QA Test Lead
Resume:
Leslie Halan
Mobile: +1-973-***-**** E-Mail: **********@*****.***
Manual Testing Automation Testing Oracle e-business suite tester Professional
Objective:
I am looking forward to an opportunity where I can utilize my skills in contributing effectively to the success of the organization and further to improve my skills by taking challenging assignments.
Summary:
6 years of IT experience in Testing and Quality Assurance in various service based applications, and web applications.
Rich experience in Manual Testing (Black Box, GUI, Functional, Integration, System Testing, and Regression Testing) – Writing Test Strategies, Test case design, Test Execution and Collecting Test Data.
Expertise in automation tools selenium and cucumber.
Developed automation framework for both UI and API’s.
Expertise in bug reporting, tracking and documentation using JIRA and Quality Centre.
Multitasking individual with excellent analytical, communication & interpersonal skills.
Efficient in working with cross-functional and global teams.
Core Competencies
Quality Engineering Software Testing Technical documentation
Agile Methodology Analytical and Problem Solving Mentoring & Leadership
Planning & Execution Excellent Team Player Perseverance
Technical Skills
Project methodologies
Agile, Waterfall
Functional testing tools
SOAPUI, QC11.0
Automation testing tools
Selenium
Languages
Cucumber, XML, TestNG, Junit
GUI Tools
Eclipse, MS Office
Tools
Toad, Quality Centre, Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, MS Project
Achievements
Received Star Performance Award from cisco Director.
Received Client Appreciation for CE Australia, UKH, US & CAN releases.
Letter of Appreciation, Bravo, Pat on Back, Best Team award.
Received On The Spot award for pro-actively identifying automation scope and reducing manual efforts.
Career Progression
S.No.
Company Name
Designation
Duration
1.
Tata Consultancy Services
Senior Software Engineer
Since July 2011
Project Name:
SAS D360
Client
Scandinavian Airlines System
Role
Team Member
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
15
Tools
Selenium, Cucumber, SOAPUI, Eclipse, JIRA
Project Description:
SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) is Northern Europe’s leading airline. The project involves end to end development of customer service for Scandinavian Airline System from design to completion. The services include customer booking, checking, ancillary services and many more.
The project follows the Agile Development methodology having each iteration of two weeks. Each iteration consists of requirement analysis, development, testing. The development and release management are completely automated. Testing involves Smoke testing, Functional testing, and Regression testing for both UI testing and API.
Responsibilities
Designed and developed automation framework for both UI and API testing.
Designed automation scripts based on the functional test cases.
Analysed business requirement and testing scope based on Functional Specification.
Test case design.
Present the timely status to the stakeholders and management.
Involved in test planning, monitoring, and control the testing activities and tasks.
Review the test automation created by the Test Engineers.
Collect the queries related to the requirements and get them resolved by the business analyst team.
Project Name:
Cisco Commerce Workspace & SFDC
Client
CISCO Systems Inc.
Role
Team Lead
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
25
Tools
Toad, Oracle e-biz suite, Quality centre 11.0
Project Description:
Project is planning, executing and supporting all the phases of BAT and UAT cycle of the business applications of Cisco (CCW, SFDC). It involved testing of this applications and supporting the business, end testers across multiple regions (7 geographies). Cisco, its partners and customers use CCW and SFDC worldwide for creating deals and quotes for Cisco products, converting them into order.
Responsibilities
Took up Lead Responsibility and Assigned task to all UAT Testing Team members.
Reviewed the business requirements and functional requirements with the business analyst and IT analyst respectively.
Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
Prepared the test scenarios, test scripts from the functional requirements specific to BAT-UAT and getting it reviewed with IT analysts
Reviewed Test Scenarios, Test Cases prepared by test engineers
Keep track of the new requirements/ change in requirements from the Project
Escalated the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager
Prepared the test data requirements for the test scripts and requesting it to data set up cross flow team for creation
Co-ordinated with the data set up team to deliver the test data on time
Executed the test scripts before handling it to business and end user tester to do the quality analysis of the scripts
Assigned task to all Testing Team members
Reviewed test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members
Attended the regular client calls and discussed the weekly status with the client.
Set up frequent status check meetings with the Team.
Identified Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills)
Created reports (daily status reports and weekly reports)
Track and report to project management team upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status
Worked with developers to perform root-cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis
Produced and prioritized bug reports
Adapt planning based on test results and progress and take any action necessary to compensate for problems
Check for timely delivery of different milestones.
