PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Quality Assurance Professional with expertise in QA, Strategy and Business Analysis in IT, HR, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Automobile and Manufacturing industries.
• Experience includes HP/Mercury QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quality Center, TestDirector, Rational Robot, Starbase's Caliber tool and Compuware's QARun/QALoad.
• Projects have afforded the ability to work within various methodologies and processes such as Agile, ISO 9000, Six Sigma and TQM.
• Strong testing skills especially manual testing
• Configured and Tested various modules of SAP- HR, FI/CO, MM, SCM, BW
• Configured and Tested various modules of PeopleSoft- HCM: Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time Labor, Pension
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• In 15 years of Staff Management, led teams with up to 20 direct reports.
• Involved in ISO and Six Sigma Implementations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Tools/Programs: QualityCenter, QTP, Test Director, Winrunner, Loadrunner, Rational Robot, VBScript, C, C , SQR, COBOL, JCL, PVCS, Java, .NET, J2EE, Visual Basic, MS Office Suite, Niku, SharePoint, Clarity, HTML, DHTML, XML, Web Sphere, VSAM, JCL, CICS, IBM AS/400, ClearQuest
• Databases: MS-SQL Server, Oracle 7.2, Teradata
• Operating Systems: WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, UNIX, MS-DOS, MVS, OS/400
• Applications/COTS: SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel , Amarta, Ingenium,
• Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Scrum , Six Sigma, ISO 9000, CMM I , TQM, RUP, SOA, SOAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: QTP Automation Tester

• Converted Manual Test cases into QTP automation test cases in Quality Center
• Exported Requirements to Quality Center and created linkages between test cases and Requirements
• Reviewed test cases and Provided feedback to the BA team as needed
• Participated project team meetings and SCRUM meetings

Environment: Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0, Windows XP, Java, .NET CF, SOAP, QTP 10.0 with M-eux Ad-in, Quality Center 10.0, Star Team

Confidential

Role: QA Lead, Analyst and QA specialist

• Created Test Scenarios and Test scripts with required data for online and batch testing
• Directed the efforts of the testing team for the System testing and Regression testing of the PeopleSoft application
• Established Quality Center projects for organizing the testing artifacts
• Provided daily/weekly status reports to the QA Manager
• Participated in team meetings with the solution design team , development team and others
• Generated various reports pertaining to Test Scenarios and Test Cases, using Quality Center

Environment: PeopleSoft , Windows, Java, .NET, SOAP, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0

Confidential

Role: QA Lead, Analyst and QA specialist

• Created Test Scenarios and Test scripts with required data for online and batch testing of ETL processes.
• Directed the efforts of another tester for the System testing and Regression testing of the application as well as the HOST systems
• Established ClearQuest environment for defect tracking
• Provided daily/weekly status reports to the QA Manager
• Participated in team meetings with the solution design team , development team and others
• Captured as-is process maps of the various processes identified
• Generated various reports pertaining to Test Scenarios and Test Cases, using Quality Center

Environment: SQL server 2005, Windows, Unix, Java, .NET, SOAP, Quality Center 9.0, ClearQuest

Confidential

Role: Test Lead, Analyst and QA developer

• Participated in Requirements gathering and analysis meetings

• Developed Test Management System in MS Access with VB Script for Call Center application. This saved a lot of time, effort with significant cost savings
• The system developed tracks Projects, Requirements, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defects
• Provided daily/weekly status reports to the Quality Manager/Project Manger and other stakeholders
• Generated reports pertaining to test scenarios and test cases, using Quality Center
• The project used Agile development methodology

Environment: Informatica, Oracle, Windows, Unix, Java, DHTML, MS Access, Visual Basic, Telnet

Confidential

Role: Test Lead and QA specialist

• Created Test Scenarios and Test scripts with required data for online and batch testing.
• Directed the efforts of two other testers for the System testing and Regression testing of the Point of Sale application as well as the HOST systems including Mobile and hand held devices
• Audited existing manual test scripts and documented the same in Quality Center 9.0.
• Developed coverage matrix
• Provided daily/weekly status reports to Project Manager
• Participated in team meetings with the solution design team , development team and others
• Captured as-is and would be process maps of the various processes identified
• Generated various reports pertaining to Test Scenarios and Test Cases, using Quality Center
• Agile development methodology was used throughout the project lifecycle

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, SAP, PeopleSoft, WMS, POS, Java, .NET, Quality Center

Confidential

Senior QA Tester

• As a member of the QA team ZQAT of their new model TL09 and others, responsible for ensuring quality of the components installed in the cars assembled on the production line.
• This assignment involved ISO 9000, Six Sigma and TQM practices.

Environment: Windows, Car Assembly Line

Confidential

QA Lead

• Executed and directed the efforts of two team members in the testing of SAP-BI/BW module
• Ran Regression test scripts through Quality Center
• Provided defect tracking and managed defects
• Designed test scripts to test the BI reporting system encompassing SAP-MM, PP, SD, SCM and HR including LSO, SEM. Identified data requirements and performance requirements and communicated the same to the testing team
• Provided daily/weekly status updates to the Project Lead
• Agile development methodology was used in the project

Environment: Oracle, Workflow, Unix, Windows, Java, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential

QA Analyst and Test Lead

• The team had about 15 developers and infrastructure specialists, a project manager, an architect, 6 testers, test lead and QA Manager. Provided regular feedback to Program Manager , PM and Officer. A 12 member offshore team was also involved in development and testing.
• Participated in requirements gathering and analysis
• Worked as a Liaison between reporting team and QA and Data warehouse development team.
• Created Test cases for Source to Target and Target to Source Mappings.
• Provided support to the UAT team in creating test scenarios/test cases and identifying defects
• Identified data required for functional and performance testing, communicated and interacted with the Business, Testing and Project Management teams
• Agile development methodology was used

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Teradata, Informatica, Microstrategy, Quality Center, Java, .NET, SOA, SOAP

Confidential

Role: Release Test Manager

• Set up the test lab required for testing and release management.
• Prepared strategic guidelines for the development and testing of the product including Master Test Strategy and Configuration Management.
• Environment: SAP, Rational Suite, Oracle, Data Stage

Confidential

Role: Business Analyst

• Provided expertise as a Business Analyst handling the Locate, Finance and Enforcement modules
• The team had about 20 developers and infrastructure specialists, a project manager, an architect, 3 testers, and a test lead. Participated in JAD and JSD sessions
• Provided assistance to the UAT team in developing test scenarios and test cases

Environment: Oracle, Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, PVCS, Java, Rational Suite

Confidential

Role: Business and QA Analyst

• Performed extensive analysis of the PRPC implementation for writing comprehensive test cases
• Involved in the creation of classes, properties, activities, sections, harnesses, and flows to contribute to their effort in the Business Work Flows that support their rules development.
• Additional tasks included testing of the ARAS to SRS conversion. The SRS system is based on the technology, PegaRULES Process Commander, PRPC from Pegasystems.
• Used Regression and System tests manually to complete the testing.
• Worked on Rev Ride Specialty Auto products as a QA Analyst performing manual testing
• The team had about 20 developers and infrastructure specialists, a project manager, an architect, 6 testers, and a test lead. Helped the UAT team in the development and testing of the product.
• Agile methodology was part of the software development during this project.

Environment: Oracle, Workflow, Unix, Windows, Java, .NET, QTP, XML, COBOL, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Pega PRPC