Objective:

Over Ten years of experience in Information technology including application lifecycle management, strategy, testing, campaign management, implementation for Media, Publishing industries. Proficient in business process analysis, business requirements, project planning, estimating, process re-engineering, quality assurance.

Summary of Qualifications:

●A proven professional with over 10 years’ experience in the software quality assurance and manual testing.

●Working relationships with stakeholders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Business teams.

●Expert in preparing Test Plans, Test Metrics and execution of Test Cases and conducting Smoke, Regression, System Integration and Database testing.

●Good Experience in cross browser testing like IE 7, IE8, Firefox, Safari.

●Solid experience in using Quality Center (QC), Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Ruby.

●Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.

●Very Strong in Databases Oracle, SQL Server 2000and Proficient over SQL queries.

●Strong expertise in all phases of software test management defining requirements, planning testing process, execution, analyzing and reporting results, tracking and managing defects.

●Lead efforts to develop, document, and implement applicable QA processes and procedures to provide more effective quality methods within the group in support of providing quality products.

●Client-focused, self-starter, team player, highly organized, independent worker, process-oriented with excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.

Technical Expertise

SDLC Methodologies

Waterfall, V-Model, RUP, Agile – Scrum

Bug Tracking tool

Jira, Confluence, Subversion, Github, Xray, TestLink

Tools

Agentry platform, QC, QTP, Photoshop, MS Office 97/2000/XP, Internet Tools, Siebel CRM, Win Runner, SAP, Ruby, SharePoint, Filezilla, Rubymine, FTP Client, Restful API,Postman Client

Data Analysis

Mac, MS Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Mobile 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.5, 7.0, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, MySql, Microsoft SQL server 2005, 2008, Java, J2EE, XML, HTML

Testing Types

Functional, Integration, System, Smoke, Regression, User Acceptance, Alpha, Internalization and Localization

Testing Artifacts

Test Plan, Test Case, Test Suite, Test Script, Test Data

Core Competencies

Client-focused

Self-starter

Team player

Highly organized

Independent worker

Process-oriented with excellent analytical

Problem solving skills

Good Communication skills

Strategic Thinker

Professional Experience:

YesLifecyclemarketing June 2015-Till Date

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

•Planning and execution of testing for new and existing features

•Created QA required documentation.

•Worked with offshore QA teams and act as the primary liaison for project team and on shore development

•QA product expert for an enterprise platform, campaign management and Data Ingestion Platform for batch and stream processing.

•Communicate with all stakeholders particularly Systems Analysts, Product Management and developers. Attend and participate in planning and design meetings.

•Design test plans and defined test cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.

•Worked on ETL and SQL queries for the project.

Tribune Technology Oct 2012-Jun 2015

Quality Assurance Engineer III

Project: Digital Asset Management systems

•Implementation of new Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, SCC MediaServer, for LAT, TCN, LA Hoy, CT Chicago, CT Redeye and CT Hoy

•Integrate new DAM with Newsgate’s System Assignment System and LibSpace Archive Feed.

•Migration and clean-up of legacy photo/graphic assets, including LAT outtakes.

•Verified that the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process for the legacy Photos/Graphics worked.

•Created Test Plan, Test Scripts and Risk Assessment Documents for each sprint.

•Performed functional and regression testing for each Sprints

Project: Reconciliation & Close Management

•Tested Implementation of BlackLine at BLM and Utilize matching tool in BlackLine & interfaces from PeopleSoft & bank to automate A/P, Payroll & AX reconciliation and matching process.

•Performed Functional and regression testing.

•Verified that the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process for the Blackline works properly.

Project: CRM Sales Process Integration

•Performed functional and regression testing

•Verified that new account can be created, all types of activities can be created, activities can be cloned, Contact entity can be created, lead entity can be created, opportunity entity can be created, quotes entity can be created, •Assigned rep entity can be created, marketing list entity can be created.

•CRM is fully integrated with Outlook, Customer communication is tracked via Outlook, Follow-up activity feeds into outlook calendar, Tasks lists are populated and tracked

Project: Digital Metric (Digital Analytics)

•Performed Functional and regression testing

•Performed Functional testing for each individual report in regards to the selection of parameters, rendering of report, and display of data. Various scenarios were created to test the combination of different parameters.

•Regression testing

Project: Engine Reporting

•Performed functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and Smoke test. Tested Order entry in ADiT, Integration to Billing System (AX) and Sales order detail, Customer details in AX and Datawarehouse.

Syclo LLC. Nov 2009 – Oct 2012

Quality Assurance Analyst

•Performed client server application testing using Agentry Editor nested with the Eclipse software development platform.

•Worked in the Agentry team to run regression, feature, black box, sanity, exploratory and backend testing for multiple enterprise applications and Agentry releases.

•Worked in iOS project (iPhone, iPad, iPod) and SMART work Manager for SAP to run regression test cases for the new features.

•Reviewing and updating Test Cases as per requirement for different releases.

•Log defects/variance in Jira and ran defined test cases and document the results thereof.

Intertek Group Inc. Nov 2008 – Nov 2009

Quality Assurance Analyst

•Managed all phases of testing for assigned components ensuring test plans and test cases are completed and meet business requirements.

•Involved in creating test plan, test cases, scenarios, conditions and scripts, generated system test scripts for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), logistic systems and order fulfillment systems.

•Performed functional testing of the application.

•Involved in defect review meetings as needed.

•Analyzed business and functional requirements to design System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Accepting (UAT) Test Cases.

•Logged testing defects and coordinated with development teams for fix.

Education:

Bachelor of Science

University of Illinois at Chicago

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