SUMMARY:

• Results Driven, passionate and highly accomplished technical professional with 12+ years of experience in managing/leading QA initiatives in Data warehousing, Big data and product/application testing with strong streak in identifying the gaps and designing the processes.
• Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.
• Worked across development and operations departments to set guidelines and provide data governance for quality standards and processes.
• Carried out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies, procedures, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; rewarding employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Ensure employees are provided with adequate training, tools and resources needed to perform their jobs to the most outstanding degree possible. Ensure employees is provided with frequent feedback and coaching in order to meet and exceed individual and team performance goals consistently.
• Advanced problem solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching and coordinating
• The resources necessary to effectively diagnose complex project issues, successful in finding the alternatives and identifying impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision making.
• Advanced communication and customer service skills, strong interpersonal communication and presentations skills applicable to wide audience including senior management and various other departments.
• Mentored and managed on/off shore resources in tools, processes and best practices.
• Technical QA lead for migration of multiple legacy products to big data NO SQL HPCC platform.
• Lead automation strategy to plan, develop and execute effective testing to accomplish on - time and efficient delivery of high quality software products and or data.
• Lead Confidential projects through all Phases of life cycle in multimillion-dollar technology initiatives
• Designed QA processes and methodologies, cost-effective solutions, and innovative process improvements.
• Performed multiple roles as Software developer, business analyst, data analyst.
• Built reusable and scalable automation frameworks in multiple platforms.
• Developed ECL scripts in HPCC (High Performance Cluster Computer) to load Data marts
• Wrote ECL scripts for Data Cleansing, Trending and Profiling purposes.
• Wrote the End to End Regression automation Test Frame work document involving multiple components/environments built in Java, PHP, Kettle Report builder and ECL.
• Involved in Big Data Analysis across multiple products in analytical environments.
• Build the Cubes in test environment to facilitate the cube testing process.
• Acted as Scrum Master for multiple projects in data warehousing environment.
• Developed automation test frame work and created customized automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro 8.2 and Load Runner.
• Helped setup automated test lab and trained and mentored other testers on using Mercury products like QTP.
• Developed Test Plan, Test approach/Strategy documents, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Extensively used HP ALM, JIRA for requirements tracking, defect tracking, results and status reporting.
• Strong experience in Automation testing, System Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and Functional Testing.
• Good Process Management and organizing skills with remarkable ability in testing requirements to bring out quality products.
• Supported and maintained the informatica mappings and crystal reports in data warehousing environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Software: HP ALM, UFT/BPT, LoadRunner 8.0, Test Director7.6, Quick Test Pro 6.5/8.2,Bugzilla,Quality Center 9.2/10.0,Fitness,JIRA, SOAPUI

Data warehousing tools: Informatica, Brio, Query Tool, MSRS, SQL Developer 2.1, Quest Center, ProClarity, MSAS, TOAD, Hyperion, Strategy Companion, Crystal reports

Database: Oracle 10g,Terradata, SQL Server 2005,2008,DB2,MYSQL

Scripting Languages: TSL, Java, PL/SQL,ECL(Enterprise Computer Cluster)

Scripts: VB Script

MSWord, MS Excel, MS: Project, MS Outlook, ODBC

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, Windows 7,Unix

Source Control: SVN

Development Methodologies: Agile/Scrum Methodology, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, GA

Senior Software Engineer/Sr QA Engineer/Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Tech lead on the high profile Active Insights road map project, strategized the testing of entire framework for multiple events and process in different environments.
• Managed QA resources by delegating the tasks and tracking the statuses to facilitate on time delivery of the quality product.
• Collaborated across business, project management, development, product management and testing to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.
• Acted as a SCRUM Master for the multiple scrum cycles for various projects and ensured the Customer release on time.
• Involved in creating and analyzing data profiling results.
• Created and executed quality assurance SQL test scripts to validate data loaded in data marts through SSIS Package (ETL) processing.
• Involved in automating cube testing process through the stored procedures and ECL.
• Involved in testing the applications developed and migrated into the new HPCC (High Performance Computer Cluster) platform through ECL scripts.
• Verified and automated regression MVR- FL Activity file loading and build process from Unix Landing Zone to THOR.

Environment: Oracle 10g, SQL Developer, MSAS, Strategy Companion, SQL Server 2008,Quality Center, Query Builder in HPCC, Java, Unix. HP ALM, UFT/ BPT, MY SQL, ECL Confidential, GA

Confidential

Senior IT QA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA initiatives on various data warehouse applications for rollout to both store and corporate production internet portals to facilitate BI decision strategy.
• Created and executed quality assurance test plans and SQL queries using Query tool and Brio Intelligence to validate data loaded in data warehouse during Ab Initio Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) processing.
• Verified modifications to complex Maestro schedules created for backend nightly processing. Involved in MSAS Cube testing by writing the sql scripts for various adhoc metrics (around 200) reported through ProClarity analytics server.
• Involved in Performance testing the Reports created in MSRS through the Mercury Load Runner.
• Assigned and Coordinated the Cube metrics testing activities among the Off Shore TCS testing resources.

Environment: C#, .Net, MSRS, Brio, Querytool, AbInitio, DB2, Test Director, Quick Test Professional 6.5/8.2, Windows NT, LoadRunner 8.0, ProClarity

Confidential, GA

Sr QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the process of implementation of automation right from the stage of establishing the tool.
• Involved in Architecture, design, development and documentation of automation of test scripts in QTP6.5.
• Prepared Global parameter sheet, User defined Functions in for executing the automated test scripts.
• Actively involved in the process of executing the various test plans for System testing, Functional testing and Regression testing of the POS Application for different releases.
• Involved in Designing and preparation of Test plan and Test cases manually for the test plans like Tax Calculations.
• Executed SQL queries for the extraction and validation of data at the Backend.
• Validated and verified the receipts generated by executing test plans, against EJ and Tandem.

Environment: Java 2.0,J2EE, IBM Web sphere, Informix, Windows NT, Unix, Test Director, QTP6.5, Bugzilla.