SUMMARY

• Results oriented Software QA Lead with 12 years total experience, including 6 years managing large, SDLC compliant on - shore and off-shore QA test teams.
• Facilitated key QA methodologies, processes, value ads and metrics standards resulting in increased quality of releases delivered to clients.
• Strong analytical skills with solid technical background in distributed development environments, IDE and various automation tools.Passionate about working in Agile Environment, learning new applications and tools.
• Excellent testing experience in all phases and stages of Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle with good working knowledge of testing methodologies, disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling.
• 10 year of diverse experience in the field of Information Systems with emphasis on Application development and Quality Assurance projects.
• Having extensive experience in testing projects working in Waterfall and Agile Methodology.
• 6 year experience in preparing and maintaining Estimation, Resource plan and Project plan for Testing projects using MS Excel and MS Project Plan.
• Very good understanding and hands-on experience in testing concepts like Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Design, Scripting, Execution and Defect Management.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect management and Bug Reporting Tools like HP Quality Center, ALM with RTC integration.
• Proficiency in HP UFT and HP ALM with hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding and working experience in SOA testing using SoapUI, HP Service Test, Para Soft, AppWatch and RFHutil with good knowledge on Web sphere Message Broker and WAS Layer concepts. Hands on experience in Data Source Driven, validation of response using Assertions, Property Transfer, Java Scripting and Test Debugging.
• Developed and implemented best practices in functional and SOA testing approach.
• Ability to quickly adapt to different project environments, work in teams and accomplish difficult tasks independently within time frame
• Extensively strong on writing complex queries on databases including Oracle and MS SQL Server
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, White & Black Box testing manually and also using QTP for testing Client / Server and Web based applications.
• Four years of experience in developing web applications and standalone applications in VB6, ASP.net, ADO.Net.
• Strong in developing Views, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers utilizing PL/SQL
• Excellent programming and problem solving skills having worked on VB, SQL, PL/SQL
• Extensive knowledge in base lining Regression Test Bed and design documentation.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.
• Derived many value adds to the testing projects which saved time, management and cost.
• Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• 6+ years of experience of working in Onshore/Offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/ 2000

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, HP Service Test, ParaSoft Quick Test Pro, RFHutil, AppWatch

Change\Requirement\Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, IBM Rational Team Concert, Ztracker

Browsers: Internet Explorer (IE), Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Opera

Prog. Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, VB6, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML

Office Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, SQL Developer, TOAD, DbVisualizer

Domain: Healthcare, Insurance

Others: Agile Scrum Methodology, Defect Management, Testing Artifacts & Metrics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Integration Test Lead - Agile

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the overall End to End flow of the project requirement and the component level requirements.
• Analyzing the Business User Stories, Solution Architecture Definition (SAD), High Level Design(HLD) and Joint Requirement Documents(JRD).
• Facilitating the technical documents clarification sessions between Architects and QA team.
• Offshore co-ordination to prepare Clarification Tracker, Test plan, Test Design and Test data documents
• Responsible for publishing the testing artifacts with project stakeholders and getting the approval from Test Architect.
• Coordinating with every integrating application’s development and QA team on need basis
• Providing Weekly status on Testing progress and blockers if any to Testing PMO.
• Working with project management to identify and manage risk, status and action items on mitigation plan.
• Active participant in daily scrum meeting to address QA progress.

Environment: Windows Server, WPS, HP Service Testing, IE 8, ALM, Ztracker

Confidential

Integration Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Overall Project requirements and moving on to understand the component level requirements.
• Analyzing the interface design documents, business requirements and vendor system contract documents.
• Review the technical documents with corresponding Development Team. Track understanding and clarifications.
• Prepare Test strategy, Test plan, Test Design and Access setup guide
• Responsible for publishing the testing artifacts with project stakeholders.
• Active participation in Project kickoff and functional requirement document walkthrough
• Preparing resource plan for Test design, automation testing, performance testing and manual testing
• Executed database testing and SOA testing test cases.
• Prepared data driven test cases and regression test suite for SOA testing using SOAP UI.
• Coordinating with LifeWorks project team and other Integration system leads.
• Publishing daily status report with testing and defect metrics and Weekly status report on the Testing progress and blockers if any.
• Daily participation in onshore/offshore status calls.
• Worked with project management to identify and manage risk, status and action items on mitigation plan.
• Preparing root cause analysis report on the defects.
• Driving daily status meeting with internal project team.

