SUMMARY:

• Confidential has 11 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance& Engineering. He has worked in varied roles across different business domains like Insurance, Retail, CPG and Distribution, Logistics, Energy and Utilities.
• He is proficient in software test lifecycle modeling, test process consulting in areas of process standardization, test optimization techniques, right size testing, implementing QA Quality gates, creating test artifacts/templates, QA Knowledge Management, Quality Engineering, etc.
• His skills include Functional Testing, System/Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Business Assurance Testing, Automation Testing, Performance Testing, Data Warehouse - ETL & MDM testing, Product testing etc.
• He has rich experience in scope management, effort estimation and resource Management. He has lead QA teams for large programs and handled teams with 60+ team size. He has delivered projects with agile, iterative, waterfall and Confidential methodology.
• He was a CSTE certified test professional (year- 2007) and a certified HP QTP (year 2008) professional. Skilled at orchestrating and superintending programs with project lifecycle ranging from the planning till closure within budget, on time, with quality, and under stringent deadlines meeting customer/business expectations. He has strong analytical and troubleshooting skills along with good communication skills. He has experience in managing and leading multiple globally dispersed teams.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements
• Effective communication skills and experience in coordination between globally located teams
• Project delivery under stringent timelines
• Effective demand and capacity management, resource management
• Schedule and release management, Monitoring QA activities on daily basis
• Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thorough Understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Supervise all STLC activities and deliverables ensuring completion against plans and adherence to required levels of content and quality
• Process standardization, Optimization, Quality engineering and innovation to achieve improved productivity and efficiency
• Designed and developed quality assurance governance framework, test strategy and test plans
• Managing reports, SLA’s and KPI’s. Tracking on mitigation plans for risks and resolution of emerging issues, timely escalation
• Direct, coach and mentor associates on quality assurance process and methodologies
• Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QE&A Process Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Test process, methodology and technology consultation in terms of enabling QA towards faster time to market, test optimization, increased QA efficiency, agility and right size testing through transformation initiatives like Test Design Optimization, Impact Analysis Matrix, QA Knowledge Management Framework, Continuous Integration, Quality Engineering Enablement, Service Virtualization and Business Assurance Testing.

QA Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Test management that includes end to end test program management, program governance, release planning, requirement analysis, effort estimation, designing test strategy, test planning, defect management and reporting.
• Demand and capacity management, resource management and staffing plan. Managing test milestones, issues and risks.
• Supervise all STLC activities and deliverables. Liaising with Application and Business teams, PMO team, Release Management to drive resolution of any identified issues/clarification. Process standardization, Optimization, Quality engineering and innovation to achieve improved productivity and efficiency.

Business Development Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Market Survey, Industry research of events, publications.
• Discovering and Exploring areas of opportunity (Cross selling and Up selling framework).
• Driving Customer RFP, RFI’s and building collaterals.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Defining scope of testing for each release /sprint ( Confidential methodology).
• Driving business requirement analysis and elaboration sessions. Facilitate walk-through, inspection, user group meetings, and business show and tell sessions.
• Effort estimation.
• Implementation of Confidential technology layer testing approach in terms of UI validation, Screen/Coach navigation, Dashboard validation, validation of Rules, Workflows, Decision tables, Decision tress.
• Testing of integration points, SOA validation, field to XML file validation, web services validation etc.

MDM Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Inbound ETL Testing for loading data from source systems in Informatica Landing Tables to Outbound ETL Testing for publishing data from MDM to consuming/downstream applications.
• Web Services testing for integration of MDM with interfacing applications. Siperian Batch process testing for loading data from Landing to Confidential .
• Match and Merge Rules Testing. Functional Testing for Informatica Data Director ( Confidential ).

Lead Business Analyst and Product SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As SME of Confidential application, he was responsible for merchandising the product developed by Confidential India across other counties (continental Europe and middle east countries) for use by Confidential partners.
• He was responsible to understand the business needs of the consumers from different countries and make recommendations on products customization and usage.
• Requirement gathering and management, co-ordination with Business Users to understand business change needs, impacts to changes, requirement analysis, organizing and documenting requirement, Demo/Workshop/Show & Tell sessions with Business and Project team. Requirement/defect prioritization, triaging.
• Review application design, UI and test scenarios, drive change requests, manage project scope, acceptance (UAT), deployment, user training. Resolve business issues relating to business rule and execution.

Functional QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, create, and execute comprehensive test strategies and plans for releases.
• Verify and validate system requirements, updates and enhancements by executing planned testing efforts.
• Supervise all STLC activities and deliverables. Identify, log and track defects related to product quality, drive root cause analysis for defects to eliminate future rework and issues.
• Work with the appropriate IT or Business Teams to drive the resolution of identified quality issues.
• Execute standardized reporting to provide visibility to test execution, results and overall product quality.
• Deploying and managing the appropriate testing framework to meet the testing mandate.
• Driving areas of Process Improvement, Risk based testing, maximized automation, etc.

Performance Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the non-functional requirements from business, analysis of critical business scenarios.
• Developing performance test scripts in Loadrunner. Script enhancement using Parameterization, Checkpoints, Transactions, Reusable functions, Correlations, Think Time, etc.
• Designing workload model. Execution of Load Runner Scripts and Monitoring the Performance/Load Testing.
• Performance Test Execution and monitoring. Analyzing test results and preparing performance test report.

ETL/ BI-DW Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creation and Execution of Functional, System/Integration Test Cases.
• Execution of ETL Mapping and Data validation (Data Conversion, Data Transformation, Data Manipulation, Data Security) Testing of Informatica Workflows, Teradata tables/views and Stored Procedures, UNIX Scripts and Flat files.