PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, planning, designing, developing, and deploying testing strategies for large - scale Web applications and Client/Server systems.
• 10 Years of AGILE QA/Testing experience in fast paced environments in which the last 6 years have been primarily focused on testing Enterprise level AGILE financial software applications.
• Developed test plans, test cases and test scripts for manual and automated testing.
• Performed functionality testing, system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing for these applications.
• Excellent communicator, team player with good organizing, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Results oriented individual.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Industry Experience: Banking/Finance, High Tech

Competencies: AGILE QA/Testing Lead, QA Analyst/Engineer, Business Analyst, Data Analyst

Languages: SQL/TSQL, .NET/ASP, Java Script, C, C++

Software/Tools: Win Runner, Quick Test Professional, Selenium, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Rally, Test Harness, Microsoft Test Manager, ETL/Database testing

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2014

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows

Other Tools/Apps: Microsoft Office Applications, Amazon Web Services(AWS), Cloud Computing, SaaS, SOA, REST Client API, JSON Object

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

SR. AGILE QA Lead Tester

• Joined the team as an AGILE Test Team Lead Test Engineer to assist in a crucial period of Project Migration to work on EY Taxspace PE/RE application Migration to TAM/Rebuild developed on IBM BPM tool platform designed to handle the taxable income (Federal and State) data preparation which helps to generate Partner K1s for partnership Firm of EY-Clients who are in Private Equity or Real Estate businesses
• Project implemented as a workflow, where user needs to create client tier structures with Engagements, Entities, Entity Groups, Partners for Entities to create tier relationship and allocation percentages to allocate taxable income for each partner from their respective entities. To calculate taxable income, user needs to map their Income/Expense amounts from their Client Books to EY Standard account and include amounts from adjustments, external investments from other systems and from other Projects within the same client.
• Participated in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Scrum Master, Product Owners, and Agile Team members.
• Prepared the test strategies and discussed the testing goals for each Sprint with the team, assigned User Stories to document test cases, test data.
• Developed Test cases, Test data and reusable test scripts in Rally for User Stories based on the Acceptance Criteria during each Iteration
• Reported defects in Rally and HP ALM that were found during testing of multiple versions of applications on various test environments daily and retested defect fixes after each Promote to respective QA environments.
• Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings.
• Performed thorough Smoke, Functional, System and Regression testing and resolving all the critical and open Bugs prior to Deployment.
• Responsible for testing successful Migration of application.

Environments: IBM BPM, HP ALM, HP QTP, Rally, MS Office 2013, SQL Server 2012 / 2014, REST Client API Testing, JSON Object

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

• Managed all the QA processes in an AGILE development environment and lead a small team of QA personnel in all the testing efforts of the Products in the Organization and reported directly to the Executive Vice President of Operations.
• Gained highest appreciation from company customers for providing a bug free software products on time, my contribution resulted in Customer Satisfaction and an increase in sales, Sales grew from 1 bank as a customer to 10 banks currently using PAYLOGICS.
• Participated in Business requirements meetings, Discussed and documented the system requirements in collaboration with the design architects. Planned testing approach and test strategies, for the current and future releases. Developed reusable test scripts and test data to speed up testing for future delivery timelines.
• Prepared the test strategies and discussed the testing goals for that Sprint with the team, Assigned the work to peers and self, documented test cases, test data.
• Mentored and trained other QA team members with the knowledge base of the software Products and QA processes to increase productivity and improve business by always keeping the Big picture in mind.
• Developed Test cases, Test data, and reusable queries to streamline QA process Sprint over Sprint. Decreased the overall time line to test, resulting in a faster time to market.
• Accomplished testing goals on time and within budget throughout various testing phases like Smoke, Functional, Performance, Database testing, Negative Testing, System, Full length Regression and User Acceptance Testing to deliver bug free software to the Customer’s Production environments.
• Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings.
• Triaged all reported bugs in every environment to ensure that there was consistency across the environments. Documented the bug history in Team Foundation Server along with the user stories, updated resolution status in TFS.
• Worked closely with the system administrators and architects to maintain the QA environment coordinated with the development and production environment, understood the environmental discrepancies and ensured that defect reproduction is smooth. Documented and kept a log of changes in the QA environment for tracking purposes.
• Developed, Reviewed and Distributed the Testing Release Notes with Customers and the Management.
• Worked closely with the Production Support Team

