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Test Cases Manager

Location:
Vienna, VA
Salary:
120000
Posted:
February 01, 2019

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PRATAP SINGH

ac8c6m@r.postjobfree.com

571-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

9+ years of overall experience with over 5 years of Lead experience in various domains.

Skilled in determining system analysis, system requirements and specifications for complex application development projects.

Experience in developing test strategy, comprising Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Testing Methodology and Test Reports.

Sound hands on knowledge of test management tool HP ALM and IBM Rational Clear Quest tools.

Developed outstanding reputation for meeting project deadlines and delivering results exceeding client’s expectations. Solid experience in requirements gathering, documentation, and testing.

Ability to interact with people at all levels. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with likable personality.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

Bachelors in Commerce, University of Delhi (India)

Certified Scrum Master (2016)

MicroStrategy Certified Project Designer v9.2.1 (1/March/2013)

MicroStrategy Certified Report Developer v9.2.1 (10/March/2013)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality center 8.2/9.0, Test Director 7.27.5/8.0, DOOR, Mercury Test Director, (TFS) Team Foundation Server, Make TLM, Putty, Soap UI, SharePoint, JIRA, Version1

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g 11g, SQL, SQL Server 2005/2008, Apache Cassandra

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003/2008, Vista, UNIX, Linux, OS/390

Reporting Tools: MicroStrategy v8, v9 Web

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ICFI/USPS, Merrifield, VA, January 2015 – Present

UAT Lead

Informed Visibility (IV) as “real-time, end-to-end mail tracking.” IV will support new business intelligence capabilities, powerful analytics it can use to improve efficiency and control costs, expanded service measurement and diagnostic capabilities, and adaptive predictive workload tools.

Responsibilities:

Lead overall QA effort and assigned work to QA analysts

Managed Test execution phase by supporting execution of test cases by business users

Training and mentoring new testers

Created detailed Test plans to check the functionality of Application

Improve quality assurance to increase throughput, improve quality, and continuously improve our testing processes

Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the HP Quality Center/ALM along with Master test plan; Generating Matrices Reports and Charts for Defect Analysis to analyze statistical nature of the defects.

Oversaw the creation and execution of test plans, monitoring and reporting on test execution

Reviewed existing test cases and identifying gaps in test coverage

Interface directly with Client, Business Analysts and Developers

Created manual Test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.

Used HP ALM for defect tracking and for generating reports.

Designed and reviewed the business requirement, functional specification and project schedules based on the project scope and SDLC Methodology.

Review and understand data requirements and create the necessary test data and test cases to be used during CAT.

Worked on wire frame to create mock up and prototype the web-page and User stories with the Vendor for the application’s front end designed.

Prioritized and scoped defects/enhancements for a release and provided size and effort estimations (LOE).

Experience in Data validation in RDBMS by writing SQL Queries.

Environment: Oracle 10g, Oracle Developer, ALM, UNIX, PUTTY, GPUDB, Version1, JIRA.

Fannie Mae, Washington DC, January 2014 – November 2014

Business Analyst/ Sr. UAT

(AMTM) Asset Mark to Market team performs commitment/inventory pricing for securities, which are used for trading, accounting and risk management. Commitment pricing covers the pricing from the day that the trade is entered through the day the settles. Inventory pricing covers the pricing throughout the life of the security. The enhancements were to automate the critical pricing EUC’s for MBS and Remic and Merge Pricing Applications for Debts, OIP, and Non-Performing loans to AMTM.

Responsibilities:

Involved in the development of system test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents.

Prepared and Presented weekly team reports on the status of the project.

Reviewed the testing scenarios with the stakeholder and conducted test scripts reviews with the stakeholders.

Performed all the Quality Assurance functions, which involved reviewing and analyzing the requirements specification for creating the Master Test Plan, Test strategies, and all types of test cases, and Test procedures and for installing applications Involved in creating and reviewing documentation for the installation and operating procedures.

Prepared the various SDLC documents including test summary, test scenarios, incident reports and requirements traceability matrix.

Created, managed and executed test cases using HP ALM.

Led the daily defect call to discuss and prioritize all the defects uncovered with Business, IT and QA teams.

Created and executed SQL queries and validated the test data in the database.

Reviewed the Test cases of team members and identified the gaps to make them more effective and relevant to the requirements.

Used HP Quality Center for creating and executing test cases, for defect tracking and for generating reports.

Various other tests like Positive, Negative and Regression performed to check the various business functionality.

SQL queries to perform data validation and validate reports against the database.

Validate the Transformation rule that applies to the attributes in the response XML.

Documented the Bug Reports for all the bugs detected and tracked the bug fixing process until they were closed.

Prioritized and scoped defects/enhancements for a release and provided size and effort estimations (LOE).

Conducted detailed business requirement study with analysis of the management vision and goal to comprehend a thorough understanding of project specifications.

Environment: Oracle 10g, TOAD, Visual Studio, Test Manager, ALM, DOORS, UNIX, PUTTY, Soap UI and manual testing.

IBM/ American Petroleum Institute (API), Washington DC, March 2013 – January 2014

Sr. Business Analyst / Testing Lead

Employing Agile methodologies, served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for American Petroleum Institute’s Global programs and products. Consulted on software development life cycle (SDLC) for Certification, Training and Audit applications. Created user stories, wrote and ran user acceptance tests (UAT), documented and processed bugs. Identified material deficiencies and processing gaps in the product and services of external Software Development Contractor. Wrote risk assessment and response options used by client to protect their financial interests and to mitigate loss.

