SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of experience involving Requirement analysis, Test Plan, Test Design, testing Mainframe and Web Based applications and Project Management using Agile and Waterfall.
• Successfully managed multiple testing projects which had rapidly evolving requirements.
• Successfully established Agile Metrics Dashboard for new projects
• Effective communication skills and coordinated between various local dev teams, Onshore virtual teams and offshore team
• Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Test case preparation, test data set up, test execution and Test metrics preparation.
• Worked on projects for clients such as Confidential , UnitedHealth Group - Optum, Nevada state HIX, Govt of Tennessee Confidential -VIP, Confidential sales, DowJones, Confidential LexisNexis, HEB, Northern Trust Bank, Serena software, Kaiser Permanente, Canadian Honda, Vicroads
• Experience in Agile methodology Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, TDD,XP,V-Model
• Certified in PMP and PMI-ACP from Project Management Institute.
• Innovative and self-directed individual with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills, highly adaptable and quick to learn, ability at analyzing situations and taking initiative to solve problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL,JCL, XML,Python 3.4,JSON

Operating Systems: MVS,Windows7,Mac OS,UNIX

Test Management Tools: Rally,JIRA,HP ALM 12, Bugzilla,ClearQuest,Clearcase

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 ,, Oracle8.0, My-SQL, DB2,IMS DB MS-Access 03/07.

Web Services: REST API Console, Web API Check

Version Controls: GIT,Tortiosegit,Changeman ZMF

Automation Tools: Ranorex6.0,VS2015,Selenium,Eclipse

Continuous Integration Tools: Anthill Pro, Jenkins

Mainframe Utility Tools: Xpeditor,File-Aid for VSAM & DB2,Changeman,SPUFI,Changeman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Daily Stand up Meetings, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming sessions for Config team which embraces agile methodology.
• Prepare Project Test Plan, Timelines, Swim lanes and QA Estimations, Entry and Exit Criteria for new feature projects which follows Waterfall.
• Prepare and Present RACI Matrix for cross functional teams.
• Prepare Alternate test approaches, revisit estimations and align the test activities as per the change in the Testing Environments.
• Develop and Deliver Executive Level Presentations for Test Strategy approaches, Test Plan Walk thru, Test Scenarios and Test Closure reports.
• Work with Virtual and Offshore teams on a daily basis to coordinate testing activities.
• Conduct SIT and UAT Defect Triage Meetings to address defects and assign to appropriate parties and track the defects to closure.
• Oversee and coordinate all aspects of project and test environment requirements.
• Track the team’s testing progress by preparing Burndown charts and Tracker sheets to measure progress.
• Review Functional, End-to-End Regression and Business Test Scenario Scripts, Identity and Provisioning of Downstream systems and provide feedback.
• Identify Risks, Gaps in Requirements, continuously refine and prioritize Product Backlogs.
• Develop and Maintain Internal ‘Best Practices’ guidelines for testing life cycle.
• Work with Downstream Interface Owners for Loan Staging and Verification in their Interface systems.
• Oversee creation and execution Automation Scripts using Selenium Web Driver for Regression and new features and report the test results.
• Track the generation and Verification of LAR Report for Residential, wholesale and Commercial Loans (Compliance Relief systems) for Compliance Project like HMDA.
• Work with Third party Vendors for Loan staging for Commercial Loans.

