Project Manager Test

SUMMARY

QA Engineer with *+ years of experience, including various full SDLC/Agile/Testing life cycle implementations and extensive work experience as Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Core expertise on Manual, Automation, Database, Web-Service Testing

In-depth knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) includes Requirements Analysis, Test Plans, Test Design, Test Environment setup, Test Data, Test Execution, Defect tracking and Test Closure

Extensive experience in Integration, System, E2E and User Acceptance testing (UAT)Testing

Used stubs, drivers and Sandwich approach method for Integration Testing

Extensive experience in various Black box testing technique- Functional, Negative, Error guessing, Exploratory, Regression, Boundary Value Analysis, Integration, System, UI (User Interface), Accessibility, Ad-hoc, Localization, Compatibility, Smoke, Regression, Re-testing, Pesticide Paradox, Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning and Database testing

Written and Executed DML, DDL, JOINS, Aggregate, SubQuery in SQL part of Backend Testing

Experience in testing both Client server and Web Based applications

Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as well as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Selenium

Worked on HP QTP Automation using VB script and Descriptive Programming

Plan, Design, Build and Maintain Complex Test Automation Frameworks Data-Driven, Keyword, Hybrid

Identified the Locators in webpage using ID, Xpath, ClassName, Name, linkText, PartiallinkText, TagName, CssSelector

Expert on Selenium Automation using WebDriver and Server. Heavy programming using Java, TestNG

Prioritize d test cases using Annotations and executed using Eclipse IDE

Used TestNG to generate HTML based results in Eclipse IDE

Experience in preparing Business scenarios to highlight testing objectives, preparing Test plans and Test reports

Identified Impacted areas for Functional and Regression testing to be included in Test plan

updated about test preparation, test execution and defect status on daily and weekly status reports to Manager and cross-functional team

Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive Test Coverage of requirements.

Experience in working with Software Development team in resolving Defects, presenting the Defect Status reports, resolving requirement, and observed design inconsistencies.

Experience in Application Programming Interface Testing (API), Service Oriented Architectures Testing (SOA)

Involved in White box Testing

Experience in Risk Based Testing where risk analysis and mitigation are the key responsibilities

Experience with QA Methodology including Defect tracking and management

Expertise in Bug tracking using tools like Quality Center, Test Director, Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, Jira

Proven skills in reporting mechanisms using Quality Center dashboard as well as standard corporate templates

Highly efficient in Complex, Agile, Dynamic, Onshore-offshore project environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools QTP, Selenium, WinRunner, SOAP UI, IDE

Databases Microsoft SQL Server, My SQL, Access

Scripting Languages VB Script, TSL Java script, AS/400

Web Technologies HTML, XML

Defect Tracking Tools HP Quality Center, Microsoft Visual Studio -Team Foundation Server, Test Director, Bugzilla JIRA

Design tools Mind Map

Language C, C++, Java, Junit, C#.Net, TestNG

Software Packages MS Office

Operating systems Windows, Unix, Linux

Domain Knowledge Telecommunication (Operational Support Systems and Business Support Systems), Logistics/Retail, Banking, E-Publishing

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Computer Science June 2004 – May 2006

St.Joseph’s Collage, Trichy, Bharathidasan University, Chennai, India 75.6%

EXPERIENCE

Test Analyst

Chicago, IL

Client: Kraft, USA Dec 2011 – Nov 2013

Kraft Foods Group is one of the largest food and beverage businesses in North America. Kraft is Web based application. Product lines include groceries and snack, personal care and home care. The system was used to track procured raw materials, product assembly & packaging shipped to warehouse and deliver to retail stores. Environment: Selenium, HP Quality Center, Windows, SQL, JAVA, JavaScript, Jsp, Ejb, Html, Xml, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis: Participated in meeting with onsite/clients understand the functional and non-functional

requirements for the software release and prepare test requirement for functional requirement

Highly dynamic environment with sprint teams using agile methodology

Experience in preparation of Test plans, Test scenarios, Requirement traceability matrix (RTM),Test cases, Test data, Test cases review and Test execution to ensure all testing requirements are met and documented

Performed Smoke Testing in Testing environments prior to for further testing

Used Firebug to find the Locators

Identified the Locators in webpage using ID, Xpath, ClassName, Name, linkText, PartiallinkText, TagName, CssSelector

Performed Integration, System, E2E, UAT and Regression testing for different releases

Created Automation Script to validate the webpage with different conditions Actions, Acessors, Assertions

Executed the Test Scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results

Built a detailed, reusable, Script-Free Keyword+Data Driven Automation Framework for over 45% Test Cases using Selenium Webdriver + TestNG

Used annotations to prioritize test cases while executing

Involved in Code Review, Design Review, Test Case Review meetings with business analysts and developers.

