Project Testing

Sonika Sood

Santa Clara: CA

q3gi01@r.postjobfree.com

408-***-**** (m)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of extensive and progressive experience as Test Lead and Business Analyst working on various platforms, domains and projects for numerous large-sized corporations

• Extensive experience in Black Box testing with excellent professional skills in preparation of test plans, test cases, and executing test cases.

• Experience in Functional testing, integration testing, smoke testing, end to end testing, Negative testing, black box testing, ad-hoc testing, system testing, Positive testing, Load testing, Performance Testing, Regression testing and user acceptance testing.

• Expertise in review and documentation of system test plans and creating test cases on the basis of products release’s features, client's requirements and related technical document.

• Efficient in creating and developing strategies, test plan, test cases, test scripts and test reports.

• Experience in tracking defects and making reports using proprietary tools.

• Excellent Analytical, Business, Problem solving and Communication skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.

• High proficiency in requirements management process. Successfully gather business requirements from key stakeholders and translate them into functional requirements.

• Extensively involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): feasibility studies, business modeling, process modeling, business requirements gathering and analysis.

• Received appreciation for the high quality artifacts provided to the development teams. Artifacts include Software Requirements Specifications, Functional Requirements Specifications, Business Requirements Documents, and Use Cases.

• Expertise includes analyzing and designing solutions, collaborating with the engineering teams, facilitating review sessions, proposing recommendations, coordinating with testing and other internal and external project teams.

• Extensive experience in authoring Business Requirement Documents by gathering Business and System Requirements, defining business processes, GAP Analysis, SWOT analysis, identifying risk, use case preparation, test case preparation, system and user acceptance testing.

• Strong knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), Involved in requirements analysis, system analysis, design and testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and also in iterative, agile and structured methodologies.

• Proficient in transforming business requirements into User requirement specification, functional requirement specifications (FRS) and Business requirement document (BRD)

• Keen problem solving skills allowing rapid assimilation and resolution of complex problems. Self-motivated with excellent organization, leadership and communication skills.

• Experience working teams across geographical locations, and onsite-offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILL

Modeling Tools/Methodologies Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML.

FoneMonkey and Squish for automation of test scripts.

XCode, JBoss 4.2.2.GA, JDK 1.5,

SOLR, SQL Developer.

Proprietary Tools Radar, Espresso, JIRA.

Workflow Tools MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Tools

Databases MS Access, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle10

Platforms Mac OS X 10.5.2, Windows (NT, 2000, XP), Unix

EXPERIENCE

Client: Apple Inc.

Duration: Feb-2011 to till date.

Role: Business System Analyst and iPhone Test Lead

Project: iPhone Tuscany (Multiple unlocked iphones sale for VZW and Business Verizon Customer in US)

Responsibilities Include:

• Preparation of Project Charter, Risk Based Testing and Test Reports.

• Preparation of Method/1 Requirements Report Document

• Creation of Test Scripts and Test Cases in Radar

• Managing and execution of Test Cases in Radar

• Published Defect Tracking and Test execution status reports during the Integration Testing and UAT phase.

• Give support to QA team for testing the application.

• Involved effectively in onsite offshore co-ordination.

• Documented the Minutes of Meeting notes for all meetings.

• Incorporating changes to the Process Flow document.

• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.

• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.

• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.

• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.

• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, XCode Ver. 3.2, MS-Access and Sqlserver2000 & 2005 Easy Pay and CPOS Applications. Fonemonkey and Squish for automated testing.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: Dec-2010 to Feb-2011

Role: Business System Analyst and iPhone Test Lead

Project: iPhone Tangerine (Verizon as iPhone Carrier in US)

Responsibilities Include:

• Actively worked with Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports

• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organizing weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.

• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.

• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls

• Actively worked with SME’s for different applications.

• Worked closely with the business to collect documents and prioritize business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions

• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.

• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.

• Tested the new feature end-to-end. Did Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max number of defects, which were mostly of the resolution - Software changed.

• Did the load testing, Performance and Soap UI testing for the application.

• Co-ordinated with the Build-Release team for all the configurations required to test the feature.

• Co-ordinated with the development team on the bug fixes and builds for the same.

• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc

• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads

• Worked as a liaison between the business, technical and Call Center team (at India) to ensure requirements were understood and assisted in developing test plans and cases.

• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases

• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities

• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members

• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.

• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).

• Developed training manuals.

• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.

