SUMMARY:

• Test Lead with 11+ years of Information Technology experience with expertise in Full Test LifeCycle.
• Domain experience includes Banking, Financial Services and Insurance area. Worked with Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential and Confidential clients.
• Highly skilled Agile QA Tester. Actively participated in sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings.
• Experienced in creating and executing automated tests in QTP.
• Extensive experience in software development methodologies including both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall models.
• Demonstrated expertise in Planning, Requirement Analysis, Master Test Strategy Preparation, Test Preparation & Execution, Defect Management, Status Reporting and Coordination of different testing activities.
• Extensive hands on experience in System testing, E2E Integration testing, Database testing, Regression testing, Acceptance testing, Front end testing, Backend testing, UAT support.
• Experienced in Project planning, Estimation and Proposals related work.
• Excellent collaboration with all project stakeholders and well versed with testing methodologies and concepts.
• Experienced in implementing testing processes/methodology in global organizations.
• Additionally 2 years of experience in coaching with good mentoring skill.
• Good time - management and organizational skills.
• Founder, Organizer and Volunteer of an informal group ‘Together We Can Do It’ (Social Service).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical: JIRA, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, SQL, Unix shell scripting, SecureCRT, SecureFX, Autosys, Quickbuild, soapUI, Informatica, QTP, Visual Basic, C, AS/400, JMeter, Cucumber

Domain: Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, CRM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test management, Planning, Estimation, Task Allocation and Tracking
• Coordinating with all stakeholders for requirements gathering, test execution and status reporting
• Participating sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings
• System testing, Integration testing, End to end testing
• Sprint planning, Stories analysis, Test case preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management
• Offshore Team Handling
• Reviewing and participating in documentation of Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management & Status Reporting and coordinating the overall testing activities.
• Supporting automation and performance teams
• Executing automated tests for regression testing

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis and participating in discussions with Client BSAs and Dev Team members to understand the business workflow and enhancements
• Work with Onshore Counterparts for Sprint-level & Release-level activities and analysis of Regression Suite
• Prepare Test Plan for defining Scope of Testing prior to all Production Releases
• Defect tracking & management using Quality Center and Jira
• Daily status tracking and reporting to client
• QA planning, Estimation, Task Allocation and Tracking
• Coordinating with all stakeholders for requirements gathering, test execution and status reporting
• Participating sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings
• System testing, Batch jobs execution, Integration testing, Regression testing
• Executing and monitoring daily/weekly/monthly batch jobs, verify loaded data in respective tables/UI after batch jobs completion, perform monthly regression testing for batch jobs box. Testing SFDC app on ipad and iphone.
• Offshore Team Handling.
• Reviewing and participating in documentation of Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management & Status Reporting and coordinating the overall testing activities.
• Actively involved in scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
• Supporting automation and performance teams.
• Executing automated tests for regression testing

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• QA planning, Estimation, Task Allocation and Tracking
• Coordinating with all stakeholders for requirements gathering, test execution and status reporting
• Participating sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings
• Offshore Team Handling
• Test case preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management.
• Reviewing and participating in documentation of Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management & Status Reporting and coordinating the overall testing activities.

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Master Test Strategy Document Preparation
• Co-ordinate with all stakeholder to get their approval on testing deliverables.
• Participating sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings
• QA planning, allocation and Tracking
• Test case preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management.
• Reviewing and participating in documentation of Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management & Status Reporting and coordinating the overall testing activities.
• Defect Prevention activity

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator & Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• QA planning, allocation and Tracking
• Participating sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, user demo and retrospective meetings
• Test case preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management.
• Reviewing and participating in documentation of Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management & Status Reporting and coordinating the overall testing activities.
• Co-ordinate with Analysts and Business Clients to get their approval on testing deliverables
• Guide the offshore team to develop technical and domain competency.
• Conduct Knowledge Management sessions for the offshore team.
• Defect Prevention activity

Confidential, Costa Mesa, California

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planning & Scheduling
• Requirements Analysis
• Test case preparation
• Peer review
• Execution
• Defect tracking

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned tests, wrote test cases, reviewed peer’s work, executed defect tracking, reported progress and documentation

Confidential

Software Engineer - Manual & Automation testing

Responsibilities:

• Planned tests, wrote test cases, reviewed peer’s work, executed defect tracking, reported progress and documentation.

Confidential

Software Engineer - Manual & Automation testing

Responsibilities:

• Planned tests, wrote test cases, reviewed peer’s workExecuted test cases, defect tracking, reported progress.
• Conducted Unit and end to end testing

Confidential

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Lectures and practicals of second and third year as well as final year project guidance.