Identified Regressions scenarios based on the release

Used TestNG to generate HTML based reports

Used Selenium Grid to run multiple tests simultaneously in different browsers

Written and Executed DML, Aggregate functions, subquery and complex SQL Queries

Written and Executed SQL Join Queries- Inner, Left, Right, Full to validate output in multiple tables

Created and maintained folder structure in Test plan and Test lab in Quality center

Uploaded the test cases into Quality center and Mapped the requirements with test cases

Trained 4 users on FireBug, FirePath, and Custom Automation Framework Test Execution and Maintenance

Performed Negative testing and Positive testing

Tracked all defects in Quality Center and updated the defects status in Quality center

Worked with various teams to fix problems

Prepared Status summary reports with details of passed, failed test cases, and open defects

Test Team Lead

Client: Telephonica O2, UK Jan 2010 – Dec 2011

Telephonica O2 (OSS and BSS) is a leading Mobile and Broadband service provider in the UK. Avatar is a web based application which integrates multiple internal and external systems and platforms. Avatar manages Broadband orders for O2’s customers including point of sale (PoS), provisioning and billing. It also interacts with British Telecom (BT) systems to provision the order and with Bottom line and Datacash to disburse monthly payments. Environment: Java, Java Script, Quality Center, QTP, Oracle 10g, MS Word, Excel, Windows

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed detailed Test plans which specify testing overview and Testing approach depending on the Business and Technical Requirements

Ensured End to end risks, assumptions and dependencies are factored into the estimates

Prepared and involved in Test scenarios, RTM, Test Review, Test data, and Test execution from various Business Requirements and High/Low Level Design requirements

Consolidated issue logs and worked with development team to resolve identified issues

Planned and executed test phases including Smoke, System, Integration and User Acceptance testing

Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP

Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP

Worked with the SQL statements to extract data from Oracle tables and verify the output data of the reports on the browser page

Created User Defined Functions in QTP& managed Object Repositories

Called external functions in VBScript and Verified and Validated the Automated Test script.

Performed Integration Testing and Batch Testing in QTP

Used Parameterization to fetch data to test the application using QTP

Accessed unix using Putty to test the application on Linux servers and having good knowledge of UNIX commands

Integrated testing with various BT systems to ensure that O2 Broadband provisioning meets business requirements

Tracked all defects in Defect manager and ensured closures were updated in Quality center

Attended several walkthrough meeting with Business analysts, Project Manager and Developers and provided feedback accordingly

Handled deliveries including Value Added Tax (VAT) fix, data retention, upload/download speed checker, integrated organizations, Operational Release Testing (ORT), Roadmap Release Testing (RRT)

Senior QA Analyst

Client: McGraw Hill, USA Mar 2008 – Jan 2010

Passkey is a self-paced learning system designed to help students gain proficiency in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. It is a modular diagnostic and prescriptive software program for self-paced instruction. Passkey management system makes it easy to assess appropriate levels of instruction, administer lessons based on educational standards and objectives, and generate reports on student usage and progress. Environment: .Net C#, Test Director, Windows, SQL Plus

Interactive Hybrid CD-ROM Creations: project involved creation of Interactive Hybrid CD-ROM that supported text books for schools based out of McGraw-Hill Education, Australia. The services included creation of Menu structure, Folder structure, tool tips and posting of files. This also necessitated creation of new icons, editing help text & disclaimer and Cascading Style Sheets. These files then needed linking to various other files and folders by creating hyper links. Toast files of the CD were sent for review. Environment: Java, Test Director, HTML, Windows, SQL,QTP

Responsibilities:

Analyzed user requirements and system specification documents

Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP

Helped to create Traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements identifies all test conditions and test data needs

Designed and Executed test cases to manually test the application

Executed Positive and Negative Test cases

Performed accessibility testing to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Performed GUI, Functional, System, Regression and Error guessing testing

Conducted Compatibility test to see if web application is compatible with different Operation systems and different Web Browsers

Managed reports and track bug reports in Test Director

Re-tested fixed defects and re-executed failed Test cases against the defect

Worked with the SQL statements to extract data from Oracle tables and verify the output data of the reports on the browser page

Interacted with team lead and other team members to discuss and resolve defects and their priorities

QA Analyst

Client: Standard Chartered Bank Feb 2007 – Oct 2007

AML is Anti-Money Laundering software developed by Norkom Technologies for Standard Chartered Bank. It is to trap the suspicious money and unusual transaction that happens in bank for various business processing. It includes various modules like Account Details, Customer Details, Transaction Details, Search Functionality, CAT, Alert Details, Case Details, Alert Workflow, Case Workflow, Standardized Names, Case Management-Diary, Admin Rights, User Rights, and Workload Manager (WLM). Environment: Windows – 7, NT, 2003, 98, UNIX, LINUX,racle10g/11g, SQL Server 2005, TOAD10, SQL/ PL SQL, UML, HTML, ASP, .Net, JavaScript.

Business to Business Exchange (B2BEX) is a web based trade services application, provided by Exonomy Limited, subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank. This allows the Exonomy customers and partners to offer importers, exporters and their trading partners, value-added benefits for their existing trade offerings and deliver solutions quickly without the cost and complexity of a proprietary stand-alone solution. It supports various functions, such as User Customer Admin (UCA),Trade Document Management (TDM), Document Grouping functions (PGM/PIM), Integrated Reporting (IR), Catalogue (CAT), Portal Services(PS), Messaging & alerts, Billing, etc. Environment: .Net, Oracle 9i, Apache Ant, TOAD, VSS, Test Director

Responsibilities:

Executed Test Scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results

Participated in initial review/requirements gathering sessions and provide feedback

Expert in maintaining Traceability matrix to track the requirements of the application

Performed Functional, System, User Interface, Regression, Ad-hoc, Re-testing

Prepared Test data for positive and negative testing based on the test conditions

Recorded Test cases by inserting table check point, Text and Bitmap checkpoint

Used Test Director for Test preparation, Test Execution, Generating reports and Tracking bugs

Created User Define functions and used parameterization for various data and execute data driven test scripts using VB script

Interacted with developers to understand the Business Requirements and the enhancements in the applications

Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database

Used TOAD for backend testing and Performed data verification using SQL queries

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