PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Fifteen years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in Project Management, Software Quality Assurance Methodologies and Testing in Banking, Retail and Insurance sectors.
• Three years Project Management experience.
• Ten Years of onshore/offshore experience.
• Ten years of strong experience as Team Lead in effectively managing small to large teams
• Five years of Infrastructure Testing Experience.
• Three Years of experience in BI Applications.
• Three years of Data warehouse Testing.
• Experience in Data Migration testing.
• Ability to write Complex Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Procedures, Test Data, Test Validation Matrix, Test Coverage Matrix and Requirement Analysis
• Has thorough understanding of QA Framework and Rational Unified Process.
• Experience in managing the execution of technical/functional/process design, construction, integration and implementation of Large / Small projects
• Organized session and created appropriate materials to help QA engineers with their project execution.
• Well versed with SDLC models like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile.
• Develop Testing Best Practices for TTS MPD and Stores department.
• Involved in peer review of test cases, Test Pool meetings and Impact analysis
• Created test procedures for PCRs (project change requests) and SCRs (system change requests
• Performed Risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
• Expertise in Business Functionality, Use Case Specifications, Risk Analysis, Requirements Management, Documentation, Configuration Management, Change Management and Build Verification.
• Highly motivated, detail oriented, has ability to work independently and as a part of the team with Excellent Technical, Analytical and Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

TOOLS: HP Quality Center 8.2, Mercury Tools 6.0/7.0/7.6 (TestDirector, WinRunner), Rational (ClearQuest), PVCS 2.8.1, QTP 8.2/10.0, TOAD 7.5.2, SQL Station 4.1, Command Center 8.1, Power Tern Enterprise 8.8.1, SQL Server Management Studio 9.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS: DOS, Linux, UNIX, Win 98/00/XP//NT

LANGUAGES: C, C++, Java 2.0, COBOL, JCL, TSL.

DATABASE: Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2 and MS - Access.

INTERNET TECH: HTML, XML, Java Script, VBScript, ASP, JSP Java Beans, RMIFTP, Perl, TCP/IP, J2EE environment

WEB SERVER: Java Web Server, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, IIS.

MIDDLEWARE: SeeBeyond, MQ Series.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed various duties like create Test Plans, conduct Test Plan reviews, Test Schedule reviews, assist in writing test cases and coordinate defect meetings.
• Involved in gathering business requirements from Business Users.
• Lead and guided the testing team.
• Created Test Data and test scripts for various test scenarios
• Created On-Boarding document.
• Created Test Closure report for each release.
• Extensively worked on data validation using SQL
• Participated in walkthroughs with System analysts, Business analysts, UAT and Development teams
• Involved in co-ordination with off shore resources, assigning work and validating deliverables.

Environment: ASP .NET, SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Microsoft Project and Share Point.

Program QA Lead

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Responsibilities:

• Performed various duties like create Test Plans, conduct Test Plan reviews, Test Schedule reviews, assist in writing test cases and coordinate defect meetings.
• Suggested aggressive testing strategies based on the short deadlines and multiple products delivery schedule. Tested Deployment and assisting the development team during deployments.
• Established cross-functional relationships between various teams to collaborate on test processes and testing activities.
• Provided QA estimates for the project.
• Created end to end scenarios for Integration Testing

IT PMO QA Lead

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Responsibilities:

• Established cross-functional relationships between various teams to collaborate on test processes and testing activities.
• Perform critical analysis of requirements, in order to write extensive test strategy and test procedures.
• Managed all testing components for multiple systems including execution of test cases, issue tracking and resolution.
• Work collaboratively with team members throughout the organization to obtain information needed to produce deliverables and developed the Master Test Strategy/Plan.
• Integration testing of different modules.

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, Web Services, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows XP, MS-Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Share Point, HP Quality Center, and QTP.

