Objective:

Intend to build a career with leading corporate of hi-tech environment with committed dedicated people, which will help me to explore myself fully and realize my potential. Having 10 years of experience in IT industry as a Sr. QA Engineer in various domains like Financeand Telecom, willing to work as a key player in challenging and creative environment.

Summary:

• More than 10 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance. Well versed with different phases of SDLC and worked for various clients across the globe.
• Currently working as a Senior Software Quality Assurance QA Engineer and QA Lead.
• Ten years of expertise in analyzing Business requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications, Test data planning and preparation.
• Well Versed in Data Warehousing Testing using Informatica Power Center 9.X, worked on ETL Integration Project and Have a good knowledge of Source and Target data mapping.
• Eight Years of experiences in the area of data quality assurance such as Data cleansing, data validation, data migration for large complex software systems.
• Expertise in project management - project scoping, planning, scheduling, organizing, time-management, and reporting.
• Well versed with the SDLC concepts. Worked various SDLC methods such as Agile/Waterfall.
• Nine years of experience in Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, End to End, Multiphase testing,Production Readiness Testing, UAT,Production Support and Automation Testing. Performing these skills on government and commercial contracts.
• Well Versed in Batch Job Testing. Good knowledge of Autosys Batch Scheduler. Knowledge of Basic Unix commands and troubleshooting experience of Batch Job execution in UNIX.
• Good understanding on Middle ware Engineering: Application Server, Reporting, and Application Integration.
• Strong experience in Performance engineering. Gathering requirements, preparing Work load model
• Performed testing on Web based, Client/Server and Mainframe applications.
• Extensive use of SQL to perform data integrity testing.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries, PL/SQL and executing SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Strong experience in SQL, Backend, ETL and Informatica Testing s .
• Strong experience working on DB2, Sybase, SQL Server and Oracle databases.
• Good understanding on SOAP Message Exchange Patterns, WSDL
• Proficient in project management, resource management and tools.
• Collaborate with other teams and designated Subject matter experts SMEs to suggest and make improvements to enterprise testing platform architecture.
• 8 years of experience in Test Management/Defect Management tools such as HP Quality Center/HP ALM/ IBM Clear Case/IBM Clear Quest.
• Collaborate with IT and business program support staff in order to develop detailed test plans which include Integration, System, and Customer Acceptance Test.
• Validate system architectures to ensure reliability.
• Develops functional test plans for complex software development projects Output Solutions specific according to Software Quality Testing processes
• Maintains and strengthens the test plan repository inclusive of test sets of client test files where needed. Build and maintain QA process for automated test cycle execution/initiation of cycles. Maintain and build client test files
• Directs, guides, schedules work for staff of testers in India office offshore team.
• Performs complex testing on developed software projects to validate features.
• Assists developers, architects and technical specialists in solution of complex installation problems
• Responsible for determining the priority of each test in the test plan and which tests will be executed in future releases and for deciding which tests are candidates for automation
• Provide weekly status reports and inform management of any issues that require escalation.
• Able to provide guidance to less experienced team members.
• Expertise in Test Planning Test Case Review, Test data planning and preparation, Progress Monitoring, Team Handling, Quality Control, ensuring Quality of the Deliverables as per Schedule, Analyzing Risks and Coordinating with Technical Teams.
• Worked in collaboration with testers, developers, business, Infrastructure, DBA and other team members in complex projects on varied platforms.
• Worked very complex system with more than 25 systems and with multiple vendor environments.
• Coordinated in creation and execution of QA and testing processes, effort estimation, test strategies and plans, bug tracking and regression.
• Proven experience in client facing, leading team in an onshore-offshore delivery model.
• Good Debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Good problem solving skills, willing to learn new technologies and increase productivity
• Good coordination skills, team player and highly motivated
• Participated in Go No-Go discussion at the end of Test Closure.
• Hands on experience in User Acceptance testing and Training of end users.

