PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

*+ years of experience in designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings and fault-free audits

Expert in all stages of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Proficient in Quality Assurance, Quality Control Process and Methodologies - Agile, Scrum and Waterfall models.

Expert in Requirements Analyzing and Streamlining and Management.

Hands on experience in preparing Test plans, Test Strategy, Risk Assessment Document, Defect Trend Analysis, Test Summary Report, Progress Reports thru Matrices, and Test coordination.

Well versed with Various Testing Stages/Levels/Phases, Testing Types, Testing Techniques and Quality Work Products.

Expert in QA activities in all phases of STLC including analyzing Business/Functional requirements, writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.

Proficient in manual testing including requirement analysis, test design, execution and defect life cycle.

Expertise in Functional- Integration, System, Regression, Application Tolerance and User Acceptance Testing.

Experience in Non-Functional (Availability, Usability, Reliability and Compatibility) Testing Types.

Proficient on Black box Testing Techniques, like BVA, ECP, Decision Tables and Use Case Testing.

Experience in writing training documents, Test Matrices, Traceability Matrix.

Expertise in peer reviews (Test Design and Defect Reporting).

Experience on Mobile testing - physical device (smart phones and tablets - iOS, Android) testing.

Expertise in analyzing the results and reporting suggestions and defects.

Good Exposure on Defect Management Life Cycle.

Experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Good knowledge of Test Management Tools like Quality Centre.

Experience in executing SQL and PL/SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data.

Good expertise on Exploratory Testing using Domain Knowledge.

Worked closely with development and Technical Support teams to resolve issues.

Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Domain Knowledge: Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment

Operating Systems: Windows 2010, XP, UNIX

Database: Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server

Test Design Tools: Quality Center, SharePoint

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Viacom Inc., NY, USA

Role: Test Analyst Technical, Team Lead and Onsite Coordinator

Feb’12 to Present Date

Project Description: The Viacom applications could be divided into three streams –

Corporate:

This stream contains all the applications being used by the Viacom’s internal user for various purposes like Event Management, Time Keeping, Performance Management, Online requests/issues Management, Matter Management, Compliance Access Review Management, HR Recruit Management etc.

Sales:

This stream contains the applications being used by the Viacom’s AD Sales group planners and Pricing Directors for creating and managing the advertisement deals with the advertisers, media and agencies.

Programming:

This stream contains all the applications being used by the Viacom’s internal user where all the physical and digital assets (like audio, video, clips etc.) are being stored, accessed and retrieved for any purposes.

Our main work is to test the functionality of the above stream applications used by the internal users, work upon the enhancements which come across from time to time basis and accordingly coordinate with the Developers and the Client BA’s to provide the deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business flow of the application using requirements provided by Business partners and providing best suited solution in regards to type of test.

• Responsible for providing estimates on onshore and offshore assignments, allocating work to the Offshore teammates, addressing their queries and escalating them to the right team.

• Design test plans, test scenarios and test cases for integration, system, regression and user acceptance testing.

• Extensively involve in Manual Testing of applications.

• Extensively involve in testing Production incidents/ tickets.

• Responsible for preparing status reports, defect tracking reports and sharing them with the Test Managers on weekly basis.

Client: Citi, New York, NY

Role: Test Analyst

Dec’2011 to Jan’2012; Sept’2010 to May’2011

Project Description: Citi Equities Support deals with Front office and Middle Office support in a trade life cycle. Trades get generated in Front office applications, then a release order is generated which is sent to Middle office Ticketing system, from here it goes to Back office for trade booking and final

settlement. Main responsibility of the support team is to ensure the availability of environment before business starts for a particular region (APAC, EMEA & NAM) which includes testing on applications, checking of various servers to ensure that the system is properly setup. It is a 24X5 support of environment. In case of issues various processes and logs are checked to resolve them and if out of support team scope then they are escalated to respective teams with proper investigation.

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business flow of the application using requirements provided by Business partners and providing best suited solution in regards to type of test.

• Work on the UNIX systems to monitor and control processes.

• Understand the requirements and group those to form business flow.

• Perform the daily checkouts on the Applications and report the same to the concerned Teams/Users.

• Understand and resolve issues raised by the Users.

• System testing - create test scenarios, gathering requirements from other teams, peer review test cases, test execution and defect management.

• Escalate the issues to respective teams.

• Extensively involve in Manual Testing of application.

• Prepare status reports and submit them to the Test Managers on weekly basis.

Client: Barclays, UK

Role: Test Analyst

June’2011 to Nov’2011

Project Description: eDiscovery is a tool which helps in litigation hold and maintain the chain of custody. This application helps to retrieve data from the desktop/laptop, networks shares, different data repositories like share point, electronic vault etc. and store that into a different location which in turn could be exported in a standard format to present in the court.

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business flow of the application using requirements provided by Business partners and providing best suited solution in regards to type of test.

• Write Test scenarios and Test cases based on Source to Target Mapping documents and Data Model diagrams and conduct review sessions with the concerned stakeholders.

• Extensively involve in Manual Testing of applications.

• Prepare Test closure report.

• Responsible for preparing status reports, defect tracking reports and sharing them with the Test Managers on weekly basis.

Education and Certifications:

Bachelor of Technology from Dehradun Institute of Technology - UP Technical University, India in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

ISTQB Foundation Level

NCFM (NSE’s Certificate in Financial Market- Beginner’s Module)

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