Professional Summary

*.* years experience in Information Technology industry as a Quality Assurance Team Lead in CMMI level 5 organizations.

Accustomed with QE & A best practices in diversified domains like Retail, eCommerce, Internet and Media Entertainment, Banking and Financial Services.

ISTQB certified tester.

Delivered critical projects in different Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like Waterfall, Agile, and Iterative.

Hands on experience in testing tools like Selenium Webdriver, JIRA, HP ALM, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP),

Expert in Test plans, Test design, Execution, Defect management, status reporting and test closure.

Solid Hands on experience in different types of testing like Smoke Testing, Functional, Integration, Regression testing, Black box testing, GUI testing, Back-end testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), and Automation testing.

As a Test lead successfully delivered project for multiple clients in agile methodology.

Expert in Mobile application testing.

Successfully managed different stakeholders including Project manager, Development manager, QC team, product owner and application users.

Quick learner and seek opportunity in to learn new skills to apply. I have provided trainings.

Free to work for any employer in US. Don’t need any visa sponsor.

Skills

Automation tools - Selenium WebDriver, Quick Test Professional (QTP) & UFT

Test Planning, Design, Execution

Defect & test Management JIRA, HP ALM - Quality Center,

Database testing- PL/SQL

Agile methodologies - Scrum, Extreme Programming

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Share Point, Visio, etc.),

Work History

CCOGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST KOLKATA, INDIA NOVEMBER 2007 - CURRENT

As a QA lead and functional tester delivered 15 + projects for 7 different global players.

Managed QA teams to deliver quality products in challenging environments ensuring project objectives are met.

Awarded as employee of the month for innovation in reducing time waste for a US banking giant client.

Reduced delivery timeline by Automation scripts for agile projects for a renowned University of UK.

Reduced Quality cost for an US based specialty children's apparel retailer by delivering quality products in sprints in lower testing environments managing agile team.

Helped a US based leading athletic apparel client in estimating UI transformation project size where requirements were not documented.

Increased productivity by streamlining Release scope management and defect management process for agile project for a renowned Sports gear US brand.

Transformed delivery model from manual to automation to save project hours and ensure on time delivery with enhanced testing scope for a leading US based department store.

Played instrumental role in test designing, developing automation test scripting using QTP, Defect logging, Defect management for a critical project for a US based Bank.

Delivered on time with quality, test cases mapped to the requirements, scripts, results, and defect.

Managed Requirements traceability metrics (RTM) for projects which ensured reduced defect leakage.

Ensured zero production defects by performing UAT.

While serving this project undertook the below responsibilities and activities

oCreated test plan and strategies.

oCreate and maintain Sprints, Assign resources to the sprints, Capacity planning for the sprints.

oTracked project progress for against mile stones and followed-up with stakeholders to keep the status green.

oWorked closely with different stakeholders like the application development team, project management, product owner and the design and testing team to resolve issues and ensure overall quality of the software.

oConducted requirements walkthrough with the users, development, Project Management, and Testing team.

oRisk identification, Mitigation planning and tracking.

oReporting Daily, Weekly and test closure report.

oDesigned and maintained automated test scripts

oTook ownership of User Acceptance Testing before introduction to production.

oDesigned functional scenarios, regression tests, negative tests, and usability tests according to Business Requirements.

oExecuted SQL queries to validate the front-end data with the database (backend). Used DML to manipulate the data wherever applicable to verify the functionality.

oPerformed different kind of testing including Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Usability and Cross Browser testing for the Web and Mobile applications.

oAnalyze and identify Regression suites for automation and identify appropriate tools.

o Own defect management process – Logging and tracking software defects in the defect tracking systems.

oSupervising, coaching and providing training to new team members and colleagues.

Education

Bachelor in Computer Application

ABSS Institute of higher education

Professional Certificates

ISTQB

Cognizant Certified Professional - L0 Software Testing

Cognizant Certified Professional – L1 Software Testing

Cognizant Certified Professional – L1 Mortgage Banking

Cognizant Certified Professional – L0 Retail

Cognizant Certified Professional – L1 Mobile Testing

Cognizant Certified Professional – L1 Merchandising

Soft Skills

Attention To Detail

Verbal Communication Skills

Organization Skills

Team Player

Analytical

Motivated

Self-starter

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