SUMMARY:

• Representing the QA point of delivery
• Reporting directly to the QA Director
• Implement Quality Assurance Methodology
• Handle the offshore teams for, Functional & Automation test teams
• 5 years of experience at Confidential specially in the Market Testing, EDI, Billing, TOU(Smart Billing) etc.
• Handle multiple projects and define the Test Strategy / Plan and coordinate with different development teams / vendors, Business Teams, UAT teams
• Estimate the releases planned and responsible for bringing the resources onto the projects.
• Analyze the Technical gaps within the team on the upcoming projects and recommend them for proper s
• Manage the complete QA deliverables for patches and monthly releases
• Conduct the scrums and defect calls
• Work directly with the vendors
• Review the test cases from the team and responsible for all the test suites
• Regularly review the Regression suites with the business and identify the scenarios for automation
• Having 7 years of experience in leading 5 to 30 + the offshore team members
• Provide Test Evaluation Summary & Quality Assessment Report at the end of the project.
• Prepare the Dashboards with all the QA metrics captured and evaluated monthly
• Have all the QA artifacts be audited
• Have experience in managing QA, UAT and Staging environments
• Experienced in system integration and vendor testing
• Have the Go / No Go responsibility and conduct the Retrospective meeting
• Prepare the monthly billing sheets
• Responsible for Functional Testing of WSDL, requests and responses elements and attributes, of SOAP Web services using SOAP UI, WCF Test and verifying to make sure that the response is acceptable
• Have weekly status call with the QA Director aligning the QA team
• Have monthly Service Delivery Review meetings with the management
• Used TFS to track agile projects to track product backlogs, user stories and bugs
• 9 years of experience in using QC/ALM to track requirements, test cases, test execution, QC - QTP integration bugs and also worked as QC Administrator for Telecom projects and customized specifications
• 4 years of experience in leading automation testing using VB script
• 8 years of experience with web testing and 4 years’ experience in ETL testing
• Experience using Toad for Oracle, SQL server and MYSQL for data mining

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Strategic Test Planning Agile Testing End to End Test Management
• Estimations Risk Management QA Process(QAM)
• Team Building Automation testing Research and Troubleshooting
• HP QC administration Scope, Schedule, Quality EDI, Texas SET4.0
• Vendor Testing Defect triage TFS
• Web Services - WCF Test, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Test plan.
• Used Microsoft project (QAIPP) to create and track test schedule.
• Estimated the test effort and identified the test resources.
• Provide weekly status to the project manager.
• Provide daily status to the QA management.
• Conducted Defect triage meetings to track and facilitate the defect closure at the earliest.
• Reviewed test cases designed by team members.
• Participate in walk through of test cases.
• Assigning and Tracking the work to QA resources as per Test Plan.
• Interacted with Vendors such Solix, Info vine
• Supported UAT Activities
• Preparing the test data.

Environment: DoNet, SQL Server, QTP, TFS

Operating System: Windows XP, Unix

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Defined and developed the quality management framework along with the Program Test Manager based on the project charter in lines with project objectives and quality management plan established
• Established the project testing scope, prepared high level milestones and listed the deliverables necessary to ensure that the objectives defined in the quality management plan are adhered
• Was involved in project planning meetings along with the Program Test Manager to define the roadmap and timelines of each phase of the program
• Instrumental in introducing a new phase of testing performance testing, compatibility testing & flight testing, into the test management guidelines of Confidential
• Designed the master test strategy of Confidential Texas SET program (spanning one year) based on timelines & overall objectives by incorporating various test methodologies like manual, flight, performance, UAT testing
• Developed test plans are planned designed and derived
• Instrumental in providing guidance and support to team members in developing the QA framework for end to end business scenarios.
• Coached the team members in developing the end to end test scenarios spanning across multiple systems.
• Reviewing of the Test cases index, Test cases, and Test Traceability matrix prepared by the team members
• Importing test cases authored into test case management tool, sought review & approval from client for the authored test cases
• Setting up the Test Environment setup, analyze and report issues in the test environment if any.
• Reviewing the defects posted by the team members, suggesting modification/enhancements
• Conducted defect triage calls with project team
• Monitoring the project status by collecting the metrics at each phase ( Confidential .g. Test Effectiveness, Test case execution productivity, Defect Detection Rate, Defect rejection rate)
• Designed the communication protocols, reporting formats, daily and weekly scorecards and dashboards. Was responsible for presenting Daily and Weekly status reports client
• Was responsible for reporting the overall testing status of the program to Program Test Manager and other stakeholders.
• Established the processes and metrics, based on the two development methodologies used in this program i. Confidential . agile for product and waterfall used for development of interfaces.
• Accountable for identifying & finalizing various QA tools that would be used for test automation, defect tracking, test case management by performing tool evaluation analysis and reviewing the same with various stakeholders
• Worked with the project POCs in setting the objectives of each phase and implemented and maintained the work break down structure, detailing the tasks and schedules.
• Prepared the project plans in MS Project and monitored the same by tracking every task to closure.
• Identified and raised risks at appropriate time; informed to Program Test Manager in the project regarding the same. Prepared the mitigation plan and ablations plans accordingly
• Test Evaluation Summary & Quality Assessment Report at the end of the project.
• Conducted the performance & salary appraisals to all the team members.
• Co-ordination with Vendor testing(TPI, EC Power, TDSP,ista &Hansen, SAP)
• Validated MS inbound/outbounds against Texas SET
• Monitoring the project status by collecting the metrics at each phase ( Confidential .g. Test Effectiveness, Test case execution productivity, Defect Detection Rate, Defect rejection rate)
• Designed the communication protocols, reporting formats, daily and weekly scorecards and dashboards. Was responsible for presenting Daily and Weekly status reports client
• Is responsible for reporting the overall testing status of the program to client’s Test Manager and other project stakeholders.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, DoNet, SQL Server, API

