SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated professional with 17 years of experience as QA/Test Manager and Program Manager. Leading highly productive teams to exceed corporate objectives, driving multi - million dollar revenues and lowering overall operating cost while always providing the best highest level of quality and compliance to the Organization
• Test Manager with a history of leading the largest high-tech companies through advanced SDLC, Agile software development, management, implementation and operations. Mastered in all areas of SDLC for continuous process improvement and total quality management including Requirements/ Configuration/Change Management/Release Management/Audit/Metrics and reporting.
• Designed, Executed, Promoted and Maintained QA Management Strategies and Plans that align with overall company's KPIs.
• Insightful experience in Test Management activities including project scoping, estimation, planning finalization of functional specification, resource administration, & quality management.
• Played a pivotal role in delivery of Projects by coordinating, communicating and executing testing activities through entire SDLC (Initiation Phase to Closing Phase)
• Experience of working, leading and mentoring teams following Agile Methodology and Waterfall model
• Extensively involved in hiring and mentoring test team.
• Active involvement in vendor management.
• Strong team builder and facilitator, foster an atmosphere that encourages highly talented professional to balance high level skills and maximum production.
• Leading a Quality Assurance team of 12 members and also performing role of Program Manager.
• Worked on the Automation test frameworks and tools TestNG, Selenium. Have knowledge on Jenkins and JSON. Worked on CI/CD for OBR project in HP Software.
• Solid Experience in Automation, C, Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, RDBMS (Informix, IBM DB2), HP QTP, HP ALM/QC (Quality Center), RFT, Clearcase and Clear Quest, Selenium, UFT and JIRA

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Development Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Artifacts: Test Plan, Test Case, Test Summary Report, Defect Metrics, User Stories, Backlogs

Continuous Integration: Jenkins,GITHUB

Test Management: HP Quality Center, SVN, CVS, Selenium, JIRA, UFT

Defect Management: HP Quality Center, HP Application Life Cycle Management and Rational Clear Quest

Programming Languages: C, Shell Script, Perl Script

Database: Informix, DB2, MSSQL

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 3.1, windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2kWindows 7, Windows 10, windows 2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Manager (Program, Project and People)

Responsibilities:

• Leading QA Team of 12 Members with multiple projects getting executed in parallel. (SPI and Operations Bridge Reporter)
• Program Management for the product Operations Bridge Reporter
• Handling the projects from the initial phase till the completion of the project
• Preparing detailed test plan and strategies
• Defining the scope of testing within context of each release
• Monitoring the current project Quality Status by getting all the Quality Metrics and presenting the data in Program meetings and communicating to all stakeholders
• Communicating all related risks and devising mitigation plan for the same while updating the progress to all stakeholders
• Collaborating with the Cross Functional Teams (Development, Documentation and other teams)
• Performing Individual Development Planning for employees
• Administered Performance Management

Examples of the Smart Plug Ins (SPIs):

• Database SPIs (Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, Sybase & Informix)
• J2EE SPIs (Web Logic, Web Sphere, JBOSS, JMX and Web Server)
• SAP SPIs (SAP)
• MS SPIs (MS Active Directory, Exchange, Share Point, Biztalk & Lync)
• System Infrastructure SPIs (AIX, Windows, HPUX, Linux & Solaris)
• Cluster Infrastructure SPIs (MCSG, HACMP, VCS)
• Virtual Infrastructure SPIs (Vmware Vma, HPVM, Solaris Zones, IBM Lpar/Wpar, MS HyperV, KVM & XEN

QA Manager (People and Project)

Responsibilities:

• Handled QA Team and recruited 6 engineers (total team size 11)
• Owned FVT for new features, Regression and installed testing for 4 client components of DB2 for Fixpacks and new releases. (CLI, JCC, Client Optimizer and CLPPlus)
• Collaborated with development team and release management team from ISL, Toronto Lab and SVL during each phase of the Fixpack and Release
• Managed project and resource planning of the QA Team
• Coordinated with partner labs on status update, updating on the issues and resolution of the issues
• Ensured timely completion of all the Fixpack and Release deadlines and quality of the client components handled is improved from one release to another

Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Owned FVT for new features in DB2 kernel area starting from external review, test planning, high level design reviews, test spec, creation of test cases and execution across multiple platforms and raising and following up on defects found
• Reviewed work and guided the team for various problems
• Performed RCAs and field problem analysis and got tests included in the regression suite

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handled critical cases with very tight schedules and meeting critical milestones.
• Raised the Defects found during the testing immediately, so that it gets fixed quickly.
• Involved in the triages deciding Severity and fix precedence of the Defect and deciding how critical this Defect is from customer point of view
• Fixed test case related defects during all the releases due to change in behavior of Server and automated Final QA to make the release process fast.
• Gained understanding of different tracking tools (Atlas, IRIS, PTS, ATM and RTS) and all processes
• Performed test-spec, test cases and execution on multiple platforms for new features in IDS server, also handled IVT, media validation and regression analysis for IDS
• Executed responsibilities under the components related to ONUTILS (Onstat, Onmode, Oncheck, Onspaces) and DBUTILS (Dbexport, Dbimport) and Loader & HPL utilities (Onload, Onunload, Ontape, Onpload) which were utilities of Informix Dynamic Server

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Addressed customer requests for Interim and Patch releases of Online 5x and CSDK
• Performed Defect Fixing, verification and creation of new test cases
• Ported activities including platform specific merging, builds, QA and defect fixing and verification and making it eGA
• Involved in GLS testing and code cleanup activities