Check for the feasibility of automating the test scripts and discuss the same with automation team.
Project Name:
Order creation & Order Processing E2E
Client
CISCO Systems Inc.
Role
Team Member
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
10
Tools
Oracle Apps 11i,R12,Toad,HP Quality centre
Project Description:
The main idea of this team is to reach out to the concerned project teams describing the roadmap from requirement gathering to create or process and delivery of the different type of orders requested by individual project teams.
Responsibilities:
Requirements need to be uploaded in the OST tool by the individual project teams in the predefined template format. Templates are accessible via OST tool
OC request need to be uploaded into OST tool by individual teams a week ahead of MR release cycle
OST tool to validate the submitted requirements on the fly and if any issues or errors occur they need to be corrected by the individual X-Flows teams and upload the details
Daily detail metrics for individual project team to be published via email to notify them of the progress of their orders and current status
Any defects or issues identified are followed up and communicated to X-flow on regular basis. It is updated IST EOD daily
We publish the daily order creation/processing dashboard to all the stake holders which includes and current status for all the track, defects status and risks/issues
Once Orders are created the SO# details will be updated in OST tool and auto notifications from OST tool (WIP) would be sent to the project teams
The Status will be updated in OST tool twice a day (offshore EOD, Onsite EOD
We were creating orders in Smoke test/FPR for different teams
Master setups should be available (e.g.: Customer, items, ship set ups) in QTC/BV/SJ
Orders would be processed till scheduling only in QTC/BV
OC team will also support the shipping.
Added to that shipping in automation process also been supported.
Project Name:
Nextgen Config Integration into Quoting
Client
CISCO Systems Inc.
Role
Team Member
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
6
Functional Skills
Toad 10.5, HP Quality Center 9.2
Project Description:
Project involved the nextgen configuration platform integration into quoting application. Due to this integration, users could modify the configuration in quoting application itself instead of logging to separate tool and modifying then importing to quoting application. This gave instant configuration solution and saving of time. This integration involved various service oriented dependent functionalities.
Responsibilities:
Understand and analyze Business, Functional and UI (User Interface) requirements
Prepared Test Cases for module, integration and system testing.
Analyzed the Test Cases prepared by other team members.
Coordinated Integration Testing of Services associated with the application with other applications and CRM tools like SFDC (Salesforce.com).
Anchored cross-functional testing using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Application Demonstration to all business users
Training of resources, account & organization level knowledge Management
Lead functional, regression, usability, acceptance, database testing activities for the application involving multiple up-streams
Executed Test Scripts and logging defects in HP Quality Center.
Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications and mock ups.
Designed and reviewed test scenarios and test cases for system functionality
Conducted various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status reports.
Worked with business analysts and developers to track issues to closure.
Prepared Suggestion Documents to improve the quality of the application.
Tested for integration of various databases with our system.
Ensure Exit Criteria is met and communicates the same to required stake holders.
Functional QA on staging and production environments as per client scheduled.
Project Name:
Cigna - CATS (Centralized Accumulator translator system)
Client
Cigna
Role
Team Member
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
1
Tools
ALM, CART Tool
Project Description:
Cigna is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security.
The Benefits system allows configuring new benefits where members can enrol, was part of the Centralized Accumulator Translator System testing. New benefits scenario creation and XML validation process.
Responsibilities
• Analyse business requirement and testing scope based on Functional Specification.
• Test case design.
• Agile framework – attending stand up calls, retrospective meetings
• Review results with Business and obtain sign-offs.
• Preparing weekly status reports with defect metrics.
• Present the timely status to the stakeholders and management.
• Involved in test planning, monitoring, and control the testing activities and tasks.
• Review the test cases created by the Test Engineers.
• Collect the queries related to the requirements and get them resolved by the business analyst team.
Project Name:
IKEA - AMS Support Team
Client
IKEA
Role
Team Member
Organization
Tata Consultancy Services
Team Size
4
Tools
Clear Quest, HP Quality Centre 11.52
Project Description:
IKEA designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008.
Was performing Functional and Regression testing for any new products/features that IKEA builds into its infrastructure.
Responsibilities
• Evaluating the PR’s (Incident tickets) and preparing the test strategy.
• Discussions with Dev teams to understand the PR.
• Preparing Test cases/scenarios and review it with Business partners.
• Web based testing and capturing screenshots for business review.
• Preparing Regression suite with supporting data requirements.
• Defect capturing and tracking using Clear Quest.
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