PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Competent software testing professional with almost 11 year of IT experience.
• Specialize in the areas of test management, Quality assurance, Testing strategy & testing methods, testing and development lifecycles, Testing management, Acceptance testing, testing automation and testing metrics.
• Conversant with all phase of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expert in creating Estimation, Test Plan, Test Scenario and Test Cases/Test Scripts based on the BRD, FRD, Technical Specifications and the client business logic.
• TechM certified Test Lead, Attended and cleared TechM PM Buddy program.
• Strong Hands on experience in conducting Black Box Testing, Sanity Testing, Unit Testing, Functional Testing & System Testing, Regression Testing and Data Base Testing.
• Good experience in Automation Testing(QTP).
• Experienced in handling end to end functional test planning, execution & result reporting /closure for Telecom projects.
• Ensuring compliance with CMM and ISO standards by process monitoring and follows quality standards of organization including monthly metrics, dashboard etc.
• Possessing great efficiency, productivity and good experience of client interaction Confidential both onsite and offshore location.
• Involved in Estimations, Scheduling for project.
• Experience in Retail Domain ( Confidential ).
• In - depth knowledge of the Wholesale area of the Telecom business, which includes Pre-ordering and Ordering functions related to Local Access Service Requests.
• Defect Management (Defect Tracking, Defect analysis, Risk analysis)
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools Visual Source Safe (VSS).
• Good Communication, Presentation and Interpersonal skills. Flexible to learn advancements in the IT Industry.
• Five months of rich and insightful experience in MMORPG (Game Testing)testing.
• Being involved in a project from evaluation, conception and completion.
• Ability to provide leadership, motivation and strategic direction to a multifaceted team.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills combined with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to achieve results in very high-pressure environments and to keep teams motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, Basic of C, Java

Tools: ALM 11, Quality Center 10.0, JIRA, PVCS, Visual Source Safe 6.0, Tortoise SVN, QTP.

Database: DB2, Toad, MySQL, Access

OS/Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/7/8, Web Applications (JAVA)Productivity Software: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel

SDLC Methodologies: Scrum Agile, V Model & Traditional Waterfall model.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential (Saint Louis MO)

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Guide all teams through full product lifecycles and provide technical guidance and assistance as needed.
• Manage scope, effort / cost, schedule, and quality, while continuously identifying and mitigating underlying risks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit and review Requirements and Design.
• Oversee development, test, deployment, and support. Communicate status with stakeholders, and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Key player in process development and improvement, as well as successful audits, assessments, and appraisals.
• Played Testing Analyst responsibility along with Test Planning and scheduling execution via HP Quality Center (QC). Responsibilities including monitoring testing activities and help team in resolving testing issues and difficulties.
• Participate in Discussions and meetings with clients to understand the business requirements and identify the needful strategy for testing.
• Discuss scope, impact and benchmark milestones with business development teams.
• Planning testing activities within the scheduled timelines/releases.
• Participate in review meetings with client on scheduled testing activities and test plans.
• Help team to prepare and acquire test data needed for testing.
• Implement tests on all test levels, execute and log the tests, evaluate the results/coverage using HP Quality Center.
• Review the deviations from expected results, defects logging and reporting.
• Review tests developed by others and suggest modifications as per quality standards of Confidential &T.
• Reviewing the System Test Plan (STP), Test Execution Plan (TEP), and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Confidential (Saint Louis MO)

ORT Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Adding New/Changed test cases to Excel sheet and uploading these to Quality Center.
• Updating test results in Quality Center.
• Troubleshooting the failed cases, creating troubleshooting templates for failed cases, sending the same to client for Resolution.
• Opening and tracking defects with developers in QC.
• Re-testing failed cases, preparing test Result Reports.
• Ensuring timely delivery of Monthly Maintenance Releases and Tri-annual Releases.
• Updating scripts for automated test cases in QTP.
• Updating Query Tracking Sheet per release
• Conducting internal review meetings within the team to ensure defect free delivery.
• Updating checklists based on the findings of defect prevention meeting Confidential the end of release.
• Maintaining key learning and Issue logs after each release.
• Estimation Sheets (Schedule Tracking, Effort Tracking) for the Project.
• Updating VSS with required documents prior and post release.

Confidential (Saint Louis MO)

Senior Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional Testing and System testing of various modules.
• Defects reporting using HP Quality Center; and making sure that defects are resolved before the release.
• Keeping the Coordinator updated regarding the project status report on daily basis.
• Responsible for completion of testing deliverables on time.
• Attending bi weekly meeting with our senior coordinator to discuss any issues pertaining to our work.

Confidential (Sacramento CA)

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Study DRS (Detailed Requirement Specification) of Project and make a plan to how to Release this project Bug free.
• Preparing test Cases/test data and updating test cases on every Change request/Enhancement and managing these all information on VSS. Update the DRS on each and Every Change Request and Enhancement.
• Reporting Bugs and their status in bug tracking Tool PVCS (Polytron Version Control System).

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Cases.
• Performed different type of Testing such as functionality, Integration.
• Bug Reporting.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed System Testing.
• Creation of test cases based on Use Cases
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing.