PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Scrum Master, Quality Assurance leader and Business Systems Analyst with over 15+ years of experience in Information Technology
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written skills
• 1 year experience as a scrum master,
• 6+ years of experience working with Agile methodologies
• QA leader
• Led the QA team at Confidential in building the finance and customer data marts. Responsibilities as a project leader included
• Documenting testing scope, strategy;
• Identified testing risks, constraints, assumptions, and QA resource requirements;
• Managed stakeholder review and signoff;
• Documented test cases, assignments, and traceability matrix as part of the planning process;
• Managed the team reviews; compared estimates to actuals and managed performance reporting;
• Manage defect logging/updating, project metrics, regression tests and handled defect repair based on associated risks;
• Managed traceability to project plan for test program
• Quality Assurance/Analyst experience (10+ years hands on experience working on
• Data Warehouse Testing
• Informatica - ETL Testing
• SQL/ Unix/ Linux file handling commands and scripting
• Data Warehousing concepts and Business Intelligence.
• Writing Test plans/Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defect Logging, generating Test metrics.
• 2+ years as a Business Systems Analyst experience working on People Soft -ERP Financial modules
• Strong Data Analysis, root cause analysis and problem solving skills.
• Data Warehouse Testing and Business Intelligence
• O2C (Order to Cash),
• Revenue and Expense Data
• Retail and Supply Chain,
• BRM (Billing and Revenue Management; both monthly and subscription based billing),
• Hospital VBP (value based purchasing) testing experience
• Property Management - Leasing and Rents

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle
• Sql Server
• Netezza
• Unix
• Linux
• Informatica
• Shell Scripting
• Sql/PLSQL
• TFS/MTM/Team Track/Jira - Test tracking tools
• Visual Studio 2012/2010/2005
• Windows (all versions)
• Jama/Rally
• Hadoop (big data)
• Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
• Perforce/Visual Source Safe - Source code

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager QA

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Responsibilities:

• In addition to my primary role of QA Analyst, I have successfully introduced and implemented SCRUM.
• This involved doing a demo to the executive team to get buy-in, then training the team and facilitating scrum for the team as a SCRUM Master.
• Bringing an Agile mindset and SCRUM to the team has benefited the team significantly and is visible in the backlog being significantly reduced from 30+ reports to almost down to 2 in an 8 month period and the quality has significantly improved.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Scrum (Development) Team member

Responsibilities:

• Backend dbase tables populated thru ETL and SQL stored procedures.
• Source to Target counts, column mappings and transformations.
• The calculator functionality (which includes calculations for Domain score & Total performance score for Actuals.
• The simulation calculations in the UIfor Consistency points, TPS, Estimated dollars lost and estimated dollars returned for the member), member security on the application.
• Reviewed acceptance criteria.
• Coordinated and provided support during the UAT phase .

Confidential, Plano, TX/Mountain View, CA

Staff SW Engineer - Data Warehouse/ETL QA

Responsibilities:

• Led the QA effort for every single DW project at Confidential since the first DW inception in 2001
• Managed QA for RTB and Agile projects
• Provided QA timelines
• QA Resource allocation
• Coordinated End-to-End testing working with cross-functional teams
• Reviewed business, technical and data quality requirements with emphasis on early defect removal and ensuring testability
• Automated Testing
• Agile Projects; defined Sprint done ness criteria and performed Sprint Retrospectives
• Functioned as a QA Lead for the global QA team
• Provided technical guidance to the QA team
• Continuous process improvements resulting in an efficient QA team
• Defect management
• Communicated project stakeholders and extended team throughout project duration
• Developed and presented Test Plan/Strategy to project stakeholders
• Developed Test cases/Test scripts for Datawarehouse & ETL testing using informatica. Used Oracle (SQL) to write test cases.
• Ensured product readiness, quality and metrics when testing was completed
• Provided test execution status
• Assessed project risks and implemented risk based testing as a mitigation plan
• Provided Test Metrics
• Strong QA/SCM Leader
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, thorough and detail oriented tester
• Resource and timeline management
• Process champion
• Good understanding of Agile (Scrum) methodology
• Strong understanding of Software testing principles, techniques, static and dynamic testing, black and white box testing
• Expertise in Data warehouse concepts and ETL (informatica) testing

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Data Warehouse/ETL Tester - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performing Manual testing for the Data Warehouse developed using informatica
• Preparing Test Plan/Strategy document and writing Test cases, Test scripts for test execution.
• Executing test cases/scripts to test the backend dbase tables and ETL mappings/transformations.
• Logging defects identified and coordinating with the developers to resolve bugs
• Regression testing bug fixes.
• Ensuring the ETL and sql queries are optimized to improve load timings and meet business SLA.
• Ensuring that the Data warehouse built meets customer requirements.

Confidential, Emeryville, CA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the test team for the Siebel 2000 Release of Siebel eAutomotive, eCommunications & Energy and Consumer Goods modules for both single org and multi org
• Prepared Test Plan/Strategy document and written Test cases/Test scripts for test execution.
• Tested the entire client application for overall functionality
• Logged defects and coordinated with the developers to resolve bugs
• Ensuring that the application module(s) meet original requirements.
• Test Areas:

Enterprise Integration Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote scripts for populating Siebel Interface tables from legacy systems
• Created Confidential Configuration files
• Prepared the server components
• Tested the Data cleansing and de-duplication functionality using First Logic in both real-time and batch mode
• Installed the Third Party software (First Logic) and configured the id centric configuration files
• Setup the relevant Id centric configuration files in the Siebel Server and Client directories
• Loose Cannon is an automated tool to the test the entire Siebel Application for views and applets
• Inserted records into each of the Applets; Loose Cannon ran all the server tasks, workflow processes and reports
• Installed Loose Cannon and configured the TP.Properties file for Siebel mapping
• Executed the iag.exe file to launch the Siebel application and continue with the testing
• Reviewed the log files for errors and report the bugs for and processes that failed

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

PeopleSoft Consultant - Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a PeopleSoft Consultant implemented the Accounts Receivables & Billing modules for major clientele.
• Clientele included the following Government and Private organizations:
• Identified the fixes required for the client to facilitate smooth running of the application
• Downloaded the fixes for each module from PeopleSoft customer connection
• Applied the fixes to the test database and testing the fix, checking to see the intended bug was fixed.
• Conducted Regression test
• Migrated the fix to production database after successful regression test in pre prod
• Provided user support for production issues
• Documented the process for fixes applied

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops for requirements gathering
• Identified the setup to meet Client Business processes
• Setup the system and got customer's approval on the same.
• Prepared the conceptual solution document explaining the setup
• Determined data conversion process to load customers from legacy systems identified and customized the PeopleSoft delivered reports to meet clients reporting requirements
• Performed unit testing and prepared test scripts for QA team to leverage
• Setup operators and security classes; assigned operators to security classes
• Performed system testing to check the integration between all PeopleSoft modules (GL, AP, INV etc.)
• Reported bugs to PeopleSoft GSC for fixes and resolved the problem; bugs reported to PeopleSoft were scheduled for fixes in release 8.0
• Provided hands on User training with training documentation that was tailored to the customer setup
• Provided go-live support until the user was comfortable up to a minimum of 2 months
• Responsible for the implementation of four Financials modules in the AROMBI project; this required a thorough system study and a close analysis of Alza's business process
• Conducted workshops for requirements gathering
• Identified the setup to meet Client Business processes
• Setup the system and got customer's approval
• Prepared the conceptual solution document explaining the setup
• Determined the data conversion process to load customers from legacy systems
• Identified and customized the PeopleSoft delivered reports to meet clients reporting requirements
• Performed Unit testing and prepared test scripts for QA team to leverage
• Setup operators and security classes; assigned operators to security classes
• Performed system testing to check the integration between all PeopleSoft modules (GL, AP, INV etc.)
• Reported bugs to PeopleSoft GSC for fixes and resolved the problem; bugs reported to PeopleSoft were scheduled for fixes in release 8.0
• Provided hands on User training with training document that was tailored to the customer setup
• Provided go-live support until the user was comfortable up to a minimum of 2 months