Technical Expertise:

Functional Testing Tools -Rapid SQL Server,Toad, IBM Clear Case, VSS,Selenium, QTP, Putty, Secure CRT, File Zilla, DB comparator tool, Beyond compare tool

Workload Automation Tool - CA Workload Automation AE Workload control center , Autosys

ETL Tool -Informatica Power Center 9.0.1, Informatica Power Center 8.6 Performance Testing Tools -HP Load Runner Defect Tracking Tools -HP ALM,QC, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Visual Studio Team System Platforms -Windows, HP, Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX RDBMS/Database -Sybase, Oracle,SQL Server, MS Access GUI Tools -Visual Basic, MS Visual Studio, VSTS Visual Studio Team System ,MS Visual Web Developer Testing -Manual, Automated, White Box, Black Box, Modular Testing, Grey Box, System Testing, Integration, Unit, Regression, Test Plan, Test Cases, Matrix Preparation, MSI Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Infrastructure Testing, Localization Testing and UAT Other Skills -Writing functional specs, design and documents, unit test documents. Knowledge of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle , QA methodologies and DifferentQuality standards.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Infrastructure Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing Infrastructure testing initiatives from various Business initiatives, software upgrades, upstream/downstream interface changes, etc. for both Infrastructure and Performance testing.
• Participate in Technical Specification Document walk-through, high level design meetings
• Serving as a key member of infrastructure testing team in leading six-member software QA testing team in building quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications.
• Create testing framework, Test approach, Infrastructure Test Request, Test templates for streamlining the testing process.
• As a lead my responsibilities involve Requirement Analysis, Effort estimation, onsite coordination, planning and managing daily activities and interaction with client to facilitate smooth implementation.
• Assigned tasks to team members and set milestones to monitor progress. Gathered requirements from subject matter experts and business stakeholders.
• Attended daily scrum meetings and bi-weekly sprint planning meetings for agile projects.
• Performed regression testing to ensure core functionality was unaffected before release.
• Reported defects to the development team and performed regression testing once fixed.
• Worked directly with the Project Managers to communicate the status of testing along with issues and risks of the project.
• Created Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and detailed Test Scripts in HP ALM for all phases of testing Unit, Integration and System Testing.
• Utilized HP ALM for capturing requirements, test case development, execution, and defect tracking.
• Identify data requirements for all test cases to be executed.
• Identify workload model for all performance projects
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables to ensure data integrity.
• Also performed sanity, white box, gray box, cross browser, recovery and other tests.
• Streamlined processes and procedures in the Financial Services department to increase efficiency.
• Responsible for driving individual and team performance results.
• Reviewed Project documentation, Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.
• Met with the Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, and System Analysts to identify gaps in the requirements.
• Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings to understand the in scope requirements.
• Interacted with the developers and business analyst to resolve the defects.
• Prepared Defect Summary reports and communicated to senior management, the project team and the business.
• Scheduled and conducted development status meetings, daily team meetings, and defect review meetings.

Environment:HP ALM, HP Load Runner, IBM Clear Quest, Oracle, Data stage, Splunk, Informatica, Workload Control Center, Secure CRT, Perfaware

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a key member of software testing team as the lead QA tester on project for Capital Group Companies client. Leading eight-member software QA testing team in implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications.
• Created and executed software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes.
• Managing Functional and End to End testing of various Business initiatives, software upgrades, upstream/downstream interface changes, etc.
• As a lead my responsibilities involve Requirement Analysis, Effort estimation, Test Planning, Test Plan and Test Scenarios walkthrough with Business and Dev Leads, QA Test Execution and Defect Management and Status Reporting, formulating test strategy for the various BAU releases testing, onsite coordination, planning and managing daily activities and interaction with client to facilitate smooth implementation.
• Being at the client location Irvine, CA acting as an Onsite Coordinator for the entire offshore team
• Conducted formal and informal Product testing reviews throughout the software development life cycle to provide input on functional requirements, product testing, schedules and potential issues. Leveraged tester background to communicate effectively with software development team, quickly gaining stakeholder respect.
• Responsible for defining the Test Strategy, creating the Test Plans and the Test cases basing on the Business requirements document.
• Review Business and Functional Requirements and develop Detailed Test Plan and Test Cases Worked in Agile Scrum project implementation performing test coordination, task management.
• Interact with Business Team and Development Team to review Detailed Test plan and Test Case document
• Perform extensive Integration Testing involving Database and System Testing
• Validating the web server logs using UNIX commands and wrote Unix Shell Scripts to perform batch jobs.
• Validate Web services built in SOA Architecture using SOAP UI and HP Service Test tool
• Performed Integration testing with the Web Service and overall System testing.
• Designed and Developed data validation, load processes and test cases using PL/SQL, SQL.
• Perform extensive Backend Testing using SQL scripts to pin point the breakage in the Data Flow
• Tested source to target data mappings using SQL commands.
• Responsible for performing ETL Data Migration validation and Data Integration validation.
• Tested Informatica mappings by writing SQL queries.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to verify data in the target tables
• Responsible for providing inputs to automation team to prepare QTP Scripts to perform Functional and Regression Testing
• Responsible for raising defects using Mercury Quality Center and track them to closure, Performed data driven testing
• Create Defect Status report for Development Team and Stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Responsible for generating reports using Mercury Quality Center to deliver the End of testing notes to various teams that would help analyzing loopholes.
• Work with the Business Team to review UAT validation scenarios and execute the UAT test cases
• Updated SharePoint Document Management tool for accessing and updating the Test deliverables
• Responsible for performing Post Deployment validation at the time of release / implementation
• Conduct Test Status meetings with the Business Team, QA Manager, and Development team to review Test Progress and discuss business critical issues identified during application validation.
• Created test cases in test plan and executed them from test lab in Quality Center.

