SUMMARY

• Software QA and testing leader with expertise in Big Data (Hadoop), data warehouse/ETL/BI, SOA, web - based and client-server applications and architectures.
• A well-rounded career in software QA, testing and leadership in business domains like Insurance, Healthcare, Wealth Management, Banking, Finance and Technology with multiple awards and recognition from clients and employers.
• Work experience spans all areas of SDLC, quality assurance, SIT testing, IT/QA processes, onsite/offshore model, system integration, UAT support, waterfall and various agile software engineering methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HortonWorks Big-Data Platform
• Hadoop
• Hive
• HBase
• Elastic Search
• Phoenix Ab Initio
• Informatica
• IBM DataStage
• IBM TWS
• MicroStrategy
• BOBJ
• Tableau VBScript Visual Basic 6
• Teradata
• Oracle
• MS SQL-Server
• IBM DB2
• MS Access Microsoft Office Linux
• Unix
• Windows Quality Center (ALM)
• JIRA
• Big Data ETL and BI Tools Scripting Languages Programming Languages RDBMS
• Office Productivity Operating Systems Testing Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planning, managing and tracking the QA tasks and testing effort of the project
• Leading onsite/offshore testing teams and coordinating QA/testing activities
• Tracking performance and conducting annual appraisals of team members
• Representing the QA team and providing status during daily Agile scrum calls
• Effort estimation of QA tasks and activities
• Monitoring QA tasks and effort against time and cost
• Leading QA checks and providing approvals for code turnovers and QA sign-offs
• Reviewing requirements, design and architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Involved in creation and reviews of test strategy, test plans and testing control documents
• Involved in creation and reviews of test data, test scripts and procedures for testing big data ingestion, processing, ETLs, Tableau reports, dashboards and databases
• Involved in the execution of testing solutions, ensuring that they are on time, within budget and to the required quality standard
• Involved in the execution of test cases
• Manage communication and project planning with the business, development and PMO regarding QA status, milestones, issue resolution and escalation
• Reporting potential risks at any stage during SDLC
• Contributing to the team member cross training. Managing and coaching direct reports, project team resources and external vendor resources
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Defect management and tracking lessons learnt during the project
• Supporting UAT team, coordinating QA activities and status during UAT and go live time.

Environment: and QA Tools: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), HortonWorks Big-Data Platform, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Tableau, Elastic Search, Informatica, Oracle, SOA, Rest APIs, ALM, Linux, PuTTy, WinSCP, ETL, Web-apps

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planning, managing and tracking the QA tasks and testing effort of the project
• Leading onsite/offshore testing teams and coordinating QA/testing activities
• Tracking performance and conducting annual appraisals of team members
• Representing the QA team and providing status during daily Agile scrum calls
• Effort estimation of QA tasks and activities
• Monitoring QA tasks and effort against time and cost
• Leading QA checks and providing approvals for code turnovers and QA sign-offs
• Reviewing requirements, design and architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Involved in creation and reviews of test strategy, test plans and testing control documents
• Involved in creation and reviews of test data, test scripts and procedures for testing ingestion, processing and data flows, ETLs, BI reports, UI and databases
• Involved in the execution of testing solutions, ensuring that they are on time, within budget and to the required quality standard
• Involved in the execution of test cases
• Manage communication and project planning with the business, development and PMO regarding QA status, milestones, issue resolution and escalation
• Reporting potential risks at any stage during SDLC
• Contributing to the team member cross training. Managing and coaching direct reports, project team resources and external vendor resources
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Defect management and tracking lessons learnt during the project
• Supporting UAT team, coordinating QA activities and status during UAT and go live time

Environment and QA Tools: Agile (Scrum), Informatica, Teradata, Oracle, ALM, VersionOne, Unix, PuTTy, WinSCP, ETL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planning and managing the QA tasks and testing effort of the project
• Leading onsite/offshore testing teams and coordinating QA/testing activities
• Tracking performance and conducting annual appraisals of team members
• Effort estimation and work order reviews of QA tasks and activities
• Monitoring QA tasks and effort against time, effort and cost
• Leading QA checks and providing approvals for code turnovers and QA sign-offs
• Reviewing requirements, design and architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Representing QA team in Agile scrum calls and reporting potential risks at any stage during SDLC
• Involved in creation and reviews of test plans and testing control documents
• Involved in creation and reviews of test data, test scripts and procedures for testing multiple ETLs, BI reports, UI and databases
• Involved in the execution of testing solutions, ensuring that they are on time, within budget and to the required quality standard
• Involved in the execution of test cases
• Manage communication and project planning with the business, development and PMO regarding QA status, milestones, issue resolution and escalation
• Contributing to the team member cross training. Managing and coaching direct reports, project team resources and external vendor resources
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Defect management and tracking lessons learnt during the project
• Supporting UAT team, coordinating QA activities and status during UAT and go live time

Environment and QA Tools: Agile (Scrum), IBM Datastage, Teradata, TWS, ALM, Unix, PuTTy, WinSCP, ETL

Confidential

.Responsibilities:

