EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Overall 16 years of experience in software industry and has 14 years of experience in software quality assurance / testing functional areas.
• Currently working as Senior QA Analyst and has experience working as QA Manager, Project Manager, Project Lead, Test Lead, Module Lead, Test Engineer in the career.
• Efficient in customer facing roles and capable of managing project under high pressure and tight deadlines.
• Obtained project management and agile SCRUM master certifications.
• Experience in handling testing and development projects having 35+ members team across multiple geographical locations (Offshore - Onsite model).
• Expertise in manual testing, functional automation testing, performance testing, SOA testing, webservice/API testing, ETL testing, database testing and security testing.
• Experience working for state and federal government data warehouse projects.
• Sound knowledge on Securities & Capital Markets, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail Domains.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) process.
• Proficient in creating project plans, requirement review and analysis, preparing test plans & test strategy documents.
• Proactive participation in test case design, test execution and test artifacts maintenance.
• Influence in defect management, test audit process and test status reporting.
• Experience in measuring testing quality, effective end-end test management, assuring requirement coverage through Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), monitoring & controlling project execution.
• Familiar with various Test automation frameworks, scripting and test execution using HP UFT/QTP.
• Experience in effective end-to-end test project management using HP ALM and Target Process tools.
• Experience in developing performance test scripts using HP Load Runner.
• Experience in testing & validating web service, API using SoapUI.
• Experience in conducting testing across distributed Middleware, SOA, and BPM environments.
• Extensive knowledge on Waterfall, Iterative and Agile project methodologies (SCRUM & KANBAN).
• Familiar with LEAN techniques and implementation across enterprise applications.
• Experience in IAM (Identity & Access Management), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Process Management (BPM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.
• Excellent oral & written communication, learning and presentation skills.
• Extensive experience working as onsite coordinator in onshore-offshore project model.
• Involved in initiation, planning, execution, monitor & control, closure stages of project life cycle and managed all deliverable with good quality.
• Experience working for large financial services, retail and healthcare clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Mac OS

Testing Tools: HP UFT (formerly QTP), HP LoadRunner, SoapUI, Bugzilla, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber.

Management Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Target process, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Project

Database Tools: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, SQL Developer, Toad.

Identity & Access Management Tools: IBM Security/Tivoli Identity Manager, Aveksa Compliance Manager, Ping Federate, Imprivata One-Sign, Splunk, Symantec Data Protection. Microfocus NetIQ.

EAI & BPM Tools: IBM WebSphere Message Queue, Message Broker, AMTrix, Axway Interchange

Domains: Security & Capital Markets, Retail, HealthCare IT, Banking.

Programming / Scripting Languages: Core Java, VB Script, JavaScript, SQL, Ruby, Gherkin.

EDI Transactions: ANSI X12 (EDIFACT) and HIPPA Standard - 834,837,835,811,820, 270/271, 276/277, 275, 278.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Project Test Lead

Environment: HP ALM, Splunk, Mainframe (TPLEX), Symantec Data Protection, Microfocus NetIQ.

Responsibilities:

• Attending project functional requirements review meeting and provide feedback as necessary.
• Prepare Test Strategy document describing Testing approach and Test effort estimation.
• Test Release and cycle management, Test data preparation and management in Quality Center.
• Create and maintain reusable test cases and execute tests scripts manually.
• Document defects and facilitate defect triage meeting and track them to closure.
• Provide approval for code push to QA, co-ordinate software testing for releases, prepare release testing status reports and communicate test results and issues to interested stakeholders.
• Monitor project activities, assess quality risks, and recommend mitigation plan accordingly.
• Automate Regression Test suite (Behavior Driven Development) using Ruby Cucumber.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior QA Analyst.

Environment: HP ALM, HP UFT, Target process, Oracle Database, Microstrategy.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in sprint planning, creating user stories and tasks in Target Process.
• Release, requirement and test managements in HP ALM.
• Creation of test plans for functional testing, 508 compliance testing and performance testing.
• Identifying test scenarios, designing test cases and developing automation scripts using HP UFT.
• Test execution of manual & automation test scripts and generating test summary reports.
• Supporting UAT testing by giving functionality demo and addressing UAT feedback.
• Data analysis, migration and validation testing using business intelligent reports.
• User access and test data management as per internal and external team’s requirement.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Test Manager

Environment: UNIX, SQL Developer, Team Foundation Server, VMware, Oracle Database, JIRA.