Operating System: Windows XP, Unix

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis & High-level test plan
• Peer review of the test cases
• Compatibility testing
• Defect triage calls
• Test Execution Summary report to stack holders
• Co-ordination with Norman, Digital and Discovery teams

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with Vendor testing
• Validated MS inbound/outbounds against Texas SET
• Reviewing of the Test cases index, Test cases, and Test Traceability matrix prepared by the team members
• Importing test cases authored into test case management tool, sought review & approval from client for the authored test cases
• Setting up the Test Environment setup, analyze and report issues in the test environment if any.
• Reviewing the defects posted by the team members, suggesting modification/enhancements
• Monitoring the project status by collecting the metrics at each phase ( Confidential .g. Test Effectiveness, Test case execution productivity, Defect Detection Rate, Defect rejection rate)
• Is responsible for reporting the overall testing status of the program to client’s Test Manager and other project stakeholders.
• Prepared the project plans in MS Project and monitored the same by tracking every task to closure.
• Identify and raise risks at appropriate time; inform to Client’s Test Manager in the project regarding the same. Prepare the mitigation plan and ablations plans accordingly
• Test Evaluation Summary & Quality Assessment Report at the end of the project.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, DotNet & SQL Server

Operating System: Windows, Unix

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with Vendor testing(TPI, EC Power, TDSP)
• Managed UAT and SIT testing activities
• Provided all summary reports such as defect & execution reports to all the stack holders
• Validated MS inbound/outbounds against Texas SET

Environment: J2EE

Operating System: Windows XP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Daily & weekly status reports
• Prepared QAR(Quality Assessment Report)
• Review of QA artifacts
• Provided all summary reports such as defect & execution reports
• Analyze the requirements, author test cases for new homepage
• Update the 60% existing Carnival’s test cases
• Executed all the test cases in scope on IE7.0
• Executed 50% of total test cases on Safari and Firefox browsers(compatibility testing)
• Communication with client
• Product knowledge transfer document and review of QA artifacts

Environment: Web,.net

Operating System: Windows

Confidential, New Hampshire, NH

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Interface, workflow and integration requirements
• Performed Interface, functional and integration testing
• Authored End to End scenarios as part of the business process flow
• Authored Interface & functional verification test cases
• Prepared artifacts like test plan, test requirements traceability matrix & ambiguity report
• Verified GL code and invoice for C&S and ES3 workflows
• Acquiring Confidential & Confidential, Lawson, RDS product suite and delivering to offshore team
• Tool feasibility
• Configured and maintained the test management tool (TEMA) to track of requirements, test cases, test sets and defects.
• Consolidating and sending daily status reports to client.
• Prepared metrics and shared to client

Environment: Web, J2EE,mainframes

Operating System: Windows

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Automation script designing. Review of automation test script preparation & execution.
• Preparing Traceability matrix with respect to manual test scripts and automation scripts
• Management of Automated Testing Schedules and Resources.
• Responsible for the setup and configuring application.
• Preparation of client specific reports for automated scripts.
• Test Automation using Hybrid framework using QTP.
• Integration of automation scripts into Quality Centre.
• Used Quality Centre as test repository for executing automation tests.
• People management for meeting project deadlines.
• Responsible for status reporting through Daily Status Reports and Weekly Status Reports.

Environment: Web, Java, Main Frame

Operating System: Windows