SUMMARY:

• 13+ years of experience In IT. Worked as a Developer, Manual Tester, Automation Test lead and Scrum Master. Impressive record of delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines. Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements. High skilled and successful in coaching, mentoring teams with Agile / Scrum best practices, Devops, Lean, and Test Automation strategy.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of motivating and developing team leaders and team players.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Drive the Monthly Releases by coordinating Business & IT teams of various applications. Streamline the Testing Strategies and Methodologies to meet the timelines.
• Experience in Support/Maintenance the applications and driving Knowledge Transitions activities from client teams
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Works closely with PMs (Project Managers) for Tier 1 Projects schedules, resources staffing and Budget allocations.
• Handling the Project management activities like Project Effort Estimation (IA) and allocating clarity task to resources.
• Managing Multiple Projects. Providing analysis and decision - making for a change requests / project enhancement.
• Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis and providing Project deliverables.
• Work closely with product owner(BAO)on tracking, prioritizing and managing product backlog.
• Took care of burn- down metrics, velocity and task break-down.
• Experienced using on-shore, off-shore, and mixed teams
• Conducting periodic status calls within team to track & finish the Projects smoothly.
• Track and provide the regular updates on project status to Business, Project Manager and Stack Holders
• Involve in the Continuous Improvement (CI) practices and apply techniques where applicable
• Being Mentor, provide the necessary motivation steps to ensure the Quality of Testing is important.
• Quick learner who can identify, absorb, and apply new concepts and technologies necessary to solve the problem at hand.
• Highly motivated, detail oriented, ability to work independently and as a part of the team with excellent Technical, Analytical and Communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Experienced in planning and executing tests from large system wide tests (FIT, ST, PT, UAT, etc.) to individual functional tests and regression tests.
• Good knowledge in Insurance, Health care, Communication and Banking Financial Service Domains

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and RUP.

Tools: HP/Mercury Test Director, Quality Center,WinRunner, Toad, QTP, SILK Central Test Manager, JIRA, HP ALM, Jenkins, GitHub and Ruby Cucumber

Technical: C, C++, Java, Cobol, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, J2EE, AS 400, Gherkin, Oracle IBM MQSeries and HL7.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Specialist - IT App Development / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, managed Build and Run teams with different applications with different release schedules.
• Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning, including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
• Responsible to remove impediments, as these projects relies on the data from multiple departments, hence requiring constant, effective communication to unblock the team and make sure the team remains on task at hand.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, RTC tracking, product visioning, self-management, empowerment and role training.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution, and transparency.
• Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
• Built the team’s agile knowledge and empower the team to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.
• Closely work with ADL proving LMM details and opportunities of improvements.
• Actively participate In the SOS meetings and bring any issues or concerns that blocks team’s deliverables.
• Schedules Gemba walk with other teams and go over best practices that our team can adopt
• Work with PMs by providing line capacity to analyze upcoming projects release schedules.
• Work with product owner during Sprint review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the sprint.
• RTC and VMS boards are used to track the cards status. Always on top updating burn down chart points for each Individual Projects on the VMS board.
• Frequent follow up and friendly reminders to the team on updating RTC cards on daily basis for more accurate reporting.
• As a part of DevOps, implemented ZDT (Zero Downtime Deployments), off cycle releases. Jenkin deployments.
• Scheduling team Building activities to make team stronger and healthier.
• Provide leadership and assistance in developing Best Practices for testing teams.
• Provided training on project enhancements for several interfacing systems.
• As a part of CI, worked on Jenkins which runs daily jobs, System Regression scenarios, and PT final regression jobs.
• Creating Gherkin scenarios, a head of time to get ATTD task easier.
• Successfully implemented ATTD which results in saving 30K for a build work.
• Successfully implemented Risk Based testing.
• Converted Automation framework from QTP to Ruby /Cucumber.
• As a part of DevOps implemented and working on Rocket Chat Stand up, Rocket Chat System/ build configuration group chats.
• Coordinate testing efforts, including test execution and test flows, across multiple internal applications (Multiple teams) as well as external vendors for projects efforts
• Responsible for providing project status reporting to project team members, dependency teams and management through metrics.
• Train associates on usage of testing software tools; Ruby Automation, Rational (RTC, RRC), ALM, Auto Applications, Dependency Flows (NSS, CTM, ECIF, CKS, and LMA), NAPS Flows and verification of system files and reports
• Work with system architects, business leads and project managers to resolve/mitigate project issues
• Provide estimates for testing efforts on projects, production defects and request for changes (RFCs).
• Provide system knowledge for development of projects, Requirements, Use Cases, User Stories, and Detailed Design Documents
• Provided test leadership on AGSS Auto, Internet Auto, Internet Power sports both build and Run lines.
• At the end of Iteration, verifying all the cards committed are updated correctly in RTC with Iteration details, points, card status and scheduled release details.
• Frequently schedules Cross impact meeting with other teams to go over dependency requirements.
• Actively participating in providing the Implementation plan documentation for off schedule releases.
• Reached year end target for ADA defects (fixing and testing of ADA defects for both Auto and Moto applications).

