SUMMARY:

• On - site Senior QA Project Lead with 12 years of Experience in IT industry with onsite/offshore model managing team size of 12 consisting of Functional QA team, Back-end Automation tooling team, GUI Automation team and Environmental management team.
• Managing project deliverables from inception to market roll out. Results-driven professional and proven track record in increasing productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction for full software lifecycle.
• Meet clients and stakeholder’s expectations by giving high quality project deliverables and communicating throughout project life cycle in periodic basis via Dashboard reports.
• Responsible for Identifying the new business areas and responsible for bringing up road-maps in developing new requirements/businesses.
• Have thorough understanding in all phases of Agile and waterfall model. Possess a very good experience on entire SDLC cycle working in Health Care, Legal and Financial Market domain.
• Worked on all phases of agile scrum methodology and have expertise understanding in agile scrum process, supporting production deployment and successfully delivered the projects into production.
• Got trained on Bigdata concepts and have strong knowledge on Hive queries, Sqoop, Flume and Hadoop concepts.
• Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with WebDriver Methods, Java Programming Features, Testing Annotations, Selenium Grid and generated report using TestNG.
• Executed Selenium automated test cases using Testing framework by prioritizing, running batches test cases, grouping and also multiple classes/programs using XML.
• Expertise in working with Perl, UNIX & Shell scripting in creation of comparison report from different batch jobs running in PROD and QA and analysis of comparison report.
• Creation, Execution and Maintenance of back-end database comparison script using Perl language and running it via Auto-sys job for daily regression. Analyzing the log files for failures and troubleshooting the issues.
• Created JSON script for automating the backend regression and analysis of log files for trouble shooting the issues in the back-end script.
• Experienced in back-end testing of Database using queries in DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 to perform data comparison, data extraction and data validation.
• Expertise in Regression testing, Functional testing, build verification testing, Ad-Hoc testing, System testing, End to End testing, OS Compatibility testing and Risk-based testing, User roles testing, Database testing, Database Migration testing, User Acceptance testing, Stress testing, Web-Service testing, Client-Server testing and IVR testing.
• Implementation of best practices in automation like continuous integration via Jenkin, enabling shift left and BDD model in the project.
• Creation, Execution and Maintenance of Virtual machines using VM Ware work station.
• Expertise in testing of web, client-server and desktop applications across health care, Legal and Financial Service Domains.
• ALM Administrator - Migrated projects from QC 10 to ALM 12 provided training/support/ knowledge transfer on ALM functionality, Customize ALM template based upon QCOE requirement and Report generation.
• Expertises in Testing Process, Testing Metrics, Test estimation, Test plan preparation, RTM, Test Scenario preparation, Test Case preparation and Test Case Execution.
• Quality Process - Participated in CMMi v1.2 assessment and gained good knowledge in high maturity practices, Software Configuration Management, Defect Prevention coordinator.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

On-site Senior QA Project Lead

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Position Services consists of Confidential, Scorpio and Proxy applications which is having business worth of $5 million across the globe used for processing the corporate action during Corporate Action Life cycle.
• On-site QA Project Lead for Position Services team - Responsible for all QA activities like functional, back-end tools development, environmental management and GUI automation.
• Managing Team size of 12 consisting of 6 - QA Functional team, 2 - Back-end Automation Tooling Team, 2 - GUI Automation Team and 2 - Environmental management team.
• Responsible for Resource planning, Allocation, Task Scheduling, Budgeting and tracking.
• As QA Project Lead - Responsible for QA deliverables from 5 different scrum team located in New York, Shanghai, London, Chennai and Mumbai.
• Create, maintain, control and implement - QA Road map, Time sheet, Test Strategy and Test estimation.
• Sprint Planning Meeting, Nexus Integration team meeting, Sprint Retrospective meeting and Daily Scrum/Triage meeting.
• Creation of back-end regression suite for database comparison using Shell & Perl scripting and running the back-end regression Item via Saturn ( Confidential Specific Tool)
• Running Auto-sys Job, execution of Back-end Automation Script and analysis of Error logs for root cause. Performing Data comparison between QA and UAT database.
• Automated Daily Smoke test cases for DTCC application with Selenium Web Driver using Selenium grid and generated report using Testing.
• QA Support during Production deployment for monthly major releases from UAT into Production environment.
• Creation and maintenance of TWIKI page - QA knowledge materials, Team structure & responsibilities, QA Defect Guidelines documents, Back-end test execution guidelines document and testing metrics information.
• Report Generation - Daily Status Report, Weekly Status Report, Quarterly QA Project Updates.
• Review Test Scenario’s, test cases, defect logged by QA team members.
• ALM Administrator - Responsible for user access set-up, Customization of project template based upon QCOE requirements and Project Report creation.
• Coordinating with IT team, Production Management team, and Operations teams for all QA activities involved in all 5 regions.
• Validation of data flowing into PAF file in Main Frame System with the data from DTCC application.
• Conducting Brain storming session with Off-shore QA team for QA requirements, knowledge transfer and QA best practice implementation.

Environment: DBArtisian, Main Frame, JIRA, ALM 11.52, Leela, DB2, Sybase, Jenkins, Perforce, GIT Work Space, Operating System - Windows 7 64-bit, UNIX, Shell & Perl scripting. Saturn (Internal Tool), ZAPDB and Rapid SQL.

