SUMMARY:

14+ years of IT experience, including over 4 Years 6 months of On - site experience in International locations, in IT sector.Involved in Project Management/Tracking/Leadership/Project Participation during Design Development, Maintenance & Testing of Database, Datawarehouse /BI, Client-Server& Web Applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases/ data warehousing: Teradata, Netezza, Oracle

ETL: SSIS, Informatica, Datastage

Business Intelligence/ Reporting: Crystal Reports, SSRS, Microstrategy

Professional Tools: MS Office, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS - Project Plan

Methodologies: OLTP, Data warehousing, Data Marts, Business Intelligence, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Manager /Project Manager /Project Lead

Confidential

• Responsible for program delivery within a product focus area which included one or more projects in the portfolio.
• Create and manage project plan, maintaining project timelines, managing budgets, resource allocation, mitigating tasks, and managing organizational change concerns.
• Interact with business owners as necessary to identify, interpret and document acceptance criteria for user stories
• Facilitate all team meetings, including daily stand up, iteration planning, sprint demo, retros, testing / quality assurance processes and more.
• Ensure test scripts are well defined, planned and executed by validating that every phase and feature of the software solution is tested and that any potential issue is identified and fixed before the product goes live.
• Ensure Defect Management and tracking through to completion using JIRA tool.
• Provide testing status to appropriate IT management.
• Train and/or mentor other team members, peers and clients as appropriate.
• Adhere to quality processes in support of the development and production change management processes.
• Collaborate with team members to build highly maintainable and reusable regression modules, following best practices and standards in testing
• Develop innovative methods to find solutions and improve quality, test efficiency, and regression coverage.
• Formulated a plan to come up with a regression test suite within a span of 6 months which reduced the testing efforts by 30% without sacrificing quality.

Project Manager

• Drive SCRUM agile process with product backlogs through coordination with agile development team, product owner and end users.
• Assist with development and test activities during sprint activities, supporting team members to accomplish sprint objectives.
• Oversighted multiple projects with budgets ranging < $ 1 Million
• Implement process and system improvements including integration with other functional areas
• Radiate project status visually to management, stakeholders.
• Create Project plan, tracking project timelines, managing budgets, resource allocation, mitigating tasks.
• Managed and oversighted the Team of 25 members.
• Strong in using the Professional Tools like Microsoft Project Plan.

QA Manager

Confidential

• Proactively built a QA team of 32 members for BI team @SHI within a span of 6 months
• Implemented the QA process across BI teams in SHI within a period of 6 months.
• Was Instrumental in Transitioning theentire Kmart POS-QA work from Third party vendor to SHI within 2 months.
• Was Internal Auditor for CMM Level3, in order to check the process is followed religiously.
• Provide detailed time and resource estimates for test projects
• Work with project managers to create/define high-level test strategy and plan resources
• Track progress and quality of test activities, managing budgets, resource allocation.
• Coordinate team level assignments and multi-site test teams
• Maintain daily status of testing and provides updates to project managers
• Manage test laboratory equipment and request additional test equipment as necessary
• Facilitate Peer Reviews on team deliverables
• Plan and execute tests in the test lab as well as review team bug reports
• Work with the test lead, project management, and engineering teams to identify and resolve issues
• Ability to understand software requirements and software architectures
• Successfully coordinate various teams distributed on different time zones.

Test Lead

Confidential

• Create test plans, test cases and other testing artifacts as necessary to ensure a systematic approach to the business requirements are met.
• Participated in ETL testing & rolling out the FSLDM Teradata architecture successfully within 5 months for one of the banking majors @ onsite client location, Singapore.
• Ensure Design, Execution &Defect Management and Reporting using Mercury Quality Center .
• Provide testing status to appropriate stakeholders &Wipro management.
• Proactive in conducting Interviews & Mentoring of DCT Practice Team members.
• Worked as a PreSales Consultant for Datwarehouse Testing Practice.

Senior TestEngineer

Confidential

• Worked as a Module leader in our testing team for Replication Services module (5 member).
• Involved in Formulation of Test Plan
• Environment setup both on Server side and Client side
• Verification of PDMA Compliance
• Identifying the DB's specific to Configuration and cut the DB's and download them.
• Validation of data flow from back end services to database tables
• Validation of data flow from databases to field application software (Mobile Intelligence)
• Involved in doing Performance Testing of Interfaces.
• Creation & Execution of Test Scripts
• Review of Project related Documents
• Creation of Test Summary report, Traceability Matrix, Test Script Index, and Bug tracking using
• Clarify.
• Supported the Certification team during certification assessment for successful project certification.
• Coordinating with the onsite team every day.

Senior TestEngineer

Confidential

• Worked as a Senior Test Engineer in our testing team for Replication Services module (in 5 member Team).
• Involved in Formulation of Test Plan
• Environment setup both on Server side and Client side
• Verification of PDMA Compliance
• Identifying the DB's specific to Configuration and cut the DB's and download them.
• Validation of data flow from back end services to database tables
• Validation of data flow from databases to field application software (Mobile Intelligence)
• Involved in doing Performance Testing of Interfaces.
• Was Involved in creating & Executing scripts using Automation tool WinRunner.
• Review of Project related Documents
• Creation of Test Summary report, Traceability Matrix, Test Script Index, and Bug tracking using
• Clarify.
• Supported the Certification team during certification assessment for successful project certification.
• Coordinating with the onsite team every day.