SUMMARY

• Result - oriented IT leader with over 16+ years 11+ years at USA of proven experience in providing value, in terms of technology driven solutions, strategic planning, process management, relationship management
• Create Project Kick off materials and facilitate kick-off meetings
• Develop and drive high level project milestones and detailed project plan
• Clear communication of project plans, status, and critical issues to project stakeholders and sponsors
• Provide Weekly Project Plan and schedule updates to Portfolio Manager and project team
• Push to get all dependent tasks identified and resourced
• Partner with Portfolio Managers to maintain resource forecasts in Planview
• Performs or delegates the prepare, lead, and close activities for project meetings
• Lead project to completion through defined stage gates, deliverables and approvals
• Experienced working in an Agile environment is desired - Kanban/Scrum
• Remove roadblocks by identifying issues early and proactively identifying solutions and escalating as appropriate
• Ensure necessary Testing is completed
• Strong experience in setting up Behavioral Driven Development Testing framework using continuos Automation and Innovation
• Instrumental in large transformation program and helped programs to transform from waterfall to Agile/DevOps/Cloud based model
• Possesses unique experience around Quality Engineering and has extensive experience in driving solutions around Mobility, Digital e Commerce, SOA, and Life Cycle Automation.
• Experience in builidng different automation framework using Selinium, NightWatch, Protractor catering to the changing technology needs of the program
• Strong expertise in Nightwatch,Selenium,Cucumber,Protractor,Loadrunner,Dynatrace,Kibbana, Silverlight, JAVA, .Net, mainframe, data warehouse and data migration.
• Expertise in software quality assurance methodologies, life cycle and defect management.
• Manage the project scope, schedule, and financials evaluating the impact of key decisions on these triple constraints and escalating as required
• Facilitate the project change request process if needed
• Ensure Change Control Requests for deployments are in place for approvals
• Maintain Project Document Tracker with deliverable progress and location
• Maintain Risk Mitigation plan if the project is defined as High Risk per the Project Risk Prioritization exercise
• Ensure Rollout Plan is documented and communicated
• Facilitate implementation planning and coordinate cut over activities
• Lead post-project analysis to capture Lessons Learned to guide future projects
• Extensive experience in retail, insurance, financial, healthcare, government and telecom industry
• Instrumental in collecting project metrics, analysis and reporting for the monthly governance
• Experience of working in a multi vendor environments
• Good conflict management and prioritisation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and support cross-functional project teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Change Management
• Technology Proof of Concepts
• Process Improvement
• People Transformation
• Risk Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall & V-Model

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/NT, 2000 Server/Professional/7

Project Management: MPP, Jira,TFS,XRay, MS Project/Visio

Languages: COBOL, C,Java, SQL, VB, HTML, XML

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0 SD

Technologies: Object Oriented and Client Server, IBM Commerce,Endeca,ATG,Microservice, RESTful APIs,Postman

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS Access, TOAD,Mongo DB

Order Management Tool: Sterling E-Commerce(DOMs) and ATG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create Project Kick off materials and facilitate kick-off meetings
• Develop and drive high level project milestones and detailed project plan
• Clear communication of project plans, status, and critical issues to project stakeholders and sponsors
• Provide Weekly Project Plan and schedule updates to Portfolio Manager and project team
• Push to get all dependent tasks identified and resourced
• Partner with Portfolio Managers to maintain resource forecasts in Planview
• Performs or delegates the prepare, lead, and close activities for project meetings
• Lead project to completion through defined stage gates, deliverables and approvals
• Remove roadblocks by identifying issues early and proactively identifying solutions and escalating as appropriate
• Responsible for costing, estimating and planning projects.
• Preparing Project Initiation documentation.
• Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including supplier base, use of internal and external resources.
• Maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators.
• Setting up DevOps,Microservice Test strategy&Solution, Testing Centers of Excellence around Test management, Automation, Mobility, SOA and Functional testing.
• Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.
• Identifying, costing and processing any contract variations.
• Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.
• Updating project plans to include agreed changes.
• Producing accurate financial reports.
• Monitoring actual expenditure figures against project budgets.
• Organizing and facilitating Project Steering / Operating Committees meetings.
• Managed the project team including any subcontractors.
• Ensuring Projects and Programmes are executed using agreed standards & processes.
• Reviewed and approved all project documentation.
• Resolved any problems and issues that arose.
• Undertook all monthly project financial cost reporting.
• Preparing status reports for use in communication to stakeholders.
• Escalating issues and areas of concern to leadership as needed.
• Ensured staff and sub-contractors timesheets were accurately completed.
• Generating Work Packages and Work Instructions.
• Provided project support for all off site activities. Setting goals and objectives, aligning it to companywide business objectives
• Involved in Forecasting, team annual appraisals, promotion cycle, incentive programs and appreciation awards
• Closure of projects successfully within time and budget