Environments: AGILE Testing, ASP, .NET4.0 and 4.5, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Windows 2007, SQL Server 2008 & 2012, SQL, C++, Java Script, C#, Amazon Web Services(AWS), Cloud Computing, SaaS, SOA, API Testing

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Senior QA Analyst

• Managed all the QA processes and testing efforts independently and reporting directly to Director of Technology
• Maintained all the Quality Center modules as the QC Administrator
• Developed Master Test Plans and detailed Test cases for various individual projects from Functional Requirement Documents, Developed Reusable test cases to speed up testing.
• Estimated the time and effort for the Projects adhering to all the Company’s Policies, Procedures and Standards, developed a factor based estimating model to resolve ambiguity in testing efforts.
• Communicated with the development team throughout a Bug’s Life cycle starting from conception through its resolution
• Tested the migration of VB6/ASP legacy solutions into .NET for more scalability and performance improvements
• Developed application specific SQL queries to triage and verify application functionality testing.
• Tested the Daemon Architecture Automation for End of Day processing jobs to replace the tedious and time consuming Manual Processing
• Reported Testing and defect metrics to the management through status reports and progressive charts.
• Performed thorough Smoke, Functional, System and Regression testing and resolving all the critical and negatively impacting open Bugs prior to Deployment
• Documented and maintained Testing Release Notes with every Release for Audit Trail

Environment: Silverlight, ASP, .NET3.5, Quality Center9.2, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005, SQL, C, C++, Java, MS Office 2003, Manual Testing, QTP Automation.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

QA Analyst

• Conducted Web Application Quality Assurance duties in an AGILE Development Environment.
• Generated detailed Test Plans and Test Cases from Project Requirements.
• Ascertaining Functionality, Usability and Reliability of Designed Software Execution Performance and Graphic User Interface (GUI)
• Reported and Tracked software performance issues and Bugs using Quality Center 9.2
• Worked with Rally - AGILE Scrum Master Requirement Management tool in a fast-paced environment to test the User Stories developed by the Business Users.
• Created Specific Test Data prior to use in Test Execution.
• Loaded Test Data into Test Database for executing Test Plans and Data-Specific Test Cases.
• Communicated Software improvement feedback & Suggestions to Development to better meet User Requirements and enhance Product.
• Responsible for updating the Team Management on QA Progress and Issues
• Tested Web application via VMware.
• Worked directly with Development to implement a build Schedule and Structure.
• Mentored other QA Analysts in the team

Environment: AGILE, .NET, Java, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005, Quality Center 9.2, Rally, SCRUM, XML, SQL, VMware, Test Harness, Manual Testing, API Testing

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

• Interacted with developers and users to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications in an AGILE Development Environment.
• Involved in Documenting the test plans and test cases based on the solution definition documents and use case documents.
• Performed User Interface testing to test whether the application compiles with the User Interface standards. 
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Automated reusable test scripts using Quick Test Pro and used them for Regression Testing.
• Prepared test status reports during test execution process.
• Participated and reported statuses in all test related project team meetings.
• Assisted developers with the test files and test data.
• Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.
• Tested ETL Source to Target mappings and data transformations between source and target databases using SQL queries.
• Performed Black Box testing for the functional requirements.
• Performed Negative Testing on the modules.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems.
• Responsible for collecting defects from UAT, reporting them to development via Test Director, re-testing them in QA, notifying the business to re-test and confirm and finally was responsible for closing the defects.
• Maintained the test matrices and reported bugs using Test Director.

Environment: Java, JSP, ASP, Oracle9i, Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL, Unix, WinRunner7.5, Quick Test Professional 8.0, Test Director 7.6, Manual Testing, AGILE testing, ETL

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst/Engineer

• Analyzed Business Requirement documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives.
• Gathered functional requirement documents, analyzed system design and prepared test strategy.
• Designed detailed test cases for manual testing based on the functional requirement documents.
• Involved in weekly meetings with the development team.
• Ensured that the QA Testing followed the schedule and guidelines as laid out in the Master Test Plan.
• Performed functional and regression testing manually between different modules to determine the flow of data. Worked closely with development team at all stages of the SDLC (Component, System, UAT, and Production). Worked closely with users during User Acceptance Testing and discussed possible resolutions to issues.
• Submitted reports regarding the status, progress, and the results of the testing effort.
• Documented detailed test cases based on the solution definition documents.

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, Oracle 8i, UNIX, Sun OS 5.7, Windows 2000 Server, Win Runner, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Test Director7.0