SUMMARY:

• A forward thinking, capable and committed QA Manager with over 14 years of experience with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co - ordinate testing activities and define testing methodologies. Extensive international experience of working across geographies. Having versatile experience of management and consulting with first class executive leadership, technical and communication skills.
• Managing and delivering large programs/projects testing with teams spread across geographies
• Providing customized and focused testing strategies for diverse sectors including Travel, Retail, Investment Banking, Insurance, Energy, and Manufacturing.
• Proficient in hands on and leading strategic activities like
• Test Center of Excellence Roll-out
• Test transformation and optimization
• Test Management and Automation Tools
• Agile Testing
• Experience in developing and executing test process, planning and estimation, test cases for multiple types of testing i.e. system testing, user acceptance, regression etc.
• Expertise in generating test status reports, defect management and reporting
• Well-Versed with tools like Rally,HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, Bugziila, Selenium,QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead/BA, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing end-to-end testing strategy.
• Managing functional/ integration/user acceptance testing effort
• Defining data migration testing strategy
• Defining user stories for required functionality
• Defect Management and reporting metrics and status.

Confidential

Testing Manager and Senior Quality Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand business and IT priorities and provide customer-specific testing solutions and roadmaps
• Test Center of excellence Roll-Out
• Define and implement testing strategy for large testing programs
• Recruit, supervise, mentor project teams and conduct performance appraisals
• Develop in house test solutions, frameworks and participate in pre-sales

Confidential

QA Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining test methodology.
• Managing integration/automation/Performance /user acceptance testing effort
• Managing Environment and Data strategy
• Reviewing test plans for projects involved
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Compiling test metrics for management.
• Implementing risk-based test approach for changing deadlines and Identify test approaches that optimize the delivery schedule.

Test Transformation Assessment

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of as-is Testing function for Global Wholesale Banking division
• Identified optimization opportunities and designed prioritized recommendations
• Recommended Organization transformation roadmap grouped in work streams
• Performed assessment on as-is IT organization and its testing needs
• Recommended improvement tracks and roadmap
• Conceptualized and designed Target Operating Model
• Defined new Organization structure and Roles/Responsibilities
• Managed the Confidential Pilot implementation Program
• Built strategy for global roll out of process centric methodology
• Designed Process Framework for Confidential
• Defined and rolled-out processes, procedures, templates, checklists, guidelines.
• Defining Metrics and Dashboard framework
• Conducted trainings and workshops, road shows to formalize and roll-out the new Testing Center of Excellence
• Defined Regression Optimization Strategy
• Implemented Orthogonal Array based test design technique for test optimization
• Gather testing requirements for orthogonal array based test design
• Mentored all testing staff and BAs in Orthogonal Array - based Test Design

Test Organization Transformation

Confidential, Mellon

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed current organization structure, testing practices, extent of automation for AST division
• Recommended future state QA model in terms of organization, Governance model, vendor engagement, process improvement roadmap.
• Reviewed current process capabilities, tools utilization and organization structure
• Reviewed existing processes / practices for major projects and small enhancements
• Recommended a QA strategy in terms of alignment with SDLC, hand-offs, roles,responsibilities
• Provided detailed Testing Organization Transformation Strategy & Roadmap
• Review existing processes / practices, work products related to testing such as Test plans, Test cases / Scripts, Test log, defect tracking and closure mechanism
• Conduct Gap Analysis on the “As-Is” process compared to industry best practices
• Recommend a scalable QA framework and methodology

Testing Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the System, Integration and Regression Test effort for all Maximo customizations
• Prepare the Master Test Plan
• Setup the Test Case Framework in Quality Center
• Coordinating activities of developer, tester and infrastructure/environment teams

Test Automation Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing QA automation team of 6 people and planning the Test strategy for various releases.
• Managing and Point to Point Test with various other upstream and downstream applications.
• Design and Enhance various Layers of a Modular Automation Framework
• Configuration Management of the Test Scripts using Perforce