Manager Project Engineer Testing Developer .Net

Summary

Around ** years of diversified experience in manual and automated testing

of desktop, GUI, and functional aspects of the client/server and web

applications on multiple levels of the SDLC. Strong combination of

Technical and Organizational skills as well as a passion for quality. I

have worked as an Independent Contractor and as well as full time positions

at various companies.

. Has Business Analysis experience and can read/write .Net code for

debugging and automating purposes

. Lead quality planning activities for projects and standard maintenance

efforts including timeline estimates, scope, quality approach,

schedules, deliverables and leadership reporting

. Recent PM experience co-ordinating with clients, creating work orders,

timelines, wireframes(Visio) and Project planning using MS Project

. Worked closely with cross-functional teams to thoroughly test

requirements and functionality. Have excellent communication and

presentation skills Extremely detail oriented- reviewing requirement

documents, analyzing docs, conducting gap analysis and finding risk

contingencies

. Dedicated and motivated team player, a self starter and can adapt to

a wide range of work environments

. Leadership qualities in owing the app and QA responsibilities,

effective communication in various departments :dev, BA, DB and

Project Management teams in resolving issues, clarifications and

defects

. Coding knowledge of various programming language: VB.Net, C#.Net

. Extensive experience in Auto, finance, software, Radio automation,

Banking and Mortgage industries

. Completed course work study on ASP.Net Programming, Basics of Oracle.

Advanced Oracle Web Page design C++ at IVC, Irvine

. Participated extensively in creating Test Plan, Test Matrix, Test

Strategy and GUI testing, end-to-end testing User Acceptance testing,

Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression

Testing and Smoke Testing

Experience

Company: LoopNet (a Costar Group May 2011 - Current

of Companies), Newport Beach, CA

Position Lead SQA Engineer

Creating Test strategy in current Loopnet website and security access

testing

Responsibilities:

. Take large bodies of work, decompose into User Stories and Acceptance

criteria, and then assign to various sprints/iterations (Agile Project

Management)

. Creating web service tests using C#

. Writing Master Test Plan and test cases related to each sprint

. Participates in sprint planning, daily SCRUMs, sprint demos, and

sprint retrospectives and publishes key release metrics.

. Ensure User Stories are tested during the sprint in an end-to-end

overview

. Code debugging in .Net environment and automation using coded UI for

regression test plans

. Creating Test cases and Reports in Team Foundation Server tool

. Conduct daily scrum meetings in Agile methodology of testing and

continuous improvement of the project

. Working with the Product team for gathering more clarification and gap

analysis

. Using Firebug and fiddler for user tracking purposes(link codes and

Action codes)

. Database querying for data validation

. Managing bi-weeking maintenance releases and sprint projects

. Worked on Search Engine Optimisation(SEO) projects

. Testing of the product in mobile apps(ipad, iphone and Android)

Tools/Technologies:

TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, Coded UI, MS Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server

Management Studio, C#.Net, JQuery

Company: Capita Tech, Irvine, CA Dec 2010 - April 2011

Position Lead QA/BA consultant(Contractor)

Writing Product specification of the client's Promotional website and

responsible for testing of Ecommerce, B2B and B2C websites

Responsibilities:

. Worked as a Project Manager for small projects starting from product

specifications to release of the product

. Monitor project progress against action items and key milestones and

software change requests

. Testing .Net applications and database testing(SQL)

. Creating Test strategies, test plan and test cases

. Lead the development and documentation of business processes and data

flow models for the functional requirements (Wireframes)

. Writing Test Plan and detailed Test cases for the product

. Cross-browser testing and working with a fast paced Agile team

Tools/Technologies:

MS Excel, MS Visio, Active Collab, SQL Server 2005, MS Project, .Net

Company: Mercury Insurance, Brea, Dec 2009 - Dec2010

CA

Position: Lead QA Consultant(Contractor)

Testing on third-party vendor software's integration with Mercury's

software and a web based in house software to get online auto quotes for

customers and testing Ecommerce website

Responsibilities:

. Creating Test Plan and Test cases from The Functional Requirement

Document

. Attended and suggested new scenarios in design review, functional and

technical meetings with developers and Product Management team

. Performing XML based testing for Component testing using SOAP UI and

maintained regression scripts using QTP

. Performing Regression, Integration, backend, dataware housing and end-

to end testing of the software

. Helping Business Analyst with conducting Gap Analysis from the

Requirement flow and creating Use Case

. Extensive Database testing for mapping of fields from one Application

to Other(Heavy SQL queries)

Tools/Technologies:

HP Quality Center, MS SharePoint, SOAP UI, QTP, .Net

Company: Bankruptcy Management Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

Solutions, Irvine, CA

Position: Software QA Supervisor

Worked on a desktop software application for trustees dealing with Chapter

7 and 11 bankruptcies. And worked on the integration between MS outlook and

the software.