Environment: Agile, Kanban, Mainframe, COBOL, Quality Center 9.2, 11.0, Citrix, SYC, RDCIMS, Ruby 4.0.2, Cucumber, GitHub,SVN,Jenkins,Quality Store, MS excel, Snag It, Inspect, Iedit32, Console(GalaxyMSI).

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Lead Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership and direct assistance to analyze, develop and implement modifications to Clinical Portal of Confidential Application
• Participate the Business Development meetings and provide the Testing Strategies on assigned projects.
• Provided expertise and assistance in developing project flow process.
• Created user documentation for a web based Clinical Portal and mid tier interface process.
• Created test plans and test cases for use by testing resources.
• Executed the Test Cases on Silk MTC and marked the status as Pass / Fail per execution results. Uploaded the executed / finished package to Silk Central Test Manager.
• Extensively created HL7s to be executed to verify several screen functionalities in the clinical portal app.
• Reviewed existing Test Cases and did edits to Test Cases on HIXNY, LBNH, NYCLIX NMHIC, Methodist, and DC portals according to current client requirements.
• Created new Test Cases to bridge Gaps on all the 6 portals.
• Involved in Unit Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing, Database Testing, Boundary value Testing.

Environment: Silk Central Test Manager, Silk Manual Test Client, SQL Navigator, HL7, C sharp, Dahlia, Ensemble, CDS, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, Firefox 3.0, Jcaps, Java, J2EE,Oracle,MS Excel, MS Word, HIXNY, LBNH, NYCLIX, NMHIC, Methodist, DC, Confidential, Selenium,Toad 4.1, MS Outlook.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements Documents and definition documents and created Test Plan document.
• Reviewed existing Test Plans prepared by offshore people and made updates to Test Plans according to the current functionality and reviewed with Project Manager.
• Created and executed Test Cases. Extensively involved in functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and data verification testing.
• Used JIRA to log defects, track defects, and to prepare test status report.
• Used JIRA to update Project requirement details.
• Extensively used SQL queries to verify the data integrity and data consistency.
• Coordinated with offshore QA team on issues resolution and to get status on outstanding issues.
• Actively participated on Weekly meeting with QA team to provide test status, test schedules and estimate of testing effort for each Version / iteration.

Environment: Java, HTML, XML, J2EE, JBoss, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JIRA, SQL, Microsoft. NetFramework1.1, 2.0, Oracle 10g,MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, UML, Manual Testing, UNIX, Business Intelligence Tools, RTIE, IG 5.1 and IG5.2 versions, F-Secure SSH Client, F-Secure SSH File-Transfer.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Updated Test Plan and reviewed with Project Lead and Quality Support Manager.
• Created and executed test cases
• Extensively used SQL statements at (AS/400) database level to verify successful population of data in the back-end.
• Tested 8 different types of reports data, 45 different Query resultant screens data and verified with database data by generating SQL queries on AS/400 (green screens).
• Used Mercury Quality Center to log defects, track defects and to prepare test status reports.
• Supervised and participated in additional system testing activities for production support, production issue resolution & test scripts enhancement for a maintenance release to the DSW application.
• Maximized test coverage within serious time and resource constraints by analyzing and prioritizing system test components, impact to current systems, business needs vs. requirements.

Environment: Java, HTML, XML,JSP, J2EE,Web Sphere, SQL, Oracle 9i, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, SQL Navigator 3.2, AS/400 iSeries (System I), MS Word, MS Excel, IBM Lotus Notes7.02, IBM 5250 Terminal, UML, Manual Testing, Auto-DSW V1.25,AWAD

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Performance Engineer/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, development and execution of Test Cases in QC.
• Prepared the Input XMLS with positive and Negative scenarios.
• Input XMLs are executed through Java program.
• Recorded the test execution results in QC with marked as pass / fail.
• The response xmls from the regression test are compared with previous test runs results using KDIFF.
• Verified the performance of the application by applying certain load at the same time
• Presentation of the QA Status in the weekly meetings

Environment: ESB 2.10.x,Test Director 8.0, Quality Center 9.0, Quick3270 Emulator, Mainframes, KDIFF, AS400, Manual Testing, Java, MS Word, Web sphere 5.0, Web Logic 6.0, SQL, UML, MS Excel,DB2, XML, XSD, Windows XP/2000. ICOMS ISA-05.01.07, CSG - Smart Link API Version 2.7