PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Bachelor of Technology graduate and ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) Foundation level Certified professional with 6 years and 09 months of Software testing experience in Banking/ Financial and Manufacturing/Hi-Tech Domains. Has played the role of a test lead by managing a team of 5 members.

SKILLS

Manual Testing, Web Testing & ETL Testing (Front-end & Back-end testing) device testing that includes mobile both in IOS AND ANDROID platform.

Functional, Integration, Regression Testing, GUI testing

Excellent expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Defect Metrics

Black Box testing techniques like Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning

Clear understanding of QA methodologies such as Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Testing Life-Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC

Expertise in Test Management tools like HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management/Quality centre)

Extensive experience Defect Life Cycle in reporting defects and tracking defects till fixes using the tools like HP Quality-Center, Radar and JIRA, and communicating status to business and development teams

Testing of applications based on - UNIX, JAVA, Web, Mainframe

Expertise in using SQL queries and UNIX commands

Good experience in Documentation with MS Office Tools like MS Word, MS Excel used to write Test Cases

Proficient in using SQL to access Databases and good Knowledge in RDBMS concepts

IVR Testing

Testing of applications in iOS platform devices

Execution of automation scripts using tools such as HP-QTP and Selenium

Worked in an ‘on-site/off-shore’ model of operation

WORK HISTORY

SENIOR TEST ENGINEER at Wipro Technologies from March 2010 to Aug 2015

PROJECT: DEUTSCHE BANK (Oct 2014 – Aug 2015)

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank. Deutsche Bank uses IDMS (Interactive Data management System), a backend accounting system to provide complete solution to other interfaces.

oRoles & Responsibilities:

Played the role of Senior Test Engineer with full system STLC (s/w testing life-cycle) experience

Worked in an Agile environment, adopting sprint-wise execution

Was involved in Integration testing of IDMS, core banking application in UNIX platform

Was involved in functional, integration, regression testing as well as sanity and smoke testing.

Was involved in web testing extensively.

Requirement Analysis: Took part actively in requirement specification meetings, collaborated with business analysts/developers to understand the business requirements clearly and worked towards linking them with the testing process.

Test Design and Test Data Preparation: Created test strategies, test plans, test scopes covering the specified business requirements. Designed test cases effectively covering different test scenarios including boundary conditions and negative testing. Involved in setting up the test environment and made sure the test data is available to perform extensive testing.

Test Execution: Executed the test cases once the readiness of code is confirmed. Documented, tracked, monitored and analysed the test results. Updated the test reports to respective Project owners.

Defect Logging: Identified defects/ bugs in system after exclusive coverage of testing. Coordinated with developers for the bug fixes by giving proper priority and severity to defects.

Retesting: Involved in retesting of the test cases for which the defects have been raised/fixed until the product is ready for release with zero/minimal defects.

Regression: Identified the regression test cases as well as the reusable test cases after each release.

Test Closure: Identified and documented the lessons learnt after each release and suggested ideas for improvement and better performance for next releases including cost cutting and effective resource utilization.

Supported the next level of testing such as Integration after System testing, UAT after Integration testing.

Maintained and complied with the standards and strictly adhered to the processes/guidelines while involving in all the testing activities.

Used HP ALM test management tool for managing the test activities.

Prepared Test status and Test summary reports

Prepared RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and ensured complete test coverage with respect to requirements

Involved in ad-hoc testing as per the business requirements.

oEnvironment: UNIX, Manual & Automation testing, Web testing, Front-end & Backend testing HP ALM, Agile Testing

PROJECT: APPLE CUSTOMER SYSTEMS (Sept 2013 – Sept 2014)

Apple is one of the leading consumer electronics manufacturing companies. Apple customer systems have multiple online applications like iLog, CAS, OSS, MySP and ORS. Every application has its own online web page.

oRoles & Responsibilities:

Played the role of Senior Test Engineer with full system STLC (s/w testing life-cycle) experience.

Testing of iLog and CAS applications. (Device Testing including mobile both in iOS and android platform)

Was involved in functional, integration, regression testing as well as sanity and smoke testing.

Worked in an Agile environment, adopting sprint-wise execution

Requirement Analysis: Took part actively in requirement specification meetings, collaborated with business analysts/developers to understand the business requirements clearly and worked towards linking them with the testing process.

Regularly Communicating with BA's to make sure the design documents are updated when there are changes in business rules

Reviewed the User Requirements Document and prepared the detailed Test strategy, Test Plan and Test scope for the Testing effort

Test Design and Test Data Preparation: Created test strategies, test plans, test scopes covering the specified business requirements. Designed test cases effectively covering different test scenarios including boundary conditions and negative testing. Involved in setting up the test environment and made sure the test data is available to perform extensive testing.

