Career Goal

Technically skilled testing professional with years of experience in testing various systems from Unit testing through regression. Looking for an opportunity to work at a responsible position as a QA tester in a renowned organization.

EDUCATION (Visa Status H1B):

Bachelor of Engineering: May 2009 CGPA: 3.23 (4 scale)

Anna University, India

Academic Projects:

Voice operated speed control of induction motor:

The speed of motor is controlled using the voice input. This is done with the help of Kiel software and microprocessor unit. The motor speed is varied according to the user’s need, thus providing better efficiency and easy maintenance.

Professional Experience Summary (2011 – Present): Tata Consultancy Services Ltd:

A highly self-motivated team player working with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd from 2011 to present in retail and Travel domain. Accomplished subject matter expertise in Mainframes Functional testing, Data Validation, core application design, development and testing and delivery of various client requirements, performance tuning, production support, performance monitoring and troubleshooting have been my core area of work with TCS projects. I am currently working as an onsite Team lead counterpart for my project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis

Requirement Analysis, Business Rules, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Process Modeling, Gap Analysis, Cause & Effect Analysis, BRD, UAT and Test Scripts.

Software Tools

Omegamon II for DB2, QMF Editor, Bugzilla, Oracle data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder, SQL Developer, Putty

Testing Tools

HP Quality Centre, Selenium, ICEDQ, JIRA, Putty, WinSCP, DB Visualizer, Ranorex, Oracle SQL Developer, TPF, SoapUI

Operating Systems

MS Windows, IBM’s OS/390 Version 2, Release 10, IBM Z/OS, IBM Z/TPF

Methodologies

Waterfall, Agile, Incremental, SDLC, STLC

Packages

MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Project and Outlook).

Languages

Cobol, MVS JCL, ISPF, TSO, File Aid, REXX, SQL, DB2, Oracle, Java

Professional Projects:

Answers On Demand (Front End)

The Answers On Demand allows the clients to request whatever data they want and get answers to their questions quickly. It provides information to customers quickly. This helps in opportunities for the products, increased productivity by gathering information, insights to make informed decisions and competitive advantage. The Clients extract information via online report and extract in case of larger volume.

Perishable Group Factory Integration

It is necessary to integrate Perishable Group (PG) fresh data into data factory and outputs allowing end user to see fresh categories within syndicated and custom data contexts and Retailer Defined Hierarchies with trended movement data going back to May 2012. This is done by adding Sample stores to PG markets in order to align fresh categories to Census Sample Integrated trade areas and fill census retailer gaps to project to xAOC channel. Keep and leverage PG intellectual property.

Price Range Edits:

The Price Range Edits were not able to be applied correctly to older data (aka, backdata). After enhancement, Price would be maintained for last 8 years which will allow the use of the correct price range for the time frame of backdata being processed. Price will be generated for a specific Organization group (e.g., Dollar, Club, Walmart) for identified candidate organizations when sufficient store observations are available for generating price ranges which allow to capture the correct price.

Professional Roles and Responsibilities:

Software Quality Assurance Analyst Travelport (May 2017 – Current)

Projects Handled: Fares and Pricing

Roles and Responsibilities:

Working in a Agile Team as a Tester.

Involved in Sprint Planning, Grooming sessions to discuss about sprint items.

Responsible for planning test pre-requisites and test environment setup.

Performed test case design and review with the product owner team

Test execution using various tools such as SoapUI and TPF.

Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Leading a QA team involving in production support and maintenance.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst The Nielsen Company (Dec 2015 – April 2017)

Projects Handled: Answers On Demand

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involving in Sprint planning, User story decisions with suitable acceptance criteria.

Involving in the Grooming sessions to discuss about the changes that are part of sprint.

Responsible for planning test pre-requisites and test environment setup

Performed test case design and review with the product owner team

Test execution using various tools such as Putty, DB Visualizer, ICEDQ and WinSCP.

Automating test cases using Ranorex, Selenium IDE and ICEDQ tools.

Project Management, Project scheduling, Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building, and Mentoring are my area of expertise.

Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

Software Tester The Nielsen Company (Jan 2011 - Nov 2015)

Projects Handled: Perishable Group Factory Integration and Price Range Edits

Self-learning and good team player with a career spanning over 3 years in quality assurance.

Collaborated with a team of software engineers in the testing mainframe applications using tools such as QTP, control center, control-M, HP Quality Centre.

Experience in backend database testing, performance testing, requirement analysis, GAP analysis, business analysis, data analytics, research, execution and Implementation, Preparation of test plans, test strategies, traceability matrices, test scenario documents, Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Extensive experience in writing SQL queries (Sub queries, Join conditions) and generating reports with reasonable understanding of different relational databases.

Defect identification and tracking in Quality Centre Project.

Development of Test Automation Scripts using REXX.

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