SUMMARY

• +7 years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance AND Testing in Client/Server, Web based, Unix, Database, ETL.
• Expertise in Automation Testing using Soap UI AND Manual testing tools using Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management and Jira.
• Experience in test automation, creating and executing automated test scripts in Selenium.
• Proficient in Database testing using Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server and TOAD for validating the back - end data.
• Strong experience in testing on Unix environment and expertise testing IBM FILENET Applications, Tivoli work scheduler(TWS).
• Extensively experienced in UAT, System, Sanity, Unit, Integration(SIT), Functionality, Regression, Smoke, GUI, Performance and Web Services(Soap UI) Testing.
• Profound experience in writing Test Design/Test Plans, Test Strategy Management Plans, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Metrics, developing test cases and test scripts.
• Expertise in Quality Center and Application Life Management Defect Tracking Module which supports the entire Defect Life Cycle from creating a defect through fixing the defect and report generation for Higher Management.
• Strong expertise in implementing SDLC and QA Methodologies i.e, V-Model,Agile(Scrum) and Waterfall.
• Proficient in Analysis of user requirements and functional specifications and analyzing HLDs.
• Solid expertise in maintaining TEST environments/servers and Build Release Management.
• Good working experience in Project Management such as time estimation, task identification and scope management.
• Exposure in interacting with clients and providing co-ordination between on-site and off-shore.
• Strong experience in MS Suite like MS Outlook, Excel, Office, Access, Visio, Project etc.
• Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills.
• Flexible to adapt to any new environment and work on any project with any application.
• Mentoring and Training in technical skills and project specific knowledge to team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: V-Model,Waterfall SDLC, Agile

Bug Tracking/Testing Tools: Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management, Jira, Selenium

Languages: C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, Java, UNIX Shell Scripts

Databases: Oracle 11i/9i/8i, SQL Server

MS Suite: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 95 to Windows 7, Unix/Linux

Others: IBM Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Test Lead - Manual and ETL

Responsibilities:

• Estimate the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project and obtain management support for the time frame and resources to perform the testing.
• Complete ownership and responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of existing product test suites and monitoring day-to-day functions of the project w.r.t the testing activities.
• Document, implement, monitor and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Used HP Application Lifecycle Management to Write Test Cases, Execute the test cases, Defect Logging and Defect Tracking.
• Providing QA Sign Off for SIT and UAT versions and supervise the team in design, development, documentation and execution activities as a Lead and co-ordinate with the Test Manager and Project Manager to meet the deliverables.
• As part of backend testing to ensure data consistency on UI, UI to database mapping, to perform data validation by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle/Sybase database using SQL Developer, SQL Server and TOAD.
• Track and Update IT Test Metrics Reports on weekly basis such as IT Test Status Reports, Quality Center Reports, General Reports and Test Metrics Reports for test case coverage, Project Quality Metrics, Status by Risk Level etc.
• Develop Test Plans, Test Cases as per Statement of Business Requirements and tagging the requirements in ALM.
• Monitoring all the TWS schedule jobs.
• Designed and developed automated Test Suites and Test Cases for regression testing using Selenium IDE web browser automation tool
• Work closely with DEV group (offshore/onsite) to track and troubleshoot the defects.
• Developed selenium test scripts.
• Executed the selenium scripts for regression testing and smoke testing.

Environment: Oracle 10g, Mainframes CORE(TSYS), UNIX, vi editor, Shell Scripting, Java, C++, Windows, MS Word, Excel, MS Access, Outlook, Sametime, Microsoft Communicator, Application Lifecycle Management11.0, Agile, Jira, Oracle SQL Developer,SQL Server, TOAD, TWS,FILENET.

Confidential

Test Lead offshore - Manual Testing

Responsibilities:

• Performing SME role and have very good exposure on the testing process and being as a first POC in current LOB to clarify any queries related to the line of business that I am currently working on.
• Analyzing the use cases and system design and requirement documents, and prepare Test Plan, Test Estimation, Test Design (Test scenario, Test case & Test Script)
• Test data preparation for System tests and System Integration testing phases, Regression Testing, Defect logging/Triaging and Monitoring.
• Executed Selenium automated test scripts for Regression Testing and reproduced failures manually.
• Good exposure on scrum model, critical impact testing (CIT), risk based testing (RBT) techniques and also in maintenance and production support testing.
• The various end-to-end application testing that are being carried out by me includes, UI applications (Java based) testing and their integration.
• Coordinating with offshore team and clarifying their functional & technical clarifications and delivering the deliverables on time.
• Daily, Weekly and monthly Status reporting, publishing test metrics, managing defect triage calls and other business discussions and meetings.
• Maintenance projects scoping, resource loading/costing and utilization monitoring for maintenance projects.
• I have good experience on identifying the impact of the interface systems and support the production support / maintenance testing activities.
• Co-ordinate with different project stakeholders including Project Managers, Business customers, BA’s, Development teams, Production Support, Upstream downstream and Field reps

Environment: Oracle 9i, UNIX, vi editor,Shell Scripting,Windows,MS Word, Excel,MS Access, Outlook, Sametime, Microsoft Communicator, Mercury/HP Quality Center 10.0, Agile,Jira, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared regression test cases for Credit Card application and performed testing for Credit Card Dispute payment.
• Conducted UAT, Integration, Functional, System and Regression testing for Visa/Master card Type Credit Cards.
• Analyze, design and document accurate test plans, traceability matrix, test tracking documentation and deliver well-tested, high quality production applications.
• Check the Unix logs, Test the FILENET applications to store credit care related documents.
• Reporting new defects during the testing process by adding a defect record(s) to Test Director.
• Provided QA support (Baseline, Regression etc) in Infrastructure upgrades and project deployments.
• Performed database testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by executing SQL queries.
• Tested data movement and data validation from various sources to Data base Tables using SQL.
• Performed testing on functionality of Banking UI like Customer specialist log in and test all credit card related workflows.
• Providing testing support for any CR that requires immediate deployment in production.
• Co-ordinate with Offshore/Onsite teams.

Environment: Unix, Oracle 9i, SQL,MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) MS Project, IE,IBM FILENET Applications, TSYS.