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Playing Test Manager (Team size- 200) in Global-Delivery-Model
• Coordinates all activities and all testers during each testing phase of a project or program
• Co-operates with clients/users and senior staff as required to agree the testing strategy to be employed for development projects.
• Maintains awareness of testing alternatives at a level where they can be analyzed and the most effective testing strategy selected and agreed
• Utilizes testing knowledge and experience to assess and advice on the practicality of testing process alternatives.
• Identifies improvements to the process and assists in their implementation.
• Ensures that any risks associated with the agreed test strategy and the system test plan are clearly documented and described to the clients/users and colleagues.
• Manages all risks associated with the testing and takes preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.
• Provides authoritative advice and guidance to colleagues on any aspect of testing, including training for testers and other developers where appropriate.
• Plans, arranges and controls meetings, workshops and relations with client/user staff during test planning and throughout subsequent development and testing activities.
• Takes responsibility at a high level for the proper conduct of such relations.
• Takes responsibility for all phases of testing and the management of the testing activities within a development project.
• Plans or oversees the planning of the system and acceptance tests and coordinates the execution of these plans.
• Takes responsibility for early life-cycle validation and verification.
• Takes responsibility for the production and approval of all testing deliverables and achievement of testing milestones during a project.
• Fulfills the role of Testing Co-coordinator for a development project or program of projects

Confidential

Lead test team

Responsibilities:

• Lead test team in organizing the daily check point meeting and preparing the test strategy, master test plan, the test log, traceability metrics, defect summary report and system integration execution plan for each sprint.
• Analyzed, developed, documented and validated quality assurance work product for the KB, against the business requirements documents as part of the SDLC activity.
• Analyzed the business requirements, performed reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application.
• Participated in requirements review meetings with the business analysis team.
• Developed test design specifications, and test scripts for various test scenarios.Tested the application utilizing the AGILE methodology.
• Used QC to execute the test cases, track execution against the plan during testing and manage defects from inception to resolution.
• Involved in creating defect reports using Team foundation server (TFS)
• Supported test team efforts in executing smoke, system, database, usability, integration, user interface and regression testing.
• Coordinate with the client for the User acceptance testing
• Developed SQL queries to query the database to test the back end process of the application.
• Gather the Performance testing requirement and performed load testing by using Silkperformer.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings to report any defects, issues and risks.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, data mapping document, performed reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application.
• Developed test scripts for various test scenarios. Tested the application utilizing the RUP methodology.
• Prepared the master test plan, traceability metrics, defect summary report and system integration execution plan.
• Supported test team efforts in executing system integration, database, usability and regression testing.
• Developed SQL queries to query the database to test extraction transmission loading (ETL) process of the application.
• Used Issue Tracker to track all defects and generate reports and manage test metrics.
• Participated in daily status meetings to report any defects, issues and risks.
• Mentored other team members in use of tools and testing principles.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, developed, documented and validated quality assurance work product for the MR&C application, against the use case and business requirements documents as part of the SDLC activity.
• Analyzed the business requirements, performed reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application.
• Participated in requirements review meetings with the business analysis team.
• Developed test design specifications, and test scripts for various test scenarios.
• Tested the application utilizing the RUP methodology.
• Lead test team in organizing the daily check point meeting and preparing the master test plan, the test log, traceability metrics, defect summary report and system integration execution plan.
• Supported test team efforts in executing smoke, system, database, usability, integration, user interface and regression testing along with ETL testing.
• Developed SQL queries to query the database to test the back end process of the application.
• Used Source forge to track all defects and generate reports and manage test metrics.
• Coordinated the test effort between onsite and offshore resources.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios.
• Authored test cases to include prerequisites, detailed directions and descriptions of the anticipated outcome.
• Extensively performed requirements verification and risk-based testing.
• Participated in test case walkthroughs, inspection meetings.
• Interacted and worked with the development team to solve the problems encountered in the test scenario run.
• Performed ETL testing.
• Lead responsibilities included organizing the daily status updates, preparing the master test plan; identify the risks involved and validated business requirement.
• Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the offshore testing and testing resources.
• Involved in gap analysis, creation of master test plan, time estimate and preparation of metrics report.
• Involved the test script creation, uploading test scripts in rational clear quest, modifications in existing scripts and execution of test scripts by using TMap Technique.
• Facilitated team meeting and lead documentation review with the testing team.
• Performed execution of all manual test cases in clear quest.
• Performed back-end testing on DB2 database.
• Performed ETL testing.
• Verified the data stored in the DB2 database with the help of SQL queries.
• Tracked all the defects using clear quest tracking system and generated reports and test metrics.
• Involved in daily client interaction calls to discuss work status, updates on critical showstopper defects and planning for new release etc.