Principal QA / QA Manager Resume Cincinnati, OH - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Over 13 + years of progressive experience in the field of Information Technology, this includes Product Management, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis.
Client - focused IT Test Engineer with hands-on technical experience across multiple platforms.
Extensive experience coaching highly skilled and dedicated Agile teams of Global Software Development and Test Automation Engineers.
Excellent collaboration skills across all levels of managements.
Currently I’m working at 5/3 Bank as a Principal Quality Assurance Software Engineer.
Responsible for a QA team of approximately 25 people (QA Leads and Offshore Onsite Tester)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Principal QA / QA Manager

Responsibilities:

Managing and leading a team of 25 team members Manual and Automation QA organizations.
Spearheaded all quality assurance efforts within the organization, including the development and implementation of a quality assurance program.
Directed the QA team to design, plan and execute highly complex system testing strategies and to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
Responsible for analysis, design, development, and implementation of diagnostic tools and applications for the large multi-platform system.
Review and provides the feedback on test plans, test cases, automation tests, and test reports/results. Manage the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, defect review board, requirement change requests, and processes for highly complex projects. Mentor and guide quality assurance team members and establish best practices and end-to-end QA process.
Ability to succeed in an agile work environment where cross-functional teams work closely together to ensure requirements are met and drive the adoption of new test strategies and tools.
Actively participate in release/project meetings with the product, business users, and development team to coordinate the creation of end-to-end test plans and/or cases.

Confidential, Milford, OH

QA Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Confidential is a core banking software suite developed by Tata Consultancy Services for use by retail banks.
I was involved in Sumitomo, CorpBanca and Vanguard projects using Confidential software and how it interfaces with the Channels product, as well as Sysadmin software.
Involved in planning, implementing and monitoring BA/QA processes to ensure timely project completion.
Performed business analyses of business goals, business systems, objectives of the general business environment, managed testing activities of all of the modules and the different types of testing for multiple releases at Onshore and Offshore for multiple projects.
Given direction to the QA team to design, plan and execute highly complex system testing strategies and to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
Guided on onsite and offshore team resources in the testing of highly complex, multi-platform and distributed applications.
Conducted training of all the testers, Project Managers regarding QA testing Methodology. Involved in Automation Development using Selenium.
Conducted Mobile testing on Confidential, Confidential & Confidential using Confidential Mobile and simulator.

Confidential, Covington, KY

Sr. Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

Performed QA Lead responsibilities on Agile methodology for eFIT application.
Manage day-to-day operations of the team, participate in the creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews, send Daily Project status reports, delegating work on daily basis and review.
Provided direction to the QA team to design, plan and execute highly complex system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
As the QA expert provided directions to team members on problems of systems integration testing.
Managing the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, defect review board, requirement change requests, and processes for highly complex projects.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Performed Manual Testing of the custom ETM (Enterprise Taxation Management) application.
Analyzed systems design specifications and developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
Documented test cases using Quality Center and logged the defects in the Defects Module of Quality Center.
Performed Regression testing, system testing and adhoc testing.
Created the test cases based on the business rules written by the Business Analyst. Manually executed test cases and reported results to development teams.
Ran backend jobs and validated the reports generated. Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application and reported the defects.
Reviewed the test cases with the client directly and also did a demonstration on the particular set of written test cases in front of the clients and developers.
Performed end to end testing and supported UIT testing.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Read and understood technical functional specifications, wrote functional tests for new functionality. Participation in Test Planning and scheduling meetings, test Execution and reporting defects. Proactive work with developers to ensure bugs are getting closed.