Environment:IBM Clear Quest, IBM Clear Case , HP ALM/Quality Center, Informatica Power Center, Java, ETL Tool, Rapid SQL Server, Unix, Autosys Server, PeopleSoft, Oracle, PowerBuilder, RRDD, Web logic, Beyond compare tool, DB comparator tool, File Zilla, Putty

Confidential

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the teamof four members at Onsite and worked as an SME.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute QA efforts on Integration testing with various systems.
• Worked on Test planning and estimation
• Coordinated with Infrastructure and DBA teams for Offshore machine setup and database activities
• Involved in Defect management, and participate in defect triaging
• Participated in Go-No-Go discussions at the end of each application.

Environment:HP Quality Center, Informatica Power Center 9.0.1 ETL Tool, Rapid SQL Server, Unix, Java, PowerBuilder, RRDD, Web logic, Actuate, SQR, Tibco RV, DBcompare tool

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of seven members at Onsite and worked as an Onsite Test Co-Coordinator with Offshore team of eight.
• Worked in Onsite Offshore model to support the project round the clock
• Coordinated with Business analysts, cross functional teams to execute QA efforts.
• Coordinated with Infrastructure and DBA teams for offshore application setup and data refresh activities.
• Involved in Requirements analysis, test planning, test environment, defect triage, Go-No-Go discussions, and UAT testing phase.
• Worked on End to End system integration testing where upstream and down streams are involved.
• Worked on UI, Batch, Actuate Reports, UCT Reports and Web queries testing.
• Worked directly with the subject matter experts and system analysts to gather and capture the requirements.
• Liaison among departments and managers, acting as sole point of contact to integrate managed workstation environment with minimal downtime.
• Created and reported daily status of projects, including in-house and on-site analysis and resolution of problems during deployments.
• Performed all types of Black Box tests including Integration, E2E, and Regression to validate application functionality
• Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.
• Utilized Mercury Quality Center to manage requirements, acceptance criteria, and test and store execution results.
• Draft and distribute project objectives and tasks to the solutions team.
• Negotiate successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.
• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.

Environment:IBM Clear Quest, IBM Clear Case, Java, SQL, HP QC, UNIX, HP Quality Center, Informatica Power Center 9.0.1 ETL Tool, Rapid SQL Server, Unix, Java, PowerBuilder, RRDD, Web logic, Actuate, SQR, Tibco RV, DB comparator Tool

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Test Requirements gathering, review and analysis
• Test Planning
• Identifying and creating Testing scenarios develop Test cases
• Executing system, performance, functionality, integration and regression testing.
• Identifying test data requirements and test bed set up
• Defect management
• Test progress reporting
• Developed Test Strategy and Test Plan and the Traceability Matrix to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the Functional, User Interface, Performance, Usability and Security Requirements
• Worked closely with the Business and Development teams in making the detailed QA Test Plan regarding the scope and focus of the testing.
• Defined the Test Criteria and Project Schedules to baseline the Test Plan by taking inputs from the Project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Conducted the Test Plan and Test case Review Meeting with the PM, Business Customers, Business Analyst and Development Team
• Developed Test Strategy and prepared Track sheets to keep track of the tasks assigned to the Jr. Testers and tracked the issues to closure.
• Assured that all QA Artifacts are in compliance with corporate QA Policies and Guidelines.
• Deployed code into the QA Environment and verified the Test Environment Readiness.
• Coordinated and communicated the QA effort by effectively working with different teams involved in the integration projects
• Executed Test Cases Manually to verify the actual results against expected results.
• Used SQL Commands for backend Data Validation
• Tested the application manually and reported the defects through the Test Director
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using Test Director
• Maintained Test Metrics and Bug Database and generated Weekly Status Reports
• Analyzed the Test Results and graphs by generating reports reflecting the stability of the application and reviewed with the QA, Development and Business Teams
• Participated in daily Defect Review Meetings, QA Team meeting and provided weekly status updates to QA lead

