SUMMARY

• An experienced IT professional with 10+ years experience in Testing who has played roles of Senior Test Lead, Senior Test Consultant, Process Consultant and Business Analyst/Consultant
• Testing & Consulting in: Agile, Functional, End to End, Integration, Automation, Database, Data Migration & Application Migration test methodologies & approaches, SharePoint, Archival & Decommissioning, Micro Strategy & Lab ware LIMS
• Proven expertise in Life Science Validation and Testing Services Practice (5.5 years) possessing sound knowledge in Validation Testing, Life Sciences Regulatory Compliance, GxP, 21CFR Part11
• Proven expertise in Telecom domain (3.5 years)with specialization in Operations / Business / Customer Support Systems (OSS, BSS, CSS), broadband provisioning E2E Business process testing, Rating, Customer care, Billing, Trouble to Resolve
• Has 5 years experience in agile methodologies, 2+ years managing Automation projects
• Acted as Consultant in deciding migration methodologies/approach for 8 middleware platforms where 200+ applications interface and Archival & Decommissioning approach/scope for manufacturing data hosted in AS400 system
• Skills also include End to End Test Delivery & Management, Requirement gathering & feasibility study, Incident Management, Strategy & Planning, Risk management, Change management, People Management, Capability Development, Negotiation Skills, Conflict Management, Stakeholder management and Quality Management; preparation of Project Plans, Resource planning, Process documentation, metrics & reporting
• Expertise in large testing engagements and QA process improvement initiatives complimented with the expertise on the test management tools (Quality Center 9.2, Clear Quest)
• Expertise in Estimations, RFP, Requirement analysis, Scope Identification, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Report, Test execution & Management, Risk Management & Control Monitoring

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing: Functional Testing, Agile Testing, Automation, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing, End to End Testing, Database Testing, Data Migration & Application Migration Testing, SharePoint Testing & Migration, Office 365, Reports Testing (MSTR), Lab ware LIMS, Archival & Decommissioning, Middleware testing

Database: SQL 2005, Oracle 9i

Languages: SQL

Operating System: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 7

Business Intelligence Tools: Micro Strategy

Data Comparison Tools: Beyond Compare 3

Version Control: Visual Source Safe

CRM Tools: Siebel

Test Management Tool/Defect management: HP Quality Centre, Clear Quest

Other Tools: XML editor, CICS, FileZilla, Notepad++, putty

COTS products: Neo (Amdocs), Labware Management Information System (LIMS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Consultant/Integration QA

Technologies: AngularJS (Front End), Mongo DB (Backend), API Web services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of a set of business critical features within the customer portal. Currently is the Test consultant/SME for the features owned. Perform Functional Integration testing for the small and large components of the modules
• Responsible for analyzing User stories by collaborating with Product Owner, Principal Architects and developers and determine the level of testing required.
• Raise clarifications, identify design defects during user story grooming and raise risks well ahead of time with mitigations.
• Responsible for creation of Test plans, Test Strategy and Test scheduling for the integration testing of User Stories.
• Ensures test readiness of the environment by: Setting up Test sets/suites for Test execution in HP ALM, conducting smoke tests post every critical deployments, coordinating with Test data management team to have the Test data required for Test execution.
• Responsible for creation of Test cases in HP ALM, Test execution and defect management involving defect reporting, defect triaging, defect closure.
• Perform User Story Testing, Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, cross browser Testing (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari) and Smoke Testing to ensure all features are working as expected with no backend (API) failures
• Test API’s manually to validate the JSON responses using Fiddler proxy tool.
• Mock and test the API’s to validate the appropriate failure error codes using Fiddler.
• Review Test deliverables like Test cases, Test execution results prepared by the team members
• Participate in Sprint planning, Sprint grooming, Sprint Retrospective, User demo and Daily scrum meetings and provide inputs and raise clarifications as and when required
• Train and mentor new members in the team on different Test procedures executed, features tested, API failures. Create training documents for future use.
• Received direct accolades from General Vice president for efficient testing of Preferred Communications feature

Confidential

Test Consultant/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handled a testing team of 8 for a migration programme which involves migration of 30 complex applications from Share Point 2010 to Office 365
• Determining the test strategy for the migration and the various testing types that could be performed to ensure the migration is successful.
• Allocated applications to individuals of right skill set and was responsible for review of all the deliverables produced and ensured they are of utmost quality
• Was responsible for laying the test schedule and tracking the actual against the plan
• Was responsible for estimations within the programme and Abbott
• Acted as a Process Consultant in streamlining the overall process for the project
• Was responsible for the End to End test delivery, People Management, Incident Management, Risk Management, Resource Forecast & planning of the project
• Was responsible for raising risks well before time with mitigations
• Was responsible for enabling the team to gain knowledge in SharePoint & migration concepts
• Was responsible preparing test metrics & status reports to all stake holders
• Got well versed in SaaS concepts

Confidential

Test Consultant & Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining testing scope/strategy by liaising with multiple vendors & stakeholders
• Was involved in interaction with multiple stake holders in understanding the business requirement to convert them into testable solutions.
• Was responsible for raising risks & issues to the customer & management well ahead with solutions & mitigations and was appreciated for excellent Risk Project Management
• Was responsible for all functional & Automation test deliverables
• Responsible for review & maintenance of the regression suite test cases
• Responsible for Status reporting to all internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for estimations, Change Orders & Metrics for the project
• Responsible for the delivery of the project. Involved in test design, execution, defect tracking and closure
• Acted as a mentor & reviewer in reviewing all project deliverables

Confidential

Onsite Test and Process Consultant

Technologies: AS400, HP QC, PIER (Documentum), putty

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Test Consultant in providing the archiving strategy for the data in the sites
• Was responsible in defining overall testing scope/strategy for the archiving & decommissioning project
• Played a consultant role in determining the archival solution - PIER for the POC project by analyzing the pros & cons of the archival solutions available along with the consultants
• Was responsible for laying the entire project delivery plan and proactively took responsibility in tracking the same
• Interacted with multiple stake holders in understanding the business requirement and converted them into testable scenarios.
• Responsible for estimations, Change Orders & Metrics for the project
• Responsible for the overall (Functional and Automation) deliverables of the project
• Played a tester role involving in test design, execution and test closure apart from being a Consultant