SUMMARY:

• Holding H1B VISA, valid till August 2019
• 10+ years of experience in Software Testing Life Cycle Methodologies including Data warehouse testing, Functional, Mainframe, User Acceptance, Test Data Management, Agile in Banking and Health Care domain.
• Strong track record in project delivery from Planning to closure
• Worked on projects in waterfall and agile methodology
• Rich experience in Banking and Financial domain
• Proficient and SME in Mortgage - Loan Processing System and Card Payments
• Proficient Experience in ETL, Mainframe and Big Data Testing.
• Experience in working with multiple vendors and geographically distributed teams

KEY DOMAIN AND TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

Domain: Banking and Health Care

Technical: Data warehouse, Functional, Regression, MAINFRAMES and BIG DATA Testing

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2007

Database: SQL, Netezza, Oracle, Hive, Teradata

Mainframe: Unix, Putty,TS2

Reporting Tool: Cognos,Tableu

Testing Tools: QC 9.0, QC 10.0, JIRA

Big data: Hadoop, Spark

TOTAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onshore test lead

Responsibilities:

• User stories committed to in an iteration are accepted in that iteration
• Progress is constantly being made and completed iteratively
• Story point estimates are provided as a team
• Tasks are broken out and estimated by hours when necessary
• Time is charged to the appropriate task for accurate burn down
• Roadblocks are reported as soon as possible
• At least 2 iterations worth of backlog user stories are available
• Highest priority user stories are brought into an iteration if capacity allows
• Team is implementing process improvements
• Process improvements and impediments are tracked and communicated
• Communicate work completed yesterday, work planned for today, any roadblocks
• Listen to teammates and help when possible
• Communicate and understand vision
• Estimate user story complexity compared to base user story
• Provide high level estimates on cost and hours back to product owner
• Complete task estimates and charge time to tasks as they’re worked
• Understand backlog prioritization and vision
• Know what user stories will be brought into current iteration if capacity allows
• Ask questions if user stories are not understood
• Understand changes in vision or expectation provided by Product Owner
• Mentoring a team of 3 people from onshore by allocating daily tasks based on deliverable deadlines and reporting back to the delivery lead
• Do a detailed analysis on the Rejected defects and Post Production Defects and take corrective measures to avoid the same in future
• Prepare Lesson Learnt Document after each release

Confidential

Onshore test lead

Responsibilities:

• User stories committed to in an iteration are accepted in that iteration
• Progress is constantly being made and completed iteratively
• Story point estimates are provided as a team
• Tasks are broken out and estimated by hours when necessary
• Time is charged to the appropriate task for accurate burn down
• Roadblocks are reported as soon as possible
• At least 2 iterations worth of backlog user stories are available
• Highest priority user stories are brought into an iteration if capacity allows
• Team is implementing process improvements
• Process improvements and impediments are tracked and communicated
• Communicate work completed yesterday, work planned for today, any roadblocks
• Listen to teammates and help when possible
• Communicate and understand vision
• Estimate user story complexity compared to base user story
• Provide high level estimates on cost and hours back to product owner
• Complete task estimates and charge time to tasks as they’re worked
• Understand backlog prioritization and vision
• Know what user stories will be brought into current iteration if capacity allows
• Ask questions if user stories are not understood
• Understand changes in vision or expectation provided by Product Owner
• Mentoring a team of 15 people from onshore by allocating daily tasks based on deliverable deadlines and reporting back to the delivery lead
• Do a detailed analysis on the Rejected defects and Post Production Defects and take corrective measures to avoid the same in future
• Prepare Lesson Learnt Document after each release

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Database Testing, and Test Data Management. Independent handling of intermediate releases. Responsibilities include
• Identifies high risk areas specific to a project
• Performing thorough analysis of business specifications
• Preparing generic test data templates for reuse.
• To ensure data reservations throughout the testing life cycle
• Preparing Test Plan document and Test Evaluation Summary Document.
• Participate in Status and Vendor meetings to report test progress and discuss other issues like Schedule, adherence to Quality, scope of testing, etc.
• Validating the Triggered Jobs in Unix and checking the log files if any issues and Monitoring the Batch
• Interact directly with the Client to report daily progress, discuss deadlines and analyze issues.
• Coordinated with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment of a single project

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• To understand the Client requirements for new enhancements or modification to existing functionality.
• Identifies high risk areas specific to a project
• To prepare test plans, test scripts and traceability matrix, so that the requirement is covered on Positive, Negative and Additional scenarios.
• Self-review and Peer-review the deliverables prepared.
• Create and Execute the Scripts, record the test results and track defects.
• Validating the Triggered Jobs in Unix-Mainframe System and checking the log files if any issues.
• Database verification using SQL
• Handling release calls, UAT and Production defect calls.
• Supporting adhoc requests apart from planned activities.
• Risk management, identification, mitigation and contingency plan for potential risks.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Database Testing, and Test Data Management. Independent handling of intermediate releases. Responsibilities include
• Performing thorough analysis of business specifications
• Preparing generic test data templates for reuse.
• To ensure data reservations throughout the testing life cycle
• Preparing Test Plan document and Test Evaluation Summary Document.
• Responsible for Test planning, Review and Execution.
• Reporting and closing the defects using Quality Center defect tracking tool.
• Validating the Triggered Jobs in Unix and checking the log files if any issues and Monitoring the Batch as part of Mainframe Testing
• Participate in Status and Vendor meetings to report test progress and discuss other issues like Schedule, adherence to Quality, scope of testing, etc.
• Interact directly with the Client to report daily progress, discuss deadlines and analyze issues.
• Coordinated with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment of a single project

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To understand the Client requirements for new enhancements or modification to existing functionality.
• To prepare test plans, test scripts and traceability matrix, so that the requirement is covered on Positive, Negative and Additional scenarios.
• Self-review and Peer-review the deliverables prepared.
• Execute the Scripts, record the test results and track defects.
• Documents and validates problems and defects found during testing
• Assigning the daily task to the team members and following up for the completion of assigned work.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Package Creation
• Data Capture and Restore activities (Data Unloads, Data Loads)
• Forecast Validation and JCL Scan
• Batch Monitoring and Reporting Abends. In Mainframe TS2
• Reading the Design specifications and understanding functional flow
• Conducting meetings with Designers to understand the Application features
• Generating End-to-End Test cases for the prescribed Test Scenarios which includes
• Through understanding of the Scope of testing and the functionalities to be tested.
• Generating test cases according to test plan.
• Arranging review of the Test Cases with various Teams and implementing the comments.
• Executing the Test Cases.
• Conditioning data required for scripts.
• Performing Sanity check and verifying the Performance of the systems.
• Executing the test cases, raising defects and following it up with the Component teams.
• Interaction with various Development & Vendor Teams for defect analysis and rectification.
• Interact directly with the Client to report daily progress, discuss deadlines and analyze issues.
• Participate in Status and Vendor meetings to report test progress and discuss other issues like Schedule, adherence to Quality, scope of testing, etc.
• Perform the entire flow of testing from Test Case generation, Test Execution, Defect recording and Result reporting.
• Mentoring a team of 3 people and allocating daily tasks based on deliverable deadlines.
• Do a detailed analysis on the Rejected defects and Post Production Defects and take corrective measures to avoid the same in future
• Educate the team on the analysis done on the Post Production Defects
• Prepare Lesson Learnt Document after each release
• Acted as DP anchor of the team - conducting (DP) Brainstorming sessions, preparing DP plan/reports.