Responsibilities:

. Provided leadership in establishing and maintaining standards and

methods for inspection, testing, evaluation and documentation

. Business Analyst Role : Created Use cases from the requirements,

Business Diagrams using Visio

. Creating Testing strategy for the team

. Created and executed test cases and report results against

desktop/online applications that contain online banking, accounting,

office automation and document management components

. Attended training of C#.Net to help the development team to start a

new project using C#.Net

Tools/Technologies:

ATS, MS Word, C#.Net, SQL queries(data manipulation)

Company: GOOGLE, Irvine, CA Apr 2007 - Apr 2008

Position: Software QA Engineer (Contractor)/ QA Lead

Worked on a desktop application of Radio Automation system . Features

include: Podcasting, transferring of music files from one geographical

location to another location, remote recording by a DJ

Responsibilities:

. Worked with cross-functional teams (Development, PM) in resolving bugs

. Involved in the agile method of testing and an active member of daily

scrum meetings . Performed Performance testing using J-Profiler

. Performed web-testing and testing of desktop applications

. Used Google docs and Wiki for all documentation and buganizer in

logging all bugs and tracking them

Tools/Technologies:

Post Gres, Buganizer, SVN, Google docs, Java,XML, Wiki, TestScribe

Company: AMC Mortgage Services Feb 2006 - Mar 2007

(Ameriquest), Orange, CA

Position: QA Analyst II/Team Lead

Worked on a Cashiering project, dealing with delinquent mortgage payments

and loan modification, Real estate owned (REO) and forbearance payment

plans(Ecommerce)

Responsibilities:

. Involved in creating the Test Plan,Test Strategy and Risk analysis

documents and conducting continuous improvement after every release

. Worked in several projects and was a Team Lead for one of the project

and lead a group of 6 people(onshore and offshore)

. Involved in writing, reviewing and executing Traceability Matrices

from the Use Cases,data flow diagrams(Visio) as per functional and

business requirements and Use Cases.

. Performed Ecommerce, web-testing and ETL/RDL testing. Informatica tool

was used to sync data from one environment to another.

Tools/Technologies:

PL/SQL Developer. TOAD, SQL Plus, WinRunner, Clear Case, Clear Quest,

Lotus mail Informatica

Company: Apollo Enterprise July 2005 - Feb 2006

Solutions Irvine, CA

Position: QA Manager

Worked on a web application dealing with self-debt settlement process. It

allows users to choose various methods of payments based on their debts.

Responsibilities:

. Worked as a developer and a QA person and wrote functional spec for n-

tier .Net application

. Started the QA team from scratch and created testing strategies and

methodologies

. Programmed multi-tier application using ASP.Net and tested xml

webservices

. Performed Functionality testing, Integration testing and Regression

Testing using QA Wizard. Stress/Performance testing, Ecommerce testing

. Used Test Track Pro for defect tracking and SQL server 2000 for

database testing

Tools/Technologies:

QA Wizard, Test Track Pro, ASP.Net, VB.Net, XML Web Services, SQL

Server 2000, Star Team, DTS, SQL Migrator

Client: Farmers and Merchants April 2002 - May 2005

Bank, Long Beach CA

Position: QA Engineer(contractor)

Worked on a project dealing with internal employee maintenance application

and a credit card application (Ecommerce website)

Responsibilities:

. As a Team Lead of one of the project, managed all QA activity related

to the project i.e conducted meetings, document review, meetings with

the Business Analysts

. Conducted Performance testing, Multi user testing, Regression Testing,

black box testing, Multi-browser and UAT

Tools/Technologies:

Rational Clear Quest, Java, SQL, client server and desktop application

testing

Technical Skills

Languages VB, C# in ASP.Net platform,C++,XML

Bug Reporting Test Track Pro, Clear Quest, Buganizer, Quality

Tools Center, TFS

Operating Systems Windows 2000/NT/ XP, UNIX, MSDOS

Testing tools SOAP UI, Clear Case, QTP, Neoload, Win Runner,

TestScribe

Databases Oracle 8i, MS SQL 2000, PL/SQL Developer, TOAD,

PostGres

Miscellaneous MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visual Source Safe,

SVN, Star Team

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), S.M.I.T, INDIA

Status

Green Card. Available to join work ASAP

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