Environment: Used Microsoft Visio, Tracking Tools: Radar and Espresso. , XCode Ver. 3.2, MS-Access and Sqlserver2000 & 2005 Easy Pay and CPOS Applications. Fonemonkey and Squish for automated testing.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: Mar -2009 to Dec 2010

Role: iPhone Test Lead

Project LAVA (US, FRA, CAN, AUS, UK, JPN, Spain, ITA, Swiss, China).

Responsibilities Include:

• Worked with business closely to develop project scope, objectives, functional and technical requirements

• Preparation of Project Charter, Risk Based Testing and Test Reports

• Given support to IT and UAT team for testing the application

• Conduct meetings with AT&T, Albert and Zinger Team.

• Preparation of Method/1 Requirements Report Document

• Creation of Test Scripts and Test Cases in Fone Monkey and Squish.

• Managing and execution of Test Cases in a tool called Radar.

• Published Defect Tracking and Test execution status reports during the Integration Testing and UAT phase

• Given support to QA team for testing the application

• Involved effectively in onsite offshore co-ordination

• Documented the Minutes of Meeting notes for all meetings

• Incorporating changes to the Process Flow document

• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team

• Unit Testing the EJB services layer using JBoss Embeddable Container

• Smoke, Sanity and Rigorous testing for the application. Raised the max no. of bugs with most of them as a resolution – Software Changed.

• Soap UI testing; Load Testing and Performance Testing of the iPhone flow.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Easy Pay and CPOS Applications, DB2, Bamming and Espresso, Radar for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Client side COCOA testing.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: Dec-2008 to Mar- 2009

Role: Business System Analyst and iPhone Test Lead

Project: iPhone Winter (3rd Generation iPhone)

Responsibilities Include:

• Actively worked with Management in determining project deliverables, milestones, and project timelines and responsible for various management reports

• Assisted PMO in developing project plan and milestones using MS Project, organizing weekly status meeting and maintaining risk and Issue logs.

• Created UML models of subject domains including use cases, state chart diagrams, activity diagrams to adequately describe the business domain.

• Worked closely with Quality Review Boards at each stage of Requirement, Design, Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation to ensure system meets required standards, policies, procedures and controls

• Actively worked with SME’s for different applications.

• Worked closely with the business to collect, document and prioritize business requirements through interviews, one on one sessions and conducting JAD sessions

• Used Requisite Web for collecting, documenting, managing business requirements and for Traceability Matrix.

• Involved in Impact analysis and assisted business users in determining the priority of the change requests.

• Developed Statement of customer needs, Customer requirements specification, etc

• Assisted technical team in developing As-is and To-be design flows by scheduling meetings between business and technical leads

• Worked as a liaison between the business, technical and Call Center team (at India) to ensure requirements were understood and assisted in developing test plans and cases.

• Assisted Technical lead in developing System test cases

• Involved in Defect Management and Release Management activities

• Worked very closely with Solutions Delivery Methodology (SDM) Champions to implement the methodology and provided training to team members

• Responsible for coordinating testing efforts and providing test status.

• Assisted in User acceptance testing (UAT).

• Developed training manuals.

• Responsible for maintaining documents as per SDM for the project.

Environment: Used Microsoft Visio, Tracking Tools: Radar and Espresso. Bamming and Espresso, Radar for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Client side COCOA testing.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: September-2008 to November-2008

Role: Test Lead

Project ISD

Responsibilities Include:

• Managing the team for assigning and monitoring tasks

• Involved in reporting to client manager

• Proactive Issue Log analysis and fixing the same with the help of the development team

• Sanity Testing, Ad-hoc testing on various Locales, Analysing the Test results, Bug Reporting, Reviewing the bug status, Regression of defects.

• Given support to IT team for testing the application

• Attending client meetings

• Involved in onsite co-ordination

• Analyzing the requirements

• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team

Environment: Acxiom proprietary tools like Data Stage, FileZilla, Ultra Edit, Orbiter, and Nexus.

Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Easy Pay and CPOS Applications, DB2, Bamming and Espresso.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: July-2008 to September-2008

Role: Test Lead

Project Brown County

Responsibilities Include:

• Managing the team for assigning and monitoring tasks

• Reporting to client manager.

• Developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test data creation, Test results analysis and reporting, Conduct System Testing, Integration, Regression, Load and Performance Testing.

• Proactive Issue Log analysis and fixing the same with the help of the development team.

• Give support to IT and UAT team for testing the application.

• Conduct meetings with AT&T, Albert and Zinger Team.

