Sr. Qa Lead Resume
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