SUMMARY:

• BPM QA Lead with total experience of 6.5+ years in Functional Testing with specialization in Pega PRPC based applications.
• Well conversant with the BPM methodologies, adhering to the Testing Life Cycle from a testing perspective in close coordination with Vendor and Client teams.
• Worked with prestigious clients like JPMorganChase, Allianz, Credit Suisse, AIG - Chartis,& Healthnet
• Manage, coordinate and ensure the delivery of a release or project
• Well conversant with Agile Testing methodologies
• Proficient in all modules of HP Quality Center
• Active participation in providing inputs from a testing perspective to the delivery release roadmap and project schedule plan, capacity, and deployment to production schedule
• Responsible for estimation of the test phase of projects as well as the relevant resource loading and costing
• Actively Involved in review Phase for the clients’ requirements and creation of the test strategy/plan (includes timelines, dependencies, assumptions & risks, adherence to testing standards etc).
• Perform day-to-day management of team’s assigned projects, tasks and activities
• Coordinating between the different stakeholders and providing the necessary UAT support
• Preparation and review of different test case documents and test scenarios fulfilling the business requirement of the system.
• Worked with the Dev teams for providing access to various PRPC in built tools (Clipboard, Tracer, Rules Inspector) for QA testing and utilize these tools to assist Developers debug critical issues resulting in quick defect turnaround
• Implemented various good practices in testing the PRPC application and provided necessary knowledge transition to the new team members regarding BPM concepts as well as PRPC in-built tools
• Defining the process for actual testing, defect reporting and bug fixing. Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability, QA Metrics, Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports, and Test Summary/Closure Reports.
• Monitor team’s progress in the various phases of testing and ensure release/project testing deliverables are met within the stipulated timelines.
• Identifying project risks and proposing corresponding mitigation/contingency plan. Communicate potential impacts to target dates to the QA & Delivery Manager.
• Liaising throughout the project lifecycle to ensure seamless communication among the different project stakeholders and set expectations accordingly

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Language: C, C++Operating Systems WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP

Testing: Functional (BPM Applications with Pega and Teamworks)

Tools: Quality Centre, Toad, PegaRules Process Commander (Pega-PRPC)

IBM - Teamworks, SOAP UI:

Database: Skilled with PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Lead later moved to Onsite
• Onsite Team Leader and Test-Coordinator.
• Manage onshore-offshore co-ordination of testing teams for SIT.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Assessment of the Business Requirement Document
• Analysis of the Requirement Document.
• Preparation of scenarios & Test Cases.
• Participated in Test case Design, Execution and defect logging
• Walkthrough and signoff on the Testing Deliverables
• Project Status Reporting and other related Escalations to the Test Manager in daily status report
• Highlighting Risk, Issues & Project status to client in weekly status report.
• Creating System Test Scripts
• Providing UAT support

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Lead later moved to Offshore
• Onsite Team Leader and Test-Coordinator.
• Manage onshore-offshore co-ordination of testing teams for SIT.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Assessment of the Business Requirement Document
• Analysis of the Requirement Document.
• Preparation of scenarios & Test Cases.
• Participated in Test case Design, Execution and defect logging
• Walkthrough and signoff on the Testing Deliverables
• Project Status Reporting and other related Escalations to the Test Manager in daily status report
• Highlighting Risk, Issues & Project status to client in weekly status report.
• Creating System Test Scripts
• Providing UAT support.
• Impact Identification and Planning of RBT and risk assessment with business and technology team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the onsite QA Team for the SIT and Functional Analysis and review
• Estimation of project using TCP, Test scenario identification and review
• Test script writing, Preparation of scenario Matrix
• Identification of Test Data, Preparation of Planned VS Actual on daily basis to track execution
• Communicating with Development Counter-Parts at Onshore for faster Defect Resolutions.
• Project Status Reporting and other related Escalations to the Test Manager in daily status report
• Highlighting Risk, Issues & Project status to client in weekly status report.
• Impact Identification.
• Collaborated with project managers to formulate test strategy, scope of test effort, test specifications.
• Creating System Test Scripts and Manual execution of the Test Cases.
• Bug reporting and tracking in Mercury QC and UAT support.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior QA Analyst
• Creating System & Integration Test Scripts and Manual execution of the Test Cases.
• Bug reporting and tracking in Mercury QC.
• Drive the QA testing and defect review status on a regular basis
• Involved in entire defect life-cycle and reports generation.
• Responsible for getting business approvals for testing deliverables
• Supporting the detailed status reporting activities on a regular basis

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QA Analyst
• Analysis of the Functional Requirements, and corresponding Test scenario identification and peer review
• Preparation of test scenarios and test scripts and Scenario Walk through with onsite counterparts
• Identification & Preparation of Test Data.
• Collaborated with project managers to formulate test strategy, scope of test effort, test specifications.
• Creating System & Integration Test Scripts and Manual execution of the Test Cases.
• Bug reporting and tracking in Mercury QC
• UAT support.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scripting & manual execution of Test Scripts and did Database Testing
• Bug reporting in QC and Client Interaction
• Review Comment in corporation.
• Creating System & Integration Test Scripts
• Database Testing using Toad with PL/SQL
• Manual execution of the Test Cases
• Bug reporting and verification in Mercury QC.
• Attending daily client calls and incorporating changes to the functional requirements whenever called for.
• Knowledge transfer.