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Scrum Master/Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand up Meetings, Sprint Retrospectives, and Backlog Grooming during role rotations.
• Create User Stories and help team to calculate story point estimation in Sprint planning Meetings
• Work with Virtual teams and track the progress of the sprint work.
• Successfully coordinated design spike and prototype effort for moving to cloud based architecture servers.
• Worked on Adhoc reports and metrics based on requests from Quality Project Management team
• Prepare Agile test Metrics and Backlog Burn down status reports for eCAC, CACPRO and LYNX OCC Products. Prepared Agile metrics in Dashboard format with some of the most important task board charts like Burn down charts, User story velocity charts, Defects per User Story, Defects trend report, User story scheduled state and Progress reports.
• Create Automation test scripts using Ranorex6.0 and schedule to execute on remote machines.
• Communicate Team Progress and highlight dependencies during Scrum of Scrums.
• Coordinated the testing effort for Parallel and cross Browser testing on different Browsers.
• Performed REST API testing (GET/PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE methods) for Endpoints for all the modules
• Tested Mobile Applications in different Browsers like FF,IE, Chrome, Edge and Safari on Mac OS, IPAD, Iphone 5
• Prioritize and Organize Backlog and map user stories to relevant Releases.
• Work diligently with virtual scrum teams and remove impediments.
• Conduct Meetings to perform the Root Cause analysis of defects.
• Prepared Preview and Production Release Readiness Test Metrics
• Analyze User Stories and performed story point estimation in Sprint planning Meetings
• Test Requirement analysis
• Prepare new test cases in HP ALM
• Execute Manual and Automation Regression test cases and report the results
• Create Automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver for new features
• Create Automation scripts using Ranorex6.0 for Epoint applications
• Involved in Merging and Code Integration using GIT, TortoiseGIT tool
• Prepare Test data and test environment.
• Worked on Web services testing for the Clinical Integrated data repository
• Worked on testing Infusion Medication aggregations, Chemo agent functionalities for Oncology features
• Write and execute DB queries using SQL Server, for database testing and validations.
• Co-ordinate and Interact with Virtual Scrum teams and gather information for the Project status and defect metrics
• Worked on Adhoc reports and metrics based on requests from Quality Project Management team
• Prepare Agile test Metrics and Backlog Burn down status reports for eCAC,CACPRO and LYNX OCC Products. Prepared Agile metrics in Dashboard format with some of the most important task board charts like Burn down charts, User story velocity charts, Defects per User Story, Defects trend report, User story scheduled state and Progress reports
• Work with dev team to replicate the defects and verify fixes.
• Perform REST API testing and Web API Interface Check for Cerner, Epic, Pulse Check, Lifecode interfaces by inputting XML, generate output and verify the output message in the application
• Work with the Implementation team during UAT to assist in recreating defects
• Maintaining Automation Scripts in Code Hub repository.
• Prepared Preview and Production Release Readiness Test Metrics

Confidential, Orange, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created Testing requirements from the functional requirements, system specification and design specification. Interacted with Business Analysts, Programmers to understand detailed technical/business process flows.
• Responsible for determining test data requirements in order to support test cases and scenarios.
• Involved in Functional, System and End to End testing.
• Prepared Test Metrics report, attended Bug triage meeting
• Executed Time travel test cases and reported the results.
• Create and execute Automation test scripts using Ranorex automation tool.
• Worked on UAT defects

Confidential

Scrum Master/Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attend Daily Scrum meetings to update client on the progress of Testing.
• Review Test cases and review test execution status and Defects raised each day.
• Update test cases when there are changes to be done for the test steps.
• Co-ordinate with Business analysts to discuss on the defects, issues and claims amount calculation resulted from EDBC results
• Analyze the extensions in the test case and determine the date roll needed for the test execution
• Analyze the incoming interface for each extension of the test case and place requests for the jobs to be run
• Analyze the interface output events files generated by the batch and update the results.

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Attend Daily touch point meetings to update client on the progress of Testing.
• Work on QA Estimations and planning.
• To Co-ordinate with Offshore for the Functional Testing/Regression testing for each cycle.
• Review Test cases and review test execution status and Defects raised each day.
• Execute Mainframe Jobs and verify the results in Specman applications.
• Perform post deployment smoke testing and share the results to client.
• To co-ordinate with Performance testing and automation testing teams and track their progress.
• To review the progress for Tech uplift testing projects status, subset testing, Mobile testing and Browser compatibility testing.
• Perform adhoc testing /sanity testing for every cycle.
• Perform data set up in the UAT environment prior to UAT commencement.
• Track defects using ClearQuest and maintain Regression test suite using Clearcase.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• To do Requirement analysis for every Iteration
• Attend JAD sessions, to get clarifications on requirement
• Prepare and review test cases
• Prepare ppt and present it in Business walk thru sessions
• Manage the test data set up
• Perform smoke testing after the QA build is given
• Perform Adhoc testing to find defects
• Review defects raised by offshore
• Attend Defect triage call to discuss on the defects
• Re-test the defects when its fixed
• Perform web service call testing using soap UI
• Worked on defect clean up
• Had daily calls with offshore to discuss about the testing activities
• Reported the test execution summary to manager

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Attend Sprint planning Meetings
• Work on QA Estimations
• Attend Daily stand up meetings with clients to briefly update the day-to-day work status
• Test Requirement analysis and participate in design sessions
• Prepare use cases and maintain requirement traceability and track using ADPART tool
• Generate and validate dynamic reports, CA API report for school districts
• Test case creation, Test Execution and Bug reporting.
• Execute Database scripts for item bank databases.
• Troubleshooting content related items in assessments for bad items to avoid framework errors.
• Perform web service call testing using soap UI
• Execute SBI scripts and validate the itemized results
• Attend Test case walk thru’s with Business analysts and developers
• Task allocation to Off-shore and replying to clarifications
• Had daily calls with offshore to discuss about the testing activities
• Track defects using JIRA and maintain Regression test suite using SPIRA