Project Manager/ Sr. QA Lead

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining the releases/ upgrades across all the environments.
• Coordinated the deployments across the Program.
• Prepared and reviewed the deployment plans with other teams.
• Worked with developers to identify the tasks involved in the deployments (infrastructure and functional releases).
• Coordinated inter-project dependencies with other projects.
• Created Project Plans in Microsoft Project.
• Tracked Actual time vs. Expected time for each task.
• Provided the project status to Director.
• Data Migration Testing from SQL to Oracle
• Involved in testing during the building environments (Dev, Test, Train and Prod)
• Fault Tolerance Testing
• Created Test Strategies for Infrastructure Upgrades
• Created QA Standards for the Confidential Testing Team.
• Trained and Guided the QA Team in QA Methodologies, and testing processes.
• Actively involved in UAT in identifying Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Estimated the time frames and resources needed for the projects at different phases of testing.
• Created and implemented Master Test Plan.
• Worked with BA’s to create requirements that are traceable.
• Developed and maintained Traceability Matrix.
• Coordinated with testing team to create end to end scenarios for Integration testing.
• Coordinated with other application teams for Integration Testing.
• Tested the Confidential database after Data Migration process.
• Data Cleansing using Trillium.
• Created Defect Management process.
• Conducted daily defects meeting during System Testing phase.
• Created ‘Test Results’ Report to track the Project status.

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, Tibco CIM, Tibco Business Works, Trillium 12.0, Windows XP, MS-Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, DB Visualizer, Microsoft Project, Share Point, HP Quality Center, TestDirector, and QTP.

Program QA Lead, QA Lead

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete project software development life cycle (SDLC) and Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC).
• Involved in gathering business requirements from BUC’s and documenting business process flows.
• Developed, presented, and implemented test plans.
• Lead and guided the testing team.
• Reported periodic project status and updates to the QA Manager.
• Coordinated between TTS ( Confidential Technology Services) and BPC’s (Business Process Consultants).
• Developed and executed Test Cases and Test Sets using Test Director.
• Automated Test Scripts using Win Runner.
• Created Test Coverage matrix to trace the requirements.
• Performed Integration Testing of different modules.
• Validated the XML data files.
• Created Test Environment and Test Data.
• Performed Smoke Testing of applications as entrance criteria for development builds.
• Executed Test Sets and tracked the defects using Test Director.
• Tested the data extraction, transformations and data loading.
• Performed Backend testing and Data Integrity testing at every stage of business flow using SQL queries.
• Created Defect management process.
• Communicated weekly status to the Project Manager via a status report.
• Created defect reports for the daily defect meetings.
• Coordinated with the offshore development team on a daily basis regarding development progress and defect resolution progress.
• Coordinated with the offshore testing team with regard to test case execution and defect tracking.
• Organized System Testing kick off meeting to set the procedure for the testing.
• Actively attended meetings with the team and other groups to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, XML, .NET, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SeeBeyond, Windows XP, PVCS Tracker, MS-Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Power Tern Enterprise, Toad, Command Center, Quality Center, Test Director and Win Runner.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and overall Test Strategy for the programs.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts for System and UAT Testing.
• Test Cases were designed based on Requirements in Test Director.
• Participated in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Data Analysis.
• Generated automated test scripts using WinRunner.
• Recommended continuous process improvement, maintained QA standards and artifacts.
• Validated the data by using SQL.
• Developed Test Summary Reports and participated in GO / NO-GO meetings.
• Performed Risk Analysis based on Defect Severity and Priority
• Coordinated with Business, Providers, Project Managers and Developers.
• Used Mercury TestDirector for defect tracking.

Environment: TestDirector, WinRunner, WebFocus 5.2.1/5.2.3 , Dashboard, Report Caster, Resource Layout painter, MRE, UNIX, DB2, Windows 2000.

System Administrator & Web Master

Confidential, NM

Responsibilities:

• Maintained heterogeneous network of approximately 70 Linux & Windows workstations and 100 users.
• Responsible for maintaining, assessing vulnerability and enhancing several major releases of a network based intrusion detection system (NIDS).
• Maintained several software packages, including Mentor Graphics, Saber, World Wide Web server and clients.
• Maintained various web servers, Apache, IIS w/Cold Fusion.
• Configured and administered Check Point Firewall.

Environment: Windows 98/2000, Linux 7.2, Apache Server, IIS, IP Chains, HTML, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Confidential, NM

Responsibilities:

• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Work involved assisting students in lab for programming, and grading the lab assignments and exam papers.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing Client-Server, AS/400 and Mainframe applications.
• Involved in analyzing the applications and development of test cases.
• Applications are tested manually and by using SQA Suite.
• Involved in testing databases and generating automated test scripts using SQA Robot.

Environment: Visual Basic, SQL Server, MS-Word, Ms-Excel, MVS, JCL, CICS, COBOL, DB2, Cobol/400, CL/400, SQA Manager, SQA Robot, SQA Admin