• Attending triage meetings.

• Involved in onsite co-ordination

• Preparation of Weekly Status Report and sharing the same with the client team

• Involved in logging bugs into the Defect Management System

• Involved in tracking the Test Problem Report and closing them using Radar and Espresso Tools.

• Sanity, Regression Ad-hoc testing for each module.

• Testing on the bug fixed software.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Easy Pay and CPOS Applications, DB2, Bamming and Espresso, Radar for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Client side COCOA testing.

Client: Apple, Inc

Duration: March-2008 to September-2008

Role: Test Lead

Project Tamarindo (at&t as iPhone carrier)

Responsibilities Include:

• Preparation of Test cases and Test Scripts based on the Business Requirement Documents

• Reviewed and provided inputs to the testing scenarios and test cases.

• Performed project management activities like Task monitoring, Planning schedule, review of deliverables, and process compliance.

• Responsible for quality processes followed within the project.

• Responsible for reviews and final inspections for all deliverables

• Responsible for metrics collections, creating effort estimates.

• Coordinate with AT&T, Albert and Zinger Teams on solving the issues and getting clarifications.

• Involved in installation of product in various platforms.

• Involved in solving issues related to both functional and technical.

• Involved in developing and reviewing of System test scripts.

• Involved in execution of System test cases.(Blackbox, Load, Performance Testing)

• Responsible for review and analysis of test results, and defects were tracked and submitted for fixes

• Involved in logging bugs into the Defect Management System

• Involved in tracking the Test Problem Report and closing them using Radar and Espresso Tools.

• Sanity, Regression Ad-hoc testing for each module.

• Testing on the bug fixed software.

Environment: Mac OS X Version 10.5.2, Easy Pay and CPOS Applications, DB2, Bamming and Espresso, Radar for logging the bugs, JIRA for logging the daily status reports. SQUISH for automated testing, Client side COCOA testing.

Client: USAA, San Antonio (Texas)

Duration: June-2007 to March-2008

Role: Test Lead

Project Insurance: IMCO Alerts Preferences Project

Responsibilities Include:

• Module Leader, Configuration Management - Hub Level CM , Scheduling meeting to begin CM plan with the IT Lead and Project Team, Provide CM task time estimates to PM for their schedule, Complete CM Plan for Project, Monitor other projects in Component for dependencies on each other, Build CIT boxes with Current Production Code, Schedule CIT exit meeting with Project Team, Merge Project to Release, Setting up the environment and configurations for the CIT and System Test Environment , Auto Builds –Trigger Automated builds based on the Promotion In star Team, Provide build reports via e-mail to SCM and Developers, Provide Build inventory with Time/Date of the artifacts built, Build one request at a time per Star Team Project, Resolving the compilation issues encountered during the Builds, Deploys : Repetitive Deploys using automated Tools and manual deploys, Determine appropriate version of applications to deploy based upon release date and environment supplied, Deploys WAS Configuration Components, Multi-Node Cell Deployment, Deploy all critical e-commerce applications

• Team Member, Requirement Gathering - Communicating with the client and getting the requirements for the Project

• Team Member, Presentation Services - Communicating the requirements to offshore and helping them resolve their presentation Services Code Issues, Reviewing the Presentation Services Code from Offshore

• Team member, Testing the Application - Preparing

• High Level Scenarios, Estimate testing Effort and Resources, Prepare Test Cases, Upload them on Quality Centre, Map requirements to scenarios, Prepare Test Belts, Find what scenarios can be automated, review with business for the test cases, Based on comments modify the test cases, Perform Black Box, White Box, Regression, Agile, Stress, Smoke Testing.

Environment: Pentium PC - Windows XP, JSP, XML, XSL, HTML, Database DB2, SQL Server 2000/2005, Star Team for Building the code.

Client: USAA, San Antonio (Texas)

Duration: April 2005 to June 2007

Role: Team Member

Project Claims Services Online for Workers Compensation (eCSOWC)

Responsibilities Include:

• Maintenance of eCSOWC system

• Coding Using WSAD 4.0.3.

•. Using the tools @Test for testing.

• Ensuring defect prevention at the early stage using CA Tool

Environment: PC Mobile Simulator, Rational Test Real Time, Rational Clear Quest, Pentium PC - Windows XP Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, JavaScript, DB2

EDUCATION:

Master of Science (MSc. Physics): Himachal Pradesh University: Shimla.

Current Visa Status :

H1-B

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