Environment: Windows Server, WPS/WMB, SoapUI, DB2, SQL Server, DbVisualizer, AppWatch, MPP, MS Office

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and support to publish Test Strategy after analyzing project proposal documents.
• Active participation in Project kickoff and functional requirement document walkthrough meetings and identifying the regression partners.
• Test plan walkthrough with business and project stakeholders.
• Preparing Estimation for Test design, automation testing, performance testing and manual testing execution phase.
• Identified how to best test complex validation criteria and designing the test cases accordingly.
• Executed database testing and SOA testing test cases.
• Prepared data driven test cases and regression test suite for SOA testing using SOAP UI.
• Communicating with development and Integration leads.
• Preparing and publishing daily status report with testing and defect metrics.
• POC for all Application and Server access management for OPV onshore/offshore QA team.
• Attending daily onshore/offshore status calls.
• Owner of technical and business clarification tracker
• Worked with project management to identify and manage risk, status and issues.
• Analyzed, documented, andsubmittedissues discovered during testing. Verified and closed issues resolved during the release cycle
• Ensuring daily testing progress on track, recording the deviations and reporting to the project team.

Environment: Windows Server, WPS/WMB, SoapUI, HP service Test, HP ALM, Oracle, TOAD, RFHutil, MPP, MS Word and Excel

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan and Test Summary documents for every sprints.
• Publishing Test Design deliverables based on the Business requirements.
• Executed Functional testing of web applications and service testing with ParaSoft and HP Service Test.
• Driving daily defect review meetings, thereby managing the defects on time.
• Performed database testing and cross browser testing.
• Provided UAT support. Published Status Reports and monthly dashboards.
• Clearly communicated and documented test results and defect resolutions during all phases of testing.
• Train and mentor QA testers Confidential onshore and offshore
• Analyzed requirement documents and identified how to best test complex functionality
• Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
• Created and executed test plans and test cases for user stories within each sprint, including risk based regression testing
• Oversaw all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics,applyingindustry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Worked with project management to identify and manage risk, status and issues.
• Analyzed, documented, andsubmittedissues discovered during testing. Verified and closed issues resolved during the release cycle
• Signed-off for System and Integration testing for the shippable product.
• Organizing defect review meetings, thereby managing the defects
• Provided UAT support.
• Published Status Reports and monthly dashboards for the projects worked.
• Knowledge Transitions for team members and new comers

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, ParaSoft, HP Service Test, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera,Jira, HP UFT/ALM, IBM RTC, QTP, MPP, MS Office

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared sprint level test plans and walkthrough with test leads and test managers
• Attending business walkthrough for Functional and Business Requirements.
• Designing the test scenarios and test cases.
• Analyzing the test data and appending them with new set of data types as per the new change requirements.
• Executing test cases through manual and automated testing.
• Deriving test cases for regression bed.
• Attending defect triage calls and daily status calls.
• Maintaining QC with all latest test cases and test results.
• Knowledge Transitions for team members and new comers

Environment: Windows Server 2008, IE, HP QC, QTP, Javascript, Oracle, MPP, MS Office

Confidential

.Net Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirement documents and getting clarified before date of freezing the requirements.
• Prepared project plan and estimation using MPP.
• Reviewing prototype and giving demo to clients.
• Responsible of weekly deliverables of software with no open defects.
• Managed two different projects, with team of 3 developers each.
• Prepared performance assessment documents for Team members
• Representing development team in Defect Review meetings.
• Responsible of defect fixes on given target fix date.
• Co-ordinating with service delivery manager, business analysts, mockup designers and testers
• Knowledge Transitions for team members and new comers.
• Member of .Net Developers Interview panel.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, IE, QC, .Net, VB Script, MPP, MS Office Javascript.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Design document preparation.
• Designed database table, wrote SQL stored procedures
• Programming and code review
• Preparing Release notes for code deployment
• Demo to end users
• Unit testing and defect fixing
• Maintenance and enhancement support for production
• Organized KT sessions within team

Environment: Window server 2000, XP SQL Server, IE, ASP.Net, VB Script, VBA, MPP, MS Office Javascript.