Test Execution: Executed the test cases once the readiness of code is confirmed. Documented, tracked, monitored and analysed the test results. Updated the test reports to respective Project owners.

Defect Logging: Identified defects/ bugs in system after exclusive coverage of testing. Coordinated with developers for the bug fixes by giving proper priority and severity to defects.

Retesting: Involved in retesting of the test cases for which the defects have been raised/fixed until the product is ready for release with zero/minimal defects.

Regression: Identified the regression test cases as well as the reusable test cases after each release.

Test Closure: Identified and documented the lessons learnt after each release and suggested ideas for improvement and better performance for next releases including cost cutting and effective resource utilization.

Supported the next level of testing such as Integration after System testing, UAT after Integration testing.

Maintained and complied with the standards and strictly adhered to the processes/guidelines while involving in all the testing activities.

Used JIRA & Radar test management tools for managing the test activities.

Was involved in web testing and GUI testing extensively.

Tested iOS applications in iOS devices.

Have executed automation scripts using tools Selenium and analysed the results.

Provided GO-LIVE support and involved in testing in production environment

oEnvironment: Web testing, Manual & Automation testing, Radar, JIRA, Selenium, GUI testing, Agile Testing

PROJECT: CAPITAL ONE BANK (March 2010 – Aug 2013)

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, home loans, auto loans banking and saving products.

oRoles & Responsibilities:

Played the role of Senior Test Engineer with full system STLC (s/w testing life-cycle) experience.

Regression testing of banking applications, Risk management testing including AML – Anti-money laundering system, IRS – Internal Revenue Service and PRIVACY – Customer’s choice for communication

Was involved in functional, integration, regression testing as well as sanity and smoke testing.

Requirement Analysis: Took part actively in requirement specification meetings, collaborated with business analysts/developers to understand the business requirements clearly and worked towards linking them with the testing process.

Test Design and Test Data Preparation: Created test strategies, test plans, test scopes covering the specified business requirements. Designed test cases effectively covering different test scenarios including boundary conditions and negative testing. Involved in setting up the test environment and made sure the test data is available to perform extensive testing.

Test Execution: Executed the test cases once the readiness of code is confirmed. Documented, tracked, monitored and analysed the test results. Updated the test reports to respective Project owners.

Defect Logging: Identified defects/ bugs in system after exclusive coverage of testing. Coordinated with developers for the bug fixes by giving proper priority and severity to defects.

Retesting: Involved in retesting of the test cases for which the defects have been raised/fixed until the product is ready for release with zero/minimal defects.

Regression: Identified the regression test cases as well as the reusable test cases after each release.

Test Closure: Identified and documented the lessons learnt after each release and suggested ideas for improvement and better performance for next releases including cost cutting and effective resource utilization.

Supported the next level of testing such as Integration after System testing, UAT after Integration testing.

Maintained and complied with the standards and strictly adhered to the processes/guidelines while involving in all the testing activities.

Used HP ALM test management tool for managing the test activities.

Involved in web testing, backend testing including Mainframe, UNIX, and Teradata & SQL Server using SQL queries. Involved in ETL (Extract Transform Load) testing using UNIX.

Have executed automation scripts using tools like HP-QTP and analysed the results.

Prepared RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).

Was involved in review meetings and obtained feedback on test case design and test results

Responsible for updating the test cases after reviewing the Business Change requests

Extensively used TOAD, Teradata and SQL server to test the interface code from the Back End

Role as a Test Lead: Ensured optimum quality of work by

Work allocation

Organising Knowledge transition

Mentoring and guiding the team by providing suggestions and sharing real-life experiences.

Responsible for project management activities such as maintaining project trackers like Daily/Weekly Status Tracker, Project metrics Data Preparation tracker and maintained productivity metrics for the team.

oEnvironment: Web testing, Manual & Automation testing, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Teradata, ETL testing, Front-end and Backend testing, HP ALM, QTP

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER at Capgemini (P) Ltd from Feb 2008 to June 2009

PROJECT: FIRST DATA INTERNATIONAL Feb 2008 to June 2009

First Data Corporation is a global payment technology solutions company. Project included enhancements and customizations of various modules in Visionplus.

oRoles & Responsibilities:

.Testing of Vision-plus, mainframe based credit card management application

Business requirement analysis

Designing test scenarios and test cases based on the requirement

Preparing the Test Data

Test Execution and preparation of Test Result Documents

Logging defects using HP Quality Centre, test management tool

Updating the status daily to the onsite through e-mails and phone calls

Retesting of the test cases for which the defects have been raised/fixed

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s in Technology – Electronics & Communication – University of Kerala - 2006

CERTIFICATION

ISTQB – International Software Testing Qualification – 2009 (Certificate Number - ITB-CTFL- 0020406 – India)

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