SUMMARY

• 8 years of extensive and diversified experience in the Telecom/Publishing/Banking industries with exposure to SDLC, Testing methodologies Agile environment, SQL & Business Process Analysis.
• Team management experience for managing teams up to 6 people.
• Experience of working at Client site and coordinating with client and off shore teams.
• Possess strong work ethics and analytical skills.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills that provide the ability to interact with team members, managers, technical personal and clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the Requirements, Develop Process Model and modified the business requirement document.
• Performing research on user requirements & modifications and suggested improvements for the upcoming release of the application.
• Engaging Project sponsors, Business stakeholders, subject matter experts and Business users in gathering the workings of the Business process.
• Preparing the BRD, SRS, SDS and Requirements Traceability matrix documents.
• Conducting User Training and writing User manuals.
• Designing use - cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes.
• Performing Impact Analysis, Cost Analysis, Gap Analysis, Data Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Updating, tracking, and mapping requirements to the artifacts based on accepted changes, and clearly communicating changes to IT and QA teams.
• Performing pre-testing activities such as designing test cases scenarios, and verifying and validating the application and reviewing the requirements, and collecting test data.
• Preparing Test plan and Test Strategy, and had walkthroughs with clients
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Delegating work to various team members and supporting them to achieve Business targets.
• Responsible for the deliverables.
• Working on multiple small projects concurrently.
• Working on Mainframe for backend data dependency.
• Coordinating and supporting weekend Production supports
• Possess extensive knowledge in SQL.

Confidential

Lead Test Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading the BA team for Requirements gathering, Developing Process Model and modifying the business requirement document.
• Conducting meetings and JRS sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application.
• Creating and reviewing the Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Creation of Issues list and internal review of issues/ clarifications.
• Creation and review of Test cases.
• Creation of daily execution reports in QC.
• Defect Triaging; Review defect for accuracy and completeness.
• Responsible for the deliverables.
• Execution of Test cases.
• Test case and Test Strategy walkthroughs with clients.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Business Analysts to determine the Archival need and proposing the right solution to the client for 30 applications in Commerce Bank.
• Communicating extensively via emails, phone calls, telephonic conferences, meetings and detailed JRS sessions with all line of Businesses in Commerce Bank and TD for requirements gathering from a legal and regulatory perspective.
• Constantly liaising with Business and IT experts from various channels to gather detailed business and technical requirements on each of the applications.
• Creation of Issues list and internal review of issues/ clarifications.
• Creating the SRS and SDS documents.
• Reviewing the Test Plan and Test cases created by the Test team.
• Responsible for the deliverables.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Automating the application flows using Scimitar (Sapient developed Automation tool).
• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application.
• Creation of Issues list and internal review of issues/ clarifications.
• Create and review the Test plan.
• Create QC Run Books to help Business have an understanding of the tool.
• Creation and review of test cases and guidance to the team for the same.
• Quality Centre preparation: Upload requirements, Test Cases etc
• Creation of daily execution reports.
• Defect Triaging; Review defect for accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for the deliverables.
• Execution of Test cases for multiple releases within the project.
• Validating the execution results after the completion of the batch processes.

Confidential

Track Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application and making sure that the team members have the appropriate knowledge for the application.
• Understanding the requirements and working with the manager in estimating the effort and team strength required for a particular release.
• Ramping up new team members.
• Driving the onshore-offshore calls.
• Creation of Issues list and internal review of issues/ clarifications.
• Create and review the Test plan.
• Creation and review of test cases and guidance to the team for the same.
• Quality Centre preparation: Upload requirements, Test Cases etc
• Creation of daily execution reports.

Confidential

Track Lead

Responsibilities:

• Traveling to the Client location onsite (Sprint, US). Working on the highly visible application for Sprint (sprint.com)
• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application and making sure that appropriate knowledge and documents are shared with the offshore team.
• Understanding the requirements and working with the offshore Track lead in estimating the effort and team strength required for a particular release.
• Obtaining the Project specific details from Business and preparing the Test Plan.
• Reviewing the scripts written by the offshore team and getting the Client Sign-Off on the same.
• Identifying the data requirements for the release and working with the appropriate teams in getting that data.
• Track closely to Dev deployments and Shakeout, on the Test Boxes and perform the Shakeout testing before the Offsite team starts their execution.
• Execute test cases and have daily status calls with the offshore team to understand the issues/defects raised by the team.
• Validate daily execution reports and send them to the dev and the business teams.
• Host defect review meetings with relevant stakeholders and follow up on the defects with the Dev team.
• Acting as a moderator between the development team and the offshore team.
• Responsible for the deliverables.
• Provide Production Sniff Suite to Dev for sign-off, and working with appropriate team s to get the data required for the Production testing.
• Send out the Test Summary report after the project has been launched.
• Update the baseline folder with the progression scripts of the last release.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Traveling to the Client location onsite (Sprint, US) and Understanding the requirements and the functionalities thereby ramping myself on the application.
• Transitioning the application knowledge to the team members in India, and thereby making a good knowledge base within the team.
• Data preparation for complex modules.
• Planning the test cases, designing and executing the HLS (High level Scenarios), LLS (Low level Scenarios)
• Helping the team members in Bug reporting and tracking.
• Responsible for the deliverables.

Confidential

SME

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application.
• Planning the test cases, creating them and executing them.
• Responsible for establishing effective Knowledge transfer sessions to the team.
• Acting as a moderator between the development team and the clients.
• Responsible for the deliverables.
• Responsible for sending daily status reports to clients for tracking purposes.
• Resource Management.

Confidential

Tester QA

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements and the functionalities of the application.
• Planning the test cases, designing and executing the HLS (High level Scenarios), LLS (Low level Scenarios)
• Bug Reporting and tracking using Mercury Test Director 7.6, 8.0 and Change Synergy.
• Sending of ‘end of day’ status reports and test management by maintaining a log of all the Test Scripts.
• Conducting various knowledge sharing sessions for ramping up new joiners in the track time to time.
• Responsible for the deliverables.