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead the IVVT team for Fulfillment at Offshore and worked at Onsite as an Onsite Test Co-Coordinator.
• To work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute QA efforts on OSS/BSS system.
• Work with the Communication providers to build the integration of EMP Platform with the CP order entry B2B Platform.
• Plan, Create, execute, and regress manual test suites for E2E Testing.
• Participated Agile sprint design discussions with E2E Solution designers for the design review.
• Participation on Defect severity calls with Open reach business team for assigning correct business severity.
• Organize, update, verify, and coordinate bug tracking issues in HP Quality Center.
• Research and communicate defects to developers.
• Participated in Go No-Go calls at the end of every major release to decide the deployment of code in to the LIVE.
• Involved in LIVE issue calls and provided work around for the known issues.
• Involved in Dress rehearsal testing/Deployment rehearsal testing at the end of every Major releases.
• Work closely with multiple product development teams on QA efforts
• Preparing Test Plans
• Test case preparation and execution

Environment:BT Open reach components, CICS, HP Quality Centre 9.2, JMeter, One Siebel, .Net

Confidential

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing based on FRD.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Wrote and Executed test cases both manually and Using Automation tool QTP.
• Maintained Traceability of Test cases using Quality Center.
• Documented Test Results and changes.
• Executed Functional Test cases for Integration testing as per test plans and test scenarios.
• Generated and Customized Test scripts in QTP for functional Testing.
• Generated User Defined re-useable actions for Function Library.
• Incorporated logic into the scripts using different loops and conditional statements.
• Performed Data Driven tests by parameterization of necessary values for testing the application with various Data sets.
• Reported and Tracked Defects using Quality Center.
• Conducted end-end test for each of the input transactions.
• Worked collaboratively with the Developers and Analysts to understand requirements and resolve ambiguities.
• Participated in UAT before product release.

Environment:Manual Testing, Mercury QTP, Quality Center, VB, Oracle, Java, Java Script, UNIX and Windows NT.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the Business requirements and Functional requirements to better understand the client needs.
• Participated in meetings with BA and Developers to understand the scope of testing.
• Involved with working in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for assigned modules as well as verify the actual result based on the expected results.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, and Integration and assisted in Usability testing.
• Developed Test cases and performed manual testing for both Positive Testing, Negative Testing.
• Logged defects using Test Director and tracked them to closure.
• Validation of data through SQL queries.
• Involved in execution of Test cases and reporting defects
• Actively Participated in Functional requirements review meeting and weekly team meetings.
• Involved in implementation of the system and making sure that the product met the required user specification.Developed Form Beans and Action Classes
• Coded using HTML pages, Java Servlets, JSP

Environment:Test Director, Web Logic, JAVA, JDBC, JSP, Oracle, Toad, Windows.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a detailed Test Plan for System Testing based on SRD and BRD.
• Prepared test cases using Test director.
• Created Test Data in flat files from production data.
• Performed Functional, Regression, and System Testing of the Application.
• Performed regression and Stress testing using negative data.
• Followed HIPAA implementation guides for preparing the EDI files
• Involved in Database testing using SQL queries on Oracle.
• Documenting the test results and changes.
• Involved in the team to adopt QA Testing Standards.
• Involved in cross browsing testing of the application on various Browsers to ensure that it functions similarly on all browsers.

Environment:Manual testing, Quality Center, Java, SQL, XML, JSP, UNIX, IIS, DB2, MS-ACCESS, Oracle, Windows, IE, and Netscape, Shell Script.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases from business, technical and functional requirement Use Cases.
• Worked closely with software developers, business analysts, IS operators, and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Performed Manual Testing to check the functionalities of the whole application.
• Performed Regression, Integration, Data driven testing using QTP.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing.
• Used different browsers in different platform conduct User Acceptance Test.
• Performed Baseline Testing, Stress Testing and Endurance Testing using Load-Runner.
• Monitored/analyzed server performance in various virtual users load.

Environment: Manual testing, Load Runner, Quality Center, Java, SQL, XML, JSP, UNIX, IIS, DB2, MS-ACCESS, Oracle, Windows, and IE