SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of comprehensive IT experience in complete SDLC/STLC with extensive expertise in project initiation, requirements elicitation, business analysis, architecture, design, coding, test management, deployment, quality assurance and documentation.
• Decisive, energetic and focused QA Manager who leads high - performing teams through implementing challenging and mission critical projects.
• Extensive Experience in providing test management and 24/7 Application production support for mission critical applications.
• Experience in installing, supporting and maintenance of utility applications and Itron products.
• Experience Software Testing, Developing including V model, RUP, Agile and water fall model methodologies
• Strong experience in Manuel testing, Automation testing for large projects.
• Secondary expertise in developing and maintaining application in Microsoft.Net technologies .
• Experience in Performance Testing on protocols Web (HTTP/HTML) and Web Services
• Experience in designing and creating databases and database structures like tables, views, constraints, stored procedures, triggers etc.
• Resourceful and creative thinker with proven aptitude to analyze and translate complex customer requirements and business problems and design/implement innovative custom solutions.
• Very quick learner who could learn and apply new tools and languages quickly. Confident in adapting to any new platform or domain.
• Experience in developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases & Test Scripts
• Customer-focused performer who is committed to quality in every task provided to client/customer. Has comprehensive client facing experience of around two years.
• Self starter, motivated achiever and solid team player who thrives on challenges and performed effectively under pressure. Has worked on multiple mission critical applications.
• Significant domain and business knowledge of the Insurance, Manufacturing, Banking and Securities, Energy & Utilities industries, Digital Publishing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

L anguages: SQL, XML, VISUAL C#.NET, ASP.NET, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic 6.0,shell script, python

T ools: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, Visual Source Safe, CVS, TOAD, WINCVS, TORTOISE, Selenium, SMS INSTALLER, VISUAL BUILD PROFESSIONAL, TMX/TP, QTP, Rational Tools, PVCS- TRACKER, Bugzilla, TFS

OS: IBM OS-390, WINDOWS NT/XP, UNIX

D atabases: DB2, VSAM, SQL SERVER, MS ACCESS, ORACLE, TFS

M iddleware: Web Services, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Release Lead/ QA Management

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project planning, status reporting, risk management, and issue resolution
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
• Conduct project meetings and responsible for project tracking and analysis
• Review and approve estimates
• Manage budget and resources
• Manage Review and Approve scope changes
• Coordinate with development, QA and other organization groups
• Authoring and Owning Test strategy and Test plan documents
• Identify and drive process improvement opportunities that mitigate risk and increase efficiency
• Ensure IT Policies, procedures, methodology and processes are followed
• Coordinate with other organization initiatives

Confidential, Edison, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed 5 onsite and 7 offshore resources
• Managed and Implemented many projects for clients
• Primarily responsible and accountable for customer satisfaction, on-time delivery within allocated budget and exceeding quality expectations
• Provide daily direction to project teams; create and manage overall project work plan and work effort;
• prepare status reports on all project activities
• Estimate work effort, timelines, skills, and quantity of resources required to successfully complete project
• deliverables; developed project plan incorporating all project variables
• Achieved a high level of customer satisfaction through careful planning, creative problem solving.
• MDMS Administrator, Production support, Systemem Analyst, Testing services and Release management.
• Tier1 and Tier2 support of mdms and collection engine applications.
• Trouble shooting of all Itron applications, Unix, Microsoft server.
• Maintenance of MDMS,Oracle Database, Itron software's and their implementation .
• Maintenance and developer of reporting tools for collection engine, billing.
• Worked as MDMS Subject matter expert.
• Installing monthly patches of Itron products, full installation and trouble shooting.
• Performed impact analysis of the proposed changes
• Co-ordinate with release team and lead the deployment effort.
• Analyze the Functional Design and documenting Interface requirements.
• Creating Test cases and executing test cases.
• Performed testing for web services applications using SoapUI
• Did extensive meetings with clients, business analysts, external teams and managers
• Supported Integration, Systems testing and User acceptance testing, Release management.
• Leading a current team size of 6 members
• Preparing weekly and monthly status reports.
• Obtaining client sign-off for deliverables.
• Liaison with key stakeholders, project managers, software development managers and peers around personnel issues to ensure effective and motivated staff and a strong relationship with other teams.
• Apply the knowledge of good technical practices

Environment: CICS, COBOL, DB2, SPUFI, FTP, XML, Mercury Quality Center, black box, TOAD, QRP, VB.NET, ETL, SOAP testing, RQM (Rational Quality Manager).

Confidential

Sr QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Implemented many projects for clients
• Primarily responsible and accountable for customer satisfaction, on-time delivery within allocated budget and • exceeding quality expectations
• Provide daily direction to project teams; create and manage overall project work plan and work effort;
• prepare status reports on all project activities
• Estimate work effort, timelines, skills, and quantity of resources required to successfully complete project deliverables; developed project plan incorporating all project variables
• Achieved a high level of customer satisfaction through careful planning, creative problem solving.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential had need of automating their test scenario using xml script by avoiding GUI part of the system.
• Primary objective of the system was developing a frame work that uses xml script for all test cases.
• Understanding the requirements of the client.
• Preparation of test cases and data
• Developing SQL scripts for getting Actual output from database tables.
• Creation of XML scripts for automation tool.
• Testing & bug reporting