedded Systems.