Onsite Coordinator

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• On-site Coordinator for Proxy, Confidential application with 6 QA team members in Off-shore.
• Responsible of maintaining the test deliverables like Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test case, Test execution and defect logged on the Application Under test performed by off-shore team.
• Responsible for running Proxy backend automated position capture scripts from UNIX machine for each Monthly Turnover and to trouble shoot the errors in log file for analyzing the differences observed.
• Created JSON script - Running backend automated script in different market for processing claims to capture the positions for adding it to Regression Pack.
• Automated Project Allocation Tracker using Excel Macro which is used for highlighting the team allocation and execution model for presenting to higher management in Bi-Weekly Project Delivery Managers Meeting using automated Dashboard.
• Automated regression test cases for Confidential & Scorpio application with Selenium Web Driver using Selenium grid and generated report using Testing.
• Participate in Requirement Gathering session, Project Estimation, Scrum call, Status Update call, Bi- Weekly Project Delivery Manager call and in Retrospective Meeting.
• Analyse and understand the requirement available in JIRA and give knowledge transfer to Off-shore team members.
• Trained Off-shore team on Agile Scrum Process and giving guidelines to off-shore team members on various stages of agile practices.
• Expertise in Perl & Shell scripting. Execute, write and maintain Perl, UNIX, Shell scripts - For running back-end automated test scripts
• Created Workflow diagram for the project which helped BA, CSR, Dev and Operational team to have clear picture about the Project activities and have received appreciation from Client Director.
• Developed/Updated System Test Plan, Test scenarios and Test Scripts as per the requirements and Change Request Document.
• SQL queries - Create complex SQL queries for data collection, maintain, monitor and pull data from database to clean up the events information from QA environment and for maintenances of the test data.

Environment: & Tools Used: DbArtisian, Main Frame, JIRA, ALM 11.52, Leela, DB2, Sybase, Jenkins, Perforce, GIT Work Space, Operating System - Windows 7 64-bit, UNIX, Shell & Perl scripting. Saturn (Internal Tool), ZAPDB and Rapid SQL.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Onsite QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Onsite coordinator for EDA Desktop and EDA Web application with team size of 9 in off-shore and having good experience in project coordination, communication and project deliverables.
• Participating in Release Planning meeting and provide inputs on impacted area’s and give story point estimations.
• Set-up of EDA Web application using ISS Server and execution of the test cases.
• Performing SQL Injection testing in order to check the vulnerability of the EDA application.
• Participating in Sprint Planning Meeting and involved in requirement gatherings for the sprint.
• Involved in development of Test Strategy, Test scenarios, and Test case preparation, defect logging and defect retesting and documenting all phases of the QA process.
• Responsible for Test Summary Report, Status report and Release report.
• Automated Build Verification test cases with QTP test automation tool.
• Review off-shore test cases, logged defect before taking it to triage and resolving off-shore queries by coordinating with customers.
• Providing inputs in sprint retrospective meeting and preparation of release reports.
• Project coordination and communicate with the off-shore team for project delivery.
• Responsible for SLA metrics for both EDA desktop and web product.
• Preparing Daily/Weekly status report to customer and participate in on-site meetings.
• Automated Build Verification testing for desktop applications using QTP 11.0.
• Responsible for Functional testing, Regression Testing, OS Compatibility testing, Cross Browser testing and End to End testing.
• Created Burn Down chart for tracking the team efforts during sprint time and shared with clients.
• Sprint data collection, including burn down chart data validation in order to keep the test activities in track with project schedule.
• Validating the sprint estimation, QA understanding documentation.

Environment: & Tools Used: JavaScript, JQuery, VB, C # and Dot net, IE 8.0, 9.0, Chrome, Firefox 18, 19, Operating systems - Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows XP (32-bit), ALM 11.52, Team Foundation Server 2012 and MS SQL Servers (2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012), DT Search Engine

Confidential

Off-shore QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Off-shore test lead for LAW application with the team size of 9.
• Participated in sprint planning meeting for requirement gathering.
• Planning the weekly QA activities for offshore team and Updating the offshore status to onsite Manager.
• Participated in development of Test Strategy, Test scenarios, Test cases preparation, Test Case execution, defect logging and defect retesting and documenting all phases of the QA process.
• Planned and executed backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.
• Responsible for impact analysis and preparation of regression test suite.
• Extensively executed SQL queries on SQL 2008 database in order to validate the data.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the required documents for testing.
• Performed data validation by writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Responsible for tracking the RTM, TC creation status, execution status and status reporting via Quality Center 10.0.
• Responsible for test summary report and status report and also involved in resource planning for project activities.
• Prepared Test Strategy, Test estimation for the release along with on-site counterpart.
• Reviewing test cases, logged review bugs before assigning it to on-site review.
• Preparation of RCA, Retrospective documentation and testing metrics.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting the SLA Metrics.

Environment: & Tools Used: VB, C #, Dot Net, Windows Operating Systems - Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows VISTA (32-bit and 64-bit), ALM 11.52, Team Foundation Server 2012 and MS SQL Servers (2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012), DT Search Engine.

Confidential

Off-shore QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked in four different Web applications in 2 parallel projects (NJ Provider portal, NJ Member portal, Rayant Provider Portal and Rayant Member Portal.
• Gathering of requirements from On-site team and analyse business requirement and manage clarifications raised by off-shore team members.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional testing, regression testing and end to end testing and User Acceptance testing during production release.
• Preparation of test approach, test strategy, test estimation, requirement traceability matrix, test plan, test case creation, test execution, test data preparation, defect logging and retesting.
• Participated in client status meeting and project status review meetings.
• Performed Web Service testing for the feed coming from SQL database into Web portal application.
• Prepared SQL queries for backend testing, extensively used inner and outer joins to verify data integrity.
• Responsible for Weekly status, Daily status reports and Release report generation including Test summary report.
• Smooth coordination with clients via status meeting, requirement understanding meeting.
• Contributed to preparation of knowledge repository within different applications.

Environment: & Tools Used: Java, Windows XP Professional (32-bit), Lotus Notes 6.2 (Defect Management) and SQL Server 2005.