Responsibilities:

• Managing end-to-end testing activities within project deadlines to meet business requirements as per SDLC process under Agile Environment.
• Co-ordinate with Product Owner and Development team in gathering product requirements, creating user stories in product backlog.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Checkpoint, Sprint Retrospect and spring review meetings.
• Create and maintain testing deliverables like Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Design and Test Estimation using 3-point and Functional point’s techniques.
• Overseeing Testing team during testing phases and mentor Business Analyst team to perform System and Integration Testing.
• Ensure completeness of System and Integration Testing, Functional and Operation Testing with Federal Team.
• Create Manual Test cases, send it for peer review and update as per their comments.
• Upload Test cases to Team Foundation server and assign it to user stories.
• Create/Identify Test data in preparation for Test case execution.
• Ensure Test coverage by developing and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Perform ETL testing by executing batch jobs via Cybermation and validate output data in Oracle DB using SQL Scripts.
• Log defects in TFS, facilitate Defect Triage Meeting and plan for QA release.
• Walkthrough Test results with Customer and Business SMEs to seek their approvals.
• Perform Post Implementation Review (PIR) to ensure successful release in Production system.
• Run Production jobs on monthly basis and submit files to Confidential using TIBCO MFT server.
• Review errors reported from Federal Team ( Confidential ), analyze source data issues and reporting them to customer. Raise Confidential defects in JIRA tool.
• Analyze data issues by writing complex SQL queries using SQL Developer.
• Executing UNIX commands to verify file creating and file content validation.
• Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines using VMWare to perform UAT testing.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

QA Manager

Environment: HP UFT 11 (QTP), HP ALM 11(QC), HP LoadRunner, SoapUI, Oracle DB.

Responsibilities:

• Overall Test Management and end-end delivery of testing artifacts using SDLC process under Waterfall project execution method.
• Project planning, Test effort estimation and Requirement Analysis.
• Manage project as per SOW, submitting weekly & month status reports, providing metrics to PMO office, Invoicing & Resource management.
• Capturing various metrics and publishing to PMO (ROI Calculation, Defect Trend Analysis etc.)
• Development & Review of Test Scenarios & Test Cases, Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Building Automation Framework and development of Automation Scripts using QTP.
• Conduct Performance Testing using Load Runner and generating various reports.
• Conducting Test Audits, Measuring Quality of Testing.
• Driving Change Control process and performing Impact Analysis.
• Driving defect triage, release coordination meetings.
• Functional Test Execution, Integration Testing, Regression testing and create test summary report.
• POC of legacy applications and preparing requirements for migration into ESF.
• Coordination with offshore team and monitoring project progress.
• Integration of QC with QTP for effective End to end Test Management.
• Ensure End-to-end test coverage using QC-ALM for each release, create test status reports.
• On boarding Cloud applications using cloud controller and ensure application setup within the provisioning engine.
• Testing & validating Web service, API using SoapUI.
• Data validation testing by writing SQL scripts on MS SQL Server.
• Onboarding various sub-applications (sub projects) into centralized framework.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

QA Lead

Environment: Imprivata One Sign, Active Directory, JXplorer, HP QC.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Target Application and providing compatibility report.
• Integrate target application with Ping Federate using prebuilt/custom adapters pointing towards Active Directory or LDAP. Interaction with various stakeholders to create test bed environment.
• Test Planning, Test Bed setup in UAT environment.
• Derive test scenarios from requirement specifications, design and review test cases.
• Perform test execution, defect management, conduct test audits, providing sign-off.
• Driving defect triage calls, monitoring and controlling project execution.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Test Lead

Environment: Aveksa Compliance Manager (ACM), HP QC.

Responsibilities:

• Validating Data feeds from various legacy applications & platforms.
• Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Review flow and test bed setup.
• Test Case suite review, execution, logging bugs and driving defect triage calls.
• Conduct internal test audits and providing sign-offs.
• Co-ordination with various stakeholders and facilitating project reports.
• Measuring quality metrics, end-to-end project monitoring and controlling.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

QA Lead

Environment: IBM Security Identity Manager (formerly Tivoli Identity Manager), Lotus Notes, Toad, HP QC, Active Directory, Eicon Aviva, Putty.

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Adapters and creation of workflow setup.
• User Management, Role Entitlement Policy Control Setup.
• Validating Data feeds from various legacy applications & platforms.
• Execute Reconciliation to sync up and keep platform data up to date.
• Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Review flow and test bed setup.
• Test Case suite review, execution, logging bugs and driving defect triage calls.
• Conduct internal test audits and providing sign-offs.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

QA Lead

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Power Builder, Putty, HP QC.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Test Design and Test Execution, Test Reporting.
• Defect logging and tracking till closure.
• Database testing and validating new data feeds from legacy platforms.
• Voice Biometric System Testing and administration.
• Perform Functional Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing in UAT.
• Conduct Test Reviews, test audit and provide UAT sign-offs.

Confidential

Integration Specialist

Environment: AMTrix, Axway Interchange, IBM Message Queue, Message broker, Message Builder.

Responsibilities:

• Coding & Maintaining Message Conversion Programs using AMTrix.
• Testing (Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Test bed creation) and Deployment.
• Development of message regulator and setting priorities for processing.
• Administration & Maintenance of AMTrix, Axway Interchange, IBM Message Queue/Broker tools.
• Configuring & facilitating EDI message exchange between supplier & trading partners via centralized hub.
• Conducting testing across distributed Middleware, SOA, and BPM environments.