Responsibilities:

Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and also have Exposure to Agile process and methodologies.

Own test plans and documentation that communicates the standards and procedures of QA teams.

Tracking the execution of testing in both SIT and UAT environments also Pass/Fail status of test cases.

Was involved in Data Mapping documents and Data requirements for the creation of the Data Mart

Embedded SQL*Plus to be used for several data extracting purposes from Datawarehouse.

Wrote SQL queries to do report validation.

Chair scrum/defect review meetings with project team stakeholders to discuss issue found during testing and their current statuses.

Conducting knowledge transfer session to new team members, trained the associates on changes and enhancements.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio, Test Manager, MS Access, (TFS)Team Foundation Server and manual testing.

IBM/ Exxon Mobile, Fairfax, VA, August 2012 – March 2013

Migration Testing Lead

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American Multinational technology and consulting corporation.

Responsibilities:

Involved in all phases of SDLC and was responsible for documenting various project activities and deliverables.

Onsight- Offshore coordination.

Preparing Functional/regression Test Cases/Scripts in HP Quality Center/ALM under Test Plan

Conducted Show and Tell Test Plan review sessions with business team

Mentored new team members and knowledge management activities

Daily, weekly and monthly Test Status reporting

Created and maintained a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracing, approaching and managing changes in requirements.

Worked on Agile Scrum Methodology and conducted the daily scrum.

Created Test plans, Test Coverage and Test Cases based on Decompose and Functional Requirement.

Used Team Foundation Server to create tasks, write Decompose requirement and log defects.

Prepared and Presented weekly team reports on the status of the project.

Testing the application at module level and system level for the Quality of the software.

Performed Integration testing for system compatibility.

Performed Smoke testing to ensure the stability of the build.

Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Regression testing performed to check the various business functionality.

Performed backend testing using SQL queries.

Documented the Problem Reports (PR’s) for all the bugs detected and tracked the bug fixing process until they were closed.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio, Rapid SQL, SQL Developer, Test Manager, Make TLM, (TFS)Team Foundation Server and manual testing.

CACI/ HUD.gov, Arlington, VA, August 2011 – June 2012

Business Analyst/ MicroStrategy Tester

CACI provided support to HUD in accomplishing its mission through maintenance and enhancement of the GMP (Grant Management Program) Monitoring Module system. The current effort includes enhancing the GMP Monitoring Module and performing all of the activities that correlate to the HUD System Development Methodology (SDM) standards. CACI ensured that the system conforms to HUD’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards. The GMP Monitoring Module system is a Web-based application.

GMP was designed to be a performance-based approach for HUD to manage its grantees. It was designed to work off of the Consolidated Plans that communities develop and submit to HUD to receive four formula grants (CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA).

Responsibilities:

Performed all the Quality Assurance functions, which involved reviewing and analyzing the requirements specification for creating the Master Test Plan, Test strategies, and all types of test cases, and Test procedures and for installing applications Involved in creating and reviewing documentation for the installation and operating procedures.

Experience in writing Data Mapping documents for ETL transactions.

Performed testing on a data warehouse platform, including data validation.

Conducts gap analysis of current to target state business architecture (in case of existing solutions) and define roadmap and plans to achieve target state.

Worked on wire frame to create mock up and prototype the web-page and User stories with the Vendor for the application’s front end designed.

Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.

Assisted in building a business analysis process model using MS Visio and Rational Rose.

Responsible for creating business rules, business requirements, functional and non-functional requirements in Doors.

Understand the process and system to be tested and assess business requirements.

Created mockups for new Pricing UI and Screens.

Performed ad-hoc, functional, and rigorous regression testing of the application.

Review and understand data requirements and create the necessary test data and test cases to be used during UAT.

Edited functional descriptions, system specifications, user's manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Tools, SQL Developer, JIRA, IBM Rational Doors, SharePoint, Microstrategy and manual testing.

Prometric Inc., Baltimore, MD, July 2008 – August 2011

Software Test Engineer

Prometric sells a range of services, including test development, test delivery, and data management capabilities. Prometric delivers and administers tests to approximately 500 clients in the academic, professional, government, corporate and information technology markets.

The project, Internet-Based Testing (IBT) is to allow tests to be delivered over the Internet with a minimum of technology on the user’s side. The IBT system allows for testing and administration within an HTML browser-based environment, making tests more accessible.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed application requirements and functional specification document to understand enhanced features.

Worked with performance testing team to develop and filter out test cases from existing test cases and performance test plans and cases.

Suggest new tools and techniques to improve testing efficiency.

Assist in project planning, scheduling, budgeting and tracking activities.

Produced High Level and Detailed Test Conditions.

Reported progress at regular status reporting meetings.

Managed individual test cycles & resolved tester queries/problems.

Ensured test systems outages/problems are reported immediately and followed up.

Ensured test exit criteria are achieved prior to System Test signoff.

Extensive involvements in bug scrub meetings with key stakeholders and reached consensus about outstanding issues.

Environment: Java 1.6, SQL Server 2005, HTML, J2EE, XML, (TFS)Team Foundation Server, Quality Center 9.2, and manual testing.



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