• Leading onsite/offshore testing teams and planning/managing/coordinating QA/testing activities
• Tracking performance and conducting annual appraisals of team members
• Working with business and development teams to gather requirements, create specifications and develop new solutions or enhancements
• Reviewing requirements, design and architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Involved in effort estimation and work order reviews of QA tasks and activities
• Involved in creation and reviews of test plans and testing control documents
• Involved in creation and reviews of test data, test scripts and procedures for testing GUI, ETLs, Web Services, Microstrategy reports and dashboards
• Involved in the execution of testing solutions, ensuring that they are on time, within budget and to the required quality standard
• Execution of test cases and automation scripts
• Ensure correct realization of the client's requirements, performances, security, environmental and legal constraints
• Ensuring that consultative analysis and functional requirements are completed and document deliveries are met
• Manage the relation with all internal and external stakeholders
• Manage all communications related to QA Status on a daily basis during execution
• Communication and project planning with the business, development and PMO regarding status, milestones, issue resolution and escalation
• Monitoring projects against time, effort and cost
• Reporting potential risks at any stage of development
• Contributing to the team member cross training. Effectively managing and coaching direct reports, project team resources and external vendor resources
• Identifying time saving candidates (test cases) for growing automation suite
• Identifying automation scripts requiring maintenance due to release notes
• Supporting UAT team, coordinating QA activities and status during UAT
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Defect management and tracking lessons learnt during projects

Environment and QA Tools: Ab Initio, MicroStrategy, J2EE, DB2, Web Services, SOAP UI, AIX 6.1, QTP 11, Quality Center 11 (ALM), PuTTy, WinSCP, ETL, Web-apps

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading onsite/offshore testing team and coordinating QA/testing activities
• Interacting with business teams and technical teams spread across the globe (ASIA, Europe and North America)
• Involved in effort estimation of QA tasks
• Reviewing requirements, design and architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Preparing Integrated Test Plans and testing control documents
• Writing exhaustive test scripts and procedures for testing ETLs and Microstrategy reports and dashboards
• Creating test data
• Writing extensive SQL scripts to validate ETLs and data interfaces (backend testing)
• Performing functional, integration and regression testing
• Running and validating Ab Initio ETL scripts
• Validating GUI and BI reports of the application
• Creating/running/maintaining QTP automation scripts
• Providing updated estimates to the QA management team for completion of test scenarios and scenario reviews
• Preparing and reviewing defect reports with the management
• Coordinating QA task with the offshore team
• Logging and tracking defects in Quality Center
• Reporting QA status to the QA, dev, PMO and business teams
• Supporting the business and UAT teams during UAT and coordinating QA activities
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Identifying lessons learnt and reviewing them with dev/PMO/business teams

Environment and QA Tools: Ab Initio, MicroStrategy, Legacy Pro-C code, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, Solaris, AIX, Autosys, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, XMLSpy, PuTTy, SQLDeveloper, WinSCP, ETL

Confidential

Software QA and testing leader

Responsibilities:

• Leading offshore testing team and coordinating all testing activities with the team
• Participating in the review and validation of project plans for different release cycles
• Active involvement in design discussions with business leads, business analysts and technical leads
• Reviewing requirements, design/architecture documents and contributing feedback
• Researching and providing data requirements needed for all phases of testing in a timely manner
• Preparing and reviewing QA strategy document with all teams and client
• Writing exhaustive test scripts, procedures and creating test data
• Writing extensive SQL scripts to validate ETLs and data interfaces (backend testing)
• Reviewing QA strategy and test plan with development team, business analysts and clients
• Performing functional, integration, regression and browser compatibility testing for GUI and enterprise databases and ETLs
• Running and validating Informatica ETL scripts
• Validating GUI and all the reports and dashboards
• Defining and developing specific QA test automation tools with VB6, VBA and VBScript
• Identifying suitable areas for test automation and developing/running automation scripts using QTP (Quick Test Professional)
• Providing updated estimates to the QA management team for completion of test scenarios and scenario reviews
• Preparing and reviewing defect reports with the QA management team
• Reporting QA status to the QA managers
• Logging and tracking defects in Quality Center (QC), Magic and PVCS Tracker
• Reviewing deferred defects with development team, client and business analysts
• Using Quality Center and Microsoft Source Safe for testing documentation
• Supporting UAT team, reviewing UAT defects, participating in post-project reviews and documentation for lessons learnt during the project

Environment and QA Tools: J2EE, .NET, Informatica, Oracle 10g/11g, Control-M, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Magic, Windows Standard Server, Visual Basic, ASP, COM, JavaScript, Interwoven, MS-sQl Server 2000, PVCS Tracker, VMWare, IIS, Netegrity Siteminder, ETL, Web-apps, desktop apps

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software installation and implementation at the client site
• First level technical support of the software
• Build verification testing and exit QA before releasing the updated software builds in client's production environment
• Training ops team on new functionalities of the software
• Assisting ops team during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Coordinating issues with the development team

Environment: Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Visual Basic 6, ASP, MS-SQL Server 2000, Newgen Omnidocs, Newgen Omniflow, Newgen Form Builder, Newgen OmniCapture, Apache Tomcat, client-server apps